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A Faul’s Errand: Washington’s Amateur Diplomacy – An Obituary

A Faul’s Errand: Washington’s Amateur Diplomacy – An Obituary

Some ten years ago, as a financial strategist/fund manager in post-crisis Moscow, while laboring away over my strategy monthly “Truth and Beauty (and Russian Finance)” with its recurrent theme that Russia was embarking upon her New Asian Century (i.e. turning away from the West to build bridges to China), I was surprised to receive a polite rejoinder from one of my readers: the prominent Stanford academic Michael McFaul – even then seen as a rising star in Eastern European policy for the US...

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Why Reform the CIA?

Why Reform the CIA?

Just as I predicted in my article “Why Not Simply Abolish the CIA?” critics of the CIA’s illegally hacking into the computers of U.S. senators who were investigating CIA torture are calling for reform, rather than abolition, of the CIA. Stuck in the mindset of the national-security state, they simply cannot raise their vision to a higher level—to one that restores a constitutionally limited government republic to our land. Here’s one example: an op-ed today entitled “The CIA vs. the Senate:...

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America Started This Ukraine Crisis

America Started This Ukraine Crisis

I find it very disquieting that so few among the West European and American commentators on the Ukraine crisis, private or public, seem concerned that the United States has started this affair, and that it is not inconceivable that it may end in a war. Worse yet, Washington’s demonization of Vladimir Putin has been so successful in the American press and public, and its secrecy about the American role in Kiev, has left the public in the United States and in NATO Europe convinced that this has...

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US Sanctions on Russia May Sink the Dollar

US Sanctions on Russia May Sink the Dollar

The US government's decision to apply more sanctions on Russia is a grave mistake and will only escalate an already tense situation, ultimately harming the US economy itself. While the effect of sanctions on the dollar may not be appreciated in the short term, in the long run these sanctions are just another step toward the dollar's eventual demise as the world's reserve currency. Not only is the US sanctioning Russian banks and companies, but it also is trying to strong-arm European banks...

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What if There’s a Real War in Ukraine?

What if There’s a Real War in Ukraine?

Russia and the West are at war – over fruits, veggies, pork, and bank loans. The cause is Ukraine, a vast emptiness formerly unknown to the western world, but now deemed a vital national security interest worthy of a risking a very scary war. Economic embargos such as those launched by the US against Russia may seem relatively harmless. They are not. Trade sanctions are a form of strategic warfare that is sometimes followed by bullets and shells. Think, for good example, of the 1940 US embargo...

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Krauthammer: Arm The Kurds!

Krauthammer: Arm The Kurds!

While Senator John McCain is busy calling President Obama a sissy, with his “pinprick” airstrikes in Iraq, his neocon comrade Charles Krauthammer offers up the following idea: The only thing that will make a difference is boots on the ground. Kurdish boots! Nobody’s asking for Americans. Just fly in the weapons! Sure, just fly in the weapons! That has become the go-to move for neocons who have to deal with a war weary, and increasingly non-interventionist American public. Didn’t the U.S....

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Washington Opened The Gates Of Hell In Iraq: Now Come The Furies

Washington Opened The Gates Of Hell In Iraq: Now Come The Furies

The late, great critic of the American Imperium, Chalmers Johnson, popularized the salient concept of “blowback”. That is, the notion that if you bomb, drone, invade, desecrate and slaughter—collaterally or otherwise— a people and their lands, they might find ways to return the favor. But even Johnson could not have imagined the kind of blowback coming ferociously Washington’s way now. Namely, the mayhem being visited on much of Iraq by American tanks, armored personnel carriers, heavy...

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Crushing Protests in Kiev: Neocons Never Liberate Twice

Crushing Protests in Kiev: Neocons Never Liberate Twice

Western media has ignored it, but protesters have occupied the Maidan square in Kiev since last October. They were successful in overthrowing the elected president, Viktor Yanukovych, but they didn’t go home. They kept their tents, remained in occupied government buildings, and hunkered down. Boxer-turned-revolutionary Vitali Klitschko was in the thick of the protests at the time, supported by the United States and its Assistant Secretary of State, Victoria Nuland. In fact, Nuland posed with...

