Wednesday, May 30th, was Memorial Day in the United States. The commemoration began in 1868 shortly after the American Civil War, when townsmen in several communities came together to decorate the graves of the fallen on the last Monday in May. The practice began in...
Philip Giraldi
MEK’s Money Sure Can’t Buy Love (But it can buy a lot of politicians)
by Philip Giraldi | May 29, 2018 | Featured Articles
Iran’s radical Marxist cult Mohajedeen e Khalq, better known by its acronym MEK, is somewhat reminiscent of the Israel Lobby’s American Israel Public Affairs Committee (AIPAC) in that it operates somewhat in the shadows and is nevertheless able to punch well beyond...
For US Congress, Running a Torture Prison Is a Good Career Move
by Philip Giraldi | May 25, 2018 | Featured Articles
Gina Haspel has now been confirmed as the new Director of the Central Intelligence Agency (CIA) by a Senate vote of 54 to 45. She had previously been approved by the Senate Intelligence Committee by 10 votes to 5, with six Democrats joining all but three of the...
Among the Persians
by Philip Giraldi | May 22, 2018 | Featured Articles
I have just spent a week in Mashad and Tehran Iran, speaking at an international conference on the future of Jerusalem as well as other related issues while also meeting with a broad range of Iranians, including journalists, students and government officials. The...
Will Trump’s Pyrrhic Victory End with America’s Role As Global Bully?
by Philip Giraldi | May 17, 2018 | Featured Articles
I am in Iran speaking at a conference on the future of the Middle East. The timing for the meeting is particularly appropriate due to the recent American withdrawal from the Joint Comprehensive Plan of Action (JCPOA), which limited the Iranian nuclear program in...
The Ruinously Expensive American Military
by Philip Giraldi | May 15, 2018 | Featured Articles
America’s Republican politicians complain that “entitlements,” by which they mean pensions and medical care, are leading the country to bankruptcy even as they fatten the spending on the Pentagon, which now takes 12 percent of the overall budget. And it should be...
Trump’s Pyrrhic Victory: the US Opts for a Path That Can Only Lead to War
by Philip Giraldi | May 10, 2018 | Featured Articles
Nearly everyone loses by President Donald Trump’s decision on Tuesday to withdraw from the Joint Comprehensive Plan of Action (JCPOA) relating to Iran’s nuclear energy program and to reinstate the “highest level” of sanctions while also threatening secondary sanctions...
Pompeo Rocks the Middle East: Lessons from a Former CIA Officer for the Secretary of State
by Philip Giraldi | May 7, 2018 | Featured Articles
Former Central Intelligence Agency Director Mike Pompeo has recently completed his first trip to the Middle East as US Secretary of State. Perhaps not surprisingly as President Donald Trump appears prepared to decertify the Joint Comprehensive Plan of Action (JCPOA)...
Congress Again Fails to Discover Collusion to Subvert the 2016 Election
by Philip Giraldi | May 3, 2018 | Featured Articles
There have been a number of developments in the endless inquiry into possible collusion between the Russian government and Donald Trump to manipulate perceptions and voting relating to the two presidential candidates in the November 2016 election. In particular, it...
How False Flag Operations Are Carried Out Today
by Philip Giraldi | Apr 26, 2018 | Featured Articles
False Flag is a concept that goes back centuries. It was considered to be a legitimate ploy by the Greeks and Romans, where a military force would pretend to be friendly to get close to an enemy before dropping the pretense and raising its banners to reveal its own...
Scarier Than John Bolton? Think of Nikki Haley for President!
by Philip Giraldi | Apr 24, 2018 | Featured Articles
The musical chairs playing out among the senior officials that make up the President Donald Trump White House team would be amusing to watch but for the genuine damage that it is doing to the United States. The lack of any coherence in policy means that the State...
The Mainstream Media Fueled Military Action in Syria and Reprisals against Russia over the Skripals
by Philip Giraldi | Apr 23, 2018 | Featured Articles
The complicity of America’s Fourth Estate in the evolution of the national security warfare state is often mentioned in passing but rarely analyzed in any detail. But a recent article on Lobe Log by Adam Johnson is refreshing in that it does just that, looking at the...
Why Each US President Ends Up As Ruthless Interventionist These Days
by Philip Giraldi | Apr 19, 2018 | Featured Articles
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...
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...
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