REALPOLITIK: Lucien Conein, The ‘Lawrence of Vietnam’ – By John Simkin (Flashback)

Source – jeffsharletandvietnamgi.blogspot.ca – “….Conein might have been involved in the assassination of John F. Kennedy. In his book, The Last Investigation (1993), Gaeton Fonzi points out that Conein was closely connected to E. Howard Hunt and Mitchell WerBell, two men suspected of the crime. Joseph Trento has also pointed out that Conein worked with Ted Shackley and William Harvey at the JM/WAVE CIA station in Miami in…

REALPOLITIK: U.S. Plan B for Afghanistan? Screw Up China – By Finian Cunningham

Source – strategic-culture.org “…Arguably, a motive for Washington going into Afghanistan two decades ago was not the supposed revenge for the dubious 9/11 terror incidents, but rather to assert geopolitical control over China and Russia’s backyard. Militarily, the U.S. occupation of Afghanistan turned out to be a disastrous failure and at a ruinous cost for…

REALPOLITIK: ‘United Eurasia’, Russia is Betting the Days of Total U.S. Economic Supremacy are Ending

Source – geopolitics.co/ “….The Greater Eurasian Partnership aims to facilitate the natural reorganisation of the international economic system as the era of US global primacy comes to an end. Decentralisation away from a US-focused system will be achieved with economic connectivity across Greater Eurasia, and by diversifying and creating pockets of national strategic autonomy to…

NARCO-POLITIK: The Afghanistan Rout & American Glasnost’ – By Dimitry Orlov

Source – cluborlov.wordpress.com “…To this end, Afghanistan was turned into the world’s heroin factory, producing 85% of the estimated global heroin and morphine supply, a near monopoly. Prior to the US/NATO invasion of Afghanistan, poppy cultivation had been banned by the Taliban, so this was entirely a Western achievement. The plan was to have Afghani…

AMERIKA: The Evil We Do Is the Evil We Get – By Chris Hedges

Source – scheerpost.com “…America was not attacked because the hijackers hated us for our values. America was not attacked because the hijackers followed the Quran — which forbids suicide and the murder of women and children. American was not attacked because of a clash of civilizations. America was attacked because the virtues we espouse are…

ALTERED STATES: ‘China Doll’, As China Cracks Down on the ‘Feminization’ of Males, Should America Take Note? – By Robert Bridge

Source – strategic-culture.org –“…The advantages of supporting masculine traits in society are too obvious to warrant serious discussion here; suffice it to say that no nation that promotes the feminization of its male youth can expect to survive for long, neither in the demographic realm nor on the battlefield” SM:…Not unless of course future seismic…

OILIGARCHY: Has Biden Now Lost Saudi Arabia? – By F. William Engdahl

Source – journal-neo.org –“…The ignominious US withdrawal from Afghanistan has blown a global hole in the post-1945 American Century system of elaborate world domination, a power vacuum that likely will lead to irreversible consequences. The immediate case in point is whether Biden’s Washington strategists—as he clearly makes no policy—have already managed to lose the support…

OILIGARCHY: Breaking The Empire Means Breaking With The Saudis – By Tom Luongo

Source – tomluongo.me –“…For more than fifty years the Saudis have helped prop up U.S. foreign policy by exporting their oil to the world and taking only dollars in return….The U.S. closely defended the petrodollar famously going to war with any country that dared to offer oil on international markets in any currency other than the dollar,…

REALPOLITIK: ‘Putinism’, How Godless Capitalism Triumphed Over Godless Communism

Source – vdare.com “…Understanding the obsessive fear and loathing of Putin’s Russia requires historical memory…Vladimir Putin’s brand of quasi-democratic national conservatism, blended with an authoritarian cult of personality…and suppression of potential anti-Kremlin rivals; Russia’s revival as a world power; the rejection of Woke politics and “homosexual propaganda”; the revival of the Orthodox Church as a…

AMERIKA: The Elites’ Battle For The Future America – By Charles Hugh Smith

Source – oftwominds.com “…America’s elites are fracturing along multiple tectonic fissures: while the conventional media focuses on the ginned-up bread and circuses of Red and Blue political games (i.e., The Purple Empire), the real conflicts are within the camps running the Red and Blue games, the Imperial Project of global hegemony (a.k.a. The Deep State),…

