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Reading About Worse Crises Has Been My Solace from This Election

Patrick Cockburn • December 13, 2019

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I suspected from the moment the general election was called that the result would be a large Conservative majority, a calamitous defeat for Labour, and a decisive victory for Brexit. To prevent myself getting too depressed by this grim prospect, I picked out and read two books on crises that were far more dire: one... Read More

Where Are the 'High Crimes'?

Pat Buchanan • December 13, 2019

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"Quid pro quo" was the accusatory Latin phrase most often used to describe President Donald Trump's July 25 phone call asking for a "favor" from the president of Ukraine. New Year's prediction: The Roman poet Horace's Latin depiction: "Parturient montes, nascetur ridiculus mus" -- "The mountains went into labor, and brought forth a mouse" --... Read More

Why the ‘Left’ Is Dead in the Water (Revisited)

Gilad Atzmon • December 13, 2019

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Introduction: Following his party’s catastrophic defeat, humiliated Labour leader Jeremy Corbyn announced this morning that he would discuss with the party its need for a ‘process of reflection’ and promised that he himself “will lead the party during this period to ensure this discussion takes place.” I will not hold my breath waiting for Labour... Read More

America’s Unreliable Friends: Today’s Allies Are Tomorrow’s Enemies

Philip Giraldi • December 13, 2019

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One might postulate that the United States is regularly supporting so-called allies whose very nature will eventually generate blowback that will do terrible damage to actual American interests. The recent example of the have no actual alliance, the American and Saudi militaries have a relationship that began during the Second World War. Currently, Washington supports... Read More

Conservative Victory In UK Shows Path Forward for Trump's GOP, If They Have the Wit to See It

James Kirkpatrick • December 13, 2019

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The US Government Lied About the Afghanistan War; They Couldn't Have Done It Without Lapdogs Like the Washington Post

Ted Rall • December 13, 2019

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"In ten years or so, we'll leak the truth," the Dead Kennedys sang. "But by then it's only so much paper." But it might just score you a Pulitzer Prize. Award bait and bragging rights are no doubt the principal goals of The Washington Post's self-congratulatory data dump, "The Afghanistan Papers." The papers — 2,000... Read More

Is Corbyn the Lesser Evil?

Eric Striker • December 12, 2019

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Once upon a time I had a debate with a number of nationalists over the prospect of America's first black president in 2008. A number of acquaintances demanded everyone vote for "the white guy," John McCain, whose 36 year long career as top traitor in Congress was finally brought to an end when Satan appointed... Read More

Indigenous Bolivia Ready to Go to War Against Fascism

Andre Vltchek • December 12, 2019

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Bolivia, December 2019, three weeks after the fascist coup. It is devilishly cold. My comrade’s car is carefully navigating through the deep mud tracks. Enormous snow-covered mountain peaks are clearly visible in the distance. The Bolivian Altiplano; beloved, yet always somehow hostile, silent, impenetrable. So many times, in the past I came close to death... Read More

Donald Trump and Israel: When Does a ‘Passionate Attachment’ Threaten National Security?

Philip Giraldi • December 12, 2019

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In his declared astonishingly that “I have said to people when they ask me if this Capitol crumbled to the ground, the one thing that would remain is our commitment to our aid…and I don’t even call it aid…our cooperation with Israel. That’s fundamental to who we are.” Biden has repe

UK Elections: Final Predictions

James Thompson • December 11, 2019

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The Mandalorian

“Help us, Dave Filoni. You’re our only hope.”

Trevor Lynch • December 11, 2019

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On December 20th, J. J. “Death Star” Abrams and Disney Corp. will complete the destruction of the Star Wars saga that many of us have loved since childhood, while raking in untold millions by cynically exploiting nostalgia for the mythos they are desecrating. So pass the popcorn, because I’ll be right there, dear readers, to... Read More

Why Trump's New Executive Order Matters

Eric Striker • December 11, 2019

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The Trump administration and Betsy DeVos, an heiress who was given the Department of Education because of her large donations to the GOP, have been fighting Israel's wars on campus for months now. Last September, the federal government began investigating the lessons taught by various professors at prestigious schools like Duke and the University of... Read More

Charging for Comments?

