Foreign Policy Category Archive

These buttons register your public Agreement, Disagreement, Thanks, LOL, or Troll with the selected comment. They are ONLY available to recent, frequent commenters who have saved their Name+Email using the 'Remember My Information' checkbox, and may also ONLY be used three times during any eight hour period.

Email Comment Ignore Commenter Follow Commenter

What Google and Facebook Are Hiding

The American Deep State Strikes Back

Ron Unz • May 24, 2020

• 3,400 Words • 401 Comments • Reply

After several months of record-breaking traffic our alternative media webzine suffered a sharp blow when it was suddenly purged by Facebook at the end of April. Not only was our rudimentary Facebook page eliminated, but all subsequent attempts by readers to post our articles to the world's largest social network produced an error message describing... Read More

America Is Drowning in Problems

Paul Craig Roberts • May 22, 2020

• 1,300 Words • 22 Comments • Reply

Washington is picking yet another fight with China. On top of the trade war we now have the coronavirus war. China is accused of being responsible for the virus by withholding information about it. Some in Washington want to make China pay for the cost of the virus by reneging on US debt held by... Read More

News Stories Avoid Naming Israel

Philip Giraldi • May 19, 2020

• 1,600 Words • 158 Comments • Reply

There are two stories that seem to have been under-reported in the past couple of weeks. The first involves Michael Flynn’s dealings with the Russian United Nations Ambassador Sergey Kislyak. And the second describes yet another bit of espionage conducted by a foreign country directed against the United States. Both stories involve the State of... Read More

Objections to an Independent Investigation of China

Godfree Roberts • May 5, 2020

• 1,500 Words • 466 Comments • Reply

Until the CDC releases details of its index case ('Patient Zero') there is no practical or scientific possibility of tracing Covid’s origin. Patient Zero, when he arrives, will introduce us to the animal vector that brung him. Question: Why does the US persistently refuse to release its Patient Zero data–despite being bound to do so... Read More

Donald Trump Is Igniting a Cold War with China to Win the Election

Patrick Cockburn • May 4, 2020

• 1,000 Words • 49 Comments • Reply

“Go to China!”, a woman in Denver, Colorado, shouts at two hospital workers standing in front of her car to prevent her from taking part in a protest against the coronavirus lockdown. Her cry is a sign that President Trump is having some success in demonising China: he says that that he has a “high... Read More

Australia, Sweden (!), Sen. Hawley Combat China—But Is Another Tiananmen Square Coming?

John Derbyshire • May 1, 2020

• 1,700 Words • 113 Comments • Reply

[Excerpted from the latest Radio Derb, now available exclusively through VDARE.com] On my occasional theme of educational nationalism, I'm pleased to see that Senator Tom Cotton of Arkansas has suggested banning Chinese students from studying STEM subjects in our universities. He told Fox News:: The Senator is right, but late. We've educated so many Chinese... Read More

Cold War of Trump/Navarro vs. China - More Dangerous Than Covid-19

Andre Vltchek • April 30, 2020

• 2,200 Words • 12 Comments • Reply

It is getting ugly, extremely ugly. It is increasingly looking like a war – at least a new ‘cold’, ideological war. But in the shadow of COVID-19, it goes almost unnoticed. The blind horseman, who hates China intuitively, without knowing hardly anything about it, is leading the pack, pushing his president into a confrontation with... Read More

Monitoring the Public After Coronavirus

Philip Giraldi • April 23, 2020

• 1,200 Words • 31 Comments • Reply

It is too early to say when or even whether the siege initiated by the coronavirus will end, but many Americans and Europeans are speculating over what kind of countries will emerge on the other side. National Security Agency (NSA) whistleblower Edward Snowden, who exposed illegal spying on American citizens, recently predicted that there would... Read More

The AngloZionists Are Launching a Strategic PSYOP Against China

The Saker • April 22, 2020

• 2,700 Words • 333 Comments • Reply

Maybe the "the Russians did it" narrative is getting stale. Or maybe the leaders of the Empire have finally figured out that China is even more dangerous to the Empire than Russia. But my personal gut feeling is simply that the AngloZionists are freaking out about the "full-spectrum" loss of face they suffered with their... Read More

American Pravda: Our Coronavirus Catastrophe as Biowarfare Blowback?

