Why The South Caucasus Is No Safe Corridor To Bypass Russia

Under Iran War’s Shadow: Why The South Caucasus Is No Safe Corridor To Bypass Russia By Uriel Araujo Europe’s push to turn the South Caucasus into a strategic corridor gains urgency amid tensions with Iran and Europe’s attempt to bypass Russia.... Read More › - Voice of East


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How The Iran War Is Accelerating De-Dollarization

How The Iran War Is Accelerating De-Dollarization By Uriel Araujo As the Iran war exposes the limits of US power, BRICS nations accelerate efforts to bypass the dollar. The rise of BRICS Pay and India’s CBDC proposal signals a shift toward... Read More › - Voice of East


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OK, Fine, Give TSA Agents Back Pay … But Then Send Them Home For Good

At airports across the US, Transportation Security Administration agents have been “working” — that is, impeding, harassing, ogling, and groping air travelers — without pay since Valentine’s Day due to a congressional feud over funding for their parent department. Well, some of them, anyway. Several hundred have quit; quite a few are calling in sick … Continue reading OK, Fine, Give TSA Agents Back Pay … But Then Send Them Home For Good → - by Thomas L. Knapp


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Standing With The Oppressed: Why Neutrality Is An Abetment To Tyranny

Standing With The Oppressed: Why Neutrality Is An Abetment To Tyranny By Dr Maqsood Jafri Eagles, Not Crows: Defending Pakistan’s Sovereignty Against the New Imperialism. Iqbal Latif had written an exclusive column which is titled “The Question: No Pakistani Answers:... Read More › - Voice of East


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A California Jury Tries to Repeal the 21st Century

In 2004, a few years before K.G.M. — a pseudonym, because now you don’t even have to reveal who you are to get taxpayer-funded courts to hear your frivolous lawsuits — was born, three guys gave the world something called “MySpace.” It wasn’t the first instance of “social media” on the Internet, but it was … Continue reading A California Jury Tries to Repeal the 21st Century → - by Thomas L. Knapp


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Pakistan’s Missile Program Is Back In The US’ Crosshairs

Pakistan’s Missile Program Is Back In The US’ Crosshairs By Andrew Korybko The “golden age” of US-Pakistani ties that began with Trump’s return is now over after the US reached its interim trade deal with India. Director of National Intelligence Tulsi... Read More › - Voice of East


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This Year, The Case Against Lawns Gets Even Stronger

It’s “mow the yard” time again in north central Florida, which means it’s “Tom complains about lawn culture” time again for this column. This year, though, my case against the whole idea of the “lawn” comes with a more compelling than usual news hook: War in the Middle East! As you may have noticed, the … Continue reading This Year, The Case Against Lawns Gets Even Stronger → - by Thomas L. Knapp


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Where Is Netanyahu? Questions Mount Over Who Really Runs US And Israeli Policy

Where Is Netanyahu? Questions Mount Over Who Really Runs US And Israeli Policy By Uriel Araujo Joe Kent’s resignation and Netanyahu’s unexplained absences are fuelling doubts about who truly directs both US and Israeli policy. Speculation over influence networks, AI-edited videos,... Read More › - Voice of East


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Tulsi Gabbard and Joe Kent

Frank had just finished listening to online news about how US government officials viewed the Israel-United States war of aggression launched against Iran. Israel first and the US second, in that order since US secretary-of-state Marco Rubio had made it clear that the US joined in the warring after it learned that Israel was about […]


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Trump Might Have Approved Israel’s South Pars Strike After Iran Flirted With The Petroyuan

Trump Might Have Approved Israel’s South Pars Strike After Iran Flirted With The Petroyuan By Andrew Korybko The attack on Iran’s South Pars gas field was a strategic manoeuvre designed to sabotage the rise of the “petroyuan” and reinforce the global... Read More › - Voice of East


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Autarky: Terrible at Political Scale, But Great as Individual Self-Defense

