The American material life is taken for granted. Things just appear. There is no consideration for what country the Empire destroyed to fuel their cars, which people are earning pennies inside sweatshops for their clothes or how many children’s hands touched the lithium in their phone batteries fresh out of the mine. The U.S. Empire makes sure these realities are out of the public consciousness and only the shiny, finished products end up in the public view, no questions asked. Matt Kennard, founder of the independent investigative outlet Declassified UK, joins host Chris Hedges on this episode of The Chris Hedges Report to talk about his book, “The Racket: A Rogue Reporter vs The American Empire.” (more…)
Category: USA
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Trump has been Beijing’s most effective science talent recruiter
Many fear the supposedly defunct ‘China Initiative’ – a racial profiling programme targeting Chinese-born scientists in the US – could return with a vengeance. (more…)
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Bill Sullivan and Iran – missed opportunities then and now
The last American Ambassador to Iran was William Sullivan, a debonair silver-haired Irish-American with much wisdom and diplomatic experience. If President Jimmy Carter and Secretary of State Cyrus Vance had followed his advice, Iran would probably not be US enemy number one as it is today. Maybe even an ally. (more…)
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Peace on earth, goodwill toward men (and women) – unless they’re Palestinians, of course
Why do American Christian evangelists support Israel’s genocide in Gaza?
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Asian Americans also shifted to Trump this November: Afterthoughts
On November 5, Donald J. Trump was widely reported to have won a big U.S. presidential election victory. A key factor was his success in attracting more of American minority voters than usual: Latinos and Blacks. Indeed, this made a difference. (more…)
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Western Media: an echo chamber for the US “Uighur Genocide” narrative
Let me directly address the narrative pushed by the United States and its allies regarding the alleged “genocide” of Uighurs in China’s Xinjiang province. This narrative is not only riddled with inconsistencies but reeks of the same imperialist strategies the U.S. has employed for decades to destabilise dozens of nations and advance its own geopolitical ambitions. (more…)
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The US is about to launch an open attack on global trade stability. Can China defend the existing order?
The threat by president-elect Trump to place 100% tariffs on any country that backs any other currency to replace the US dollar is an open attack on global trade stability. (more…)
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Jeffrey Sachs: The inevitable war with Iran, and Biden’s attempts to sabotage Trump
Jeffrey Sachs speaks to Tucker Carlson on how Joe Biden has been the most destructive president in American history, and how Donald Trump can repair the damage. (more…)
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Australia’s biotech future amid the US BIOSECURE Act: Why China matters
The BIOSECURE Act, recently passed by the US House of Representatives, seeks to decouple the US from China’s biotech ecosystem by restricting federal funding to US firms that collaborate with major Chinese biotech players like WuXi AppTec and BGI Genomics. This legislative push reflects growing concerns over national security, intellectual property (IP) protection, and supply chain resilience in critical life sciences sectors. However, for Australia, the implications of the BIOSECURE Act extend beyond the US-China rivalry, highlighting the need to rethink its biotech strategy through deeper engagement with China. (more…)
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Is Trump’s long shadow a chance for the Australia-China relationship?
China has recently praised Australia’s independent foreign policy, with Xi Jinping and Anthony Albanese holding friendly talks at the G20 and planning a future meeting in China. This highlights Beijing’s effort to court traditional US allies amid concerns over a potential second Donald Trump term in the White House. (more…)
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Sanction rebounds: The US will cripple its own economy
The Biden Administration is leaving Trump a time bomb. The US seems intent on trying to cripple China, but the effect is rebounding badly and will most likely cripple its own economy. (more…)
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The dismemberment of Syria is a crime
What we are witnessing is not just the end of a regime but quite possibly the destruction of the Syrian state. We are being told by the Western media that we should join Benjamin Netanyahu, Joe Biden and the Europeans in celebrating what risks being the creation of yet another failed state in the Middle East/West Asia. (more…)
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The Biden family of liars
Given Joe Biden’s apparently intimate involvement in Hunter’s dealings, it follows that his intent in pardoning his son is effectively to secure a pardon for himself. (more…)
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Syria’s Assad has fallen – just as the Pentagon planned 23 years ago
When westerners see ‘enemy’ governments fall, or civil wars erupt, they are led to think they are the geopolitical equivalent of a natural event. Nothing could be further from the truth. (more…)
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Trump’s economic delusions
Trump’s economic strategy is based on a series of delusions that will result in higher inflation, a bigger trade deficit and a loss in the value of the American dollar. How can that Make America Great Again? (more…)
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A five-minute scroll
In 24 hours the Middle East has changed. Craig Murray gives the perspective of distances and the significance of the change, Netanyahu speaks to the opportunities and challenges while Wikileaks reminds us of notable moments. Peter Cronau reveals the lopsided outrage over the Melbourne Synagogue fire, and a former Chief Adviser to the British Prime Minister calls out the US policy on Taiwan. Ron Paul calls on the US to stop foreign aid. A new week begins. (more…)
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The end of pluralism in the Middle East
A truly seismic change in the Middle East appears to be happening very fast. At its heart is a devil’s bargain – Turkey and the Gulf States accept the annihilation of the Palestinian nation and creation of a Greater Israel, in return for the annihilation of the Shia minorities of Syria and Lebanon and the imposition of Salafism across the Eastern Arab world. (more…)
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Assad is out, woke Al-Qaeda is in
Well it looks like the government of Syrian president Bashar al-Assad is on its way out, likely to be replaced by one or more US puppet regimes depending on whether the nation maintains its current borders or is carved up into separate states. The empire notches another win. (more…)
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The demon in the mirror
Incoming US President Donald Trump will force us, as citizens of the ‘West’, to face the demon in the mirror. (more…)
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Chomsky is right says Professor Walt
The wide-ranging political views of the exceptional, international public intellectual, Noam Chomsky, have recently been searchingly assessed in the journal, Foreign Policy, by Professor Stephen M Walt, in an article entitled, “Noam Chomsky Has Been Proved Right”. (more…)
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Biden Pardons his son: The US “rules based order” in action
When I’m asked what I think of Biden granting a pardon to his son for offences, which Biden himself has spoken openly about as deserving of prison, I don’t have much to say. On the same day, I see criticism of China because a senior military official has been removed from his post and is under investigation. The two things are about as incompatible as it gets. (more…)
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Trump’s tariffs are a fool’s game
US President-elect Donald Trump’s protectionist trade policies — marked by high tariffs — have been a major economic setback for the United States. The costs of these policies have harmed domestic buyers and caused job losses in sectors related to the targeted industries. Rather than resolving the trade imbalance issue as Trump intended, his administration’s fiscal expansion and subsequent reactions from affected countries have led to a major surge in the US trade deficit. (more…)
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America’s decline: An Australian-American’s response to the US elections
My friends will have to excuse me for not being sufficiently riled up about the second coming of Trump. To me, he’s a phase in America’s inevitable decline, on the way to the end of the US Empire.
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Feng Yujun on the prospects of Russia-Ukraine war after Trump’s reelection
The leading expert on Russia says Trump’s bold claim to end the Russia-Ukraine war within 24 hours is highly unlikely to materialise, and only a just peace can lead to lasting peace. (more…)
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Biden’s last hurrah against Russia and Putin
Frustration escalates for the lame duck president. (more…)
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Obtuse China Policy and the “International Rules-Based Order” in a Trumpian world
In the ballyhooed, strident context of Trumpian change, if not, hysterical disruption, it is especially important to pinpoint and consider the real and the “factually alternative” content of Chinese foreign policy and international relations.
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