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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Dan Kovalik Interview (Video): An Objective Look at U.S. Foreign Policy

Dan Kovalik is the author of critically-acclaimed No More War: How the West Violates International Law by Using ‘Humanitarian’ Intervention to Advance Economic and Strategic Interests, The Plot to Scapegoat Russia, The Plot to Attack Iran, The Plot to Control the World, and The Plot to Overthrow Venezuela, and many other thought-provoking and highly…

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Peter Kuznick Interview (Video): An Objective Look at U.S. Foreign Policy

Peter Kuznick is currently Professor of History and Director of the Nuclear Studies Institute at American University. His acclaim and popularity are certainly deserved. In addition to his contributions in academic circles, he is in constant demand as a policy analyst and commentator across the globe. He is author of Beyond…

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Philip Giraldi: The All-American Lie Factory

There are some things that I believe to be true about the anarchy that purports to be US foreign policy. First, and most important, I do not believe that any voter cast a ballot for Joe Biden because he or she wanted him to relentlessly pursue a needless conflict with…

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Caitlin Johnstone: The Phoniest, Most PR-Intensive War Of All Time

Now, I know what you’re thinking: how is Zelensky making time for a Vogue photoshoot amidst his busy schedule of PR appearances for other major western institutions? I mean this is after all the same Volodymyr Zelensky who has been so busy making video appearances for the Grammy Awards, the Cannes Film…

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Patrick Lawrence on Zelensky and Ukraine: Smoke and Mirrors

Under Every Bed It has been quite a week for the regime in Kiev. On Sunday Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky suspended the head of his domestic intelligence service, Ivan Bakanov, and the Justice Ministry’s chief prosecutor, Iryna Venediktova. The Verkhovna Rada, Ukraine’s legislature, ratified these suspensions Monday. These two officials…

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Patrick Lawrence: The New Iron Curtain

We have read a great deal about a new Cold War since the U.S. cultivated the coup of February 2014 in Ukraine and the nation was tragically divided against itself.  Some of us have ruminated in print, in this publication and elsewhere, on this emergent reality. With the back-to-back announcements…

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‘Guns Should Not Be In The Hands Of The Mentally Unstable,’ Says Senile Man With Nukes

WASHINGTON, D.C.—A senile old man in Washington who has a deadly nuclear arsenal at his fingertips is calling for dangerous weapons to be taken out of the hands of the mentally unstable. “Listen, folks, this shouldn’t be difficult,” said the yammering old geriatric to a duck in the Lincoln Memorial Reflecting…

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U.S. State Department Checklist: Starting A War With Russia

The U.S. is making great headway at starting a war with Russia. This excellent work is the product of solid planning, making sure the public has no idea what’s really going on, sparing no expense or resource in demonizing Russia and slandering Putin, and keeping the propaganda machine running in…

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