LARRY JOHNSON—I am not Chicken Little aka Henny Penny — “a little chicken convinced that the sky is falling and that life as we, or at least as chickens know it, is over.” So, when I write that the world sits on the precipice of disaster as the West continues to promote war as a solution to Russia, China, Iran and the Palestinians, I am not hyping for the sake of getting attention. I hope for the sake of your children and grand children that I am wrong, but the escalating bellicose rhetoric in the United States, Europe and Israel signals that our future is filled with the potential for horrific destruction not seen since the end of World War II.
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EDITOR—Despite the endorsement of celebrities—Susan Sarandon, Annie Lenox, et al—Clare Daly lost her seat at the EU. Her independence, and her fierce criticisms of Israel and US imperialism support for the Ukraine War, plus scathing attacks on the scoundrel media, sealed her fate. While they were to many an example of principled politics, the Irish media painted her and Mick Wallace as “an embarrassment and a disgrace” to Ireland.
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Dr. Jill Stein & Michael Hudson: Fighting Russia & China to Last American: Destroying US From Within
86 minutes readMICHAEL HUDSON—The neocons want an economy that shifts resource allocation and policy out of the hands of Washington and other financial centers into the hands of Wall Street, England, the Paris Bourse, the Bank of Japan. The fight is over who’s going to control the economy. And this is where they’re willing to fight to the very end, just like the Roman oligarchy was willing to fight civil war rather than to give in, cancel the debts that the population was demanding in the civil wars that erupted in the first millennium BC.
So, yes, it’s literally a war of civilization. And you’ve had the Americans in the 1990s, the American phrase, the end of history. We’ve won. We’ve won, and now we can take over the world.
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Should Vladimir Putin Call His Shot on a NATO Brushback Pitch? by Ron Unz
by Ron Unz55 minutes readRON UNZ—As everyone knows, the Western mainstream media has spent more than two years demonizing Russia and its president following the February 2022 outbreak of the Ukraine war, with Putin having become the most reviled world leader since Adolf Hitler more than three generations ago. And although Russia’s military attack only came after many years of the most extreme military and political provocations by America and its NATO allies, our astonishingly dishonest media outlets have uniformly plastered the word “unprovoked” on all their accounts of the conflict.
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Hanging Out With Sabby Sabs – Talking Foreign Policy
7 minutes readEDITOR—Garland, and RBN’s Jaybefount and Sabby Sabs discuss the US Empire’s rapid unravelling as a result of its imprudent and arrogant over-reach, not to mention ghastly authoritarian nature (while blaming others of this cardinal sin!). America’s devious and often heavy-handed way of “doing business” has finally turned most of the world, except for its vassals in Europe (and even there we are beginning to see cracks in fealty) away from Washington, many nations now gravitating toward the BRICS bloc, led by China and Russia, Eurasia’s two biggest powers. Much of the attraction lies in the fact that BRICS is a multinodal network of independent nations operating on egalitarian, sovereignist and non-interventionist, democratic principles. The era of US dictating sanctions, “containment” or “deterrence” (such postures grounded in a moral judgment) toward various nations, is thankfully coming to an end.