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Violence and Terror: The Ukrainian and Colombian Road to Empire Building
James Petras Introduction The two paths to 21st century empire-building-via-proxies are illustrated through the violent seizure of power in the Ukraine by a US-backed junta and the...
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Obama: “Remaking the Middle East”: The American Gulag
The police state regimes and the long-term authoritarian political culture in the Arab world is a product of long-term US military support for despotic rulers. The absence of democracy is a...
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The Kiev Putsch: Rebel Workers Take Power in the East
The Kiev Putsch: The struggle in the Ukraine is not between the US and Russia, it is between a NATO-imposed junta composed of neo-liberal oligarchs and fascists on one side and the industrial workers...
View ArticleFoundation of the US Empire: Axes of Evil
The US political leadership, beholden to unconditional supporters of Israel, has committed the most damaging policies in US history. First and foremost, these elite-educated policymakers have degraded...
View ArticleIsraeli Genocide and its Willing Accomplices
Rulers, imbued with a genocidal vision, see only military objectives – an oppressed people do not exist Israel’s total war against Gaza has provoked condemnation from millions of people around...
View ArticleObama Buggers Europe: Sanctions Deepen the Recession
The mega-buggers in Washington and the bootlickers in Europe have chosen sanctions over trade and destruction over prosperity. They are paying a price: domestic unrest, displacement from markets by...
View ArticleThe US and Global Wars: Empire or Vampire?
The current US/EU military expansion into Ukraine, the encirclement of Russia, NATO missiles aimed at the very heart of a major nuclear power and the economic sanctions may lead to a global nuclear...
View ArticleISIS and the USA: Expansion and Resistance by Decapitation
Image: Saudi Arabian officials display the beheaded bodies of five Yemeni nationals. Photo: The Commentator. Obama’s hysterical and very selective presentation of ISIS crimes forms the pretext for...
View ArticleRussia’s Vulnerability to EU – US Sanctions and Military Encroachments
Image: Four oligarchs very close to Putin: Guennadi Timtchenko, Iouri Kovaltchouk, Igor Setchine and Arkady Rotenberg (Image credit: voltairenet.org) The restoration of Russian power engineered by...
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All-Out War in Ukraine: NATO’s ‘Final Offensive’
Image credit: a-w-i-p.com There are clear signs that a major war is about to break out in Ukraine: A war actively promoted by the NATO regimes and supported by their allies and clients in Asia...
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Imperialism and the Politics of Torture
The CIA officials frequently cited the Israeli ‘ticking bomb’ justification for torture in 2007, at Congressional hearings in 2005, and earlier in 2001 and 2002. The CIA knows that the US Congress,...
View ArticleLooking Backward, Looking Forward: 2014 – 2015
US repeatedly supported Israeli seizures and colonization of Palestinian land in the West Bank and Jerusalem and Israel’s savage murder of 2000 Palestinians and 5 billion dollar devastation of...
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Netanyahu: He Came, He Saw, He Conquered …. The Power of Israel over the...
No other visiting Prime Minister or President will be received with so much media attention and political fanfare as Netanyahu because none possess the formidable, organized, well-financed and...
View ArticleThe Roots of Netanyahu’s Electoral Victory: Colonial Expansion and Fascist...
Netanyahu has established the fact that Israel and its people embrace a racist ideology and receive the endorsement of most Western leaders, and mass media and the unconditional support of its...
View ArticleIsraeli Espionage Network in Washington: The Prime Suspects
Image: Michael Froman, Jack Lew, Penny Pritzker, David Cohen, Wendy Sherman The activities of US Zionists as spies and shock troops for Israel’s effort to destroy Iran and undermine US diplomacy,...
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Mandarin for the Warlords: The Harvard School of Empire Building
What matters is that the US, while it is a declining world power, is still militarily powerful, dangerous and destructive, even as its empire building is weakening and its forces are in retreat. As...
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Argentina: A Case Study of Israel’s Zionist-Wall Street Destabilization...
Rescue workers search for survivors and victims in the rubble left after a powerful car bomb destroyed the Buenos Aires headquarters of the Argentine Israeli Mutual Association (AMIA), killing 85...
View ArticleErodoğan and Netanyahu Declare War
Both brutal leaders have no regard for the sovereignty of neighboring states, let alone the security of their civilian populations. Both depend on the military support of the US. Both are in the...
View Article52 Presidents, US-Iran Nuclear Agreement, and the Centerpiece of US Foreign...
The entire Zionist political apparatus immediately organized a multi-prong, multi-million dollar campaign blitz to undermine the US President. The American (sic) Israel Political Action Committee...
View ArticlePutin and the Press: The Demonology School of Journalism
Image: Courtesy Fort Russ by James Petras Introduction The major influential western print media are engaged in a prolonged, large-scale effort to demonize Russian President Putin, his...
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