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Israeli Airstrike In Syria Was “Most Extensive Attack In Decades”
Israeli Airstrike In Syria Was “Most Extensive Attack In Decades” In what is now being described as the “most direct confrontation between Israel and Iran in decades,” Israel exchanged fire with Syrian and Iranian forces during a late-night showdown that ended early Thursday morning. The exchange came days after Israel called up reserve troops to […]
War Codes in Trump’s Iran Proclamation
War Codes in Trump’s Iran Proclamation Today President Trump announced that he was canceling US participation in the Joint Comprehensive Plan of Action (JPCOA) otherwise known as the Iran nuclear deal. The president’s assertions were ludicrous and factually incorrect, but the neocons who were no doubt behind the speech have never been all that wedded […]
In Major Escalation, Israel Unleashes Airstrikes, Shelling On Syria In Retaliation For Alleged Iran Attack
In Major Escalation, Israel Unleashes Airstrikes, Shelling On Syria In Retaliation For Alleged Iran Attack Summary: The situation is fluid to say the least, but as far as we can tell this is what has happened tonight so far: 1. Sirens go off in Golan Heights 2. Loud explosions heard Then blame-game begins… 3. AP: […]
The U.S. Just Declared War on Iran
The U.S. Just Declared War on Iran Against all common sense, moral considerations and international law, U.S. President Donald Trump tonight decided to place the United States outside the international so-called community and isolate itself, not Iran. He withdrew the United States from what is one of the most important negotiated peace-oriented agreements that have […]
Trump Pulls Out of Iran Deal – U.S. Determined to Become a Rogue State
Trump Pulls Out of Iran Deal – U.S. Determined to Become a Rogue State Let me cut to the chase. Every single world leader knows Trump’s full of shit. Even more importantly, the citizens of their nations also know it. Everyone with a functioning brain understands that pulling out of the Iran deal has nothing […]
Trump and Netanyahu May Not Want War With Iran, But They May Fall Into One Anyway
Trump and Netanyahu May Not Want War With Iran, But They May Fall Into One Anyway Photo source StateofIsrael | CC BY 2.0 by Addy Cameron-Huff | CC BY 2.0 Iran has an exaggerated reputation in the Middle East for Machiavellian cunning and an ability to outmanoeuvre its enemies. Britain used to be regarded in the […]
The Root of It All
The Root of It All Steven Pinker wrote, “In almost every year from 1992 through 2015, an era in which the rate of violent crime plummeted, a majority of Americans told pollsters that crime was rising. In late 2015, large majorities in eleven developed countries said that “the world is getting worse.” But crime isn’t […]
Green Berets Are Now On The Ground Assisting The Saudi War On Yemen In “A Marked Escalation”
Green Berets Are Now On The Ground Assisting The Saudi War On Yemen In “A Marked Escalation” Once again a creeping, years’ long shadow war is expanding from indirect proxy intervention to direct engagement, complete with US “boots on the ground” where no American ground forces were previously thought to exist. And it’s not Syria, […]
Theresa May’s Lies Must Stop
Theresa May’s Lies Must Stop It would seem that the so-called British prime minister Theresa May, leader of the Conservative Party [who heads up a minority Tory Government only kept in power through a confidence and supply arrangement with the Democratic Unionist Party] has forgotten that there is such a matter as reality backed up […]
What May 2018 Has in Store: It’s Difficult to Understate the Looming Dangers
What May 2018 Has in Store: It’s Difficult to Understate the Looming Dangers The month of May is always associated with V-E Day. The sentiments of “never again” were strong 73 years ago, in 1945 when the UN was founded. Since then Europe has put a huge amount of effort into creating a unique security […]
The Interminable Advance of World War 3
The Interminable Advance of World War 3 The current war-shrieking is irrevocably lashed to the over-extendedness of the West’s aggregate balance sheet. Somewhere in the basement of the NY Fed the Mother of All Spreadsheet’s (MOAS) burgeoning cells are starting to acquaint, of necessity, with scientific notation. A key leverage point has been reached if […]
Syria & Iran Prove There’s No Chance For North Korean Peace
Syria & Iran Prove There’s No Chance For North Korean Peace There is a saying in geopolitics that peace summits are generally a perfect time to prepare for war. This thinking stems from the military philosophy of Sun Tzu, who believed that when a nation is weak it is important to appear strong, and when […]
US Officials: Israel Preparing For War With Iran, Seeking US Support
US Officials: Israel Preparing For War With Iran, Seeking US Support Not that there was much doubt who was behind it, but two days after “enemy” warplanes attacked a Syrian military base near Hama on Sunday, killing at least 11 Iranians and dozens of others, and nobody had yet “claimed responsibility” the attack, US officials […]
De-escalation With North Korea, Escalation With Iran
De-escalation With North Korea, Escalation With Iran Photo by DAVID HOLT | CC BY 2.0 As a journalist, I have always dreaded reporting on meetings between world leaders billed as “historic” or “momentous” or just plain “significant”. Such pretensions are usually phoney or, even if something of interest really does happen, its importance is exaggerated […]
Never Let Anyone Call You Crazy For Doubting Establishment War Narratives
Never Let Anyone Call You Crazy For Doubting Establishment War Narratives There has still been no retraction or correction of The Guardian‘s demonstrably false and completely indefensible claim that two normal antiwar Twitter accounts were controlled not by real people but by bot programs based in Russia. This is the sort of environment that has […]
