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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 […]
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 […]
Why We’re Sliding Towards World War
Why We’re Sliding Towards World War Why Now? Paul Craig Roberts – former Assistant Secretary of the Treasury under President Reagan, former editor of the Wall Street Journal, listed by Who’s Who in America as one of the 1,000 most influential political thinkers in the world, PhD economist – wrote an article about the build […]
Washington prepares for World War III
Washington prepares for World War III The US military-intelligence complex is engaged in systematic preparations for World War III. As far as the Pentagon is concerned, a military conflict with China and/or Russia is inevitable, and this prospect has become the driving force of its tactical and strategic planning. Three congressional hearings Tuesday demonstrated this […]
War, Big Government, and Lost Freedom
War, Big Government, and Lost Freedom We are currently marking the hundredth anniversary of the fighting of the First World War. For four years between the summer of 1914 and November 11, 1918, the major world powers were in mortal combat with each other. The conflict radically changed the world. It overthrew the pre-1914 era […]
US Ground Troops In Syria Is “Illegal, Big Mistake”, Russia Warns Obama Of “Unpredictable Consequences”
US Ground Troops In Syria Is “Illegal, Big Mistake”, Russia Warns Obama Of “Unpredictable Consequences” On Tuesday, Defense Secretary Ash Carter told the Senate Armed Services Committee that the US would no longer hesitate to engage in “direct action on the ground” in Iraq and Syria. The change in rhetoric (and apparent shift in strategy) comes just days after […]
Syrian Crisis: What Will Happen Next?
Syrian Crisis: What Will Happen Next? The Syrian crisis and the confluence of clashing interests there was entirely predictable. In fact, I wrote an article on my former website in 2010 outlining the potential for Syria as a high value catalyst for global conflict titled “Will Globalists Trigger Yet Another World War?” In it, I summarized […]
Syriasly
Syriasly Senior administration officials say the new offensive holds promise and may change the dynamics on the ground. — The New York Times Whew…. That’s reassuring. Finally, a Middle East policy you can believe in. It’s apparently based on a joint Kurdish-Arab army that our side (the USA) is pretending to assemble around the ISIS stronghold […]
In Major Escalation, Washington Demands Greece Blocks Its Airspace For Russian Flights To Syria
In Major Escalation, Washington Demands Greece Blocks Its Airspace For Russian Flights To Syria Last week, when reporting that at least according to the White House,Russian presence in Syria is no longer disputed, we said that regardless if Russian troops are indeed on the Syrian ground, this admission that the current Syrian state of play “effectively ends […]
Impunity, Functional Equivalent of Genocide: Collapse of Social Institutions
Impunity, Functional Equivalent of Genocide: Collapse of Social Institutions The horrific refugee problem we see today, so reminiscent of population movements during World War II, next to the Holocaust itself in the historical annals of Crimes Against Humanity, and to which it was then related, remains in our times below the moral radar screen as […]
Public Didn’t See Last Two World Wars Coming Either
Public Didn’t See Last Two World Wars Coming Either Books about how World War I started, and to a lesser degree how World War II started, have tended in recent years to explain that these wars didn’t actually come as a surprise, because top government officials saw them coming for years. But these revised histories […]
The Glorious Imbecility of War
The Glorious Imbecility of War Napoleon Returns Today, on the eve of the bicentennial of the Battle of Waterloo, we do not celebrate war. Only a fool would celebrate something so horrible. But we pay our respects to the glorious imbecility of it. War may be dreadful, little more than a racket in many ways, […]
March Toward Global War
March Toward Global War Obama = McCarthy + Dulles Brothers The New York Times (NYT) is a trusted source of Administration thinking, particularly in foreign policy, more, an uncanny, sensitive barometer of deep-lying structural-military-diplomatic events which are presently culminating, beyond the New Cold War brewing since Clinton’s international posture in Europe and the Pacific, in […]
Did “China” Really Say “War” With the United States is “Inevitable”?
Did “China” Really Say “War” With the United States is “Inevitable”? The Stenographic Press Strikes Again! Spoiler: No. It would seem a certain amount of foreign affairs reporting starts out as pabulum fed by the government and its loyal allies to available journos, who further if incompletely digest it and then crap it out on […]
The US and China can avoid a collision course – if the US gives up its empire
The US and China can avoid a collision course – if the US gives up its empire The problem isn’t China’s rise, but rather America’s insistence on maintaining military and economic dominance right in China’s backyard To avoid a violent militaristic clash with China, or another cold war rivalry, the United States should pursue a simple […]
