Shortly after we recorded our last episode and mentioned the bill, the House of Representatives tried and failed to vote on HR 9495, the “Stop Terror-Financing and Tax Penalties on American Hostages Act” bill. House Republicans tried to suspend the rules and push a vote through, and got 52 Democrats to vote with them, but weren’t able to get the two-thirds majority they needed under House procedural rules...
A few weeks before the creation of the State of Israel, Shepard Rifkin, executive director of the Stern Group, requested that representatives of the group meet with Albert Einstein in the United States, “the greatest Jewish figure of the time” according to I.F. Stone. Einstein’s response was unequivocal:
“When a...
He is part of a group of extreme right-wing hawks devoid of ethics set to run Trump’s foreign policy team
President-elect Donald Trump named Florida Senator Marco Rubio as his nominee for Secretary of State, an abhorrent choice that shows Trump’s claim to be a peace candidate to be...
They embody a party that crossed over to the dark side years ago
In March 2018, Patrick Martin of the World Socialist Web Site published a political pamphlet entitled “The CIA Democrats.”
In it, he wrote that “an extraordinary number of former intelligence and military operatives from the CIA, Pentagon, National...
“On the Anglo-Saxon side, and particularly for the US, the solution seemed straight forward: their champion Laurent-Desire Kabila, supported by both Paul Kagame and Yoweri Museveni, respectively presidents of Rwanda and Uganda, would overthrow the marshal , seize power, and never mind if Kivu, the whole east of the...
Within days of winning the election, Donald Trump is already making announcements about who will—and won’t—be in his cabinet and influencing his administration...
In an era of right-wing ascendancy and endless wars, Dennis J. Kucinich has stood out as one of the few respectable figures in American politics.
During his 16 years in Congress between 1997 and 2013, Kucinich (D-OH) was consistently anti-war—opposing even wars like Kosovo, Serbia, Syria and Libya orchestrated by...
The Russians are Coming
On a rare, warm summer day without rain and roaring wind, my love (Jette) and I took a walk over a green field alongside a promontory of Køge Bay in southeast Denmark. Another nature lover came by as we heard a lark signaling high above its...
Armenia is another battleground of the new cold war
In July 2022, CIA Director William Burns made a surprise visit to Yerevan in Armenia. He was there officially to support his Agency’s financing of “non-profit organizations” whose stated purpose is to “spread democratic values.”
The United States Agency for International Development...
Arnaud DEVELAY caught up with elected Member of the Russian State Duma and Ranking Member of the Duma’s Commission for International Affairs, Maria BUTINA.
Q: Let us start with what has been a crackdown on free speech around the world with the raid on Scott Ritter’s house, the arrest...
