Tag: North America
CIA Director John Brennan was key to U.S. foreign policy strategy that aimed to draw Russia into quagmire in Ukraine and attack its energy infrastructure so U.S. oil and gas producers could take over its depleted markets
The Russia-Ukraine War, really a U.S.-Ukraine proxy war on Russia, has taken a...
“ would be a voice in the wind…warning without being heard as the…hopeful wartime alliance spiraled into disaster…. In the transpacific world we inhabit today…we are still paying the price for what happened at the end of World War II. And Evans Carlson saw it coming.”—historian Stephen R....
Paige Cognetti’s support for weapons shipments to Israel and Ukraine fits an unfortunate pattern in her party this election cycle
Scranton Mayor Paige Cognetti is running for Congress in northeast Pennsylvania in one of the most contested races in the U.S. mid-term elections as a Democrat under the slogan “Paige...
Patrick Reynolds is a former Hollywood actor and the grandson of R. J. Reynolds, the founder of the third-largest tobacco company in the world, the R. J. Reynolds Tobacco Company, makers of Camels, Winstons and other brands.
In July 1986, Reynolds was thrust into the national spotlight when he broke...
This may be the first time that you’re hearing the name “Stanley Pottinger”—America’s James Bond
At the same time that I was investigating the complex and multi-layered networks surrounding Jeffrey Epstein, parts of that same network also began to surround me. After many journalistic twists and turns, I was led...
The passage of the “sanctions from hell” bill by both houses of Congress provides a fitting tribute to its original sponsor, Lindsey Graham (R-SC), the warmonger who died from an alleged heart attack on July 11 after returning to Washington, D.C., from a visit to Ukraine.
Targeting Russian oil and...
The U.S. “defense” budget is out of control, unsustainable and without accountability.
Now, the U.S. House of Representatives has agreed to a 50% increase in the defense budget to $1.5 trillion. The Senate must approve it and will consider the massive Pentagon budget when it returns from the August summer...
In early March, Alaska Senator Dan Sullivan (R), who chairs the Senate Committee on Commerce, Science and Transportation’s Subcommittee on Coast Guard, Maritime and Fisheries, convened a hearing at the University of Alaska at Anchorage focused on Arctic security infrastructure.
Sullivan stated in his remarks that the U.S. was “undergoing...
On August 31, Duane “Keffe D” Davis was convicted of first-degree murder for his role in the death of famed rapper Tupac Shakur 30 years earlier.
Prosecutors argued that Davis and his nephew, Orlando “Baby Lane” Anderson, “went hunting” for Shakur after Anderson was in a fight with him and his entourage...
The Trump administration is blocking an agreement that would allow Chagossians who were displaced 60 years ago to return to their homeland
The many victims of the Iran War include thousands of Chagossian refugees living in Mauritius who have been prevented from returning to their home on Diego Garcia in...
