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Wayne Madsen is an investigative journalist, nationally distributed columnist, and author who has covered Washington, DC, politics, national security, and intelligence issues since 1994. He has written for The Village Voice, The Progressive, CAQ, Counterpunch, and the Intelligence Newsletter (based in Paris).
Look for his new book, Overthrow a Fascist Regime on $15 a Day: The Internet Irregulars vs. The Powers That Be!, in the fall.
SHARE Tuesday, November 12, 2019 Federations No Longer a Fad
Unions and federations of nations, like the marriages of people, often end in divorce. Perhaps the international bureaucracy of supranational institution builders should take that fact into consideration before international political unions even occur.
(2 comments) SHARE Friday, November 8, 2019 In Kentucky, a strong hint of things to come?
The 2 percent won by Libertarian candidate John Hicks, should have gone to Bevin. Stivers, therefore, has suggested that the General Assembly might simply add Hicks's vote count to that of Bevin, thus ensuring Bevin's re-election to another four-year term.
SHARE Wednesday, November 6, 2019 India Set to Discover the Law of Unintended Consequences
On October 31, the new Indian union territories of Jammu and Kashmir and Ladakh were officially bifurcated. Neither enjoy the autonomous self-governing status as that of the former State of Jammu and Kashmir.
(1 comments) SHARE Wednesday, October 30, 2019 A Progressive Surge Is Brewing Across Latin America
The new architects of "regime change" in Langley, Virginia have discovered "lawfare," the use of corrupt judges and prosecutors, to bring falsified criminal charges of corruption against leaders opposed by Washington.
SHARE Sunday, October 27, 2019 Needed: a Re-Strengthened United Nations
Recent events have pointed to the weakness of the United Nations in dealing with international crises. The UN is experiencing the same diplomatic inertia that doomed its predecessor, the League of Nations. The UN Secretary General is not using all the powers granted to him by the UN Charter to try to extinguish flames of civil conflict breaking out around the world.
SHARE Thursday, October 24, 2019 Trump Administration Misusing USAID for personal business interests
The U.S. Agency for International Development (USAID) has been transformed by Secretary of State Mike Pompeo, at the urging of Donald Trump, into an aggressive business intelligence operation designed to financially benefit Trump's top donors in private industry.
SHARE Wednesday, October 23, 2019 No World for Statesmen
It is simply an embarrassment that such a low-information and ignorant individual like Mr. Trump could have been elected president of the United States. Trump is not even qualified intellectually or ethically to hold a seat on a town council or local board of education.
SHARE Monday, October 21, 2019 'Poor Little Israel' Isn't So Poor, Financially or Diplomatically
One of the tropes Israel and its international phalanx of lobbyists has used since the state's inception in 1948 is that "Poor Little Israel" requires Western money and diplomatic support because the small country is surrounded by hostile Arab countries. Neither of these contentions have ever been true.
SHARE Monday, October 14, 2019 Fake News, Fake Polls, and Now, Fake History
When Mr. Trump advances the false notion that the Kurds made no sacrifices for the Allies in World War II, he not only shows his ignorance of history but his disdain for the Kurds.
(4 comments) SHARE Thursday, October 10, 2019 Israel Also Involved in Digging up Dirt on the Bidens on Behalf of Trump
By Donald Trump's own admission and through documents provided by an Intelligence Community whistleblower and former U.S. special envoy for Ukraine Paul Volker it is known that the Trump administration pressured at least four countries to dig up dirt on former Vice President Joe Biden and his son, Hunter Biden.
SHARE Tuesday, October 8, 2019 The Plot to Overthrow the Pope
Francis, a former bar bouncer in a tough working-class neighborhood of Buenos Aires, has not been a shrinking violet when it comes to fighting back against his right-wing enemies.
(3 comments) SHARE Sunday, October 6, 2019 Journalism in an Era of Delusional Politics
Trump, whose knowledge of history is shallow to the degree of a millimeter, does not likely know that the co-founder of "The New York Times," Henry J. Raymond, is considered the "godfather of the Republican Party."
SHARE Wednesday, October 2, 2019 The America of Trump's Father: an Aspirational Fascism Reigned in New York
Old Man Trump became a close friend of Binyamin Netanyahu and other top Israelis and New York Jewish community leaders. Just as Old Man Trump was not really fooling anyone in pre-war New York, his son is not fooling anyone today with his fascist tendencies masked as "Making America Great Again."
(1 comments) SHARE Sunday, September 29, 2019 It's Past Time to Move the United Nations to Switzerland
With a dangerous right-wing and quasi-fascist administration in power in Washington, one that rejects internationalism and consensus-building, it is past time for the United Nations to move its headquarters and member states' permanent missions to a more neutral location.
(1 comments) SHARE Thursday, September 19, 2019 CIA Back to 'Three Stooges' type antics?
The CIA - under Donald Trump and "yes woman" Gina Haspel - is, once again, up to its old schoolboy antics. The regional assembly of Homa Bay a county on the shores of Lake Victoria recently experienced an incident similar to those visited upon Communist Party meetings in India decades earlier.
SHARE Tuesday, September 17, 2019 Operation Yellowhammer cites fascist-induced chaos for UK
The Brexiteers' fascism, coupled with far-right English nationalism, will create a virtual "Airstrip One," George Orwell's appellation for the British Isles in his landmark novel, "1984."
SHARE Monday, September 16, 2019 The Chaos Theory Behind Fascism
In August of this year, 113 Member of Parliament signed a letter to Johnson that accused the prime minister of deploying the language of "fascism and authoritarianism" in plowing ahead with plans to leave the EU with no deal.
(1 comments) SHARE Wednesday, September 11, 2019 The End of Modern Diplomacy
Others who have fallen victim to Trump's personal insults include French President Emmanuel Macron, German Chancellor Merkel, former British Prime Minister Theresa May, Iranian President Hassan Rouhani, Montenegro Prime Minister Duško Marković, former Australian Prime Minister Malcolm Turnbull, Pakistani Prime Minister Imran Khan who had to arrange for his own transportation.
(3 comments) SHARE Monday, September 9, 2019 It's More Than Obvious that we are all living with a dementia sufferer
The only beneficial accomplishment of Trump's term is that everyone now understands what it is like to live with a person suffering from dementia. Trump displays the signs of the ailment on a daily basis.