Eric Zuesse (blogs at https://theduran.com/author/eric-zuesse/) The U.S. Government and its news-media portray international relations not as being U.N.-centric but as being U.S.-centric; but, right now, international relations are actually Russia-centric. The Nobel-Peace-Prize-winning U.S. President Barack Obama gave the clearest (though, carefully, ONLY implicit) expression of this U.S.-centric world above all other nations — supreme over […]
Eric Zuesse (blogs at https://theduran.com/author/eric-zuesse/) Here are the economic records of growth over the past 25 years, in Gross Domestic Product calculated at Purchasing-Power Parity (GDP PPP), for 7 regions of the world. In each of the seven regions, the information-source is the Trading Ecnomics Website. Each country or region is identified in the URL […]
Eric Zuesse (blogs at https://theduran.com/author/eric-zuesse/) Because of Joe Biden’s career-long consistent neoconservatism — he never met a U.S. invasion or coup that he didn’t didn’t like and didn’t assist to happen — he is losing all three of America’s current wars, and each one of them (each of which he inherited from the prior Administrations, […]
Eric Zuesse (blogs at https://theduran.com/author/eric-zuesse/) Increasingly, Netanyahu’s own cabinet and advisors are urging genocide there against Gazans. (Actually, this viewpoint has long been popular among Netanyahu’s voters — well prior to the October 7th Hamas attack.) The legal basis for such a solution comes from many decades of apartheid laws there: As Jonathan Cook, a […]
Eric Zuesse (blogs at https://theduran.com/author/eric-zuesse/) The NATO-sponsored 2023 “Alliance of Democracies” polls in 53 countries found that the country that in 2022 had the highest percentage marking “Disagree” with “their country has limited freedoms too much during COVID” was China. The country where the “Agree” percentage on that was the highest was India. The question […]
Eric Zuesse (blogs at https://theduran.com/author/eric-zuesse/) Among the 524 U.S. pollsters that are rated at fivethirtyeight.com, Marist College gets an “A” rating, and ranks as #9, near the very best in its accuracy. On November 15th, the Marist College poll headlined “The Looming Government Shutdown: NPR/PBS NewsHour/Marist National Poll”, and reported that, Half of Americans (50%) […]
Eric Zuesse (blogs at https://theduran.com/author/eric-zuesse/) Here are the statistics that document this truth from an economic standpont, and which document that already America is a smaller economic power than is China — and is becoming relatively smaller and smaller each year in relation to China: —— GDP PPP = Gross Domestic Product at Purchasing Power […]
Eric Zuesse (blogs at https://theduran.com/author/eric-zuesse/) Any empire is necessarily a dictatorship, because if it isn’t dictating to its colonies (its vassal or slave countries), then it can’t be an empire. Dictatorship is built into the the foundation of any empire — its foundationstone. Also, the supremacist outlook is intrinsic to it: master versus servant. However, […]
Eric Zuesse (blogs at https://theduran.com/author/eric-zuesse/) The Guardian headlined on November 11th, “Ex-Nato chief proposes Ukraine joins without Russian-occupied territories: Former secretary general says partial membership would warn Russia it cannot stop Ukraine joining the alliance”, and didn’t cite the source of their report or when Rasmussen allegedly said this. Yahoo News on November 11th headlined […]
Eric Zuesse (blogs at https://theduran.com/author/eric-zuesse/) On November 3rd, Reuters headlined “US, allies try to craft Gaza endgame as deaths, destruction mount”, and reported: The process is still at what another U.S. source terms an informal “idea-floating stage.” Key questions include whether Israel can destroy Hamas as it has vowed and whether the U.S., its Western […]
