MAX PARRY—Unlike the other ethnic nationalists in the former Yugoslavia, the Serbs did favor a centralized government and wished to preserve much of the state industry and infrastructure of the republic prior to its fragmentation. Serbia and the Federal Republic of Yugoslavia had a market economy but even this was not enough of a concession for the forces of globalization.
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Who Will Pay the $250+ Billion Reconstruction Cost in Syria?
39 minutes readERIC ZUESSE—America’s corruption deserves a Nobel Prize, like was won by Henry Kissinger and Barack Obama; but, this one should be called the “Hypocrisy Prize” and awarded directly to the US Government — an invoice, “amount due,” totaling the damages done by this Government to all of the governments that had posed no threat to US national security but that the US Government nonetheless overthrew, starting with Thailand in 1948.
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Is the buildup to World War I being repeated for WW III?
13 minutes readERIC ZUESSE—In WWI, there was a long list of neutral countries (including Switzerland, and all of Scandinavia, plus the Western Hemisphere south of the US); and, in a prospective WWIII, there would also be many such countries on the sidelines. (All of them, however, would become subject to the intense nuclear radiation after the War, and would therefore likewise become unlivable — neutrality wouldn’t save any country from destruction.)
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Futile Russian Efforts to Improve Relations with US
8 minutes readSTEPHEN LENDMAN—The Trump administration is continuing Obama’s policy of supplying heavy weapons to Kiev, for offense, not defense. Its regime breached Minsk I and II ceasefire terms straightaway. Overnight attacks on Donbass were reported in five areas. Agreed on yearend ceasefire was breached almost immediately.
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Trump’s squalid fulminations against UN members is one more embarrassing symptom of the US government’s decomposition as a result of runaway criminality and corruption.