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Inside Saudi Arabia’s Campaign to Charm American Policymakers and Journalists
Inside Saudi Arabia’s Campaign to Charm American Policymakers and Journalists Soon after launching a brutal air and ground assault in Yemen, the Kingdom of Saudi Arabia began devoting significant resources to a sophisticated public relations blitz in Washington, D.C. The PR campaign is designed to maintain close ties with the U.S. even as the Saudi-led […]
How Turkey Exports ISIS Oil To The World: The Scientific Evidence
How Turkey Exports ISIS Oil To The World: The Scientific Evidence Over the course of the last four or so weeks, the media has paid quite a bit of attention to Islamic State’s lucrative trade in “stolen” crude. On November 16, in a highly publicized effort, US warplanes destroyed 116 ISIS oil trucks in Syria. […]
Tomgram: Rebecca Gordon, Corruption U.S.A.
Tomgram: Rebecca Gordon, Corruption U.S.A. I recently took a little trip into the past and deep into America’s distant war zones to write a piece I called “It’s a $cam.” It was, for me, an eye-opening journey into those long-gone years of American “nation-building” and “reconstruction” in Afghanistan and Iraq. Mind you, I still remembered […]
Hitting Saudi Arabia Where It Hurts
Hitting Saudi Arabia Where It Hurts Exclusive: Though faced with a global terrorism crisis, Official Washington can’t get beyond its neocon-led “tough-guy-gal” rhetoric. But another option – financial sanctions on Saudi Arabia – might help finally shut down the covert supply of money and arms to Al Qaeda and the Islamic State, writes Robert Parry. As the […]
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 […]
The Saudi Connection to Terror
The Saudi Connection to Terror Exclusive: While Official Washington devotes much sound and fury to demands for a wider war in Syria and the need to turn away Syrian refugees, Democrats and Republicans dodge the tougher question: how to confront Saudi Arabia about its covert funding for Islamic State and Al Qaeda terrorists, writes Daniel Lazare. How does ISIS […]
Guile Replaces The Stick: Washington’s New Approach To Russia
Guile Replaces The Stick: Washington’s New Approach To Russia Washington has learned that threats and coercion do not work against Russia. All the threats have done is to build Putin’s public support to astronomical levels and to unify Russia against the West’s assault. This is a failed policy that Washington is abandoning as Washington sees […]
Tangled Threads of US False Narratives
Tangled Threads of US False Narratives Exclusive: Official Washington’s many false narratives about Russia and Syria have gotten so tangled that they have become a danger to the struggle against Sunni terrorism and conceivably a threat to the future of the planet, a risk that Robert Parry explores. One way to view Official Washington is to envision […]
Meet the Institution Most Intent on Destroying American Freedom – (*Hint: It’s Not ISIS)
Meet the Institution Most Intent on Destroying American Freedom – (*Hint: It’s Not ISIS) In time of actual war, great discretionary powers are constantly given to the Executive Magistrate. Constant apprehension of War, has the same tendency to render the head too large for the body. A standing military force, with an overgrown Executive will […]
Time Is Running Out For Pax Americana’s Apologists
Time Is Running Out For Pax Americana’s Apologists The paradox of the current global crisis is that for the last five years, all relatively responsible and independent nations have made tremendous efforts to save the United States from the financial, economic, military, and politicaldisaster that looms ahead. And this is all despite Washington’s equally systematic moves to destabilize […]
CIA, Saudis To Give “Select” Syrian Militants Weapons Capable Of Downing Commercial Airliners
CIA, Saudis To Give “Select” Syrian Militants Weapons Capable Of Downing Commercial Airliners Wednesday brought a veritable smorgasbord of “new” information about the Russian passenger jet which fell out of the sky above the Sinai Peninsula last weekend. First there was an audio recording from ISIS’ Egyptian affiliate reiterating that they did indeed “down” the […]
Vladimir Putin Speaks Honestly
Vladimir Putin Speaks Honestly Russia’s president is a refreshing contrast to the liars who inhabit Western governments and Western media. The agenda of the Russian government is peace and international cooperation under the rule of law. Washington’s agenda is hegemony. President Putin endeavors to lead the world to peace, while the neoconservatives who control Washington’s […]
US Will Send Warships To China Islands “Twice A Quarter”, Pentagon Says
US Will Send Warships To China Islands “Twice A Quarter”, Pentagon Says Last week, the US did a silly thing. The Pentagon sent the USS Lassen to Subi Reef in the Spratlys just to see if Washington could sail by China’s man-made islands in the South Pacific without getting shot at. (Subi reef) (USS Lassen) As ridiculous […]
WAR ON CASH: Banks to start charging for cash deposits
WAR ON CASH: Banks to start charging for cash deposits Few could have envisioned it even just a few years ago, but it’s happening now, and on an ever-widening scale. More big U.S. banks are shunning cash, because the banking system has become so dependent on other “assets” that large cash deposits actually pose a threat […]
