The 21st Century – For a peacefully coexisting, mutually respectful and co-prosperous world

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US President Trump ATTACKS Military Industrial Complex and CALLS for INFRASTRUCTURE INvestments in the Middle East

For the first time in over half a century, an American President has actually come out attacking the Military Industrial Complex. Of course, everyone knows of President Dwight D. Eisenhauer’s famous outgoing 1961 speech warning the world...

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Memo to Trump: It’s Time to End-Run Your Advisers on DPRK

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Further Evidence: US Attacked Syria Based on “FALSE FLAG”

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Roger Stone Shines New Light on Russia-Gate Hoax

As if more evidence was needed to debunk the pathetic narrative that the Russians hacked the DNC computers during the...

Trump’s Soft Cop-Hard Cop Routine on Iran

President Trump this week took a surprising turn by emphatically insisting that the US does...

Trump Administration – from DPRK, China, Russia to Iran to Venezuela – Threats and Sanctions Everywhere – a Chronicle of Disorganized Chaos Foretold

As of May 10, Mr. Trump has arbitrarily increased tariffs on Chinese goods imported into...

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“Seattle is Dying”: What about Other Major Cities in US? Is It Only the Seattle Issue?

Seattle Is Dying: Drugs And Homelessness In Seattle Watch: Eric Johnson explores the impact the drug and homelessness problem is...

Predator Cops, Guilty of Sex Crimes Against Women and Children, Are a Menace to Society

“Sexual predation by police officers happens far more often than people in the business are...

Review: ‘Civilizing Torture: An American Tradition’ by W. Fitzhugh Brundage

A US soldier and a Vietnamese interpreter use the "waterboarding" technique on a Viet Cong...

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The U.S. Has Been Eclipsed in Every Sphere But War

US rulers promised that technology would bring the return of the millions of jobs that were outsourced to low-wage countries,...

Genetically Modified Babies: The Genetic Editing of Human Life is “Big Business”

Last November, He Jiankui, a Chinese biology professor at Southern University of Science and Technology (SUST) in...

Press Release: Vault 7 – CIA Hacking Tools Revealed

Contents • Press Release • Analysis • Examples • Frequently Asked Questions Press Release: Today,...

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The Tariff Issue: Trump’s Mistaken Approach to Bringing the Jobs Back Home

Wherever I look at US policy, foreign or domestic, I see only insanity, ignorance, and incompetence. Take the issue of...

Who Knows What Evil Lurks In The Pentagon Budget? With $8.5 Trillion Unaccounted for, …

Trillions of dollars in Pentagon spending have just disappeared into thin air. The Pentagon failed...

Pigs at the trough: New Report Names Nearly 4,000 Companies Profiting Off of Private Prison Industry

"Today, more than half of the $80 billion spent annually on incarceration by government agencies...

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Do Iranian ‘Threats’ Signal Organized U.S.-Israel Subterfuge?

The intel they've provided is thin, the origins murky and suspect---haven't we heard this story before? President Donald Trump’s national...

NATO and the Culture of War: Ireland’s Resistance – 70th Anniversary of NATO

This year marks the 70th anniversary of the founding of NATO with the signing of...

United States and Venezuela: A Historical Background

US hostility and efforts to overthrow the Venezuelan government forms parts of a long and...

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Western States Avoid Culpability for War Crimes

There are parallels between the sudden growth of the warped mindset which proposes to exonerate murderers before they commit their...

Saying Goodbye to Planet Earth

Editor’s note: The U.S. Senate on Thursday confirmed a former oil and mining industry lobbyist...

Mexico to Spain and Vatican: Apologize for Your Crimes

Several years ago, the renowned linguist and thinker, Noam Chomsky, asked me, point blank, as...

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US-China: The Hardcore Is Yet To Come

The Trump administration’s response to China’s emergence has been to throw all sorts of spanners in the works, but tariffs...

China Hikes Tariffs on Most US Goods in $60 Billion Target List

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BEIJING (Reuters) - China said on Monday it will adjust tariffs on a revised target...

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Press Conference: Ambassador KIM Song, Permanent Representative of the Democratic People’s Republic of Korea

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Memo to Trump: It’s Time to End-Run Your Advisers on DPRK

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Trump doesn't have to pass the buck on North Korea. If he makes some smart...

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The Dead Don’t Die: The U.S. March to War with Iran

Hysteria reigns supreme. As in the new Jim Jarmusch movie, The Dead Don’t Die, The Return of the Living Neocon Dead,...

Iran Squeezed Between Imperial Psychos and European Cowards

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Berlin, Paris and London assumed Tehran could not afford to leave the JCPOA even if...

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Do Iranian ‘Threats’ Signal Organized U.S.-Israel Subterfuge?

The intel they've provided is thin, the origins murky and suspect---haven't we heard this story before? President Donald Trump’s national...

Newly Released FBI Docs Shed Light on Apparent Mossad Foreknowledge of 9/11 Attacks

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New information released by the FBI has brought fresh scrutiny to the possibility that the...