An Escalatory Game for Fools and Madmen by Matthew Hoh

Last Friday, I addressed the United Nations Security Council (UNSC). Below is the video of my statement, along with a transcript.  If you are interested in my immediate feelings on speaking to the UN Security Council – a mix of gratitude, anger and despondency – you can listen to my interview from…

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Patrick Lawrence: Full-Dress Irrationality

Whenever Joe Biden speaks, you have to make sure your bullshit detector is switched on, to borrow Hemingway’s pungent phrase. As is well-documented, our president has spent his public life making it up as he goes along. No surprise, there was a lot of boilerplate junk in the two much-noted…

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Garland Nixon Interview: An Objective Look at U.S. Foreign Policy

Events continue to unfold at a quickening pace. Facing an alarming escalation in tensions around the world, we asked Garland Nixon for his current thoughts.  We focus here on the realities of the international power struggle unfolding in real time, specifically addressing the role of the U.S. in the tensions…

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Margaret Kimberley Interview (Video): An Objective Look at U.S. Foreign Policy

Margaret Kimberley is Executive Editor and Senior Columnist of Black Agenda Report. Her book, Prejudential: Black America and the Presidents was published in 2020 by Steerforth Press. She is a recipient of the Serena Shim Award for Uncompromising Integrity in Journalism, and the Women’s Institute for Freedom of the Press’ 2021 Women in Media Award. And…

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Scott Ritter Interview (Video): An Objective Look at U.S. Foreign Policy

Scott Ritter is a former US Marine Corps intelligence officer and author of SCORPION KING: America’s Suicidal Embrace of Nuclear Weapons from FDR to Trump, and his most current book, Disarmament in the Time of Perestroika: Arms Control and the End of the Soviet Union. He served in the Soviet Union as…

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Dan Kovalik: World’s largest imperial power sponsors calls for Russia to ‘decolonize’ and the lack of self-awareness is palpable

On June 23, 2022, an organization funded by the US Congress, the Commission on Security and Cooperation in Europe – also known as the Helsinki Commission – held a virtual conference calling for the “decolonizing of Russia.” This begs the question of why they are not seeking the decolonization of the United States.…

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