REALPOLITIK: Washington’s Struggle, Remaining Relevant – By Federico Pieraccini

Source – strategic-culture.org – “…Washington and its establishment have opted for a cultural and economic confrontation with Moscow, possibly militarily with Beijing in the South China Sea, in the process impelling the emergence of a multipolar world in which more powers have the ability, by joining together, to resist the will of the greater global…

U.S.S.A: Clinton Bolsheviks, ‘Semibankirshchina’ & What Can Be Learned From Mother Russia

Source – unz.com – “…Putin – was selected by the ruling elites (as) a compromise solution between the only two parts of the Russian society which were still functioning, the security services and oil/gas money.  Putin looked like a petty bureaucrat in an ill fitting suit, a shy and somewhat awkward little guy who would…

REALPOLITIK: Mosul Offensive Reveals Larger Geopolitical Game Plan – By Seth Ferris

Source – journal-neo.org – “…The Kurds are fighting for autonomy with US protection, although the same US is making sure they never see it. A Kurdish homeland created through constant attritional war against both oppressor national governments and more radical Islamists would be the best way of resolving that war”: (Mosul Offensive Reveals Larger Geopolitical…

REALPOLITIK: Duterte and the Multipolar Strategy That Shakes Washington – By Federico Pieraccini

Source – strategic-culture.org – “…One of the most common tools employed by Washington to threaten and destabilize strategically significant countries like the Philippines is to resort to the use of terrorism…the expansion of Islamic terrorism has coincided with the Washington’s growing aspirations for global dominance. The example of the Abu Sayyaf organization is pertinent and…

REALPOLITIK: A Covert War Between the U.S.S.A and Germany? – By Dr. Joseph P Farrell

Source – gizadeathstar.com – “…Big French and German armaments concerns merged some months ago. As I speculated at that time, this was probably in aid of advancing the project to create a common EU military, in order to standardize equipment and technologies….Such a military would be a convenient way to bypass NATO and hence end…

REALPOLITIK: Regime Change In The Philippines – By Paul Craig Roberts

Source – paulcraigroberts.org – ” .The view is spreading in Asia that the American era is over, wrecked by disastrous US economic and foreign policies….As Michael Hudson, James Galbraith, and I have explained, Western economic organization has deteriorated into a system of financial looting”: (Regime Change In The Philippines – By Paul Craig Roberts) When…

REALPOLITIK: Unipolar No More, American Power at the Crossroads – By Dilip Hiro

Source – tomdispatch.com – “…During the next six months in a sustained air campaign, Russian warplanes carried out 9,000 sorties, claiming to have destroyed 209 oil production and transfer facilities (supposedly controlled by ISIS), and enabled the Syrian army to retake 400 settlements spread over 3,860 square miles. In the process, the Russians lost just…

AMERIKA: ‘Donald and Hillary’, The Tragedy of the Great American TV Soap Opera. “Trajectory Towards a Nuclear Precipice”? – By Colin Todhunter

Source – right.is – “…The ultimate aim is to de-link Europe’s economy from Russia and weaken Russia’s energy dependent economy. The ultimate aim is to also ensure Europe remains subservient to Washington, not least via the Transatlantic Trade and Investment Partnership (TTIP) and in the long term via US gas and Middle East oil (sold in dollars, thereby…

REALPOLITIK: How Deutsche Bank Started WWI Over a Baghdad Railway – By Cassius Kamarampi

Source – eraofwisdom.org – “…World War 1 broke out after Germany and its Deutsche Bank tried to build a railway to Baghdad, Iraq, upsetting oil barons and powers in Britain, Russia, and elsewhere”: (Deutsche Bank May Collapse: How Deutsche Bank Started WWI Over a Baghdad Railway – By Cassius Kamarampi) Economic collapse is back in…

