Lordre: 2023

The Union State Expects That The NATO-Russian Proxy War Will Expand

Voice of East: The Union State Expects That The NATO-Russian Proxy War Will Expand By Andrew Korybko In the event that Kiev gains and holds ground in Belarus, Moldova, Russia, and/or Ukraine’s former regions, none of which can be taken for granted of course,... Read More › - Voice of East
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Pisces Moon: The Dark Arts of Empire

Hugo Turner: Review of Pisces Moon: The Dark Arts of Empire Doug Valentine’s new book “Pisces Moon: The Dark Arts of Empire” takes the reader on a voyage into the dark and hidden history of the world. It forces the reader to confront the horrors unleashed by the American Empire. A memoir that reads like a great novel, you won’t be able to put it down till you’ve finished it. Then you’ll have to read it again to take detailed notes on the intricate history of the CIA in South East Asia. Doug Valentine is the greatest living CIA expert. He is well known to the tiny audience of connoisseurs with interest in topics as CIA dirty wars, psychological warfare, state-sponsored drug smuggling, deep politics and political assassinations. He managed to con his way into the trust of CIA men, Special Forces veterans and the DEA. Then he wrote shocking exposes that were completely marginalized and ignored by the mainstream media and academia. His book The Phoenix Program is the definitive book on the topic, work on which was even facilitated by former director, William Colby. It must be read by anyone who wants to understand the blueprint of terror the American empire has used the same blueprint repeatedly with refinement from Latin America, to Iraq, Afghanistan and today in Ukraine. This counter-insurgency blueprint lies primarily in the coordination of military, police, and intelligence operations. Massive campaigns of kidnapping, torture and assassination are then implemented through a comprehensive bureaucratic system involving all the “security” forces. He followed that up with The Strength of the Wolf and the Strength of the Pack, a history of America’s phony war on drugs told by many of its most original warriors. More recently, he wrote The CIA as Organized Crime, a digest of Valentine’s research on a wide range of topics including the partnership of the CIA and the mainstream media, the assassination of Martin Luther King Jr, and the origins of current CIA operations in Ukraine. Doug Valentine is also a poet and novelist who has worked tirelessly behind the scenes for years helping fellow authors and researchers to cut through the jungle of lies and find the trails leading to the truth. Pisces Moon, his newest book, is great because it works equally well as either an introduction or as an epilogue to his works. New readers will get a crash course in the secret history of the world. Long time fans will enjoy getting to peek behind the curtain of how he got the information for his books. This book is one of his most personal. The reader will get to know Doug Valentine, the man. Even the most experienced researcher will find many new gems. No country in history has ever possessed such a sophisticated propaganda apparatus as the United States: a system that not only indoctrinates its own citizens but much of the world. Those within the propaganda bubble live in the eternal present with no history, no understanding, jumping from one distraction to the next. They are eternal children and the perfect consumers. They believe in the benevolence of the American Empire and have already forgotten that country after country has been destroyed in the name of freedom and democracy. During the so-called Cold War after 1945, they never noticed that much of the “Free world” was a collection of fascist police states waging dirty wars on their own people. They seldom question why a country founded on genocide and slavery can be the embodiment of freedom and democracy. Why the “freest country” practices total surveillance and has the world’s largest prison population. To break out of this propaganda bubble can take years of study and questioning. Pisces Moon is a book written to burst the propaganda bubble, to awaken the reader to understanding, reviving the reader’s humanity and compassion. It is a timely book about fascism at home and America’s unabashed provocations against Russia and China—as if atomic war were “winnable”. Pisces Moon is a travel memoir taking the author from the U.S. to Britain and then to Vietnam and Thailand. The story starts in1992 just after the end of that so-called “Cold War” or as I prefer to call it World War 3, and the start of what I call World War 4 (also known as the war on drugs, the war on terror and now Cold War 2.0) The US is leading an international coalition to wage war on Iraq—a war that continues to this day. The President George H. W. Bush is a former CIA director. Valentine has been working on a book with the President’s former Iran/Contra co-conspirator Richard Secord. Valentine had been recommended to Secord by the infamous CIA officer Theodore Shackley. Shackley ran the Miami CIA station, waging a terror campaign on Cuba after the Bay of Pigs, serving as CIA station chief in the drug fueled war on Laos, then as CIA station chief in Saigon after the Tet offensive. He was in charge of the Latin America division when Allende was overthrown in Chile and replaced by the fascist dictator Augusto Pinochet. Shackley was also suspected of masterminding the Iran/Contra affair. This enigmatic career officer makes only a brief cameo in the book but his career demonstrates,like so many biographies in the book, the dark secrets one learns by studying the lives of CIA officers. At the start of the book Valentine meets with fellow members of the “research underground” like author Jim Hougan who wrote the excellent “Spooks” and documentary film maker Alan Frankovich who made the film adaptation of Philip Agee’s CIA Diary (On Company Business) as well as a documentary about the infamous Gladio stay behind networks started after 1945, ostensibly to counter potential Red Army invasion but in fact to support the policy of “tension” with terror actions to discredit the Left and move European domestic politics to the right. He meets with John Pilger’sfilm making partner David Munro, who is attempting to prove that the British Special forces have been training the infamous Khemer Rouge in Cambodia. Valentine had been offered the role of an adviser to a BBC documentary on the CIA’s Phoenix Program. Ignoring the warnings of his friends Valentine accepts and even agrees to illegally smuggle $10,000 into Vietnam for the BBC. In exchange they agreed to cover his travel expenses. The war in Vietnam had supposedly ended 17 years before. Yet the vengeful American empire was waging a proxy war with Vietnam in Cambodia, had gotten China to invade Vietnam and was strangling the country with sanctions. When Valentine arrives President Bush is busy bragging that America has finally beaten the “Vietnam Syndrome” which is what American politicians called the public’s reluctance to invade and occupy foreign countries after the American defeat in Vietnam. Ironically the Gulf War seemed at the time to be a short decisive victory. Years of sanctions would follow (and periodic bombings) that would transform Iraq into a poverty stricken hellhole and leave a million Iraqis dead. CIA coup plots would fail to topple Saddam Hussein and in the wake of 9/11 (carried out by CIA backed terrorists) the U.S. would invade and occupy Iraq. Despite a supposed drawback in 2011, it would never actually leave the country it had so brutally invaded. 