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Crude Conspiracies? Data Suggest Nations Do Go to War Over Oil
Crude Conspiracies? Data Suggest Nations Do Go to War Over Oil The “thirst for oil” is often put forward as a near self-evident explanation behind military interventions in Libya, for instance, or Sudan. Oil, or the lack of oil, is also said to be behind the absence of intervention in Syria now and in Rwanda […]
Faux News
Faux News You can fool all the people some of the time, and some of the people all the time, but you cannot fool all the people all the time. – Abraham Lincoln It’s beginning to appear that ‘ol Abe might have been wrong. We have seen war after war after war, intervention after intervention […]
Another Conspiracy Theory Becomes Fact: The Entire Oil Collapse Is All About Crushing Russian Control Over Syria
Another Conspiracy Theory Becomes Fact: The Entire Oil Collapse Is All About Crushing Russian Control Over Syria While the markets are still debating whether the price of oil is more impacted by the excess pumping of crude here, or the lack of demand there, or if it is all just a mechanical squeeze by momentum-chasing […]
Decades of Suspicions: Did German Companies Aid Syrian Chemical Weapons Program?
Decades of Suspicions: Did German Companies Aid Syrian Chemical Weapons Program? When it comes to war crimes and crimes against humanity, the German government is unyielding — particularly when it comes to finding excuses for why it should do nothing when it comes to potential German perpetrators. For more than 16 months, Chancellor Angela Merkel’s government […]
Lessons from Paris
Lessons from Paris After the tragic shooting at a provocative magazine in Paris last week, I pointed out that given the foreign policy positions of France we must consider blowback as a factor. Those who do not understand blowback made the ridiculous claim that I was excusing the attack or even blaming the victims. Not […]
Stratfor founder: ‘US fears a resurgent Russia’ — RT News
Stratfor founder: ‘US fears a resurgent Russia’ — RT News. Washington “fears” a resurgent Russia, which harps back to the Cold War says George Friedman, the CEO and founder of forecasters Stratfor. He also believes the US started to meddle in Ukraine in retaliation for Russia outfoxing Obama over Syria. Friedman says the United States […]
Massive Explosions Reported Following Israeli Aistrikes Near Syrian Capital | Zero Hedge
Massive Explosions Reported Following Israeli Aistrikes Near Syrian Capital | Zero Hedge. The last time Israel ignored Syrian sovereignty and attacked Bashar al Assad’s nation without fear of reprisals was in the spring of 2013, when the US was eager to launch an all out war, and tear apart the last country that stood in […]
Syria Goes Dark |
Syria Goes Dark |. Syria Then and Now “Arab Spring” situations have an inexorable tendency to go pear-shaped (Tunisia, the first country to experience one is the lone exception, but even there the “old guard” is reportedly making a comeback, so the whole thing was essentially for nothing in the end). In Egypt, the revolution went […]
Syria: US-led strikes failed to weaken ISIS — RT News
Syria: US-led strikes failed to weaken ISIS — RT News. The Islamic State (IS, formerly ISIS/ISIL) has not been weakened since US-led airstrikes began in September, Syria’s foreign minister said, adding that nothing will change until Turkey increases security at its borders. READ MORE: ‘Key to ISIS fighting – concerted pressure on its funding and […]
US air strikes in Syria driving anti-Assad groups to support Isis | World news | The Guardian
US air strikes in Syria driving anti-Assad groups to support Isis | World news | The Guardian. US air strikes in Syria are encouraging anti-regime fighters to forge alliances with or even defect to the fundamentalist jihadi group Islamic State (Isis), according to a series of interviews conducted by the Guardian. Fighters from the Free […]
Target Liberty: Syria ‘Hero Boy’ Video Revealed to be Government Propaganda
Target Liberty: Syria ‘Hero Boy’ Video Revealed to be Government Propaganda. A dramatic video clip showing a young boy heroically rescuing a young girl amid a hail of gunfire in Syria has racked up millions of YouTube viewings and has been trending heavily on other social media platforms. The mainstream media and US government jumped on the […]
5 nuclear scientists assassinated near Damascus – report — RT News
5 nuclear scientists assassinated near Damascus – report — RT News. Five Syrian nuclear scientists have reportedly been killed by unknown assailants while riding a bus north of Damascus, near the research center where they worked, the UK-based Syrian Observatory for Human Rights reports. “Unidentified attackers murdered five nuclear energy engineers who worked in the […]
Not Again! US Trained Syrian “Moderates” Surrender To Jihadists—–Hand Over Heavy Weapons | David Stockman’s Contra Corner
Not Again! US Trained Syrian “Moderates” Surrender To Jihadists—–Hand Over Heavy Weapons | David Stockman’s Contra Corner. Two of the main rebel groups receiving weapons from the United States to fight both the regime and jihadist groups in Syria have surrendered to al-Qaeda. The US and its allies were relying on Harakat Hazm and the Syrian Revolutionary […]
Saudi Arabia’s Two-Fronted “War” | Zero Hedge
Saudi Arabia’s Two-Fronted “War” | Zero Hedge. Saudi Arabia is the middle of two ‘wars” – religious (from The Kingdom’s perspective, Iran is a large Persian country sitting at the easternmost edge of the Middle East, from where it projects power across the Arab world by manipulating and exploiting the region’s Shiite communities and other minorities) Via Stratfor, […]
After Gezi: Erdoğan and political struggle in Turkey | ROAR Magazine
After Gezi: Erdoğan and political struggle in Turkey | ROAR Magazine. The latest Global Uprisings film chronicles a year of resistance and repression that has left Turkey profoundly divided in the wake of the Gezi uprising. Political struggles over the future of Turkey have left the country profoundly divided. Former Prime Minister, now President, Tayyip […]