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US Government Still Trying for Cuba Regime Change

US Government Still Trying for Cuba Regime Change

When I saw the headline about the U.S. government and Cuba in my newspaper the other day, I thought I’d awoken in 1961. It was a Twilight Zone moment for sure: “U.S. program aimed to stir dissent in Cuba.” I expected Rod Serling to welcome me to “another dimension.” But it was 2014. The AP news report said President Barack Obama and presumably then–secretary of state Hillary Clinton had plotted to incite a popular uprising — to “gin up opposition” — against the Cuban government by sending in...

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Ron Paul Rewind: ‘Bombing Yugoslavia Cannot Be a Proud Moment’

As President Bill Clinton and his coterie of "experts" and media cheerleaders rejoiced in the first US "humanitarian" bombs on Yugoslavia, Rep. Ron Paul was singing a different tune."This cannot be a proud moment for America," he said on the US House Floor on March 24, 1999. Rep. Paul continued: Serbia has not invaded another country, but is involved in a nasty civil war with both sides contributing to the violence. ... Meddling in the internal affairs of a nation involved in a civil war is...

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Bill Clinton’s Body-Snatchers: The Truth About the ‘Humanitarian’ War on Yugoslavia

Bill Clinton’s Body-Snatchers: The Truth About the ‘Humanitarian’ War on Yugoslavia

Former president Bill Clinton continues to be feted around the world as a progressive champion of human rights. But a European Union task force last week confirmed that the ruthless cabal he empowered by bombing Serbia in 1999 has committed atrocities including murdering individuals to extract and sell their kidneys, livers, and other body parts. Clint Williamson, the chief prosecutor of a special European Union task force, declared that senior members of the Kosovo Liberation Army (KLA) had...

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Flight 17 Shoot-Down Scenario Shifts: White House vs. Intelligence Community?

Flight 17 Shoot-Down Scenario Shifts: White House vs. Intelligence Community?

Contrary to the Obama administration’s public claims blaming eastern Ukrainian rebels and Russia for the shoot-down of Malaysia Airlines Flight 17, some U.S. intelligence analysts have concluded that the rebels and Russia were likely not at fault and that it appears Ukrainian government forces were to blame, according to a source briefed on these findings. This judgment – at odds with what President Barack Obama and Secretary of State John Kerry have expressed publicly – is based largely on...

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Ron Paul: Don’t Palestinians Have a Right to Defend Themselves Too?

Speaking on Voices of Liberty, RPI Chairman and Founder Ron Paul explains that, while he agrees with the often repeated in the media declaration that “Israel has a right to defend herself,” he wonders why more people in the media don’t voice support for Palestinians’ right to defend themselves too.Paul elaborates: And [Israel Prime Minister Benjamin] Netanyahu says 'Don’t second-guess me, don’t push a peace treaty on me because I’m gonna defend this country.' I think Israel absolutely has a...

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Crimes Against Humanity in Gaza: Is it Really a ‘Buffer Zone’ – or a Bigger Plan?

Crimes Against Humanity in Gaza: Is it Really a ‘Buffer Zone’ – or a Bigger Plan?

Late last week, the White House decried Israel’s attack on a UN school in Gaza as “totally unacceptable” and “totally indefensible”, then proceeded to approve $225m in funding for its Iron Dome. On Monday, the US state department went further, calling the airstrikes upon a UN school “disgraceful” – and yet America provides Israel with more than $3.1bn every year, restocking the ability of the Israel Defense Force (IDF) to hit more schools, and to wage total war against an imprisoned people,...

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No Dissent Heard as House and Senate Quickly Approve $225 million for Israel War

No Dissent Heard as House and Senate Quickly Approve $225 million for Israel War

On Friday, the last day before the annual congressional August recess, new legislation (H.J.Res. 76) was introduced on the US Senate floor and rushed to passage in both the Senate and US House. The legislation gives the Israel government another $225 million dollars for the Iron Dome system Israel is using in the ongoing Israel-Palestine war.

On the Senate floor the speakers line-up of Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid (D-NV) and Minority Leader Mitch McConnell (R-KY), along with Senators...

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We’re All Criminals and Outlaws in the Eyes of the American Police State

We’re All Criminals and Outlaws in the Eyes of the American Police State

“Never in the civilised world have so many been locked up for so little.”—“Rough Justice in America,” The Economist Why are we seeing such an uptick in Americans being arrested for such absurd “violations” as letting their kids play at a park unsupervised, collecting rainwater and snow runoff on their own property, growing vegetables in their yard, and holding Bible studies in their living room? Mind you, we’re not talking tickets or fines or even warnings being issued to these so-called...

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