General John F Campbell, commander of all foreign forces in Afghanistan 2014-2016, said in a speech in Kabul on December 28, 2014 that «The insurgents are losing, they’re desperate». But they weren’t and they aren’t. On August 21 President Trump outlined his plan for continuation of the 16-year US-NATO war in Afghanistan, in which there is supposedly a new…
Manufactured Civil War, Guided Anarchy. What is now unfolding in America is a process of engineered dissent which is controlled by the corporate elites. This process precludes the formation of a real mass movement against racism, social injustice and US led wars. This article by Larry Chin analyzes how the elite opponents of Donald Trump are manipulating…
Since early in last year’s election campaign, countless pages of commentary about Donald Trump’s presidency have taken the form that policy analysis about U.S. presidents and presidential candidates usually takes. Purported policy objectives are identified, the basis for such objectives is discussed, and the likely strategy for attaining those objectives is explained. Exegesis of speeches…
The world’s top oil importer, China, is preparing to launch a crude oil futures contract denominated in Chinese yuan and convertible into gold, potentially creating the most important Asian oil benchmark and allowing oil exporters to bypass U.S.-dollar denominated benchmarks by trading in yuan, Nikkei Asian Review reports. The crude oil futures will be the…
Russian military observer Andrei Kotz offers his take on the top five man-portable anti-armor rocket launchers in the world. Over the past couple weeks, the Syrian Army and Russian air power have been busy liquidating a large group of Daesh militants near Akerbat, a strategic village on the border between the provinces of Hama and Homs. The further Syrian forces encircled…
Washington has dismal bilateral relations with Russia, China and other sovereign independent nations. Things got worse with the ordered closure of Russia’s San Francisco consulate along with annex buildings in Washington in New York. For the first time, the US Pacific Command developed a schedule for South China Sea naval patrols, claiming its freedom of…
