Bruce Gagnon and Regis Tremblay discuss US EU Looming Crash, Billions of US $$ pouring into Ukraine, War between the US and Russia. The interview covers a lot of history and claims. Many of them I’ve read elsewhere. Many of the claims I believe to be true. Some of the claims are plausible but need…
The Quincy Institute for Responsible Statecraft had a zoom meeting The Sugar High of Unipolarity: Why U.S. Military Interventions Increased after the Cold War with speakers Monica Duffy Toft, Sidita Kushi, and John Mearsheimer. Toft and Kushi are authors of the following paper in the Journal of Conflict Resolution: Introducing the Military Intervention Project: A…
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From The Chris Hedges Report: Soldiers speak out against America’s misguided wars. In their new book, veterans Andrew Bacevich [president of the Quincy Institute for Responsible Statecraft] and Danny Sjursen describe how the realities of war expose the lies told by generals and politicians about American goodness and virtue. Chris Hedges (interviewer) Andrew Bacevich, a…
I saw this on fb, which had a link to https://mobile.twitter.com/RnaudBertrand/status/1498491107902062592. It complements my How the U.S. provoked Russia in Ukraine: A Compendium. The fascinating thing about the #Ukraine war is the sheer number of top #Western strategic thinkers and scholars who have warned for years that it was coming if NATO continued down the…
Roger Waters, the 78 year old creative genius behind the progressive rock band Pink Floyd, is launching the This is Not a Drill Tour. Checkout that web page for tour dates and venues. He’ll be in Portland, Oregon on Sept 10 and in Tacoma on Sept 16. He’ll be at many other cities before and…
George Beebe was Dick Cheney’s former Russia adviser. He authored the 2019 book The Russia Trap: How Our Shadow War with Russia Could Spiral into Nuclear Catastrophe.  He is Director of Grand Strategy at Quincy Institute but is no left-wing pacifist. Beebe says in this interview on WABC that he supports U.S. efforts to aid…
On July 30, 2022, when it was in the mid 90s in Bellevue, The Lodge at Bellevue Square was running the gas fireplace at 523 Bellevue Way NE. . They do it, I presume, for the sake of “ambience” or mood. I’ve seen similar fireplaces burning in the lobbies of condo buildings, office towers, movie…
David Talbot’s book The Devil’s Chessboard: Allen Dulles, the CIA, and the Rise of America’s Secret Government is a biography that reads like a spy novel. It is painful to read because of all the injustice it exposes. Almost every page makes me groan with a sense of outrage. Most of the book summarizes the…
The antifa and BLM protests over the last several years were overwhelmingly peaceful. Nonetheless, right-wing media were able to convince tens of millions of Americans that antifa and BLM are violent, radical movements. Right wing media exaggerated the few instances of violence that did occur, and many of those incidents were the result of provocations…