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The Situation in Syria is Very, Very Dangerous

October 1, 2016

The Situation in Syria is Very, Very Dangerous In case you haven’t been paying attention, the recent Syria ceasefire lasted barely a week. While all sides engaged in the conflict were accusing the other of violating the agreement from the beginning, it really unraveled when U.S. forces bombed Syrian government forces, killing at least 62. As CNN reported at the […]

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TransCanada formally seeks NAFTA damages in Keystone XL rejection

TransCanada formally seeks NAFTA damages in Keystone XL rejection Keystone XL was designed to link existing pipeline networks in Canada and the U.S. (Evelyne Asselin/CBC) TransCanada Corp. is formally requesting arbitration over U.S. President Barack Obama’s rejection of the Keystone XL pipeline, seeking $15 billion US in damages, the company said in legal papers dated […]

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Trolling for War with Russia

Trolling for War with Russia Some 50 State Department officials have signed a memo calling on President Obama to launch air and missile strikes on the Damascus regime of Bashar Assad. A “judicious use of stand-off and air weapons,” they claim, “would undergird and drive a more focused and hard-nosed U.S.-led diplomatic process.” In brief, […]

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Barack Obama Warns Americans ‘To Be Prepared For A Disaster’

Barack Obama Warns Americans ‘To Be Prepared For A Disaster’ When Barack Obama speaks to the public, it is very rare that he does so without a specific purpose in mind. So why is he urging Americans “to be prepared for a disaster” all of a sudden? On May 31, Obama took time out of […]

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Obama’s Latest Whopper—-Let’s Raise Social Security Benefits!

Obama’s Latest Whopper—-Let’s Raise Social Security Benefits! The U.S. has approximately $80 trillion of unfunded liabilities for social security, medicare and other entitlements sitting atop a work force that is rapidly aging and an economy that is lapsing into stasis. Yet in the midst of a campaign diatribe about Donald Trump’s alleged lack of preparation for the highest office […]

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Putin Warns Romania and Poland Against Installing ABM Missiles

Putin Warns Romania and Poland Against Installing ABM Missiles On Friday, May 27th, Russia’s President Vladimir Putin again asserted that American President Barack Obama lies when saying that the reason America’s anti-ballistic missile (“ABM”) or Ballistic Missile Defense (“BMD”) system is being installed in Romania, and will soon be installed in Poland, is to protect […]

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Think Facts Matter? Try Attending a Friends of Science Event Headlined by Ezra Levant

Think Facts Matter? Try Attending a Friends of Science Event Headlined by Ezra Levant We’re only a minute into watching a brief low-budget video — one that begins by alleging U.S. President Barack Obama is a bully because he suggests that climate change deniers should be “called out” — when Ezra Levant sits down in the chair next […]

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Obama’s Gift to Donald Trump: A Policy of Cracking Down on Journalists and Their Sources

OBAMA’S GIFT TO DONALD TRUMP: A POLICY OF CRACKING DOWN ON JOURNALISTS AND THEIR SOURCES ONE OF THE intellectual gargoyles that has crawled out of Donald Trump’s brain is the idea that we should “open up” libel laws to make it easier to punish the media for negative or unfair stories. Trump also wants top officials to […]

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Top Five Climate and Environment Issues for Obama-Trudeau Bilateral Summit

Top Five Climate and Environment Issues for Obama-Trudeau Bilateral Summit The strained relationship between Canada and the U.S. over the last decade was in no small part due to disagreement over the fate of the Keystone XL pipeline. Former Prime Minister Stephen Harper was a staunch supporter of what he called the “no-brainer” project. President Obama, on the other […]

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Nobel-Prize Economist Condemns Obama’s ‘Trade’ Deals

Nobel-Prize Economist Condemns Obama’s ‘Trade’ Deals The Nobel-Prize-winning former chief economist of the World Bank, and Chairman of the Council of Economic Advisers to the U.S. President, Joseph Stiglitz, went to England to warn the British public, and Parliament, that “no democracy” can support U.S. President Barack Obama’s proposed trade-deals, because all of these have […]

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Risking Nuclear War for Al Qaeda?

February 19, 2016

Risking Nuclear War for Al Qaeda? Exclusive: The risk that the multi-sided Syrian war could spark World War III continues as Turkey, Saudi Arabia and U.S. neocons seek an invasion that could kill Russian troops — and possibly escalate the Syrian crisis into a nuclear showdown, amazingly to protect Al Qaeda terrorists, reports Robert Parry. When President Barack Obama took questions from […]

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Exclusive: “And It’s Gone… It’s All Gone” – The One Gold Scandal That Goes To The Very Top

December 25, 2015

Exclusive: “And It’s Gone… It’s All Gone” – The One Gold Scandal That Goes To The Very Top Long before Turkey was flagrantly arming and funding the CIA-created “terrorist organization” known as ISIS, there was another, far more elaborate way in which Turkey was flaunting international sanctions against an ostracized state – in this case Iran – which involved an epic […]

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It’s Official: Over A Trillion Dollars A Year Will Be Added To The Debt During Obama’s Presidency

December 22, 2015

It’s Official: Over A Trillion Dollars A Year Will Be Added To The Debt During Obama’s Presidency Under Barack Obama, the U.S. national debt has risen from $10,626,877,048,913.08 on January 20th, 2009 to $18,795,033,928,275.59 on December 21st, 2015. That means that the debt that we are passing on to future generations has increased by 8.16 trillion […]

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The Calm Before The Storm

October 27, 2015

The Calm Before The Storm Have you noticed that things have gotten eerily quiet in the month of October? After the chaos of late August and early September, many had anticipated that we would be dealing with a full-blown financial collapse by now, but instead we have entered a period of “dead calm” in which […]

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Is Barack Obama Actually TRYING To Start World War III?

October 13, 2015

Is Barack Obama Actually TRYING To Start World War III? Why has Barack Obama airdropped 50 tons of ammunition into areas that “moderate rebels” in Syria supposedly control? This is essentially the equivalent of poking the Russians directly in the eyes. Much of this ammunition will end up in the hands of those that the Russians are […]

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