Ron Unz • April 21, 2020

• 7,400 Words • 1,567 Comments • Reply

Nearly 30,000 Americans have died from the coronavirus during the last two weeks, and by some estimates this is a substantial under-count, while the death-toll continues to rapidly mount. Meanwhile, measures to control the spread of this deadly infection have already cost 22 million Americans their jobs, an unprecedented economic collapse that has pushed our... Read More

Enough Is Enough

Israel Shamir • April 21, 2020

• 2,300 Words • 152 Comments • Reply

For weeks, I woke up every morning hoping to find myself in the normal world, instead of this alternative reality. The normal world where men can roam the hills, pray in the church, go to work, stay at the seashore, listen to a concert, visit museums, socialise with friends, flirt with girls, send kids to... Read More

Why Were Pro-Western Militants Arrested in Hong Kong

Andre Vltchek • April 21, 2020

• 1,100 Words • 10 Comments • Reply

It has all been evolving in accordance with the script penned in Washington, London, and other Western capitals: pro-Western militants were first identified, then recruited. Riots were financed and supported; society, at least to some extent, destabilized. When the government could not just stand by and watch, when it finally acted, the Western media went... Read More

u-s-president-donald-trump-tours-the-center-for-disease-control-in-atlanta

What Did U.S. Intel Really Know About the ‘Chinese’ Virus?

Pepe Escobar • April 21, 2020

• 1,600 Words • 150 Comments • Reply

Hybrid War 2.0 on China, a bipartisan U.S. operation, is already reaching fever pitch. Its 24/7 full spectrum infowar arm blames China for everything coronavirus-related – doubling as a diversionist tactic against any informed criticism of woeful American unpreparedness. Hysteria predictably reigns. And this is just the beginning. A deluge of lawsuits is imminent –... Read More

Lies Won't Stop Covid-19

Eric Margolis • April 18, 2020

• 800 Words • 47 Comments • Reply

Washington-based military think tanks constantly warn of possible attacks by the wicked North Koreans who have a large arsenal of chemical and biological weapons and missiles to deliver to North America. So do Britain, France, Russia, India, Pakistan, China, India and Israel. The US still has a very large, lethal arsenal of chemical and biological... Read More

The Russians Get Blamed Again, But Who Is Really Subverting American Democracy?

Philip Giraldi • April 16, 2020

• 1,100 Words • 33 Comments • Reply

It is perhaps inevitable that a major health panic like the coronavirus will have political ramifications based on whether those most affected by the illness will perceive that the government performed well or poorly in the crisis. The government for its part will engage in a blame game which seeks to place responsibility for what... Read More

Mossad False Flag Attacks on Jews

Is anti-Semitism really increasing?

Philip Giraldi • April 14, 2020

• 1,800 Words • 182 Comments • Reply

Even though distracted by the havoc resulting from the coronavirus, the United States and much of Europe is engaged in a frenzied search for anti-Semitism and anti-Semites so that what the media and chattering class are regarding as the greatest of all crimes and criminals can finally be extirpated completely. To be sure, there have... Read More

NWO, Globalism and US "Leadership" – RIP

The Saker • April 7, 2020

• 2,600 Words • 228 Comments • Reply

It has been pretty obvious for many years already that the AngloZionist Empire was not viable, that it had to tank sooner or later. There were two main scenarios which were typically considered for this collapse: an external crisis (typically a major military defeat) or an internal one (economic collapse). Personally, I always favored the... Read More

