P. GREANVILLE—In recent days we have published a number of posts focusing on the central issue that should concern anyone subject to a ruling class that does not represent their interests, or which, more often than not, is criminally inimical to their interests. Fine minds like Garland Nixon and Joti Brar (see here, for example), historian Eric Zuesse, and the Blowback/Billy Bob roundtable —inter alia—have provided great explorations of this topic, but the complexity of the US imperial ruling class makes it hard to pin down. This a historically unusual class due to its many layers of hypocrisy, an enormous machinery of distraction and deception, the diversity and dispersion of its interlocking power centers (conjuring up the “Deep State”), and its sheer overall size.
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JIM KAVANAGH—My pessimistic take on how Israel is achieving its main objective in Gaza, while engaged in a battle with Palestinian resistance forces that it cannot win but will turn into a high-risk confrontation with Iran that endangers the whole world (as I analyzed in my previous article: Israel’s Solution to Gaza: War on Iran).
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ERIC ZUESSE—This is written documentary proof from the U.S. regime’s own archives, which was declassified (but still 60% expurgated) only as recently as 2021, confirming what I wrote in my 10 September 2015 article, “How America Double-Crossed Russia And Shamed The West”, so that now there can be no reasonable doubt whatsoever, that the U.S. regime, in 1990, was lying to the Soviet Union and really DID intend, at that time and straight up till today, to conquer Russia — and that every one of the leaders of the U.S. imperial regime’s colonies or ‘allies’ was likewise keeping the U.S. regime’s intention of global conquest secret from their respective publics.
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Who Are These Russians & Why Do We Hate Them? (MUST-SEE)
140 Mins plus readREGIS TREMBLAY—In this film, I document a historical and factual account of why America hates Russia and President Putin, beginning with Harry S. Truman dropping the Atomic bombs on Japan in 1945 to show Stalin and the Soviet Union “who was boss.” It continued at its height with Ronald Reagan calling it the “Red Menace,” “the evil empire,” and a “godless nation.” Every president since has demonized Russia, and since he was elected president of Russia in 2000, Vladimir Putin. The fact is, Russia is a peace-loving country and Russians only want the same things we want for our families: love, security, and a prosperous life. Russians, who lost 27 million people in WWII, more than all of the allied countries combined, abhor war and want peace and harmony between all nations.
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Genocide in Gaza: John Mearsheimer Comes In From the Cold
36 minutes readJOHN MEARSHEIMER—I am writing to flag a truly important document that should be widely circulated and read carefully by anyone interested in the ongoing Gaza War.
Specifically, I am referring to the 84-page “application” that South Africa filed with the International Court of Justice (ICJ) on 29 December 2023, accusing Israel of committing genocide against the Palestinians in Gaza.1 It maintains that Israel’s actions since the war began on 7 October 2023 “are intended to bring about the destruction of a substantial part of the Palestinian national, racial and ethnic … group in the Gaza Strip.” (1) That charge fits clearly under the definition of genocide in the Geneva Convention, to which Israel is a signatory.2