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Germany Renewed: A Case for Disunion?
• February 23, 2025
• 2,000 Words • 148 Comments • Reply
Thirty-odd years ago, the Cold War seemed won. Communist regimes toppled across Europe, the Berlin Wall came down and Germany was poised on the edge of a once-unimaginable reunification. I remember at that time calling an acquaintance in what was then West Germany, Dr. Wilfried Freiherr von Bredow. We had a brief but friendly conversation... Read More
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Why Is the US Framing Its Cold War with China as Against the Chinese Communist Party (CCP)?
• January 16, 2025
• 3,700 Words • 366 Comments • Reply
The US government likes to say that it is in confrontation with the Chinese Communist Party (CCP) rather than against the Chinese people. The US Congress often takes pains to label its anti-China legislations as anti-CCP. The controlled media also follows this politically correct approach to describe the US-China competition. I often wonder why. I... Read More
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Can Trump Save America from Itself?
• January 10, 2025
• 1,300 Words • 146 Comments • Reply
Trump might simply escalate the metaphysical staircase to simply say that he alone has the vision to save America from WWIII. Russian FM Lavrov last week dismissed Team Trump’s floated peace proposals for Ukraine as unsatisfactory. Essentially, the Russian view is that the calls for a frozen conflict precisely miss the point: From the Russian... Read More
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American-Century Fight
• January 2, 2025
• 4,300 Words • 69 Comments • Reply
I have long nursed a keen interest in the Cold War’s corruptions on the cultural side — who the perpetrators and who the victims and what they did in each case. I was riveted, then, when OR Books brought out Joel Whitney’s first book, Finks: How the C.I.A. Tricked the World’s Best Writers, in 2017.... Read More
Russian History as Therapy for Western Historians Who Just Want to be Loved
• November 4, 2024
• 1,900 Words • 2 Comments • Reply
It’s a pity when a 760-page history of the Russian leadership’s thinking during the Cold War period, 1945 to 2022, earns consignment to the waste bin within the first nineteen pages, and in just three sentences. This ratio of toxicity to prolixity – 1 to 40 — is exceptional, although the price asked for it... Read More
How the Neocons Chose Hegemony Over Peace Beginning in the Early 1990s
• September 4, 2024
• 3,300 Words • 148 Comments • Reply
In 1989 I served as an advisor to the first post-communist government of Poland, and helped to devise a strategy of financial stabilization and economic transformation. My recommendations in 1989 called for large-scale Western financial support for Poland’s economy in order to prevent a runaway inflation, enable a convertible Polish currency at a stable exchange... Read More
Historical Rhymes of Manchuria(China vs Japan) and Taiwan(China vs US) - 'Democracy' vs Sovereignty
• May 8, 2024
• 9,900 Words • 33 Comments • Reply
It's been said(by Mark Twain?) that history doesn't repeat itself but rhymes. A notable historical rhyme is between the current Taiwan crisis and the Manchurian crisis of the 1920s/1930s. In either case, a non-Chinese, even anti-Chinese, imperialist power attempts to pry away a key Chinese territory under dubious pretexts. Japan coveted parts of northeast China,... Read More
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A “New Democrat” Becomes President
• January 29, 2024
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William Jefferson Clinton—“Bill” Clinton—was inaugurated as the 42nd president of the United States on January 20, 1993. A Democrat, he was the first president to be elected from among the “Baby Boomer” generation. Clinton’s youthful good looks, smiling persona, personal charisma, and presumed affiliation with the antiwar mood of the 1960s—stood in seeming contrast to... Read More
How the World Went from Universal Nationalism to Universal Imperialism, and the Hidden Empire of Judea
• October 10, 2023
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Nationalism is the best defense against imperialism. Nationalism means a people minding their own business. It means having national sovereignty and respecting the sovereignties of other nations. Imperialism, in contrast, means trampling on the rights and independence of other nations. If National Socialism had remained in nationalist mode, it wouldn't have disrupted the world order.... Read More
Sustained Peace with Russia? Is It Possible?
• October 9, 2023
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Few people even know the name ‘Gehlen’, yet Reinhart Gehlen and his SS men not only shaped politically the newborn OSS and CIA, but also, to a significant extent, determined post-war American attitudes toward Russia. A zeitgeist that has remained largely intact to this day, Gehlen – ‘man of light and dark’; both Führer loyalist... Read More
Play the Game of AAJ or Ask-A-Jew and See the World Anew as Scales Fall Off Your Eyes... Because the Fall of WASP Power Wa...
• October 30, 2022
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The game of ASK A JEW. It’s a simple game that anyone can play, even a child. Its purpose is to understand the true nature of the People who rule over us. (For tips on how to play this game, skip most of this post and go to where it says *How to Play ASK... Read More
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Was Robert Oppenheimer a Soviet Agent?
• November 25, 2019
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J. Robert Oppenheimer was the scientific head of the U.S. atomic-bomb project during World War II. Oppenheimer was a brilliant physicist whose contributions were essential for the successful development of the atomic bomb. Gen. Leslie Groves, the overall head of what became known as the Manhattan Project, testified that Oppenheimer was an exceptionally hard worker... Read More
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Washington's Century-Long War on Russia
• March 9, 2018
• 2,000 Words • 159 Comments • Reply
The United States has launched a three-pronged offensive on Russia. First, it's attacking Russia's economy via sanctions and oil-price manipulation. Second, it's increasing the threats to Russia's national security by arming and training militant proxies in Syria and Ukraine, and by encircling Russia with NATO forces and missile systems. And, third, it's conducting a massive... Read More
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Zbigniew Brzezinski
• June 2, 2017
• 1,800 Words
Brzezinski’s death at 89 years of age has generated a load of propaganda and disinformation, all of which serves one interest group or another or the myths that people find satisfying. I am not an expert on Brzezinski, and this is not an apology for him. He was a Cold Warrior, as essentially was everyone... Read More
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The Age of Great Expectations and the Great Void
History After “the End of History”
• January 8, 2017
• 3,700 Words • 36 Comments • Reply
The fall of the Berlin Wall in October 1989 abruptly ended one historical era and inaugurated another. So, too, did the outcome of last year’s U.S. presidential election. What are we to make of the interval between those two watershed moments? Answering that question is essential to understanding how Donald Trump became president and where... Read More
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Cold War Redux
Dishing it to the Russkies
• February 16, 2016
• 1,300 Words • 150 Comments • Reply
One of the most astonishing news stories I have read of late appeared in Business Insider at the beginning of February entitled “ ' The Russians are going to have a cow’: the U.S.’s message to Putin ‘is a really big deal.’” The article described how the Barack Obama Administration has decided to build up... Read More
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