Journal: The Rise and Rise Further of Turkey (Along with the Collapse of Israel and the NeoCons)

Chuck Spinney Sends… As someone who has lived in Turkey for most of the last two years, I have watched the development of her foreign policy with great interest, not to mention a good deal of confusion It is hard to make sense out this rapidly-emerging, vibrant country of 70 million, increasingly well-educated, industrious people.  …

Caitlin Johnstone: Warmongers Should Be Treated Like Serial Killers And Child Rapists

Warmongers Should Be Treated Like Serial Killers And Child Rapists California Representative Ro Khanna announced on Monday that he’d just hung out with Iraq war architect Bill Kristol and had a wonderful exchange of ideas, fully discrediting the myth of the progressive Democrat with a single tweet. “Bill Kristol is one of the most thoughtful voices …

Edwin Jewett: China Notes That the Same Journalist Pushing Wuhan Lab Hoax Pushed Iraq WMD Hoax

China Notes That the Same Journalist Pushing Wuhan Lab Hoax Pushed Iraq WMD Hoax China is inching dangerously close to dangerous anti-Semitism. Gordon is supposedly not Jewish, but he co-wrote the New York Times pieces with the Jew Judith Miller. Furthermore, I wouldn’t personally point to Gordon as the source for the “Wuhan Lab Leak …

Caitlin Johnstone: Mainstream Politics Offer Pretend Revolutions To A Discontented Public

Mainstream Politics Offer Pretend Revolutions To A Discontented Public In 2008 the American public was fed up with the disastrous status quo politics of George W Bush, so they came together and elected a progressive candidate who campaigned on hope and change to replace him. But no progress happened; the hope and change never came. …

Matt Ehret: Tomorrow’s Arctic: Theatre of War or Cooperation? The Real Story Behind the Alaska Purchase

Today, the Arctic has increasingly become identified as a domain of great prosperity and cooperation amongst world civilizations on the one side and a domain of confrontation and war on the other. In 2007, the Russian government first voiced its support for the construction of the Bering Strait rail tunnel connecting the Americas with the …