2011 was the year Osama Bin Laden was allegedly assassinated. By then the U.S. was openly supporting “al Qaeda” in Libya and Syria. This is the sort of fact that should shock people. However within the propaganda bubble shocks are absorbed and facts rarely penetrate. In the propaganda version peddled by the mainstream media “al Qaeda” had turned on the U.S. during the Gulf War. In reality the U.S. had used created and trained these forces to destabilize Yugoslavia, Chechnya and the Central Asian former Soviet republics—wherever there was a significant Muslim population. During the 1990s and even after 9/11 they were used to spark a sectarian civil war in Iraq during the occupation. Three years later the U.S. (annoyed by Russian interference- i.e. Russia’slegal assistance to long-standing ally based on treaties of friendship and commerce dating from the Soviet Union—in their attempt to overthrow the Syrian Government and expel the Russians from their Latakia naval base) would use Ukrainian Nazis to topple the elected government. This igniteda Ukrainian civil war/NATO proxy war with Russia. The CIA had been working with Ukrainian Nazis since it was created in 1947. This proxy war in Ukraine would provoke Russian recognition of secessionist Russian-speaking regions and subsequent Russian military operations to defend those regions 8 years later. We are told again and again that all those actions were unprovoked. For 8 years Ukraine shelled the breakaway Russian speaking regions Donetsk and Lugansk in violation of the so-called Minsk agreement between the Russian Federation, the Russian-speaking regions and the Ukrainian government in Kiev. The American media claimed that they were shelling themselves. By the end of 2022 leaders of the guarantor states, like Germany’s Angela Merkel, were on record saying that neither the guarantors nor the Kiev government had any intention of complying with the Minsk conditions. However those facts too are ignored. Forgive the tangent. Doug Valentine’s book focuses mostly on Asia. However Vietnam and Iraq are linked in my mind because Vietnam is what shocked many out of their propaganda bubbles launching the generation of researchers Valentine meets with at the start of his tale. For my generation born post Vietnam and Watergate it was 9/11 and the Iraq warthat rattled us. Now I have lived long enough that for a 20-something of today 9/11 and the Iraq war are all ancient history. The “Cold War” seems as distant to them as World War 2 seemed to me as a child. Those outside the propaganda bubble are forced to suffer tremendous alienation. The more they learn the less the public surrounding them seems to grasp. New generations are born with new Hollywood war myths to replace the World War II myths in the films their parents watched—films in which the US single handedly defeated the Axis and the Soviet Union’s Red Army are completely invisible. The role of this trashy pop culture in propagandizing for the American empire is a major theme of Valentine’s book. How is one to explain the Ukraine war to someone who doesn’t know anything about World War 2 or the so-called Cold War and its successor the so-called Global War on Terror—for which the US military even issues campaign ribbons. Within the propaganda bubble history is irrelevant. Bad things happen in foreign countries because Asians, Africans, Muslims, Russians, or whoever else are the current targets are backwards savages who naturally do bad things while Americans are naturally good because they have freedom and democracy. Thus as the perennial victims, North Americans must wage endless wars of self-defense to stop these evil foreigners from “taking their freedom”. One day we will successfully bring them freedom and democracy (like they did by overthrowing the Ukrainian government or invading Iraq) and the barbaric foreigners will become happy and good like us. If things don’t work out it can only be their own fault. Valentine’s book attributes the origins of this American exceptionalism to white supremacy and Christian fundamentalism. This spirit was inherited or learned from British imperial mentors. Valentine also places British and French crimes in this historical context. The whitewashed version of history taught in the classroom is so(intentionally?) boring that few have any desire to learn more about it. The topic of American foreign policy post 1945 is mysteriously absent not only in high schools but in universities. The millions of people killed by the U.S. empire in Greece, Korea, Indonesia, Vietnam, Laos, Cambodia, El Salvador, Guatemala, Congo, Angola, Mozambique, Somalia Iraq, Yugoslavia, Libya, Syria, Yemen etc. are not considered worthy of study or remembrance. As Valentine’s book shows, universities do not merely cover up the crimes of America and Western Europe they are actively involved in committing them. The men of the CIA who carried out so many crimes were mostly highly educated and cultured. They weaponized cultural understanding using ethnic and sectarian tensions to rip apart societies. They applied their knowledge of religion to manipulate and terrorize people. CIA atrocities played on people’s superstitions. Bodies were mutilated to play on fears that the victims would be denied entrance into the afterlife. A major theme of Valentine’s book is the recruitment of missionaries by intelligence agencies. Christian missionaries became CIA warlords. Once again the same blue print would be used for recruiting Islamic fundamentalists to destabilize the Middle East, the Balkans and Central Asia as well as Russia (Chechnya) and China (Xinjiang). In Vietnam the reader will get a vivid picture of life in a country that is being strangled by U.S. sanctions today. U.S. sanctions—a form of warfare—are applied to much of the world, unknown to American citizens. Valentine decided to take his BBC funded trip to Vietnam just as the CIA was ramping up a campaign behind the scenes to destroy his career. Thus he suffers a series of misadventures as the BBC decides to disavow him.Valentine nearly ends up in prison as a suspected spy. One gets to look behind the scenes as the BBC documentary on the Phoenix Program shifts from a hard hitting expose based on Valentine’s book to a pro-CIA limited hangout when the producers hire a pro-CIA historian and recruit CIA advisers for interviews. Next Valentine heads for Thailand to interview a few former CIA men about the CIA’s role in the global drug traffic. He arrives in the middle of a coup and is coincidentally staying at the same hotel where the deposed Prime Minister Chatichai is being held by the military. He discusses the rampant sexual exploitation of the local (often under-aged) population by wealthy foreigners. He discusses the out of control sex lives of CIA officers in South East Asia. He meets with the infamous Tony Poshpenny, the inspiration for Marlon Brando’s character in Apocalypse Now. He then hears horrifying details of the brutality and mass murder that was standard policy in America’s wars in Laos, Cambodia and Vietnam. He meets with William Young part of the infamous Young family of Baptist missionaries who were worshipped by their converts as living gods and decided to go to work for the OSS and then the CIA turning their converts into an anti-communist paramilitary force. By way of exposition Valentine lays out the entire history of OSS/CIA operations in China, Japan, Burma, Laos, Cambodia, Vietnam, and Thailand. He explains the intricate history of the CIA role in the drug traffic in South East Asia. He details origins and structure of the Phoenix Program. He explains the dirty wars in Laos, Vietnam, and Cambodia. He explains the role of cults and secret societies. He goes into the world of international art theft and smuggling, the vandalism of the world’s cultural heritage and how it ends up in the hands of wealthy Americans. Even those well versed in the works of Alfred McCoy or Peter Dale Scott are bound to learn something new. To do it all justice I would have to reread it a couple times, take a hundred pages of notes and spend a month trying to summarize it in a very long article. Yet I am sure I would still fail to do it justice since his account interweaves the careers of CIA officers with the histories of the countries he discusses. There is a reason Valentine is a legend in the field of deep politics (the intersection of intelligence, organized crime, politics, and corporate business.) He has been working on this for nearly 40 years. So just buy his book, drop whatever your researching and read it immediately and perhaps get a copy for a friend or family member that you hope may be capable of escaping the propaganda bubble. Links You can order Pisces Moon here https://www.trineday.com/products/pisces-moon-the-dark-arts-of-empire?fbclid=IwAR3gFBVyGthX-E8e4HnWQpp7u0ptxtXBOps4l-UWbabA55mJqzMwyvGsnog Doug Valentine’s website https://www.douglasvalentine.com/bio.htm More on the Phoenix Program https://www.douglasvalentine.com/index.htm A Doug Valentine interview on the Assassination of Martin Luther King Jr. http://anti-imperialist-u.blogspot.com/2017/11/doug-valentine-on-assassination-of.html Doug Valentine on the CIA Drugs and Media http://anti-imperialist-u.blogspot.com/2017/02/doug-valentine-on-cia-drugs-media.html Doug Valentine on the CIA as Organized Crime https://www.sott.net/article/338324-The-Truth-Perspective-Interview-with-Douglas-Valentine-The-CIA-As-Organized-Crime Doug Valentine interviews the CIA on the Phoenix program http://www.cryptocomb.org/Phoenix Tapes.html My article based on Doug Valentine’s book “The Phoenix Program” http://anti-imperialist-u.blogspot.com/2015/04/the-phoenix-program.html - Hugo Turner
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Thomas Knapp: US Senator Elizabeth Warren (D-MA)’s latest legislative proposal — with several co-sponsors from both sides of the partisan aisle — would require the Federal Deposit Insurance Corporation to “claw back” compensation paid to bank executives in the three years preceding failure (or FDIC bailout) of the banks they work for. At the same time, Warren … Continue reading Earned Income versus Student Debt: When the Shoe Is On The Other Claw … → - by Thomas L. Knapp
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Debt Ceiling: Wrong Kind of Disarmament Agreement

