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US aimed to nuke civilian populations in enemy cities during Cold War – declassified document
US aimed to nuke civilian populations in enemy cities during Cold War – declassified document © Airman John Parie / Reuters A newly released Cold War-era list of nuclear targets shows the US planned to inflict “systematic destruction” on enemy cities and target the “population” of those areas. It is the most comprehensive Cold War […]
Cornering Russia, Risking World War III
Cornering Russia, Risking World War III Official Washington is awash with tough talk about Russia and the need to punish President Putin for his role in Ukraine and Syria. But this bravado ignores Russia’s genuine national interests, its “red lines,” and the risk that “tough-guy-ism” can lead to nuclear war, as Alastair Crooke explains. We […]
The IMF Joins the New Cold War
The IMF Joins the New Cold War On December 8, the IMF’s Chief Spokesman Gerry Rice sent a note saying: “The IMF’s Executive Board met today and agreed to change the current policy on non-toleration of arrears to official creditors. We will provide details on the scope and rationale for this policy change in the […]
Former Defense Secretary Warns US is Pushing Towards Nuclear Apocalypse
Former Defense Secretary Warns US is Pushing Towards Nuclear Apocalypse The United States is on the brink of a new nuclear arms race that will elevate the risk of nuclear apocalypse to Cold War levels, former Secretary of Defense William Perry warned on Thursday. Perry, who from 1994 to 1997 served as Pentagon chief under President Bill Clinton, delivered his remarks at an event hosted by the Defense Writers […]
We created Islamic extremism: Those blaming Islam for ISIS would have supported Osama bin Laden in the ’80s
We created Islamic extremism: Those blaming Islam for ISIS would have supported Osama bin Laden in the ’80s Jingoists conveniently forget the West’s Cold War strategy was to arm the Islamic extremists that became al-Qaida (Credit: AP/Dennis Cook) History takes no prisoners. It shows, with absolute lucidity, that the Islamic extremism ravaging the world today […]
ISIS Is Being Aimed At The West By Globalists – Here’s What We Can Do About It
ISIS Is Being Aimed At The West By Globalists – Here’s What We Can Do About It Over the past year and a half, I have been writing on the engineered nature of ISIS, delving deeply into its history and its backing by Western intelligence agencies in articles such as “Is Martial Law Justified If ISIS […]
Blowback—–The Washington War Party’s Folly Comes Home To Roost
Blowback—–The Washington War Party’s Folly Comes Home To Roost Exactly 26 years ago last week, peace was breaking out in a manner that the world had not experienced since June 1914. The Berlin Wall—-the symbol of a century of state tyranny, grotesque mass warfare and the nuclear sword of Damocles hanging over the planet—-had come tumbling down […]
Putin & Military Establishment
Putin & Military Establishment The strategy of the Obama Administration regarding Russia and foreign affairs has been a total disaster. They have achieved quite remarkably in bringing back the Cold War and placing the world at risk all for their power-plays that American citizens are ignorant about. This issue in Syria illustrates how once politicians […]
Checkmate on ‘The Devil’s Chessboard’
Checkmate on ‘The Devil’s Chessboard’ Exclusive: Since the end of World War II, what some call the “deep state” has taken hold of the American Republic, stripping the citizens of meaningful control over national security issues, with CIA Director Allen Dulles playing a key early role, according to David Talbot’s new biography reviewed by Lisa Pease. David […]
War on Islamic State: A New Cold War fiction
War on Islamic State: A New Cold War fiction The Islamic State group is little more than the proxy bastard child of a New Cold War that looks set to escalate Russia is bombing “terrorists” in Syria, and the US is understandably peeved. A day after the bombing began, Obama’s Defence Secretary Ashton Carter complained […]
How The War Party Betrayed America’s Non-Interventionist Foreign Policy Tradition
How The War Party Betrayed America’s Non-Interventionist Foreign Policy Tradition So Vladimir Putin in his U.N. address summarized his indictment of a U.S. foreign policy that has produced a series of disasters in the Middle East that we did not need the Russian leader to describe for us. Fourteen years after we invaded Afghanistan, Afghan […]
Obama Deifies American Hegemony
Obama Deifies American Hegemony Today is the 70th anniversary of the UN. It is not clear how much good the UN has done. Some UN Blue Hemet peacekeeping operations had limited success. But mainly Washington has used the UN for war, such as the Korean War and Washington’s Cold War against the Soviet Union. In […]
US Readies Battle Plans For Baltic War With Russia: Report
US Readies Battle Plans For Baltic War With Russia: Report One of the most interesting – or perhaps “worrisome” is the better word – things about Moscow’s move to increase its support for the Bashar al-Assad regime as it battles to wrest control of large swaths of territory in Syria from Islamic State and other […]
How America Double-Crossed Russia and Shamed West
How America Double-Crossed Russia and Shamed West The conditionality of the Soviet Union’s agreement to allow East Germany to be taken by West Germany and for the Cold War to end, was that NATO would not expand «one inch to the east». This was the agreement that was approved by the Russian President of the […]
