Edward Curtin is a writer, researcher, poet, essayist, journalist and novelist. His new book: Seeking Truth in a Country of Lies Nov. 1,2020. He is educated in the classics, philosophy, literature, theology, and sociology, Edward teaches sociology at Massachusetts College of Liberal Arts. His writing on varied topics has appeared widely over many years. Edward writes as a public intellectual for the general public, not as a specialist for a narrow readership. He believes a non-committal sociology is an impossibility and therefore sees all his work as an effort to enhance human freedom through understanding.
US MILITARY
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FRED REED—Where does water come from in New York? I don’t know, but it doesn’t flow spontaneously to the thirtieth floor. It needs to be pumped, which involves electricity, from wherever it comes from to wherever it has to go. No electricity, no pump. No pump, no water. And no flushing of toilets. River water could be drunk, of course. Think of the crowds.
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The Western Empire Attacks Russia: The World Strikes Back
15 minutes readJO RED—Putin in his recent speech, Pope Francis since years ago, and well, just anybody else at this point has been able to tell you that this is a global war. The Nord Stream sabotage at the hands of the Anglo-Americans is only additional, unnecessary evidence that the confrontation with Russia reaches from Caucasus to the Danish Sea and beyond.
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Haiphong and Ritter discuss what the seemingly inevitable future will look now that the EU and NATO are showng signs of fracturing if not outright collapse, all of which calls for swift and intelligent responses from Washington, if the US wants to defend a major pillar of its empire, but which are unlikely to materialize due to the US own internal problems and appallingly mediocre leadership currently entrenched in many sectors of the economy, politics, media and intelligence/security apparatus.
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Terror on Crimea Bridge forces Russia to unleash Shock’n Awe
17 minutes readPEPE ESCOBAR—Questions were being asked non-stop: why didn’t Moscow take this decision way back in February? Well, better late than never. Kiev is now learning they messed with the wrong guy. Surovikin is widely respected – and feared: his nickname is “General Armageddon.” Others call him “Cannibal.” Legendary Chechen President Ramzan Kadyrov – also a colonel general in the Russian military – lavishly praises Surovikin as “a real general and warrior, an experienced, strong-willed and far-sighted commander.”