Thomas Knapp: Well, here we are: The final scenes of Debt Ceiling Theater 2023. After endless rounds of “tense negotiations,” punctuated by smack talk between the big players and weird Hail Mary proposals from the cheap seats, US president Joe Biden and House Speaker Kevin McCarthy announced a deal over Memorial Day Weekend. Congress still has to … Continue reading Debt Ceiling: Wrong Kind of Disarmament Agreement → - by Thomas L. Knapp
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Voice of East: Why Are Government-Linked US And UK Experts Praising Russia’s Electronic Warfare Skills? By Andrew Korybko Casual observers might have been surprised to see government-linked US and UK experts praising Russia’s electronic warfare skills in a popular Mainstream Media outlet, especially with... Read More › - Voice of East
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Kim Petersen: Free trade is much ballyhooed by the US and the capitalist world, but critics have been skeptical as to whether such trade freely takes place. Investopedia provides a useful definition of free trade: A free trade agreement is a pact between two or more nations to reduce barriers to imports and exports among them. Under […] - Kim Petersen
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Voice of East: The Mainstream Media Is Preparing Iran To Be The Scapegoat If Kiev’s Counteroffensive Fails By Andrew Korybko If Moscow manages to thwart the upcoming counteroffensive, including the potential scenarios of Ukraine invading Belarus and/or Russia’s pre-2014 territory, then NATO will likely... Read More › - Voice of East
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Thomas Knapp: The usual way of thinking about politicians is: What do we think of them? Do we like the way they look? Do we like the way they sound? Are they on our side of this or that big divide? Do their policy proposals make sense? Do we … like them? As the next presidential election … Continue reading Pre-Election Advice: Try Looking at Yourself the Way Politicians Do → - by Thomas L. Knapp
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Kim Petersen: The G7 has recently wound up its meeting in Hiroshima, and the participants joined to affirm their fear of the Threat of China. British media reported that prime minister Rishi Sunak said: “China poses the biggest challenge to global security and prosperity of our age with the ‘means and intent to reshape the world order’.” The […] - Kim Petersen
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Voice of East: Russia-NATO Proxy War: Interpreting The Three Latest Nuclear-Related News Items By Andrew Korybko The appearance of three nuclear-related news items on the same day shows how serious the NATO-Russian proxy war is getting in the period between Russia’s victory in Artyomovsk... Read More › - Voice of East
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If the Constitution Doesn’t Matter, Why Keep Pretending Otherwise?

