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Fallout from Reagan’s Afghan War
Fallout from Reagan’s Afghan War In the 1980s, President Reagan funded and armed Islamic fundamentalists to defeat a Soviet-backed secular regime in Afghanistan. Now, one of those ex-U.S. clients is throwing his support behind the brutal Islamic State, a lesson about geopolitical expediency, writes ex-CIA analyst Paul R. Pillar. In a blast from the past in […]
Russia, Ukraine and U.S. Hegemony
Russia, Ukraine and U.S. Hegemony The following is an edited version of a talk by the author as part of a panel at a public forum in Toronto on June 12, 2015. The forum was sponsored by the Centre for Social Justice and Socialist Project. You can view the talk here on ‘Left Streamed’. The Ukraine/Russia […]
You’ve Been Warned – Calls for Mandatory “National Service” for Americans Aged 18-28 Has Begun
You’ve Been Warned – Calls for Mandatory “National Service” for Americans Aged 18-28 Has Begun CHAPTER ONE War is a Racket WAR is a racket. It always has been. It is possibly the oldest, easily the most profitable, surely the most vicious. It is the only one international in scope. It is the only one […]
The American far-right’s trojan horse in Westminster
The American far-right’s trojan horse in Westminster Elites are using the Henry Jackson Society to sell surveillance, war, white supremacism, banks, and misogyny There is a violent extremist fifth column operating at the heart of power in Britain, and they stand against everything we hold dear in Western democracies: civil liberties, equality, peace, diplomacy and […]
Geopolitical Risks Are Climbing: Interstate Conflict Is Highest Risk In 2015
Geopolitical Risks Are Climbing: Interstate Conflict Is Highest Risk In 2015 Every year, the World Economic Forum publishes an annual report on global risks that covers the factors and underlying drivers that could most likely disrupt global economic activity. Most of the time over the last decade, the survey of 900 global experts finds the […]
Iraq War Propaganda Redux: U.S. Claims Syrian Government Supporting ISIS
Iraq War Propaganda Redux: U.S. Claims Syrian Government Supporting ISIS West Busted Supporting ISIS … Tries Instead to Point Finger At Syrian Government America’s closest allies have been busted supporting ISIS in order to topple Syria’s government. Mainstream U.S. writers are calling for open support of ISIS and Al Qaeda to enact regime change in Syria. And a […]
Superpower in Distress
Superpower in Distress Think of this as a little imperial folly update — and here’s the backstory. In the years after invading Iraq and disbanding Saddam Hussein’s military, the U.S. sunk about $25 billion into “standing up” a new Iraqi army. By June 2014, however, that army, filled with at least 50,000 “ghost soldiers,” was only standing in […]
Pentagon report says West, Gulf states and Turkey foresaw emergence of ‘IS’
Pentagon report says West, Gulf states and Turkey foresaw emergence of ‘IS’ A US intelligence report reveals that Western support for Syria’s rebels aided and abetted the rise of the ‘Islamic State’ – and the Pentagon won’t deny it A newly declassified Pentagon report provides startling high-level confirmation that the US-led strategy in Syria contributed directly to […]
Al Qaeda Syria Boss Says That His ‘So-called Khorasan Group Doesn’t Exist’
Al Qaeda Syria Boss Says That His ‘So-called Khorasan Group Doesn’t Exist’ In early September 2014, an Associated Press story quoted unnamed U.S. officials discussing an imminent threat from a previously unknown, Syria-based terror outfit called the “Khorasan Group.” U.S. officials told the AP that the jihadist group was stocked with al Qaeda veterans and was plotting imminent attacks against U.S.-bound airline flights. Officials also suggested that the […]
ISIS Planning US Nuclear Attack In Next 12 Months: Report
ISIS Planning US Nuclear Attack In Next 12 Months: Report Three weeks after the first supposed attack by Islamic State supporters in the US, in which two ISIS “soldiers” wounded a security guard before they were killed in Garland, Texas, the time has come to raise the fear stakes. In an article posted in the terrorist […]
US-Assisted Wahhabi Bombings of Yemen are “Devastating”: UN
US-Assisted Wahhabi Bombings of Yemen are “Devastating”: UN The UN Secretary General stated Thursday that Saudi bombings of Yemen, which are assisted and coordinated by the US, “are having a devastating impact on humanitarian aid efforts and are in violation of the laws of war.” While noting that fighters within Yemen are also committing war-crimes – ISIS, for […]
Islamic State is the cancer of modern capitalism
Islamic State is the cancer of modern capitalism Debate about the origins of the Islamic State (IS) has largely oscillated between two extreme perspectives. One blames the West. IS is nothing more than a predictable reaction to the occupation of Iraq, yet another result of Western foreign policy blowback. The other attributes IS’s emergence purely […]
Accusations Emerge That the U.S. Is Aiding ISIS – The Latest “Conspiracy Theory” Circulating in Iraq
Accusations Emerge That the U.S. Is Aiding ISIS – The Latest “Conspiracy Theory” Circulating in Iraq My belief is, we will, in fact be greeted as liberators. – Dick Cheney on NBC’s Meet the Press, March 16, 2003 But that enmity for the United States circulates beyond the militias that once fought U.S. soldiers, surfacing also […]
Before Canada goes too far into Iraq, remember Libya, Afghanistan
Before Canada goes too far into Iraq, remember Libya, Afghanistan Ottawa was warned, before the Libya mission, that that country would descend into civil war It is sobering to reflect that before our current mission in Iraq, the last two military operations undertaken abroad by Canada have been followed by the violent rise of the […]
ISIS Burn Iraqi Oil Fields To Hold Off Iraqi Offensive
ISIS Burn Iraqi Oil Fields To Hold Off Iraqi Offensive Thick black smoke billowing from oil wells northeast of the city of Tikrit is obstructing Shi’ite militiamen and Iraqi soldiers attempts to drive ISIS from the Sunni Muslim city after militants set them on fire. Reuters reports a witness and a military source said Islamic State fighters […]
