Eric Zuesse Was Iraq a national-security threat to America? Why did America invade Iraq? Was Ukraine a national-security threat to Russia? Why did Russia invade Ukraine? Iraq had no nuclear weapons, and is 6,000 miles from America. It also had no military alliance, no alliance at all, with any country that endangers America. So, why […]
Eric Zuesse One of the facts that are effectively banned from being made public in any mainstream (and in almost all non-mainstream) ‘news’-media in U.S.-and-allied countries, is that their governments are far more corrupt than any of them report. An outstanding recent example of this governmental depravity was published on April 28th by the great […]
Usually the consequences of any war extend beyond the military aspects. The Russia-Ukraine crisis is not an exception. Imposing sanctions on Russia contributes to the displacement of Russia from European markets and its replacement by the United States. Thus, this war was successfully used by the U.S. to reshape the energy landscape. Washington has been […]
Eric Zuesse What follows after this opening article by Russia’s RT will place it into historical context: —— https://www.rt.com/news/554646-liz-truss-nato-ukraine-taiwan/ archive.ph No Description 28 April 2022 01:03 “UK calls for a ‘global NATO’” British FM Liz Truss says a ‘Global NATO’ needs to arm Taiwan, like Ukraine. The world order created after the Second World War […]
Eric Zuesse, originally posted at Strategic Culture Joe Biden came into the U.S. White House promising to change Donald Trump’s foreign policies, but didn’t even try to change them, and instead he has continued them, and has failed with them exactly as Trump did when he was the President. Here are some examples: 1. The […]
US President Joe Biden has defended his decision to withdraw military forces from Afghanistan, saying that US operations will end on 31 August.The fourth US president to oversee the war also defended the speed of the US withdrawal, saying it saved lives.
Eric Zuesse UPDATE: On Saturday, June 26th, the Icelandic newspaper, Stundin, which is published every two weeks, headlined “Key witness in Assange case admits to lies in indictment: A major witness in the United States’ Department of Justice case against Julian Assange has admitted to fabricating key accusations in the indictment against the Wikileaks founder.” […]
Eric Zuesse On Tuesday, June 22nd, the U.S. regime blocked the Iranian Government’s TV news (equivalent to BBC in Britain and PBS in America), PressTV, so that, from now on, this is what Americans can see: https://www.presstv.com The U.S. regime has previously done this to other news-media that it dislikes. For example, this was done […]
Eric Zuesse “Mobsters” are whatever the law says they are, but in some countries they are, in fact, simply the nation’s wealthiest people, who can and do pay whomever they have to pay (“consigliere”) in order to get the law to mean what they want it to mean. In other words: sometimes a mobster is […]
Eric Zuesse NATO is America’s military alliance against Russia and China — primarily against Russia, because at the start of the Cold War, the two nuclear superpowers quickly emerged to be U.S. and U.S.S.R. If America blitz-nuclear-attacks Russia, as the U.S. Government’s “Nuclear Primacy” geostrategy ever since at least the year 2006 has envisioned to […]
