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Iran’s response to Israel attacking its embassy and killing an Iranian general and various other Iranian military personnel took place last night. Depending on various sources, ~200 drones and 20–30 ballistic missiles were used. While the Israeli side exaggerates the drones and missiles it shot down and the Iranian side exaggerates the hits, the videos … Read more
And that’s why they fail against reactionary movements We are witnessing various Western countries — mainly Anglo-American ones — fall into reactionaryism. While there are sizable segments that speak against this societal collapse and regression, the reactionary movements seem to be more powerful, persistent, focused, and with momentum. Things being how they are, various countries will end up with … Read more
That in the photo is Biden with union workers doing a photo op a few months earlier. And just a few days ago he has been saying that ‘labor built America’… US Federal Reserve says its goal is ‘to get wages down’ …and that’s his Fed Chair, trying to push down wages for everyone by … Read more
More US and European media outlets have started to admit that ‘the West’ lost the war in Ukraine. The supporters of Ukraine now started pressuring it into peace talks in which it will end up having to concede to all or most of Russia’s pre-war policy positions. The media efforts to ‘shape perception’ and ‘frame’ … Read more
It was supposed to be simple – the US was going to apply the Afghanistan playbook in Ukraine against Russia. It was going to bog it down in a low-level conflict that would starve it of money and resources. It would strain the Russian society and it would put economic and political pressure on the … Read more
Just, until a year ago, the US economy relied on a very specific paradigm. Taking advantage of the international reserve currency status of the dollar, it ran on a cash-aflush economy into which high amounts of dollars kept entering through mechanisms like the Federal Reserve and the fractional reserve lending of private banks. This setup … Read more
In 10 years, the last cadre of statesmen, military personnel, and bureaucrats who were educated up in the last period of the Soviet Union would have either passed away or become too old to get involved in anything. Meanwhile, an entire generation who neither knew the Soviet Union nor the difficult Yeltsin years would have … Read more
Its the Nayirah Lie. Nayirah (testimony) Kuwaiti Government, A private US PR firm, and US government concocted a lie which said that Iraqi soldiers ‘took away 500 incubators from premature babies in a Kuwaiti Hospital and left them to die’. Join My Mailing List Here: Ozgur Zeren’s Mailing List (you will also get updates when … Read more
The social dynamics that created Trumpism are not being addressed. Inequality continues. People lack housing, healthcare, jobs. Retirees are struggling. Infrastructure is falling apart. Biden administration promised various things to solve these before the election, but they reneged on everything as a result of corporate pressure. Join My Mailing List Here: Ozgur Zeren’s Mailing List … Read more
When some advocate for abolishing the police in response to police brutality, discrimination or corruption, it sounds pretty extreme. For, there is indeed crime in our world, and there needs to be a way for the society to respond to crime. However… When looking into details of how policing works in US, and what results … Read more