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Historic New Harpers Article Exposes Who Controls America
Historic New Harpers Article Exposes Who Controls America There can be little doubt now: America’s decades-long catastrophic failures to make significant progress in eliminating even a single one of the numerous jihadist groups around the world is due to the American government’s secret under-the-table crucial ongoing assistance to those groups, and this American-government support has […]
ISIS, Al Qaeda And The CIA: The Documented Connection
ISIS, Al Qaeda And The CIA: The Documented Connection The Middle East is fertile ground for conspiracy theories, and one growing to towering heights these days says the US created the Islamic State. But while the US may well have aided ISIS in its formative days with covert supplies of weapons and CIA funding (directly […]
A Blind Eye Toward Turkey’s Crimes
A Blind Eye Toward Turkey’s Crimes Exclusive: The alleged ties between Turkish President Erdogan and Islamist terrorists in Syria is an embarrassment for the Obama administration and the U.S. news media, which would prefer to look the other way rather than face up to the danger created by an out-of-control NATO “ally,” writes Robert Parry. Theoretically, it would […]
US calls on Turkey to withdraw ‘unauthorized’ troops from Iraq
US calls on Turkey to withdraw ‘unauthorized’ troops from Iraq © Yilmaz Kazandioglu / Reuters The US has urged Turkey to withdraw its “unauthorized” military forces from northern Iraq, calling on Ankara to respect the country’s sovereignty and territorial integrity. US Vice President Joe Biden has spoken to Iraqi Prime Minister Haider al-Abadi regarding Turkey’s […]
NATO Expansion: Lessons Not Learned
NATO Expansion: Lessons Not Learned Failure to Communicate Recently, NATO extended an offer of membership to Montenegro. The announcement was couched in the usual tagline of offering “assurance” to Western Balkan states concerned with possible security issues (Russian assertiveness) and “reassurance” to current NATO members in the neighborhood. With the utmost respect to Montenegrins […]
How ‘Obscure’ Bureaucrats Cause Wars
How ‘Obscure’ Bureaucrats Cause Wars Exclusive: Official Washington’s anti-Russian “group think” is now so dominant that no one with career aspirations dares challenge it, a victory for “obscure” government bureaucrats, like Assistant Secretary of State Victoria Nuland, as Jonathan Marshall explains. History isn’t just made by impersonal forces and “great men” or “great women.” Sometimes relatively obscure men and […]
European Dream Turns into Dystopian Nightmare
European Dream Turns into Dystopian Nightmare Why We Brits Should Vote for Brexit. As a Europhile British ex-pat who has spent most of his adult life living on “the continent,” as we Brits are fond of calling the non-British part of Europe, it might seem rather odd to be encouraging my fellow Brits to vote […]
Why Europe Will Collapse: Schultz’s Outrage at Poland
Why Europe Will Collapse: Schultz’s Outrage at Poland A huge protest against the Europe Union has taken place in Poland. When I was there, everyone I spoke to was against joining the euro. They all said that the euro would destroy Poland as it did in Greece and the rest of Southern Europe. European Parliament […]
Saudi Royal Family Announces Its New Global Sunni Military Empire
Saudi Royal Family Announces Its New Global Sunni Military Empire (NOTE: Some news-media have made clear to me flat-out that they won’t publish anything that criticizes the Saudi royal family, especially not as being what they really are, but I have included those media on my distribution-list anyway, as I always do. I send everything […]
Did Saudi Arabia Just Clear The Way For An Invasion Of Syria And Iraq?
Did Saudi Arabia Just Clear The Way For An Invasion Of Syria And Iraq? And now, a further turn for the absurd… While it’s still far from common knowledge among the Western public that Washington’s closest allies in the Mid-East are funding, arming, and otherwise enabling the Sunni extremists (including ISIS) battling for control of […]
License to Kill
License to Kill Jakub Rozalski [This post is, once again, a rerun, but its subject seems quite timely. As you watch the political establishment in the US go through its usual antics, ask yourself: are they even capable of understanding the fact that they have already lost the empire?] The story is the same every […]
The Neoconservatives’ Hegemonic Goal Of Making Sovereign Countries Extinct Is Bringing Instead The Extinction Of Planet Earth
The Neoconservatives’ Hegemonic Goal Of Making Sovereign Countries Extinct Is Bringing Instead The Extinction Of Planet Earth My warning that the neoconservatives have resurrected the threat of nuclear Armageddon, which was removed by Reagan and Gorbachev, is also being given by Noam Chomsky, former US Secretary of Defense William Perry, and other sentient observers of […]
Russian Missile Destroyer “Fires Warning Shots” To Avoid Collision With Turkish Vessel
Russian Missile Destroyer “Fires Warning Shots” To Avoid Collision With Turkish Vessel Another day, another military escalation between Russia and Turkey, this time not in the air, but on the water in the northern part of the Aegean sea, where the crew of the Russian “Smetlivy” destroyer was forced to use firearms on Sunday to prevent a collision […]
Cornering Russia, Risking World War III
Cornering Russia, Risking World War III Official Washington is awash with tough talk about Russia and the need to punish President Putin for his role in Ukraine and Syria. But this bravado ignores Russia’s genuine national interests, its “red lines,” and the risk that “tough-guy-ism” can lead to nuclear war, as Alastair Crooke explains. We […]
