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US strategic bombers fly close to Chinese islands, ignore ‘get away’ orders
US strategic bombers fly close to Chinese islands, ignore ‘get away’ orders A B-52 strategic bomber. © Tim Chong / Reuters 4.8K2 Two US B-52 strategic bombers have flown near Chinese artificial islands in the South China Sea, ignoring calls to “get away” from Beijing’s airspace, the Pentagon said, claiming the “routine mission” was in […]
War, Repression and International Gangsterism: U.S. State Policy From Benghazi to Baltimore
War, Repression and International Gangsterism: U.S. State Policy From Benghazi to Baltimore A mere two months after clashes between black youth and police in Baltimore following the murder of Freddie Gray while in police custody, President Obama’s Department of Justice (DOJ) announced the indictment of twenty-four year old Raymon Carter for his alleged involvement in […]
It’s Always the Same War
It’s Always the Same War Russian Foreign Minister Sergey Lavrov, left, U.N. Special Envoy for Syria Staffan de Mistura and U.S. Secretary of State John Kerry give a news conference after a meeting in Vienna on Oct 30. (Ronald Zak / AP) Barack Obama originally ran for president as the anti-war candidate. Now, as his second […]
NATO Looks To Station Thousands Of Troops On Border With Russia
NATO Looks To Station Thousands Of Troops On Border With Russia Russia’s dramatic intervention in Syria has served to push the conflict in Ukraine (a country that is now partially governedby Star Wars characters) to the back of the world’s collective mind. After all, separatists exchanging fire with government forces and/or far-right “volunteer” battalions every couple […]
With US Warships En Route To Islands, China Asks: “What On Earth Makes Them Think We Will Tolerate This?”
With US Warships En Route To Islands, China Asks: “What On Earth Makes Them Think We Will Tolerate This?” The US is in a tough spot militarily. In Syria, Russia and Iran have taken advantage of the fact that the plan hatched by the West and its regional allies to destabilize the Assad regime took […]
Russia Sends Its Only Aircraft Carrier To Syria, Signals It Is Just Getting Started
Russia Sends Its Only Aircraft Carrier To Syria, Signals It Is Just Getting Started As should be abundantly clear by now, The Kremlin is adopting a “slightly” different strategy when it comes to combatting terror in the Mid-East than that adopted by the US and its Western and regional allies. The strategy of the US […]
What Eisenhower REALLY Said About the “Military Industrial Complex”
What Eisenhower REALLY Said About the “Military Industrial Complex” You know about President and General Dwight Eisenhower’s prescient warning about the “military-industrial complex” as he left the White House? Well, it turns out that he was really warning about the “military-industrial-congressional” complex. 42-year CIA veteran Milton Goodman explains: In the spring of 1961, I was part of a […]
How Saudi Arabia, and a $15B armoured vehicle deal, became an election issue
How Saudi Arabia, and a $15B armoured vehicle deal, became an election issue Government says contract will create and sustain 3,000 jobs Niqabs, the economy, national unity — all issues that predictably came up in Thursday night’s French-language debate. But few had forecast that Canada’s relations with Saudi Arabia, and specifically, a multibillion-dollar contract to sell armoured vehicles […]
US Warns Of “Unprecedented” Russian Military Buildup In Syria: “It’s Starting To Look Like Crimea”
US Warns Of “Unprecedented” Russian Military Buildup In Syria: “It’s Starting To Look Like Crimea” On Wednesday, we brought you an in-depth look at the latest from Syria where Russia is apparently in a mad dash to send reinforcements to Assad and his depleted army at Latakia (or at least that’s the narrative being pushed […]
The Myth of a Russian ‘Threat’
The Myth of a Russian ‘Threat’ Not a week goes by without the Pentagon carping about an ominous Russian “threat”. Chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff Martin Dempsey entered certified Donald “known unknown” Rumsfeld territory when he recently tried to conceptualize the “threat”; “Threats are the combination, or the aggregate, of capabilities and intentions. Let me set aside for the moment, intentions, because I […]
Ron Paul and Lost Lessons of War
Ron Paul and Lost Lessons of War Neocon dominance has grown so strong in Official Washington that old lessons about the hazards of ill-considered wars are forgotten and must be painfully relearned, a message from Ron Paul’s new book, Swords into Plowshares, as described by retired JAG Major Todd E. Pierce. Former U.S. Rep. Ron Paul lays […]
10 Disturbing Facts Most Americans Are Too Fearful To Face
10 Disturbing Facts Most Americans Are Too Fearful To Face Sometimes you have to put out information in hopes that those who haven’t heard this will at least absorb a fraction of it. If you haven’t heard this and you absorb just one of these random points, I believe that may be enough to cause […]
Washington Post Reporter Charged with “Trespassing” in Ferguson, Missouri as the “War on Journalism” Continues
Washington Post Reporter Charged with “Trespassing” in Ferguson, Missouri as the “War on Journalism” Continues A year ago, Washington Post reporter Wesley Lowery, was arrested in a McDonald’s in Ferguson Missouri. The fast-food establishment had been used as a staging area for several reporters, including theHuffington Post’s Ryan Rilley, who was also arrested. Here’s last year’s video clip of Mr. […]
The New York Times Warns About the Pentagon Labeling Journalists “Unprivileged Belligerents”
The New York Times Warns About the Pentagon Labeling Journalists “Unprivileged Belligerents” This post is a follow up to a piece I published in June titled: New Thousand Page Pentagon War Manual Potentially Lumps Journalists in with “Unprivileged Belligerents.” Here’s an excerpt: A 1,176 page Pentagon war manual was recently released that hasn’t received the attention it deserves. The book […]
Ron Paul: “All Wars Paid For Through Debasing the Currency”
Ron Paul: “All Wars Paid For Through Debasing the Currency” And at some point, all empires crumble on their own excess, stretched to the breaking point by over-extending a military industrial complex with sophisticated equipment, hundreds of bases in as many countries, and never-ending wars that wrack up mind boggling levels of debt. This cost […]
