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  If The Wars Go On Edward J. Curtin, Jr. I suppose my title could have been couched in the singular form, as Hermann Hesse, the Nobel Prize winning German/Swiss author, did with his collection of anti-war essays about World War I (the war to end all wars that didn’t),  If The War Goes On . . .   Or more appropriately, I might have eliminated that conditional “If” since it seems Pollyannish. It’s a long hard road, this anti-war business.  During the first Cold War and the 1962 Cuban Missile Crisis in the early sixties when Kennedy and Krushchev narrowly avoided blowing the world to smithereens, Bob Dylan put it right in his fierce song,  Masters of War : (Verse 1) Come, you masters of war You that build the big guns You that build the death planes You that build all the bombs You that hide behind walls You that hide behind desks I just want you to know I can see through your masks (Verse 3) Like Judas of old You lie and deceive A world war can be won You want me to believe But I see th

Schrödinger's Bomb: False Flags Over Ukraine The Corbett Report by James Corbett Remember way back in January of this year when  I predicted  that geopolitical strife—"the element of the global calculation that has been excluded from the equation" during the scamdemic—would "come back with a vengeance" in 2022? Well, if the Russian invasion of Ukraine in February and the ramping up of tensions with China over Taiwan this past summer hadn't yet convinced you that the struggle for control of the grand ( 3D ) chessboard has indeed "come back with a vengeance" this year, the events of this past week should be more than enough to dispel your doubts. First we had the news that Russia is  ringing the alarm  over a  false flag dirty bomb attack  that (they assert) the Ukrainians are planning to stage in Ukraine in order to blame on Russia. Then we had the  US counter-warning  that it's actually  Russia  that is planning to release nukes in Ukraine and