Thomas Knapp: “I’m looking at the 14th Amendment as to whether or not we have the authority,” US president Joe Biden told reporters on May 21. “I think we have the authority.” The “authority” he speaks of is the power to borrow money on the credit of the United States, which the US Constitution reserves exclusively to … Continue reading If the Constitution Doesn’t Matter, Why Keep Pretending Otherwise? → - by Thomas L. Knapp
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Voice of East: Ukraine’s Proxy Invasion Of Russia Is Infowar Copium After Losing Artyomovsk By Andrew Korybko This is a doomed-to-fail provocation carried out purely for propaganda with the intent of lessening the crushing blow to morale from losing Artyomovsk. Kremlin spokesman Dmitry Peskov confirmed... Read More › - Voice of East
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Thomas Knapp: I used to live “in the country.” Now I arguably live “in the suburbs.” No, I haven’t moved closer to the city (Gainesville, Florida). The city’s moved closer to me. When I moved into my current residence ten years ago, the area around me was largely farmland, and most residences were either older farmhouses or … Continue reading Muh Roads: Stop Subsidizing Sprawl → - by Thomas L. Knapp
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Voice of East: The US Is Receptive To Kissinger’s Suggestion To Revive Talks With China On A New Détente By Andrew Korybko The introduction of this week’s two complementary narratives into the West’s information ecosystem suggest that this de facto New Cold War bloc’s... Read More › - Voice of East
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Thomas Knapp: As I write this, the latest episode of US Government Debt Ceiling Theater seem to be approaching its denouement: Congressional and White House negotiators report “progress” in talks to raise the government’s debt ceiling before (not especially fat) lady, US Treasury Secretary Janet Yellen, sings “default.” I say “episode,” but perhaps the proper term is … Continue reading Why is the “Debt Ceiling” a Problem? Because Everybody Wants to Go to Heaven, But Nobody Wants to Die → - by Thomas L. Knapp
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Exceptionism in US Empire

