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Israel Warns It Could Attack Iranian Military Assets In Iraq
Israel Warns It Could Attack Iranian Military Assets In Iraq In response to what could soon be a big headache for Israeli PM Netanyahu and US “military advisors” to Baghdad, Israeli Defense Minister Avigdor Liberman indicated on Monday that it could launch air strikes on suspected Iranian military assets in Iraq, as it has widely […]
US Planned Nuclear Strikes To End China, Soviet Union As “Viable Societies”, Declassified Docs Show
US Planned Nuclear Strikes To End China, Soviet Union As “Viable Societies”, Declassified Docs Show Like the famous George Santayana quote goes, “those who cannot learn from history are doomed to repeat it.” And thanks to a cache of documents released by George Washington University’s National Security Archive project, the American people are learning just […]
CIA and Saudi Arabia Conspired to Keep 9/11 Details Secret, New Book Says
CIA AND SAUDI ARABIA CONSPIRED TO KEEP 9/11 DETAILS SECRET, NEW BOOK SAYS It’s easier to bury uncomfortable facts than to confront them. So this September 11, the ceremonies marking the 2001 attacks on New York and Washington, D.C., will simply honor the dead. In Manhattan, tourists and mourners will gather where the World Trade […]
Our Rulers’ ChiCainery
Our Rulers’ ChiCainery Iraq War Dead John McCain is buried, may his philosophy soon follow. Now they lay his body down Sad old men who run this town “Kings,” Steely Dan (Walter Becker and Donald Fagen), 1972 Novelists can align their stories with whatever deeper truth they’re trying to convey. Real life is seldom so […]
The Biggest Threat To The Oil And Gas Indust
The Biggest Threat To The Oil And Gas Industry Trump’s trade war is taking a toll on the oil and gas industry. There has been some eleventh-hour drama over the renegotiation of NAFTA, but the energy industry is likely going to dodge a bullet on that front, with the most contentious issues revolving around agriculture […]
Is a ‘Suez’ Event Being Prepared for Syria?
Is a ‘Suez’ Event Being Prepared for Syria? So, the metamorphosis is done. President Trump has finally, fully, shed his 2016 Campaign ‘skin’ of loosely imagining a grand foreign policy bargain that could be the foundation for “WORLD PEACE, nothing less!” as Trump tweeted when imposing sanctions on Iran. We wrote, on 3 August, quoting Prof Russell-Mead, that […]
Erdogan Vows To Abandon Dollar, “Doesn’t Need Permission” To Buy Russian Missiles
Erdogan Vows To Abandon Dollar, “Doesn’t Need Permission” To Buy Russian Missiles Another day, another angry rant by Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdogan aimed at the US, who on Sunday vowed Ankara would abandon the dollar in transactions with Russia and other countries, accusing the US of behaving like “wild wolves.” “America behaves like wild […]
A Fake Brexit and the “Noble Dream” – Claudio Grass Speaks With Godfrey Bloom
A Fake Brexit and the “Noble Dream” – Claudio Grass Speaks With Godfrey Bloom Introductory Remarks: The “Anti-Politician” Godfrey Bloom, by PT Most of our readers will probably remember former UKIP chief whip and European Parliament representative Godfrey Bloom. As far as we know, he is the only politician who ever raised the issue of […]
US Strategy in Syria: ‘Create Quagmires Until We Get What We Want’
US Strategy in Syria: ‘Create Quagmires Until We Get What We Want’ In seeking to control post-war Syria, US determined to keep war going In 2013, top Obama Administration officials described their policy in the Syrian War as one of keeping the war going. The administration wanted a big seat at the table for a […]
Russia Squelches Trump’s New Plan to Invade Syria
Russia Squelches Trump’s New Plan to Invade Syria On Friday, August 31st, Russian Foreign Minister Sergei Lavrov announced that Russia has handed to the OPCW (Organization for Prohibition of Chemical Weapons), and to the U.N., “proof” that the U.S. Government has been working with Al Qaeda to set up a chemical incident that the U.S. […]
Provocations Have A History Of Escalating Into War
Provocations Have A History Of Escalating Into War The Russian Government and President Putin are coming under pressure not from US sanctions, which are very good for Russia as they force Russia into independence, but from Russian patriots who are tiring of Putin’s non-confrontational responses to Washington’s never-ending insults and military provocations. Russian patriots don’t […]
China Moves Into Afghanistan As Part Of Its Global Expansion Mission
China Moves Into Afghanistan As Part Of Its Global Expansion Mission For many, it was a stunning development. China will build a brigade-size military training facility in the strategic Wakhan Corridor, the land bridge between Tajikistan and Pakistan, which is located in Afghanistan’s northeast Badakhshan province and borders China. Although Beijing denied the claim that hundreds of […]
Economic Armaments and China’s Global Ambitions
ECONOMIC ARMAMENTS AND CHINA’S GLOBAL AMBITIONS The world continues to move in potentially dangerous directions. A leading component of this threat is the use of economic armaments by governments to gain political and market advantages in their foreign relations with other countries. Among the leading participants in the use of such economic armaments is the […]
