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Echoes of British Colonial India in Plans to Partition Syria
Echoes of British Colonial India in Plans to Partition Syria Russia’s decision to greatly reduce its military presence in Syria, coming as it did with little warning, has left the world struggling for explanations. Russia is to maintain a military presence at its naval base in Tartus and at the Khmeymim airbase. In fact […]
How Politicians Duck the Blame for Terrorism
How Politicians Duck the Blame for Terrorism The capture of Salah Abdeslam, thought to be the sole surviving planner of the Paris massacre, means that the media is focusing once again on the threat of terrorist attack by Islamic State. Questions are asked about why the most wanted man in Europe was able to elude the police […]
The Fallacy of ‘Humanitarian’ War
The Fallacy of ‘Humanitarian’ War The new excuse for U.S. imperial wars is “humanitarian” or “liberal” interventionism with Hillary Clinton and other proponents citing noble motives for destroying foreign societies, as ex-CIA official Graham E. Fuller discusses. Rajan Menon’s new book, The Conceit of Humanitarian Intervention, launches a timely argument against a dominant argument lying behind […]
How Propaganda Feeds War on Syria
How Propaganda Feeds War on Syria Western propaganda against countries targeted for “regime change” can be especially insidious because mainstream journalists abandon skepticism and go with the flow, such as the case of Syrian “torture” photos, writes Rick Sterling. There has been a pattern of sensational but untrue reports that lead to public acceptance of U.S. […]
Erdogan: Democracy, Freedom Have ‘Absolutely No Value Any Longer’
Erdogan: Democracy, Freedom Have ‘Absolutely No Value Any Longer’ Vows to Turn Military on Political Opposition Concerns about Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdogan’s authoritarian leanings have been at the fore in the nation’s political dialogue since he assumed the presidency, and appear to have been well founded, as in a televised speech today he declared […]
Tomgram: Gregory Foster, A Case for Demilitarizing the Military
Tomgram: Gregory Foster, A Case for Demilitarizing the Military General Lloyd Austin, the outgoing head of U.S. Central Command (CENTCOM), recently testified before Congress, suggesting that Washington needed to up its troop levels in Iraq and Syria. Meanwhile, in his own congressional testimony, still-to-be-confirmed incoming CENTCOM chief General Joseph Votel, formerly head of U.S. Special Operations Command, […]
The Netherlands Just Banned Weapon Sales to Saudi Arabia over Human Rights Abuses
The Netherlands Just Banned Weapon Sales to Saudi Arabia over Human Rights Abuses Landmark bill cites UN figures that Saudi-led troops has killed nearly 6,000 people in Yemen—half of them civilians. Dutch lawmakers have voted to ban weapons exports to Saudi Arabia over the kingdom’s violations of humanitarian law, making the Netherlands the first country in the […]
Profits of death: disaster capitalists fan flames of war in Syria
Syrian refugee prays after arriving on shores of Greece Profits of death: disaster capitalists fan flames of war in Syria American, European and Russian corporations are the only ones winning from humanitarian disasters of their own making As a tentative ceasefire continues to hold in Syria, with the next round of peace talks having resumed this week, you’d be […]
The wrong kind of victory
The wrong kind of victory John Hayes One often hears of the fact that the US spends more on its military than most other nations combined. This is usually presented as evidence that the US is more powerful militarily—perhaps so powerful that it could take on the rest of the planet, and prevail. I find […]
Exposing the Libyan Agenda: A Closer Look at Hillary’s Emails
Exposing the Libyan Agenda: A Closer Look at Hillary’s Emails Critics have long questioned why violent intervention was necessary in Libya. Hillary Clinton’s recently published emails confirm that it was less about protecting the people from a dictator than about money, banking, and preventing African economic sovereignty. The brief visit of then-Secretary of State Hillary Clinton […]
Geopolitics, the State, and Cybersecurity in a Globalized World
Geopolitics, the State, and Cybersecurity in a Globalized World On February 9th of this year, the Obama administration announced that after a seven year observation of the cybersecurity environment, it was going to establish the Cybersecurity National Action Plan (CNAP). The new cybersecurity plan was formulated to counter the ever-morphing threats and hackings […]
As Turkey Turns Totalitarian, EU Officials Move to Accelerate EU Membership Bid
As Turkey Turns Totalitarian, EU Officials Move to Accelerate EU Membership Bid The EU is turning a blind eye to an opposition crackdown in Turkey that’s polarizing society and complicating efforts to find a political solution to the nation’s Kurdish conflict, Demirtas said in an impromptu interview en route to Brussels. European leaders are expected […]
Rome & the Birth of the United States
Rome & the Birth of the United States QUESTION: Mr. Armstrong; Are you saying they never intended to create a democracy since the founding fathers created the Electoral College? ANSWER: Correct. We have a republic and not a democracy, despite the fact they call this a democracy. You vote for delegates to represent you. The rules allow them to […]
Pentagon’s War on the Earth
Pentagon’s War on the Earth We are waging war. We are the Nation of War. We destroy. We kill. Everyone fears us. Fewer and fewer admire us. But our fighting forces—and their attendant industries which manufacture the bombs, bullets, and ballistic delivery devices—also wage a war on the clean air, clean water, and clean soil […]
Cheap Oil, the U.S. Dollar and the Deep State
Cheap Oil, the U.S. Dollar and the Deep State March 9, 2016 All this is to suggest that those expecting a major weakening in the USD to push oil higher shouldn’t hold their breath awaiting this outcome. That oil fell off a cliff once the U.S. dollar (USD) began its liftoff in mid-2014 is, well, […]
