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The Geopolitics of American Global Decline: Washington vs China in the 21st Century

2021-05-312021-05-31 White Nettle

For even the greatest of empires, geography is often destiny. You wouldn’t know it in Washington, though. America’s political, national security, and foreign policy elites continue to ignore the basics of geopolitics that have shaped the fate of world empires for the past 500 years […]

Did the Cold War Ever Really End?

2021-04-222021-04-22 White Nettle

The official end of the Cold War era in 1989 brought during the first coming years a kind of international optimism that the idea of the „end of history“ really could be realized as it was a belief in no reason for the geopolitical struggles between the most powerful states […]

The US and China Can Avoid a Collision Course – If the US Gives Up its Empire

2021-04-152021-04-15 White Nettle

The struggle for military and economic primacy in Asia is not really about our core national security interests; rather, it’s about preserving status, prestige, and America’s neurotic image of itself. Those are pretty dumb reasons to risk war […]

The New Global Economy: Rise of China and Decline of USA

2021-03-252021-03-25 White Nettle

There is a limit to economic manipulations by empires. All empires have perished due to economic hardships […]

When Canada Invaded Russia

2021-01-232021-01-23 White Nettle

The corporate media presents Russia as militaristic but ignores Canada’s invasion of that country […]

Distorting Fascism to Sanitize Capitalism

2021-01-212021-01-21 White Nettle

Just as the original European fascism was blamed on Hitler and Mussolini, so is today’s display of fascistic propensities blamed on characters such as Donald Trump (in the U.S.) […]

Kosovo: A Savage Assassination Rocks the Balkans

2021-01-202021-01-20 White Nettle

Serbian community leader in NATO-occupied Kosovo, Oliver Ivanović, was gunned down, mafia-style, in front of his party offices in the town of Kosovska Mitrovica on January 16, 2018 […]

Trump, Netanyahu and Israel’s Capital

2021-01-202021-01-20 White Nettle

The list of nations whose leaders expressed their extreme displeasure prior to Trump’s announcement includes both important allies, and countries the U.S considers ‘enemies’ […]

The U.S. is a Failed State

2021-01-192021-01-19 White Nettle

The U.S. cannot and will not protect its citizens against attacks by violent armed assailants, especially as politicians are being bought off by gun manufacturers and the National Rifle Association […]

500 Years of Nakbas

2021-01-182021-01-25 White Nettle

The great nakba, or “catastrophe,”began in 1492, when Christopher Columbus proclaimed the lands of the “Indies” for Spain […]

Tiananmen: The Empire’s Big Lie

2021-01-082021-01-08 White Nettle

More than once, government negotiators almost reached a truce with students in the square, only to be sabotaged by radical youth leaders seemingly bent on bloodshed […]

U.S. Crimes of Genocide Against North Korea

2021-01-082021-01-08 White Nettle

“We Killed Off – What – 20% of the Population. We Burned Down every Town in North Korea…” […]

Nekrologas Makeinui

2021-01-032021-01-03 White Nettle

Mirė vienas didžiausių pasaulyje tarptautinių karo nusikaltėlių JAV senatorius Džonas Makeinas […]

New British Documents about Srebrenica

2020-12-302020-12-30 White Nettle

According to the “facts” alleged by the Hague Tribunal in its numerous judgments, the “genocide” is supposed to have begun only two days later, on 13 July […]

A Hybrid War to Break the Balkans?

2020-12-302020-12-30 White Nettle

In the spirit of the New Cold War and following on its success in snuffing out South Stream, the US has prioritized its efforts in obstructing Russia’s Balkan Stream pipeline […]

Libya: Is this Kosovo all over Аgain?

2020-12-302020-12-30 White Nettle

As with Kosovo, an internal conflict between a government and armed rebels is being cast as a “humanitarian crisis” in which one side only, the government, is assumed to be “criminal” […]

The Post-WWII Albania and Kosovo

2020-12-302020-12-30 White Nettle

In the communist era, Albania isolated herself to an extreme degree, displaying xenophobia unknown in modern European history […]

False Flags and the Trump Administration

2020-12-282020-12-28 White Nettle

Expect an Erratic Flip-Flop Foreign Policy, a Return to Gunboat Diplomacy, and More Illegal Wars of Aggression […]

Montenegro’s Corrupt Party of Socialists is Killing the Country

2020-12-282020-12-28 White Nettle

Djukanovic’s motives are fairly transparent […]

Don’t Romanticise the Kemalist Legacy!

2020-12-272020-12-27 White Nettle

The narrative of an “enlightened” and generally democratic Turkey, a country that is currently in the process of being destroyed by Erdogan, should not go unchallenged, says Tayfun Guttstadt […]

NATO to Plan Invasion of China

2020-12-052020-12-05 White Nettle

NATO’s third invasion was of Kosovo, when “On 13 April 1999, NATO approved plans for Operation Allied Harbour, a 10,000-troop NATO deployment to support humanitarian relief efforts for refugees resulting from the Serb expulsion of ethnic Albanians from Kosovo” […]

Kosovo’s Path from Secular Nation to Europe’s Jihadist Stronghold

2020-12-052020-12-05 White Nettle

The spread of Salafism originated in Bosnia-Herzegovina in the 1990s, when thousands of jihadists fought alongside Bosnian Muslims during the war. Many received Bosnian passports as tokens of gratitude after the war ended in 1996 […]

Japan’s Legacy of War Crimes in China

2020-11-212020-11-21 White Nettle

Another shocking exhibit was of an airtight cubicle in which two frightened, young girls were clinging to each other. Outside the cubicle stood four Japanese observing and recording the effects of the poison gas experiment. These experiments were repeated until the victims died […]

Imperialism and the Politics of Torture: Towards a Global Secret Police Force

2020-11-182020-11-18 White Nettle

Despite over 6,000 pages of documents and testimony, recording crimes against humanity, the Senate Report is unlikely to trigger any reforms or resignations […]

What Results When the U.S. Invades a Country: “Bring Them Democracy”

2020-11-182020-11-18 White Nettle

Right now in Ukraine, the central political controversy is between the U.S.-puppet President of Ukraine, who promises to conquer both of the two breakaway provinces, Donbass and also Crimea […]

How the CIA Created the EU

2020-11-132020-11-13 White Nettle

All of this goes back to the plan which was first stated in the 1877 version of the Will that was written by the racistly English aristocrat and champion of English imperialism, Cecil Rhodes […]

Why Theresa May Must be Impeached

2020-11-132020-11-13 White Nettle

So the moment we’ve been holding our breaths for a week finally came. In the end, I am mighty glad that this particular strike seems more like the impotent thrashing of the neocon snake that didn’t dare to attack places where Russian servicemen were likely to be killed, than it does the start of World War III. For the moment, at least, thank God […]

Twenty Years of Dictatorial Democracy

2020-11-112020-11-11 White Nettle

The United States may be on the verge of the biggest legitimacy crisis since the Civil War […]