Since everyone seems to have a sticker shock story lately:  I rolled one of my motorcycles up to a gas pump yesterday and, for the first time ever, spent more than $5 to fill the tank (small bike, small tank — I paid $5.67 for 1.1 gallons of premium). The obvious reason is, well, obvious. … Continue reading Autarky: Terrible at Political Scale, But Great as Individual Self-Defense → - by Thomas L. Knapp


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Trump 2.0 Must Urgently Declare Its Position Towards Nukes In Estonia

Trump 2.0 Must Urgently Declare Its Position Towards Nukes In Estonia By Andrew Korybko The potential transfer of tactical nukes to the UK’s control for use with their planned Estonian-based F-35As would unprecedentedly worsen the already dangerous NATO-Russian security dilemma. It... Read More › - Voice of East


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Congress Can Halt the Iran War by Doing Nothing. It Should.

US Secretary of Defense Pete Hegseth wants $200 billion for the Trump administration’s illegal, ill-advised, undeclared war on Iran. Well, maybe. “That number could move,” he says, to get “properly funded for what’s been done, for what we may have to do in the future, ensure that our ammunition is refilled, and not just refilled, … Continue reading Congress Can Halt the Iran War by Doing Nothing. It Should. → - by Thomas L. Knapp


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Foreign Affairs Explained Why The Global South Won’t Fall Under Western Influence

Foreign Affairs Explained Why The Global South Won’t Fall Under Western Influence By Andrew Korybko From the Global South’s perspective, the West discredited itself through its double standards towards the Ukrainian Conflict and the Gaza War, continues pursuing counterproductive ideologically driven... Read More › - Voice of East


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Brazil: The Next Target Of Washington’s Drug War

Brazil: The Next Target Of Washington’s Drug War By Uriel Araujo Tensions are rising between Brazil and the United States: Washington’s demands over drug gangs, foreign prisoners, and refugee data raise concerns in Brasília about sovereignty and intervention. As Brazil resists,... Read More › - Voice of East


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Iran War: We Have Met the Enemy, and He is U.S.

Let me bury the lede just a bit: In December of 1862, Union troops under the command of Ambrose Burnside crossed the Rappahannock river by pontoon bridge and occupied the town of Fredericksburg, Virginia, in an attempt to come to grips with Confederate forces under Robert E. Lee. That first skirmish of the battle named … Continue reading Iran War: We Have Met the Enemy, and He is U.S. → - by Thomas L. Knapp


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Implications Of Israel’s Attack On Iran – Sheikh Imran N. Hosein

Implications Of Israel’s Attack On Iran – Sheikh Imran N. Hosein In his latest video, Sheikh Imran N. Hosein offers a perspective that blends current military events with Islamic eschatology. He says that Israel’s recent actions against Iran signify a permanent... Read More › - Voice of East


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“But Kamala!” Yeah, So What?

“They told me if I voted for Goldwater in 1964,” William F. Buckley, Jr. allegedly (but not verifiably) once said, “that we’d have more war and higher prices. Well, I did, and we do.” In the run-up to the 2024 presidential election, supporters of Donald Trump delivered similar dire predictions about voting for Kamala Harris. … Continue reading “But Kamala!” Yeah, So What? → - by Thomas L. Knapp


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Russia’s Collective Security Vision For The Gulf Is Now A Realistic Possibility

Russia’s Collective Security Vision For The Gulf Is Now A Realistic Possibility By Andrew Korybko The Third Gulf War is radically reshaping the Gulf Kingdoms’ perceptions of American reliability and leading them to consider the need to negotiate a post-war regional... Read More › - Voice of East


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Automatic Draft Registration: Everything Old is New Again

You may have only recently heard: As of this coming December, all American males will find themselves “automatically registered,” upon the occasion of their 18th birthdays, for a prospective military draft. Given current events, that prospect understandably gives off sinister vibes — “but without a draft, who would do the necessary work of murdering Iranian … Continue reading Automatic Draft Registration: Everything Old is New Again → - by Thomas L. Knapp