Fighting the Worldwide War on Death

Israel Shamir • April 6, 2020

• 2,400 Words • 158 Comments • Reply

The seasonal madness overtook mankind. In years to pass, it will be remembered as a new Witch Hunt, but on a global scale. The Salem affair engulfed a small town in a remote British colony, while the Corona lockdown broke the back of the global economy, pauperised millions, imprisoned three billion people, caused uncounted suicides... Read More

A Light in the Darkness

Paul Craig Roberts • March 31, 2020

• 1,300 Words • 23 Comments • Reply

Diana Johnstone’s just published book, Circle in the Darkness: Memoir of a World Watcher, is the best book I have ever read, the most revealing, the most accurate, the most truthful, the most moral and humane, the most sincere and heartfelt, and the best written. Her book is far more than a memoir. It is... Read More

china-italy-coronavirus-large-1024x683_1

Italy Must Never Forget...Or Forgive

Eric Striker • March 28, 2020

• 700 Words • 516 Comments • Reply

Another 832 people died from coronavirus in Italy today. The country's fatalities have passed 10,000. Some believe this number is a massive undercount and the number of deaths could be as high as 50,000. But an equally important story is how the liberal powers, particularly the European Union and NATO, have reacted to Italy's desperate... Read More

people-wearing-surgical-masks-walk-past-a-screen-showing-nikkei-index-outside-a-brokerage-in-tokyo

Whither Coronavirus? When Will It End and What Will Happen Along the Way

Philip Giraldi • March 26, 2020

• 1,400 Words • 250 Comments • Reply

The coronavirus story has generated a number of major subplots. First is the origin of the virus. Did it occur naturally or was it created in a Chinese, American or Israeli weapons lab? If bioengineered, did it somehow escape or was it deliberately released? As the governments that might have been involved in the process... Read More

The Coronavirus, Fear, and Poverty

Israel Shamir • March 25, 2020

• 2,000 Words • 149 Comments • Reply

In these Corona times, I often listen to Monty Python’s Always Look on the Bright Side of Life. This black cloud has a silver lining. With the virus roaming outside, teenagers deign to spend more time with their parents; wives are at home cooking dinners instead of hanging out with gorgeous strangers in posh cafés;... Read More

9/11 Truth, Coronavirus Truth: Zionist Hysteria, MSM Lockdown

War on the Horizon?

Kevin Barrett • March 18, 2020

• 2,800 Words • 786 Comments • Reply

I spent most of 2004 through 2006 blaming Dick Cheney and Donald Rumsfeld for 9/11. As you can imagine, I got plenty of pushback. Strangely, the loudest, most hysterical shrieks came not from red-white-and-blue Republican patriots, but from seemingly insane Zionists screaming: “Why do you hate the Jews so much, you anti-Semite?”[1] At first, I... Read More

Looking at the Military Aspects of Biological Warfare

The Saker • March 14, 2020

• 1,900 Words • 182 Comments • Reply

The 20th century has seen a seemingly countless number of military conflicts, ranging from small local clashes, to at least two world wars. The same 20th century saw a huge efforts by major powers to develop three types of so-called “weapons of mass destruction” (WMD): Atomic, Bacteriological and Chemical (ABC). All of these WMD were... Read More

Was Coronavirus a Biowarfare Attack Against China?

OldMicrobiologist • March 13, 2020

• 3,400 Words • 699 Comments • Reply

[The following is the republication of several long and very detailed comments by an unidentified purported expert on biowarfare that originally appeared on a recent thread of the Saker blogsite.] [Update: an investigation strongly suggests that the author's claims regarding his personal background and professional expertise are accurate.] I’ll throw my 2 cents in here.... Read More

Julian in the Dock

Israel Shamir • March 12, 2020

• 1,900 Words • 97 Comments • Reply

Julian Assange’s extradition hearing has had very little media coverage. Even The Guardian and The New York Times barely mentioned it, though these newspapers made a fortune publishing Assange-provided cables. Unless you had been looking for it, you wouldn’t even know that on February 24 to 27, the first stage of Assange’s extradition hearing was... Read More

Who or What Started the Wuhan Coronavirus Epidemic?

