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Why No “Conspiracy Theory!” on Prigozhin’s Death?

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I’m rather amused by the U.S. mainstream media’s response to the widespread accusations that Russian President Vladimir Putin orchestrated the assassination of Russian mercenary leader Yevgeny Prigozhin. Notice that no one in the U.S. mainstream press is crying “Conspiracy theory!” to mock or ridicule the accusation. Yet, whenever one points to the U.S. national-security establishment’s assassinations and assassination ...

The Anti-Russia Animus Is Back with a Vengeance

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If there is one thing clear about the U.S. national-security establishment’s pro-empire, interventionist foreign policy, it is that Americans are expected to maintain a deeply seated, permanent hatred of Russia. Woe to any public official who violates that sacred foreign-policy principle. Imagine if some prominent member of Congress suddenly called for the lifting of all U.S. economic sanctions, ...

A Lesson from Niger about America’s National-Security State

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The recent military coup in Niger serves as another reminder to the American people about the danger posed by the national-security state form of governmental structure that America adopted after World War II, ostensibly to prevent a communist takeover of America. Like the United States, Niger is a national-security state, meaning that its government includes a vast, all-powerful ...