by John Feffer Foreign Policy in Focus (April 23 2014) Video games usually provide you with multiple lives. If you step on a landmine or get hit by an assassin, you get another chance. Even if such virtual reincarnation…

    Fending Off the United State’s Imperial Hand by Mike Whitney CounterPunch (April 23 2014) The last decade of the twentieth century has witnessed a tectonic shift in world affairs. For the first time ever, a non-Eurasian power has…

  by Neil Clark Russia Today Op-Edge (April 15 2014) I’m confused. A few weeks ago we were told in the West that people occupying government buildings in Ukraine was a very good thing. These people, we were told by…

  The Americans are withdrawing from Afghanistan; one of their command and control systems (used for controlling pilotless drones) was hijacked by the Taliban when an American transport convoy was moving down from one of the hill-top bases. The Taliban…

by Paul Craig Roberts Institute for Political Economy (April 09 2014) 2014 is shaping up as a year of reckoning for the United States. Two pressures are building on the US dollar. One pressure comes from the Federal Reserve’s declining…

America’s Dirty Little Ukraine Secret by Paul H Rosenberg Foreign Policy in Focus (March 18 2014) As the Ukrainian crisis has unfolded over the past few weeks, it’s hard for Americans not to see Vladimir Putin as the big villain.…