With the collapse of the Communist countries in the 1990’s and their conversion to capitalism, followed by the advent of neo-liberal regimes throughout most of Latin America, Asia, Europe and North America, the imperial regimes in the US and EU have established a new political spectrum, in which the standards of acceptability narrowed and the definition of adversaries expanded.
Over the past quarter century, the US and EU turned their focus from systemic adversaries (anti-capitalist and anti-imperial states and movements) to attacking capitalist regimes, which (1) had adopted nationalist, re-distributive and Keynesian policies; (2) had opposed military interventions, coups and bases; (3) had aligned with non-Western capitalist powers; (4) had opposed Zionist colonization of Palestine and Gulf State-financed Islamist terrorists; (5) and had refuse to follow the financial agendas dictated by Wall Street and the City of London investment houses, speculators and vulture funds.
The Western imperial regimes (by which we mean the US, Canada and the EU) have exercised their political, military, economic and propaganda powers to (1) eliminate or limit the variety of capitalist options; (2) control the kinds of market-state relations; and (3) secure compliance through punitive military invasions, occupations and economic sanctions against targeted adversaries.James Petras Website
Western ‘Mainstream’ Extremism: Distortion, Fabrication and Falsification in the Financial Press
James Petras | Professor (Emeritus) of Sociology at Binghamton University in Binghamton, New York and adjunct professor at Saint Mary's University, Halifax, Nova Scotia
How then, if not for nefarious reasons, can a restatement of the unchanged Russian position be "BREAKING NEWS" for Reuters and the BBC?
The misrepresentation of Russia’s stated objectives in Syria and the Russian population’s reaction to President Vladimir Putin’s decision to intervene militarily in the war-torn country continues in U.S. mainstream media and think tanks. …
Our institutions are melting down. Incompetence and corruption reign. Government and media are either engaged in wishful thinking or perpetually conjuring up false scenarios and distortions that fit their agenda, which is often careerist or domestic-political in nature. So be very careful about what you read.Russian and Eurasian Politics
As the CNBC presidential debate demonstrated for the world to see, journalism and much else in America is dead.
Russia is Targeting Jihadi Terrorists in Syria Including the Islamic State and Russians Approve of Putin’s Military Intervention Against ISIS: UPDATE
Gordon M. Hahn | Analyst and Advisory Board Member of the Geostrategic Forecasting Corporation, Chicago, Illinois; a Senior Researcher, Center for Terrorism and Intelligence Studies (CETIS), Akribis Group, San Jose, California; and an Analyst/Consultant, Russia Other Points of View
Sociopath Media Report - 3rd November, 2015
Ollie Richardson for Fort Russ
In Defense of the Late Ahmad Chalabi
Like all examples on Sociopath Media, they should no longer surprise the reader as to how vile they are, because that is what happens when an empire is on it's knees. This CNN piece of trash is no different - exemplifying fourth generation warfare by twisting the narrative to suit the US agenda:
Caged and in danger: Syrian soldiers become human shields for rebels
Rebels are caging captured Syrian soldiers and others loyal to the regime and using them as human shields to fend off government attacks, Human Rights Watch and a Syrian opposition group reported.
Let us now look at a picture of the cages:
Do they look like Syrian Soldiers to you? Or do they look like what they are - Alawite women?For Russ
Sociopath Media Report - 3rd November, 2015
Ollie Richardson for Fort Russ
Ahmad Chalabi, the George W. Bush administration’s favorite Iraqi — at least until the U.S.-led coalition invaded Iraq in 2003 — has just died in Baghdad at age 71.
According to the headline of his New York Times obituary, Chalabi “pushed for U.S. invasion.” The Washington Post‘s headline says he “helped spur U.S. invasion,” and Reuters explains that he “pushed Bush to invade Iraq.”
And it’s true, Chalabi and his Iraqi National Congress provided a big chunk of the “intelligence” the Bush administration used to make their case for the invasion. Chalabi was also a source for much of the New York Times‘ atrocious reporting on Iraq’s non-existent weapons of mass destruction, and was mentioned by name when the Times was finally forced to apologize. Moreover, he couldn’t have been much more in your face about it afterwards, charmingly explaining in 2004 that “We are heroes in error. As far as we’re concerned we’ve been entirely successful. That tyrant Saddam is gone and the Americans are in Baghdad. What was said before is not important.”
But if Americans want to blame someone for the Iraq War, we should be looking closer to home — at Bush, Dick Cheney, Colin Powell and ourselves. As former CIA officer Robert Baer put it: “Chalabi was scamming the U.S. because the U.S. wanted to be scammed.”…The Intercept
In Defense of the Late Ahmad Chalabi
Jon Schwarz
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