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Why NYT Dissed the ‘Drone Papers’
Why NYT Dissed the ‘Drone Papers’ When the “Downing Street Memo” surfaced in the UK in 2006 revealing that the intelligence to justify the Iraq War had been “fixed” around the policy, the mainstream U.S. media largely ignored it. The same has now happened with the leak of documents about President Obama’s drone war, writes John […]
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 […]
PM-Elect Of ‘US Ally’ Canada Wastes No Time: Tells Obama Will Withdraw Fighter Jets From Syria, Iraq
PM-Elect Of ‘US Ally’ Canada Wastes No Time: Tells Obama Will Withdraw Fighter Jets From Syria, Iraq With the ink still damp on voter slips, newly crowned elected Canadian Prime Minister Justin Trudeau wasted no time in fulfilling the first of his liberal “hope” and “change” promises. As AFP reports, hours after defeating Stephen Harper, Trudeau has told US President Obama that […]
Imperial Failure: Lessons From Afghanistan and Iraq
Imperial Failure: Lessons From Afghanistan and Iraq The photographs in the New York Times told contrasting stories last week. One showed two Taliban soldiers in civilian clothes and sandals, with their rifles, standing in front of a captured U.N. vehicle. The Taliban forces had taken the northern provincial capital of Kunduz. The other photograph showed Afghan army […]
Moscow Demands Britain Explain “Green Light To Shoot Down Russian Jets”
Moscow Demands Britain Explain “Green Light To Shoot Down Russian Jets” The chances of escalation from a proxy war to outright war just went to 11 on the Spinal Tap amplifier of sabre-rattling. A day after British and NATO pilots were reportedly given the green light to take drastic action against Russian fighter jets if they come under threat […]
The United States government has become “the world’s most dangerous terrorist organization,” warns former Reagan official
The United States government has become “the world’s most dangerous terrorist organization,” warns former Reagan official A former top member of the Ronald Reagan administration has issued a dire warning about the current state of American government: it’s evil and will become even more evil in the years ahead as the world itself becomes more dangerous. Dr. […]
Russian Warships Launch Missile Attack On Syrian Targets, Clearing Way For Iran Ground Invasion
Russian Warships Launch Missile Attack On Syrian Targets, Clearing Way For Iran Ground Invasion In case it wasn’t clear enough what was set to happen soon after the Russian air force had spent a few days softening up anti-regime positions on the ground, allow us to spell it out: with the opposition on the run […]
The Middle East Meltdown and Global Risk
The Middle East Meltdown and Global Risk Among today’s geopolitical risks, none is greater than the long arc of instability stretching from the Maghreb to the Afghanistan-Pakistan border. With the Arab Spring an increasingly distant memory, the instability along this arc is deepening. Indeed, of the three initial Arab Spring countries, Libya has become a […]
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 […]
Russia is destabilizing Syria — according to those destabilizing Syria.
Russia is destabilizing Syria — according to those destabilizing Syria. In a move many consider to be an act of bitter defiance to the West, the Russian government appears to have significantly increased its military aid to the Syrian regime. This support hinges largely on the provision of providing advanced weaponry — such as tanks and artillery — training Syrian […]
U.S. Bombs Somehow Keep Falling in the Places Where Obama “Ended Two Wars”
U.S. Bombs Somehow Keep Falling in the Places Where Obama “Ended Two Wars” “We’ve ended two wars.” — Barack Obama, July 21, 2015, at a DSCC fundraiser held at a “private residence” “Now that we have ended two wars responsibly, and brought home hundreds of American troops, we salute this new generation of veterans.” — National Security Adviser […]
Obama Deifies American Hegemony
Obama Deifies American Hegemony Today is the 70th anniversary of the UN. It is not clear how much good the UN has done. Some UN Blue Hemet peacekeeping operations had limited success. But mainly Washington has used the UN for war, such as the Korean War and Washington’s Cold War against the Soviet Union. In […]
No Brains In Washington
No Brains In Washington Washington’s IQ follows the Fed’s interest rate — it is negative. Washington is a black hole into which all sanity is sucked out of government deliberations. Washington’s failures are everywhere visible. We can see the failures in Washington’s wars and in Washington’s approach to China and Russia. The visit of Chinese […]
Famed Journalist Robert Fisk: Canada’s Moral Power Is Lost
Famed Journalist Robert Fisk: Canada’s Moral Power Is Lost Middle East sage on ISIS, refugees, Harper, ‘short-termism’ and more. A Tyee interview. Arguably the world’s most famous international war correspondent, Robert Fisk has been travelling to strife-ravaged regions of the world for over 30 years. His columns — he has been contributing to the British […]
The Final Collapse of Bush’s Nation-Building: Kunduz falls to Taliban
September 30, 2015
The Final Collapse of Bush’s Nation-Building: Kunduz falls to Taliban On Monday, the Taliban swept into the provincial capital of Kunduz, taking it in half a day from a large and well-equipped Afghan National Army force. Tuesday’s riposte had only mixed success, with the ANA saying it had taken back the (no-empty) prison. An attempt to […]
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