CAITLIN JOHNSTONE—It’s a mistake not only because assuming that the center position must be the best one is a type of fallacious reasoning known as the middle ground fallacy (the correct position between “Drink a gallon of bleach daily for good health” and “Drink zero bleach daily for good health” is not “Drink half a gallon of bleach daily for good health”); it’s also a mistake because the entire framing arises from a situation that has been artificially engineered by the powerful.
US LAWLESSNESS
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PEPE ESCOBAR sums up and explains the developing situation in the aftermath of Prigozhin’s death, his plane supposedly shot down by a missile—but whodunnit? He also delves into the prospects for Wagner in Africa Francophone and beyond, their immediate task to wipe out the US-controlled Jihadists wreaking havoc in the Sahel.
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The US, Russia, and Iran butt heads in Syria and Iraq
17 minutes readAHMED al-RUBAIE—For Vladimir Vasiliev, a senior researcher at the Institute for the United States and Canada of the Russian Academy of Sciences, a US loss in Ukraine may ratchet up confrontation in Syria quickly: Washington “is attacking Russia with Ukrainian hands. The failure of this attack will prompt America to resort to a backup plan in Syria.”
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Project Ukraine unravels – The Grayzone live
7 minutes readTHE GRAYZONE—The Grayzone’s Max Blumenthal and Aaron Mate connect the dots between ongoing revelations of Biden family corruption and the Ukraine proxy war, explaining how the former VP and those around him helped set up Kiev as a base for US plunder and war profiteering. They also cover Robert F. Kennedy Jr. casting his lot with the Israel’s lobby’s most fanatical elements, while Cornel West emerges as a threat to Biden’s re-election campaign.
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Washington’s REAL Policy on China – “Repairing Ties” is Theater Ahead of Sanctions, War
8 minutes readBRIAN BERLETIC’s extremely lucid, over a century-old analysis of America’s attitude and policy toward China. The record speaks for itself: Washington has always sought domination, and always used deception, naked force, or both. Right now, the Americans are busy building consensus among their vassals to push for an encirclement of China, and even war, with a view to stifling the nation’s economy and progress toward its well-deserved role as a leading global political and economic power.