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Gilbert Mercier Discusses the US Election Charade with Andrew Korybko on Sputnik

Gilbert Mercier Discusses the US Election Charade with Andrew Korybko on Sputnik

Andrew Korybko: If Joe Biden decides to throw his hat into the ring, how could this affect the dynamic of the elections? Gilbert Mercier: Ultimately, Joe Biden, if he runs, will serve an entertainment purpose: sort of what is going on with Donald Trump in the GOP primary. Biden might try to cater to the […]

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Bush-Clinton Mafia Dynasties Merry-Go-Round

Bush-Clinton Mafia Dynasties Merry-Go-Round

If a space or a time traveler would set his time ship’s dial to 2015, with the United States as its destination, one could think that a mandatory preparation for the journey to understand the US’ political system would be an attentive study of the Constitution. After all, the document, drafted in 1787 by the […]

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US Military and NATO: Praetorian Guard of the Orwellian Empire

US Military and NATO: Praetorian Guard of the Orwellian Empire

The new world order is chaos Since the collapse of the Soviet Union in 1991, the United States has positioned itself, one administration after another, as a global supercop guarantor of world peace. Indeed, since the end of World War II, even as the US has projected its power worldwide through military might, its clever ideologues […]

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The Illusion of Democracy

The Illusion of Democracy

From people’s rule to a broken social contract It is ironic, considering democracy’s pitiful state worldwide that, in accordance to its etymology, it literally means “common people’s rule” or, more simply, “people’s power.” The English term democracy and the 14th-century French word democratie come from the Greek demokratia via the Latin democratia. The Greek radical […]

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Sanctions Against Russia: Farcical Tantrums from US and EU?

Sanctions Against Russia: Farcical Tantrums from US and EU?

It has been one of the more absurd spectacles since the Russian annexation of Crimea. Western powers, centered around the European Union and the United States, have been waging a sanctions war against Moscow. Both the targeting, and effect, loom as question marks before governments who have been caught off guard by the speed of […]

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