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The Mysterious “Sabotage” of Saudi Oil Tankers: a Dangerous Moment in Trump’s Escalating Conflict With Iran
The Mysterious “Sabotage” of Saudi Oil Tankers: a Dangerous Moment in Trump’s Escalating Conflict With Iran Saudi Arabia’s claim that two of its oil tankers have been sabotaged off the coast of the UAE is vague in detail – but could create a crisis that spins out of control and into military action. Any attack on shipping in or […]
Leaked Document Pokes More Holes In Establishment Syria Narrative
Leaked Document Pokes More Holes In Establishment Syria Narrative “It is hard to overstate the significance of this revelation,” tweets former British MP George Galloway of a new report by the Working Group on Syria, Propaganda and Media (WGSPM). “The war-machine has now been caught red-handed in a staged chemical weapons attack for the purposes of deceiving our democracies […]
Leaked Pentagon Plan Calls For 120,000 Troops To Counter Iran
Leaked Pentagon Plan Calls For 120,000 Troops To Counter Iran As Michael Pompeo travels to Brussels to discuss the Iranian threat amid a flare-up in tensions that has brought the US to the brink of an armed conflict, the New York Times has published details from a confidential military plan presented to top national security […]
Canada’s Minister of Defence is an Arms Pusher
Canada’s Minister of Defence is an Arms Pusher Would it surprise you to learn that Canada’s minister of defence is an arms pusher? Last Friday members of Mouvement Québécois pour la Paix interrupted a $135-a-plate luncheon to confront defence minister Harjit Sajjan. At an event sponsored by SNC Lavalin, Bombardier, Rio Tinto, etc., we called for cutting military spending, for Canada to […]
Oil Jumps After Saudis Admit Two Tankers Attacked As Iran Tensions Soar
Oil Jumps After Saudis Admit Two Tankers Attacked As Iran Tensions Soar The bizarre and mysterious explosions that rocked the UAE port of Fujairah on Sunday just got even more strange after Saudi Arabia admitted overnight that two of its oil tankers were attacked while sailing toward the Persian Gulf possibly as part of the incident. Crude prices quickly jumped […]
Guaido Begs US Military To Help With Maduro Regime Change
Guaido Begs US Military To Help With Maduro Regime Change Venezuela’s self-declared President Juan Guaido said on Saturday that he has instructed his political envoy in Washington to immediately open relations with the US military. Guaido asked his ambassador, Carlos Vecchio, to sit down with Pentagon officials for “direct communications” to discuss “coordination” of efforts to remove Venezuelan President […]
Excerpt from The Patterning Instinct: Can We Transform Our Society for a Flourishing Future?
Excerpt from The Patterning Instinct: Can We Transform Our Society for a Flourishing Future? Ed. note: Excerpted from the final two chapters of Jeremy Lent’s award-winning book, The Patterning Instinct: A Cultural History of Humanity’s Search for Meaning, (Prometheus, 2017) which explores the different ways cultures have patterned meaning into the cosmos, and reveals how various […]
Trump’s Vanity Will Destroy The Global Economy
Trump’s Vanity Will Destroy The Global Economy Last year I asked the question “Will Trump torch the global economy on the bonfire of his vanity?” A year later we have the answer. It’s a resounding, “Yes.” I wrote after Trump pulled out of the JCPOA: Donald Trump wants regime change in Iran. His cancellation of […]
US Special Forces Command Issues New Guide For Overthrowing Foreign Governments
US Special Forces Command Issues New Guide For Overthrowing Foreign Governments No kidding – this is not our headline, but Newsweek’s: “US Special Forces School Publishes New Guide For Overthrowing Foreign Governments” – and as far as we can tell they are the only major mainstream outlet to have picked up on the fact that the US military […]
Is America Ready for John Bolton’s War With Iran?
Is America Ready for John Bolton’s War With Iran? Recently dispatched B-52s and ships are an act of theatrical bravado that ignore the real threat. Iranian Army in 2016. (Creative Commons/Wikimedia) National Security Advisor John Bolton’s announcement this week that the U.S. is deploying a carrier strike group and a bomber task force to the U.S. […]
America, You Are Fired!
America, You Are Fired! Some ironies are just too precious to pass by. The 2016 US presidential elections gave us Donald Trump, a reality TV star whose famous tag line from his show “The Apprentice” was “You are fired!” Focus on this tag line; it is all that is important to this story. Some Trump […]
Aircraft Carrier Abraham Lincoln Passes Through Suez Canal On Route To Iran As Tensions Soar
Aircraft Carrier Abraham Lincoln Passes Through Suez Canal On Route To Iran As Tensions Soar Tehran tried to call Washington’s bluff on Wednesday when it threatened to start stockpiling enriched uranium and heavy water again – which would constitute a violation of the JCPOA’s terms – unless the treaty’s signatories abide by their commitments to buy oil […]
Media Blackout: U.S. and Iran Tensions Rise — Iran Claims Arrest of 290 CIA Agents; U.S. Sends 2 Aircraft Carriers To Mediterranean; Bolton & Pompeo Issue Threats
Media Blackout: U.S. and Iran Tensions Rise — Iran Claims Arrest of 290 CIA Agents; U.S. Sends 2 Aircraft Carriers To Mediterranean; Bolton & Pompeo Issue Threats U.S. and Iranian tensions are rising at a rapid rate. National Security Adviser John Bolton has publicly acknowledged deploying the U.S.S Abraham Lincoln carrier strike group and a bomber task […]
Why The Powerful Always Paint Their Side As The Victims
Why The Powerful Always Paint Their Side As The Victims On Friday Israel began a two-day attack on Gaza which as of this writing has left a total of 27 Palestinians dead, including a pregnant woman and a baby. Moon of Alabama documents how the mass media have been consistently depicting this attack as a “response” to a Hamas […]
