How The US Runs Iraq

How The US Runs Iraq

What ever happened to Iraq? Is it not an independent country with a democratic government thanks to the 2003 US invasion? So says Washington. The murder of senior Iranian military commander Qassem Soleimani suddenly shone a strobe light on ‘independent’ Iraq, and what we saw was not pretty. Welcome to the new Imperialism 101. Iraq’s…

The US-China Power Struggle, Two Decades of CIA Interference in Tibet

The US-China Power Struggle, Two Decades of CIA Interference in Tibet

America’s position as the world’s strongest country faces its greatest challenge today from China, as is widely acknowledged. Yet the United States-China power struggle is not merely a phenomenon of this century, but has been ongoing for at least 70 years. Following China’s autumn 1949 communist revolution, the US has attempted in varying degrees to…

A New Year’s Fantasy

A New Year’s Fantasy

History is indeed little more than the register of the crimes, follies and misfortunes of mankind– Edward Gibbon Counterfactual history is generally a waste of time because, in the end, it’s just speculation. But it’s fun and it can sometimes illuminate factual history. For example, take the aborted Soviet-French-British alliance to stop Hitler. It came…