ERIC ZUESSE—The world that Truman started on that day in 1945 has shaped the world that we all live in today. Truman’s decisions shaped it by enormously increasing wars and deaths and war-dismemberments and destructions and refugees, and especially by creating (and most especially by the continued cooperation of all U.S. Presidents since the time of GHW Bush who secretly decided to continue the Cold War on the U.S. side) the danger that we all now face, of a nuclear Armageddon.
VASSAL STATES
-
-
MIKE WHITNEY—“NATO is expected to ask its members to raise its ammunition stockpiles which have been badly depleted by the war in Ukraine… the pace of deliveries to Ukraine, where Kyiv’s troops are firing up to 10,000 artillery shells daily, has drained Western inventories and exposed holes in the efficiency, speed and manpower of supply chains. “If Europe were to fight Russia, some countries would run out of ammunition in days,” a European diplomat told Reuters… the stockpiles are running even lower due to the conflict in Ukraine…. The war also cast a spotlight on the lack of industrial capacity necessary to ramp up production quickly.
-
UKRAINE – THE NEOCON’S DREAM AND THE WORLD’S NIGHTMARE / LATEST PUTIN SPEECH ANALYSED, w. SCOTT RITTER
6 minutes readGARLAND NIXON—The US gave the European vassals enough rope to create the illusion of sovereignty. Now, however, with the Empire itself entering stormy waters, the mask is off and the Quisling class is being revealed as simple compradors who take their orders from Washington. In that sense, neither the West Europeans nor the American people have true political representation. The whole West is run by the Anglo-Saxon oligarchy.
-
Ukraine War Was ALWAYS About Dividing Russia & Germany
6 minutes readAARON MATE—The establishment media and politicians would have us believe the Ukraine War is all about a plucky underdog repelling a bullying, much larger neighbor. In reality it’s about much more than that – among other things a key U.S. objective of this proxy war is to prevent Russia and Germany from aligning and creating a trans-European alliance that could challenge American economic hegemony across the globe. Guest host Aaron Maté highlights just some of the prominent individuals who have pointed out the U.S.’s long-running interest in driving a wedge between Germany and Russia.
-
MATT TAIBBI—The article, which rails against the “warped idea of freedom… populism, and misinformation being sprayed all over social media,” reads like all the tsk-tsking editorials in the West you’ve read since Trump, which used every crisis to hype the idea that freedom = danger. It wasn’t long ago that a person couldn’t go outside without having the word “freedom” jammed in his or her ear, whether it was Mel Gibson yelling it over his hair extensions in Braveheart or Republican congressman Bob Ney engaging in a Pattonesque invasion of the House cafeteria so he could rename your potato-based side dish “Freedom Fries.”