What a difference a day makes. Just 24 hours ago US Defense Secretary Ashton Carter was telling the Senate Armed Services Committee all about the Obama Administration's new military strategy for the Middle East. The headline grabber from his testimony was the...
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Are We Looking For A Fight In The South China Sea?
by Daniel McAdams | Oct 27, 2015 | The Liberty Report
The US guided-missile destroyer USS Lassen ventured into the 12 mile exclusion set up by the Chinese around two islands it is constructing in the South China Sea. The stated purpose of the US "violation" of Chinese territory was to establish a precedent so as to keep...
Breaking: Sec Def Tells Congress US to Begin ‘Direct Action on the Ground’ in Syria and Iraq
by Daniel McAdams | Oct 27, 2015 | Peace and Prosperity Blog
US Secretary of Defense Ashton Carter told the Senate Armed Services Committee today that United States military forces would soon begin "direct action on the ground" in Iraq and Syria, promising more missions like the recent operation to free hostages in Iraq that...
Washington: Assad Still Must Go
by Daniel McAdams | Oct 27, 2015 | Peace and Prosperity Blog
At the State Department's daily briefing today, Spokesman John Kirby conceded that the Syrian government led by President Assad may have a role to play in a "political transition" of the country. The apparent shift was in response to a reporter who pointed out that...
Blair’s Iraq ‘Apology’: Sincere Or Spin?
by Daniel McAdams | Oct 26, 2015 | The Liberty Report
Former UK Prime Minister Tony Blair over the weekend offered an apology of sorts over the disaster produced by the 2003 US/UK invasion of Iraq. He's "sorry" that the intelligence was wrong, he said, but he's not at all sorry that Saddam Hussein was overthrown. This...
Israeli Nuclear Panel Supports Iran Deal
by Daniel McAdams | Oct 23, 2015 | The Liberty Report
Israel's Atomic Energy Commission has endorsed the Iran nuclear agreement, concluding that it would prevent Iran from acquiring a nuclear weapon. The Commission joins dozens of former high-ranking security and intelligence personnel in Israel who agree that the deal...
Benghazi Questions No One Dares Ask
by Daniel McAdams | Oct 22, 2015 | The Liberty Report
Today's Benghazi Committee hearings will not focus on the central issue: US interventionist foreign policy which set the stage for the inevitable attack that followed. Hillary Clinton made the point in her opening statement that US embassies have been attacked many...
Our Syria War Is Over – Time To Come Home
by Daniel McAdams | Oct 21, 2015 | The Liberty Report
Four years into a pointless intervention in Syria -- with several more years of US "regime change" planning beforehand -- the utter disaster that the neocons and interventionists have produced is laid bare before the world. Assad is in power, al-Qaeda and ISIS are...
Irwin Schiff – A ‘Most Dangerous Man’
by Daniel McAdams | Oct 20, 2015 | The Liberty Report
Tax protester Irwin Schiff was sentenced to 13 years in prison for talking about his book, which the government had banned. He died of cancer on Saturday at age 87, chained to a prison hospital bed. Appeals for him to spend his last days with his family were denied by...
US House Resolution Seeks New Conflict in Ukraine
by Daniel McAdams | Oct 19, 2015 | Congress Alert
The US House of Representatives, which never ceases sticking its nose in other people's business, is tomorrow scheduled to take up H. Res. 348, a bill "Supporting the right of the people of Ukraine to freely elect their government and determine their future." The bill...
Assassinations: Is This ‘American Exceptionalism’?
by Daniel McAdams | Oct 16, 2015 | The Liberty Report
A new US government whistleblower has come forward to share highly disturbing information about the US worldwide assassination program, deceptively called "targeted killing." Most of those killed with bombs fired from drones were not the intended targets, we learn,...
Into Africa: Obama’s Newest War
by Daniel McAdams | Oct 15, 2015 | Peace and Prosperity Blog
What to do when an intervention has completely imploded, contributing to 200,000 deaths, destroying a country, and pushing the US closer to a nuclear conflict with Russia than at any time in the past 40 years? Well if you are President Obama you press forward with yet...
Obama’s New War In Africa: Do We Need It?
by Daniel McAdams | Oct 15, 2015 | The Liberty Report
The Obama Administration's disastrous invasion of Libya scattered well-armed jihadists throughout Africa and the Middle East, including to Syria and Cameroon. After emptying out Gaddafi's arsenals, these groups proceeded to spread their mayhem. Yesterday, President...
MH-17 Final Report: Who Shot Down The Plane?
by Daniel McAdams | Oct 14, 2015 | The Liberty Report
The long-awaited final report of the Dutch Safety Board on the 2014 shoot-down of Malaysia Airlines flight MH-17 over Ukraine came out yesterday, but it offered very little in terms of what actually happened. With the most powerful intelligence apparatus on earth, how...
How Did ISIS Get All Those Toyota Trucks?
by Daniel McAdams | Oct 13, 2015 | Peace and Prosperity Blog
Recently the Department of the Treasury, responsible for keeping track of sanctions and violations of sanctions, turned its bureaucratic eye toward the massive convoys of Toyota Hilux pick-up trucks in possession of ISIS. How the heck did they get such a massive fleet...
Syria Quagmire? Copyright Tyranny. Weird Politics. Around the World With Lew Rockwell
by Daniel McAdams | Oct 13, 2015 | The Liberty Report
Why is the US trying to destroy Syria, the bulwark against jihadists and protector of the Middle East's Christians? Because, says Lew Rockwell in today's Liberty Report, like all empires the US pursues a divide and conquer strategy. More on Lew's take on Syria events...
Chris Christie: Let’s Start WWIII!
by Daniel McAdams | Oct 13, 2015 | Neocon Watch
New Jersey governor Chris Christie may be favored by only about a total of 12 people in the US to be the next president, but that does not stop the mainstream media from treating him as a frontrunner. After all, what is the support of the mere lumpen-votarian when you...
Breaking: Washington Airdrops Tons of Weapons to Rebels in Syria
by Daniel McAdams | Oct 12, 2015 | Peace and Prosperity Blog
Hopeful news at the end of last week that the Obama Administration was considering disengaging from its schizophrenic war in Syria has given way to the ugly reality that Washington's neocons in charge will never back away from a fight (as long as they are not doing...
Global Freedom Index: We’re Number 20!
by Daniel McAdams | Oct 12, 2015 | The Liberty Report
The Cato Institute and partners have released a new survey of global economic and civic freedom. The results are not too good for those who adhere to the philosophy of American Exceptionalism: the US is not even in the top 10 when it comes to economic and personal...
Two Minutes of Hate For Belarus
by Daniel McAdams | Oct 11, 2015 | Featured Articles
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...
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