The Wall Street Journal is reporting today that NATO is preparing to deploy four battalions -- approximately 4,000 troops -- to Russia's western border. US Deputy Secretary of Defense Robert Work was in Brussels today to announce the Western military escalation on...
Month: April 2016
US-Created System In Iraq Is Collapsing: Protesters Storm Parliament, State of Emergency Declared
by Tyler Durden | Apr 30, 2016 | Featured Articles
Less than two years ago, the US set up another puppet government in the mid-east this time in the state of Iraq when following substantial US pressure, on August 14, 2014 then prime minister al-Maliki agreed to stepped down and be replaced with Haider al-Abadi. Today,...
Remember the Golan Heights?
by Eric Margolis | Apr 29, 2016 | Featured Articles
During the 1973 Arab-Israeli War, Syrian forces had surprised Israel and were fast approaching the edge of the steep Golan Heights, captured by Israel during the 1967 war. It seemed as if Syrian armor and infantry would retake Golan, then pour down into Israeli...
State Department Follies
by Daniel McAdams | Apr 29, 2016 | Featured Articles
After President Obama swore no fewer than eight times that he would not put boots on the ground in Syria and then did so, his State Department spokesman swore that he never said that he would not put boots on the ground. Why have US government press briefings turned...
Five Minutes Five Issues: War Spending, Hawaii Drugs, Sanders Delegates, 28 Pages, Hastert Sentencing
by Adam Dick | Apr 29, 2016 | Peace and Prosperity Blog
A new episode of Five Minutes Five Issues posted today. You can listen to it, and read a transcript, below. You can also find previous episodes of the show at Stitcher, iTunes, YouTube, and SoundCloud. Listen to the show here, YouTube embed below: Read a transcript of...
iPhone Ruse: FedGov Now Demands Backdoor To All Devices
by Daniel McAdams | Apr 28, 2016 | The Liberty Report
It should hardly be surprising to anyone paying attention that the federal government lied about every aspect of its "need" to break into the iPhone of the San Bernardino mass-shooter. There was another way to access it than compelling Apple to write code to defeat...
In Syria, US Rejects Russia Call to Name al-Qaeda Allies ‘Terrorist’
by Daniel McAdams | Apr 28, 2016 | Peace and Prosperity Blog
The total muddle that is US policy toward Syria continues to astonish. This week we saw the spectacle of a State Department Spokesman telling us that President Obama's promise to not put US boots on the ground in Syria, was never a promise not to put boots on the...
Obama Went to Germany to Deliver Europe’s Latest Report Card
by Danielle Ryan | Apr 28, 2016 | Featured Articles
Shouldn’t the days of European leaders enlisting the help of American presidents to sell unpopular ideas to their citizens be long over? They should. But evidently, they are not. Barack Obama arrived in Europe last week, bursting with words of wisdom and friendly...
House Armed Services Committee Approves Requiring Women to Register for Military Draft
by Adam Dick | Apr 28, 2016 | Congress Alert
Wednesday night the US House Armed Services Committee passed an amendment to require women to register for a potential military draft via the Selective Service system. The requirement already applies to men. The amendment is part the National Defense Authorization Act...
Is This What’s in Those 28 Pages? And Does it Matter?
by Peter van Buren | Apr 27, 2016 | Featured Articles
Did the CIA meet with some of the 9/11 hijackers ahead of the attacks on New York? Did the Saudi government help finance those hijackers? Someone knows the answers, and soon, you might know as well. This Summer? James Clapper, the director of national intelligence,...
The Pentagon Gong Show
by Franklin C. Spinney | Apr 27, 2016 | Featured Articles
It should be clear that the Global War on Terror (GWOT) launched by George W. Bush and perpetuated by Barack Obama is a bust. It is now the longest war in US history; it is now the second most expensive war in US history; and there is no light at the end of the...
How NATO-Linked Think Tanks Control EU Refugee Policy
by F. William Engdahl | Apr 27, 2016 | Featured Articles
A flood of uncontrolled war refugees from Syria, Libya, Tunisia and other Islamic countries destabilized by Washington’s "Arab Spring" Color Revolutions, has created the greatest social dislocation across the EU from Germany to Sweden to Croatia since the end of World...
The Classified ’28 Pages’: A Diversion From Real US-Saudi Issues
by Gareth Porter | Apr 26, 2016 | Featured Articles
The controversy surrounding the infamous “28 pages” on the possible Saudi connection with the terrorists that were excised from the joint Congressional report on the 9/11 attacks is at fever pitch. But that controversy is a distraction from the real problems that...
Celebrate the Decline of Neocon Thought Control!
by Llewellyn H. Rockwell, Jr. | Apr 26, 2016 | Neocon Watch
At the beginning of the year, I outlined three trends we should cheer. And now, just three months later, one of them is proceeding so rapidly that the bad guys are in an outright panic. Thus: a recent column in Commentary, a neoconservative publication, warned that...
Wartime Washington Lives In Luxury…Guess Who Pays The Bills?
by Daniel McAdams | Apr 26, 2016 | The Liberty Report
Washington war contracts have enriched northern Virginia at a level equal to the total budgets of countries like Belgium and Sweden. That post-9/11 security- and military-industrial complex financial bonanza is why north Virginia counties are the wealthiest in the...
The Hell on Earth Paved by Samantha Power’s Good Intentions
by Dan Sanchez | Apr 26, 2016 | Featured Articles
In Batman Vs. Superman, the intrepid reporter Lois Lane (played by Amy Adams), tries to expose a dastardly villain and gets herself into a deadly predicament from which Superman must save her. This has been the Lois Lane formula since 1938. But in this case, the...
Escalation Without Representation: Syria, Iraq, and Black Sea
by Daniel McAdams | Apr 25, 2016 | The Liberty Report
According to the Washington Post, President Obama had promised the US public no fewer than eight times that he would not put US troops on the ground in Syria and would not mount ground operations in Syria. Then the pretext of a rescue operation of the Yazidi minority...
Yes, Prince Faisal, We Need to ‘Recalibrate’ Our Relationship
by Ron Paul | Apr 25, 2016 | Featured Articles
For decades the US and Saudi Arabia have shared a peculiar relationship: the Saudis sell relatively cheap oil to the United States for which they accept our fiat currency. They then recycle those paper dollars into the US military-industrial complex through the...
Censored, Surveilled, Watch Listed and Jailed: The Absurdity of Being a Citizen in the American Police State
by John W. Whitehead | Apr 25, 2016 | Featured Articles
In the American police state, the price to be paid for speaking truth to power (also increasingly viewed as an act of treason) is surveillance, censorship, jail and ultimately death. However, where many Americans go wrong is in assuming that you have to be doing...
State Department Jokesman: ‘Obama Never Said No Boots on Ground in Syria!’
by Daniel McAdams | Apr 25, 2016 | Peace and Prosperity Blog
Watching State Department Spokesman John Kirby spar with one of Washington's last real journalists, AP diplomatic correspondent Matt Lee, is one of the best tickets in town. From his claims that "the entire international community" is demanding that Syria's Assad step...
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