Politics

As I wrote, if Trump appoints John Bolton National Security Adviser, prepare to die. Diana Johnstone explains why in

Bolton: As Bad As It Gets

If Trump is good at firing, it is because he is so bad at hiring.

Donald Trump came to office having made noises favorable to normalizing relations with Russia and cutting back foreign military adventures. Despite his manifest personal and professional inadequacies, that vague promise offered a glimmer of hope to a number of congenital optimists.

This is a translation by Costantino Ceoldo of an article by the well known Italian war correspondent Gian Micalessin reporting from the scene on the latest attrocity committed against Syrian civilians by the Western-armed and supported mercenaries sent to destabilize Syria and throw the counry into chaos, like Iraq, Libya, Somalia, Yeman. These attrocities are seldom mentioned in the Western media and when they are, they are falsely blamed on Assad and Russia.

Here is
Gian Micalessin on Slaughterhouse Damascus

Is the US Government Criminally Insane?

Read these articles and make up your mind:

http://www.informationclearinghouse.info/49037.htm

https://www.strategic-culture.org/news/2018/03/21/russian-military-warns-major-war-in-syria-imminent.html

https://www.uawire.org/lavrov-us-british-french-and-other-number-of-other-countries-have-special-forces-working-in-syria

https://www.rt.com/news/421919-chemical-weapons-militants-syria/

https://www.fort-russ.com/2018/03/escalation-us-assumes-naval-attack-posture/

Finally, Some Good News

Paul Craig Roberts

Washington’s gratuitous raising of tensions with Russia that we have been witnessing for many years is so reckless and irresponsible that we need some relief from the depression of it all. Perhaps I am grasping at straws, but here are some hopeful developments.

Can Nuclear War Be Avoided?

Paul Craig Roberts

Two factors are driving the world to nuclear war. One is the constant stream of insults, false accusations and broken agreements that the West has been dumping on Russia year after year. The other is Russia’s response, or, perhaps more correctly, the lack thereof.

Articles documenting Washington’s betrayals and provocations of Russia are available online and on my website. There is no point in repeating them here.