REALPOLITIK: Syria’s Heroic Fight Against Western Imperialism – By Andre Vltchek

Source – journal-neo.org – “Syria is a symbol. To some, it is a symbol of resilience, of heroism. To others, mainly to those who are funded and consequently conditioned by the West, it represents everything that is evil….Western propaganda shows no appetite for criticizing the Egyptian military junta. It is, after all, essentially pro-Western; it…

REALPOLITIK: ‘Geopolitical Transformation’, The Eurasian Century is Now Unstoppable – By F. William Engdahl

Source – journal-neo.org – “…The Eurasian Century today is inevitable and unstoppable. Built on different principles of cooperation rather than domination, it just might offer a model for the bankrupt United States and the soon-bankrupt European Union, to build up true prosperity not based on looting and debt slavery”: (The Eurasian Century is Now Unstoppable…

REALPOLITIK: The Planned Wall Street Rape of Brazil is About to Begin – By F. William Engdahl

Source – journal-neo.org – “…Temer called for a government of “national salvation,”…signaled his intention to overhaul the pension system and labor laws, and cut public spending, all themes beloved of Wall Street banks – Now after less than three weeks at the job, Temer has unveiled plans for wholesale privatization of Brazil’s crown jewels, starting…

DEAD MEN DON’T TALK: ‘I stopped Netanyahu from catastrophic attack on Iran’ – Peres’ statement concealed ‘til death

Source – jpost.com – “…Details of the possible strike were not shared by the former president, the attack could potentially have followed the blueprint of Operation Opera, which was a surprise Israeli air strike on June 7 1981, that destroyed an Iraqi nuclear reactor under construction 17 kilometers southeast of Baghdad”: (‘I stopped Netanyahu from…

REALPOLITIK: Why the Deep State Is Dumping Hillary – By Charles Hugh Smith

Source – oftwominds.com – “…The incredible success of Desert Storm and the temptations of Unipolar Power birthed an expansionist, activist Imperial doctrine (neoconservatism) and a Deep State enthusiasm for flexing America’s unrivaled power”: (Why the Deep State Is Dumping Hillary – By Charles Hugh Smith) The governed are ready for a period of retrenchment, consolidation…

REALPOLITIK: ‘Russia vs. America’, Democracy’s Last Chance – By Israel Shamir

Source – globalresearch.ca – “…A Trump victory would introduce a level of uncertainty into the world that Israel fears… This already sounds enticing enough. Israel fears democracy, fears peace in the Middle East, fears US disobedience, fears the Jews will lose their reserved places at the first class saloon on the upper deck, in the…

REALPOLITIK: US, Israel, and Saudi Arabia, Trifecta of Conflict and Instability – By Tony Cartalucci

Source – journal-neo.org – “…In every way the aid deal is meant to perpetuate unpopular regimes, unpopular and inhumane policies, as well as perpetuate conflict and human misery. The role the US plays in “stabilizing” the Middle East is revealed instead as a constant conspiracy to overturn it”: (US Aid to Israel Aids Who and…

COVER-UP: Who Is Behind The Riots? Charlotte Police Says 70% Of Arrested Protesters Had Out Of State IDs

Source – zerohedge.com – “… 18 months ago, as the riots flared in Ferguson, there was one man pulling the strings of this ‘domestic false flag’… George Soros – liberal billionaire George Soros donated $33million to social justice organizations which helped turn events in Ferguson from a local protest into a national flashpoint”: (Who Is…

NEO-CONNED: From 10 September 2001 to today, 15 years of crime – By Thierry Meyssan

Source – voltairenet.org – “…15 years later, the consequences of the coup d’état of September 11 are not coming from Muslims, nor the people of the United States, but from those who perpetrated the attacks and their allies. They are the ones who have banalised torture, generalised extra-judiciary executions anywhere in the world, weakened the…

OILIGARGHY: ‘The Syrian Gas Pipeline War’, Russia Trumps USA Energy War in Mideast – By F. William Engdahl

Source – journal-neo.org – “…The rupture of ties between Erdogan and Russia’s Putin following the shooting in Syrian airspace of a Russian jet on November 24, 2015 appeared to leave Washington in the Catbird Seat in relation to control of EU natural gas flows. The only step remaining would be to be certain Washington and…

