MOSCOW ATTACKS!
18 December 2016 A senior CIA source tells me ‘with a high level of certainty that Russia’s Vladimir Putin was responsible for Pearl Harbor, the Korean War, Vietnam and Iraq. This miscreant was also...
View ArticleTRUMP VERSUS THE DEEP STATE
As President-elect Donald Trump fights off fierce assaults by the massed national security apparatus, Democrats, the neocon Praetorian Guard, and a host of other political foes, I am feeling a sharp...
View ArticleRED HYSTERIA ENGULFS WASHINGTON
February 18, 2017 President Dwight Eisenhower’s warning about the dangers of the military-industrial complex made half a century ago ring as loud and clear today. The soft coup being mounted against...
View ArticlePUTIN TRUMPS TRUMP
March 3, 2018 In December, 2002, President George W. Bush proclaimed that the US would unilaterally pull out of the 1972 Anti-Ballistic Missile Treaty that had curtailed the development of nuclear...
View ArticleMURDER MOST FOUL IN BRITAIN
March 17, 2018 What damned cheek to murder a Russian defector and his daughter in the sleepy town of Salisbury! Britain, the US, Germany and Canada are all blasting Russia for this dastardly act that...
View ArticlePLAYING WITH NUCLEAR MATCHES
14 April 2018 Behind President Donald Trump’s bluster and threats over Syria, powerful forces are pushing the US towards war with Russia and Syria: the neocons and the military industrial complex. For...
View ArticleMADNESS IN MOSCOW
July 21, 2018 Comedy? Disaster? Mental disorder? Hearing loss? Even days after President Donald Trump’s bizarre appearance in Helsinki alongside a cool, composed President Vladimir Putin, it’s hard...
View ArticleTRUMP’S RECKLESS HOSTILITY UNITES CHINA AND RUSSIA
September 15, 2018 Good work Mr. President! You have now managed to lay the groundwork for a grand Chinese-Russian alliance. The objective of intelligent diplomacy is to divide one’s foes, not to unite...
View ArticleBACK TO THE DEAR OLD COLD WAR
February 2, 2019 President Donald Trump and the neocon sofa samurais who surround him seem determined to pick a fight with China or Russia, or both at the same time. Later this month, the US and China...
View ArticleNO REDS UNDER OUR BEDS AFTER ALL
March 30, 2019 Not since the witchcraft hysteria of the Middle Ages have we seen such a display of human idiocy, credulity and absurdist behavior. I refer, of course, to the two-year witch hunt...
View ArticleREMEMBER STALIN’S GULAG
February 8, 2020 Seventy-five years after the end of World War II, we remain fixated on some of its worst crimes. But only some. The incessant use of Holocaust remembrance has been cynically used by...
View ArticleTHE SOVIET UNION DEFEATED GERMANY IN WORLD WAR II – NOT THE WESTERN FORCES
May 11, 2020 President Donald Trump claimed last week that the US and Britain had won World War II. This was a shameless lie and distortion of the facts. Many Americans and Canadians like to believe...
View ArticleSTALIN’S SOVIET UNION DEFEATED GERMANY – WE SHOULD NOT FORGET
June 23, 2021 Column originally posted May 9, 2015 Historic events are facts that should not be manipulated according to the latest political fashions. Being angry at Moscow for mucking about in...
View Article‘RULE BRITANNIA, BRITANNIA RULE THE WAVES…’
July 5, 2021 Time was when Britain’s mighty fleets ruled a quarter of the earth’s surface. I’ve been savoring the names of its dreadnaughts and battle cruisers like George V, Prince of Wales, Hood,...
View ArticleNUCLEAR WAR OVER UKRAINE?
January 4, 2022 How many American soldiers will die in the battle for Luhansk? Or Kerch? Not 1 in 1,000 Americans could find these drab Ukrainian (formerly Russian) industrial cities on a map. How many...
View ArticleSTOP THE NEOCONS FROM STARTING A WAR!
January 25, 2022 Amid surging tensions over Ukraine, the head of Germany’s navy had the courage to voice Europe’s fears over this totally unnecessary, contrived crisis. In a speech to an Indian think...
View ArticleAMERICA’S WAR?
February 20, 2022 World War III? Or a bad, expensive joke? Russia has declared a nuclear test alert. The Ukraine crisis is beginning to become very scary. When the old Soviet Union broke up, I and...
View ArticlePLAYING WITH FIRE IN UKRAINE
March 1, 2022 Having been a soldier and correspondent in 14 wars, I’m trying to see through the inevitable fog of war that beclouds the current conflict in Ukraine. This is no easy task. Moscow has...
View ArticleSTOP THE CRAZY WAR IN UKRAINE
March 7, 2022 The brazenly biased western media is giving us the impression that the Ukraine fighting is some sort of sports competition. Russia’s media, now shamefully silenced in the west by the...
View ArticleMUDDLING THE WAY TO WAR
March 24, 2022 Those familiar with Russian history know that wars usually begin with disastrous muddles. It’s the Russian way. But Russians are also renowned for surmounting great obstacles after...
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