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Brian Joseph Thomas Berletic (A.K.A. Tony Cartalucci) is a Bangkok-based geopolitical researcher and writer. Tony is a American industrial designer living in Bangkok, Thailand since he left the United States Marine Corps and the US altogether in 2004.
Since he began writing about politics he has used pen names to conceal his identity for a variety of very common reasons many journalists, commentators, and pundits use pen names for.
SHARE Friday, March 19, 2021 Myanmar: Hidden Opposition Violence
As is common with US-backed color revolutions around the globe, the Western media will attempt to cover up opposition violence for as long as possible until shifting the narrative toward a "reluctant civil war" in which opposition groups were "given no choice" but to take up arms.
SHARE Friday, February 19, 2021 The Greater Danger of Israeli Provocations in Syria
Continued airstrikes carried out by Israeli warplanes in Syria presents - at face value - an obvious and persistent threat to Syria. In a wider context, the threat runs much deeper and extends to Syria's allies in Tehran.
SHARE Tuesday, February 16, 2021 The Danger of Political "Medics"
A common feature of US-backed regime change is the creation and use of "medical" organizations that augment violent protesters and use their uniforms, vehicles, and facilities as a form of cover for subversion and sedition.
SHARE Wednesday, February 3, 2021 Myanmar Crisis Explained...
Myanmar's military has seized power, detained Aung San Suu Kyi and has begun rounding up members of her National League for Democracy political party.
(2 comments) SHARE Wednesday, December 23, 2020 CNN + Bellingcat's Latest Russian Novichok Lies
CNN and US government-funded war propaganda outfit "Bellingcat" teamed up to "investigate" the alleged poisoning of Russian opposition leader Alexei Navalny.
(3 comments) SHARE Wednesday, October 21, 2020 China's High-Speed Rail Reaches into Southeast Asia
There is a significant reason why political unrest fueled by US interference is flaring up across Southeast Asia - an attempt at derailing Beijing's ambitious One Belt, One Road (OBOR) initiative.
(2 comments) SHARE Friday, September 4, 2020 The Biggest Lie About China's Xinjiang "Internment Camps"
For years now Western media and governments have maintained an almost ceaseless barrage against China over what they claim are networks of "internment camps" built and used in China's western Xinjiang region to persecute the Uyghur ethnic minority.
SHARE Thursday, July 9, 2020 "Woke" America is More Asleep to Injustice Than Ever
Your Mars Inc. Chocolate Comes from Slave Labor
If you enjoy chocolate snacks like 3 Musketeers, Snickers, Mars, and Milky Way bars, the chocolate you ate most likely came from a developing nation with dismal working conditions and in many cases, child and slave labor.
(2 comments) SHARE Sunday, June 7, 2020 To America, Black Lives Only Sometimes Matter
The US is a nation that encourages its people to hate entire groups of people abroad to help justify otherwise unjust wars. Arabs, Chinese people, Russians - are all vilified with bigotry and hatred sanctioned by mainstream American culture. It isn't hard to see why in a nation like this, hatred for other groups is easily justified in the minds of racists and the unjust.
(2 comments) SHARE Sunday, May 31, 2020 China Building Rather than Bombing
China is using economic progress to rise upon the global stage. It makes things. It builds things. It creates infrastructure to bring these things to others around the globe who need or want them, and enables other nations to make, build, and send things to China.
SHARE Sunday, April 19, 2020 Oil Profits for Protection: US Extorts Saudi Arabia
US representatives are threatening to withdraw US military support from Saudi Arabia for allegedly lowering energy prices by flooding markets with Saudi oil.
SHARE Sunday, November 17, 2019 US is the Source of, Not "Solution" to Syrian War
The Guardian in its piece, "US plans to send tanks to Syria oil fields, reversing Trump troop withdrawal - reports," illustrates a voluntary dereliction of due diligence in investigating or questioning Western actions in Syria.
SHARE Saturday, October 12, 2019 Egyptian Protests: A US-Fuelled "Arab Spring" Reboot
When the West's leading media organizations attempt to convince audiences they know nothing about where Mohammed Aly a Spanish-based Egyptian protest leader came from, the first thing one can be sure of is they are being lied to.
(5 comments) SHARE Sunday, September 29, 2019 Greta Thunberg and Big-Biz' Climate Charade
A 16-year-old girl is obviously not behind a "global movement" demanding "climate action" from governments.
The massive corporate Western media is. And anything the corporate media is behind certainly cannot be described as "grassroots."
(5 comments) SHARE Wednesday, September 18, 2019 Drone Attack on Saudi Oil---Who Benefits?
"it would be far more preferable if the United States could cite an Iranian provocation as justification for the airstrikes before launching them."
(1 comments) SHARE Thursday, September 5, 2019 West's "Humanitarian" Claims Struggle as Syrian War Nears Endgame
So often however has the US and its allies falsely invoked "humanitarian concern" that these headlines fall on informed and discerning ears who not only reject it, but have cemented in their minds a familiarity with this ploy that will make it all but impossible to use it again on whatever battlefield the US shifts its foreign policy to next.