REALPOLITIK: ‘Earth into Property’, Colonization, Decolonization, and Capitalism – By Anthony J. Hall

Source – mqup.ca – “…With the dismantling of the formal empires of Europe after the Second World War, the US corporate state moved to fill the vacuum of power. Hall shows that the US government, in seeking to replicate its role in the Cold war by mounting the Global War on Terror, is extending trajectories…

REALPOLITIK: Why Did the CIA Give Iran Blueprints to Build a Nuclear Bomb? – By Jim Risen (Flashback)

Source – constantinereport.com – “…Is a trick that has been used many times in past operations, stretching back to the cold war. But in previous cases, such Trojan horse operations involved conventional weapons; none of the former officials had ever heard of the CIA attempting to conduct this kind of high-risk operation with designs for…

REALPOLITIK: ‘Divide & Conquer’, France, U.S. and the Kurdistan Projects – By Thierry Meyssan

Source – voltairenet.org – “…The current Kurdistan project, supported by France and the United States, has no connection with the legitimate project which was recognised by the same countries during the Sèvres Conference of 1920. It is not even situated anywhere near the same territory! This pseudo-Kurdistan is no more than a Western bribe intended…

REALPOLITIK: Spices, Colonization and the East India Companies

Source – stuartjeannebramhall.com – “…Nathaniel’s Nutmeg is about the conquest of the the Banda Islands in the East Indies (aka the “Spice Islands”), the enslavement of the indigenous Bandanese and the ferocious 17th century wars between Holland and Britain over the nutmeg monopoly -Shipping nutmeg overland resulted in a 60,000 percent mark-up – after Turkish…

REALPOLITIK: America and the Plague of ‘Moral Idiocy’ – By Prof. Lawrence Davidson

Source – consortiumnews.com – “…Briefly, it means the “Inability to understand moral principles and values and to act in accordance with them, apparently without impairment of the reasoning and intellectual faculties.” The key word here is “understand.” It is not that moral idiots do not know, intellectually, that something called morality exists, but rather they cannot understand…

REALPOLITIK: The Unspoken Alliance, Israel’s Secret Relationship with Apartheid South Africa – By Sasha Polakow-Suransky (Archive)

Source – mondoweiss.net  – “…In addition to being the architect of South Africa’s brutal crackdown on the black democratic opposition and the hand behind many a tortured activist and imprisoned leader, Vorster and his intelligence chief, Hendrik van den Bergh, had served as generals in the Ossewa Brandwag, a militant Afrikaner nationalist organization that had…

REALPOLITIK: Nixon, Kissinger, and the Madman Strategy during Vietnam War – By William Burr and Jeffrey P. Kimball

Source – nsarchive.gwu.edu – “…The failure of Nixon’s and Kissinger’s 1969 Madman diplomacy marked a turning point in their initial exit strategy of winning a favorable armistice agreement by the end of the year 1969. Subsequently, they would follow a so-called long-route strategy of withdrawing U.S. troops while attempting to strengthen South Vietnam’s armed forces,…

THE MEDIA MONOPOLY: Sports News, Propaganda, Regime Change and the History of the American Empire – By Dr. T. P. Wilkinson

Source – globalresearch.ca – “…It has become common knowledge that the Ford and Rockefeller foundations, the National Endowment for Democracy, the political foundations in Germany, and a wide range of Western so-called NGOs directly or indirectly function as instruments of what US policy calls “regime change”. The expansion of major corporate athletic associations and their…

REALPOLITIK: ‘The Fog of War’, Turkey’s Syria gambit is fourth-generation warfare at its finest – By J. Arnoldski & J. Flores

Source – fort-russ.com – “…We have to step outside of conventional thinking. It’s too easy to forget how information works in warfare.. We know that in 4GW, the point is that the way we perceive the reality also creates the reality. And how we can misperceive things is part of the strategy”: (Flores interview: Turkey’s…