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Gaither Stewart

Senior Editor Gaither Stewart, based in Rome, serves—inter alia—as our European correspondent. A veteran journalist and essayist on a broad palette of topics from culture to history and politics, he is also the author of the Europe Trilogy, celebrated spy thrillers whose latest volume, Time of Exile, was just published by Punto Press.

Bertold Brecht: Collectivism and Dialectical Materialism in Practice

by shorty October 30, 2017

October 30, 2017 17 minutes read

GAITHER STEWART—In those revolutionary times it seemed natural to him that he apply dialectical…

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QUADRIGA

by shorty September 25, 2017

September 25, 2017 10 minutes read

GAITHER STEWART—Although the Quadriga symbol of victory in war and the following peace has…

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Edward W. Said On Orientalism

by Rowan Wolf May 12, 2017

May 12, 2017 9 minutes read

NOTE: Edward Said wrote a new preface for the twenty-fifth anniversary edition of his classic…

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WALLS

by shorty January 30, 2017

January 30, 2017 15 minutes read

[su_panel background=”#FFFFFF” color=”#020109″ border=”8px solid #cccccc” shadow=”7px 0px 1px #eeeeee” radius=”11″] ot too long…

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MEMORY TRENCH: The Long and Lonesome Road to Samarkand

by shorty December 28, 2016

December 28, 2016 12 minutes read

Dispatches from Gaither Stewart European Correspondent • Rome early two decades after Iran’s Islamic…

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The U.S. and NATO Are Waging War With Russia in Ukraine… But Russia Is Assured of Victory – Russell Bentley →

RUSSEL BENTLEY—Coming here, I was not only taking up the cause of the Donbas people, who defend Donbas, and defend Russia. Who defends Russia, defends the future of humanity. And humanity includes all good people of all nations. The vast majority of people in the West these days are coprophagous zombies who are too brainwashed to ever redeem themselves. They eat shit, and have learned to like it, and are angry and offended if you suggest they change their diet. But the two percent who are not “woke”, but aware, who know history, can actually perceive reality, who understand what is at stake, and are willing to do more than hit “Like” on a Facebook page to do something about it, these are our audience and the hope for humanity. Read more…
Great unsaid in US election: Love for ‘forever war’ is what cost Democrats →

RAMIN MAZAHERI—But since when has American politics made moral sense? America has always been a deeply reactionary country – its founding revolution was merely against foreign control and not in favor of a progressive reordering of society – and thus its politics has always been defined by hypocrisy, zero memory and even less understanding of this thing we share called human history. The Democrats’ Russophobia made Russia the target, but the Democratic Party’s truly autocratic and anti-democratic commitment to “forever war” is the root cause of their undeniable electoral defeat this week. Read more…
STALIN: THE HISTORY AND CRITIQUE OF A BLACK LEGEND →

PATRICE GREANVILLE—The all-out demonisation of revolutionary leaders is an old habit that has become almost an industry in the capitalist West. The defamation of a leader about whom the masses are not just massively ignorant but aggressively disinformed is a devious shortcut to the demonisation of a nation and its threatening system, in this case communism, the direct antidote to capitalism, threatening, that is, to the class interests of the bourgeois elites that control the West. Read more…
MUST WATCH VIDEO: The calm before the storm in Ukraine (with Col. Douglas Macgregor) →

A distinguished military officer and an honest thinker that commands attention, Col. Douglas Macgregor is an example of rectitude to fellow officers and above all a patriot who is trying to avoid a global catastrophe by speaking the truth. Read more…
Violence, Revolution, and Structural Change in Latin America (Revised and expanded) →

JOHN GERASSI—Che Guevara had no illusions about what this will mean in Latin America. He wrote: “The present moment may or may not be the proper one for starting the struggle, but we cannot harbor any illusions, we have no right to do so, that freedom can be obtained without fighting. And these battles shall not be mere street fights with stones against tear-gas bombs, nor pacific general strikes; neither will they be those of a furious people destroying in two or three days the repressive superstructure of the ruling oligarchies. The struggle will be long, harsh, and its battlefronts will be the guerrilla’s refuge, the cities, the homes of the fighters–where the repressive forces will go seeking easy victims among their families–among the massacred rural populations, in the villages or in cities destroyed by the bombardments of the enemy.” Read more…
Some Historical Excerpts About How the U.S. Government Took Ukraine →

ERIC ZUESSE (quoting): "All of those facts and more are known to the world as is the plain and simple fact that the regime in Kiev is nothing more than an installed puppet show organized by the West and in no way representing the Ukrainian people. The names and actors behind the coup are also no secret, as is the fact that the Right Sector is nothing but a gang of ruthless, lawless, nazi thugs yet there is no outcry, there is no backing off by western politicians who continue to support the lawless nazi killers and the western media continue marching in lock step aiding and abetting in what has become truly one of the single greatest disgraces for Washington and the western world." Read more…
John Pilger: The US is Escalating War Tensions With China in Desperate Bid to Maintain Global Power →

EDITOR—In an interview with Finian Cunningham, internationally renowned journalist and documentary filmmaker John Pilger says America is driving war against China, not out of strength but rather a fear of losing its erstwhile sole superpower position. The driving forces are multiple: the United States' sense of itself as a diminishing global power; the destructive militarism of US capitalism and its "Merchants of Death"; deep-seated historical racism towards China; and an anachronistic American notion of "divine right" to dominate the rest of the globe. John Pilger warns that if the US does not come to terms with the reality of a multipolar world and the genuine equality of nations (as it professes) then armed conflict with China is on the cards. Read more…
Brian Berletic Demolishes U.S. AP & PBS-TV Anti-Russia Lies →

