Finian Cunningham

FINIAN CUNNINGHAM—The cold-blooded murder of U.S. citizens has shocked the nation with a dreadful realization that Trump is running the country like a police state.   Even mainstream pundits like Robert Reich, the former Labor Secretary under Clinton, are using words like “fascism” and “Gestapo” to describe what’s going on.

Worryingly for Trump, polls show that there is mounting public anger among all voters, Republicans, Democrats, and independents. There is a growing sense that the United States is descending into a despotic regime where the Constitutional rights of citizens are no longer respected.

FINIAN CUNNINGHAM—Observers speak of a new Cold War between the United States, Russia, and China. Yet this geopolitical standoff was supposed to have ended more than 30 years ago.

The discomfiting truth is that warmongering by Washington was not an unfortunate byproduct of the five-decade Cold War period. Such warmongering existed long before the Cold War started and long after it ended. One must conclude, therefore, that such relentless aggression is an inherent feature of imperialist status, whose power is premised on acquiring global dominance. This kind of candid public discourse is off-limits in the Western mainstream media. To criticize the United States as a belligerent rogue regime is simply impermissible, even though that criticism can be substantiated by the historical record.

Wars, regime-change operations, coups, proxy wars, and economic warfare (sanctions) are all forms of aggression that the United States has engaged in, often with the complicity of other Western states. The record of conduct can be accurately defined as “state terrorism.”

No other modern nation comes close to matching the criminal record of the United States in waging wars and other forms of aggression.

FINIAN CUNNINGHAM—Ridenour points to a recent increase in Western mainstream media reports about Putin’s alleged ill-health and predictions of his death. Combined with the relentless vilification and demonization of the Russian leader in the Western media, there is a familiar modus operandi of the CIA to pave the way for eliminating foreign enemies.