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US Ground Troops In Syria Is “Illegal, Big Mistake”, Russia Warns Obama Of “Unpredictable Consequences”
US Ground Troops In Syria Is “Illegal, Big Mistake”, Russia Warns Obama Of “Unpredictable Consequences” On Tuesday, Defense Secretary Ash Carter told the Senate Armed Services Committee that the US would no longer hesitate to engage in “direct action on the ground” in Iraq and Syria. The change in rhetoric (and apparent shift in strategy) comes just days after […]
Embracing The Dark Side: A Short History Of The Pathological Neocon Quest For Empire
Embracing The Dark Side: A Short History Of The Pathological Neocon Quest For Empire When Bill Kristol watches Star Wars movies, he roots for the Galactic Empire. The leading neocon recently caused a social media disturbance in the Force when he tweeted this predilection for the Dark Side following the debut of the final trailer for Star Wars: The Force Awakens. Kristol […]
BBC Protects U.K.’s Close Ally Saudi Arabia With Incredibly Dishonest and Biased Editing
BBC Protects U.K.’s Close Ally Saudi Arabia With Incredibly Dishonest and Biased Editing The BBC loves to boast about how “objective” and “neutral” it is. But a recent article, which it was forced to change, illustrates the lengths to which the British state-funded media outlet will go to protect one of the U.K. government’s closest allies, Saudi Arabia, […]
Einsteinian Insanity: US, Saudi Arabia Pledge To Provide More Guns, Ammo To Syrian Proxy Armies
Einsteinian Insanity: US, Saudi Arabia Pledge To Provide More Guns, Ammo To Syrian Proxy Armies You have to hand it to Washington. When it comes to foreign policy blunders, the US certainly isn’t afraid to double and triple down. As a leaked diplomatic cable from 2006 definitively shows, the US has actively sought to stoke sectarian violence […]
Tomgram: Peter Van Buren, The Great War in the Middle East
Tomgram: Peter Van Buren, The Great War in the Middle East Sometimes I imagine the last 14 years of American war policy in the Greater Middle East as a set of dismal Mad Libs. An example might be: The United States has spent [your choice of multiple billions of dollars] building up [fill in name […]
Putin Just Warned Global War Is Increasingly More Likely: Here’s Why
Putin Just Warned Global War Is Increasingly More Likely: Here’s Why Vladimir Putin is basking in Russia’s triumphant return to the world stage. What began with a land grab in Crimea and escalated with support for the separatists at Donetsk, culminated in Moscow’s dramatic entry into Syria’s protracted civil war. To be sure, the deplorable […]
“Proxy” War No More: Qatar Threatens Military Intervention In Syria Alongside “Saudi, Turkish Brothers”
“Proxy” War No More: Qatar Threatens Military Intervention In Syria Alongside “Saudi, Turkish Brothers” Earlier this week, Saudi foreign minister Adel al-Jubeir had the following message for Tehran: “We wish that Iran would change its policies and stop meddling in the affairs of other countries in the region, in Lebanon, Syria, Iraq and Yemen. We will make […]
‘Developed’ nations now $50 TRILLION in debt; literally, figuratively bankrupt for infrastructure, public services
‘Developed’ nations now $50 TRILLION in debt; literally, figuratively bankrupt for infrastructure, public services 4-minute video: Ready to rise from your economic slavery? I continue to factually assert that Benjamin Franklin already “discovered” government can operate without taxes, these superior mechanics were considered so important by Thomas Edison and Henry Ford that they dedicated their 1921 summer vacation […]
The Real Trouble Begins When Rising Inequality Splinters the Elites
The Real Trouble Begins When Rising Inequality Splinters the Elites If others in our class are still rising while we’re stagnating, we sense a great disturbance in the financial and political Force. Rising economic inequality tends to generate political instability for all the obvious reasons: the rich get richer, the poor get poorer, the rich say let […]
The Syrian terror trap
The Syrian terror trap The US, Russia and Iran are fracturing the Levant Leaked US diplomatic cables show that the US sought to undermine the Assad regime nearly a decade ago. But that’s not the whole story. In 2011, as peaceful protestors rallied across Syria, Assad was courted by the Obama administration as a potential […]
Will The Crazed Neocons Bring Us Nuclear Winter?
Will The Crazed Neocons Bring Us Nuclear Winter? As readers know, I have emphasized that the declared neoconservative intention of achieving global hegemony has resurrected the threat of nuclear armageddon as Russia and China are most definitely not going to submit, as every European country, the UK, Canada, Australia, New Zealand, Columbia, and Japan have […]
Moscow doubles down on Washington
Moscow doubles down on Washington History may eventually decide the ‘New World Order’ started on September 28, when Russian President Vladimir Putin and US President Barack Obama had a 90-minute face off at the UN in New York. Irrespective of spin – “productive” according to the White House, “tense”according to a source close to the Kremlin – facts […]
7/7 led to wars abroad and loss of freedoms at home … but do we know what really happened that day?
7/7 led to wars abroad and loss of freedoms at home … but do we know what really happened that day? For the London media 7/7 is ‘done and dusted’, but for guest author, Tony Gosling, who helped cover the IRA London bombing campaign for the BBC, nothing could be further from the truth. 31-minute video: Ten […]
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 […]
The Real Reason for the Refugee Crisis You Won’t Hear About in the Media
The Real Reason for the Refugee Crisis You Won’t Hear About in the Media There’s a meme going around that the refugee crisis in Europe (the largest since World War II) is part of a secret plot to subvert the West. I completely understand why the locals in any country wouldn’t be happy about waves […]
