DAVID WALSH—Capitalism in terminal decay corrupts and defiles every significant aspect of social life and culture. In regard to the content of the latter, a malignant social inequality, the domination of a handful of predatory conglomerates, the vast self-absorption of the majority of the “creative” class and their indifference to the conditions of the broad mass of the population, the general decline in historical and social knowledge, all these phenomena and other related ones make themselves felt very strongly at present.
Yearly Archives
2017
Is the buildup to World War I being repeated for WW III?
8 minutes readERIC ZUESSE—In WWI, there was a long list of neutral countries (including Switzerland, and all of Scandinavia, plus the Western Hemisphere south of the US); and, in a prospective WWIII, there would also be many such countries on the sidelines. (All of them, however, would become subject to the intense nuclear radiation after the War, and would therefore likewise become unlivable — neutrality wouldn’t save any country from destruction.)
Why Are Trump’s Troops Training ISIS Terrorists?
7 minutes readERIC ZUESSE—The aristocracy, in any country, don’t want the public to understand international relations, and why they are doing what they are doing, because, if the public knew, the aristocrats would be in a very dangerous situation. And that’s also a reason why billionaires build and buy all of the major newsmedia, so that the public won’t understand these things. [AND ROUTINELY TURN TRUTH AND REALITY UPSIDE DOWN.]
GAITHER STEWART—Yet, today, especially among many nationalists in western Ukraine, he is revered as a patriotic freedom-fighter, a martyr who led the struggle for independence from the Soviet Union, while in the pro-Russian east of the country he is widely reviled as a fascist traitor and terrorist who collaborated with the Nazis and whose followers murdered thousands of Poles and Jews. Then with the passing of time Bandera has become a hero in the eyes of the growing number of extreme rightists and Nazis in today’s extremely nationalist, jingoistic Ukraine…
Paul Craig Roberts: Declining America & How Much Death and Destruction Awaits Us in 2018?
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PAUL CRAIG ROBERTS—Russia’s premature declaration of victory in Syria and withdrawal has made it possible for US forces to remain in Syria and attempt to restart the effort to overthrow the Assad government. Russia would have to defend its victory, or by the failure to do so encourage more aggressive actions by Washington.
