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Why WWIII Is On The Horizon
Why WWIII Is On The Horizon The collapse of the Soviet Union in 1991 gave birth to a dangerous American ideology called neoconservativism. The Soviet Union had served as a constraint on US unilateral action. With the removal of this constraint on Washington, neoconservatives declared their agenda of US world hegemony. America was now the […]
Turkish, Greek Jets Engage In Dogfight Over Mediterranean
Turkish, Greek Jets Engage In Dogfight Over Mediterranean Turkey is no stranger to aerial conflict of late. After months of back and forth banter between Ankara and Moscow regarding supposed Russian incursions into Turkish airspace, Erdogan finally “went there” on November 24 when Turkish F-16s shot down a Russian Su-24 near the border with Syria. […]
NATO: Seeking Russia’s Destruction Since 1949
NATO: Seeking Russia’s Destruction Since 1949 In 1990, after the fall of the Berlin Wall, U.S. president George H. W. Bush through his secretary of state James Baker promised Soviet premier Mikhail Gorbachev that in exchange for Soviet cooperation on German reunification, the Cold War era NATO alliance would not expand “one inch” eastwards towards […]
Spain Says “No”
Spain Says “No” For the third time in a year, the tight-fisted, austerity policies of the European Union (EU) took a beating, as Spanish voters crushed their rightwing government and overturned four decades of two-party reign. Following in the footsteps of Greek and Portuguese voters earlier this year, Spaniards soundly rejected the economic formula of […]
Christmas 2015—–Why There Is No Peace On Earth
Christmas 2015—–Why There Is No Peace On Earth After the Berlin Wall fell in November 1989 and the death of the Soviet Union was confirmed two years later when Boris Yeltsin courageously stood down the red army tanks in front of Moscow’s White House, a dark era in human history came to an end. The world had descended into what had been a […]
90% of U.S. population could be wiped out with doomsday electromagnetic weapon … Pentagon woefully unprepared
90% of U.S. population could be wiped out with doomsday electromagnetic weapon … Pentagon woefully unprepared (NaturalNews) There is growing alarm among defense planners about the uptick in nuclear weapons development taking place among the various great powers, including the United States, Russia, India and China, as well as lesser powers like North Korea and […]
The Coming Saudi Crack-up?
The Coming Saudi Crack-up? Exclusive: President Obama, like generations of Western leaders, has coddled the oil-rich Saudi monarchy by tolerating its reactionary politics, its financing of radical Islam and its military support for Sunni jihadist terrorism. But the spoiled Saudi leaders may finally be going too far, as Daniel Lazare describes. Is the Saudi monarchy coming apart at […]
Dictators of the Roman and American Empires – The Blue Ribbon Has To Go To Obama
Dictators of the Roman and American Empires – The Blue Ribbon Has To Go To Obama Every group (and especially an empire) needs its good or evil spokesperson, leader, or figurehead to focus upon: the embodiment of the particular group or nation. The size of the group is irrelevant: there simply must be a leader […]
US aimed to nuke civilian populations in enemy cities during Cold War – declassified document
US aimed to nuke civilian populations in enemy cities during Cold War – declassified document © Airman John Parie / Reuters A newly released Cold War-era list of nuclear targets shows the US planned to inflict “systematic destruction” on enemy cities and target the “population” of those areas. It is the most comprehensive Cold War […]
No Courage, Feckless Experiments and the Deep State
No Courage, Feckless Experiments and the Deep State Hosannas and Hat-Tipping Today’s post is about you dear reader… and the world you live in. That world got notice last week that henceforth short-term interest rates would be more than zilch. From all over the planet came hosannas and hat-tipping. Some commentators congratulated the Yellen Fed […]
Imperial Arrogance: Tony Blair, Qaddafi and Torture
Imperial Arrogance: Tony Blair, Qaddafi and Torture Tony Blair and Jack Straw. That former British prime minister Tony Blair is a poster boy for corruption, mendacity, opportunism, and ruthless ambition is by now a received truth. The man who took Britain into the war in Iraq on the coattails of the Bush administration in 2003, […]
Saudi Arabia’s Phony War on Terror
Saudi Arabia’s Phony War on Terror BERLIN – Containing the scourge of Islamist terror will be impossible without containing the ideology that drives it: Wahhabism, a messianic, jihad-extolling form of Sunni fundamentalism whose international expansion has been bankrolled by oil-rich sheikhdoms, especially Saudi Arabia. That is why the newly announced Saudi-led anti-terror coalition, the Islamic Military Alliance […]
On the 19th day of Christmas…
On the 19th day of Christmas… With all the action in Syria, the Ukraine is no longer a subject for discussion in the West. In Russia, where the Ukraine is still a major problem looming on the horizon, and where some 1.5 million Ukrainian refugees are settling in, with no intentions of going back to […]
Six Signs That 2016 Will Be Much Worse Than 2015
Six Signs That 2016 Will Be Much Worse Than 2015 A Turbulent Year In the course of 2015 we have witnessed several events that had, and will have, negative repercussions on individual freedom. Orwellian totalitarianism is increasingly creeping into our everyday lives. How much more intrusive will the violations of our liberties become and for […]
