Now that Russia and China have warned the United States against militarily intervening on behalf of the Syrian rebels, the need for a separate superpower summit between Barack Obama and Vladimir Putin is more urgent than ever. The dangers of a super-collision over a...
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Syria: The Iron in Obama's Soul
by Melkulangara Bhadrakumar | Sep 5, 2013 | Featured Articles
For the first time through the two-year old Syrian conflict, the United States has mentioned the sacred cow – "boots on the ground". The Secretary of State John Kerry has pleaded that the US Congress should approve the use of American ground troops although the Obama...
Libya Has Moved On…Into Lawlessness and Ruin
by Patrick Cockburn | Sep 4, 2013 | Featured Articles
A little under two years ago, Philip Hammond, the Defence Secretary, urged British businessmen to begin “packing their suitcases” and to fly to Libya to share in the reconstruction of the country and exploit an anticipated boom in natural resources. Yet now Libya has...
Iraq: A Seething Boiler About to Explode
by Anton Veselov | Sep 4, 2013 | Featured Articles
The pressure in the boiler which Western officials affectedly call "the new democratic Iraq" is building steadily and, figuratively speaking, the needle has entered the red zone. The deepening crisis is systemic in nature, encompasses the most important areas of life...
No War for Bernard Henri Lévy
by Diana Johnstone | Sep 3, 2013 | Featured Articles
The American people do not want US armed forces to get involved in the civil war in Syria. The United Nations will not back US bombing of Syria. The British Parliament does not want to get involved in bombing Syria. World public opinion is opposed to US bombing Syria....
Call It War, Not a Shot Across the Bow
by Louis Fisher | Sep 3, 2013 | Featured Articles
Advocates of military action against Syria describe the use of force wholly unrealistically, relying on such terms as narrow, proportional, and surgical. President Obama says he is considering a “limited, tailored” operation to send “a shot across the bow.” His...
Obama Nearing Point of No Return
by Melkulangara Bhadrakumar | Sep 3, 2013 | Featured Articles
President Vladimir Putin’s remarks on the Syrian crisis, while on a visit to Vladivostok over the weekend, were his first ones since the crisis began snowballing over the United States’ moves to launch a militarily attack against the Middle Eastern country.What is...
Congressional Danse Macabre Has Begun
by Daniel McAdams | Sep 2, 2013 | Featured Articles
The first draft of the White House's war authorization legislation was leaked today, signaling the opening round of the danse macabre, in which the bargaining and maneuvering over what Congress and the president both want -- war on Syria -- begins its public journey...
Surveillance State: We Are One Step Away from Glass Houses
by Adam Dick | Sep 2, 2013 | Featured Articles
In Yevgeny Zamyatin's dystopian novel We, the people of One State live in transparent apartments with curtains required to be open nearly all the time so police and informants may view the residents' every action. Listening to George Washington University Law School...
Will Congress Endorse Obama's War Plans? Does it Matter?
by Ron Paul | Sep 1, 2013 | Featured Articles
President Obama announced this weekend that he has decided to use military force against Syria and would seek authorization from Congress when it returned from its August break. Every Member ought to vote against this reckless and immoral use of the US military. But...
Syria and the Waning of American Hegemony
by harley | Aug 30, 2013 | Featured Articles
Once carried out, the Obama administration’s thoroughly telegraphed strike on Syria, ostensibly over alleged chemical weapons use there, will mark an important inflection point in the terminal decline of America’s Middle East empire. Most importantly, it will confirm...
Obama's Syria Dossier: 'Trust Us'
by Daniel McAdams | Aug 30, 2013 | Featured Articles
Release of the long-awaited US government intelligence dossier on the alleged chemical attack in Syria on Aug. 21, had been moved and postponed until the media black-hole of a Friday afternoon before a big US holiday weekend. Now we see why.Here is the crux of the...
Obama's Flimsy Case For Attacking Syria Falls Apart
by Daniel McAdams | Aug 29, 2013 | Featured Articles
It started with Secretary of State John Kerry. On Monday, he made the Obama Administration's preliminary case for a US attack on Syria. He promised an administration response, after watching the YouTube videos of people suffering from some sort of attack in Syria had...
Iran Can Finesse Obama's Legacy
by Melkulangara Bhadrakumar | Aug 28, 2013 | Featured Articles
President Barack Obama is setting a new precedent in America’s history as an imperialist power. He is all but apologizing before he orders a military attack against a sovereign country with which the United States is not war, and which has not offended America’s vital...
Obama Set for Tomahawk War: Responsibility to Attack
by Pepe Escobar | Aug 28, 2013 | Featured Articles
The ''responsibility to protect'' (R2P) doctrine invoked to legitimize the 2011 war on Libya has just transmogrified into ''responsibility to attack'' (R2A) Syria. Just because the Obama administration says so. On Sunday, the White House said it had ''very little...
Syria: Another Western War Crime In The Making
by Paul Craig Roberts | Aug 27, 2013 | Featured Articles
The war criminals in Washington and other Western capitals are determined to maintain their lie that the Syrian government used chemical weapons. Having failed in efforts to intimidate the UN chemical inspectors in Syria, Washington has demanded that UN Secretary...
Justifying the Unjustifiable: US Uses Past Crimes to Legalize Future Ones
by Diana Johnstone | Aug 25, 2013 | Featured Articles
The liberal warhawks are groping around for a pretext they can call “legal” for waging war against Syria, and have come up with the 1999 “Kosovo war”.This is not surprising insofar as a primary purpose of that US/NATO 78-day bombing spree was always to set a...
US Set to Launch 'Iraq, The Sequel', in Syria
by Daniel McAdams | Aug 24, 2013 | Featured Articles
If you liked the run up to the US attack on Iraq, with the lurid fictional tales of mobile chemical weapons labs and Saddam's nukes, you will love "Iraq, The Sequel", currently unfolding in Syria. It is everything the interventionists have been hoping for: a heady...
Making the World the 'Enemy'
by Todd E. Pierce | Aug 23, 2013 | Featured Articles
Edward Snowden, the admitted U.S. National Security Agency whistleblower, is charged with violations of the U.S. Espionage Act of 1917, codified under Chapter 37, “Espionage and Censorship.” It is seemingly not an oversight that Chapter 37 is entitled “Espionage and...
The West Strikes Back in Syria
by Melkulangara Bhadrakumar | Aug 22, 2013 | Featured Articles
No sooner than the United Nations chemical weapons inspectors arrived in Damascus – within 72 hours, in fact – the Syrian opposition figures based in Istanbul, Turkey, have claimed that up to 1400 people have been killed in chemical weapons attacks by the government...
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