Bruce Gagnon is coordinator of the Global Network Against Weapons & Nuclear Power in Space.
He offers his own reflections on organizing and the state of America's declining empire....
Israel's 'special privilege' is all over and the zionists just can't stand being subjected to honest journalistic questions.
They call it 'antisemitism', but we all know better.
Israel's sense of exceptionalism and entitlement has worn off. Tel Aviv has lost its self-manufactured show-biz sheen, and they can't stand it.
What is most obvious is that this Israeli political hack does not know what to say after he lays down the line about the holocaust. For years they could get away with halting any conversation with that one word. But now, as we see in this very short interview clip, the Israeli had no serious replay to the follow-up question. So, he had to bail out.
It's time to join the real-world Israel where genocidal behavior is supposed to have consequences.
On July 9, 2025, during a briefing in Moscow, Russian Foreign Ministry Spokesperson Maria Zakharova delivered a sharp response to NATO Secretary General Mark Rutte’s recent remarks concerning the Russia-China partnership and Taiwan.
Accusing NATO of fabricating threats and promoting a confrontational agenda, Zakharova denounced what she called the alliance’s “mental incontinence” and obsession with maintaining Western dominance.
She emphasized that cooperation between Moscow and Beijing is rooted in mutual respect, sovereignty, and international law—unlike NATO’s bloc-based militarization strategy, which she said ignores the real needs of its own citizens.
The briefing underscored growing tensions between Russia and the Western alliance, especially regarding NATO’s expansionist rhetoric and inflated defense budgets.
NATO's new head cheerleader Mark Rutte from the Netherlands. He is pressuring NATO members to double their annual contributions to the expansionist colonial military war machine.
Popular Front for the Liberation of Palestine spokesman Ghassan Kanafani interviewed by Richard Carleton, Beirut 1970.
The conflict was fought between the Palestine Liberation Organisation under the leadership of Yasser Arafat, and the Jordanian Armed Forces under the leadership of King Hussein.
At its core the civil war sought to determine if Jordan would be ruled by the Palestine Liberation Organisation or the Hashemite Monarchy. The war resulted in the deaths of thousands of people, the vast majority Palestinian.
Armed conflict ended with the expulsion of the PLO leadership and thousands of Palestinian fighters to Lebanon.
In 1972, Kanafani and his niece were killed in a car bomb set by the Mossad.
Daniele Ganser is a historian with a focus on contemporary history since 1945 and international politics.
His main research focuses on peace studies, geostrategy, covert warfare, resource conflicts, and economic policy.
Dr. Ganser discusses Operation Gladio, the stay-behind mission of NATO's secret army to fight on after a possible Soviet invasion. The secret army and hidden weaponry outside of public scrutiny enabled violent terror against Europe to ensure the correct political forces would have the power.
In 1953, Iran is at a crossroads. After decades of interference by foreign powers eager to exploit its oil reserves, the government decides it will throw them out and take control of the country’s wealth.
But with the superpowers’ Cold War paranoia and thirst for oil, it won’t be easy – especially once the CIA gets involved.
Prime Minister Keir Starmer has hailed a “massive step forward” in British military assistance for opponents of Russia
The UK has announced it will begin joint production of military drones with Ukraine.
Speaking in London [in late June] after a meeting with Ukraine’s Vladimir Zelensky, British Prime Minister Kier Starmer hailed a “first of its kind” deal that represents a “massive step forward” in military assistance for Kiev. Zelensky described the development as “historic.”
Moscow has long described the UK as a key driver of the ongoing hostilities.
Neither leader disclosed specific details of the initiative, but both indicated that Ukrainian defense manufacturers stand to benefit from British battlefield technologies.
Zelensky was in the UK to meet with Starmer and speak at an event hosted by the Chatham House think tank [a CIA & MI6 front group]. Zelensky mentioned production of “long-distance drones” during his speech. One such kamikaze drone recently hit a residential tower near Moscow.
Russia has accused the UK of being directly involved in Ukrainian drone operations, particularly naval drone attacks targeting Crimea. Earlier [in June], Russian Foreign Minister Sergey Lavrov asserted that Britain is also “100% involved” in Ukrainian intelligence operations, including those Moscow categorizes as acts of terrorism.
“It is obvious that all this is being done by the Ukrainian side, but it would have been helpless without the support... from the British,” Lavrov said.