Ron Unz • December 10, 2019

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Over the last couple of years, I think this website has evolved into a successful opinion webzine and discussion forum, with our traffic now eclipsing the overwhelming majority of other alternative media publications. For example, we apparently now get several times the traffic of Takimag on the Right or Counterpunch on the Left. Our very... Read More

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James Thompson • December 10, 2019

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The Israel Lobby’s Hidden Hand in the Theft of Iraqi and Syrian Oil

Agha Hussain and Whitney Webb • December 10, 2019

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The outsized role of U.S. Israel lobby operatives in abetting the theft of Syrian and Iraqi oil reveals how this powerful lobby also facilitates more covert aspects of U.S.-Israeli cooperation and the implementation of policies that favor Israel. Kirkuk, Iraq — “We want to bring our soldiers home. But we did leave soldiers because we’re... Read More

The Art of Doublespeak: Bellingcat and Mind Control

Edward Curtin • December 10, 2019

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In the 1920s, the influential American intellectual Walter Lippman argued that the average person was incapable of seeing or understanding the world clearly and needed to be guided by experts behind the social curtain. In a number of books he laid out the theoretical foundations for the practical work of Edward Bernays, who developed “public... Read More

The (Real) Revolution in Military Affairs: An Interview with Andrei Martyanov

Yvonne Lorenzo and Andrei Martyanov • December 10, 2019

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I started to write these words on “Veteran’s Day” 2019, and find myself in agreement with a post on the American Conservative by Major Danny Sjurson entitled “

BEING IN TIME - A Discussion with Gilad Atzmon and E. Michael Jones

Gilad Atzmon and E. Michael Jones • December 10, 2019

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Three weeks ago the Zionist ADL produced a “

Who Spied on Julian Assange?

There are many possible suspects

Philip Giraldi • December 10, 2019

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The Julian Assange drama drags on. Though he continues to sit in a top security British prison awaiting developments in his expected extradition to the United States, the Spanish High Court has been given

On Rogues and Rogue States

Old, New, and Improved

Fred Reed • December 10, 2019

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I have just finished reading William Shirer’s Berlin Diary. (This may not fascinate you, but I am coming to something.) I first encountered it in high school. It is of course Shirer's account as a correspondent in Germany of the rise of the Nazis. Most of it is well known to the educated. The Nazis,... Read More

How Can the U.S. Dare Lecture China About the Rights of the Muslims?

Andre Vltchek • December 10, 2019

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In 2019, I have written a long analysis about “the Uygur issue”; analysis which will be soon published as a book. For some time, I have been warning the world that the West, and the United States in particular, are helping to radicalize the Uyghurs in Xinjiang Province and outside. And not only that: I... Read More

Is It Jaw-Jaw or War with Iran?

Pat Buchanan • December 10, 2019

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"Jaw-jaw is better than war-war," is attributed, wrongly, say some historians, to Winston Churchill. Still, the words lately came to mind. While last week ended with a hopeful U.S.-Iranian prisoner exchange that was hailed by President Donald Trump -- "Thank you to Iran for a very fair negotiation. See, we can make a deal together"... Read More

Don’t Expect Any Truth from Washington

Paul Craig Roberts • December 9, 2019

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On November 25 I predicted that the DOJ would never rat on itself. Horowitz, obviously a person very short on integrity or

Will Artificial Intelligence Destroy Us or Simply Make Humans Irrelevant?

Paul Craig Roberts • December 9, 2019

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Artificial Intelligence is generally seen as a great advance and benefit for mankind. Smart humans, however, see it as our undoing and even possibly our extermination. Much of modern technology has far more prospect for harm than for good. Consider nuclear weapons. Consider Monsanto’s glysophate. Consider 5G. There are a large number of technologies that... Read More

Making Sense of the Paris Summit: a Quick Analysis

The Saker • December 9, 2019

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The first thing we need to do is the remember what each participant wanted from this summit. Here is a summary of what I think (not how they officially stated it) each starting position was: Zelenskii: key notion “a flexible approach” to the Minsk Agreements No direct negotiations with the LDNR No special status Ukrainian... Read More

