Donald Trump believes that U.S. economic and military might are all he needs to become a benign dictator and achieve unilateral control over America’s allies — what will the effects of this policy be? [...]
A handful of figures will be sacrificed – but only to protect a wider culture that believes rules don’t apply to the ruling elite Jonathan Cook is the author of three books on the Israeli-Palestinian [...]
The long-standing ‘extraordinary privilege’ of the dollar is not going to end any time soon Michael Roberts is an Economist in the City of London and a prolific blogger. Cross-posted from Michael Roberts’ blog The gold [...]
What is on the table tomorrow during the Iran-US negotiations Larry C. Johnson is a former CIA officer and intelligence analyst, and former planner and advisor at the US State Department’s Office of Counter Terrorism. [...]
Everything is ‘business’ in Trump’s geo-politics Alastair Crooke is a former British diplomat, founder and director of the Beirut-based Conflicts Forum Cross-posted from the Strategic Culture online journal President Donald Trump and attorney Steve Witkoff [...]
New revelations shed light on a deeply corrupt system of government that functions in the interests of criminal elites Peter Oborne’s new book, ‘Complicit: Britain’s Role in the Destruction of Gaza’, was recently published by [...]
The modern western political class is incapable of understanding that money and reality are too different things Cross-posted from Aurelien’s substack “Trying to understand the world” Ideas for these essays develop in strange ways. I [...]
After a week in Venezuela Craig Murray reports on what he has seen. Craig Murray is a British former diplomat, political activist, human rights campaigner, blogger, and whistleblower Cross-posted from Craig Murray’s blog I have [...]
The sole interest of the Western elite is to maintain its grip on power. As Trump and his acolytes have declared: fuck the law (and children) Caitlin Johnstone is a reader-supported independent journalist from Melbourne, [...]
Book Review by Hossam el-Hamalawy Avi Shlaim’s Genocide in Gaza: Israel’s Long War on Palestine is a book written in the midst of catastrophe, not after its dust has settled. It is a work shaped [...]
