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War Drums Beating: Bulgaria Blocks Russian Access To Its Airspace For Syria Flights
War Drums Beating: Bulgaria Blocks Russian Access To Its Airspace For Syria Flights On Monday we flagged a notable escalation in the build up to the geopolitical “main event” in Syria where, thanks largely to the West’s ambition to break Gazprom’s leverage over Europe, the US and Russia are one “accidental” run-in away from taking the “proxy” […]
How Neocons Destabilized Europe
How Neocons Destabilized Europe Exclusive: The neocon prescription of endless “regime change” is spreading chaos across the Middle East and now into Europe, yet the neocons still control the mainstream U.S. narrative and thus have diagnosed the problem as not enough “regime change,” as Robert Parry reports. The refugee chaos that is now pushing deep into Europe […]
In Major Escalation, Washington Demands Greece Blocks Its Airspace For Russian Flights To Syria
In Major Escalation, Washington Demands Greece Blocks Its Airspace For Russian Flights To Syria Last week, when reporting that at least according to the White House,Russian presence in Syria is no longer disputed, we said that regardless if Russian troops are indeed on the Syrian ground, this admission that the current Syrian state of play “effectively ends […]
The Real Refugee Problem – And How To Solve It
The Real Refugee Problem – And How To Solve It Last week Europe saw one of its worst crises in decades. Tens of thousands of migrants entered the European Union via Hungary, demanding passage to their hoped-for final destination, Germany. While the media focuses on the human tragedy of so many people uprooted and traveling […]
Impunity, Functional Equivalent of Genocide: Collapse of Social Institutions
Impunity, Functional Equivalent of Genocide: Collapse of Social Institutions The horrific refugee problem we see today, so reminiscent of population movements during World War II, next to the Holocaust itself in the historical annals of Crimes Against Humanity, and to which it was then related, remains in our times below the moral radar screen as […]
There Goes Europe
There Goes Europe The desperate wish in what is loosely called the West to at least appear morally correct is unfortunately over-matched by the desperation of people fleeing unstable, overpopulated places outside the West, and it is a fiasco beyond even the events of the moment. The refugee / immigrant crisis around the Mediterranean is a preview of […]
U.S. Drops Bombs; EU Gets Refugees & Blame. This Is Insane
U.S. Drops Bombs; EU Gets Refugees & Blame. This Is Insane Starting in 2011 in Libya, the United States dropped bombs on Libya in order to replace its pro-Russian dictator, Muammar Gaddafi. The EU is now tearing itself apart with guilt-feelings at European nations’ responses to the refugee-crisis that was caused by this […]
Harper’s Worst Offense against Refugees May Be His Climate Record
Harper’s Worst Offense against Refugees May Be His Climate Record Scorching effects of rising temperatures add to chaos in the Middle East, scientists say. Prime Minister Stephen Harper is right about the Syrian refugee crisis, for all the wrong reasons. His government is being battered by outrage over Canada’s wretched response to this humanitarian emergency. […]
Russian Military Presence In Syria Risks “Confrontation” With US-Backed Forces, Kerry Warns Lavrov
Russian Military Presence In Syria Risks “Confrontation” With US-Backed Forces, Kerry Warns Lavrov On Friday, Vladimir Putin conceded that the scope of Russian military involvement in Syria is “quite serious.” In a replay of the Kremlin’s official line regarding Russian involvement in Ukraine, Putin did not admit that his soldiers were on the ground to play a […]
Putin Confirms Scope Of Russian Military Role In Syria
Putin Confirms Scope Of Russian Military Role In Syria Over the past 48 hours or so, we’ve seen what certainly appears to be visual confirmation of a non-negligible Russian military presence in Syria. For anyone coming to the story late, overt Russian involvement would seem to suggest that the geopolitical “main event” (so to speak), […]
Russian Military Forces Arrive In Syria, Set Forward Operating Base Near Damascus
Russian Military Forces Arrive In Syria, Set Forward Operating Base Near Damascus While military direct intervention by US, Turkish, and Gulf forces over Syrian soil escalates with every passing day, even as Islamic State forces capture increasingly more sovereign territory, in the central part of the country, the Nusra Front dominant in the northwestern region […]
War Begets War Refugees: The Moral Bankruptcy of Italy and NATO
War Begets War Refugees: The Moral Bankruptcy of Italy and NATO On April 26, 2011, a meeting that can only be described as sinister took place between the then Italian Prime Minister, Silvio Berlusconi, and French President, Nicolas Sarkozy. The most pressing issue discussed at the meeting in Rome was how to deal with African immigrants. Sarkozy, […]
Gullible Americans Forever
Gullible Americans Forever “Next the statesmen will invent cheap lies, putting the blame upon the nation that is attacked, and every man will be glad of those conscience-soothing falsities, and will diligently study them, and refuse to examine any refutations of them; and thus he will by and by convince himself that the war is […]
Is Turkey In Over Its Head?
Is Turkey In Over Its Head? Turkey’s war against Islamic State began with bombs being dropped on Kurdistan Workers’ Party’s (PKK) forces – a central actor in the ongoing insurgency across parts of Syria (a country that ostensibly no longer exists) and Iraq. The PKK has sought autonomy from Turkey since the mid-1980s, with tens […]
The Fake War on ISIS: US and Turkey Escalate in Syria
The Fake War on ISIS: US and Turkey Escalate in Syria It is late July 2015, and the media is abuzz with the news that Turkey will allow US jets to use its bases to bomb Islamic State (ISIS) targets in Syria. There is much talk about how this development is a “game-changer,” and how this is […]
