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Russiaphobia Is Out of Control
Russiaphobia Is Out of Control As has been made perfectly clear, Mueller’s “indictment” of 13 Russians and 3 companies is just another hoax. See: https://www.paulcraigroberts.org/2018/02/16/result-muellers-investigation-nothing/ and: http://www.moonofalabama.org/2018/02/mueller-indictement-the-russian-influence-is-a-commercial-marketing-scheme.html All Mueller has found is a bait-click commercial marketing scheme that had nothing to do with election interference. Why is Mueller comfortable bringing a transparently false indictment? The […]
Israel and Iran: Inching Toward Armed Conflict
Israel and Iran: Inching Toward Armed Conflict Can you hear the drumbeat of war? It is getting louder. Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu declared on the final day of the Munich Security Conference that Israel might go a step beyond striking the proxy powers and instead take direct action against Iran. He was especially concerned about the possibility […]
Risking Major Escalation, Trump Weighs Killing Of Russian Fighters In Syria As Sign Of “Tough Stance” Toward Putin
Risking Major Escalation, Trump Weighs Killing Of Russian Fighters In Syria As Sign Of “Tough Stance” Toward Putin In the aftermath of Robert Mueller’s indictment against 13 Russian “operatives” for meddling with the US presidential election, President Trump has been under fire for lashing out at everyone… except Russia. So, in response, Bloomberg reports that […]
Russiagate Isn’t About Trump, And It Isn’t Even Ultimately About Russia
Russiagate Isn’t About Trump, And It Isn’t Even Ultimately About Russia MSNBC’s Chris Hayes recently asked a question of his Twitter following that was so heavily loaded it wouldn’t be permitted on most interstate highways: “Aside from genuine cranks, is there anyone left denying it was the Russians that committed criminal sabotage in the American election?” […]
U.S. Empire Still Incoherent After All These Years
U.S. Empire Still Incoherent After All These Years Exclusive: Without solid economic, political and ideological bases, the U.S. lacks the legitimacy and authority it needs to operate beyond its borders, argues Nicolas J.S. Davies in this essay. I recently reread Michael Mann’s book, Incoherent Empire, which he wrote in 2003, soon after the U.S. invasion […]
Russia Meddling “Act of War”, Michael Moore Trapped, CIA Admissions
Russia Meddling “Act of War”, Michael Moore Trapped, CIA Admissions Idiotic comments regarding “Russia’s act of war” against the US for meddling in the Us election has reached consensus. The Intercept reports A Consensus Emerges: Russia Committed an “Act of War” on Par With Pearl Harbor and 9/11. Should the U.S. Response Be Similar? IN […]
Meddling for Empire: the CIA Comes Clean
Meddling for Empire: the CIA Comes Clean Photo by Christopher Michel | CC BY 2.0 “We’ve been doing this kind of thing [electoral meddling] since the CIA was created in 1947.” Loch K. Johnson, New York Times, Feb 17, 2018 Electoral meddling has become the gruel of US politics for months, and more servings are […]
Tomgram: Danny Sjursen, Buttering Up the Pentagon
Tomgram: Danny Sjursen, Buttering Up the Pentagon Recently, the Pentagon’s top Asia official, Randall Schriver, told senators that the Afghan war would cost this country’s taxpayers $45 billion in 2018, including $5 billion for the Afghan security forces, $13 billion for U.S. forces in that country, and $780 million in economic aid. How the other […]
Is That Russia Troll Farm an Act of War?
Is That Russia Troll Farm an Act of War? According to the indictment by Special Counsel Robert Mueller, Russian trolls, operating out of St. Petersburg, took American identities on social media and became players in our 2016 election. On divisive racial and religious issues, the trolls took both sides. In the presidential election, the trolls […]
Syrian Fighters Enter Afrin; Turkey Retaliates With Immediate Bombing Sending Turkish Lira, Stocks Tumbling
Syrian Fighters Enter Afrin; Turkey Retaliates With Immediate Bombing Sending Turkish Lira, Stocks Tumbling As we reported yesterday, in a surprising twist in the ongoing Syrian proxy war, YPG Kurdish fighters in north-western Syria – who are backed by the US – had struck a deal with the Russia-backed Assad regime for Syrian forces to […]
Five Reasons To Be Absolutely Certain That The Establishment Is Lying About Syria
Five Reasons To Be Absolutely Certain That The Establishment Is Lying About Syria Whenever you see UN Ambassador Nikki Haley on video she’s trying to start World War Three. At today’s UN Security Council Haley gave remarks about why the UN should “take action” against two of the US power establishment’s favorite targets, Russia and the […]
America’s Election Meddling Would Indeed Justify Other Countries Retaliating In Kind
America’s Election Meddling Would Indeed Justify Other Countries Retaliating In Kind Highlighting the U.S.’s long history in meddling in other countries’ elections is not “whataboutism,” but rather a highly germane point to understanding the context for the allegations of Russian meddling in Election 2016, Caitlin Johnstone observes. There is still no clear proof that the Russian […]
Dancing to US Tune: NATO Creates Military Schengen and Launches Iraq Mission
Dancing to US Tune: NATO Creates Military Schengen and Launches Iraq Mission The NATO defense chiefs’ meeting on February 14-15 was mainly devoted to sharing the defense burden and other issues routinely discussed at any event. As usual, there were turgid speeches with opaque meaning to leave one guessing what’s really behind those nice words. In fact, […]
Munich Conference: “For The First Time In Decades We Are Facing Threat Of Nuclear Conflict”
Munich Conference: “For The First Time In Decades We Are Facing Threat Of Nuclear Conflict” Over the past fifty years, the Munich Security Conference (MSC) has traditionally reflected the current state of world military affairs. Each February, more than 450 senior decision-makers from around the globe descend into Munich, Germany, to discuss current and future […]
