The International Court of Justice is a bad joke
The International Court of Justice is the supreme court of the United Nations, but it is a mockery of law and of justice, because no matter how badly a Judge…
Eric Zuesse
Finland Joins NATO – Nuclear Missiles Can Be Placed 7 Minutes Away From Kremlin
Today, 4 April 2023, Finland — which is only 507 miles away from Russia’s central command center, The Kremlin in Moscow — has joined America’s NATO military alliance against Russia,…
Seymour Hersh Responds to His Critics
The cover-up by the U.S.-and-allied ‘news’-media of Seymour Hersh’s blockbuster self-published February 8th investigative-news report that Joe Biden himself had ordered the destruction of the Nord Stream gas pipelines, wasn’t…
Why does the U.S. Government support nazis all around the world?
On November 7th, I headlined “U.S. and Allies Vote For Nazism at U.N.”, and opened: Annually, each year, since 2005, the U.S. Government has been one of only from 1…
U.S. and Allies Vote For Nazism at U.N.
Annually, each year, since 2005, the U.S. Government has been one of only from 1 to 3 Governments to vote in the U.N. General Assembly against an annual statement by…
How can Americans tolerate U.S. Government’s crucifixion of Julian Assange?
Julian Assange has long been in solitary-confinement imprisonment in Britain awaiting extradition to America on charges which could bring him 175 years in prison, but he has never been convicted…
Ten Truths that Can’t Be Published Under the U.S. Regime
The overthrow of Yanukovych in Ukraine in February 2014 was a U.S. coup, and definitely not a democratic revolution there. The U.S. Government and its ‘news’-media lied — didn’t…
U.S.-Led Holy War to Conquer Russia and China Declared by Pompeo
On June 24th, at the think tank, the Hudson Institute, U.S. President Trump’s CIA chief and Secretary of State, Mike Pompeo, delivered a 5,000+-word speech, suggesting that America has an…
Why America’s nuclear threat to Russia now is bigger than the Soviet nuclear threat to America was in the 1962 Cuban Missile Crisis
During the 1962 Cuban Missile Crisis, the central issue was how short America’s available reaction-time to a Soviet blitz nuclear attack would be and whether it would be too short…
How the U.S. Government is controlled by its armaments firms
Unlike corporations that sell to consumers, Lockheed Martin and the other top contractors to the U.S. Government are highly if not totally dependent upon sales to governments, for their profits,…
Russia’s Weak Response to Finland’s Joining NATO
On May 12th, Russia’s RT bannered “Finland’s NATO membership will trigger response – Moscow”, and reported that Moscow has warned that Finland joining NATO would pose a direct threat to…
The Real History Behind Ukraine, Putin, the EU, Gas, & Donbass
Russia’s long-predicted invasion of Ukraine finally happened, but the reasons for it are widely misrepresented. Basic history is necessary in order to understand it. The Nord Stream 2 natural gas…
The Blatancy of American Presidents’ Lies
Joe Biden told the American people, on 15 February 2022, “The United States and NATO are not a threat to Russia. … To the citizens of Russia: You are not…
How & Why Billionaires Actually Support Global Warming
Global warming has been extremely profitable for billionaires, even though many of them mouth and endorse policies (but only failed and failing ones) against global warming. All of this will…
AP reporter challenges US lies about Russian war preparations
Matt Lee — the AP’s senior member of the State Department Correspondent’s Association and now virtually the lone member who demands that the State Department not lie to the press…
The Origin of Neoconservatism
Neoconservatism (advocacy of control over the entire planet by America’s Government — i.e., of a universal American empire or “hegemony”) was first stated in 1877, by the British empire’s colonialist…
How Exceptional America Is
America is becoming exceptionally exceptional. In some votes at the U.N. General Assembly — the Assembly of nations — only Israel, or one or two other U.S. allies, vote along…
People Who Are in Denial About Coronavirus
There are basically two different policy-approaches to the coronavirus problem: One is the passive approach, waiting for ‘herd immunity’ to develop naturally. And the other is the active approach, in…
How Billionaires Took Over Liberalism and Destroyed It
They’ve done it via the ‘news’-media — their propaganda-operations. So, this is about how billionaires do that; how they’ve done it. Ever since at least the time of Thucydides in…
How U.S. and its Allies Enforce Their Lies for Wars and Dictatorships
How many Americans know that even in Hindu India, Iran’s General Qasem Soleimani (whom Trump has assassinated) was recognized as having been perhaps the world’s leader of the fight against…
What Europe Can Do to Avoid WW III?: Say ‘No!’ Now, to Its Start
The U.S. Government, which had lied its way into invading and destroying Iraq in 2003 (with a little help from UK and Europeans), wants Europeans to pitch-in for more U.S.-run…