REALPOLITIK: ‘Blowback’, Taliban Target US Intel’s Shadow Army – By Pepe Escobar

Source – thecradle.co “…The Kabul Airport bombing shows there are shadowy forces in Afghanistan, willing to disrupt a peaceful transition after US troops leave. But what about US intel’s own ‘shadow army,’ amassed over two decades of occupation? Who are they, and what is their agenda?” Blowback: Taliban Target US Intel’s Shadow Army – By…

BIO-WARFARE: ‘mRNA Vaccines’, The Silent Weapon – By Dr. Igor Shepherd

Source – lewrockwell.com “…With strategic warfare, the civilian population would be the main focus for destruction. Bio-agents, as bomblets, would be dropped onto large populated areas using cruise missiles or through aerosol dispersal off aircraft. This type of silent warfare allowed the enemy to quickly take over a country’s infrastructure and economy, and incapacitate the…

CHAOS THEORY: The Machiavellian Allied Strategy of ‘War Without End’

Source – voltairenet.org “…In the days following the 9/11 attacks, the US Army published an article by Colonel Ralph Peters stating that the US no longer needed to win wars, but to organise instability in certain regions of the world, particularly in the ’broader Middle East’. He went on to say that states would have…

REALPOLITIK: ‘The Geopolitics of US Global Decline’, Beijing & Washington Struggle for Dominion Over the “World Island”

Source – lewrockwell.com “…Washington has recently unleashed a countervailing strategy, seeking to split the “world island” economically along its continental divide in the Urals, redirecting the 40 percent of world trade in its Asian half toward North America through the Trans-Pacific Partnership (TPP) and reorienting the world’s largest economy in the European Union through the…

REALPOLITIK: The Engineered Collapse Of The USSR Following The Fall Of The Berlin Wall

Source  – stateofthenation – “…Just as the vulture capitalists from both Russia and the West executed their plans (and contracts) to strip Russia bare, so, too, had an ultra-secret group of Russian patriots and nationalists, loyal politicians and government officials made an even stronger compact to take it all back … when the right time…

HYBRID WARFARE: ‘Arc of Crisis’, Why The West Funds Terrorism – By Cynthia Chung

Source – strategic-culture.org “…It should be obvious that the American, European and Turkish arms supplying of Al Qaeda and other terrorist groups is meant as a stubborn continuation of Brzezinski’s Arc of Crisis, which he coined in 1977 as President Carter’s National Security Adviser, and which led to the formation of the Nationalities Working Group…

THE MEDIA MONOPOLY: What Really Happened at Tiananmen? (Flashback)

Source – canadianpatriot.org “…CBS NEWS: “We saw no bodies, injured people, ambulances or medical personnel — in short, nothing to even suggest, let alone prove, that a “massacre” had occurred in [Tiananmen Square]” — thus wrote CBS News reporter Richard Roth” The Comprehensive Tiananmen Square Massacre Hoax Dossier 1989 Tiananmen Square “Student Massacre” was a…

REALPOLITIK: ‘The Afghanistan Debacle’, Zalmay Khalilzad & The Great Reset – By F. William Engdahl

Source – journal-neo.org “…The fall of Afghanistan was not the result of an “intelligence failure” by the CIA or a military mis-calculation by Secretary Austin and the Pentagon. Both knew, as did Khalilzad, what they were doing. When Austin approved the secret dark-of-night abandonment of the strategic Bagram Airbase, largest US military base in Afghanistan,…

REALPOLITIK: Like It or Not, Taliban Is Afghanistan’s True Independence Movement – By Eric Margolis

Source – ericmargolis.com -“…Taliban – more accurately the Islamic Movement of Afghanistan – has been slandered by almost every western news outlet and wrongly called a terrorist movement linked to the late Osama bin Laden.  Heavily-propagandized Americans, Canadians and British have been inundated by this torrent of government lies against Afghanistan’s Pashtun (Pathan) people” Like…

DAS KAPITAL: America’s Neoliberal Financialization Policy vs. China’s Industrial Socialism – By Michael Hudson

