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Britain's self-styled political "moderates" are getting very excited and it's not just because the latest bid to prosecute Tony Blair for war crimes has been blocked by the High Court.

A British writer and journalist Edward Lucas, one of the pioneers of the theory presenting Russia as an existential threat to the US and the European Union, several years ago coined the term of “whataboutism.”

America’s chronic trade deficit with the rest of the world is testimony to a failed US economy. In reality, the US has no-one else to blame but itself for such an historic failure.

Trump is pursuing several ulterior motives in sparking a new crisis with North Korea.

Amid the thick fog of (rhetorical) war between Washington and Pyongyang, it’s still possible to detect some fascinating writing on the (unbuilt) wall.

It really is saying something when US President Trump's latest threat against North Korea draws a rebuke from John McCain - America's most hawkish lawmaker.

Repeat after me: (by orders of the NeoCon Thought Police): "I condemn the evil dictator Nicolas Maduro and support a US-led humanitarian intervention to save the people of oil rich Venezuela! I condemn the evil dictator Nicolas Maduro..."

The assassination of President John F Kennedy in 1963 was a seminal event in modern American history. Yet 54 years on, the official US state continues covering up the shocking truth about the killing of one of its most popular leaders.

Repeat after me (by orders of the Neo-Con Thought Police): "Russian aggression," "Russian aggression," "Russian aggression." The phrase has become a mantra, to be repeated (with all the correct arm movements and feigned expressions of outrage), by anyone wanting to be regarded as a "credible" foreign policy commentator in the elite western media.

The Empire of Whiners simply can't get enough when it comes to huff, puff and pout as the Empire of Sanctions.

The US’ latest disinformation offensive against Russia is aimed at manipulating Trump into dispatching more uniformed troops to Afghanistan instead of going through with Bannon’s PMC proposal, as both factions fight for control over who will receive the profitable right to ensure security for future American mining operations.

So the American bully wants to slap more sanctions on Russia over alleged misdeeds. This is blatant temper tantrums by a frustrated US trying to get “its way or no way”.

It's exactly fifty years ago since the Russians got to the moon first. Yes, that's right. The Russians.

So, who is hampering international trade? Experts agree that the recent summit of the G20 in Hamburg was characterized by certain changes in the dividing lines between economic “globalists” and “nationalists.”

As a new report by the Army War College tracks the loss of "US primacy" around the world, it prescribes more of the same; propaganda, surveillance and war.

President Trump's announcement this week to end the CIA's covert arming of militants in Syria is an admission of defeat. The US has lost its six-year war for regime change in the Arab country. It's time to wrap it up.

South Korea wants to talk to North Korea.

You are a man-of-the-people left-wing politician riding the crest of a wave of popularity. Members of the public regularly ask you to pose for photographs with them.

Political opponents and US media are calling the uncovered past meeting between Donald Trump's son and a Russian lawyer a "smoking gun".

It was pleasing to see Donald Trump and Vladimir Putin greet each other cordially at the G20 summit. After their breakthrough first meeting, one hopes the two leaders have a personal foundation for future cooperation.