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Did Saudi Arabia Just Clear The Way For An Invasion Of Syria And Iraq?
Did Saudi Arabia Just Clear The Way For An Invasion Of Syria And Iraq? And now, a further turn for the absurd… While it’s still far from common knowledge among the Western public that Washington’s closest allies in the Mid-East are funding, arming, and otherwise enabling the Sunni extremists (including ISIS) battling for control of […]
The Neoconservatives’ Hegemonic Goal Of Making Sovereign Countries Extinct Is Bringing Instead The Extinction Of Planet Earth
The Neoconservatives’ Hegemonic Goal Of Making Sovereign Countries Extinct Is Bringing Instead The Extinction Of Planet Earth My warning that the neoconservatives have resurrected the threat of nuclear Armageddon, which was removed by Reagan and Gorbachev, is also being given by Noam Chomsky, former US Secretary of Defense William Perry, and other sentient observers of […]
Cornering Russia, Risking World War III
Cornering Russia, Risking World War III Official Washington is awash with tough talk about Russia and the need to punish President Putin for his role in Ukraine and Syria. But this bravado ignores Russia’s genuine national interests, its “red lines,” and the risk that “tough-guy-ism” can lead to nuclear war, as Alastair Crooke explains. We […]
What Stinks in Saudi Ain’t the Camel Dung
What Stinks in Saudi Ain’t the Camel Dung In recent weeks one nation after another is falling over themselves, literally, to join the turkey shoot known, erroneously, as the war in Syria, ostensibly against the Islamic State or Daesh. The most wanted but most feared question is where will this war frenzy lead, and how […]
Iraq Seeks To Cancel Security Agreement With US, Will Invite Russia To Fight ISIS
Iraq Seeks To Cancel Security Agreement With US, Will Invite Russia To Fight ISIS Most Iraqis, be they civilians, military personnel, or government officials, do not trust Americans. At a base level, that makes all kinds of sense. After all, the US did launch what amounted to a unilateral invasion of the country just a […]
Why ISIS Exists: The Double Game
Why ISIS Exists: The Double Game Pete Souza The western press laments the near impossibility of defeating an organization that didn’t even exist a couple of short years ago. Brand ISIS, the unconquerable, may actually become a truism if the people of the western nations continue to listen to the lies and propaganda of their […]
Putin Hopes “There Will Be No Need To Nuke” The Islamic State
Putin Hopes “There Will Be No Need To Nuke” The Islamic State Earlier today, in a clear advance notice to the French and US navies which are both set to arrive just off the coast of Syria in the coming weeks, Russia for the first time targeted Islamic State targets in Syria with Kalibr land-attack […]
War Is On The Horizon: Is It Too Late To Stop It?
War Is On The Horizon: Is It Too Late To Stop It? One lesson from military history is that once mobilization for war begins, it takes on a momentum of its own and is uncontrollable. This might be what is occuring unrecognized before our eyes. In his September 28 speech at the 70th Anniversity of […]
Russia Presents Detailed Evidence Of ISIS-Turkey Oil Trade
Russia Presents Detailed Evidence Of ISIS-Turkey Oil Trade On Monday, Turkey’s sultan President Recep Tayyip Erdogan said something funny. In the wake of Vladimir Putin’s contention that Russia has additional proof of Turkey’s participation in Islamic State’s illicit crude trade, Erdogan said he would resign if anyone could prove the accusations. Now obviously, conclusive evidence that Ankara is […]
Western firms plan to cash in on Syria’s oil and gas ‘frontier’
US-led coalition forces carry out a large-scale attack on Syria’s Omar oil field Western firms plan to cash in on Syria’s oil and gas ‘frontier’ US, British, French, Israeli and other energy interests could be prime beneficiaries of military operations in Iraq and Syria designed to rollback the power of the ‘Islamic State’ (ISIS) and, […]
Yes, Turkey IS Buying Oil from ISIS
Yes, Turkey IS Buying Oil from ISIS In response to Russia’s accusation that Turkey is buying oil from ISIS, the Turkish president said that – if that is proven to be true – he’ll resign. It turns out that Turkey is buying oil from ISIS. The Guardian reported this summer: US special forces raided the compound of an Islamic State leader in […]
The Bizarre Explanation For Why The U.S. Has Avoided Bombing ISIS Oil Wells
The Bizarre Explanation For Why The U.S. Has Avoided Bombing ISIS Oil Wells Why hasn’t the U.S. bombed the oil wells that ISIS controls into oblivion by now? Would you believe that it is because the Obama administration “didn’t want to do environmental damage”? Former Deputy Director of the CIA Michael Morell has publicly admitted […]
ISIS Oil Trade Full Frontal: “Raqqa’s Rockefellers”, Bilal Erdogan, KRG Crude, And The Israel Connection
ISIS Oil Trade Full Frontal: “Raqqa’s Rockefellers”, Bilal Erdogan, KRG Crude, And The Israel Connection “Effectively, we have been financially discriminated against for a long time. By early 2014, when we did not receive the budget, we decided we need to start thinking about independent oil sales” — Ashti Hawrami, Kurdistan’s minister for natural resources […]
The Collision Course in Syria
The Collision Course in Syria Exclusive: President Obama’s continued insistence on “regime change” in Syria and his support for Sunni jihadists not called ISIS have escalated tensions with Moscow, especially after Turkey shot down a Russian warplane along the Syrian border. This division may help only the extremists, writes Daniel Lazare. With Turkey downing a Russian […]
Drone terror: Welcome to the barbarism of ‘civilisation’
Drone terror: Welcome to the barbarism of ‘civilisation’ Mass murder is fine as long we are the ones doing the killing to stop other people killing us Terrorists like to believe they are committing mass murder for a noble political cause. Islamic State (IS) acolytes believe they are fighting against the evil “Crusader” states of […]
