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Munich Conference: “For The First Time In Decades We Are Facing Threat Of Nuclear Conflict”
Munich Conference: “For The First Time In Decades We Are Facing Threat Of Nuclear Conflict” Over the past fifty years, the Munich Security Conference (MSC) has traditionally reflected the current state of world military affairs. Each February, more than 450 senior decision-makers from around the globe descend into Munich, Germany, to discuss current and future […]
The US-UK Deep State Empire Strikes Back: ‘It’s Russia! Russia! Russia!’
The US-UK Deep State Empire Strikes Back: ‘It’s Russia! Russia! Russia!’ There’s no defense like a good offense. For weeks the unfolding story in Washington has been how a cabal of conspirators in the heart of the American federal law enforcement and intelligence apparat colluded to ensure the election of Hillary Clinton and, when that failed, to […]
The US is Executing a Global War Plan
The US is Executing a Global War Plan Washington is moving inevitably on a global war plan. That’s the grim conclusion one has to draw from three unfolding war scenarios. Ultimately, it’s about American imperialism trying to assert hegemony over the international order for the benefit of US capitalism. Russia and China are prime targets […]
The Expanding Threat from Washington’s Nuclear Weapons
The Expanding Threat from Washington’s Nuclear Weapons On February 3 the Washington Post observed that “the United States can deliver a strike anywhere in the world in 30 minutes with astounding accuracy” and questioned the need for “a new generation of low-yield nuclear weapons,” quoting the commander of the strategic force, General John Hyten, as saying “I’m very comfortable today with […]
Russia In the Crosshairs
Russia In the Crosshairs Defending the latest round of US/Israeli aggression against Syria, US State Department spokesperson Heather Nauert struck a Hitlerian note when she blamed Syria and Iran for an act of overt Israeli aggression, saying “The United States . . . strongly supports Israel’s sovereign right to defend itself,” and when she lied […]
Pentagon’s Nuclear Doctrine – Retrograde and Reckless
Pentagon’s Nuclear Doctrine – Retrograde and Reckless In its latest Nuclear Posture Review (NPR), the American Pentagon declares at one point in the document that the Cold War is long over. Apart from that fleeting mention, however, one would think from reading the entire review that the Cold War, for Washington, has never been so […]
Washington Threatens America and the World
Washington Threatens America and the World When I look at news reports from whichever country, I see no awareness of the two most ominous developments in US history. One is the conspiracy between US security agencies, the US Department of Justice, the Democratic Party and the American print and TV media to overthrow the democratically […]
Donald Trump Wants to Make It Easier to Start a Nuclear War. This Should Petrify Us.
Photo: Seung-il Ryu/NurPhoto/Getty Images Donald Trump Wants to Make It Easier to Start a Nuclear War. This Should Petrify Us. SHE DID TRY and warn us. “Imagine, if you dare … imagine him in the Oval Office facing a real crisis,” Hillary Clinton said in her speech to the Democratic National Convention in 2016, referring […]
9/11 Was the Excuse for an Already Planned Invasion of Iraq
9/11 Was the Excuse for an Already Planned Invasion of Iraq 9/11 was the neoconservatives’ “New Pearl Harbor,” the excuse the neoconservatives said they needed to launch Washington’s invasions of the Middle East. As General Wesley Clark told us, the plan was seven countries in five years. The plan had nothing to do with “weapons […]
Turkey’s Offensive in Syria: the US Falls into a Trap of Its Own Making
Turkey’s Offensive in Syria: the US Falls into a Trap of Its Own Making In the heat of the battle for Afrin, Turkey has warned it will go farther to establish control over vast swathes of land in northern Syria. The offensive is supposed to take Turkish forces as far as Syria’s border with Iraq. On Jan. 28, Ankara called […]
If There’s a War in Korea, Blame Trump
If There’s a War in Korea, Blame Trump Brainwashed Americans believe that Kim Jong-un is responsible for the confrontation between Pyongyang and Washington, but nothing could be further from the truth. The real problem is not Kim’s nuclear weapons but Washington’s 65 year-long military occupation that continues to reinforce a political solution that was arbitrarily […]
Will Washington’s Chess Game in Syria Lead to War With NATO Ally Turkey?
Will Washington’s Chess Game in Syria Lead to War With NATO Ally Turkey? (MPN) — It’s not clear if the United States knows what it is doing in Syria anymore. Having successfully toppled the Libyan government in 2011, former President Barack Obama subsequently spent a good three years attempting to bring about the fall of the Syrian government, under […]
Trump Ups Defense Budget By 13% – “Can’t Have World’s Best Military On An Obama Budget”
Trump Ups Defense Budget By 13% – “Can’t Have World’s Best Military On An Obama Budget” With Washington having seemingly turned its turret away from ‘terror’ and back to “revisionist, authoritarian” regimes like ‘Russia and China’, the Military-Industrial Complex is ‘gonna need a bigger budget’ – a 13% bigger $716 billion one by 2019. US […]
Flying Blind, Part 2: The Destruction Of Honest Price Discovery And Its Consequences
Flying Blind, Part 2: The Destruction Of Honest Price Discovery And Its Consequences In Part 1 we noted that the real evil of Bubble Finance is not merely that it leads to bubble crashes, of which there is surely a doozy just around the bend; or that speculators get the painful deserts they fully deserve, which is coming big time, too; or even […]
NSA “Sincerely Regrets” Deleting All Bush-Era Surveillance Data It Was Ordered To Preserve
NSA “Sincerely Regrets” Deleting All Bush-Era Surveillance Data It Was Ordered To Preserve There is a growing consensus among many observers in Washington that the national security agencies have become completely politicized over the past seventeen years and are now pursuing selfish agendas that actually endanger what remains of American democracy. As Philip Giraldi notes, […]
