Moreover, the EU has actually become a main contributor to the political conflict in the country, due to its attempts to assert exclusive influence. As Russia challenges the West’s hegemonic ambitions in the region, the other side is likely to blame Moscow for the unravelling of the peace in Bosnia. …
Read More »Zuckerberg loses OVER $6 BILLION as Facebook empire outage drags into HOURS
After mass complaints about the various platforms being down and users getting error messages, Facebook said it was working to resolve the issue. As the platforms have remained down for hours, more and more have piled onto Zuckerberg and gone to other social media apps that aren’t experiencing such issues, …
Read More »That no one will resign for killing Kabul children shows American empire’s true face
General Kenneth McKenzie, head of the US Central Command, offered “profound condolences” on Friday to the families of 10 people – seven of them children – killed in the August 29 drone strike in Kabul. It was ordered in “earnest belief that it would prevent an imminent threat to our …
Read More »Out of Afghan frying pan & into Ukrainian fire? America’s empire builders have another pawn to fuel their apocalyptic chess game
In a new op-ed in the Washington Post, McFaul makes it clear he sees Volodymyr Zelensky’s meeting with President Joe Biden as in need of a loud battle cry, appealing to the American government and the public to rally behind Ukraine’s calls for support. But, as is customary in the …
Read More »Chris Hedges: The revengeful suffering orchestrated by the American empire on Afghans will be of Biblical proportions
The Carthaginian general Hannibal, who came close to defeating the Roman Republic in the Second Punic War, committed suicide in 181 BC in exile as Roman soldiers closed in on his residence in the Bithynian village of Libyssa, now modern-day Turkey. It had been more than thirty years since he …
Read More »US has long claimed Afghanistan helped end ‘Soviet empire’ – now it’s their turn?
The last US military flight out of the Hamid Karzai International Airport (HKIA) took off on Monday, a minute before the clocks struck midnight in Kabul. The 20-year war had come to an end, and the Taliban lit up the night skies with celebratory gunfire. To hear President Joe Biden …
Read More »‘Peak End of Empire’: Met Police SKEWERED for reportedly considering new ‘woke gender-neutral uniform’ for officers
The Metropolitan Police is reportedly consulting its 30,000 officers on the current uniform. With the contract with its current uniform supplier set to expire in 2023, the force is said to be reviewing what changes need to be made when a new contract is signed. According to The Sun, the …
Read More »An evil empire? The Soviet Union’s legacy is being used to paint Russians as conquerors, despite the fact it conquered them too
On the one hand, the communist state was much more than Russia. But, on the other, Russia played a vital role as a binding force keeping more than 100 different nationalities together in the grand scheme. The Soviet Union wasn’t Russia; but at the same time, it wasn’t not Russia …
Read More »Britain’s delusions that it could take on the Taliban alone are ludicrous – what are our empire-nostalgic MPs smoking?
On Wednesday the British parliament reconvened in an emergency session to allow MPs to vent their spleen over the situation in Afghanistan. It was a scene of self-righteous and delusional posturing and indignation over why the UK had allowed the collapse of the Kabul government and had been too subservient …
Read More »Will the next US military airlift be out of Washington DC as the American empire implodes on itself?
By their very definition, ‘iconic’ photographs, like a bolt of lightning out of a clear blue sky, are not really supposed to ever occur twice. Iconic photographs – like the one showing Neil Armstrong taking the first step on the lunar surface, or the naked girl fleeing a napalm bombing …
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