Day: February 12, 2019

Results of the First Round of Talks Between the USA and the Taliban

February 12, 2019 Opinion

January 2019 saw the conclusion of the first round of talks between the USA and the Taliban, which took place in Qatar. The Afghan Taliban and the official representatives of the USA reached prelimina…

Rethinking the US Military Industrial Complex

February 12, 2019 Opinion

The US Military Industrial Complex no longer needs neither actual wars nor the threat of war for its own survival. This factor could actually change dynamic of this institution/bureaucracy in our life…

France’s Airstrike in Chad Draws It Deeper into African “Mission Creep”

February 12, 2019 Opinion

France launched an airstrike on a convoy of fighters heading south towards the capital after its Chadian partners requested its assistance, which wasn’t anything unprecedented seeing as how Paris has …

Trump’s at War with U.S. Intelligence — And (for Once) He’s Right

February 12, 2019 Opinion

In the TV show Designated Survivor, Kiefer Sutherland plays a neophyte president, Tom Kirkman, who tries to bring decency and common sense to the Oval Office after a terrorist attack has wiped out mos…

Venezuela Is an Opportunity for Russia and China to Change the World

February 12, 2019 Opinion

Nothing better illustrates Washington’s opposition to democracy and self-determination than the blatantly public coup Washington has organized against the properly elected president of Venezuela. Wash…

10 Reasons the Gilets-Jeunes Are the Real Deal

February 12, 2019 Opinion

We live in a world where democracy is a threat and freedom is a punishment, where you can’t tell a turd from a diamond, where 5G is trumpeted even as it threatens to kill us, where the prevailing…

Leaked Wikileaks Doc: US Military Uses IMF, World Bank as 'Unconventional Weapons'

February 12, 2019 Opinion

This “U.S. coup manual,” recently highlighted by WikiLeaks, serves as a reminder that the so-called “independence” of such financial institutions as The World Bank and IMF is an illusion and that they…

How To Tell If Someone Is Controlled Opposition

February 12, 2019 Opinion

Every day in my article comments and social media I get people warning me that this or that journalist, activist or politician is “controlled opposition”, meaning someone who pretends to oppose the es…