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Obama’s AUMF—–An Affront To Congress And A Blank Check For War
Obama’s AUMF—–An Affront To Congress And A Blank Check For War After waging war on the Islamic State in Iraq and Syria (ISIS) for six months, President Obama is asking Congress for its blessing. But whether or not he gets it, he plans to continue doing whatever he thinks is necessary to “degrade and ultimately destroy this […]
Welcome to World War Three
Welcome to World War Three In case anyone didn’t get ISIL’s message from their latest video in which 21 Egyptian Coptic Christians have their heads sawn off, here it is: “We’re executioners, not warriors.” Those gouts of blood spilled on a Libyan beach amount to ISIL’s welcome mat to the mass execution of the Euro-American […]
ISIS CAPTURES CITY WHERE MARINES ARE TRAINING IRAQI TROOPS AFTER OBAMA SUBMITS WAR AUTHORIZATION
ISIS CAPTURES CITY WHERE MARINES ARE TRAINING IRAQI TROOPS AFTER OBAMA SUBMITS WAR AUTHORIZATION Corporate poll says majority of Americans favor continued and expanded war On Thursday ISIS fighters attacked and seized a large section of the Iraqi city of al-Baghdadi, located about 50 miles northwest of Ramadi in Anbar province. They also advanced […]
FOURTH TURNING – THE SHADOW OF CRISIS HAS NOT PASSED – PART FOUR
FOURTH TURNING – THE SHADOW OF CRISIS HAS NOT PASSED – PART FOUR In Part One of this article I explained the model of generational theory as conveyed by Strauss and Howe in The Fourth Turning. In Part Two I provided an overwhelming avalanche of evidence this Crisis has only yet begun, with debt, civic decay and global disorder propelling the […]
Obama’s Force Authorization is a Blank Check for War Worldwide
Obama’s Force Authorization is a Blank Check for War Worldwide The president is requesting Congress to pass an authorization for the use of military force (AUMF) resolution against ISIS. Congress has not issued a similar resolution since 2002, when President Bush was given the authority to wage war against Iraq. The purpose of this resolution […]
Why We Won’t See An Oil Price Rebound Yet
Why We Won’t See An Oil Price Rebound Yet The front page of The Wall Street Journal on Tuesday, February 10 proclaimed “Oil-Price Rebound Predicted” according to the IEA (International Energy Agency). Not true. The February 10 IEA Oil Market Report states that some “market participants are seeing light at the end of the tunnel” based on oil company […]
How Russia Plans To Retaliate To The Saudi-Driven Collapse In Oil
How Russia Plans To Retaliate To The Saudi-Driven Collapse In Oil A week ago we explained that yet another conspiracy theory, one involving virtually every geopolitical hotzone, from Saudi Arabia, to Russia, the United States, Qatar, Syria, ISIS, and Ukraine, has become fact when our speculation from last September, namely that the plunge in oil was an choreographed […]
US invasion of Iraq helped create ISIS – former UN chief
US invasion of Iraq helped create ISIS – former UN chief Kofi Annan, the former UN secretary general, said the US-led invasion of Iraq was a mistake and helped to create the Islamist State militant group. He also blamed regional powers for making the conflict worse. “I was against this invasion and my fears have […]
Japan seizes passport of journalist planning Syria trip
Japan seizes passport of journalist planning Syria trip Move follows brutal killing of Japanese by ISIL and comes amid soaring ratings for PM over handling of hostage crisis. Japan has seized the passport of a journalist planning to travel to Syria following the brutal killing of two Japanese hostages by the Islamic State of Iraq […]
Global Conflict Intensity Spikes To 7-Year High
Global Conflict Intensity Spikes To 7-Year High If it’s not one geopolitical concern these days it’s invariably another. If today’s story isn’t weak-handed Greece escalating the rhetoric in its hopeless game of chicken with eurozone creditors, it’s ISIS ratcheting up the shock factor in a campaign to scare U.S. coalition partners away from an increasingly ineffectual […]
Faux News
Faux News You can fool all the people some of the time, and some of the people all the time, but you cannot fool all the people all the time. – Abraham Lincoln It’s beginning to appear that ‘ol Abe might have been wrong. We have seen war after war after war, intervention after intervention […]
Another Conspiracy Theory Becomes Fact: The Entire Oil Collapse Is All About Crushing Russian Control Over Syria
Another Conspiracy Theory Becomes Fact: The Entire Oil Collapse Is All About Crushing Russian Control Over Syria While the markets are still debating whether the price of oil is more impacted by the excess pumping of crude here, or the lack of demand there, or if it is all just a mechanical squeeze by momentum-chasing […]
Ukrainian Militias Are Beheading Hostages … Just Like ISIS
Ukrainian Militias Are Beheading Hostages … Just Like ISIS In researching war crimes in Ukraine, I came across this disturbing report from Newsweek: Groups of right-wing Ukrainian nationalists are committing war crimes in the rebel-held territories of Eastern Ukraine, according to a report from Amnesty International, asevidence emerged in local media of the volunteer militias beheading their […]
What Will You Do When Government Tyranny And Terrorism Work Hand In Hand?
What Will You Do When Government Tyranny And Terrorism Work Hand In Hand? I was in the middle of working on an article covering real U.S. economic stats versus manipulated statistics when the Charlie Hebdo shootings took place. And though I knew the implications of the event would be far-reaching, I was originally undeterred from […]
For Sale to the Highest Bidder – How Middle Eastern Governments Are Buying Off the U.S. Political Process
For Sale to the Highest Bidder – How Middle Eastern Governments Are Buying Off the U.S. Political Process The quaint notion that the U.S. political system remotely resembles either a Republic or a Democracy should have been abandoned long ago. Any lingering illusions were surely extinguished last year, when an academic study empirically proved that the USA […]