Trillions of Dollars in U.S. Military Spending Are Unaccounted-For
Before documenting that many trillions of dollars in U.S. Government military spending have been and are unaccounted-for, and that by far the most corrupt U.S. federal Department is the ‘Defense’…
Understanding the Deep State’s Propaganda
Propaganda is essential to the Deep State’s operation. The Deep State is the small number of people who control the organizations that donate the majority of the funds which finance…
U.S., UK, & France, certainly committed an international war crime against Syria on 14 April 2018
It is now clear that on 14 April 2018, the three Governments of U.S., UK, and France, fired over a hundred missiles against Syria, on no more ‘justification’ than staged…
How the U.S. Regime ‘Justifies’ the Theft of Syria’s Oil
Only starting on 28 October 2019 — after seven years of the U.S. and its allies stealing Syria’s oil — did U.S. ‘news’-media start to apply the word “theft” or…
Biden Backer — Former Lockheed Leader — Convinces Biden to Sell-Out
Bernard Schwartz, a former Vice Chairman and top investor in Lockheed Martin (which is by far the largest seller to the U.S. Government, and also the largest seller to most…
That we live under a dictatorship is now unquestionable: The Assange Case
What else can we call it when a publisher does what the New York Times did when it published the Pentagon Papers and was ruled by the Supreme Court in…
How Most Americans Favor Corruption
Americans don’t do it voluntarily, but mainly because they don’t understand the way the U.S. system works. Part of that is the nation’s legal system; part of it isn’t, but…
Misrepresentations of American & Soviet Roles in WW II and the Cold War
INTRODUCTION The Soviet Union contributed more than did any other nation to the defeats of Germany and Japan in World War II , but America and Britain together defeated Italy.…
The Sickness of American Foreign Policy
The Military-Industrial Complex runs U.S. foreign policies. What passes for international ‘news’ reporting in the United States media was supremely represented by the instance of those ’news’ media stenographically reporting…
Jeff Bezos’s Politics
Jeff Bezos is the owner of the daily newspaper in Washington DC, the Washington Post, which leads America’s news-media and their almost 100% support of (and promotions for) neoconservatism —…
Reality-Denial Among America’s Democratic Party Faithful
I used to be a Democrat, until the majority of Democrats in the U.S. Senate voted in 2002 for George W. Bush’s 2003 catastrophic invasion of Iraq, even though everything…
The Difference Between Being a Liberal and Being a Progressive
The difference between liberalism and progressivism is ideological. Historically, liberalism started with John Locke, whose philosophy was superbly summarized, explained, and referenced to its sources, here; but the following will…
Soros and Koch Co-Found New Think Tank to Restore Obama’s Iran Policy
Usually, America’s Republican billionaires are obsessed against Iran, and America’s Democratic billionaires are obsessed against Russia, but nonetheless on June 30th, the Boston Globe’s columnist Stephen Kinzer exaggerated when he…
U.S. Government Tops All For Creating Refugees
On June 19th, Statistica headlined “Number of forcibly displaced people reaches new high”, and when one looks at the data, one finds an even bigger story which stands behind those…
Wall Street Wants Dems to Nominate Anyone But Sanders, Warren, or Gabbard
A June 16th article in the New York Times headlined “Wall Street Donors Are Swooning for Mayor Pete. (They Like Biden and Harris, Too.)”. It noted that “Two candidates in…
Why Freedom Is Ending
First, the force that is ending freedom will be identified and described; and, then, the force that they fear and hate the most (and are trying to destroy) will be…
How the U.S. Regime Uses Sanctions to Soften a Country Up for Invasion
The Wall Street Journal headlined on May 27th, “Iran’s Crude Buyers Jump Ship” and reported that “the country’s direct crude buyers have all but vanished, traders and executives in the…
‘Humanitarian’ Concerns Increase Wars, Benefit Only Arms-Producers
Unlike a regular corporation, the corporations that manufacture and sell weapons to their government are virtually 100% dependent upon their government and its military allies, for their own success; their…
800+ Retired Justice Department Lawyers Demand Trump’s Impeachment
As of this writing, 802 former federal lawyers — all of them former federal prosecutors working for the U.S. Department of Justice — have signed a public letter headlined…
‘Humanitarian’ Concerns Increase Wars, Benefit Only Arms-Producers
Unlike a regular corporation, the corporations that manufacture and sell weapons to their government are virtually 100% dependent upon their government and its military allies, for their own success; their…
How Lies Become ‘Facts’ in U.S. ‘News’
On Fox News Channel’s May 2nd edition of "The Story with Martha MacCallum” was alleged, by the program host (at 2:45 in this video), that one reason we must invade…
Is the United States a democracy?