On the Condemnation of "Conspiracy Theories" as a Device for Protecting Officialdom’s Lies, Disinformation, and Obfuscation

Tony Hall • March 2, 2020

• 15,800 Words • 289 Comments • Reply

The Wuhan Coronavirus epidemic of 2019-20 is moving many markers where life merges into death, where truth merges into lies. At age 34, Dr. Li Wenliang drew attention in Wuhan to these moving markers. The disease Dr. Li sought to warn against ended up taking his life as the epidemic gained fatal traction. Before going... Read More

Your Man in the Public Gallery – Assange Hearing

Craig Murray • March 2, 2020

• 12,400 Words • 2 Comments • Reply

Woolwich Crown Court is designed to impose the power of the state. Normal courts in this country are public buildings, deliberately placed by our ancestors right in the centre of towns, almost always just up a few steps from a main street. The major purpose of their positioning and of their architecture was to facilitate... Read More

Seth Rich, Julian Assange and Dana Rohrabacher. Credit: Public domain/Gage Skidmore/ Flickr

Seth Rich, Julian Assange and Dana Rohrabacher - Will We Ever Know the Truth About the Stolen DNC Files?

Philip Giraldi • February 29, 2020

• 1,500 Words • 256 Comments • Reply

The media is doing its best to make the Seth Rich story go away, but it seems to have a life of its own, possibly due to the fact that the accepted narrative about how Rich died makes no sense. In its Iatest manifestation, it provides an alternative explanation for just how the information from... Read More

Anonymous Sources and the Guys and Gals Who Made the Iraq War a Reality Are Now Claiming That the Kremlin Is at It Again!

Philip Giraldi • February 27, 2020

• 1,400 Words • 38 Comments • Reply

Those hapless individuals who run the United States are again slipping into a fantasy world where Americans are besieged by imaginary threats coming from both inside and outside the country. Of course, it is particularly convenient to warn of foreign threats, as it makes the people in government seem relevant and needed, but one might... Read More

With WikiLeaks, Julian Assange Did What All Journalists Should Do

Patrick Cockburn • February 22, 2020

• 1,200 Words • 26 Comments • Reply

I was in Kabul in 2010 when Julian Assange and WikiLeaks first released a vast archive of classified US government documents, revealing what Washington really knew about what was happening in the world. I was particularly interested in one of these disclosures, which came in the shape of a video that the Pentagon had refused... Read More

Westlessness as a Cover for US vs. China

Chinese Foreign Minister Wang Yi stresses urgent need for international coordination 'to build a shared future'

Pepe Escobar • February 19, 2020

• 1,100 Words • 15 Comments • Reply

Few postmodern political pantomimes have been more revealing than the hundreds of so-called “international decision-makers,” mostly Western, waxing lyrical, disgusted or nostalgic over “Westlessness” at the Munich Security Conference. “Westlessness” sounds like one of those constipated concepts issued from a post-party bad hangover at the Rive Gauche during the 1970s. In theory (but not French... Read More

Palestinian-American Mahmoud Shaalan was shot five times by Israeli soldiers at a West Bank checkpoint. Credit: Courtesy.

American Citizens Killed and Tortured by Israel?

No one is ever held accountable

Philip Giraldi • February 15, 2020

• 2,000 Words • 213 Comments • Reply

One of the principal functions of a United States Embassy overseas is to provide citizen services, which includes coming to the assistance of Americans who are treated badly by the local government. It is a responsibility that most embassies take seriously, with the exception of the facility currently located in Jerusalem. One has to understand... Read More

More Lies on Iran: the White House Just Can’t Help Itself as New Facts Emerge

Philip Giraldi • February 13, 2020

• 1,100 Words • 181 Comments • Reply

Admittedly the news cycle in the United States seldom runs longer than twenty-four hours, but that should not serve as an excuse when a major story that contradicts what the Trump Administration has been claiming appears and suddenly dies. The public that actually follows the news might recall a little more than one month ago... Read More