Kim Petersen: [S]uffice it to state that the US Guardian Elite are very much of and for the overworld of private wealth. Since the end of World War II, the US Guardian Elite have functioned most decisively as executors of dark power. — Aaron Good, American Exception, p 107 Aaron Good, who received his PhD in political […] - Kim Petersen
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Regulatory Capture Won’t Stop the Singularity

Thomas Knapp: In a May 15 talk in Toronto, OpenAI CEO Sam Altman called for a “global licensing and regulatory framework” for artificial intelligence (AI). As I write this, he’s preparing to offer similar recommendations in testimony before a US Senate subcommittee. The whole idea of “regulating AI” fails on at least three levels. Level One: Regulation … Continue reading Regulatory Capture Won’t Stop the Singularity → - by Thomas L. Knapp
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Voice of East: People Of Kashmir Looking Towards The International Community On The Day Of “Living Together In Peace” By News Desk Islamabad – The International Day of Living Together in Peace, observed on May 16th each year, promotes world peace, tolerance, and... Read More › - Voice of East
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Thomas Knapp: I’m seeing a lot of back and forth lately on whether or not there’s a “crisis” at the border, with greatly increased migration and limited ability on the part of law enforcement to respond. Personally, I don’t consider it a “crisis” at all. Immigration is just people moving from one place to another — maybe … Continue reading About That “Border Crisis” → - by Thomas L. Knapp
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Voice of East: India Cannot Suppress The Sentiments Of ‘Aazadi’ In Kashmir By Dr Ghulam Nabi Fai “Repeat a lie often enough and people will believe it.” Joseph Goebbels. The fallacious statement made by the most celebrated Indian diplomat, Dr. Jaishankar, Minister of... Read More › - Voice of East
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Thomas Knapp: “Biden family members and business associates created a web of over 20 companies,” according to a May 10 memorandum from the US House Committee on Oversight and Accountability. Most of those companies, which “received over $10 million from foreign nationals’ companies,” were “formed during Joe Biden’s vice presidency.” The Biden family, according to the memo, … Continue reading How to Make Impeachment Great Again → - by Thomas L. Knapp
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Thomas Knapp: “One problem I have with the whole ‘mental illness’ frame for talking about mass shooters,” Paul Campos writes at Lawyers, Guns & Money, “is that the ‘mental illness’ often appears to be garden variety authoritarian ethno-nationalist misogyny, with the misogyny being the really critical ideological lynchpin [sic].” Campos is riffing on reports that Mauricio Garcia, … Continue reading Terrible Ideas + Evil Actions /= “Mental Illness” → - by Thomas L. Knapp
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Voice of East: American Officials Told Politico Their Plan For Waging Hybrid War Against Wagner In Africa By Andrew Korybko While America is ramping up its operations to counter Wagner’s growing popularity across Africa, it lacks the credibility to advance its goal through information... Read More › - Voice of East
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Kim Petersen: In December 1936, love won out for the British king Edward VIII, and he gave up the throne to marry Wallis Simpson, an American socialite. What is socialite? According to Google Dictionary: “a person who is well known in fashionable society and is fond of social activities and entertainment.” Typically, this term is applied to […] - Kim Petersen
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There’s Nothing “Clean” About a “Clean” Debt Ceiling Increase

