“The US arguments for fielding low-yield nuclear warheads is intended to blur the lines between strategic and non-strategic nuclear weapons which inevitably leads to the lowering of the nuclear threshold and the growing threat of nuclear war…. Those who like to theorize about the flexibility of US nuclear capability, must understand in line with Russian Military Doctrine, that such actions (using low-yield nukes) will be seen as warranting retaliatory use of nuclear weapons by Russia.”
IMPERIALIST SICKNESS
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Jimmy Dore puts the spotlight on Democracy Now! editorial degradation in the last decade, as it shows an undeniable turn toward the imperialist status quo. His guest is Aaron Maté, who, perhaps out of loyalty, stubbornly refuses to accept the evidence of corruption and selling out at the core of the show, or an inexplicable case of sudden imbecility by Amy Goodman.
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George Orwell was a reactionary snitch who made a blacklist of leftists for the British government
30 minutes readBEN NORTON—But if you were to read Orwell, you would think that the Soviets were the real evil ones. As Asimov observed in his review, in 1984, “Orwell didn’t want readers to mistake the villains for Nazis. The picture is of Stalinism, and Stalinism only.”
In fact, Orwell had nothing at all to say about the enormous Soviet sacrifice in World War II. He was much more interested in demonizing the USSR and everything it stood for. Because, like much too many anti-communist “leftists,” Orwell’s hatred of communists exceeded his hatred of genocidal fascists (something he shared in common with Conservative Prime Minister Neville Chamberlain).
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The American Empire self-destructs. But nobody thought that it would happen this fast
23 minutes readMICHAEL HUDSON—For more than a generation the most prominent U.S. diplomats have warned about what they thought would represent the ultimate external threat: an alliance of Russia and China dominating Eurasia. America’s economic sanctions and military confrontation have driven these two countries together, and are driving other countries into their emerging Eurasian orbit.
American economic and financial power was expected to avert this fate. During the half-century since the United States went off gold in 1971, the world’s central banks have operated on the Dollar Standard, holding their international monetary reserves in the form of U.S. Treasury securities, U.S. bank deposits and U.S. stocks and bonds. The resulting Treasury-bill Standard has enabled America to finance its foreign military spending and investment takeover of other countries simply by creating dollar IOUs.
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Caleb Maupin’s Rebuttal to Biden’s “State of the Union”
5 minutes readCALEB MAUPIN provides an impassioned—and irrefutable—rebuttal to the Biden 2022 state of the union exercise in lies and futility.