After 20 years, a couple of trillion bucks, several hundred thousand dead, including 7,000 U.S. and allied soldiers and contractors, the US fled Afghanistan in a Taliban rout. Our soldiers didn’t fail, just our puppet Afghan government and puppet Afghan...
Putin’s ‘Military-Technical’ Measures if Negotiations Fail
In the past couple of days, my peers in the community of Russia analysts have addressed the question of “what if” – what is it that Russia can and may do if the negotiations with the United States over its draft Treaties on security in Europe fail...
Conflicts of Interest: Biden Tries to Divide the World
On COI #202, Kyle Anzalone discusses how President Joe Biden’s effort to create a ‘Democratic’ bloc of countries is dividing the world into camps. The camps are not “democracy” versus “autocracy” as Biden claims. Rather, the divide is between the current American-led...
Review of There is Nothing for You Here: Finding Opportunity in the 21st Century by Fiona Hill, Mariner Books; 2021.
Considering that this is a memoir of a woman whose claim to fame is being a Russia expert and a celebrated biographer of Putin, I was expecting substantive discussion of contemporary Russia to be a significant part of the book. That was not the case, however, as her...
What Are Independent Media in Russia Saying About the Country’s Ultimatum to the USA and NATO?
The opening remarks Sunday night by Dmitry Kiselyov on Vesti Nedeli, the widely watched weekly round-up of news from Russian state television, minced no words: “Russia has made a proposal to the United States which it cannot refuse. The moment of truth has arrived.”...
Fighting for Ukraine Is a Losing Proposition
Fred Kagan is on the warpath as usual:Americans and Europeans must understand that Ukraine’s independence is of vital import – for ourselves as well as Ukraine – and must act accordingly. That is also the best way to deter Putin.Kagan’s column is as wrong as can be,...
US Response to Slaughter of 10 In Kabul August 29: Grotesque Harm, No Foul – Unless You Tell the Truth
As expected, U.S. Defense Chief Lloyd Austin III, ruled out any punishment for personnel involved in the drone attack that killed Afghan aid worker Zemari Ahmadi, 7 kids and 2 other innocent adults in Kabul August 29. The attack came 3 days after a suicide bombing...
Conflicts of Interest: Biden Allows Israel to Sabotage Iran Talks
On COI #201, Kyle Anzalone and Connor Freeman cover the latest on the JCPOA talks, Tel Aviv’s efforts to sabotage diplomacy, and Joe Biden’s efforts to placate the Israelis. Connor reports on the Americans’ unfair criticisms of Iran. They say Tehran’s delegation in...
How the OPCW’s Syria Probe Censored Science (video)
From The Grayzone: Pushback with Aaron Maté New reports explore how the OPCW suppressed findings that undermined US-led allegations of a chemical weapons attack in Douma, Syria in April 2018. Dr. Piers Robinson and Aaron Maté discuss the latest revelations on how the...
‘Stomach-Wrenching’ Report Reveals Secret US Strike Command’s High Civilian Death Toll
Peace advocates on Monday responded toa report about a U.S. military unit that killed Syrian civilians at 10 times the rate of similar operations in other theaters of the so-called War on Terror by accusing the United States of hypocritically sanctioning countries...