Thomas Knapp: “House Democrats,” CBS News reports, “have taken their first procedural steps to try to force a House vote on a clean debt ceiling increase.” Absent such an increase, US Treasury Secretary Janet Yellen predicts the government will reach the end of its ability to borrow money as early as June 1. What does a “clean” … Continue reading There’s Nothing “Clean” About a “Clean” Debt Ceiling Increase → - by Thomas L. Knapp
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Voice of East: A Point-By-Point Debunking Of The ISW’s False Flag Conspiracy Theory About The Kremlin Attack By Andrew Korybko The “Institute for the Study of War’s” argument in support of the conspiracy theory alleging that Russia staged a false flag assassination attempt against... Read More › - Voice of East
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Thomas Knapp: Is “cutthroat economic libertarianism” force-feeding Americans a “homogenized corporate culture?” New York Times opinion columnist Matthew Walther thinks so (“Shopping for ‘Woke-Free’ Beer? Read This,” May 1). Walther correctly notes that current culture wars over beer brands like Bud Light have largely ignored how many of them are owned by a handful of larger companies … Continue reading Smokey Versus the Market → - by Thomas L. Knapp
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Thomas Knapp: “White House press secretary Karine Jean-Pierre on Monday discussed the brutal slaying of five people in Texas,” the New York Post whines, “without noting the fugitive accused of the heinous crime is an illegal immigrant who had previously been deported four times.” Francisco Oropesa, the subject of a continuing manhunt as I write this, allegedly murdered … Continue reading Anti-Immigrationists Dance in Texas Blood to Deliver False Lesson → - by Thomas L. Knapp
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Voice of East: The US Is Rounding Up Allies Ahead Of A Possible War With China By Andrew Korybko If the US feels that it’s obtained a decisive edge over China through the crystallization of AUKUS+ and upon maximally stockpiling weapons in Taiwan, then... Read More › - Voice of East
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Voice of East: Poland’s Top Military Official Shared Some Unpopular Truths About The NATO-Russian Proxy War By Andrew Korybko Nobody should doubt Chief of the General Staff of the Polish Armed Forces General Rajmund Andrzejczak’s intentions or suspect that he’s a so-called “Russian agent”... Read More › - Voice of East
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Thomas Knapp: “When it had a Democratic majority last year,” the New York Times reports, more than 200 years after the Boston Gazette decried Massachusetts state Senator Elbridge Gerry’s district as a sprawling, curving salamander-shaped monstrosity, “the North Carolina Supreme Court voided the state’s legislative and congressional maps as illegal gerrymanders. Now the court has a Republican majority, … Continue reading To End the Gerrymander Wars, Get Algorithmic → - by Thomas L. Knapp
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Voice of East: South Africa’s Neutrality In The New Cold War Is Under Threat From Western Pressure By Andrew Korybko The larger context in which South Africa just flipflopped on its “International Criminal Court” commitments is of outsized importance not just for BRICS’ future,... Read More › - Voice of East
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Voice of East: Margdarshan Resolution: A Solution For The Kashmir Problem? By Dr Ghulam Nabi Fai I came across a statement in ‘Scoop News,’ made by Dr. Ajay Chrungoo, Chairman, ‘Panun Kashmir’ that ‘The return and rehabilitation of the persecuted Kashmiri Hindus is... Read More › - Voice of East
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Thomas Knapp: On April 25, US president Joe Biden announced his intention to seek re-election in 2024. “The question we’re facing,” Biden says in his announcement video, “is whether in the years ahead, we have more freedom or less freedom. More rights or fewer.” “I know what I want the answer to be,” he continues, “and I … Continue reading 2024: We Can Do Better … Or Can We? → - by Thomas L. Knapp
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Thomas Knapp: In a letter to the editor of the Washington Post (“The Constitution demands the debt be paid. Period.”), one Maurice F. Baggiano claims: “As long as public debts are authorized by law, they may not be questioned and must be paid. That’s the import of Section 4 of the 14th Amendment.” Mr. Baggiano seems to be … Continue reading US National Debt: “Validity” Doesn’t Forbid Default → - by Thomas L. Knapp
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Voice of East: Kashmiri Diaspora In Washington D.C. Organised A Grand Eid Milan Party On Eid ul Fitr By Our Special Correspondent Washington, D.C. – Eid al-Fitr was celebrated in the United States of America on Friday, April 21, 2023. Eid al-Fitr is... Read More › - Voice of East
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Time Mustn’t Be Allowed to Run out on Julian Assange

