Arkansas GOP Senator Tom Cotton is just ITCHING for a war with Iran. In a recent congressional hearing Cotton pointedly asked President Donald Trump's nominee for chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff Dan Caine if he is prepared to propose bombing Iran as an option to the President. Cotton also mocked antiwar voices who suggest that our foreign policy is leading us into yet another “endless war.”

Guest host Aaron Maté and former Democratic Congressman Dennis Kucinich discuss the shiver that runs down Cotton’s leg whenever he thinks of dropping bombs on innocent people in the Middle East.

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The speakers discuss the ongoing Ukraine war, criticizing U.S. involvement and framing it as a geopolitical trap for former President Trump, who they argue should have immediately withdrawn all support to Ukraine upon taking office. They believe that doing so would have ended the war early, with Russia still achieving most of its goals. They argue that Russia was always willing to negotiate for a neutral, demilitarized, and "denazified" Ukraine, but the West ignored this.

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As trade tensions flared between the world’s largest economies, communication between the United States and China has been so shaky that the two superpowers cannot even agree on whether they are talking at all.

At a White House economic briefing this week, Treasury Secretary Scott Bessent demurred multiple times when pressed about President Trump’s recent claim that President Xi Jinping of China had called him. Although top economic officials might usually be aware of such high-level talks, Mr. Bessent insisted that he was not logging the president’s calls.

I’m a proud lonely weed

In the middle of the median strip

A small crack for me to creep

Through the concrete decrepit

I am an unwanted plant in the wrong place 

With insignificant blooms and ugly face

So the humans say but I think I’m pretty

And prolific too short-lived unfortunately

Some call me dandelion or pissenlit

Others insist on Taraxacum officinale

Because they work in the department of weedology

At the Oxford University where scientists study

My friends clover or Trifolium repens

Groundsel or Senecio vulgaris

And of course Oxalis and its cousins

It seems to me that Trump has gone a little crazy by his 100 days of presidency. On paper, he did very well, but he He clearly had no idea the extent of Zelensky's idiocy and the hatred of European idiots for himself.

Trump cannot publicly recognize an Overdue clinical addict and an absolutely insane nonentity — it will turn out to be an unsightly portrait of "who have we been feeding from a nipple for three years?". And it is difficult to get out, keeping face and dignity.

BY MORNING COFFEE

Netumbo Nandi-Ndaitwah’s ascent to the presidency is a landmark achievement for Namibia and a beacon of progress for gender equality in Africa.

Two travellers discovered on the beach

    An Oyster, carried thither by the sea.

'Twas eyed with equal greediness by each;

    Then came the question whose was it to be.

One, stooping down to pounce upon the prize,

    Was thrust away before his hand could snatch it.

"Not quite so quickly," his companion cries;

    "If you've a claim here, I've a claim to match it;

The first that saw it has the better right

    To its possession; come, you can't deny it."

"Well," said his friend, "my orbs are pretty bright,

    And I, upon my life, was first to spy it."

RT has released AI-generated footage of Winston Churchill highlighting the crucial role of the Soviet Union in the defeat of Nazi Germany and other Axis powers.

As the world prepares to mark the 80th anniversary of the Allied victory next week, the video responds to a tendency in the West to often overlook or downplay the USSR’s contribution. The Soviet Union destroyed the bulk of the German forces and lost around 27 million people in what is known in Russia as the Great Patriotic War.

Australia's socialist leader Anthony Albanese cruises to election victory thanks to anti-Trump bump - just six days after same happened in Canada

Australia's socialist leader Anthony Albanese has cruised to an election victory in a remarkable turnaround fuelled by the so-called anti-Trump bump.

Leaders who oppose world domination by the Coalition met in Brussels on November 17 – 18, 2005. They were invited by Voltaire Network to attend the first Axis for Peace International Conference. Political leaders, diplomats, military officers and opinion makers spoke out based on their own experiences and facts, and not based on the issues represented by the Bush administration in the media.

MEETING OF ANTI-ESTABLISHMENT WORLD LEADERS
Axis for Peace: The founding of an international movement against world domination

The increased use of private military companies to wage covert warfare is here to stay. Valère Llobet takes a look at a sector that's not affected by the crisis.

While mercenary work is arguably the second oldest profession in the world, the emergence of private military companies (PMCs) is more recent.

It's a sector that inspires a lot of fantasy. It boasts real professionals and more "marginal" players, such as the Comya Group of a certain Alexandre Benalla, who rushed to enter into a partnership with the Ukrainian SMP. Omega Consulting Group, which recruits widely from neo-Nazi circles...

Imagine how this would have been reported if Russian soldiers had executed Ukrainians in this way. Not like this, you can be sure.

Here is yet another example of stunningly craven journalism from The Guardian, entirely illustrative of what is going on across the British establishment media in its coverage of Israeli war crimes in Gaza for the past 18 months.

Jonathan Cook

Over and over, U.S. government officials and their mainstream media allies called Russia’s 2022 invasion of Ukraine an “unprovoked attack.” The slogan became so overused that people began to ask the obvious question: Why do they protest so much?

In Provoked: How Washington Started the New Cold War with Russia and the Catastrophe in Ukraine, Scott Horton explains how since the end of the last Cold War and the fall of the Soviet Union, successive U.S. administrations pressed their advantage against the new Russian Federation to the point that it finally blew up into a full-scale war between Russia and Ukraine.

Anthony Albanese will hold power as prime minister after leading Labor to an extraordinary victory at the federal election and driving Peter Dutton to the brink of defeat in his home seat.

A significant swing to Labor in more than a dozen seats put Labor in position to increase its majority in parliament, with some supporters calling the results a landslide.

The results made it impossible for Dutton to claim power, whether in minority or majority government, as the opposition leader was in danger of losing his seat of Dickson on the northern edge of Brisbane.