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Scolding striking auto workers in advance for wrecking economy
The first person quoted in the New York Times’ rundown (9/19/23) on the United Auto Workers strike was a lawyer representing management from Littler Mendelson, the go-to firm for big corporations’ union avoidance.
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‘Biden’s phase’ of Ukraine war is beginning
The ground war in Ukraine has run its course, a new phase is beginning. Even diehard supporters of Ukraine in the western media and think tanks are admitting that a military victory over Russia is impossible and a vacation of the territory under Russian control is way beyond Kiev’s capability.
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Elliot Abrams was a CIA agent according to daughter of CIA-Mafia liaison
Appointment of Abrams to Public Diplomacy Commission Shows President Biden’s Close Ties to the CIA.
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The climate crisis will end when capitalism ends
Humans have an infinite capacity for wishful thinking, but a revolutionary project is by definition a recognition that wishes are for fairy tales.
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Seymour Hersh: Harold Pinter had it right
Lessons in Western self-sabotage from the Ukraine War.
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U.S. pressures Saudi Arabia to sell oil in dollars, not Chinese yuan, amid Israel negotiations
As part of negotiations for Saudi Arabia to recognize Israel, the United States is demanding that Riyadh keep pricing its oil in dollars, not China’s renminbi or other currencies.
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Biden is risking war with Iran—and the media is ignoring the danger
The Biden administration plans to station Marines on commercial ships in the Persian Gulf. This could trigger war with Iran, but most of the mainstream U.S. press is not paying attention.
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Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky came to power in carefully planned operation coordinated by western intelligence services, says former U.S. diplomat
Secret Meeting with British MI6 Head Richard Moore Points to the Likelihood That Zelensky Is a British Intelligence Agent.
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In speech on extreme heat, Biden makes no mention of what’s driving it: Fossil fuels
“Real relief won’t come until Biden confronts the culprit of deadly oil and gas,” said one campaigner.
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U.S. using Ukraine as disposal ground for banned cluster bombs: Colonel, Karen Kwiatkowski
Former Pentagon analyst and Air Force Lieutenant Colonel, Karen Kwiatkowski, points out the double standards in Western media’s portrayal of cluster bomb usage.
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Ukraine timeline tells the story
Without historical context, buried by corporate media, it’s impossible to understand Ukraine. Historians will tell the story. But the Establishment hits back at journalists, like at CN, who try to tell it now.
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Supreme Court strikes down Biden’s partial student loan forgiveness plan, 43 million borrowers denied debt relief
The U.S. Supreme Court on Friday with a stroke of the pen blocked a measure that would have provided limited relief for 43 million Americans suffering under a crushing debt burden of $1.7 trillion in outstanding federal student loans.
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British Prime Minister renews pledge of loyalty to U.S. imperialism
The discussions didn’t reap the variety of fruit Sunak had been hoping for; the Tories’ long-promised free trade deal remains in deep freeze.
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U.S. woos India’s far-right PM Modi to help wage new cold war on China
The U.S. government is trying to divide the BRICS bloc and recruit India for its new cold war on China. Biden doesn’t care that far-right Prime Minister Modi is closely linked to fascistic Hindu-supremacist groups that violently oppress minorities.
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U.S. admits defeat in war on Russia and China
Confronted with the realities of life the Biden administration has in the last days acknowledged defeat in two on its most egregious and delusional foreign policy games.
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And then Biden blew it …
The Biden talk, made official by posting it on the White House site, is an insult to China. Whatever Blinken has said or done to smooth the relations is now gone. It was already known that the U.S. can not be trusted with anything that it says. What counts is what the U.S. does and there it has so far shown no positive move towards China.
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Strategies of denial
There has been a lively debate on the American left about the Biden Administration’s industrial strategy.
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A farcical U.S. election cycle begins—again
A recent NBC News poll found that 70 percent of U.S. voters don’t want Joe Biden to recontest the presidency next year. Sixty percent feel likewise about Donald Trump.
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Biden’s debt ceiling betrayal is a Democratic Party tradition
Joe Biden is continuing the ignoble tradition of colluding with republicans while pretending to fight them. The latest debt limit drama is another betrayal of the people.
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U.S. foreign policy: A bipartisan embrace of militarism
In December 2022, President Joe Biden signed into law the National Defense Authorization Act, approving “national defense” spending of $858 billion for fiscal year 2023