Driven out of the US administration, the Straussians, who already control Ukraine and Israel, have extended their influence to the UN and the Contact Group on the Defense of Ukraine. They now have the means to wage war and paralyze supporters of peace. For nearly a year, President Donald Trump has been restoring order in…
Home » Editorials » The world is determined: Free Palestine! People all over the world are protesting Israel’s attack on the Global Sumud Flotilla. Over 40 boats were attempting to reach Gaza, deliver material aid and break the siege. According to the flotilla’s website, 161 of the kidnapped crew members had been released as of…
WASHINGTON (Substack // Alex Rubinstein) — With Trump-style nationalism out the door, a new era of imperial ideology is upon us. This mutation of the empire’s dominant dogma is manifesting throughout global institutions of economic, political and social control and is materializing in a myriad of conflict theatres. In order to identify where woke imperialism exists,…
Last week, Secretary of State Mike Pompeo sat down for a teleconference Q&A with Hudson Institute senior fellow, Marie-Josee Kravis at the Economic Club of New York; a think tank founded at the start of the 20th century, which broaches issues surrounding “social, economic and political questions.” The organization is currently chaired by the President…
In a text-book application of former Chicago Mayor Rahm Emmanuel’s infamous quote of never letting “a serious crisis go to waste,” the State Department’s Chief Information Officer (CIO), Stuart McGuigan, credits the COVID-19 pandemic with spurring the “modernizations” that are currently taking place in the IT infrastructure at the U.S. Bureau of Information Resource Management…
The United States has long used foreign aid packages as the carrot in its approach to diplomacy and as a way to grease the wheels in the governments of other countries which might have something that beckons U.S. interests. For decades. though, the task of disbursing said assistance has fallen to USAID, the U.S. Agency…
It’s said that you can tell a lot about people by the company they keep. And the shady characters President Trump has surrounded himself with represent a new low even by Washington standards. One thread that ties many of these people together is their deep connection with the fossil fuel industry — and their willingness…
I wonder how Rex Tillerson feels about being the first high-level federal official to be fired publically and online, in one brutal tweet. I’m sure he expected the hammer to come down on him, but not like that. And I wonder if he will come forward to describe what led up to it. Unlikely, as…
The U.S. press is currently in an uproar over the shoddy state of affairs at the Department of State’s new propaganda department, the Global Engagement Center (GEC) — with blame being laid squarely on the shoulders of Secretary of State Rex Tillerson. In our March 1 article on the Center, we detailed how the office –…
Driven out of the US administration, the Straussians, who already control Ukraine and Israel, have extended their influence to the UN and the Contact Group on the Defense of Ukraine. They now have the means to wage war and paralyze supporters of peace. For nearly a year, President Donald Trump has been restoring order in…
Home » Editorials » The world is determined: Free Palestine! People all over the world are protesting Israel’s attack on the Global Sumud Flotilla. Over 40 boats were attempting to reach Gaza, deliver material aid and break the siege. According to the flotilla’s website, 161 of the kidnapped crew members had been released as of…
Some 800 U.S. generals, admirals and their closest staff were summoned from their assignments all over the world to the military base in Quantico, Virginia, on Sept. 30. There, following their orders, they sat silently as they heard “War Secretary” Pete Hegseth insult them — then stayed silent as their commander in chief Donald Trump…
Home » Global » Philadelphia march for the Global Sumud Flotilla Over 500 people rallied and took to the streets in Philadelphia on Oct. 2 in response to the Israel Occupation Forces’ seizure of over 40 ships in international waters. The boats, collectively the Global Sumud Flotilla, were attempting to deliver needed humanitarian supplies to…
