In the wake of last week’s cruise missile attack on Syria, there was a joke going around the internet saying that it doesn’t matter who Americans vote for, they always wind up getting John McCain as President of the United States. The humor derives from the fact that...
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Who Wants a Hot War with Syria and Iran?
by Philip Giraldi | Apr 12, 2018 | Featured Articles
There is a vast industry in the United States that wants a hot war with Syria and Iran as well as increased confrontation with Russia and China. It is appropriate to refer to it as an industry because it has many components and is largely driven by money, much of...
What’s Wrong with Trump’s New National Security Advisor
by Philip Giraldi | Apr 5, 2018 | Featured Articles
Beyond the general concerns regarding the nomination of John Bolton as National Security Advisor, there is also the specific issue of his impending access to the most highly classified intelligence information that the United States possesses.There are a number of...
Let’s Investigate John Brennan
by Philip Giraldi | Mar 27, 2018 | Featured Articles
Former Central Intelligence Agency (CIA) Director John Brennan, a Barack Obama friend and protégé as well as a current paid contributor for NBC and MSNBC, has blasted President Donald Trump for congratulating President Vladimir Putin over his victory in recent Russian...
Hawks Resurgent in Washington
by Philip Giraldi | Mar 22, 2018 | Featured Articles
One of the most discouraging aspects of the musical chairs being played among the members of the White House inner circle is that every change reflects an inexorable move to the right in foreign policy, which means that the interventionists are back without anyone at...
Russiagate Comes to England
by Philip Giraldi | Mar 20, 2018 | Featured Articles
I don’t know what happened in Salisbury England on March 4th, but it appears that the British government doesn’t know either. Prime Minister Theresa May’s speech before Parliament last Monday was essentially political, reflecting demands that she should “do something”...
Christopher Steele As Seen By the New Yorker
by Philip Giraldi | Mar 13, 2018 | Featured Articles
The latest salvo in the Russiagate saga is a 15,000 word New Yorker article entitled “Christopher Steele the man behind the Trump dossier: how the ex-spy tried to warn the world about Trump’s ties to Russia” by veteran journalist Jane Mayer. The premise of the piece...
America’s Illegal Sojourn in Syria
by Philip Giraldi | Mar 1, 2018 | Featured Articles
It should come as no surprise to anyone that the Donald Trump administration has recently affirmed that it has a perfect legal right to remain in Syria as long as it wishes because it is fighting terrorism. The argument goes something like this: Congress has approved...
Blundering Into Iran
by Philip Giraldi | Feb 27, 2018 | Featured Articles
The deluge of recent reporting regarding possible conflict with nuclear armed North Korea has somewhat obscured consideration of the much higher probability that Israel or even Saudi Arabia will take steps that will lead to a war with Iran that will inevitably draw...
Russiagate Suddenly Becomes Bigger
by Philip Giraldi | Feb 20, 2018 | Featured Articles
It’s hard to know where to begin. Last Friday’s indictment of 13 Russian nationals and three Russian companies by Special Counsel Robert Mueller was detailed in a 37 page document that provided a great deal of specific evidence claiming that a company based in St....
When Former Spies Turn into TV ‘Experts’
by Philip Giraldi | Feb 15, 2018 | Featured Articles
Once upon a time in the United States there was a general perception that organizations like the Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI) and the Central Intelligence Agency (CIA) were both apolitical and high-minded, existing only to calmly and professionally promote...
Nunes Memo: Another Step Towards Proving Russiagate Is a Hoax
by Philip Giraldi | Feb 8, 2018 | Featured Articles
The so-called Nunes memo prepared for the Republican majority on the House of Representatives Intelligence Committee, even if overblown, clearly suggests that there might have been an unwarranted and quite possibly illegal Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI)...
Meet the Corrupt Billionaire Who Has Brought About a New Cold War
by Philip Giraldi | Feb 1, 2018 | Featured Articles
One has to ask why there is a crisis in US-Russia relations since Washington and Moscow have much more in common than not, to include confronting international terrorism, stabilizing Syria and other parts of the world that are in turmoil, and preventing the...
America’s National Defense Is Really Offense
by Philip Giraldi | Jan 26, 2018 | Featured Articles
On Friday, the Pentagon released an unclassified summary of the 2018 National Defense Strategy report. On the same day, Secretary of Defense James Mattis delivered prepared remarks relating to the document.Reading the summary is illuminating, to say the least, and...
Why Does Washington Hate Bashar al-Assad?
by Philip Giraldi | Jan 23, 2018 | Featured Articles
The Donald Trump administration is planning to install a 30,000 strong armed “security force” in northern Syria along the borders with Turkey and Iraq. This presumably will tie together and support the remaining rag-tags of allegedly pro-democracy rebels and will fit...
How the Establishment Undermines American Democracy
by Philip Giraldi | Jan 18, 2018 | Featured Articles
There is a growing consensus among many observers in Washington that the national security agencies have become completely politicized over the past seventeen years and are now pursuing selfish agendas that actually endanger what remains of American democracy. Up...
70 Years of Disinformation: How the CIA Funded Opinion Magazines in Europe
by Philip Giraldi | Jan 16, 2018 | Featured Articles
When an intelligence agency arranges to disseminated fake news it is called “disinformation” and it is a subset of what is referred to as covert action, basically secret operations run in a foreign country to influence opinion or to disrupt the functioning of a...
Who or What Is Feeding the Unrest in Iran?
by Philip Giraldi | Jan 12, 2018 | Featured Articles
There are two general theories about the protests that are taking place in Iran. One, unfavorable to the Iranian government and establishment, is that the widespread discontent and rioting is over mismanagement of the economy that has particularly hurt poorer...
Surrounded by Neocons
by Philip Giraldi | Jan 9, 2018 | Neocon Watch
Award winning journalist James Risen has recently described in some detail his sometimes painful relationship with The New York Times. His lengthy account is well worth reading as it demonstrates how successive editors of the paper frequently cooperated with the...
Expect Even Less Freedom of Internet in 2018
by Philip Giraldi | Jan 4, 2018 | Featured Articles
Users of social media have been increasingly reporting that their accounts have been either censored, blocked or suspended during the past year. Initially, some believed that the incidents might be technical in nature, with overloaded servers struggling to keep up...
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