Tag: Politics

  • Ballooning Rhetoric: Aliens, Escalation and Airborne Surveillance

    Things are getting rather bizarre at the US Northern Command and the North American Aerospace Defense Command (NORAD). Its increasingly prominent commanding chief, one General Glen VanHerck, has abandoned any initial sense of frankness in discussing the destruction of an alleged Chinese surveillance balloon on February 4. Since that disproportionately violent event, more public relations […]

  • How Spin and Lies Fuel a Bloody War of Attrition in Ukraine

    How Spin and Lies Fuel a Bloody War of Attrition in Ukraine

    Fresh graves at a cemetery near Bakhmut, December 2022. – Photo credit: Reuters In a recent column, military analyst William Astore wrote, “[Congressman] George Santos is a symptom of a much larger disease: a lack of honor, a lack of shame, in America. Honor, truth, integrity, simply don’t seem to matter, or matter much, in […]

  • US Interference in Canada Far Greater than Alleged Chinese Interference

    The US is a far bigger threat to Canadian sovereignty and democracy than China but you’d never know it from following the dominant media. In recent days a CIA-linked firm got the federal government to stop research with a Chinese university, a State Department funded group convinced parliament to criticize China and the Pentagon’s panic […]

  • What’s It All About, Alfie?

    What’s It All About, Alfie?

    Set in postwar London, Alfie features Michael Caine as a chauffeur bent on promiscuity. After impregnating his girlfriend he takes off on vacation. He continues his life of womanizing, but he can’t hide forever. A misfortune strikes and Alfie is forced to face the product of his ways. This not the crux of the question, […]

  • An Objective Look at U.S. Foreign Policy

    Events continue to unfold at a quickening pace. Facing an alarming escalation in tensions around the world, we asked Matthew Hoh for his current thoughts. We focus on the realities of the international power struggle unfolding in real time, specifically addressing the role of the U.S. in the tensions and its capacity to reduce them. […]

  • A Month’s Notice: Why Burkina Faso Ordered French Troops out of the Country

    A Month’s Notice: Why Burkina Faso Ordered French Troops out of the Country

    Though it was clear that Burkina Faso was eventually going to follow in the footsteps of Mali and the Central African Republic (CAR), Ouagadougou’s decision to break military ties with France was not as simple as media sound bites want us to believe. The conventional wisdom is that these countries are walking away from their […]

  • Rescue Our Democratic Society: Constitutionally Render Corporations Unequal to Humans

    No other institutions consistently Rule over as Much in the World as the Giant Global Corporations – not governments, not armies, not religions and certainly not trade unions. These fictional corporate entities have largely achieved transcendent imperial status, as they amass coordinated control over capital, labor, technology and governments because they have secured the rights […]

  • The Danish Government’s Last Visit to Ukraine – the West’s Last or Penultimate War?

    The Danish Government’s Last Visit to Ukraine – the West’s Last or Penultimate War?

    The Danish foreign, defence and the prime minister is greeted by President Zelensky (right) The West/NATO has always lacked a long-term strategy. After all, it was militarily, economically and politically superior and could impose its will. Didn’t have to think. Hoping Ukraine would join NATO without fuss was hubris-ridden wishful thinking, and stupid to boot, […]

  • Thirteen Commandments of Propaganda

    Thirteen Commandments of Propaganda

    Orientation Definition of propaganda and the purpose of this article Are the chances better that you’d read this article if I called it The Ten Commandments of Propaganda? The author of the book The Ten Commandments of Propaganda thinks so because you have deep collective associations with the Ten Commandments because of the centuries of […]

  • Does Anyone Believe the US’s Denial of Carrying out the Nord Stream Pipeline Sabotage?

    Does Anyone Believe the US’s Denial of Carrying out the Nord Stream Pipeline Sabotage?

    The exposure has been denied by the Empire. But does anyone believe the denial? Not today, none. People across the world have come across such denials many times, and each time all the denials turned out to be lies. The latest denial is related to the incident of explosion in the Nord Stream pipelines. The […]

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