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Playing Games with War Deaths
Playing Games with War Deaths There’s a double standard in how the U.S. mainstream media reports civilian deaths depending if the U.S. military is fighting the wars or not, accepting absurdly low numbers when the U.S. is at fault and hyping death tolls when “enemies” are involved, a manipulation of human tragedy, says Nicolas J S Davies. How […]
Dictators, Democracy, and Almighty Oil in the MENA Region
Dictators, Democracy, and Almighty Oil in the MENA Region 95% of transport fuels in the world are derived from oil. This makes it hard to argue that renewable or other non-petroleum sources of fuel could cut into oil’s market share, at least in the near term. Transportation, and thus petroleum, is essential to growing […]
The 21st Century: An Era Of Fraud — Paul Craig Roberts
The 21st Century: An Era Of Fraud — Paul Craig Roberts In the last years of the 20th century fraud entered US foreign policy in a new way. On false pretenses Washington dismantled Yugoslavia and Serbia in order to advance an undeclared agenda. In the 21st century this fraud multiplied many times. Afghanistan, Iraq, Somalia, […]
How Neocons Banished Realism
How Neocons Banished Realism The grip that neocons and liberal interventionists have on Official Washington’s opinion circles is now so strong that “realists” who once provided an important counterbalance have been almost banished from foreign policy debates, a dangerous dilemma that James W Carden explores. In a widely remarked upon article for the online version of Foreign […]
Saudi Arabia is Buying Up American Farmland to Export Agricultural Products Back Home
Saudi Arabia is Buying Up American Farmland to Export Agricultural Products Back Home Just what we need, cornfield crucifixions. Seriously though, this is very troubling. The Saudis are explicitly conserving their own resources at home, while exploiting land and water supplies here in America. CNBC reports: Saudi Arabia and other Persian Gulf countries are scooping up farmland in […]
Obama’s Invasion Plan of Syria Was Drawn Up by Kim Roosevelt in 1957
Obama’s Invasion Plan of Syria Was Drawn Up by Kim Roosevelt in 1957 The same person, Teddy Roosevelt’s grandson, who planned and headed the CIA coup to overthrow Iran’s progressive secular democratic anti-communist President Mohammed Mossadegh in 1953, and to replace him with the brutal dictator Shah Reza Pahlevi, so as to continue Western oil companies’ control over Iran’s […]
U.S. Radically Changes Its Story of the Boats in Iranian Waters: to an Even More Suspicious Version
U.S. Radically Changes Its Story of the Boats in Iranian Waters: to an Even More Suspicious Version When news first broke of the detention of two U.S. ships in Iranian territorial waters, the U.S. media — aside from depicting it as an act of Iranian aggression — uncritically cited the U.S. government’s explanation for what happened. One of the […]
Enduring Bases, Enduring War in the Middle East
Enduring Bases, Enduring War in the Middle East Meet the hottest new commander in the increasingly secretive world of American warfare, Lieutenant General Raymond “Tony” Thomas. A rare portrait in the Washington Post paints him as a “shadowy figure” — an appropriate phrase for the general who has been leading the U.S. military’s “manhunters,” aka Joint Special Operations Command, […]
Will Reckless Saudis Seek War with Iran?
Will Reckless Saudis Seek War with Iran? Exclusive: Under growing economic and political pressure, the new Saudi leadership is showing a dangerous impulse toward military interventions, raising prospects for a direct and destructive confrontation with its regional rival Iran, writes Daniel Lazare. Now that Saudi Arabia has severed diplomatic ties with Iran and reportedly bombed Iran’s embassy in […]
‘West using Madaya, humanitarian crisis in Syria to undermine peace talks’ – Russian dep envoy to UN
‘West using Madaya, humanitarian crisis in Syria to undermine peace talks’ – Russian dep envoy to UN A Syrian national flag flutters near residents who said they have received permission from the Syrian government to leave the besieged town as they wait with their belongings after an aid convoy entered Madaya, Syria, January 14, 2016 […]
Russia Is Preparing a Military Response to the Expansion of NATO
Russia Is Preparing a Military Response to the Expansion of NATO In response to the creation of the mobile forces of NATO, Russia can dispatch heavy military equipment in a Western direction. The beginning of 2016 marked a new escalation in military tensions near the borders of Russia. Yesterday in Lithuania, as part of operation “Atlantic Resolve”, […]
The World’s Most Famous Case Of Hyperinflation (Part 1)
The World’s Most Famous Case Of Hyperinflation (Part 1) The Great War ended on the 11th hour of November 11th, 1918, when the signed armistice came into effect. Though this peace would signal the end of the war, it would also help lead to a series of further destruction: this time the destruction of wealth […]
Chomsky hits back at Erdogan, accuses him of aiding terrorists
Chomsky hits back at Erdogan, accuses him of aiding terrorists Turkish President Tayyip Erdogan (L) and Noam Chomsky © Stringer / Reuters Prominent US linguist and philosopher Noam Chomsky has lashed out at Turkish President Recep Erdogan, who has accused him of being “dark” and having “mentality of colonialism” for signing an open letter protesting […]
Incontrovertible
Incontrovertible INCONTROVERTIBLE is the first and only feature length documentary we have which portrays the frank and candid views of Police Officers, Firefighters and Soldiers as they express their grave concerns about the official explanation for the events of 9/11. The film is intended to act as a practical aid in combating the mainstream media’s propaganda […]
(Re-)Covering Oil and War
(Re-)Covering Oil and War The first thing that popped into our minds on Tuesday when WTI oil briefly broached $30 for its first $20 handle in many years, was that this should be triggering a Gawdawful amount of bets, $30 being such an obvious number. Which in turn would of necessity lead to a -brief- […]
