This week on New World Next Week: the CRINK have assembled, but can reverse Kissinger save us in time?; a new bill is seeking to give Big Ag immunity for their cancer-causing weed killer; and scientists are genetically engineering dire …
Can Kurds survive the new Syria?
From the moment I cross the rickety pontoon bridge from Iraq into Syrian Kurdistan, I feel a deep sense of isolation. The arrivals hall, which offers the only link to the outside world, is falling apart around me. The duty …
The fantasy of British defence
British party politics has in recent decades become an exercise in evading reality, only dealing with the world — and our country’s material conditions — as our leaders would wish them to be. Westminster’s chaotic reaction to Washington’s abrupt, if …
How MBS won the peace talks
The picture says it all: Marco Rubio and Sergey Lavrov, America and Russia, sat about a hardwood table beneath the dripping chandeliers of Saudi Arabia’s Diriyah Palace, ready to remake Eurasia for the rest of the century. Between them sits …
Trump’s diplomacy won’t bring peace
So now we know. Washington is intent on decoupling from Europe and reconnecting with Russia. America’s stance was reaffirmed yesterday, in Brussels, by the newly minted Defense Secretary, Pete Hegseth, who was there primarily to discuss the Ukraine conflict. We …
Why Putin needs a new Yalta
If you know anything about the Yalta Conference, it’s probably that picture. You know the one: three war-weary leaders, sitting side-by-side, Roosevelt with his toothy smile, Churchill all eyebrows — and Stalin, grinning under his moustache, visibly pleased at the …
Can Trump make William McKinley great again?
If America’s 45th presidency was founded on the promise of Making America Great Again, Donald Trump’s priorities appear to have shifted for its 47th. Now, in part, it’s about Making McKinley Great Again.
It’s been more than 120 years since …
Syria is doomed to instability
The House of Assad endured for over half a century, but crumbled in 10 days. Ba’athism is dead and Abu Mohammed al-Jolani now finds himself the de facto leader of a government in Damascus, led by his rebel coalition Hay’at …
The Fall of Syria: What You Need to Know
In case you haven’t heard yet, the world has just changed irrevocably. So, what happened? And what does this mean for the future of the world? Let’s find out.
Source: The Corbett Report Read the original article here: https://corbettreport.com …
Episode 469 – A Brief History of the War on Syria
Today on The Corbett Report podcast, James dives through The Corbett Report’s 13-year long archives on the Syrian war to bring recent events into focus.
Source: The Corbett Report Read the original article here: https://corbettreport.com …
Keir Starmer has no dream
There are periods in history when old certainties and settlements suddenly begin to fracture under the weight of their own contradictions. In the Thirties and Seventies the very nature of the system seemed to be collapsing in on itself. Yet …
How Gen Z fell for Poland’s memes
If I say “Poland” — what do you think of? Marie Curie? Copernicus? Pierogi? All lovely in their own way, but not exactly cool. Now, however, everything is changing. From dank memes online to unintentionally patriotic rap songs, the …
The men who risk everything
Risk for me is an occupational hazard. Why would I film myself running through a front line in eastern Ukraine to a soundtrack of roaring shells and my own cardio-averse panting? (Hint: it’s not the money, trust me.) What would …
Interview 1867 – Soros, Tucker and WW3 on The Ochelli Effect
Chuck spoke with James to pick his brain about where the media and the associated Racket of War are currently and the future of the industrial complex that seems to be more unified than the one-party American system.
Source: The …
The cost of Russia’s collapsing empire
Ukraine’s counteroffensive has stalled, and Vladimir Putin is once again blustering as if Russia were a first-rate power. The problem, paradoxically, is that it is not. The damage his country has sustained throughout the course of the Ukraine war has …