Day: January 2, 2019

War is Good for Business and Organized Crime: Afghanistan’s Multibillion Dollar Opium Trade. Rising Heroin Addiction in the US

January 2, 2019 Opinion

Afghanistan’s opium economy is a multibillion dollar operation which has a direct impact on the surge of heroin addiction in the US. Despite president Trump’s announced US troop withdrawal, the A…

2019 Forecast: Mideast

January 2, 2019 Opinion

As has been the case for years already, the Mideast experienced a lot of geopolitical dynamism over the past 12 months that will shape the year to come. In any order of significance, the region saw th…

The Mystery of American Power

January 2, 2019 Opinion

Probably the single most important political fact about the modern world has been the steady rise of the United States of America. From a geopolitical point of view, the United States really is in a c…

Psychoanalysing NATO: The Diagnosis

January 2, 2019 Opinion

In previous essays I argued that NATO tries to distract our attention from its crimes by accusing Russia of those crimes: this is "projection". NATO manipulates its audience into thinking the unreal i…

Riding the Tiger: Zionism, Israel and the Far Right

January 2, 2019 Opinion

Much has been made in recent years by defenders of Israel of the purported estrangement of the political Left from the cause of Zionism. This perceived anti-Israelism, borne out of the Leftist view th…

Influencing Foreigners Is What Intelligence Agencies Do

January 2, 2019 Opinion

The Rand Corporation defines America's influence operations as... “the coordinated, integrated, and synchronized application of national diplomatic, informational, military, economic, and other c…

Big Pharma Fights Proposal to Keep It From Looting Medicare

January 2, 2019 Opinion

The Trump administration has proposed that insurance plans providing drug coverage to Medicare beneficiaries will no longer be forced to cover six hitherto “protected” drug classes. The classes––which…

New Docs Reveal Extent of CIA's Grotesque Mind Control Experiments

January 2, 2019 Military

Earlier this year, the CIA marked the 65th anniversary of the launch of Project MKULTRA, a secret program which engaged in mind control experiments on people. Now, thanks to new documents released und…