Kim Petersen: Despite whatever charges Julian Assange may be accused of, it is well known that the WikiLeaks publisher was targeted for exposing the war crimes of the US government. In an upside-down Bizarro World, the screws are being ever so gradually tightened on Assange by the war criminals and their criminal accomplices. It is, in fact, […] - Kim Petersen
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Voice of East: Pakistan’s Attendance At Next Month’s SCO Event In India Is A Pretty Big Deal By Andrew Korybko The optics of the Pakistani Foreign Minister traveling to India early next month in what CNN noted will be “the most senior-level visit in... Read More › - Voice of East
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Thomas Knapp: The RESTRICT Act — currently winding its way through Congress — would empower the US Commerce Department to “identify, deter, disrupt, prevent, prohibit, investigate and mitigate transactions” that “pose an undue or unacceptable risk to U.S. national security or the safety of U.S. persons.” The RESTRICT Act’s more common name in the popular consciousness is … Continue reading A Counter-Proposal: RESTRICT the RESTRICTors → - by Thomas L. Knapp
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Thomas Knapp: I’m reading a thing. The thing reads: ANY INDIVIDUAL WHO KNOWINGLY AND WILLFULLY FALSIFIES OR FAILS TO FILE THIS REPORT MAY BE SUBJECT TO CIVIL AND CRIMINAL SANCTIONS (5 U.S.C. APP. § 104) That little snippet of text appears immediately below the signature of Associate US Supreme Court Justice Clarence Thomas on his 2021 financial … Continue reading More Equal Than Others, Clarence Thomas Edition → - by Thomas L. Knapp
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Voice of East: G20 Summit Is Meant To Engineer A Façade Of Normalcy In Kashmir – Dr Mir By Our Special Correspondent Washington, D.C. – The Kashmir Diaspora Coalition (KDC) and its international affiliate organizations—-World Kashmir Awareness Forum, Washington DC; Kashmir House Istanbul;... Read More › - Voice of East
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Mainstream Media Turn Coats on “National Security” Leaks

Thomas Knapp: On April 14, the US Department of Justice charged Airman First Class Jack Teixeira with copying and sharing information “connected with” or “relating to” the “national defense.” The government alleges that Teixeira is the man behind “leaks” of classified information which worked their way from the Massachusetts Air National Guard to a Discord chat server … Continue reading Mainstream Media Turn Coats on “National Security” Leaks → - by Thomas L. Knapp
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Classified Docs Leak: Who Should Go To Prison

Thomas Knapp: As I write this, Politico reports that the US Federal Bureau of Investigation has made an arrest in the matter of “classified” government documents found circulating on social media after allegedly being posted on an Internet game chat server over a period of weeks or months. The New York Times reports that the likely arrestee is one … Continue reading Classified Docs Leak: Who Should Go To Prison → - by Thomas L. Knapp
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Voice of East: Elections In Turkiye: Expectations Of Kashmiri Diaspora By Dr Ghulam Nabi Fai First of all, let me make it clear that we would love to stay out of internal politics of Turkiye. We believe that it is none of our... Read More › - Voice of East
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Abbott: I’ll Free a Murderer to Own the Libs

Thomas Knapp: On July 25, 2020, libertarian activist Garrett Foster stood his ground: With his wheelchair-bound wife nearby, and his rifle held at “low-ready” position, he told a driver who had run a red light and driven into a crowd of Black Lives Matter protesters in Austin Texas, to “move along.” The driver, Daniel Perry, proceeded to … Continue reading Abbott: I’ll Free a Murderer to Own the Libs → - by Thomas L. Knapp
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Voice of East: China Harshly Condemned The Indian Home Minister’s Visit To Disputed Himalayan Territory By Andrew Korybko This latest development escalates the rhetoric between them because it’s no small matter that China just accused India of violating its territorial sovereignty. Indian Home Minister... Read More › - Voice of East
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Thomas Knapp: In early April, Twitter added a “State-Affiliated Media” tag to National Public Radio’s account on the social media platform, putting it in the same league as Russia’s RT, China’s Xinhua, and other government-funded “news” outlets. Within a few days, under withering criticism from, among others, NPR CEO Jack Lansing (who came to NPR after running … Continue reading State Media: He Who Pays the Piper … → - by Thomas L. Knapp
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Voice of East: Don’t Be Fooled By Lula’s Latest Remarks On The NATO-Russian Proxy War By Andrew Korybko The Brazilian leader’s latest remarks were just a creative reaffirmation of his objectively existing and easily verifiable position towards this conflict. Nothing actually changed, but he’s... Read More › - Voice of East
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Voice of East: China’s Latest Renaming Of Indian-Controlled Disputed Territory Is A Major Development By Andrew Korybko The concept of “face” is immensely important in Asian cultures like China’s, hence why it’s unlikely that Beijing will seriously consider rescinding its enduring claims to Indian-controlled... Read More › - Voice of East
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Thomas Knapp: “Now That Weed is Mostly Legal,” reads the headline to a piece by Aryn Baker at Time, “Hemp Should Be Booming. But It’s Not.” Why? Contra Baker’s claim that hemp is “a close cousin of marijuana,” and not as useful as advertised, it IS marijuana — the same plant — and it’s incredibly useful for … Continue reading “Free The Weed” For More than Medical and Recreational Use → - by Thomas L. Knapp
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Let’s Make Post-Presidential Indictments Business as Usual