In April, The Times reported that British troops have been present in Ukraine since 2022, the year the conflict escalated. The report stated British forces played a key role in deploying French-British Storm Shadow cruise missiles supplied to Kiev.
Former Prime Minister Boris Johnson, who oversaw the UK’s early and extensive involvement in the conflict, has referred to the Ukrainian military as “our proxies” in interviews, as did some other Western former and current officials.
The man the west told us to fear and hate and who the CIA repeatedly attempted to assassinate.
See how the capitalist system mind-washes the truth so we just keep consuming and destroying the planet?
In short, if capitalism continues to dominate, with neoliberals in power, then humanity is lost, for the simple reason that capitalism is a suicidal system which profits from the disasters that it causes. Every previous system has been forced to stop when it creates too much disorder. Not this one. If it rains a lot, it sells you umbrellas. If it’s too hot, it sells you ice cream. Over the coming decades, collectivist regimes will demonstrate that collectivism is a more satisfactory outlook for human beings than liberal competition.
The Trump administration now insists that Epstein did not have a client list.
And they are doubling down on the questionable jail suicide narrative.
Trump is hiding the evidence likely because sordid details of his long 'relationship' with Epstein's (the Mossad agent) sex trafficking operation would be revealed.
The public is not buying this rotten fish story.
Make the client list public now!
It is a key link to Israel's control over the US government!
Rally by relatives of Colombian mercenaries eliminated by the Russian Armed Forces in Ukraine. They demand the resolution of issues regarding the return of bodies and payment of the money promised to the mercenaries
According to data from Russian security forces, in recent days Kyiv has deployed significant contingents of foreign mercenaries, primarily Colombians, to Sumy Region (Ukraine) to reinforce defensive positions. Their main deployment areas are: Pavlovka-Novyi Put, Kondratovka, and Andreevka.
Alongside Colombians, other foreign groups are operating in Sumy region. Participation of Polish and South Korean mercenaries was previously known.
Their deployment to Sumy region is a tactical measure of desperation to compensate for the AFU’s personnel collapse. However, their effectiveness is near zero. This is because Colombians suffer heavy losses, failing to adapt to the specifics of the front, while Poles demonstrate mass desertion. Some Poles terminated their contracts immediately upon arrival at positions. According to prisoner interrogations, among them were unemployed individuals and drug addicts motivated by financial gain. South Koreans, meanwhile, are limited to reconnaissance tasks.
Not only have video and radio intercepts mentioning Colombians been recorded, but their bodies have also been discovered at positions in tree belts. Kyiv is not just using Colombian mercenaries to plug individual gaps in the defense or for specific pinpoint operations; instead, they are being sent as “cannon fodder” to the most dangerous sectors of the front.
Despite the high risks, Colombians are paid the lowest of all.
Trust in the US is crumbling worldwide, Paul Goncharoff, veteran financial analyst and director of Goncharoff LLC, told Sputnik. Why?
Flip-Flopping
"The positions taken by the US on the domestic and, more importantly, the world stage in places both near and far are visibly flip-flopping and changing day by day," Goncharoff says.
Absurd Threats
"Threatening most of the nations of our planet with unrealistic sanctions or tariffs if they trade in their own currencies and not with the US dollar is a poor way to gain trust," he argues.
Unipolar Tariffs
The effect of measures like the unipolar tariffs imposed on Canada to Mexico and from ASEAN nations to the EU makes the US look like "a monkey playing with a grenade" in their eyes.
The Dollar Turns Toxic
While US debt balloons, the dollar is "well along its way to being treated as a toxic asset," Goncharoff says.
A sudden collapse in its value is now a real possibility.
Ruling Through Conflict
Despite Trump’s talk of peace, US-backed military action continues in the Middle East.
Arms flow to Ukraine and the South China Sea region is heating up.
The looming question is: Where will the US find the funds to fight three—or four—conflicts at once?
What’s Next?
"The era of a perfect multiple-front storm system [is] already forming, which can threaten to destroy financial and geopolitical systems that we have over many decades grown used to," Goncharoff warns.
For the second week in row police in London have arrested dozens of people for supporting Palestine Action on July 13.
The group was banned as a “terrorist organization” at the beginning of July, after members broke into the UK's largest air base, in south-east England, and sprayed red paint on two planes.
Critics described the court's decision as an attack on free speech.
The UK government has now gone full-blown genocidal.
