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Russia Accuses U.S. Of “Pretending To Fight ISIS”
Russia Accuses U.S. Of “Pretending To Fight ISIS” Russia has once again accused the US-led coalition in Iraq and Syria of facilitating the entry of Islamic State terrorists into Syria in order to hinder the advance of the Syrian Army and its allies. On Tuesday Russia’s defense ministry accused the US of merely “pretending” to […]
Iran, Iraq, And Turkey Unite To Block Kurdish Oil Exports
Iran, Iraq, And Turkey Unite To Block Kurdish Oil Exports Iraq, Iran, and Turkey are taking a unified stance against Kurdistan’s oil sector after the region elected to seek independence from Baghdad in a referendum in September, according to a new report by Rudaw. “In the case of northern Iraq, Iran, Iraq and Turkey will form […]
Iran Deploys Tanks To Border With Iraqi Kurdistan
Iran Deploys Tanks To Border With Iraqi Kurdistan Days before last week’s Kurdistan referendum, Iran took steps to isolate and punish the Iraqi Kurdistan region and the government in Erbil (KRG). This included closing Iranian airspace to northern Iraq’s two international airports and sending Iran’s elite Revolutionary Guard forces to conduct drills along the northwest […]
Trump on the Warpath
Trump on the Warpath The US suffers from an arrogance of military power disconnected from today’s geopolitical realities. The US is on this path again, heading for a collision with a nuclear-armed adversary, and it will remain on it unless other countries, other American leaders, and public opinion block the way. NEW YORK – Fifteen […]
Ron Paul Fears False Flag Looms, Urges Americans To Resist Deep State Push For War On North Korea
Ron Paul Fears False Flag Looms, Urges Americans To Resist Deep State Push For War On North Korea We are seeing now in regard to North Korea a replay of the type of campaign the deep state and the media used in 2001 through 2003 to stir up the American people to support the invasion […]
Patriotism, Flags and Referendums
Patriotism, Flags and Referendums Robert Frank London 1952-53‘Tis the jolly time of elections, referendums, flags and other democracy-related issues. They are all linked in some way or another, even if that’s not always obvious. Elections, in New Zealand and Germany this weekend, referendums in Catalonia and Kurdistan the coming week, a looming Party Congress in […]
Petrodollar Under Attack
Petrodollar Under Attack (ANTIMEDIA Op-ed) — Once upon a time, the U.S. dollar was backed by the gold standard in a framework that established what was known as the Bretton-Woods agreement, made in 1944. The dollar was fixed to gold at a price of $35 an ounce, though the dollar could earn interest, marking one notable difference from gold. We’re […]
Could Kurdish Independence Spark An Oil War?
Could Kurdish Independence Spark An Oil War? As the date of the Kurdish independence referendum approaches, oil industry moguls should be concerned about an oil production war between Iran and headless Iraq. The Kurds are expected to vote on their political status in late September. A vote in the affirmative would mean that Iraq would […]
Liberals Don’t Respect a Nation’s Sovereignty
Liberals Don’t Respect a Nation’s Sovereignty When the United States and some of its allies in 2003 invaded and destroyed Iraq on false pretenses — and without Iraq having ever invaded (much less destroyed) any of the invading countries — this was actually within the scope of the invaders being liberal countries, because a nation’s sovereignty isn’t at all […]
How ‘Regime Change’ Wars Led to Korea Crisis
How ‘Regime Change’ Wars Led to Korea Crisis Exclusive: The U.S.-led aggressions against Iraq and Libya are two war crimes that keep on costing, with their grim examples of what happens to leaders who get rid of WMDs driving the scary showdown with North Korea, writes Robert Parry. It is a popular meme in the […]
How Conspiracy Theories Really Work
How Conspiracy Theories Really Work In the United States «conspiracy theory» is the name given to explanations that differ from those that serve the ruling oligarchy, the establishment or whatever we want to call those who set and control the agendas and the explanations that support the agendas. The explanations imposed on us by the […]
The Existential Question of Whom to Trust
The Existential Question of Whom to Trust Special Report: An existential question facing humankind is whom can be trusted to describe the world and its conflicts, especially since mainstream experts have surrendered to careerism, writes Robert Parry. The looming threat of World War III, a potential extermination event for the human species, is made more […]
Should People Trust CBS, ABC, NBC, NYT, WP, WSJ, BBC, AP, etc.?
Should People Trust CBS, ABC, NBC, NYT, WP, WSJ, BBC, AP, etc.? The following facts were established and published in obscure places in 2002, well before the U.S. and UK invaded Iraq, but did you know them, from the news-reports you saw, at that time, before we invaded, on that day which will forever be […]
