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House Democrat Warns Obama’s Actions Could Lead To “Devastating Nuclear War”
House Democrat Warns Obama’s Actions Could Lead To “Devastating Nuclear War” It was so much easier when Obama was running a military “sneakers on the ground” campaign in Iraq and Syria where there was no official confirmation of the thousands of “military advisors” engaging directly with various known and unknown adversaries. However, a recent surge of […]
Murder And Mayhem In The Middle East
TonelloPhotography/Shutterstock Murder And Mayhem In The Middle East Why it matters to those living in the West To understand what’s happening in Syria right now, you have to understand the tactics and motivations of the US and NATO — parties sharing interwoven aims and goals in the Middle East/North African (MENA) region. While the populations […]
Meet The Man Who Funds ISIS: Bilal Erdogan, The Son Of Turkey’s President
Meet The Man Who Funds ISIS: Bilal Erdogan, The Son Of Turkey’s President Russia’s Sergey Lavrov is not one foreign minister known to mince his words. Just earlier today, 24 hours after a Russian plane was brought down by the country whose president three years ago said “a short-term border violation can never be a pretext for […]
Drudge Sends the Biggest Secret Viral: “America Has Been Arming ISIS”
Drudge Sends the Biggest Secret Viral: “America Has Been Arming ISIS” The biggest open secret in the world has just been tweeted by the world’s biggest news aggregator. Matt Drudge drives so much web traffic that he basically has his own gravity, and now the often-reclusive figure has sent out a message that should be […]
Russia Suspends Military Cooperation With Turkey, Will Use Warships To “Destroy Any Threats To Russian Planes”
Russia Suspends Military Cooperation With Turkey, Will Use Warships To “Destroy Any Threats To Russian Planes” Despite demands from France’s Hollande, America’s Obama, and NATO’s Stoltenberg that this situation not esclate, it appears Putin is not taking the shooting down of a fighter jet lying down. The seemingly cagey confirmation by NATO and Obama of […]
Russian Search Helicopter Downed Near Syrian Border By US-Made Anti-Tank Missile, Rebels Claim
Russian Search Helicopter Downed Near Syrian Border By US-Made Anti-Tank Missile, Rebels Claim The news is coming fast and furious out of Syria on Tuesday where, earlier today, Turkey decided to shoot down a Russian Su-24 which Ankara says violated its airspace while conducting operations near the border. Russia says the fighter jet was in Syrian airspace […]
Is David Brooks Pushing For Another Vietnam?
Is David Brooks Pushing For Another Vietnam? A few years ago, New York Times columnist David Brooks wanted the U.S. government to wave its magic wand and turn the Syrian civil war into a Vietnam for Iran: We should be trying to turn the Syrian civil war into Iran’s Vietnam. We should make them waste money and effort trying […]
Post-Paris American Police State Once Again In Vogue: “We Can Crush ISIS Enclave Of Terror”
Post-Paris American Police State Once Again In Vogue: “We Can Crush ISIS Enclave Of Terror” It seems that the only response to terrorism is more surveillance, security, police presence and, of course, war. Ignoring the lessons of blowback and escalation that have played out for many years now, the major powers of the world are […]
Ending Blowback Terrorism
Ending Blowback Terrorism NEW YORK – Terrorist attacks on civilians, whether the downing over Sinai of a Russian aircraft killing 224 civilian passengers, the horrific Paris massacre claiming 129 innocent lives, or the tragic bombing in Ankara that killed 102 peace activists, are crimes against humanity. Their perpetrators – in this case, the Islamic State […]
GridExIII Drill Coincides with American Terror Threat: “ISIS Cells Could Attack Our Power Grid”
GridExIII Drill Coincides with American Terror Threat: “ISIS Cells Could Attack Our Power Grid” The threat of an ISIS attack on U.S. soil has become a tangible possibility and a perhaps an inevitable one, with the Paris attacks demonstrating how easily terrorists can infiltrate Western nations and target public areas. The political chaos that is […]
The Decline of the West Revisited
The Decline of the West Revisited LONDON – The terrorist slaughter in Paris has once again brought into sharp relief the storm clouds gathering over the twenty-first century, dimming the bright promise for Europe and the West that the fall of communism opened up. Given dangers that seemingly grow by the day, it is worth […]
Blowback—–The Washington War Party’s Folly Comes Home To Roost
Blowback—–The Washington War Party’s Folly Comes Home To Roost Exactly 26 years ago last week, peace was breaking out in a manner that the world had not experienced since June 1914. The Berlin Wall—-the symbol of a century of state tyranny, grotesque mass warfare and the nuclear sword of Damocles hanging over the planet—-had come tumbling down […]
Carving up the Middle East
Carving up the Middle East QUESTION: Why did ISIS target France rather than Germany? Someone said it was France who created Syria. Is that really true? ANSWER: Germany is not actually a target in this chess game. It is one reason we selected Berlin for our conferences even compared to London since we had Panic […]
The Saudis Are Stumbling – They May Take the Middle East With Them
The Saudis Are Stumbling – They May Take the Middle East With Them America’s leading Sunni ally is proving how easily hubris, delusion, and old-fashioned ineptitude can trump even bottomless wealth For the past eight decades Saudi Arabia has been careful. Using its vast oil wealth, it’s quietly spread its ultra-conservative brand of Islam throughout the Muslim […]
Widespread Terrorism Is Just Part Of The Perfect Storm That Is Now Descending On The Western World
Widespread Terrorism Is Just Part Of The Perfect Storm That Is Now Descending On The Western World Words cannot adequately describe the utter horror that was unleashed on the streets of Paris, France on Friday. CNN is calling it “the worst violence witnessed in France since World War II“, and even though it happened a […]
