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Trump and Netanyahu May Not Want War With Iran, But They May Fall Into One Anyway
Trump and Netanyahu May Not Want War With Iran, But They May Fall Into One Anyway Photo source StateofIsrael | CC BY 2.0 by Addy Cameron-Huff | CC BY 2.0 Iran has an exaggerated reputation in the Middle East for Machiavellian cunning and an ability to outmanoeuvre its enemies. Britain used to be regarded in the […]
Russia Really Is America’s No. 1 Enemy – Depending on Who ‘America’ Is
Russia Really Is America’s No. 1 Enemy – Depending on Who ‘America’ Is US-Russia enmity is here to stay. Cold War II is a fact of life for the foreseeable future. The only questions are where, when, and how it might turn hot. That didn’t happen in Syria this past Friday the Thirteenth, for reasons yet to […]
Pompeo Lands In Saudi, Immediately Calls For New Iran Sanctions
Pompeo Lands In Saudi, Immediately Calls For New Iran Sanctions Well that didn’t take long. Just two days after being sworn in as US Secretary of State, former CIA Director Mike Pompeo arrived in Saudi Arabia on Saturday on a hastily-arranged visit to the Middle East to reinvigorate support for new sanctions against Iran. As […]
GOP Tax Law Bails Out Fracking Companies Buried in Debt
GOP Tax Law Bails Out Fracking Companies Buried in Debt EOG Resources is one of the top companies in the fracking industry, and thanks to the new tax bill passed by Republicans and President Donald Trump at the end of last year, EOG had an exceptionally strong year compared to 2016. In 2017, the company reported a net income of […]
Donald Trump and the Next Crash: Making the Fed an Instrument for Disaster
Donald Trump and the Next Crash: Making the Fed an Instrument for Disaster Photo by futureatlas.com | CC BY 2.0 Warning: What you are about to read is not about Russia, the 2016 election, or the latest person to depart from the White House in a storm of tweets. It’s the Beltway story hiding in […]
Merkel Caught in the Energy Conundrum for Germany’s Future
Merkel Caught in the Energy Conundrum for Germany’s Future The nominal U.S. President, Donald Trump, will meet with the two main European leaders next week with the goal of pushing the President off his position to end the Iran Nuclear Deal, or JCPOA. But it is the bigger issues of energy security that will be the […]
Cure Worse Than Disease: Bill to Restrict Trump’s War Powers Would Actually “Endorse a Worldwide War on Terror”
Photo: Rick Findler/Getty Images CURE WORSE THAN DISEASE: BILL TO RESTRICT TRUMP’S WAR POWERS WOULD ACTUALLY “ENDORSE A WORLDWIDE WAR ON TERROR” ON MONDAY, THREE Republican and three Democratic senators, led by Sens. Bob Corker, R-Tenn., and Tim Kaine, D-Va., released a draft of a new “authorization for use of military force,” or AUMF. This AUMF […]
Why the April 14th Missiles-Invasion of Syria Was a Historic Turning-Point
Why the April 14th Missiles-Invasion of Syria Was a Historic Turning-Point The April 14th invasion was the apogee, the turning-point downward, for American hegemony, the end of the mono-polar world or U.S. dictatorship that ever since 24 February 1990 the U.S. Government has imposed on all of its foreign allies for them to join the U.S in […]
Returning to the Commonplace
Returning to the Commonplace There are times when the twilight of the American century takes on a quality of surreal absurdity I can only compare to French existentialist theater or the better productions of Monty Python’s Flying Circus, and this is one of them. Over the weekend, in response to a chemical-weapons incident in Syria […]
West v Russia
West v Russia When government attempt to persuade the people to their side, the rhetoric becomes so blatant it is stunning that so many people just believe what they are told. The typical tactic is always to paint your enemy as some “monster” as Trump just called Assad. You must always demean an opponent and the […]
The Neocons’ Real Plan for Syria Emerges from the Lack of Rubble
The Neocons’ Real Plan for Syria Emerges from the Lack of Rubble I told you over the weekend that Trump’s presidency was over. As a practical matter it is. His yielding to his ‘advisors’ on every foreign policy issue makes it clear that he can’t or won’t stand up to the relentless pressure to do what […]
Chemical Weapons Hypocrisy
Chemical Weapons Hypocrisy Oh, the hypocrisy of it. The ignoble aims. The distraction. The outrageous lies and excuses. I’m not talking about America’s tweet-from-the-hip president and his desire to escape from the cops’ raid on his lawyer’s office – there’s a Russian connection, all right. And I’m not talking about his latest sleaze. Life with […]
Big Noise: Apocalyptic Tweets, Limited Strikes
Big Noise: Apocalyptic Tweets, Limited Strikes “Big noise on the stairs, but nobody comes into the room,” runs an old Chinese saying. This is an apt description of the very limited airstrikes on Syria launched by the US, Britain and France overnight, which came after apocalyptic tweets from President Trump and threats of military retaliation […]
Russia’s Real Endgame
Russia’s Real Endgame Russia’s Putin has never taken his eye off the ball. His ambition is not global hegemony or European conquest. Putin seeks what Russia has always sought: regional hegemony and a set of buffer states in eastern Europe and central Asia that can add to Russia’s strategic depth. In Syria, Russia has the […]
The Edge of the Abyss in Syria
The Edge of the Abyss in Syria For the first time since he is in office, the US President Donald Trump has launched a clear threat in the direction of his Russian counterpart Vladimir Putin saying “he will pay a price”. This menace is related to the claim that the Syrian army had launched a chemical […]