ERIC ZUESSE—Probably nothing has damaged Vladimir Putin’s international reputation more than the alleged war crimes that Russia’s forces allegedly perpetrated against civilians in the Ukrainian town of Bucha during the early days of Russia’s invasion of Ukraine. But now (as will here be proven) we know that it was all lies; it didn’t happen the way that U.S.-and-allied ‘news’-media say it did. Nothing like that, at all. Read more…
The Consortium Imposing the Growing Censorship Regime — and Our New Live, Prime-Time Rumble Program →

GLENN GREENWALD—This is the regime of censorship whose tentacles grow each month and whose power expands inexorably. Like all censors, the consortium that controls and funds this regime recognizes that whoever controls the flow of information will wield unchallenged power, and that few powers are more potent and tyrannical than the ability to relegate one's critics to the most distant fringes or to silence them altogether. Read more…
Germany’s position in America’s New World Order →

MICHAEL HUDSON—By “autocracy,” Biden means countries resisting this financialization and privatization takeover. In practice, U.S. rhettoric means promoting its own economic growth and living standards, keeping finance and banking as public utilities. What basically is at issue is whether economies will be planned by banking centers to create financial wealth – by privatizing basic infrastructure, public utilities and social services such as health care into monopolies – or by raising living standards and prosperity by keeping banking and money creation, public health, education, transportation and communications in public hands. Read more…
Finian Cunningham Interview: An Objective Look at U.S. Foreign Policy →

FINIAN CUNNINGHAM—The politicians do the bidding of the ruling class to serve their economic and political interests. This condition of permanent entrenched power accounts for why policies change little from one administration to another, whether Democrat or Republican. That’s why foreign policies change little, if at all. The unspoken foreign policy of the US is to serve the imperialist interests of its ruling class (Wall Street banks, commodity multinationals, overseas investors) and to maximize militarism for the financial benefit of the big and ancillary corporations that comprise the military-industrial complex. Read more…
Political Indoctrination →

LARRY ROMANOFF—Here’s another American, this one with a kind heart. He is tolerant and counsels patience. I like this guy. “We need to recognize that our ideology is not for everybody. The Chinese are still evolving upward, and without an educated society, US-style democracy will not work.” Now we know. The Chinese cannot adopt democracy because they are still primitive, having only just taken their first baby steps from apehood to Americanism. Those who reject our system do not do so because it’s unsuitable, dysfunctional and corrupt, but because they aren’t sufficiently educated. Read more…
The ‘War of Terror’ may be about to hit Europe →

PEPE ESCOBAR—The imperial modus operandi against geopolitical and geoeconomic competitors remains the same: an avalanche of sanctions, embargos, economic blockades, protectionist measures, cancel culture, a military uptick in neighboring nations, and assorted threats. But most of all, warmongering rhetoric – currently elevated to fever pitch.

The hegemon may be “transparent” at least in this domain because it still controls a massive international network of institutions, financial bodies, politicos, CEOs, propaganda agencies and the pop culture industry. Hence this supposed invulnerability breeding insolence.
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On Going Seriously Boom →

FRED REED—Where does water come from in New York? I don’t know, but it doesn’t flow spontaneously to the thirtieth floor. It needs to be pumped, which involves electricity, from wherever it comes from to wherever it has to go. No electricity, no pump. No pump, no water. And no flushing of toilets. River water could be drunk, of course. Think of the crowds. Read more…
Beware of Nuclear False Flag Blaming Russia →

EDITOR: We have been saying this for some weeks now, we even put it on our homepage. The chances remain high (for reasons well explained in this article) that the Empire of Chaos and Lies, which lacks any honor or decency, may try a tactical nuke on some important target in Ukraine, Poland or any other nation or region designated by "the West" as part of their domain. The idea—just like they just did with the Nord Stream attacks—is then to shamelessly blame Russia. The West can get away with such things because it retains overwhelming superiority in the area of global disinformation, "soft power", and because despite the erosion of credibility of the West's official narrative in its own sphere, the majority of the captive populations are still confused enough to remain passive and go along with the rulers' schemes. Read more…
Can the Big Lie Save the Sinking Western Kakistocracy? →

PATRICE GREANVILLE—The ruling billionaires—whimsical, petulantly childish, and poorly-educated—unidimensional characters like most businessmen, along with their legions of cowardly, sycophantic advisers and political front men, have no solutions. How could they? For one thing, this mob is still trying to balance a pyramid on its apex. Flash Alert: This is not in the pyramid's nature. They constantly seek cures to capitalist symptoms using the capitalist playbook. Read more…
Thailand: US-backed Opposition’s Violence Intimidates Critics, Paves Way for Regime Change →

BRIAN BERLETIC—The US-backed opposition in Thailand replicates in many ways the violence and intimidation the US sponsored in Ukraine from 2014 onward - just as Ukraine is meant as a proxy against Russia - a US client regime in Thailand would transform the country into a proxy against China. An alarming incident of violence where a Thai opposition leader publicly assaulted his critic is dangerously being portrayed as "heroic" by Western-sponsored opposition media to encourage further violence and intimidation - creating the same division and destruction throughout Thai society that is currently consuming Ukraine. Read more…
The Most Powerful Weapon The West Gave Ukraine is Not the HIMARS, it’s the US Propaganda Machine. →

CAITLIN JOHNSTONE—The time to turn away from the trajectory toward nuclear war is now, not later. It’s bizarre how many people I get telling me “Well if nuclear war happens it’ll be Putin’s fault,” like that will be any comfort to them as they hug their family close and wait for a horrific death. There’s just so much sloppy thinking about the actual end of the world. People aren’t looking directly at this thing and thinking rigorously about what it would mean. What it would entail. This is understandable; it’s a terrible thing to contemplate. But we do urgently need to. Read more…