Source – michael-hudson.com –“…In today’s New Cold War the mode of destruction is largely economic, via trade and financial sanctions such as the United States has imposed on China, Russia, Iran, Venezuela and other designated adversaries. The idea is to deny them key inputs, above all in essential technology and information processing, raw materials, and…

REALPOLTIK: ‘Truth Be Told…’, Afghanistan Was a Smashing Success

Source – aanirfan.blogspot.com -“..A so-called interim Afghan government is to be headed by Prof. Ali Ahmad Jalali, who just so happens to be a US citizen….’Born in Afghanistan, Ali Ahmad Jalali is currently a distinguished professor at the National Defense University’s Near East South Asia Center for Strategic Studies (NESA). Based at Fort Lesley J. McNair,…

OILIGARCHY: The Rise & Fall of the Oligarch-Maker – By Adrian Gatton

Source – aljazeera.com –“…Yukos was in conflict with the Russian government, allegedly over unpaid taxes. But it was more than that: it was about the political threat posed by Yukos’ chief, oligarch Mikhail Khodorkovsky, to spymaster-turned-President Vladimir Putin. Powerful adversaries locked in a battle of wills…Who would run the beleaguered Yukos oil empire? Khodorkovsky had…

REALPOLITIK: The ‘New Great Game’ In Eurasia Has Just Been Reloaded – By Pepe Escobar

Source – asiatimes.com -“…Geopolitically, what matters now is how the Taliban have written a whole new script, showing the lands of Islam, as well as the Global South, how to defeat the self-referential, seemingly invincible US/NATO empire. The Taliban did it with Islamic faith, infinite patience and force of will fueling roughly 78,000 fighters –…

THE GRAND CHESSBOARD: ‘3/11’, The Attack On Fukushima & Its Aftermath – By Benjamin Fulford

Source – kpblog.space -“…A decision was made to flip the election so that designated loser Donald Trump would be elected president with the very votes intended for Clinton.  This was accomplished after a firefight between Special Forces at the underground base near Denver Airport took over the election stealing computers on behalf of the Trump…

REALPOLITIK: ‘Poisoned Carrot’, Empire Warns Brazil – It’s Our NATO Way Or Huawei

Source – thesaker.is “…It’s always about the imperial sphere of influence: smashing BRICS from the inside, turning members into “partners”….NATO’s “partnerships” are euphemisms for “we own you, bitch”. All “partners” have to strictly follow the parameters of the NATO 2030 agenda, which has been designed to promote a planetary Robocop patrolling/containing vast swathes of the Global…

MIND GAMES: From PsyOp To MindWar – By Cynthia Chung

Source – cynthiachung.substack.com “…Sometime in the late 1980s then Col. Paul Vallely, Commander of the 7th Psychological Operations Group and then Maj. Michael Aquino, PSYOP Research & Analysis Team Leader authored a paper titled “From PSYOP to MindWar: The Psychology of Victory”, which discusses the necessity to wage perpetual psychological warfare against friend and enemy…

REALPOLITIK: ‘The Week That Shook The World’, The Soviet Coup Which Failed – By Charles Burris (Flashback)

Source – lewrockwell.com – “…Gorbachev and Bush meet at Malta in December 1989 to consider the recent dramatic events. Only the previous week the Communist government resigned in Czechoslovakia; and shortly Nicolae Ceaușescu would be deposed and executed in the bloody Romanian Revolution. Gorbachev permits German reunification and removes Soviet troops from Europe, but fails…

REALPOLITIK: All Roads Lead To The Battle For Kabul – By Pepe Escobar

Source – asiatimes.com “…City after city have fallen from government to Taliban control but Afghanistan’s end-game is still unclear…The Taliban are meticulously implementing a strategic master plan…First, they conquer the countryside – a virtually done deal in at least 85% of the territory. Then they control the key border checkpoints, as with Tajikistan, Turkmenistan, Iran…

COUP D’ETAT: ‘2001’, The Moult of the American Empire – By Thierry Meyssan

Source – voltairenet.org “…Thierry Meyssan’s book, “Before Our Very Eyes”. He rereads the history of the American Empire. In this episode he comes back to the attacks of September 11 as the seizure of Power by the direct descendants of the Pilgrim Fathers against the descendants of the authors of the Bill of Rights” 2001 :…