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The Pentagon may not be advocating total war against both Russia and China – as it has been interpreted in some quarters Look at the behavior and its motives rather than the speech and spin. Global hegemony is a zero-sum game for the US. The stakes could not be higher. Obviously, the US has not built the military it has to defend the homeland or even its allies. The US would prefer to prevail through hybrid means rather than kinetically, but if not .... Even an amateur in...

Perhaps they had a chance back during the Obama days when Secretary of State Hillary Clinton proposed her amusing “Reset” in USA-Russia relations to the new Medvedew Presidency following Putin’s rotation to the seat of Prime Minister in March 2009. Had Washington been a bit more perceptive and offered serious alternatives, it is conceivable that Washington would today have a geopolitical isolation of their second major problem on the Eurasian Continent, namely, the Peoples’ Republic of...

Like most neo-con thinkers, Hook advocates crushing, crippling sanctions that supposedly will suffocate the population to the point that there will be an uprising that overthrows the regime. It's a form of collective punishment--a neo-con pipe dream that destroys nations and people. Hook's mission on Iran is described as coming from Pompeo at the State Dept, but well-placed sources say it's a National Security Council operation, and Bolton's brainchild.... Sic Semper Tyrannis Who's on the...

Beware of blowback. Strategic Culture Foundation America the Punitive Philip Giraldi, former CIA counter-terrorism specialist and military intelligence officer, now Executive Director of the Council for the National Interest and founding member of the Veteran Intelligence Professionals for Sanity

Short backgrounder on the recent film, "Shock and Awe."How the neocons hijacked US policy with lies.Armstrong EconomicsWhy Did the USA Invade Iraq?Martin Armstrong

In Noam Chomsky’s words, Nicaragua poses a threat of a good example to the US empire. Since Ortega’s return election victory in 2006, Nicaragua had achieved the following, according to NSCAG, despite being the second poorest country in the hemisphere:Second highest economic growth rates and most stable economy in Central America. Only country in the region producing 90% of the food it consumes. Poverty and extreme poverty halved; country with the greatest reduction of extreme poverty....

Fort Russ TRUMPS SECRET PLAN? Turn Russia into ‘battering ram’ against China Paul AntonopoulosSee also CounterpunchTrump, Putin & Helsinki: Henry Kissinger Still Calls the Shots Rajai R. Masri is a former lecturer of Finance at McGill University and Boston University.RelatedSic Semper TyrannisLet Mikey do it? Maybe not.Col. W. Patrick Lang, US Army (ret.) At the Defense Intelligence Agency, Lang was the Defense Intelligence Officer (DIO) for the Middle East, South Asia and...

Balanced assessment from a longtime insider.Jack Matlock BlogMr. Trump Goes to HelsinkiWilliam Polk on Trump, Helsinki, and U.S. Foreign Policy William Polk |  former professor of history at Harvard University and the University of Chicago, past president of the Adlai Stevenson Institute of International Affairs at University of Chicago, and sometime US diplomat and foreign policy consultant

Pulling a Kissinger. But coming from a country that can't keep an agreement…?And if an agreement were viable, what could go wrong? Bhadrakumar explains.Russia InsiderTrump Has a Grand Strategy, He Wants to Do a 'Reverse Nixon' -- Partner Russia for an Alliance vs China M. K. BhadrakumarSee alsoWhile Trump Has Been Running His Mouth on the New Nuclear Arms Race Russia Has Quietly Taken the Lead Scott RitteralsoLike Chuck Schumer said would happen. "Let me tell you: You take on the...

Joh Rappoport reminds us of some history.John Rappoport's BlogUS shipped biowar materials to Iraq John Rappoport