Congress Is Trump’s Co-Conspirator Against Liberty

Ron Paul • December 9, 2019

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Imagine that President Trump spent his phone call with the Ukrainian president threatening to withhold military aid unless the Ukrainian government agreed to use the money to purchase weapons from a US manufacturer. Does anyone seriously think that foreign service professionals and deep state operatives would be so shocked and offended by Trump’s request that... Read More

Cuckmongers Hall and the London Bridge Massacre—I Don’t Want U.S. to End Up Like This

John Derbyshire • December 8, 2019

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Corpses in Ocean

Linh Dinh • December 8, 2019

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Corbyn, Uriel da Costa and the Meaning of ‘Real Apology’

Gilad Atzmon • December 8, 2019

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Once every day, a Labour official offers a grovelling apology to the Jewish community, but for some peculiar reason its leaders

Women In Universities (IU’s Provost Lauren Robel, Dean Idie Kesner) Show Why Women In Universities Are Not A Good Thing

Lance Welton • December 7, 2019

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The Zionist Campaign Against ICE

Eric Striker • December 7, 2019

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The mass media, NGOs and professional open borders activists have made agitating for the abolition of ICE their top priority under the Trump administration. The bad faith criticism is that illegal immigrant detention facilities are rife with abuses. In corporate media outlets, stories of immigrants dying in ICE and CBP custody have tried to tap... Read More

Aux Armes, Citoyens! the Americans Attack

Eric Margolis • December 7, 2019

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Citizens of France. To arms! Man the ramparts. The American barbarians are coming. They shall not pass! Le Trump’s threat to France’s splendid wines and Roquefort cheese are the gravest menace France has faced since the Germans invaded this fair land in 1914. Burgundy wines and France’s 300 fromages form the very soul of la... Read More

For the Love of Jews

Israel Shamir • December 7, 2019

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England and France, two antagonists, two mainstays of European civilisation, are simultaneously engulfed in paroxysm of Judeophilia. The result of the forthcoming very important parliamentary elections in Britain hinges on this issue, with Labour and Tories competing who will express their love of Jews more profusely, while the Jews can’t decide whom they loath less.... Read More

Britain’s Reign as a World Superpower Is Over – Thanks to Brexit

Patrick Cockburn • December 6, 2019

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Future historians may well pick 2019 as a decisive year in the decline of the US and UK as world powers. Of course, the UK started at a much lower level in the international pecking order than the US, but the direction of travel in both cases is the same. This geopolitical shift comes exactly... Read More

The Skeletons in Katie McHugh's Closet

Eric Striker • December 6, 2019

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Former Breitbart editor Katie McHugh's voyage from politically incorrect mini-celebrity to Southern Poverty Law Center informant provided plenty of sensationalist media last month. The 29-year-old McHugh, who is based out of Oakton, Virginia, decided to publicly come out as the person who violated her friends and colleagues' trust, likely in pursuit of a Slate podcast,... Read More

Democrats' Diversity -- Only in the Back of the Bus

Pat Buchanan • December 6, 2019

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The "Our diversity is our strength!" Party is starting to look rather monochromatic in its upper echelons these days. The four leading candidates for its presidential nomination -- Joe Biden, Elizabeth Warren, Bernie Sanders and Pete Buttigieg -- are all white. The six candidates who have qualified for the Dec. 19 debate -- the front... Read More

Trump Gets Away with Stuff Because He Does

Ted Rall • December 6, 2019

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"I could stand in the middle of Fifth Avenue and shoot somebody, and I wouldn't lose any voters, OK?" President Donald Trump said at an Iowa campaign rally in January of 2016. That remark gets quoted a lot, mostly by liberals bemoaning the unquestioning loyalty of the president's stupid supporters. But there's another, more interesting,... Read More

The AEI, a Major Neocon Thinktank, Implicated in the Sackler Family’s Opioid Crisis

Kevin MacDonald • December 6, 2019

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My 2017 article on the Sackler family and the unfolding opioid disaster (“

The Holocaust

Paul Craig Roberts • December 6, 2019

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Having been fraudulently declared on Wikipedia by CIA and Zionist trolls to be a “Holocaust Denier,” I decided to see what that meant. I turned to Ron Unz’s article “American Pravda: Holocaust Denial.” Just as incompetent Wikipedia attributed David Irving’s views to me, no doubt Wikipedia will credit me with authorship of Ron Unz’s article.... Read More

What Really Happened in Iran?

