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America’s Latest Foreign Policy Fiascos, Part I
America’s Latest Foreign Policy Fiascos, Part I Some 15 months ago I published a piece onAmerican Foreign Policy Fiascos, in which I summarized the significant negative progress that has been achieved through American involvement in Afghanistan, Iraq and Georgia, among others, and then went on to boldly predict that the Ukraine is likewise going to […]
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 […]
Retired General: Drones Create More Terrorists Than They Kill, Iraq War Helped Create ISIS
Retired General: Drones Create More Terrorists Than They Kill, Iraq War Helped Create ISIS Retired Army Gen. Mike Flynn, a top intelligence official in the post-9/11 wars in Iraq and Afghanistan, says in a forthcoming interview on Al Jazeera English that the drone war is creating more terrorists than it is killing. He also asserts that the U.S. […]
Balance Of Superpowers: Comparing The US And Chinese Armed Forces
Balance Of Superpowers: Comparing The US And Chinese Armed Forces Whether China is busy championing trade deals outside of the US dollar, buying up some of the world’s biggest companies, taking over foreign housing markets, or building massive networks of nuclear or wind power grids, it is clear that the country is a world power […]
Fallout from Reagan’s Afghan War
Fallout from Reagan’s Afghan War In the 1980s, President Reagan funded and armed Islamic fundamentalists to defeat a Soviet-backed secular regime in Afghanistan. Now, one of those ex-U.S. clients is throwing his support behind the brutal Islamic State, a lesson about geopolitical expediency, writes ex-CIA analyst Paul R. Pillar. In a blast from the past in […]
Not Learning from Mideast Mistakes
Not Learning from Mideast Mistakes Exclusive: The neocon strategy of “regime change” has proved financially costly and strategically disastrous – setting almost the entire Middle East on fire – but almost no lessons have been learned, no accountability assessed, and no relevant questions asked, writes ex-U.S. diplomat William R. Polk. Apparently, the United States, perhaps Great Britain […]
George Monbiot and the Iraq War bullshit brigade
George Monbiot and the Iraq War bullshit brigade Why the ‘liberal’ defence of the Iraq Body Count falls flat on its face There has been a response to my investigation into Iraq Body Count (IBC) and the people behind it — and longstanding Guardian columnist George Monbiot himself has popped out of the woodwork to give it […]
Islamic State is the cancer of modern capitalism
Islamic State is the cancer of modern capitalism Debate about the origins of the Islamic State (IS) has largely oscillated between two extreme perspectives. One blames the West. IS is nothing more than a predictable reaction to the occupation of Iraq, yet another result of Western foreign policy blowback. The other attributes IS’s emergence purely […]
Meet the Overseas Contingency Operations Account – Washington D.C.’s Crony Capitalist War Slush Fund
Meet the Overseas Contingency Operations Account – Washington D.C.’s Crony Capitalist War Slush Fund Senate Armed Services Committee Chairman John McCain has called it a “gimmick,” and Democrats complain that larding up the separate war funding bill with extra spending amounts to an “abusive loophole.” Yet so far, the massive increase is likely to remain […]
How The CIA Gave Al-Qaeda $1 Million, And What That Money Was Used For
How The CIA Gave Al-Qaeda $1 Million, And What That Money Was Used For As the US and key stakeholders in the Middle East debate the best way to leverage the fight against ISIS in the service of a larger geopolitical agenda, a NY Times piece out today serves as a reminder (in case recent events haven’t made […]
Before Canada goes too far into Iraq, remember Libya, Afghanistan
Before Canada goes too far into Iraq, remember Libya, Afghanistan Ottawa was warned, before the Libya mission, that that country would descend into civil war It is sobering to reflect that before our current mission in Iraq, the last two military operations undertaken abroad by Canada have been followed by the violent rise of the […]
Rob Nicholson Says Canada’s Commitment To Iraq Will Be Similar To Afghanistan
Rob Nicholson Says Canada’s Commitment To Iraq Will Be Similar To Afghanistan OTTAWA — Canada could be active in Iraq for the next decade as the war against ISIL continues and the region needs rebuilding, Canada’s foreign affairs minister suggested Thursday. “We’re in this for the longer term to make sure that we do what […]
Since 9/11, The U.S. Has Been Involved In More Than 5 Wars … And They’ve All Been Disasters
Since 9/11, The U.S. Has Been Involved In More Than 5 Wars … And They’ve All Been Disasters Why Does America Keep “Losing” Its Wars? Below, we demonstrate that the U.S. keeps “losing” war after war. There are 3 potential reasons this might be happening: Is this chaos an intentional way to implement regime change and grab resources? Or is this […]
The Key That Is the Saudi Kingdom
The Key That Is the Saudi Kingdom Was the United States compelled to attack Afghanistan and Iraq by the events of September 11, 2001? A key to answering that rather enormous question may lie in the secrets that the U.S. government is keeping about Saudi Arabia. Some have long claimed that what looked like a […]
