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Lessons from Vietnam for Ukraine

In April 1965, U.S. President Lyndon Baines Johnson (LBJ) explained why he was escalating US involvement in Vietnam. With an Orwellian touch, LBJ titled the speech “Peace without Conquest” as […]

A Tale of Two Summits

Last week (June 8-10) there were two summits in Los Angeles, California: the Summit of the Americas hosted by the US State Department and the People’s Summit hosted by US […]

How “virtual crime scenes” became a propaganda tool in Nicaragua, Ukraine and Syria

This article shows how media uses computer modeling and “virtual crime scenes” to assign blame for some extremely important international events. In these examples from Nicaragua, Ukraine and Syria, many […]

Ukraine is a Pawn on the Grand Chessboard

Zbigniew Brzezinski’s book “The Grand Chessboard” was published 25 years ago. His assumptions and strategies for maintaining U.S. global dominance have been hugely influential in US foreign policy. As the […]

Fabricating Putin Quotes and Banning Paraplegic Athletes to Undermine Russia: How Low Can the West Go?

Mobilizing a population to vilify and hate a targeted enemy is a tactic that leaders have used since before the dawn of human history, and it is being used to […]

How the US instigated the Ukraine crisis

Introduction   Russia has sent troops into Ukraine and attacked Ukrainian military forces forces . In a one hour address, President Putin said the goal was the “de-Nazification” of Ukraine. […]

Indigenous Leaders in Nicaragua Speak Out Against Western Media and NGOs

“The creators of fake news took charge of spreading the word …through Facebook” Nicaragua has an election to choose their president and national assembly on November 7. According to polls, […]

Racism and lawfare in the United States

And the first thing the American power structure doesn’t want any Negroes to start is thinking internationally. Malcolm X – Autobiography   Color is not a human or a personal reality; […]

Interview of A. Vltchek: The United States, police brutality and the possibilities of a fundamental change

Erkin Oncan interviews Andre Vltchek on the nature of the protests in the US and on the possibility to bring a fundamental change of US society.   EO: How do […]

“The world cannot breathe!” Squashed by the US – A country built on genocide and slavery

More than two centuries of lies are now getting exposed. Bizarre tales about freedom and democracy are collapsing like houses of cards. One man’s death triggers an avalanche of rage […]

The Soviet victory over nazism 75 years ago, and COVID-19

How could the Great Patriotic War in which the Soviet people (including many members of my own family) lost at least 25 million lives, have anything in common with the […]

“Battle” against COVID-19 in a fragmented world has ruined billions of lives

It is not only about physically surviving the pandemic. People miss people, and places, sometimes desperately. And they die, when separated. We are bombarded by briefings and numbers. We are […]

Hong Kong rioters should never fight against their own country

For several months, Western mass media called the Hong Kong rioters, “pro-democracy protesters”. It still does. But I began noticing a new, even deadlier terminology. Now, the black-clad ninja-looking men […]

The daughter of Zeus or the privatization of Mount Olympus

When three representatives of the European Central Bank come knocking on the door of the House of the Gods, it ends up making sparks fly. Franklin Frederick offers us a […]

Controlling epidemics? The WHO had the answer 40 years ago

  For once, everyone agrees. The only way to deal effectively with Covid 19 is through comprehensive, equitable, universally accessible health systems. This was precisely the solution proposed to countries […]

Terrorism

Understanding the Muslim World