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With US Warships En Route To Islands, China Asks: “What On Earth Makes Them Think We Will Tolerate This?”
With US Warships En Route To Islands, China Asks: “What On Earth Makes Them Think We Will Tolerate This?” The US is in a tough spot militarily. In Syria, Russia and Iran have taken advantage of the fact that the plan hatched by the West and its regional allies to destabilize the Assad regime took […]
Saudis Poke The Russian Bear, Start Oil War In Eastern Europe
Saudis Poke The Russian Bear, Start Oil War In Eastern Europe Any weakening of Russian support for Mr. Assad could be one of the first signs that the recent tumult in the oil market is having an impact on global statecraft. Saudi officials have said publicly that the price of oil reflects only global supply […]
Iran Sends “Thousands” Of Troops To Syria For Russian-Backed Assault On Key City
Iran Sends “Thousands” Of Troops To Syria For Russian-Backed Assault On Key City As those who follow Mid-East affairs are acutely aware, the regime in Syria has enjoyed both military and financial support from Iran for the duration of the country’s civil war. Syria cannot fall to the West if Tehran intends to preserve the […]
Russian Warships Launch Missile Attack On Syrian Targets, Clearing Way For Iran Ground Invasion
Russian Warships Launch Missile Attack On Syrian Targets, Clearing Way For Iran Ground Invasion In case it wasn’t clear enough what was set to happen soon after the Russian air force had spent a few days softening up anti-regime positions on the ground, allow us to spell it out: with the opposition on the run […]
Saudis Mull Launch Of Regional War As Russia Pounds Targets In Syria For Fourth Day
Saudis Mull Launch Of Regional War As Russia Pounds Targets In Syria For Fourth Day While the US has certainly made some epic strategic blunders in Syria that raise serious questions about just how “intelligent” US intelligence actually is, there’s little doubt that if one were to look behind all of the media parroting, the […]
The Largest US Foreign Policy Blunder Since Vietnam Is Complete: Iran Readies Massive Syrian Ground Invasion
The Largest US Foreign Policy Blunder Since Vietnam Is Complete: Iran Readies Massive Syrian Ground Invasion On Thursday, in “Mid-East Coup: As Russia Pounds Militant Targets, Iran Readies Ground Invasions While Saudis Panic”, we attempted to cut through all of the Western and Russian media propaganda on the way to describing what Moscow’s involvement in […]
Obama Deifies American Hegemony
Obama Deifies American Hegemony Today is the 70th anniversary of the UN. It is not clear how much good the UN has done. Some UN Blue Hemet peacekeeping operations had limited success. But mainly Washington has used the UN for war, such as the Korean War and Washington’s Cold War against the Soviet Union. In […]
US On The Ropes: China To Join Russian Military In Syria While Iraq Strikes Intel Deal With Moscow, Tehran
US On The Ropes: China To Join Russian Military In Syria While Iraq Strikes Intel Deal With Moscow, Tehran Last Thursday, we asked if China was set to join Russia and Iran in support of the Assad regime in Syria. Our interest was piqued when the pro-Assad Al-Masdar (citing an unnamed SAA “senior officer”), said Chinese “personnel […]
No Brains In Washington
No Brains In Washington Washington’s IQ follows the Fed’s interest rate — it is negative. Washington is a black hole into which all sanity is sucked out of government deliberations. Washington’s failures are everywhere visible. We can see the failures in Washington’s wars and in Washington’s approach to China and Russia. The visit of Chinese […]
American Petroleum Institute Touts Oil Exports to Fend Off Iran, Russia Despite API Members Tied to Both Countries
American Petroleum Institute Touts Oil Exports to Fend Off Iran, Russia Despite API Members Tied to Both Countries The American Petroleum Institute (API) has launched a new advertising campaign in its ongoing push to oust the U.S. oil exports ban in place since 1975. One of the most recent ads, titled “Crude Oil Exports and National Security” on YouTube, starts off with […]
“Be Our Guest”: Russia Warns Washington Of “Unintended Incidents” In Syria
“Be Our Guest”: Russia Warns Washington Of “Unintended Incidents” In Syria On Thursday evening, we chronicled the latest in the drama that is Syria’s horrific civil war, noting that, according to an Israeli defense source, “hundreds” of Iran’s Revolutionary Guards are on the ground in Syria fighting alongside the Russians to support Bashar al-Assad’s depleted forces as […]
So you really want to make Syrian Refugees an Election Issue?
So you really want to make Syrian Refugees an Election Issue? Thomas Pynchon once wrote: ‘If they can get you asking the wrong questions, they don’t have to worry about the answers.’ Words to live by for the the major political parties in Canadian Federal politics. The refugee crisis in Syria, Iraq and spilling into Europe […]
Powder Kegs Exploding: Violence Escalates In Turkey, Yemen As Mid-East Tips Towards Chaos
Powder Kegs Exploding: Violence Escalates In Turkey, Yemen As Mid-East Tips Towards Chaos On Friday we checked in on two of the world’s most important conflicts: 1) that which is unfolding in Turkey where President Recep Tayyip Erdo?an has effectively granted Washington access to Incirlik (you know, for “anti-terror” sorties) in exchange for NATO’s acquiescence […]
The Final Collapse of Bush’s Nation-Building: Kunduz falls to Taliban
September 30, 2015
The Final Collapse of Bush’s Nation-Building: Kunduz falls to Taliban On Monday, the Taliban swept into the provincial capital of Kunduz, taking it in half a day from a large and well-equipped Afghan National Army force. Tuesday’s riposte had only mixed success, with the ANA saying it had taken back the (no-empty) prison. An attempt to […]
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