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The Agony of Defeat
A peaceful settlement of the Ukraine conflict is not in the cards. It is a logical impossibility given the following truths 1. America’s leaders could not tolerate terms minimally acceptable to Russia. For such terms would represent a) an unmistakable loss of status and self-regard; b) a reversion from the strategic foundations of the country’s […]
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I Resigned 22 Years Ago from the US Government over the Bush War on Iraq
Twenty-two years ago, on March 19, 2003, I resigned from the US Department of State. I was the Deputy chief of mission at the US Embassy in UlaanBaatar, Mongolia and the third U.S. government employee to resign in opposition to the U.S. war on Iraq. I resigned on the day the Bush administration began the […]
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As Biden Leaves Office, the US Empire is Desperate to Maintain Its Hegemony
This November, US president Joe Biden will leave office with the world in turmoil and US fingerprints on the bodies of untold thousands across the globe: in Gaza and Lebanon, Yemen and Syria, Cuba and Venezuela, Pakistan and Haiti, and elsewhere. While Biden attempted to cast his foreign policy actions as defending “democracy” against “authoritarianism,” […]
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Eight Reasons Why Marco Rubio Would Be a Disastrous Secretary of State
Rubio and Trump during a break in the 2016 presidential debate. AP photo. Of all Trump’s choices for his foreign policy team, Marco Rubio is the least controversial to the neoconservative foreign policy establishment in Washington, and the most certain to provide continuity with all that is wrong with U.S. foreign policy, from Cuba to the Middle […]
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Biden-Harris Killed the 2022 Ukraine-War Peace Deal
Early after Russia invaded Ukraine on 24 February 2022, Turkey, which is a NATO member but not as subservient to the U.S. Government as almost all of its European members are, broke with the U.S. Government’s opposition to there being any negotiations to settle the Ukraine war; and peace talks, negotiations to end the conflict, […]
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October’s Surprise Party
As another October approaches, the beautiful season of colors begins here in New England. Call it October’s Surprise Party. The turning leaves with all their colors come to announce the earth’s glory, the possibility of peace and happiness for all. Yet as the month transpires and November nears, I think we might expect what for many will […]
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Zelenskyy Joins the US Election
Here he goes again, cap in hand, begging for the alms of war. Ukraine’s Volodymyr Zelenskyy has been touring the United States, continuing his lengthy salesmanship for Ukraine’s ongoing military efforts against Russia. The theme is familiar and constantly reiterated: the United States must continue to back Kyiv in its rearguard action for civilisation in […]
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Is it Nicaragua that is “weaponizing” immigration or is it Washington?
Claims that Nicaragua is “weaponizing” immigration by allowing free passage of migrants towards the U.S. border have been appearing regularly in the media over the last twelve months. The claim was made on NPR in January, in the Associated Press last October, in El Pais last November and by the BBC this July, to cite […]
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