Thomas Knapp: As I write this, I’m watching live coverage of former US president Donald Trump’s pending arraignment on charges related to his payment of “hush money” to cover up a sexual encounter with porn star Stormy Daniels. Coverage of Trump’s legal troubles ranges from a focus on how “unprecedented” it is for a former president to … Continue reading Let’s Make Post-Presidential Indictments Business as Usual → - by Thomas L. Knapp
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The Mysterious Un-Flair of Style

Thomas Knapp: A group of people dwindling at nameless hands for unrevealed reasons is a great setup for suspenseful fiction like Agatha Christie’s And Then There Were None. It’s not so entertaining when it happens in reality. Christie is back in the news nearly half a century after her passing. Dozens of headlines in media outlets worldwide … Continue reading The Mysterious Un-Flair of Style → - by Thomas L. Knapp
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The Internet Needs a Country of Its Very Own

Thomas Knapp: Global Internet Access. By Wassim Benki 0690. Creative Commons Attribution-Share Alike 4.0 International license. On March 23, Axios reports, Utah governor Spencer Cox signed two bills “aimed at limiting when and where anyone younger than 18 years old can interact online, and to stop companies from luring minors to certain websites.” The laws require social … Continue reading The Internet Needs a Country of Its Very Own → - by Thomas L. Knapp
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Voice of East: Remembering Jalil Andrabi On His 27th Death Anniversary By Dr Ghulam Nabi Fai Today is the 27th anniversary of Jalil Andrabi, a person of deep judicial insight and former Chairman of Kashmir Commission of Jurists. He was detained by Major Avtar... Read More › - Voice of East
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Kim Petersen: People such as former US military men like Scott Ritter and Douglas MacGregor provide excellent analysis on the geopolitics and warring in Ukraine. Ritter and McGregor are two Americans apparently able to relay a perspective based on their own take of a situation, a take independent of government pronouncements and home media reports. Nonetheless, despite […] - Kim Petersen
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Thomas Knapp: “Internal documents and former company executives reveal how Cigna doctors reject patients’ claims without opening their files,” investigative journalists Patrick Rucker, Maya Miller, and David Armstrong reported at ProPublica on March 25. “A Cigna algorithm flags mismatches between diagnoses and what the company considers acceptable tests and procedures for those ailments. Company doctors then sign … Continue reading Fraud Is Baked Into the American Healthcare Cake → - by Thomas L. Knapp
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Voice of East: The West’s Latest Conspiracy Theory Is That Russia Slaughtered Chinese Miners In Africa By Andrew Korybko There wouldn’t be any narrative for the West’s perception managers to propagate had this terrorist massacre not taken place on the eve of President Xi’s... Read More › - Voice of East
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Voice of East: Biden Administration Must Insist On Transparency In Kashmir: Dr Fai By Our Special Correspondent Washington, DC – Once again, the United States Department of State has issued its latest report on human rights practices around the world. The report was... Read More › - Voice of East
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Thomas Knapp: In 1960, with assistance from the United Church of Christ, civic leaders launched New College — a private liberal arts institution with an initial student body of 101. By the 1970s, that enrollment had swelled to more than 500. With nearly $4 million in debt rather than a fat and growing endowment, New College made … Continue reading Florida: New College, Same Old Problem → - by Thomas L. Knapp
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Voice of East: The US Would Support, Not Oppose, Another Military Coup In Pakistan By Andrew Korybko For as accurately as this research professor at the Strategic Studies Institute at the U.S. Army War College described the tense socio-political run-up to what might soon... Read More › - Voice of East
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Thomas Knapp: In March of 2003, the United States launched an illegal war of aggression against Iraq. The US regime promoted that illegal war of aggression, starting well in advance, through the manufacture and repetition of falsehoods for the purpose of cultivating fear over non-existent threats, and loathing over non-existent connections between the Iraqi regime an the … Continue reading Iraq War Anniversary: Never Back Down on the Only Important Fact → - by Thomas L. Knapp
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Kim Petersen: People such as former US military men like Scott Ritter and Douglas MacGregor provide excellent analysis on the geopolitics and warring in Ukraine. Ritter and McGregor are two Americans apparently able to relay a perspective based on their own take of a situation, a take independent of government pronouncements and home media reports. Nonetheless, despite […] The post Patriotism and Sinophobia first appeared on Dissident Voice. - Kim Petersen
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Voice of East: CNN Let Slip That The ICC’s Arrest Warrant Is Revenge For The West’s Failure To Isolate Russia By Andrew Korybko This move is aimed at limiting President Putin’s personal travel options, prompting those countries that aren’t part of the ICC to... Read More › - Voice of East
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