Many American still long for the good old days when men were still manly and President George W. Bush was able to announce that there was a “new sheriff in town” pledged to wipe terrorism from the face of the earth. “You’re either with us or against us,” he growled...
Philip Giraldi
Pompeo Turns Reality Upside Down
by Philip Giraldi | Jan 17, 2019 | Featured Articles
The speech made by Secretary of State Mike Pompeo at the American University in Cairo on January 10th deserves more attention than it has received from the US media. In it, Pompeo reveals his own peculiar vision of what is taking place in the Middle East, to include...
Trump Foreign Policy for 2019 – Is it for real or more bait and switch?
by Philip Giraldi | Jan 10, 2019 | Featured Articles
Never before has any presidential administration been as all over the place in terms of national security and foreign policy as is that of Donald J. Trump. Indeed, one might well argue that there is no overriding policy at all in terms of a rational doctrine arrived...
The Mattis Dilemma
by Philip Giraldi | Dec 27, 2018 | Featured Articles
The resignation letter of Secretary of Defense James Mattis that was published last Thursday revealed much of the Deep State mindset that has produced the foreign policy catastrophes of the past seventeen years. Mattis, an active duty general in the Marine Corps who...
Syria Withdrawal Enrages the Chickenhawks
by Philip Giraldi | Dec 26, 2018 | Featured Articles
President Donald Trump’s order to withdraw from Syria has been greeted, predictably, with an avalanche of condemnation culminating in last Thursday’s resignation by Defense Secretary James Mattis. The Mattis resignation letter focused on the betrayal of allies, though...
What Foreign Threats? The Biggest Threats to America Come From its ‘Friends’
by Philip Giraldi | Dec 4, 2018 | Featured Articles
One of the local Washington television stations was doing a typical early morning honoring our soldiers schtick just before Thanksgiving. In it soldiers stationed far from home were treated to videolinks so they could talk to their families and everyone could nod...
US Foreign Policy Has No Policy
by Philip Giraldi | Nov 27, 2018 | Featured Articles
President Donald Trump’s recent statement on the Jamal Khashoggi killing by Saudi Arabia’s Crown Prince might well be considered a metaphor for his foreign policy. Several commentators have suggested that the text appears to be something that Trump wrote himself...
Assange’s Persecution Highlights Dangers to the Freedom of Speech and Free Media
by Philip Giraldi | Nov 22, 2018 | Featured Articles
If you are a journalist and you discover something that is clearly unethical, and possibly even illegal, and you choose to report it what happens next? Well, you could win a Pulitzer Prize or, on the other hand, you might wind up hiding in the Ecuadorean Embassy in...
The Only Regime Change that Is Needed Is in Washington
by Philip Giraldi | Nov 19, 2018 | Featured Articles
Secretary Pompeo officiates the Swearing-In Ceremony for Ambassador James F. Jeffrey. Image credit: U.S. Department of State/ flickr) One of the things to look forward to in the upcoming holiday season is the special treats that one is allowed to sample. Fruitcake and...
America Has No Peace Movement – Blame the ‘White Supremacists’
by Philip Giraldi | Nov 15, 2018 | Featured Articles
The United States of America has no peace movement even though the country has been mired in unwinnable wars since 2001 and opinion polls suggest that there is only lukewarm support among the public for what is taking place in Afghanistan and Syria. This is in part...
America Goes to War: Fighting Russia, China and al-Qaeda Simultaneously Requires More Money
by Philip Giraldi | Nov 6, 2018 | Featured Articles
Some believe that the Cold War ended in 1991, when the Soviet Union fell apart. In retrospect, many observers also believe that a golden opportunity was missed to heal the wounds inflicted by over 45 years to hostility between the Washington and Moscow. Rather than...
Jamal Khashoggi Died for Nothing
by Philip Giraldi | Oct 30, 2018 | Featured Articles
The angst over the Jamal Khashoggi murder in the Saudi Arabian Consulate General building in Istanbul is already somewhat fading as the media has moved on in search of fresh meat, recently focusing on the series of attempted mail bombings, and currently on the mass...
Two Stories from the Propaganda War
by Philip Giraldi | Oct 26, 2018 | Featured Articles
Two recent stories about Russians have demonstrated how the news is selected and manipulated in the United States. The first is about Maria Butina, who apparently sought to overthrow American democracy, such as it is, by obtaining a life membership in the National...
The White Helmets Ride Again
by Philip Giraldi | Oct 23, 2018 | Featured Articles
I am often asked to explain why countries like Iran appear to be so aggressive, involving themselves in foreign wars and seeking to create alliances that they know will provoke the worst and most paranoid responses from some of their neighbors. My response is...
Killing Jamal Khashoggi Was Easy. Explaining It Is Much Harder
by Philip Giraldi | Oct 18, 2018 | Featured Articles
Getting to the bottom of the Jamal Khashoggi disappearance is a bit like peeling an onion. It is known that Khashoggi entered the Saudi Arabian Consulate in Istanbul on October 2nd to get a document that would enable him to marry a Turkish woman. It is also known,...
The Two Brett Kavanaugh Stories
by Philip Giraldi | Oct 11, 2018 | Featured Articles
There were two simultaneous Brett Kavanaugh stories. Together, as part of the confirmation process regarding his nomination as Supreme Court Justice, they revealed how political discourse in the United States has reached a new low, with debate over the man’s possible...
Aux Barricades Mes Enfants!
by Philip Giraldi | Oct 9, 2018 | Featured Articles
On October 21st there will be a Women’s March on the Pentagon hosted by the Global Women’s Peace Action. My wife and many of our friends will be going and even I will tag along in support in spite of my gender. We participate with some reservations as we have only...
One Click Closer to Annihilation
by Philip Giraldi | Oct 2, 2018 | Featured Articles
The nuclear war doomsday clock maintained on the Bulletin of Atomic Scientists website has advanced to two minutes before midnight, the closest point to possible atomic apocalypse since the end of the Cold War. In 1995 the clock was at fourteen minutes to midnight,...
Washington’s Sanctions Machine
by Philip Giraldi | Sep 27, 2018 | Featured Articles
Perhaps it is Donald Trump’s business background that leads him to believe that if you inflict enough economic pain on someone they will ultimately surrender and agree to do whatever you want. Though that approach might well work in New York real estate, it is not a...
Shutting Down Free Speech in America: Government and Lobbyists Work Together to Destroy the First Amendment
by Philip Giraldi | Sep 24, 2018 | Featured Articles
During the past several years, there has been increased pressure coming from some in the federal government aided and abetted powerful advocacy groups in the private sector to police social and alternative media. It is a multi-pronged attack on the First Amendment...
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