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...
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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...
Who Are the Leading State Sponsors of Terrorism?
by Philip Giraldi | Dec 28, 2017 | Featured Articles
As 2017 draws to a close, it is difficult to be optimistic about what will be coming in the new year. The American President, whose margin of victory was certainly based on his pledge to avoid unnecessary wars, has doubled down on Afghanistan, refuses to leave Syria...
Iraq Redux in the Making? US Rhetoric on Iran Brings Back Memories of 2003
by Philip Giraldi | Dec 22, 2017 | Featured Articles
Sometimes you wake up in the morning and it’s 2003 all over again. That was the year when the United States embarked on its catastrophic course of intervention in Asia. It was at least somewhat justified in invading Afghanistan to eliminate al-Qaeda but then made the...
Why America’s Law Enforcement Empire Resembles Secret Police in a Dictatorship
by Philip Giraldi | Dec 14, 2017 | Featured Articles
Secret police are characteristic of dictatorships, or so goes the conventional thinking on the subject. Police in democracies operate for the most part transparently and within a set of rules and guidelines that limits their ability to gratuitously punish citizens who...
How Hitler Analogies Obscure Understanding of Mideast Power Struggle
by Philip Giraldi | Nov 30, 2017 | Featured Articles
While growing up in America during the 1950’s, one would sometimes encounter supermarket tabloid headlines asserting that Adolph Hitler had not died in May 1945 in the ruins of the Reich’s Chancellery. It was claimed that he had somehow escaped and was living under a...
Did the US Allow ISIS to Escape to Keep the Fighting Going?
by Philip Giraldi | Nov 21, 2017 | Featured Articles
Americans have been living in a country that has not known peace since 9/11, when President George W. Bush and his posse of neoconservatives delivered the message to the world that “you are either with us or against us.” The threat was coupled with flurry of hastily...
How America’s Deep State Operates to Control the Message
by Philip Giraldi | Nov 17, 2017 | Featured Articles
It is not possible to overstate the power of certain constituencies and corporate lobbies in the United States. These pressure groups, joined by powerful government agencies, many of which have secret agendas that focus on national security, constitute what is...
Saudi Arabia and Israel Know They Cannot Defeat Iran, Want to Drag the US into an Uncontainable War
by Philip Giraldi | Nov 13, 2017 | Featured Articles
There is considerable confusion about what is occurring in the Middle East, to include much discussion of whether Israel and Saudi Arabia have formally agreed to combine forces to increase both military and economic pressure on Iran, which both of them see as their...
America’s ‘Allies’ Are Setting Up Another Trap for US in the Middle East
by Philip Giraldi | Nov 10, 2017 | Featured Articles
Whatever their plans, the stakeholders in the Middle East must remember that clever plans to remake the Middle East have hitherto been remarkable for their inability to anticipate countermoves by opposing forces.Tension is increasing all across the Middle East and the...
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