The Pentagon Papers and the Decline of the U.S. Empire

 

The Pentagon Papers and the Decline of the U.S. Empire. Responding Asymmetrically to U.S. Firepower. The Houthis Are Defiant. Ret Admiral Cem Gürdeniz By Ret Admiral Cem Gürdeniz The beginning of the decline of the United States as an empire was experienced with the Vietnam War. The young men and women of North Vietnam and the Vietcong, who caused Washington to withdraw from Saigon in disgrace with nearly three million casualties, used all the possibilities and features of asymmetric warfare to defeat American fire power. Read here

The Kiev Regime’s NATO Supplied F-16 Calamity. Unable to Confront Russia’s Fighter Jets By Drago Bosnic When the Ukraine military loses assets such as these NATO-supplied F-16s, it often resorts to ridiculous (or rather pathetic, to be exact) claims such as “technical issues” or “emergencies”. Expectedly, they regularly forget to mention that the possible code names for those “sudden technical issues” could be R-77M, R-37M, R-87, R-97, etc. However, something truly unique did occur during the latest downing of the US-made F-16.  Read here

Video: Washington Destroys Ten Thousand Years of History By Maria Saadeh and Prof Michel Chossudovsky Damascus is the oldest city in the history of humanity. America’s “humanitarian wars” do not only destroy sovereign Nation States, transforming them into territories, they also destroy thousands of years of civilization. Read here

The Devil is in the Details: Trump Announces “Immediate” Russian-Ukrainian Ceasefire Talks By Andrew Korybko He announced the “immediate” start of ceasefire negotiations between them but specified that “The conditions for that will be negotiated between the two parties, as it can only be, because they know details of a negotiation that nobody else would be aware of.” Read here

Under Trump, NED to Continue Weaponizing “Democracy” in Venezuela, Nicaragua and Cuba By Roger D. Harris and John Perry The brief freeze and rapid partial reinstatement of National Endowment for Democracy (NED) funding in early 2025 helped expose it as a US regime-change tool. Created to rebrand CIA covert operations as “democracy promotion,” the NED channels government funds to opposition groups in Venezuela, Nicaragua and Cuba, meddling in their internal affairs. Read here

“The Money Trust”: “Creation of the Federal Reserve.” Richard C. Cook By Richard C. Cook The US saw two major power struggles during the late 19th and early 20th centuries. One was between the heads of the big corporations and the most powerful bankers. The other was between those same bankers and the federal government. Read here

The West Forgot How to Make Peace. “How Peace Got Rebranded as War” By Prof. Pascal Lottaz While Western leaders talk about “security” and “freedom,” what they’re really doing is rearming for the next war. They don’t ask how to stop conflicts—they ask how to win them. They don’t imagine dialogue—they prepare invasions. The West didn’t lose peace by accident, they actively threw it away. Read here