Eric Zuesse On May 9th, Bloomberg News headlined “Italy Intends to Exit China Belt and Road Pact as Relations Sour”, and reported that though “Italy is the only G-7 country in the Belt and Road Initiative,” Italy’s new leader, the right-wing Georgia Meloni, has privately told Washington that her Government will withdraw from it and […]
Eric Zuesse It’s the extreme concentration of wealth in the hands of just a tiny fraction of the richest 1% of the richest 1% of the richest 1% of wealth-holders that makes the country be an aristocracy instead of a democracy. This extreme inequality of wealth does that, by distorting Government-expenditures in the directions that […]
Eric Zuesse A nazi is any racist-fascist, in any country, not MERELY a supporter of Germany’s (long-illegal) Nazi Party; it’s instead an ideology, just as is fascism itself. Italy’s fascist Party was the Fascists (with a capital-F), and Germany’s racist-fascist Party was the Nazis (also with a capital-N; but the ideology isn’t restricted to only […]
Eric Zuesse The U.S. Government, and its allies, frequently advocate for “a rules-based international order” (or, going even farther, they presume that “the rules-based international order” already exists) and they always avoid stating what its relationship would be (or supposedly is) to international law — the body of international laws that have been established under […]
Eric Zuesse This is in response to Caitlin Johnstone’s January 28th article, which alleged that not all of the blame for the war in Ukraine goes to Obama’s decisions, and which accused Russia of “warmongering” (and avoided using any such strong term of condemnation against America’s Government), “Why Don’t You Ever Criticize RUSSIA’S Warmongering??”: She […]
Eric Zuesse According to figures from the United Nations refugee agency, the majority of refugees in the world today — and ever since the start of this century — have been fleeing from countries that were sanctioned, couped, and/or invaded, by the U.S. Government. The latest such annual report by the UNHCR is “Global Trends […]
Eric Zuesse On Wednesday, 15 December 2021, Reuters headlined “Russia hands proposals to U.S. on security guarantees”, and the George Soros-and American-Government-controlled “Radio Free Europe and Radio Liberty” official American Cold War news site headlined “Kremlin Says Moscow Handed Security-Guarantee Proposals To U.S.” (Soros also exerts considerable influence in the European Parliament; and, so, he […]
Eric Zuesse On January 25th, the Financial Times headlined “Lockheed ready with F-16s as Kyiv allies revive debate over fighter jets”, and reported that: Lockheed Martin has said it stands ready to meet demand for its F-16 aircraft as some of Ukraine’s closest European allies revive efforts to provide fighter jets to Kyiv. … Frank […]
Eric Zuesse The town of Shostka in Ukraine is located 317 miles away from The Kremlin in Moscow — Russia’s military central-command location. The city of Havana in Cuba is located 1,131 miles away from Washington DC — America’s military central-command location. A nuclearly armed missile that’s launched from Shostka to The Kremlin would take […]
Eric Zuesse Given that The West’s sanctions against Russia are intended to harm Russia’s economy, Russia’s President Vladimir Putin’s January 17th year-in-review “Meeting on economic issues” is the first credible major indication (other than the international exchange-rates of the various national currencies, which will be discussed at the end here) regarding the success or failure […]
