For the worst part of 250 years, the United States of America has been a plutocracy. With 800 billionaires in a population of 345 million, the enemy is not ‘the One Percent’ but a 0.01% Biden never tires of declaring himself the ‘proud, proud, proud son of Delaware,’ aka, the State of du Pont, after Continue reading »
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Earlier this week I pointed to a Ukrainian (South Korean, U.S.) propaganda campaign which claims that thousands of North Korean soldiers will soon fight with on the Russian side against Ukraine: To have North Koreans fighting in Russia against the Ukrainian incursion in Kursk would make little sense. That incursion is for one already mostly defeated.Besides Continue reading »
With the United States and China locked in an ongoing battle and no solution in sight, Kevin Rudd from Queensland is here to help. His new book explains President Xi Jinping’s thinking and suggests a way forward. Are people paying attention? If they are, will they learn anything useful? In March 2023 Kevin Rudd became Continue reading »
On October 10, The Atlantic premiered ‘A Night at the Garden‘, an unsettling seven minutes and five seconds long video made of film footage that American documentary filmmaker Marshall Curry had accidentally found. The footage showed the 20,000-strong rally held by the American Nazi Party — the German American Bund — at Madison Square Garden Continue reading »
Whoever owns the narrative owns the world – and things just got a lot tougher for those of us opposed to the metastasising brain cancer known as US influence campaigns – or “perception management”. In a staggering increase in funding for propaganda and covert action the US House has passed the Countering the PRC (People’s Continue reading »
While the world looks on with trepidation at regional wars in Israel and Ukraine, a far more dangerous global crisis is quietly building at the other end of Eurasia, along an island chain that has served as the front line for America’s national defence for endless decades. Just as Russia’s invasion of Ukraine has revitalised Continue reading »
The ghosts of 1982 are hovering over Beirut. It was in the northern summer of that year that IDF forces under the command of General Ariel Sharon captured Beirut. They were there ostensibly to smoke out Yasser Arafat, the leader of the Palestine Liberation Organisation who had been based in Lebanon since his group’s expulsion Continue reading »