Understanding Why They Lie and Why They Get Away with It

In lieu of an normal introduction: the eternally evolving BDA

The Saker • February 13, 2020

• 2,000 Words • 135 Comments • Reply

Friends, the Pentagon did it again. Through CNN, of course. Here is this "latest news": On his website, Colonel Cassad offered this, shall we say, "evolution" of the truth as reported by the United States: X stands for "surviving casualties" Y stands for "dead" X = 0, Y = 0 X = 11, Y =... Read More

Western Anti-Chinese Propaganda Exaggerates Coronavirus Danger, Creates Panic

Andre Vltchek • February 12, 2020

• 1,200 Words • 20 Comments • Reply

Now it is becoming obvious who China’s friends are, and who her enemies are. In the West, many nations and individuals are celebrating the short-term difficulties that the Chinese nation is facing, pouring salt into the wound, while giving birth to anti-Chinese sentiments. Even the WHO (World Health Organization) has been warning not to impose... Read More

How to Yellow-Cake a Tragedy

The NY Times Spreads the Virus of Hatred, Again

K.J. Noh • February 11, 2020

• 3,900 Words • 315 Comments • Reply

The 2019 Novel Coronavirus, first detected late last year in the hub city of Wuhan, China is a rapidly-spreading viral disease, often characterized by a cluster of acute respiratory symptoms. The virulence of this outbreak has put most of China under a lockdown: over 50 million people have been quarantined in the immediate region; 40,000... Read More

Democrats Ignore Trump’s Real Violations

Ron Paul • February 10, 2020

• 500 Words • 23 Comments • Reply

This week the latest Democratic Party attempt to remove President Trump from office – impeachment over Trump allegedly holding up an arms deal to Ukraine – flopped. Just like “Russiagate” and the Mueller investigation, and a number of other attempts to overturn the 2016 election. We’ve had three years of accusations and investigations with untold... Read More

China and America: Scoping Out the Megacepts

Fred Reed • February 7, 2020

• 1,500 Words • 152 Comments • Reply

Today, regarding China and America, we will have Thought Most Potent, adequate to lube a diesel, curdle milk, or seal a driveway. Whole departments of international studies will close their doors in despair. Ha. Why, we ask, does it seem that the Middle Kingdom advances speedily on so many fronts, while the US doesn’t? The... Read More

Why Both Republicans and Democrats Want Russia to Become the Enemy of Choice

Philip Giraldi • February 6, 2020

• 1,400 Words • 64 Comments • Reply

One of the more interesting aspects of the nauseating impeachment trial in the Senate was the repeated vilification of Russia and its President Vladimir Putin. To hate Russia has become dogma on both sides of the political aisle, in part because no politician has really wanted to confront the lesson of the 2016 election, which... Read More

Saboteurs Exhibit Appalling Callousness in Times of Crisis

Andre Vltchek • February 2, 2020

• 1,100 Words • 4 Comments • Reply

All objective reports coming out of China are praising the country for its determined and successful battle against the new and treacherous disease known as Coronavirus. The government in Beijing takes no chances. It is studying the situation, allocating massive resources to medical research. It is setting up temporary hospitals and medical centers, informing citizens... Read More

Coronavirus - China Fights Determinately, While Others Smear!

