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Russia to form 3 new divisions to counter NATO buildup
Russia to form 3 new divisions to counter NATO buildup Russia is to deploy two new divisions in the west and one in the south to counterbalance NATO’s increased military presence near Russian borders, Defense Minister Sergey Shoigu announced. “The Defense Ministry is taking a number of measures to respond to the NATO military buildup […]
The Great Western Retreat
The Great Western Retreat Of all French soldiers currently engaged in military operations, half of them are deployed inside France. And half of those are assigned to protect 717 Jewish schools. This massive deployment of armed forces in our own cities is a departure from history. It is a moral disarmament, before a military one. […]
Saudi Foreign Minister Repeats Warning To US Over Sept 11 Law
Saudi Foreign Minister Repeats Warning To US Over Sept 11 Law The biggest financial and geopolitical story from mid-April was Saudi Arabia’s threat that should the US pass a bipartisan law which would take away immunity from foreign governments in cases arising from a “terrorist attack that kills an American on American soil” and specifically could hold […]
Seymour Hersh Says Hillary Approved Sending Libya’s Sarin to Syrian Rebels
Seymour Hersh Says Hillary Approved Sending Libya’s Sarin to Syrian Rebels The great investigative journalist Seymour Hersh, in two previous articles in the London Review of Books («Whose Sarin?» and «The Red Line and the Rat Line») has reported that the Obama Administration falsely blamed the government of Syria’s Bashar al-Assad for the sarin gas attack that Obama was […]
Why Saudi Arabia Will Not Win The Oil Price War
Why Saudi Arabia Will Not Win The Oil Price War Crude oil prices continued to surprise on Tuesday, with the U.S. benchmark adding another 4 percent to $44.60 a barrel. West Texas Intermediate is now up 65 percent since hitting 13-year lows below $27 a barrel February 11. It’s a performance only bettered by the […]
Seymour Hersh – Saudi Government Paid Pakistan to Hold Osama bin Laden to Prevent U.S. Interrogation
Seymour Hersh – Saudi Government Paid Pakistan to Hold Osama bin Laden to Prevent U.S. Interrogation In the aftermath of the most signifiant geopolitical event of my lifetime, the attacks of September 11,2001, the U.S. government proceeded to concoct a fairytale for public consumption in order to advance imperial ambitions overseas and a implement a domestic surveillance […]
One More Casualty Of The 9/11 Farce – The Petrodollar
One More Casualty Of The 9/11 Farce – The Petrodollar It’s been about 15 years now since passenger airliners struck the World Trade Center towers on 9/11, and we are still suffering the consequences of that day, though perhaps not in the ways many Americans might believe. The 9/11 attacks were billed by the Bush […]
Possible End Game: The United States Has Created a Climate That Could Easily Be Transformed Into a War
Possible End Game: The United States Has Created a Climate That Could Easily Be Transformed Into a War Most readers have been watching, as the U.S. and Russia seem to be positioning themselves along Cold War lines. The posturing is not confined to maneuvering military assets; it also runs along economic lines, in which most warfare […]
Washington’s Dog-Whistle Diplomacy Supports Attempted Coup in Brazil
Washington’s Dog-Whistle Diplomacy Supports Attempted Coup in Brazil The day after the impeachment vote in the lower house of Brazil’s congress, one of the leaders of the effort, Senator Aloysio Nunes, traveled to Washington, D.C. He had scheduled meetings with a number of U.S. officials, including Thomas Shannon at the State Department. Shannon has a relatively low profile in […]
The Panama Papers: Laundering Havens for War Budgets (Video)
The Panama Papers: Laundering Havens for War Budgets (Video) In mid-April, economist Michael Hudson told The Real News Network that global oil and mining industries and the U.S. State Department created Panama and Liberia for the express purpose of tax evasion. Read a full transcript of Hudson’s exchange with host Sharmini Peries below. SHARMINI PERIES, TRNN: It’s the […]
How the CIA Writes History
HOW THE CIA WRITES HISTORY LAST SUMMER I PAID a visit to Georgetown University’s Lauinger Library as part of my research on legendary CIA counterspy James Jesus Angleton. I went there to investigate Angleton’s famous mole hunt, one of the least flattering episodes of his eventful career. By the early 1960s, Angleton was convinced the KGB had managed […]
World War III Has Begun
World War III Has Begun The Third World War is currently being fought. How long before it moves into its hot stage? Washington is currently conducting economic and propaganda warfare against four members of the five bloc group of countries known as BRICS—Brazil, Russia, India, China, and South Africa. Brazil and South Africa are being […]
White House Set To Release Secret Pages From Sept 11 Report
White House Set To Release Secret Pages From Sept 11 Report Over the past several weeks, the White House has been very vocal about its opposition to both the Bipartisan Bill that would allow families of Sept 11 victims to sue Saudi Arabia for its involvement in the WTC attack, as well as stonewalling when […]
Castrated
Castrated Take away Saudi Arabia’s oil and all that’s left are a couple of Islamic shrines and a lot of sand and hot air. After three decades of internecine war, Abdul-Aziz bin Saud, allied with the fundamentalist Wahhabist Islamic sect, consolidated the House of Saud’s dominance over Arabia in 1932 with the tacit support of […]
