It is sometimes difficult to absorb how much the United States has changed in the past twenty years, and not for the better. When I was in grade school in the 1950s there was a favorite somewhat simplistic saying much employed by teachers to illustrate the success of...
Philip Giraldi
Silencing Julian Assange: Why Bother With a Trial When You Can Just Kill Him?
by Philip Giraldi | Oct 8, 2021 | Featured Articles
An English friend recently learned about the US Central Intelligence Agency (CIA) plan to either kidnap or kill journalist Julian Assange and quipped “I’ll bet he’s happy to be safe and sound in Belmarsh Prison if he has a chance to read about that!” I replied that...
General Milley Strikes Out Demonstrating What Is Wrong With the American Military
by Philip Giraldi | Oct 1, 2021 | Featured Articles
Most Americans do not know that in the United States currently there are approximately 900 Active-duty generals and flag officers to lead 1.3 million troops in the combined armed forces. During World War II, an admittedly different era, there were roughly twice as...
Why Have Embassies?
by Philip Giraldi | Sep 8, 2021 | Featured Articles
President Joe Biden’s departure from Afghanistan was the right thing to do even if it was handled disastrously. And he now has the opportunity to do some other “right things” that are in some ways related to the recently concluded fiasco in Central Asia in that the...
Here Come the Terrorists. Again
by Philip Giraldi | Aug 27, 2021 | Featured Articles
President Joe Biden is being praised in some circles because he finally ended the war in Afghanistan that in all likelihood should never have begun. President George W. Bush initiated the conflict on a series of lies about 9/11 and the Taliban role in that attack and...
Washington’s Clueless Ambassadors: Damaging American Interests Is Their Legacy
by Philip Giraldi | Aug 13, 2021 | Featured Articles
Whenever one gets into discussions about the decline of America’s ability to positively influence developments around the world a number of issues tend to surface. First is the hubristic claim by successive presidents that the United States is somehow “exceptional” as...
Washington’s Terrorist Friends: Prominent Americans Continue to Support a Murderous Cult
by Philip Giraldi | Aug 6, 2021 | Featured Articles
One might ask if Washington’s obsession with terrorism includes supporting radical armed groups as long as they are politically useful in attacking countries that the US regards as enemies? It is widely known that the American CIA worked with Saudi Arabia to create...
Whither Afghanistan? Getting Out Is Harder Than Getting In
by Philip Giraldi | Jul 23, 2021 | Featured Articles
The inability of the United States to comprehend what it was becoming involved in when, in the wake of 9/11, it declared a Global War on Terror, has to be reckoned one of the singular failures of national security policy over the past twenty years. Not only did the...
Bomber Joe Biden Strikes Iraq and Syria: Retaliation Breeds More Incidents
by Philip Giraldi | Jul 16, 2021 | Featured Articles
In less than six months in office President Joe Biden has already developed a national security policy that appears to lean strongly towards proactive use of military force in questionable circumstances, as if war is the answer to every problem. Biden should...
A Country That Has Lost Its Way: U.S. Government and Corporations Combine to Strip Citizens of Their Rights
by Philip Giraldi | Jul 9, 2021 | Featured Articles
The American people have increasingly become aware that government surveillance and corporate censorship have combined to keep people ignorant and controlled. What is taking place has generated some dark humor. A friend of mine, also a former CIA officer, wrote to me...
America Leader of the Free World? How to Forget US interference in Foreign Elections
by Philip Giraldi | Jul 1, 2021 | Featured Articles
After only five months in office, President Joe Biden has already become notorious for his verbal gaffes and mis-spokes, so much so that an admittedly Republican-partisan physician has suggested that he be tested to determine his cognitive abilities. That said,...
Butting Heads With China and Russia: American Diplomats Are Outclassed
by Philip Giraldi | May 14, 2021 | Featured Articles
With the exception of the impending departure of US and NATO forces from Afghanistan, if it occurs, the White House seems to prefer to use aggression to deter adversaries rather than finesse. The recent exchanges between Secretary of State Tony Blinken and Chinese...
The US Congress Turns on Itself: Censuring and Threats of Expulsion Proliferating
by Philip Giraldi | Apr 29, 2021 | Featured Articles
Mark Twain once wrote that “It could probably be shown by facts and figures that there is no distinctly native American criminal class except Congress.” Some developments over the past several weeks would certainly support that judgement if one regards a country’s...
Shock and Awe Is a State of Mind: Millions of Deaths Have Not Made Americans Safer
by Philip Giraldi | Apr 16, 2021 | Featured Articles
That the United States likes to use expressions like “shock and awe” or “maximum pressure” would rather suggest that there is a psychopath working in the White House basement whose full-time job is to come up with pithy one-liners to somehow euphemize government bad...
Is Joe Biden Enabling Russiagate 2?
by Philip Giraldi | Mar 24, 2021 | Featured Articles
The old expression that “lightning never strikes the same place twice” is frequently used in the aftermath of a truly awful experience, meaning that the odds are that something exactly like that will never occur again. Unfortunately, however, we Americans will now...
A Killing in Iran: Who Gains From Yet Another Assassination?
by Philip Giraldi | Dec 6, 2020 | Featured Articles
It is not often that one can agree with the pronouncements made by former Central Intelligence Agency (CIA) Director John Brennan, but his tweeted comment on the killing of Iranian scientist Mohsen Fakhrizadeh suggesting that the incident “…was a criminal act &...
Neocons Poised to Join New Government
by Philip Giraldi | Nov 13, 2020 | Featured Articles
Donald Trump was much troubled during his 2016 and 2020 campaigns by so-called conservatives who rallied behind the #NeverTrump banner, presumably in opposition to his stated intention to end or at least diminish America’s role in wars in the Middle East and Asia....
Iran Seeks to Confuse the United States?
by Philip Giraldi | Oct 23, 2020 | Featured Articles
Those who have been waiting for the elusive October Surprise that will upset the apple cart on election day are admittedly running out of time. The media’s unwillingness to even consider that the antics of Hunter Biden just might constitute an embarrassment of major...
Internet Resources Become Weaponized
by Philip Giraldi | Oct 20, 2020 | Featured Articles
The current electoral campaign differs from that of 2016 in that the media, both conventional and online, has realized its power and has been openly playing a major role in what might well prove to be a victory across the board for the Democratic Party. At least that...
Colonel Alexander Vindman's Revenge
by Philip Giraldi | Oct 13, 2020 | Featured Articles
During last year’s impeachment process directed against President Donald Trump, Congress obtained testimony from a parade of witnesses to or participants in what was inevitably being referred to as UkraineGate. It centered around an investigation into whether Trump...
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