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War is Likely After Turkey Shoots Down Russian Jet, Ignores Putin’s Warning
War is Likely After Turkey Shoots Down Russian Jet, Ignores Putin’s Warning It seems like full-blown war is only two seconds away with the wicked brew boiling in the Middle East. The latest? Turkey shot down a Russian warplane near the Turkish-Syrian border yesterday, claiming it did so after the plane violated Turkish airspace and […]
The Russia/Turkey Clash———Some Relevant History
The Russia/Turkey Clash———Some Relevant History Turn to page 214 in the book “War-making for Dummies.” You will find: “plan air operations right on your neighbor’s border, zig in and zag out, make rude gestures at enemy pilots, and shoot them down if you can.” On Tuesday this week, the inevitable air clash occurred on the […]
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 […]
Why We’re Sliding Towards World War
Why We’re Sliding Towards World War Why Now? Paul Craig Roberts – former Assistant Secretary of the Treasury under President Reagan, former editor of the Wall Street Journal, listed by Who’s Who in America as one of the 1,000 most influential political thinkers in the world, PhD economist – wrote an article about the build […]
Russia Says Turkey’s Attack On Jet Was “Planned Provocation” As Ankara Moves Tanks Near Syrian Border
Russia Says Turkey’s Attack On Jet Was “Planned Provocation” As Ankara Moves Tanks Near Syrian Border On Tuesday evening, we took a close look at the circumstances surrounding Turkey’s decision to shoot down a Russian Su-24 near the Syrian border. The incident was the most meaningful escalation in the conflict to date and marks the first time […]
Wall Street Remains Clueless—–Even As The Brown Stuff Heads Straight Into The Fan
Wall Street Remains Clueless—–Even As The Brown Stuff Heads Straight Into The Fan The Dow should have been down 500 points Tuesday. And that’s to say nothing of the fact that the market’s current lofty valuation makes no sense in the first place. The fact is, the brown stuff is now heading straight for the fan. Didn’t the odds of a […]
Turkish Shootdown of Russian Jet: What You Need to Know
Turkish Shootdown of Russian Jet: What You Need to Know A U.S. official told Reuters that the Russian jet was inside of Syria when it was shot down: The United States believes that the Russian jet shot down by Turkey on Tuesday was hit inside Syrian airspace after a brief incursion into Turkish airspace, a U.S. official told Reuters, speaking […]
Turkey Has Destroyed Russia’s Hope Of Western Cooperation
Turkey Has Destroyed Russia’s Hope Of Western Cooperation UPDATE: A friend, George Abert, suggested a reason why the Turks shot down the Russian fighter-bomber over Syria. The Russians have a technology that they recently demonstrated against the newest US missile cruiser and Israel’s US jet fighters. The technology shuts down the communication systems of hostile forces, […]
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 […]
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 […]
Limits of Liberal War Opposition
Limits of Liberal War Opposition Robert Reich’s website is full of proposals for how to oppose plutocracy, raise the minimum wage, reverse the trend toward greater inequality of wealth, etc. His focus on domestic economic policy is done in the traditional bizarre manner of U.S. liberals in which virtually no mention is ever made of the 54% […]
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 […]
Turkish F-16s Shoot Down Russian Su-24 Warplane Near Syria Border
Turkish F-16s Shoot Down Russian Su-24 Warplane Near Syria Border Moments ago a big black geopolitical swan landed when newswires lit up with headlines that a Turkish F-16 shot down what was initially said to be an unidentified warplane near the Syrian border after it violated Turkey’s airspace on Tuesday, a Turkish military official said, […]
So Who’s Really Sponsoring ISIS? Turkey, Saudi Arabia, and Other U.S. “Allies”
So Who’s Really Sponsoring ISIS? Turkey, Saudi Arabia, and Other U.S. “Allies” Mass surveillance at home and endless military projection abroad are the twin sides of the same coin of national security, which must simply be maximized as much as possible. Conspicuously missing from President Hollande’s decisive declaration of war however, was any mention of […]
