Home » Posts tagged 'islamic state' (Page 11)
Tag Archives: islamic state
Angry Mobs Torch Kurdish Offices, Shops As Turkey Descends Into Chaos
Angry Mobs Torch Kurdish Offices, Shops As Turkey Descends Into Chaos History is replete with examples of US-backed world leaders oppressing their people with Washington’s implicit blessing and despite the fact that the eyes of the world are trained squarely on Syria and, by extension, on any neighboring country that has a role to play […]
MI6 ISIS Rat Line & The Threat To India
MI6 ISIS Rat Line & The Threat To India The prosecution of a Swedish national accused of terrorist activities in Syria has collapsed at the Old Bailey after it became clear Britain’s security and intelligence agencies would have been deeply embarrassed had a trial gone ahead, the Guardian reported. Bherlin Gildo was due to stand trial […]
Putin Confirms Scope Of Russian Military Role In Syria
Putin Confirms Scope Of Russian Military Role In Syria Over the past 48 hours or so, we’ve seen what certainly appears to be visual confirmation of a non-negligible Russian military presence in Syria. For anyone coming to the story late, overt Russian involvement would seem to suggest that the geopolitical “main event” (so to speak), […]
Russian Military Forces Arrive In Syria, Set Forward Operating Base Near Damascus
Russian Military Forces Arrive In Syria, Set Forward Operating Base Near Damascus While military direct intervention by US, Turkish, and Gulf forces over Syrian soil escalates with every passing day, even as Islamic State forces capture increasingly more sovereign territory, in the central part of the country, the Nusra Front dominant in the northwestern region […]
Officials: Islamic State arose from US support for al-Qaeda in Iraq
Officials: Islamic State arose from US support for al-Qaeda in Iraq A former Pentagon intelligence chief, Iraqi government sources, and a retired career US diplomat reveal US complicity in the rise of ISIS A new memoir by a former senior State Department analyst provides stunning details on how decades of support for Islamist militants linked […]
The Fake War on ISIS: US and Turkey Escalate in Syria
The Fake War on ISIS: US and Turkey Escalate in Syria It is late July 2015, and the media is abuzz with the news that Turkey will allow US jets to use its bases to bomb Islamic State (ISIS) targets in Syria. There is much talk about how this development is a “game-changer,” and how this is […]
You Can Add Iraq And Ukraine To The List Of Economies That Are Collapsing
You Can Add Iraq And Ukraine To The List Of Economies That Are Collapsing The list of nations around the globe that have collapsing economies just continues to grow. In recent weeks I have written about the ongoing saga in Greece, the stock market crash in China, the debt crisis in Puerto Rico and the economic meltdown in […]
Britain’s secret ties to governments, firms behind ISIS oil sales
Britain’s secret ties to governments, firms behind ISIS oil sales In the scramble to access Kurdistan’s oil and gas wealth, the US and UK are turning a blind eye to complicity in ‘Islamic State’ oil smuggling Key allies in the US and UK led war on Islamic State (ISIS) are covertly financing the terrorist movement […]
Turkey Permits U.S. To Use Its Airbase For Air Strikes Against Syria
Turkey Permits U.S. To Use Its Airbase For Air Strikes Against Syria Earlier we reported that in an apparent retaliation against Monday’s alleged suicide bombing and today’s follow up killing of a Turkish soldier on the border with Syria, the Turkish army launched what under normal conditions would be deemed a land invasion of Turkey […]
Liberty Movement Needs More Innovations To Counter Technological Tyranny
Liberty Movement Needs More Innovations To Counter Technological Tyranny The great lesson from history that each consecutive generations seems to forget is that the tools of tyranny used outward will inevitably be turned inward. That is to say, the laws and weapons governments devise for supposed enemies abroad will ALWAYS and eventually be used against […]
Video of the Day – General Wesley Clark Suggests Putting “Disloyal Americans” in Internment Camps
Video of the Day – General Wesley Clark Suggests Putting “Disloyal Americans” in Internment Camps If these people are radicalized and don’t support the United States, and they’re disloyal to the United States, as a matter of principal that’s fine, that’s their right. It’s our right and our obligation to segregate them from the normal […]
Seeking War to the End of the World
Seeking War to the End of the World Exclusive: Despite the disastrous Iraq War, neocons still dominate Official Washington’s inside-outside game, government policymakers coordinating with think-tank opinion leaders to keep world tensions high and money flowing to military projects, a process personified by Robert Kagan and Victoria Nuland, says Robert Parry. If the neoconservatives have their way again, U.S. ground troops will reoccupy […]
Endless enemies – how the US is supporting the Islamic State by fighting it
Endless enemies – how the US is supporting the Islamic State by fighting it From al-Qaeda to the Islamic State to Assad, the US is fighting terrorists of its own creation by partnering with other terrorists of its own creation Geopolitics is a murky game. Precisely how murky is reflected in the well-worn phrase, “The […]
Retired General: Drones Create More Terrorists Than They Kill, Iraq War Helped Create ISIS
Retired General: Drones Create More Terrorists Than They Kill, Iraq War Helped Create ISIS Retired Army Gen. Mike Flynn, a top intelligence official in the post-9/11 wars in Iraq and Afghanistan, says in a forthcoming interview on Al Jazeera English that the drone war is creating more terrorists than it is killing. He also asserts that the U.S. […]
US/Israeli/Saudi ‘Behavior’ Problems
US/Israeli/Saudi ‘Behavior’ Problems There is a madness in how the mainstream U.S. media presents the world to the American people, a delusional perspective that arguably creates an existential threat to humanity’s survival. We have seen this pattern in the biased depiction of the Ukraine crisis and now in how Official Washington is framing the debate over the Iranian […]