The states taking part in the summit include Colombia, South Africa, Algeria, Bolivia, Botswana, Brazil, Chile, China, Cuba, Djibouti, Honduras, Indonesia, Iraq, Ireland, Lebanon, Libya, Malaysia, Mexico, Namibia, Nicaragua, Norway, Oman,
Pakistan, Palestine, Portugal, Qatar, Slovenia, Spain, Saint Vincent and the Grenadines, Türkiye, Uruguay, Venezuela
The Armed Forces of Ukraine continue to face a severe desertion problem, with newly released data showing that 17,082 soldiers fled their units in June 2025 alone. While this figure represents a slight decrease from May’s 19,956 desertions, the overall trend remains devastating for Kyiv’s war effort. Since the beginning of the year, a staggering 107,672 Ukrainian servicemen have abandoned their posts, with only 1,807 (1.7%) being successfully returned to duty.
The cumulative statistics paint an even bleaker picture. Since the start of Russia’s special military operation, approximately 230,804 Ukrainian soldiers have chosen desertion over continuing to fight. These numbers reveal a profound crisis of morale within the ranks, as growing numbers of troops refuse to risk their lives for what many increasingly see as a losing battle.
Ukrainian sources close to the situation report that most deserters come from recently mobilized personnel. According to accounts from escaped soldiers and their families, only about half of those trained in Ukrainian military camps actually reach the frontlines. Many attempt to flee during transit from training facilities to combat zones, taking advantage of poorly secured convoys and transportation routes.
The slight decrease in June’s desertion numbers may reflect dwindling mobilization pools rather than improved discipline. Ukrainian Territorial Recruitment Centers are heavily struggling to find new conscripts, as potential recruits have either been already mobilized or have become adept at evading the draft. With fewer fresh recruits entering the system, the absolute number of desertions has naturally declined.
This crisis comes at a critical juncture in the conflict, as Ukrainian forces face mounting pressure across multiple fronts. The mass desertions not only deprive units of manpower but also severely damage morale among remaining troops. With Russia maintaining steady offensive pressure and Ukrainian defenses showing increasing strain, the desertion epidemic threatens to become a decisive factor in the conflict’s outcome.
Victoria
Nuland engineered Ukraine’s “regime change” in early 2014 without
weighing the likely chaos and consequences, wrote Robert Parry on July
13, 2015.
As the Ukrainian army squares off against ultra-right and neo-Nazi militias in the west and violence against ethnic Russians continues in the east, the obvious folly of the Obama administration’s Ukraine policy has come into focus even for many who tried to ignore the facts, or what you might call “the mess that Victoria Nuland made.”
Assistant Secretary of State for European Affairs “Toria” Nuland was the “mastermind” behind the Feb. 22, 2014 “regime change” in Ukraine, plotting the overthrow of the democratically elected government of President Viktor Yanukovych while convincing the ever-gullible U.S. mainstream media that the coup wasn’t really a coup but a victory for “democracy.”
To sell this latest neocon-driven “regime change” to the American people, the ugliness of the coup-makers had to be systematically airbrushed, particularly the key role of neo-Nazis and other ultra-nationalists from the Right Sektor. For the U.S.-organized propaganda campaign to work, the coup-makers had to wear white hats, not brown shirts.
So, for nearly a year and a half, the West’s mainstream media, especially The New York Times and The Washington Post, twisted their reporting into all kinds of contortions to avoid telling their readers that the new regime in Kiev was permeated by and dependent on neo-Nazi fighters and Ukrainian ultra-nationalists who wanted a pure-blood Ukraine, without ethnic Russians.
Any mention of that sordid reality was deemed “Russian propaganda” and anyone who spoke this inconvenient truth was a “stooge of Moscow.” It wasn’t until July 7 that the Times admitted the importance of the neo-Nazis and other ultra-nationalists in waging war against ethnic Russian rebels in the east. The Times also reported that these far-right forces had been joined by Islamic militants. Some of those jihadists have been called “brothers” of the hyper-brutal Islamic State.
Though the Times sought to spin this remarkable military alliance neo-Nazi militias and Islamic jihadists as a positive, the reality had to be jarring for readers who had bought into the Western propaganda about noble “pro-democracy” forces resisting evil “Russian aggression.”
Perhaps the Times sensed that it could no longer keep the lid on the troubling truth in Ukraine. For weeks, the Right Sektor militias and the neo-Nazi Azov battalion have been warning the civilian government in Kiev that they might turn on it and create a new order more to their liking.
