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Washington’s Wars
Washington’s Wars The New York Times reported on October 22 that the United States has “just over 240,000 active-duty and reserve troops in at least 172 countries and territories,” which is a staggering total. But in an intriguing revelation the Times reported that there are a further 37,813 troops deployed “on presumably secret assignment in places listed simply as ‘unknown.’ […]
U.S. Generals Might Stop Trump From an Illegal Nuclear Strike–But Who Will Save Us From a Legal One?
Photo: Galerie Bilderwelt/Getty Images U.S. GENERALS MIGHT STOP TRUMP FROM AN ILLEGAL NUCLEAR STRIKE — BUT WHO WILL SAVE US FROM A LEGAL ONE? HE HAS BECOME the latest in a long line of generals to be lionized by the anti-Trump #resistance. Speaking over the weekend, Gen. John Hyten, commander of the U.S. Strategic Command, […]
Newsweek Embarrassment: “What Russia Did to Control the American Mind”
Newsweek Embarrassment: “What Russia Did to Control the American Mind” In yet another mindless fake news story about fake news, NewsWeek explains how “Russia Controls the American Mind” NewsWeek embarrassed itself with this shoddy headline story WHY CLINTON LOST: WHAT RUSSIA DID TO CONTROL THE AMERICAN MIND AND PUT TRUMP IN THE WHITE HOUSE. The […]
Pictorial: American Animosity Ambling Amuck
Pictorial: American Animosity Ambling Amuck This Russia Collusion thing has been going on for one year now. I’m not interested in debating whether or not Trump colluded. I am interested in examining the massive hypocrisy emanating from our government, and on display daily in living color from MSM whores, prostitutes, traitors, teleprompter readers. Who among […]
America’s Righteous Russia-gate Censorship
America’s Righteous Russia-gate Censorship Exclusive: Arriving behind the anti-Trump “resistance” and the Russia-gate “scandal” is a troubling readiness to silence dissent in the U.S., shutting down information that challenges Official Narratives, writes Robert Parry. A stark difference between today’s Washington and when I was here as a young Associated Press correspondent in the late 1970s […]
Hillary Clinton Just Told Five Blatant Lies About WikiLeaks
Hillary Clinton Just Told Five Blatant Lies About WikiLeaks As part of her ongoing “Thank God You Didn’t Elect Me” tour, Hillary Clinton made her debut on Australian television last night in an interview with the ABC’s Sarah Ferguson. Though she didn’t repeat her infamous “17 intelligence agencies” lie, which she’d continued to regurgitate long […]
Trump’s Saudi Scheme Unravels
Trump’s Saudi Scheme Unravels President Trump and his son-in-law bet that the young Saudi crown prince could execute a plan to reshape the Mideast, but the scheme quickly unraveled revealing a dangerous amateur hour, writes ex-British diplomat Alastair Crooke. Aaron Miller and Richard Sokolsky, writing in Foreign Policy, suggest “that Mohammed bin Salman’s most notable […]
The Pandora’s Box of the Digital Age
The Pandora’s Box of the Digital Age In the past year alone, a series of hacks and ransomware attacks by hostile governments and other malign actors have raised alarms about a major threat to global stability. Unfortunately, many governments are responding by developing still more cyber weapons, on the mistaken assumption that offense is the […]
Stumbling Blindly into Cold War Two
Stumbling Blindly into Cold War Two As the U.S. and its Western allies lurch into a new and dangerous confrontation with Russia, the different sides don’t even have a thorough understanding of the history behind the tensions, warns Alice Slater. NATO’s recent provocative decision to build up its military forces across Europe — by sending […]
Saudis and Trump: Gambling Bigly
Saudis and Trump: Gambling Bigly “My grandfather rode a camel, my father rode a camel, I drive a Mercedes, my son drives a Land Rover, his son will drive a Land Rover, but his son will ride a camel.” – Rashid bin Saeed Al Maktoum, first Prime Minister of United Arab Emirates Try this simple mental […]
Russia Names The 9 US News Outlets It Will Retaliate Against
Russia Names The 9 US News Outlets It Will Retaliate Against After hinting that retaliation was imminent, Russian lawmakers in the Duma – Russia’s lower house of Parliament – have approved a law that would require nine US news outlets to be labeled “foreign agents” in response to Washington’s decision to require Russia Today to […]
McCarthyism Redux: Attacks on the Russian Media
McCarthyism Redux: Attacks on the Russian Media Photo by Mike Maguire | CC BY 2.0 “We will not walk in fear, one of another. We will not be driven by fear into an age of unreason if we dig deep in our history and our doctrine, and remember that we are not fearful men, not […]
Auto-Loan Subprime Blows Up Lehman-Moment-Like
Auto-Loan Subprime Blows Up Lehman-Moment-Like But there is no Financial Crisis. These are the boom times. Given Americans’ ceaseless urge to borrow and spend, household debt in the third quarter surged by $610 billion, or 5%, from the third quarter last year, to a new record of $13 trillion, according to the New York Fed. […]
