History of American Hegemony: USA as “Global Greatest Power”. From Alaska (1867) to Europe (1917)

 

History of American Hegemony: USA as “Global Greatest Power”. From Alaska (1867) to Europe (1917) By Dr. Vladislav B. Sotirović, August 28, 2023 Such a new type of US global imperialism practically started in the 1898 war against Spain (in fact, Spanish colonies). Many experts in US history and global politics will say that the year 1898 was, actually, a turning point year in US foreign policy when Washington started to push toward the creation of the global empire of the USA.

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What Is Taught in Schools of Journalism? By Prof. Bill Willers, August 29, 2023 The big lie perpetrated about journalism is that it has an adversarial relationship with power. There may have been some truth to that at some point in history, but within living memory the precise opposite has been the truth. And why be surprised? One would expect that controlling the Narrative and the flow of information would be a prime goal of government.

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We the Targeted: How the Government Weaponizes Surveillance to Silence Its Critics By John W. Whitehead and Nisha Whitehead, August 30, 2023 Ever since Martin Luther King Jr. delivered his groundbreaking “I Have a Dream” speech during the March on Washington for Jobs and Freedom on Aug. 28, 1963, the Deep State has been hard at work turning King’s dream into a living nightmare. The end result of the government’s efforts over the past 60 years is a country where nothing ever really changes, and everyone lives in fear.

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De-globalization: How Much and at What Cost? By Karsten Riise, August 30, 2023 Biden’s China trade policy is ridiculous. An article in New York Times (NYT) today 28 August 2023 puts serious question marks on the policy of US President Biden and EU Commission President Ursula von der Leyen to “de-risk” (in fact, decouple) their western economies from China.

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The US Deepens the Lebanese Suffering By Steven Sahiounie, August 30, 2023 Lebanon’s Minister of Foreign Affairs, Abdallah Bou Habib, shocked the UN on August 25 in New York by rejecting the proposal that is being forced upon Lebanon by the United States Ambassador Linda Thomas-Greenfield. In a surprise act of national defiance, and rejection at being dictated to by Washington, Bou Habib would not acquiesce to moving to Chapter VII. Chapter VI calls for “the peaceful resolution of conflicts,” while Chapter VII “calls for the imposition of Resolution 1701 by force.”

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New Documentary Coming this September: ‘Peace, War and 9/11’ By International Center for 9/11 Justice, August 29, 2023 In a wide-ranging interview filmed six months before his passing, eminent scholar and lifelong peace activist Graeme MacQueen shares his final words on 9/11 and the 2001 anthrax attacks. Drawing from his depth of knowledge as a professor of peace studies, MacQueen illuminates the concept of war as an all-encompassing parasitic system that depends on triggering events — sometimes natural but often managed or even manufactured — to move from a cold to a hot phase.

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How BRICS+ Ensures Global Peace. “Rules-based World Order” in the Dustbin of History? By Drago Bosnic, August 29, 2023 The world has truly never seen anything like BRICS, an organization that unites the most diverse group of not only nation-states, but actual civilization states. Brazil, Russia, India, China and South Africa don’t really seem to have much in common, and yet, their ties within this framework are growing stronger by the day at this point.

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Do Vaccines Cause Autism? A History of Institutional Corruption By Helen Buyniski, Richard Gale, and Dr. Gary Null, August 29, 2023 Given that vaccines are mandatory for most children in public schools, it makes sense that they should be scientifically proven to be safe. However, in a careful analysis of thousands of articles in the peer-reviewed literature on toxicology and immunology, nowhere can we find evidence for these claims on vaccine safety are based upon a gold standard of clinical research: long-term, double-blind, placebo-controlled studies.

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BRICS Summit Expands by Six Members. De-Dollarization and the New Cold War By Abayomi Azikiwe, August 29, 2023 President Cyril Ramaphosa of the Republic of South Africa served as the host of the recently held 15th BRICS Summit which turned out to be one of the most significant gatherings in the nearly decade-and-one-half existence of the alliance.

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America’s Domestic Party Politics Fuel the Ukraine Catastrophe By Philip Giraldi, August 29, 2023 I am surely not the only one who has noticed that the defensive propaganda lines that are flowing out the Democratic Administration have become more than ordinarily ridiculous of late. One is astonished at the melding of fact and fiction to create narratives that depict the White House and all that pertains to it as forging a new and more wonderful country. Wasn’t “Build Back Better” the battle cry, whatever that is supposed to mean?

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