Harris is headed to Singapore and Vietnam at the end of August in the hopes of bolstering “strategic partnerships” with the Asian nations. Her office has come under criticism for quoting the Joe Biden administration’s message that “America is back,” given the sordid history of the US involvement in the …
Read More »Caitlin Johnstone: The empire depends on psychological compartmentalization
This means that the acclaimed journalist will continue to languish in prison for exposing US war crimes while the appeals process plays out. If the western media were what it purports to be, every member of the public will be acutely aware of the fact that a journalist is being imprisoned by …
Read More »Branching out into the Balkans will expand the EU ‘empire’… and dramatically weaken it, too
Angela Merkel, the German chancellor, has backed the EU’s proposed expansion into the Western Balkans. Merkel, who steps down in September, stated that “it is in the European Union’s very own interests to drive the [enlargement] process forward here.” She was supported in this endeavour by France’s President Macron, who …
Read More »Caitlin Johnstone: The lie that a kinder, gentler US Empire is possible
Minnesota Representative Ilhan Omar has once again been the center of an artificial controversy launched in bad faith, this time over a tweet where she mentioned the United States and Israel in the same breath as Hamas and the Taliban as perpetrators of “unthinkable atrocities”. “We must have the same level of accountability …
Read More »‘Empire 2.0 fantasy’: Boris Johnson pens G7 article on post-Covid world, draws flak for ‘hypocrisy’ and ‘undermining democracy’
Among the priorities Johnson lists in the article, published on Thursday, is a pledge to “vaccinate the world” by the end of 2022, reduce carbon emissions, fight loss of biodiversity and fund the education of 40 million girls by 2025. In addition, Johnson and US President Joe Biden will draw …
Read More »‘The Raman empire?’ A dodgy Japanese noodle bar or the latest American NGO-driven attempt to weaponise spelling in Eastern Europe?
The drive to weaponise transliteration originates from both Westerners and locals who have been attached to US-funded NGOs, with the American state media concern RFE/RL at the forefront of the campaign. We’ve already seen it in Ukraine, where activists mounted a campaign to have the traditional English spelling of Kiev …
Read More »Britain’s show of naval and air power is a relic from the shameful days of Empire… and a pitiful excuse to beg for trade deals
A nation that refuses to move with the times ends up living in a bygone era trading on past ‘glories’ and becomes an international embarrassment. That, right now, is Great Britain. The government has announced the “UK Carrier Strike Group’s globe-spanning maiden deployment” – a flotilla led by the £3 …
Read More »Russia set for showdown with international law amid $57bn Yukos oil empire battle & ruling over jailed opposition figure Navalny
An international legal battle over the collapsed Yukos oil empire has been raging for more than a decade in courts across the world, most notably in the Netherlands and the US. A record-breaking $57 billion legal bill now hangs in the balance. Former shareholders in the now-defunct company accuse the …
Read More »This is who they are: Biden’s Syria strike is a stark reminder of American Empire that’s back to its old tricks
Democrats love proclaiming one can’t “turn back the clock,” usually to argue against even attempting to undo whatever domestic policies they’ve rammed through when in power. Yet everything about the Joe Biden administration has been about just that: erasing the past four years of Donald Trump and picking up where …
Read More »NATO’s expanding role hides the reality of a US empire in decline
The recently concluded virtual meeting of North Atlantic Treaty Organization (NATO) defense ministers has been billed as President Joe Biden’s first opportunity to act on his promise of repairing the damage done to the military alliance by the contentious policies of his predecessor, Donald Trump. While a great deal of …
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