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The Nuclear Shadow: Assessing The Unprecedented Hazards Of The Iran-Israel War

The Nuclear Shadow: Assessing The Unprecedented Hazards Of The Iran-Israel War By Dr Maqsood Jafri Why the Israel-Iran Conflict Threatens Global Survival Origins of the Conflict The present war between Iran and Israel is the offshoot of Middle East Conflict.... Read More › - Voice of East


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Social Media’s Down Side: No Fresh Starts

Generally speaking, I’ve always considered myself a “techno-optimist,” sometimes perhaps to the point of  Panglossianism. As a teen, I embraced those new-fangled “microcomputers,” and as a 20-something the World Wide Web, with enthusiasm. The Information Age, like the Industrial Revolution before it, was a rising tide that lifted all boats: More things, more cheaply, for … Continue reading Social Media’s Down Side: No Fresh Starts → - by Thomas L. Knapp


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The US And Israel Want To Depopulate Iran’s Capital

The US And Israel Want To Depopulate Iran’s Capital By Andrew Korybko This war might be about to get a lot uglier. Residents of the Iranian capital of Tehran awoke on Sunday to an apocalyptic scene after the US and Israel... Read More › - Voice of East


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China Rejects a Joint US-China Hegemony

In response to a question by a NBC reporter, Chinese foreign minister Wang Yi rejected US president Donald Trump’s format of a China-United States hegemony. Instead, Wang affirmed China’s anti-hegemony and pro-multipolarity positions. Said Wang, [W]e should not forget there are more than 190 countries on our planet. World history has always been written by […]


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Neo-Trumpers: The Next Mutation?

A New York Times columnist offering pointers for “Pitchfork Pat” Buchanan-type populists on “the isolationist right who thought Trump shared his views” might seem akin to a mad scientist named Frankenstein offering a road map to a pitchforks-and-torches peasant mob.  Yet Michelle Goldberg does just that in “The President Was Never Antiwar” (March 2). While … Continue reading Neo-Trumpers: The Next Mutation? → - by Thomas L. Knapp


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Thune and Johnson: A Tale of Two Orphans

In The Joy of Yiddish, Leo Rosten defines chutzpah as “that quality enshrined in a man who, having killed his mother and father, throws himself on the mercy of the court because he is an orphan.” Ladies and gentlemen, meet US Senate Majority Leader John Thune (R-SD) and US House Speaker  Mike Johnson (R-LA). Thune: “Above … Continue reading Thune and Johnson: A Tale of Two Orphans → - by Thomas L. Knapp


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Iran’s Strikes On The UAE Exposed The Limits Of BRICS Unity

Iran’s Strikes On The UAE Exposed The Limits Of BRICS Unity By Andrew Korybko Iran and the UAE have polar opposite security interests vis-à-vis the US, while India took the UAE’s side over Iran’s arguably due to its nearly 100x greater... Read More › - Voice of East


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On War Powers, Questions Aren’t a Working Substitute for Action

On February 28, US president Donald Trump took the United States into a de facto, but not de jure, state of war with Iran. That is, he ordered the US armed forces to strike targets in Iran (the de facto part) without first securing the constitutionally required declaration of war from Congress (the de jure … Continue reading On War Powers, Questions Aren’t a Working Substitute for Action → - by Thomas L. Knapp


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The CIA’s Role In Mexico’s Cartel War: From ‘Assistance’ To Lethal Operations

The CIA’s Role In Mexico’s Cartel War: From ‘Assistance’ To Lethal Operations By Uriel Araujo New reports reveal US intelligence played a direct role in lethal cartel operations in Mexico, marking a dangerous escalation. What Washington calls “assistance” increasingly resembles covert... Read More › - Voice of East


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