A fuel tax hike set the country ablaze and triggered a social backlash

Pepe Escobar • December 6, 2019

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On November 15, a wave of protests engulfed over 100 Iranian cities as the government resorted to an extremely unpopular measure: a fuel tax hike of as much as 300%, without a semblance of a PR campaign to explain the reasons. Iranians, after all, have reflexively condemned subsidy removals for years now – especially related... Read More

Monthly Fees for Heavy Users?

Ron Unz • December 5, 2019

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As some of you are probably aware, the rising readership of our webzine led Google's advertising representatives to contact us a month or two ago, suggesting that we begin running their ads to monetize our traffic. I'd always been very reluctant to run advertising in the past, regarding it as too intrusive and also a... Read More

Who Is Making US Foreign Policy?

An anti-neocon president appears to have been surrounded by neocons in his own administration.

Stephen F. Cohen • December 5, 2019

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President Trump campaigned and was elected on an anti-neocon platform: he promised to reduce direct US involvement in areas where, he believed, America had no vital strategic interest, including in Ukraine. He also promised a new détente (“cooperation”) with Moscow. And yet, as we have learned from their recent congressional testimony, key members of his... Read More

Seeking Truth from PISA Facts

Testing Chinese and American Kids

Godfree Roberts • December 5, 2019

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Every three years the OECD tests fifteen year-olds around the world in reasoning and self-expression. China, aspiring to join the OECD club of developed nations, entered seven regions with a total population of 250 million–Beijing, Shanghai, and Jiangsu, Zhejiang, Hong Kong, Macao and Taiwan–and the results from the most recent tests were released this week.... Read More

Why Do Western Governments Favor Immigrant-Invaders Over Law-Abiding Citizens?

Paul Craig Roberts • December 5, 2019

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Pearl Harbor Debate: Conspiracy? Cover-Up? Who Was Really to Blame?

Thomas Kimmel vs. Webster Tarpley

Kevin Barrett • December 5, 2019

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Introduction It has been roughly one human lifetime since the United States of America underwent a cataclysmic transformation. December 7, 2019 marks the 78th anniversary of the Japanese attack on Pearl Harbor—the event that turned the United States from a constitutional republic into a globe-straddling empire, which today deploys more than 900 military bases in... Read More

Book Review: Andrei Martyanov's The (Real) Revolution in Military Affairs

The Saker • December 5, 2019

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Electoral Behaviour: Lurking Factors and Visible Causes

James Thompson • December 4, 2019

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The One Insurmountable Obstacle to Peace in Syria

Mike Whitney • December 4, 2019

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The Turkish army did not invade Syria to attack the Kurds. That's simply not true. The actual target of the Turkish operation (Peace Spring) was a group of separatist militants (The YPG) who have waged a bloody 30 year-long terrorist war on the Turkish state killing upwards of 40,000 people. With the assistance of US... Read More

Look Who's Back

Trevor Lynch • December 4, 2019

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David Wnendt’s 2015 film Look Who’s Back (Er ist wieder da) is based on Timur Vermes’ 2012 novel of the same name about Adolf Hitler being mysteriously transported to modern Berlin and becoming a viral media sensation. Look Who’s Back is a fascinating and funny film, but its intended message is hard to fathom. Is... Read More

Jews, White Guilt, and the Death of the Church of England

Andrew Joyce • December 4, 2019

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If it can be said that Europeans are today largely blind to Jewish aggressions, then Christians are among those fumbling around in deepest darkness. Historian Jonas Alexis once remarked that, contrary to older Christian anger at depictions of Jesus and Christianity in the Talmud, no such reactions are evident in relation to modern the Jewish... Read More

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American Pravda: Holocaust Denial

Ron Unz

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American Pravda: John McCain, Jeffrey Epstein, and Pizzagate

Our Reigning Political Puppets, Dancing to Invisible Strings

Ron Unz

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9/11 Was an Israeli Job

How America was neoconned into World War IV

Laurent Guyénot