Andre Vltchek • February 2, 2020

• 1,600 Words • 5 Comments • Reply

China has been hit by coronavirus as if by a brick over the head; heavily and mercilessly. Instead of help, Beijing has received criticism, even verbal attacks. In spite of doing tremendous job fighting the epidemy, China is getting almost no tributes for its performance. Now Bangkok, Jakarta and other regional capital are in panic.... Read More

America At War Forever

Paul Craig Roberts • January 31, 2020

• 1,200 Words

Film-maker Oliver Stone has won 12 Academy Awards for his films. But this outstanding record doesn’t help when he seeks financing for a film critical of one of America’s wars. “You do those kinds of stories, it’s not going to happen.” Stone said that his dissent from the pro-war narrative has brought him “economic censorship.”... Read More

Bats, Gene Editing and Bioweapons: Recent Darpa Experiments Raise Concerns Amid Coronavirus Outbreak

Whitney Webb • January 30, 2020

• 5,700 Words • 294 Comments • Reply

WASHINGTON D.C. – In recent weeks, concern over the emergence of a novel coronavirus in China has grown exponentially as media, experts and government officials around the world have openly worried that this new disease has the potential to develop into a global pandemic. As concerns about the future of the ongoing outbreak have grown,... Read More

How Is the Murder of General Soleimani Connected to Hong Kong?

Andre Vltchek • January 30, 2020

• 1,200 Words • 15 Comments • Reply

Hong Kong rioters would like to believe that they are unique, and that the West has handpicked them - them alone – for what it identifies as the “noble fight for democracy”, and for “Western values”. The problem is that Hong Kong, which likes to promote itself as “Asia’s World City” (at least that is... Read More

China’s Virus Response Has Been ‘breathtaking’

Chinese President Xi Jinping is leading a scientific ‘People’s War’ against the coronavirus

Pepe Escobar • January 29, 2020

• 1,000 Words • 27 Comments • Reply

President Xi Jinping formally told WHO head Tedros Ghebreyesus, at their meeting in Beijing earlier this week, that the coronavirus epidemic “is a devil and we cannot allow the devil to hide.” Ghebreyesus for his part could not but praise Beijing for its extremely swift, coordinated response strategy – which includes fast identification of the... Read More

How Government and Media Are Prepping America for a Failed 2020 Election

Whitney Webb • January 28, 2020

• 8,200 Words • 17 Comments • Reply

As World War II drew to a close in Europe, British philosopher Bertrand Russell wrote that “neither a man nor a crowd nor a nation can be trusted to act humanely or to think sanely under the influence of a great fear.” Though numerous examples in the post-World War II era have proven Russell’s point,... Read More

Coronavirus: the Dark Side

Godfree Roberts • January 28, 2020

• 2,000 Words • 395 Comments • Reply

Vioxx killed 500,000 Americans: a toll that could have been reduced by 90% had the FDA issued a timely warning. Pharmaceuticals, correctly and legally prescribed, kill 140,000 Americans each year, yet most people are unaware of their lethality and do not know how to a prevent being killed this way. Coronavirus deaths are few, its... Read More

The Holocaust, the BBC and Antisemitism Smears

Jonathan Cook • January 28, 2020

• 3,400 Words • 96 Comments • Reply

Senior BBC news reporter Orla Guerin has found herself in hot water of an increasingly familiar kind. During a report on preparations for the commemoration of the 75th anniversary of the liberation of Auschwitz concentration camp, she made a brief reference to Israel and an even briefer reference to the Palestinians. Her reporting coincided with... Read More

‘Nobody Ever Gets Points for Saying Anything Good About Russia’: Stephen Cohen Says, as Rep. Schiff Spreads Ignorance About Putin

Stephen F. Cohen • January 28, 2020

• 500 Words • 22 Comments • Reply

US Congress heavyweights like Adam Schiff deeply misunderstand Russia but keep on bashing Moscow because it has become “politically advantageous” in Washington, Russia researcher Stephen Cohen said. “Being highly-critical of Russia is good politics in the United States,” Cohen, professor emeritus of Russian studies at New York University and Princeton University, told the Grayzone's Aaron... Read More

« Earlier Items

"American Media" Items Across Entire Archive

Category Classics

China's Rise, America's Fall

Which superpower is more threatened by its “extractive elites”?

Ron Unz

• 431 Comments • Reply

9/11 Was an Israeli Job

How America was neoconned into World War IV

Laurent Guyénot

• 390 Comments • Reply

John McCain and the POW Cover-Up