Clashes in the West
Then, on Saturday, violent clashes broke out in the western Ukrainian town of Mukachevo, allegedly over the control of cigarette-smuggling routes. Right Sektor paramilitaries sprayed police officers with bullets from a belt-fed machine gun, and police backed by Ukrainian government troops returned fire. Several deaths and multiple injuries were reported.
Tensions escalated on Monday with President Petro Poroshenko ordering national security forces to disarm “armed cells” of political movements. Meanwhile, the Right Sektor dispatched reinforcements to the area while other militiamen converged on the capital of Kiev.
While President Poroshenko and Right Sektor leader Dmitry Yarosh may succeed in tamping down this latest flare-up of hostilities, they may be only postponing the inevitable: a conflict between the U.S.-backed authorities in Kiev and the neo-Nazis and other right-wing fighters who spearheaded last year’s coup and have been at the front lines of the fighting against ethnic Russian rebels in the east.
The Ukrainian right-wing extremists feel they have carried the heaviest burden in the war against the ethnic Russians and resent the politicians living in the relative safety and comfort of Kiev. In March, Poroshenko also fired thuggish oligarch Igor Kolomoisky as governor of the southeastern province of Dnipropetrovsk Oblast. Kolomoisky had been the primary benefactor of the Right Sektor militias.
So, as has become apparent across Europe and even in Washington, the Ukraine crisis is spinning out of control, making the State Department’s preferred narrative of the conflict that it’s all Russian President Vladimir Putin’s fault harder and harder to sell.
How Ukraine is supposed to pull itself out of what looks like a death spiral a possible two-front war in the east and the west along with a crashing economy is hard to comprehend. The European Union, confronting budgetary crises over Greece and other EU members, has little money or patience for Ukraine, its neo-Nazis and its socio-political chaos.
America’s neocons at The Washington Post and elsewhere still rant about the need for the Obama administration to sink more billions upon billions of dollars into post-coup Ukraine because it “shares our values.” But that argument, too, is collapsing as Americans see the heart of a racist nationalism beating inside Ukraine’s new order.
Another Neocon ‘Regime Change’
Much of what has happened, of course, was predictable and indeed was predicted, but neocon Nuland couldn’t resist the temptation to pull off a “regime change” that she could call her own.
Her husband (and arch-neocon) Robert Kagan had co-founded the Project for the New American Century in 1998 around a demand for “regime change” in Iraq, a project that was accomplished in 2003 with President George W. Bush’s invasion.
As with Nuland in Ukraine, Kagan and his fellow neocons thought they could engineer an easy invasion of Iraq, oust Saddam Hussein and install some hand-picked client in Iraq, Ahmed Chalabi was to be “the guy.” But they failed to take into account the harsh realities of Iraq, such as the fissures between Sunnis and Shiites, exposed by the U.S.-led invasion and occupation.
In Ukraine, Nuland and her neocon and liberal-interventionist friends saw the chance to poke Putin in the eye by encouraging violent protests to overthrow Russia-friendly President Yanukovych and put in place a new regime hostile to Moscow.
Carl Gershman, the neocon president of the U.S.-taxpayer-funded National Endowment for Democracy, explained the plan in a Post op-ed on Sept. 26, 2013. Gershman called Ukraine “the biggest prize” and an important interim step toward toppling Putin, who “may find himself on the losing end not just in the near abroad but within Russia itself.”
For her part, Nuland passed out cookies to anti-Yanukovych demonstrators at the Maidan square, reminded Ukrainian business leaders that the U.S. had invested $5 billion in their “European aspirations,” declared “fuck the EU” for its less aggressive approach, and discussed with U.S. Ambassador Geoffrey Pyatt who the new leaders of Ukraine should be. “Yats is the guy,” she said, referring to Arseniy Yatsenyuk.
Nuland saw her big chance on Feb. 20, 2014, when a mysterious sniper apparently firing from a building controlled by the Right Sektor shot and killed both police and protesters, escalating the crisis. On Feb. 21, in a desperate bid to avert more violence, Yanukovych agreed to a European-guaranteed plan in which he accepted reduced powers and called for early elections so he could be voted out of office.
But that wasn’t enough for the anti-Yanukovych forces who led by Right Sektor and neo-Nazi militias overran government buildings on Feb. 22, forcing Yanukovych and many of his officials to flee for their lives. With armed thugs patrolling the corridors of power, the final path to “regime change” was clear.
