October 7 As Seen Through the Lens of the Military-Intelligence Complex

By Mark Taliano, January 03, 2024

Mass-casualty producing events create “reptilian” sparks  of collective outrage that nullify critical thinking. Criminal military-intelligence operatives fabricate and enable such catastrophes, with a view to creating such outrage, together with false-attribution of blame,  to wage pre-planned wars and genocides.

Killing Australians in Lebanon: Selected Targets, Selective Morality

By Dr. Binoy Kampmark, January 04, 2024

The killing of an Australian-Lebanese national Ibrahim Bazzi, his Lebanese wife Shorouq Hammoud, and his brother Ali Bazzi by the Israeli Defence Forces in a missile strike in southern Lebanon, has been an object exercise in selective outrage, selective ethical concern, and, generally speaking, selective morality.

Blinken Again Bypasses US Congress to Send Weapons to Israel

By The Cradle, January 03, 2024

US Secretary of State Antony Blinken used emergency authority to approve the sale of $147.5 million of 155 mm artillery shells to Israel on 30 December, bypassing the standard congressional review for arms sales for the second time since the start of the war on Gaza.

War on Gaza: Turkey Backs South Africa ‘Genocide’ Case Against Israel at ICJ

By Ragip Soylu, January 03, 2024

Turkish foreign ministry spokesperson Oncu Keceli said in a statement that Ankara welcomes the South African case, which says Israel has violated its obligations under the 1948 Convention on the Prevention and Punishment of the Crime of Genocide.

The EU Is Willing to Go to War Over Lithium?

By Phil Butler, January 03, 2024

The riddle of unhinged EU support for the Zelensky regime in Kyiv is now solved. Anyone inclined can unravel why the Germans, in particular, backstabbed Russia in the Minsk peace boondoggle. Lithium.

Replicon mRNA Vaccine: Japan Approves World’s First Self-Amplifying mRNA Vaccine

By Dr. William Makis, January 03, 2024

Japan’s Ministry of Health, Labour and Welfare Approves CSL and Arcturus Therapeutics’ ARCT-154, the first Self-Amplifying mRNA vaccine approved for COVID in adults.

On the Origins and Legacies of Really Existing Capitalism: In Conversation with Kari Polanyi Levitt

By Kari Polanyi Levitt and Prof. Andrew M. Fischer, January 03, 2024

In the old mercantilism, again, the representative firm was a joint stock corporation, the chartered companies; they received their monopolies from the sovereign; there were many shareholders; they were adventurers, etc. I saw similarities with the gigantic multinational corporations, also similarities in the sense that the centre, the head office, is in control of a variety of locations, and again how control over communication is so central to the organization of both of the old chartered companies and the modern multinational corporations.

19 Years Ago Today, Journalist Gary Webb Was Murdered After Exposing CIA Drug Trafficking

By Jeremy Kuzmarov, January 03, 2024

The thrust of Webb’s research was confirmed in 1998 when a CIA inspector general’s report acknowledged that the CIA had worked with suspected drug runners while supporting the Contras in Nicaragua

Glimpses from a Season in My Life, for Real. Naomi Wolf

By Dr. Naomi Wolf, January 03, 2024

I learned this year that the White House had targeted me personally with a “Be On the Lookout” alert to CDC, Twitter, Facebook, DHS and the Department of the Census. The latter, of course, has all of my personal information. I was vertiginous with shock — and fear — when I found this out, but I did not back down.

Scott Ritter’s Take on the Most Important Events of 2023. “A Turn Away From US Hegemony”

By Scott Ritter, January 03, 2024

Perhaps the most-hyped event of the year, Ukraine’s much-anticipated spring/summer counteroffensive was NATO’s version of the German Ardennes offensive of December 1944 – a last-gasp effort to throw all remaining reserves into a desperate attempt to score a knock-out blow against an opponent who had seized the strategic initiative.