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The Coming Saudi Crack-up?
The Coming Saudi Crack-up? Exclusive: President Obama, like generations of Western leaders, has coddled the oil-rich Saudi monarchy by tolerating its reactionary politics, its financing of radical Islam and its military support for Sunni jihadist terrorism. But the spoiled Saudi leaders may finally be going too far, as Daniel Lazare describes. Is the Saudi monarchy coming apart at […]
Dictators of the Roman and American Empires – The Blue Ribbon Has To Go To Obama
Dictators of the Roman and American Empires – The Blue Ribbon Has To Go To Obama Every group (and especially an empire) needs its good or evil spokesperson, leader, or figurehead to focus upon: the embodiment of the particular group or nation. The size of the group is irrelevant: there simply must be a leader […]
How ‘Obscure’ Bureaucrats Cause Wars
How ‘Obscure’ Bureaucrats Cause Wars Exclusive: Official Washington’s anti-Russian “group think” is now so dominant that no one with career aspirations dares challenge it, a victory for “obscure” government bureaucrats, like Assistant Secretary of State Victoria Nuland, as Jonathan Marshall explains. History isn’t just made by impersonal forces and “great men” or “great women.” Sometimes relatively obscure men and […]
Big Banks In a Tizzy Want to Take Their Billions and Go Home
Big Banks In a Tizzy Want to Take Their Billions and Go Home The big banks are not taking a rare legislative defeat lying down. Days after President Obama signed into law a highway package that finally ended an egregious, 100-year-old subsidy for big banks, two of Wall Street’s favorite legislators want to attach a last-minute rider to the […]
War Is On The Horizon: Is It Too Late To Stop It?
War Is On The Horizon: Is It Too Late To Stop It? One lesson from military history is that once mobilization for war begins, it takes on a momentum of its own and is uncontrollable. This might be what is occuring unrecognized before our eyes. In his September 28 speech at the 70th Anniversity of […]
Fourth Turning–Our Rendezvous With Destiny
FOURTH TURNING – OUR RENDEZVOUS WITH DESTINY We are now in the seventh year of this Fourth Turning. A famous quote from the seventh year of the last Fourth Turning portended the desperate, bloody and ultimately heroic trials and tribulations which awaited generations of our ancestors. What will be our rendezvous with destiny? “There is a […]
Fourth Turning–Social & Cultural Distress Dividing the Nation
FOURTH TURNING – SOCIAL & CULTURAL DISTRESS DIVIDING THE NATION I wrote the first three parts of this article back in September and planned to finish it in early October, but life intervened and truthfully I don’t think I was ready to confront how bad things will likely get as this Fourth Turning moves into […]
Russia Suspends Military Cooperation With Turkey, Will Use Warships To “Destroy Any Threats To Russian Planes”
Russia Suspends Military Cooperation With Turkey, Will Use Warships To “Destroy Any Threats To Russian Planes” Despite demands from France’s Hollande, America’s Obama, and NATO’s Stoltenberg that this situation not esclate, it appears Putin is not taking the shooting down of a fighter jet lying down. The seemingly cagey confirmation by NATO and Obama of […]
Playing Politics While the Planet Sizzles
Playing Politics While the Planet Sizzles The Republican Senate just voted to reject plans by President Obama and the EPA to dramatically reduce emissions from coal power plants. This is reactionary politics. It is also political theater that plays right into the hands of the President. This allows President Obama to create the illusion that […]
The Saudi Connection to Terror
The Saudi Connection to Terror Exclusive: While Official Washington devotes much sound and fury to demands for a wider war in Syria and the need to turn away Syrian refugees, Democrats and Republicans dodge the tougher question: how to confront Saudi Arabia about its covert funding for Islamic State and Al Qaeda terrorists, writes Daniel Lazare. How does ISIS […]
Tangled Threads of US False Narratives
Tangled Threads of US False Narratives Exclusive: Official Washington’s many false narratives about Russia and Syria have gotten so tangled that they have become a danger to the struggle against Sunni terrorism and conceivably a threat to the future of the planet, a risk that Robert Parry explores. One way to view Official Washington is to envision […]
As CO2 Levels Rise, Obama Still All Talk And No Action
As CO2 Levels Rise, Obama Still All Talk And No Action President Obama is once again talking out of both sides of his mouth with regard to the need to protect the environment. After joining Facebook last week, the President used his very first video post to address the issue of climate change. The President said in the […]
Arming Dictators: An American Tradition
Arming Dictators: An American Tradition Recently the Obama administration announced another military aid package for Pakistan: eight F-16 fighter jets. Once again considerations of human rights and democratic values have been sacrificed to strategic calculations. Recall, the robust figures for US military assistance to Pakistan: more than $20 billion in weapons, training, and other activities between […]