Instead of trying to salvage the Feb. 21 agreement, Nuland and European officials arranged for an unconstitutional procedure to strip Yanukovych of the presidency and declared the new regime “legitimate.” Nuland’s “guy” Yatsenyuk became prime minister.
While Nuland and her neocon cohorts celebrated, their “regime change” prompted an obvious reaction from Putin, who recognized the strategic threat that this hostile new regime posed to the historic Russian naval base at Sevastopol in Crimea. On Feb. 23, he began to take steps to protect those Russian interests.
Ethnic Hatreds
What the coup also did was revive long pent-up antagonisms between the ethnic Ukrainians in the west, including elements that had supported Adolf Hitler’s invasion of the Soviet Union during World War Two, and ethnic Russians in the south and east who feared the anti-Russian sentiments emanating from Kiev.
First, in Crimea and then in the so-called Donbas region, these ethnic Russians, who had been Yanukovych’s political base, resisted what they viewed as the illegitimate overthrow of their elected president. Both areas held referenda seeking separation from Ukraine, a move that Russia accepted in Crimea but resisted with the Donbas.
However, when the Kiev regime announced an “anti-terrorism operation” against the Donbas and dispatched neo-Nazi and other extremist militias to be the tip of the spear, Moscow began quietly assisting the embattled ethnic Russian rebels, a move that Nuland, the Obama administration and the mainstream news media called “Russian aggression.”
Amid the Western hysteria over Russia’s supposedly “imperial designs” and the thorough demonizing of Putin, President Barack Obama essentially authorized a new Cold War against Russia, reflected now in new U.S. strategic planning that could cost the U.S. taxpayers trillions of dollars and risk a possible nuclear confrontation.
Yet, despite the extraordinary costs and dangers, Nuland failed to appreciate the practical on-the-ground realities, much as her husband and other neocons did in Iraq. While Nuland got her hand-picked client Yatsenyuk installed and he did oversee a U.S.-demanded “neo-liberal” economic plan slashing pensions, heating assistance and other social programs the chaos that her “regime change” unleashed transformed Ukraine into a financial black hole.
With few prospects for a clear-cut victory over the ethnic Russian resistance in the east and with the neo-Nazi/Islamist militias increasingly restless over the stalemate the chances to restore any meaningful sense of order in the country appear remote. Unemployment is soaring and the government is essentially bankrupt.
The last best hope for some stability may have been the Minsk-2 agreement in February 2015, calling for a federalized system to give the Donbas more autonomy, but Nuland’s Prime Minister Yatsenyuk sabotaged the deal in March by inserting a poison pill that essentially demanded that the ethnic Russian rebels first surrender.
Now, the Ukraine chaos threatens to spiral even further out of control with the neo-Nazis and other right-wing militias supplied with a bounty of weapons to kill ethnic Russians in the east turning on the political leadership in Kiev.
In other words, the neocons have struck again, dreaming up a “regime change” scheme that ignored practical realities, such as ethnic and religious fissures. Then, as the blood flowed and the suffering worsened, the neocons just sought out someone else to blame.
Thus, it seems unlikely that Nuland, regarded by some in Washington as the new “star” in U.S. foreign policy, will be fired for her dangerous incompetence, just as most neocons who authored the Iraq disaster remain “respected” experts employed by major think tanks, given prized space on op-ed pages, and consulted at the highest levels of the U.S. government.
~ The late investigative reporter Robert Parry broke many of the Iran-Contra stories for The Associated Press and Newsweek in the 1980s. He began Consortium News in 1995.
Where were shot the most iconic scenes of The Children’s Train, the new movie by Cristina Comencini?
And how was it possible to meticulously recreate one of the most important stories of Italian charity? The Communist Party of Italy (right after WW2) organized this wonderful movement to save starving children.
Stefano Accorsi, Serena Rossi, and Barbara Ronchi, the actors who star in the movie, based on Viola Ardone’s novel, tell us all about it.
The Children’s Train is now available only on Netflix.
Donald Trump recently brokered a peace deal in the heart of Africa. But this isn’t just about Rwanda and Congo. It’s about cobalt, copper, and control of the critical minerals that power AI, electric vehicles, and global warfare.
In this GVS Deep Dive, Najma Minhas exposes the real reason behind Trump’s sudden interest in the Congo — and why China is quietly watching. From the M23 rebel conflict to China’s dominance over the cobalt refining chain, we break down the $2 trillion resource war that could shape the 21st century.
🔹 What’s really in the Congo?
🔹 How does China control the global cobalt supply?