There are many partisan responses to this question. Of course, internationally, the United States is regarded by many people to be the gold standard of what constitutes a democracy (perhaps…
Venezuela: Blatant Violation, by U.S. & Its Allies, Against the U.N. Charter
America’s and its allies’ violation of the U.N. Charter, in regards to their recent actions to force a regime-change upon the sovereign nation of Venezuela, are baldly, and with unambiguous…
How Ukraine’s War Is to Be Settled: Zelenskiy, Crimea, and Donbass | Eric Zuesse
On April 30th, Ukraine’s Central Election Commission announced that after the final voting tabulations (which included more than 13% of Ukrainians living abroad), Volodmyr Zelensky had beaten the sitting President,…
Eric Zuesse – Highlights from the Mueller Report
Following are the passages that I consider to be the chief and most important allegations that are in the opening 11% (that’s up through page 49 of the of the…
Eric Zuesse-The Rabidly Hypocritical EU
Unlike America under Donald Trump, who is proudly psychopathic and went so far as to blurt out that his followers would accept his leadership even if he were to shoot…
Why ‘Russiagate’ Is the Same as ‘WMD in Iraq’ for America’s Mainstream Media
America’s Democratic Party ‘news’-media are now defending themselves against charges that they had trumpeted false allegations against Donald Trump regarding “Russiagate.” Republican Party ‘news’-media are strutting because they didn’t.…
All Major Candidates in Israel’s Presidential Election Are Far-Right
If “far-right” or “nazi” refers to proponents of racism, capitalism, and dictatorship, then all of Israel’s Presidential candidates are nazis — not German ones, of course, not members of Hitler’s…
Trump Threatens War if Russia Protects Venezuela
On March 27th, U.S. President Donald Trump said that “Russia has to get out” of Venezuela, and that “All options are on the table” if Russia refuses to withdraw from…
Trump’s Foreign Policy: Do Whatever Netanyahu & Prince Salman Want
Now that Donald Trump, like Barack Obama before him, has failed to remove Syria’s Bashar al-Assad by means of American training of, and supply of weapons to, ‘rebels’ (almost all…
Mueller’s Record of Framing Innocent People to Protect the Guilty
(NOTE: This article — prior to its current updates — was offered as an exclusive to each mainstream and other pro-U.S.-Government ‘news’-media, and none even replied; so, it now is…
Hope for Ukrainians, at Last
Finally, it appears that there is realistic hope for an end to the brutal, far-right, regime that U.S. President Barack Obama, through his chief agent on Ukraine, Victoria Nuland, had…
Three Neo-Nazis Lead Ukraine’s Presidential Contest: Gallup Finds Ukrainians Despise All the Candidates
Gallup headlined on March 21st, “Ukraine's Election: Voters Disenchanted Ahead of Key Vote”, and “World-Low 9% of Ukrainians Confident in Government”. Might the reason for both be that no candidate…
Hyper-Hypocrisy of The West about ISIS
During the period of 17 September to 11 December of 2016, the United States and its allies carried out a massive operation to move ISIS’s surviving jihadists who were…
Why Calling U.S. a ‘Democracy’ Is Both False & Dangerous to Do
It’s false because it is definitely untrue, and that’s not merely because America has a higher percentage of its residents in prison than does any other nation on…
Geostrategy After the Deadlock in U.S.-North-Korean Relations
George Friedman, the head of the ‘private CIA’ firm Stratfor, issued a report on March 5th, “After Hanoi: North Korea, the US and Japan”, and it said: The strategy since…
Syria Accuses U.S. Stole 40+ Tons of Its Gold
The Syrian National News Agency headlined on February 26th, “Gold deal between United States and Daesh” (Daesh is ISIS) and reported that, Information from local sources said that US army…
Why Only Fools Trust America’s Mainstream ‘News’ Media After the 2003 Invasion of Iraq
Here will be yet another current example to demonstrate that all U.S. mainstream ’news’ media hide from their respective publics that the U.S. Government is lying, when the U.S. Government…
Gallup Finds Americans Have Been Very Deceived Regarding United States’ Image Around the World
Gallup issued on February 28th its “2019 Rating World Leaders” report, subtitled “The U.S. vs. Germany, China and Russia,” and said that “The world still frowned on U.S. leadership more…
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