Opinions

  By Paul Craig RobertsInstitute for Political Economy I wonder how many people, not just Americans but those in other countries, have come to the conclusion that the United States today is a less free and less aware society than the societies in the dystopian novels of the 20th century or in movies such as The…
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  By Paul Craig Roberts Institute for Political Economy Many, including Russia’s President Putin, have asked why the US launched an illegal attack on Syria prior to the chemical weapons inspectors examining the site of the alleged chemical attack. This popular question completely misses the point. The US…
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  “The statesmen will invent cheap lies, putting the blame upon the nation that is attacked, and every man will be glad of those conscience-soothing falsities, and will diligently study them, and refuse to examine any refutations of them; and thus he will by and by convince himself the war is just, and will…
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  A Syrian woman explains the truth about what had happened in Douma, where the so-called chemical attack happened. The rebels there kept hostages – civilians kidnaped from the neighboring city of Agra – as human shields. When the rebels saw that Assad has won the war in their area, they suffocated the hostages with…
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  By Tom Luongo Strategic Culture Foundation April 14, 2018 If there is one thing the last 48 hours have proved to me (the 48 hours that Trump announced US needs to make a decision about attacking Syria or not, which ended with the missile attack on Syria on Saturday, April 14, 2018), it’s this: Donald Trump…
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  Article by Galima Galiullina, Ph. D., published on April 11, 2018, on Veterans Today website. Faced with a crisis of this magnitude at another time, the United States and Russia were brought to the brink of war but somehow survived. Relations at that time were heavily strained and diplomatic efforts on both…
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  by Edward Morgan On the evening of April 10 (2018), Fox’s Tucker Carlson did what may have been the most amazing thing that has ever happened on American television. As the drums of war beat louder than they had in years, Carlson stared right into the camera and did the exact opposite of what every mainstream US pundit…
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  “This whole idea that all of a sudden Assad’s gassing his own people, I think, is total nonsense”, declared Ron Paul in a RT interview with host Ed Schultz. President Donald Trump has blamed Syria President Bashar al-Assad, along with Russia and Iran, for the alleged gas attack. However, Paul, a…
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  by Alan Castel Ph. D. The average American checks his or her smartphone once every six-and-a-half minutes, or roughly 150 times each day. You probably do this without even thinking about it. This can influence how well we focus and the degree to which we can have meaningful social interactions, especially if we are…
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  WikiLeaks founder Julian Assange called “very, very, very inaccurate” corporate presstitutes “opportunistic snipers” in an interview in 2017, accusing newspapers of printing “weaponized text.” And the outspoken publisher isn’t at all dissatisfied with the…
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