Eric Draitser
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New York, NY, United States
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Why Many Global South Countries Side with Russia
The latest on the war, including: - Russia's allies in the Global South - Why does Ukraine, a former colony, not elicit sympathy from former colonies in → Read More
What's Putin's Game With Nuclear Threats?
Eric Draitser is an independent political analyst and host of CounterPunch Radio. You can find his exclusive content including articles, podcasts, audio commentaries, poetry and more at patreon.com/ericdraitser. You can follow him on Twitter @stopimperialism. → Read More
The Russia-Ukraine Conflict and the Global South
Eric Draitser is an independent political analyst and host of CounterPunch Radio. You can find his exclusive content including articles, podcasts, audio commentaries, poetry and more at patreon.com/ericdraitser. You can follow him on Twitter @stopimperialism. → Read More
Blowback to G7 Ban on Russian Oil?
- G7 to ban Russian oil - Who buys Russian oil and what will the impact be? - Effect on Global South? - EU oil companies readying ruble payments to Moscow → Read More
Turkey Pushing Russia Out of Syria & Kazakhstan
The latest developments, including: - Turkey moves to normalize with Assad government in Syria - Why Turkey needs Syria - The Kurdish question and the US → Read More
Russia-Israel Ties
The latest developments, including: - FM Lavrov's anti-Semitic comments - What the Russia-Israel relationship tells us about the current situation - The → Read More
US Wages Financial War on Russia
The latest developments, including: - How US declared financial war on Russia - The US Dollar as a weapon - How 9/11 gave the US government power to wage → Read More
On Bucha and the Chechen Connection
The latest developments: - What to make of the Bucha massacre evidence - Analysis of competing narratives, satellite imagery, etc. - The presence of → Read More
Exposing Fake Anti-Imperialism on Ukraine
Eric Draitser is an independent political analyst and host of CounterPunch Radio. You can find his exclusive content including articles, podcasts, audio commentaries, poetry and more at patreon.com/ericdraitser. He can be reached at ericdraitser@gmail.com. → Read More
Russia's War on Journalists
The latest developments, including: - Popular Russian journalists facing criminal charges - The "fifth columnists" propaganda - Hypocrisy of Putin's fan → Read More
The CIA in Ukraine
Eric Draitser is an independent political analyst and host of CounterPunch Radio. You can find his exclusive content including articles, podcasts, audio commentaries, poetry and more at patreon.com/ericdraitser. He can be reached at ericdraitser@gmail.com. → Read More
Ukraine Is Not an Anti-Nazi Struggle. It's an Oligarch War.
Eric Draitser is an independent political analyst and host of CounterPunch Radio. You can find his exclusive content including articles, podcasts, audio commentaries, poetry and more at patreon.com/ericdraitser. He can be reached at ericdraitser@gmail.com. → Read More
Honduras: The Political Context Missing from Corporate Media
This week we woke up to breaking news that former President of Honduras, Juan Orlando Hernández, has been arrested by Honduran police after an extradition → Read More
It’s Opening Day: Here Are Three Political Storylines to Watch in Baseball This Year
For many Americans, Opening Day of the Major League Baseball season elicits memories of childhood: playing with friends in the waning daylight hours, the cr → Read More
Did Dallas Police and Local Media Collude to Cover Up Terrorist Threats against Journalist Barrett Brown?
Barrett Brown is an award-winning journalist and author who spent time in federal prison for work he did exposing various elements of the military-industrial complex, including publicizing the hacked emails of private intelligence company Stratfor. Since being released from prison, Brown has worked to establish the Pur → Read More
Trumpism: The Real Danger of Donald Trump
From the very moment Donald Trump was elected President, I have had one overriding fear. It is a fear that no one in the corporate media will ever articulate because it is extremely bad for ratings. It is a fear that very few in the alternative media ever discuss, or even consider. It is a fear that haunts our future. → Read More
The Curious Case of Pro-Trump Leftism
Some variation of this many-headed hydra of inane analysis is often trotted out to deflect criticism of Trump, typically wrapped in the silky veneer of Facebook radicalism from a number of self-proclaimed leftists. And while liberals knit ever more pussy hats for the inevitable flashmob of political nothingness, a relatively small, yet zealously self-important, segment of the left demands that… → Read More
Donald Trump and the Triumph of White Identity Politics
The renowned historiographer E.H. Carr famously compared the historian with his facts to the fishmonger with fish on the slab; the historian collects the facts, takes them home, and cooks and serves them in whatever style appeals to him. Naturally, the historian will add spices and other ingredients to draw out the precise flavor needed to make an average meal into a palette-pleasing feast for… → Read More
Turkey: A Criminal State, a NATO State
It is now openly discussed even in mainstream media the fact that Turkey has been intimately involved in fomenting and supporting the war on Syria, with it → Read More
Refugees as Weapons in a Propaganda War
In the wake of the horrific terror attacks in Paris, world attention will once again be focused on the issue of refugees entering Europe. While much of the → Read More