Is the United States the victim of an unprovoked cyber and media attack by Russia and China or are the chickens coming home to roost after Washington’s own promotion of such activity worldwide? On Thursday Director of National Intelligence James Clapper asserted to...
Philip Giraldi
America or Israel? Quislings in Congress and the Media Need to Decide Which Comes First
by Philip Giraldi | Jan 3, 2017 | Featured Articles
I am reluctant to write about the “Israel problem” at the heart of US foreign policy two weeks in a row but it seems that the story just will not go away as the usual suspects pile on the Barack Obama Administration over its alleged betrayal of America’s “best and...
The War on Terror: Anyway You Look at it, it’s a Failure
by Philip Giraldi | Dec 20, 2016 | Featured Articles
The twenty-first century, at least up until this point, might well be described as the age of the terrorist. Even though most Americans and Europeans rank terrorism as low among their concerns, the repercussions when a terrorist attack does take place are greatly...
Bipartisan War: New Study Urges More US Interventions
by Philip Giraldi | Dec 14, 2016 | Featured Articles
The Establishment and Realist foreign policy communities in the United States often seem separated by language which leads them to talk past each other. When a realist or Libertarian talks about non-intervention or restraint in foreign policy, as Ron Paul did in 2008...
Iranophobes on Parade: Will Iran be the Target of the Trump Regime?
by Philip Giraldi | Nov 29, 2016 | Featured Articles
One of the most discouraging aspects of the filling out of the Donald Trump cabinet is the array of Iran haters that seem to be lining up in the foreign policy and national security areas. Trump has been personally advocating sensible policies relating to Russia and...
Oh, What a Lovely War!
by Philip Giraldi | Nov 8, 2016 | Featured Articles
The American people don’t know very much about war even if Washington has been fighting on multiple fronts since 9/11. The continental United States has not experienced the presence a hostile military force for more than 100 years and war for the current generation of...
Obama’s Victory Lap?
by Philip Giraldi | Nov 1, 2016 | Featured Articles
In between nearly daily campaign stops shilling for Hillary, President Barack Obama has been promoting his record as Head of State. To Obama’s credit, he talks nice and appears to be both thoughtful and rational, qualities that were not always evident in his...
The Legacy of United States Interventionism
by Philip Giraldi | Oct 11, 2016 | Featured Articles
The following in an edited version of a paper I presented two weeks ago in a debate on the topic “When should the US use force abroad and what lessons should we learn from America’s use of force in Iraq and how should those lessons inform decisions on future military...
Israel’s $38 Billion Scam
by Philip Giraldi | Sep 27, 2016 | Featured Articles
As an American it is difficult to imagine a more unseemly bit of political theater playing out than Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu’s appearance before his cabinet to claim that he had gotten every last dollar of military assistance out of the Obama...
Deep State America
by Philip Giraldi | Sep 20, 2016 | Featured Articles
This article is a lightly edited version of a paper presented at the Ron Paul Institute’s conference on peace and prosperity held on September 10, 2016 in Dulles, Virginia On September 9th the Washington Post featured a front page article describing how the Defense...
Israel Wins in November – It Doesn’t Matter Who is Elected
by Philip Giraldi | Sep 14, 2016 | Featured Articles
There is considerable chatter about who will win in some of the hotly contested congressional races around the country, but one thing is certain: whoever triumphs will soon be receiving a nice all expenses paid luxury trip to Israel to learn all about Benjamin...
The Magnitsky Hoax?
by Philip Giraldi | Jun 28, 2016 | Featured Articles
Sergei Magnitsky was a Russian lawyer hired by an Anglo-American investment fund operating in Moscow to investigate the apparent diversion of as much as $230 million in taxes due to the government. He became a whistleblower after discovering that the money had been...
Fifty-One Foreign Service Officers Can't be Wrong…Or Can They? More bombs and Less Talk on Syria
by Philip Giraldi | Jun 21, 2016 | Featured Articles
Fmr US Ambassador Robert Ford meets with "moderate" terrorists in SyriaIt is ironic that fifty-one US State Department employees, perhaps overly-generously dignified in the media with the title of “diplomats,” have come out in favor of removing a foreign head of state...
How the World Ends – Baiting Russia is Not Good Policy
by Philip Giraldi | May 24, 2016 | Featured Articles
Last week I attended a foreign policy conference in Washington that featured a number of prominent academics and former government officials who have been highly critical of the way the Bush and Obama Administrations have interacted with the rest of the world....
Washington’s War Against the World
by Philip Giraldi | Apr 19, 2016 | Featured Articles
Secretary of War Ash Carter is concerned about America’s posture. No, it’s not about sitting with your back straight up and your knees placed primly together. It all has to do with how many enemies there are out there threatening the United States and what we have to...
Killing by Sanctions
by Philip Giraldi | Feb 23, 2016 | Featured Articles
While Secretary of State, Madeleine Albright, who is currently advising presidential candidate Hillary Clinton, famously said that the estimated 500,000 children who died as a result of US sanctions on Iraq was “worth it.” It was, perhaps, a rare moment of candor from...
Cold War Redux: Dishing it to the Russkies
by Philip Giraldi | Feb 16, 2016 | Featured Articles
One of the most astonishing news stories I have read of late appeared in Business Insider at the beginning of February entitled “'The Russians are going to have a cow’: the US’s message to Putin ‘is a really big deal.’” The article described how the Barack Obama...
Delusions on Syria Prevail in Official Washington
by Philip Giraldi | Feb 2, 2016 | Featured Articles
Tulsi Gabbard is one brave Congresswoman. She has challenged her party and the president saying that it’s time for Washington to halt its “illegal, counter-productive war to overthrow the Syrian government of Assad. I don’t think Assad should be removed. If Assad is...
Missing from the ‘State of the Union’
by Philip Giraldi | Jan 19, 2016 | Featured Articles
I had expected that there would be little in last week’s State of the Union address about foreign policy as it is not an Administration strength, but, to my surprise, President Barack Obama gave it about eight minutes, a little over 1000 words. Governor Nikki Haley...
Turkey’s Dangerous Game
by Philip Giraldi | Dec 15, 2015 | Featured Articles
Turkey borders several Middle Eastern countries that are either unstable or potentially hostile to it, sometimes both simultaneously. With a modern military of more than 600,000 underwritten by NATO membership it is regional superpower whose ability to dominate the...
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