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• USA Is Defunding Regime-Change NGOs: This Changes Everything | Dr. Glenn Diesen

  Glenn Diesen argues that Western-funded NGOs and think tanks function as deliberate instruments of geopolitical influence, manufacturing consent through media and civil-society channels. He situates USAID and the National Endowment for Democracy within a long-standing practice—originating in Cold Wa

• Collective West Is Over. PEACE ACTIVISM Can Prevent Complete Self-Destruction | U Guérot & J Oberg

  At the heart of the exchange, Guérot and Oberg diagnose the collapse of Western peace activism as intertwined with the broader decline of “the West.” Guérot traces the dissipation of mass peace mobilization after the Iraq protests, the fragmentation of leftist coalitions, and the capture of youth en

• REVEALED: NATO Targets Its OWN Population With Cognitive Warfare! | Dr. Jonas Tögel
• Nuclear Annihilation Is Closer Than Ever Before. This Is Crazy.

  Katrina vanden Heuvel convenes a panel arguing that the renewed US–Russia diplomatic opening must urgently address the nuclear overhang as New START nears expiration and the Ukraine war accelerates geopolitical risk. Governor Jerry Brown emphasizes the fog of war, the unexpected resilience of Ukrain

• Russia Beat NATO Strategically. They Can't Recover From This | Andrei Martyanov

  Andrei Martyanov argues that Western policymakers and analysts fundamentally misread Russia by privileging financial narratives over tangible industrial and military capabilities. Drawing on his Soviet naval background, he emphasizes the primacy of the correlation of forces and means—industrial base

• Europe's Worst War Propaganda Since World War II. A Continent On The Brink | Dr. Dieter Reinisch

  Dr. Dieter Reinisch argues that mainstream Western media in German-speaking Europe has coalesced into a pro-NATO "Haltungsjournalismus" that narrows debate, promotes a binary friend/enemy narrative, and drives publics toward escalation rather than diplomacy. Drawing on his new editorship of Internat

• Ex-State Dept. Chief REVEALS Hidden War Making Process | Col. Lawrence Wilkerson

  At the heart of this interview, Colonel Lawrence Wilkerson maps how personalities, institutional power, and ideology shape U.S. war-making. Drawing on his roles with PACOM, as Colin Powell’s aide, and in policy education, Wilkerson contends that individual actors—especially secretaries of defense, n

• NATO's Plans To SACRIFICE Europe For US Hegemony | Dr. Jonas Tögel
• Peace With Russia Is INEVITABLE. NATO Is In Terminal Decline | Ray McGovern

  Ray McGovern argues that a negotiated peace with Russia in Europe is inevitable and achievable if Western leaders accept the balance of power realities on the ground. He contends that Putin already curtailed ambitions in 2022, and Washington should prioritize verifiable security arrangements — not s

• How The CIA Became The Greatest Threat To US Security | Ray McGovern

  Ray McGovern contends that the U.S. intelligence community shifted from supplying sober, presidentially directed analysis to cultivating influence-seeking insiders who tell leaders what they want to hear. Drawing on his PDB experience, he traces institutional degradation through politicized personal

• Trump's Gaza Plan, the Israel Lobby, and Ukraine Negotiations | Harvard Prof. Stephen Walt

  At the heart of this exchange, Stephen Walt contends that the Israel lobby—defined by political aims rather than religion—drives persistent, often unconditional U.S. backing for Israel, despite growing domestic skepticism. Walt argues that the lobby’s influence helps explain bipartisan policies that

• This Is What Moscow Really Thinks About The Trump Plan | Prof. Nicolai Petro

  Dr. Nicolai Petro argues that Moscow’s calculus toward the proposed U.S.-brokered 30-day ceasefire is shaped by battlefield advantage, verifiability, and long-term strategic goals. Russia views negotiations as contingent on the situation on the ground and has consistently linked territorial gains to

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