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Tag Archives: Soviet Union
The Empire Does Not Forgive
The Americans, like the British and the Soviets before them, dug their own graveyard in Afghanistan. By Chris Hedges Source: ScheerPost.com The Carthaginian general Hannibal, who came close to defeating the Roman Republic in the Second Punic War, committed suicide … Continue reading
Posted in Authoritarianism, black ops, CIA, culture, Deep State, Empire, Geopolitics, History, imperialism, Militarization, Neocons, news, Oligarchy, Social Control, Social Engineering, society, State Crime, war, war on terror
Tagged Afghanistan, Al Qaeda, American Empire, black ops, Carthage, Chalmers Johnson, CIA, Dictatorship, empire, fascism, geopolitics, Hannibal, history, imperialism, iraq, Kabul, Libya, mujahedeen, Roman Republic, Sanctions, Saudi Arabia, Soviet Union, State Terror, Syria, Taliban, US Foreign Policy, war, war on terror, Zbigniew Brzezinski
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Generation of Vipers: The Original Sin and Continuous Crimes of America’s Involvement in Afghanistan
By Chris Floyd Source: Empire Burlesque O generation of vipers, how can ye, being evil, speak good things? – Matthew 12:34 I.People need to understand something about Afghanistan, and the debacle we’re witnessing there. America’s involvement in Afghanistan didn’t begin in 2001, after … Continue reading
Posted in black ops, CIA, Deep State, Empire, Geopolitics, History, imperialism, Militarization, military spending, Neocons, news, Oligarchy, propaganda, Social Control, Social Engineering, society, State Crime, war, war on terror
Tagged Afghanistan, Afghanistan Papers, Deep State, Dick Cheney, Donald Rumsfeld, empire, geopolitics, George W. Bush, imperialism, Jimmy Carter, nation-building, Neocons, Ronald Reagan, Russia, Soviet Union, State Terror, Taliban, US Foreign Policy, USSR, war, war on terror, Zbigniew Brzezinski
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Manufacturing War With Russia
By Chris Hedges Source: Information Clearing House Despite the Robert Mueller report’s conclusion that Donald Trump and his campaign did not collude with Russia during the 2016 presidential race, the new Cold War with Moscow shows little sign of abating. … Continue reading
Posted in black ops, CIA, culture, Deep State, Dirty Politics, elites, Empire, Geopolitics, imperialism, Militarization, Neocons, Social Engineering, society, State Crime, war
Tagged Boris Yeltsin, CIA, Cold War, détente, Deep State, Democratic Party, Donald Trump, empire, Fusion GPS, geopolitics, Hypersonic missiles, imperialism, International Monetary Fund, James Clapper, John Brennan, NATO, NSA, Nuclear Weapons, Putin, Robert Mueller, Russia, RussiaGate, Soviet Union, Steele Dossier, Stephen F. Cohen, Ukraine, War With Russia? From Putin & Ukraine to Trump & Russiagate
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Understanding NATO, Ending War
By Robert J. Burrowes On 4 April 2019, the North Atlantic Treaty Organization, better known as NATO, marked the 70th anniversary of its existence with a conference attended by the foreign ministers of member nations in Washington DC. This will … Continue reading
Posted in Authoritarianism, black ops, CIA, culture, Deep State, elites, Empire, Geopolitics, History, imperialism, Militarization, Neoliberalism, news, Oligarchy, propaganda, Psy-ops, society, State Crime, war
Tagged Afghanistan, Atlantic Council, black ops, CIA, Colonialism, Corporate Globalization, empire, Exit NATO!, Florence Declaration, geopolitics, Global Hegemony, Global Power Elite, imperialism, iraq, Jan Oberg, Libya, Michel Chossudovsky, NATO, Neoliberalism, North Atlantic Treaty Organization, peter phillips, Russia, SACEUR, SACLANT, Soviet Union, Supreme Allied Commander Atlantic, Supreme Allied Commander Europe, Syria, Transnational Corporate Class, Violence, war, Western Europe, Yugoslavia, Yves Engler
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How the West eats its children
By Thierry Meyssan Source: VoltaireNet.org The cause of Western recession International relations experienced a profound change with the paralysis of the Soviet Union in 1986, when the State was unable to control the civilian nuclear incident in Tchernobyl [1], then with … Continue reading
Posted in Corporate Crime, culture, Economics, elites, Empire, Financial Crisis, Geopolitics, History, imperialism, Neoliberalism, Recession, Social Control, society, State Crime, war
Tagged Africa, capitalism, Cold War, Corporate Globalisation, Desert Storm, European Union, financial crisis, financialisation, France, geopolitics, George Bush Sr., Global Financial System, iraq, Margaret Thatcher, NATO, Neolioberalism, New World Order, Obama, Office of Force Transformation, recession, Russia, Sovereignty, Soviet Union, Theresa May, Trump, United Kingdom, United States, US multinationals, Volcker rule
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Why the West cannot stomach Russians
By Andre Vltchek Source: New Eastern Outlook When it comes to Russia or the Soviet Union, reports and historical accounts do get blurry; in the West they do, and consequently in all of its ‘client states’. Fairy tales get intermingled … Continue reading
Posted in culture, Deep State, Economics, elites, Empire, Geopolitics, History, imperialism, Neocons, society, State Crime, war
Tagged America, capitalism, Cold War, Economics, empire, fascism, geopolitics, history, imperialism, Nazism, Refugee Crisis, Russia, Russian Culture, Socialism, Soviet Union, United States, war, Western Culture
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Saturday Matinee: There Will Come Soft Rains
“If Mankind Perished Utterly”: Nazim Tulyahodzhaev’s ‘There Will Come Soft Rains’, 1984 Source: We Are the Mutants Object Name: There Will Come Soft Rains Maker and Year: Nazim Tulyahodzhaev (Director), UzbekFilm, 1984 Object Type: Film Description: (Steve Toyoshima) There Will Come Soft … Continue reading
Posted in Art, culture, Film, History, Saturday Matinee, war
Tagged animation, Cold War, Nazim Tulyahodzhaev, Nuclear War, Ray Bradbury, Science fiction, Soviet Union, There Will Come Soft Rains
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America’s Real Red Scare
The Slow-Motion Collapse of the American Empire By William J. Astore Source: TomDispatch.com Jump into your time machine and let me transport you back to another age. It’s May 2001 and the Atlantic Monthly has just arrived in the mail. … Continue reading
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Tagged American Empire, Authoritarianism, Cold War, conspiracy, Deep State, Donald Trump, drug war, empire, financial crisis, healthcare, imperialism, Mass Incarceration, Militarism, Nuclear Weapons, police state, Prisons, Russia, Russian Hackers, Shadow Government, Soviet Union, surveillance state, war profiteers
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