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36,000 troops, 200 aircraft & 60 vessels: NATO launches biggest war games in 13 years
36,000 troops, 200 aircraft & 60 vessels: NATO launches biggest war games in 13 years © NATO JFC Brunssum / YouTube NATO has started its biggest exercise since 2002 with 36,000 international troops from 30 states, including non-NATO nations, participating in the drills which are taking place at sea, in the air and across the […]
US Tax Dollars and Ukraine’s Finance Minister
US Tax Dollars and Ukraine’s Finance Minister Special Report: Though touted as the face of reform inside Ukraine’s post-coup regime, Finance Minister Natalie Jaresko enriched herself at the expense of a U.S.-taxpayer-financed investment fund – and USAID now says it’s missing some of the audit records detailing Jaresko’s dealings, reports Robert Parry. The U.S. government is […]
US Bombs Afghanistan Hospital, Kills 9 Civilians, Injures 37; Tosses It Off As “Collateral Damage”
US Bombs Afghanistan Hospital, Kills 9 Civilians, Injures 37; Tosses It Off As “Collateral Damage” Just when you thought it couldn’t get any worse for US foreign policy, or for the credibility of the US state department to slide further, it got much worse. Less than a day after US ambassador to the UN, uber-warhawk Samantha Power […]
How America’s “Think Tanks” are Compromised and Bought Off by Foreign Governments
How America’s “Think Tanks” are Compromised and Bought Off by Foreign Governments The think tanks do not disclose the terms of the agreements they have reached with foreign governments. And they have not registered with the United States government as representatives of the donor countries, an omission that appears, in some cases, to be a […]
The Largest US Foreign Policy Blunder Since Vietnam Is Complete: Iran Readies Massive Syrian Ground Invasion
The Largest US Foreign Policy Blunder Since Vietnam Is Complete: Iran Readies Massive Syrian Ground Invasion On Thursday, in “Mid-East Coup: As Russia Pounds Militant Targets, Iran Readies Ground Invasions While Saudis Panic”, we attempted to cut through all of the Western and Russian media propaganda on the way to describing what Moscow’s involvement in […]
The Western Alliance Is Crumbling
The Western Alliance Is Crumbling EU Is Abandoning U.S. on Overthrowing Assad Obama Cannot Defeat Assad without EU’s Help EU Also Rejects Obama’s TTIP & TISA Demands Obama’s Presidential ‘Legacy’ Heads to Failure Europe is being overrun by refugees from American bombing campaigns in Libya and Syria, which created a failed state in Libya, and which threaten […]
Giving Saudis a Pass on Yemen War
Giving Saudis a Pass on Yemen War By supporting Saudi Arabia’s war on Yemen, the U.S. is again finding itself on the same side with Al Qaeda in a Mideast conflict, a troubling pattern driven by a compulsion to excuse actions by U.S. “allies” no matter how outrageous, as ex-CIA analyst Paul R. Pillar explains. […]
How The War Party Betrayed America’s Non-Interventionist Foreign Policy Tradition
How The War Party Betrayed America’s Non-Interventionist Foreign Policy Tradition So Vladimir Putin in his U.N. address summarized his indictment of a U.S. foreign policy that has produced a series of disasters in the Middle East that we did not need the Russian leader to describe for us. Fourteen years after we invaded Afghanistan, Afghan […]
Gold & War
Gold & War QUESTION: Does war boost gold prices? MM ANSWER: No. The only impact that war will have on gold is confined to either prolonged inflation or the uncertainty of the victor — the hedge against government survival. War by itself is a non-event. Gold will rise ONLY when there is uncertainty because the currency of the government will […]
The ECM Turning Point — Sept. 30/Oct. 1 — Guns & War?
The ECM Turning Point — Sept. 30/Oct. 1 — Guns & War? The unleashing of Russian firepower in Syria in support of the Syrian government came precisely on the day of the Economic Confidence Model. I have come to learn from observing this model that major world events, whatever the major focus may be, appear […]
“They’re Hopping Mad In The US And Saudi Arabia”: Russian Strikes In Syria Spark Epic Western Media Propaganda Blitz
“They’re Hopping Mad In The US And Saudi Arabia”: Russian Strikes In Syria Spark Epic Western Media Propaganda Blitz We are now two days into Russia’s air campaign against anti-regime forces in Syria and both Moscow and the West are rushing to spin the narrative. The frantic attempt from both sides to shape public opinion […]
US Complains As Russia Bombs its Terrorists
US Complains As Russia Bombs its Terrorists The New York Times in its recent article, “Russians Strike Targets in Syria, but Not ISIS Areas,” attempts to frame Russia’s recent actions in Syria as dishonest and dangerous. It reports: Russian aircraft carried out a bombing attack against Syrian opposition fighters on Wednesday, including at least one […]
Heading Toward a Collision: Syria, Saudi Arabia and Regional Proxy Wars
Heading Toward a Collision: Syria, Saudi Arabia and Regional Proxy Wars A recent Guardian article (“Saudi Arabia says there is no future for Assad in Syria”) Saudi Foreign Minister Adel al-Jubeil is quoted saying, “This [the Syrian civil war] could be a more lengthy process and a more destructive process but the choice is entirely that of Bashar […]
Saudi Arabia sinks UN war crimes probe in Yemen, Washington stays silent
Saudi Arabia sinks UN war crimes probe in Yemen, Washington stays silent The Netherlands dropped their bid to establish an independent UN-led probe into alleged war crimes in Yemen, yielding to an alternative resolution proposed by Saudi Arabia, which stands accused of causing most of the civilian deaths in the conflict. The Saudis are leading […]
HBO and Snapchat are Actively Working with the U.S. Government to Create Propaganda
HBO and Snapchat are Actively Working with the U.S. Government to Create Propaganda In 1953, Joseph Alsop, then one of America’s leading syndicated columnists, went to the Philippines to cover an election. He did not go because he was asked to do so by his syndicate. He did not go because he was asked to […]
