Like a giant and lethal parasite, the US MIC (miltary-industrial-complex), which also includes its powerful propaganda arm, the mainstream media, currently more than half of our published budget. To justify itself, and serve the agendas of the ruling caste of billionaires that really own America and its politicians, it manufactures threats and wars all over the planet. And this is not a secret: Many Americans are quite aware of this, but feel helpless to do anything about it. Call it the capitalist/imperialist disease: the ultimate form of cancer.
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Must Watch: Imperial Decay (by Class War Films)
5 minutes readAll empires, no matter how solid and invincible they seem, ultimately fail and collapse. Usually victims of their own hubris, which opens the doors to over-reach, and colossally corrupt elites mostly bent on feeding on the imperial carcass till the bitter end.Corupt “democracies” are normally a nightmare to their own citizens, but a corrupt global empire [we are repeating ourselves can be a nightmare to everyone alive, both near and far.
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CHRISTOPHER BLACK—Reasonable people ask what can be done about the aggressive policies of the United States leadership. Russia and China talk about containment of the threat, renew calls for peaceful diplomacy, support dialogue with Iran to reduce the imminent danger of war in the Persian Gulf, with Venezuela, with respect to all the nations attacked occupied or threatened by the United States. But the Trumps and Obamas, the Bushes and Clintons of the American world, respond with all the more arrogance and fall all over themselves as to who among them is the most bellicose, the most ready to go to war to “make America great again, the most able to “support the spread of democracy,” that is, their rule over the world.
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A much feared and misunderstood institution: Iran’s Quds Force And Modern Proxy Wars
21 minutes readDENIS M NILSEN—Presently, Quds can be seen as forming a ‘shield-forward’ for the Islamic Republic from a strategic point of view; this gives eschatological importance to their continued support of Hezbollah in Lebanon and to their great commitment in men and material to ensure the continuance of the Syrian government. They believe that when Imam Mahdi returns, Zionism, which Shia regard as one of the main tools in the struggle between Good and Evil, will be defeated in the final great battle for Jerusalem.
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FINIAN CUNNINGHAM—For the past two months there have been a series of sabotage incidents against commercial shipping which the US has blamed on Iran. Iran denies any involvement and has instead speculated that the incidents are being orchestrated by malign forces to incriminate Tehran. The seizure of the Iranian oil tanker off Gibraltar earlier this month by British commandoes fits into the same pattern of deliberate provocation. So when Britain’s Jeremy Hunt gets on his high horse of legal probity and righteousness, the hubris is way too much to stomach.