With Belarusian president Aleksander Lukashenko elected to a fifth term in office on Sunday, the ritual western hate-fest against the former Soviet Republic shifts into high gear. The regular march of western journalists to Minsk to report on "Europe's last...
Month: October 2015
Defense Spending Bill: $600 Million More to Train “Moderates” in Syria
by Daniel McAdams | Oct 10, 2015 | Peace and Prosperity Blog
Last year's National Defense Authorization Act allocated half a billion dollars to train "vetted," "moderate" rebels to attack ISIS in Syria and also to overthrow the country's sovereign government. This schizophrenic policy goal not surprisingly produced a total...
The Mystery of ISIS’ Toyota Army Solved
by Tony Cartalucci | Oct 9, 2015 | Featured Articles
The US Treasury has recently opened an inquiry about the so-called “Islamic State’s” (ISIS/ISIL) use of large numbers of brand-new Toyota trucks. The issue has arisen in the wake of Russia’s air operations over Syria and growing global suspicion that the US itself has...
Ron Paul’s Swords into Plowshares Soundtrack
by Adam Dick | Oct 9, 2015 | Peace and Prosperity Blog
Each chapter of Ron Paul’s latest book Swords into Plowshares: A Life in Wartime and a Future of Peace and Prosperity is preceded by song lyrics that help communicate the antiwar ideas Paul expresses in the book. That makes 21 songs for 21 chapters. Metallica, Willie...
Lawrence Wilkerson on the 70 Years Old and Counting US National Security State
by Adam Dick | Oct 8, 2015 | Peace and Prosperity Blog
On occasion a college professor answers an interview question in such a way that it creates in some listeners a sudden, if fleeting, urge to drop everything, move across the country, and sign up for a course. College of William & Mary Professor Lawrence Wilkerson,...
Neocons Demand Escalation in Syria
by Daniel McAdams | Oct 8, 2015 | The Liberty Report
The neocons -- and their left-interventionist allies -- have been planning regime change in Syria since at least 2006. Last week's launch of Russian military strikes on ISIS and al-Qaeda at the request of the Syrian government has very quickly changed their plans. Now...
The Impulsiveness of US Power
by Paul Craig Roberts | Oct 8, 2015 | Featured Articles
Washington’s impulsive use of power is a danger to America and to the world. Arrogant Washington politicians and crazed neoconservatives are screaming that the US must shoot down Russian aircraft that are operating against the US-supplied forces that have brought...
Syria Intervention is a Mistake: US Can’t Run Entire Middle East
by Rep. John J. Duncan Jr. | Oct 7, 2015 | Featured Articles
The same people that got us into a very unnecessary war in Iraq are now clamoring for military action in Syria. These same people that have opposed us getting out of Afghanistan, even though our troops have been there more than three times longer than World War II,...
Turkey’s ‘Bear Trap’ Option in Syria
by Melkulangara Bhadrakumar | Oct 7, 2015 | Featured Articles
The two incidents involving Turkey and the Russian aircraft operating in northern Syria on successive days in the weekend throw into bold relief the single most crucial template of the Syrian conflict in the coming months. Turkey happens to be the only regional power...
This Has Become Routine
by Paul Craig Roberts | Oct 7, 2015 | Featured Articles
In his comment on the mass shootings at the Oregon community college, President Obama said: “This has become routine.” So have police shootings of unarmed and unresisting Americans. So have numerous other undesirable and deplorable happenings, such as the foreclosure...
Ron Paul on Fox Business: ‘No Reason in the World for us to Be Involved in Syria’
by Adam Dick | Oct 7, 2015 | Featured Articles
Interviewed Tuesday on Fox Business, three-time presidential candidate Ron Paul rejected the ongoing United States intervention in Syria, stating emphatically that he sees “no reason in the world for us to be involved in Syria.” Referring to the US government’s...
Senate Criminal Justice Reform Bill Would Create New Mandatory Minimum Sentences
by Adam Dick | Oct 6, 2015 | Congress Alert
No wonder Americans have such disdain for Congress. On Thursday, a bipartisan group of nine United States senators joined together to introduce the Sentencing Reform and Corrections Act. In a press release heralding the bill’s introduction, sponsor Sen. Chuck Grassley...
How to Sustain Perpetual War (It’s Easy!)
by Peter van Buren | Oct 6, 2015 | Featured Articles
Sustaining America’s state of post-9/11 perpetual war requires skillful manipulation of the public at home. The key tool used for this purpose is the bloodless narrative, a combination of policy, falsehoods and media manipulation that creates the impression that...
Seize the Chaos: Israel, the Neocons, and their Bloody, Blundering ‘Art’ of War
by Dan Sanchez | Oct 6, 2015 | Featured Articles
Israel lacks a national motto. If its leaders are looking for a Latin one, “carpe chaos” would be an apt and honest choice. “Seize the chaos” is half of Israeli foreign policy in a nutshell (the other half being the instigation of that chaos in the first place)....
The Russian Bear Growls
by Eric Margolis | Oct 5, 2015 | Featured Articles
Frankfurt, Germany –Could anyone in the Obama administration have been so slow-witted to imagine that Russia wouldn’t move hard to counter US efforts to overthrow Moscow’s ally, Syria? The Syrian war began almost five years ago by the US, France, Britain and Saudi...
Gun Violence – More Control Needed?
by Daniel McAdams | Oct 5, 2015 | The Liberty Report
What do the recent school shooting in Oregon and the US bombing of a hospital in Afghanistan have in common? President Obama is taking advantage of one tragedy to push for more government control of our guns. The other tragedy shows us that what we really need is more...
I Wish Nobody Was Bombing Syria
by Ron Paul | Oct 5, 2015 | Featured Articles
The US regime change policy for Syria has been a catastrophe. More than 200,000 killed and an entire country reduced to rubble at least partly because President Obama decided that “Assad has lost his legitimacy.” How is it that the president of a country 6,000 miles...
Russia’s Campaign To Snuff Off The CIA’s Al-Qaeda Forces
by Moon of Alabama | Oct 3, 2015 | Peace and Prosperity Blog
With some 125 strikes in three days the Russian bombing campaign continues to build. The US media is now obsessed with the idea that Russia may be using "dumb bombs" instead of Syrian "barrel bombs". This is becoming a new propaganda meme. But videos from the Russian...
On The Ropes: 60 % Don’t Trust Media
by Daniel McAdams | Oct 3, 2015 | The Liberty Report
According to a recent Gallup Poll survey, the majority of Americans do not trust the mainstream media. Among younger Americans the numbers for the MSM are even worse. According to the Washington Post, this is a "terrible thing" because it means publications like the...
A Useful Prep-Sheet on Syria for Media Propagandists
by Gary Leupp | Oct 3, 2015 | Featured Articles
Here are some State Department talking points on Syria for cable news anchors: 1) Keep mentioning the barrel bombs. Do not mention how their use was pioneered by the Israeli Air Force in 1948, and how they were used by the US Air Force in Vietnam in Operation Inferno...
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