Three weeks and five days into the Russian military operations in Syria, Moscow has achieved the objective of compelling the major external players involved to rethink their established stance on the crisis. Unsurprisingly, new fault lines have appeared in Middle East politics. Last week witnessed a surge diplomatic activity to cope with the new fault lines. First, of course, much as the United States dislikes the Russian military role in Syria, Washington and Moscow concluded a memorandum of...
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House Benghazi Hearings: Too Much Too Late
by Ron Paul | Oct 26, 2015 | Featured Articles
Last week the US House of Representatives called former Secretary of State Hillary Clinton to appear before a select committee looking into the attack on a US facility in Benghazi, Libya, in 2012. The attack left four Americans dead, including US Ambassador to Libya, Chris Stevens.As might be expected, however, the “Benghazi Committee” hearings have proven not much more than a means for each party to grandstand for political points.In fact, I would call these Congressional hearings “too much,...
The Older, Better Canada is Back Again
by Eric Margolis | Oct 25, 2015 | Featured Articles
I used to call Canada "the land that time forgot." While the rest of the world lurched from crisis to crisis, Canada remained peaceful, humane, prosperous, progressive, and famously polite, a sort of North American Scandinavia. Polls showed that Canada, for all its blandness and low profile, was one of the world’s most respected nations. The ethos of Canada was to make nice to everyone, aid less fortunate nations, shine at the UN, and make peace-keeping a national cause. That was, of course,...
The Benghazi Hearing: What Neither Hillary nor the Republicans Want to Talk About
by James George Jatras | Oct 23, 2015 | Featured Articles
As I write this, Hillary Clinton’s appearance before the House panel investigating the 2012 terrorist attacks that killed four Americans is still going on. I wasn’t able to listen to all of it live, and will plow through the transcript in due course. Two things already are notable: one concerning the impact of the hearing itself – plus another aspect marked only by the sound of crickets chirping. First, as one would have expected, the hearing has generated more heat than light. As has been the...
America’s Civilian Killings are No Accident
by Peter van Buren | Oct 22, 2015 | Featured Articles
Hospital in Kunduz, Afghanistan after US attackAmerica and its allies make modern war in a way that assures “mistakes” destroy hospitals, and civilian lives are taken by drones. These horrors are all too often strategic decisions, or the result of the profligate use of needlessly destructive weapons. They are typically far from accidents. The destruction of a hospital in Kunduz, Afghanistan, including the deaths of physicians from Doctors Without Borders, has become the celebrity example of...
Fox, Daily Beast Stories on Cubans in Syria Lack One Thing: Evidence of Cubans in Syria
by Adam Johnson | Oct 21, 2015 | Featured Articles
Fox News (10/14/15) reported last week that Cuba has sent Gen. Leopoldo Cintra Frias and hundreds of troops to Syria to assist the Russian and Assad governments in “operating Russian tanks.” This explosive claim was soon echoed by James Bloodworth in the Daily Beast (10/16/15) and subsequently spread widely on social media. A Cuban troop presence in Syria would be a blockbuster story indeed—undermining the easing of tensions between Cuba and the United States while serving as a huge...
Yes, There Still are Some Benghazi Questions Worth Asking
by Peter van Buren | Oct 21, 2015 | Featured Articles
It is very, very difficult to discuss Benghazi and Clinton without almost immediately dipping deep into partisan politics cesspool, and no doubt any hearings she will testify at on Thursday will be ugly and deeply partisan. About half of the people reading this just clicked away to somewhere else. Thoughts on this topic are just that polarized. But let’s not give up too easily. There are important questions about Clinton’s handling of Benghazi that are relative to her desire to be president....
General In Charge Of ‘Total Failure’ Syrian ‘Train And Equip’ Program Gets Promotion
by Tyler Durden | Oct 20, 2015 | Featured Articles
The US effort to train and equip Syrian freedom fighters battling to bring democracy to Damascus and usurp a brutal dictator has been a smashing success (count the instances of sarcasm there). Take ISIS for example. The Pentagon knew that the opposition groups the West and its regional allies were supporting could morph into something beyond anyone’s control. Recall the following passage from a secret DoD document dated 2012: “If the situation unravels, there is the possibility of establishing...
Things Are Getting Scary: Global Police, Precrime and the War on Domestic ‘Extremists’
by John W. Whitehead | Oct 20, 2015 | Featured Articles
Are you afraid that the government is plotting to confiscate your firearms? Do you believe the economy is about to collapse and the government will soon declare martial law? Do you display an unusual number of political and/or ideological bumper stickers on your car? If you answered yes to any of the above questions, you may be an anti-government extremist (a.k.a. domestic terrorist) in the eyes of the police. As such, you are now viewed as a greater threat to America than ISIS or al Qaeda....
US House Resolution Seeks New Conflict in Ukraine
by Daniel McAdams | Oct 19, 2015 | Congress Alert
The US House of Representatives, which never ceases sticking its nose in other people's business, is tomorrow scheduled to take up H. Res. 348, a bill "Supporting the right of the people of Ukraine to freely elect their government and determine their future." The bill can only increase tensions in Ukraine and threaten the fragile eight month old "Minsk II" ceasefire agreement.The "Minsk II agreement" continues to produce relative calm in eastern Ukraine -- earlier this month both Kiev and the...
CNN Anchor Demands Americans ‘Stop Swooning Over Putin’
by Tyler Durden | Oct 18, 2015 | Featured Articles
We’ll just put this bluntly: when you, as a country, do something incredibly stupid from a foreign policy perspective, you open the door for your global critics and adversaries to i) call you out on it publicly, and ii) use your gross incompetence and general disregard for anything that even approximates common sense, to their geopolitical advantage. And make no mistake, in Syria, Washington, Riyadh, and Doha did something incredibly stupid. They financed, armed, and trained a hodgepodge of...
Debt Ceiling Debate: Don’t Mention Warfare/Welfare State!
by Ron Paul | Oct 18, 2015 | Featured Articles
The US Treasury’s recent announcement that the government will reach the debt ceiling on November 3 means Congress will soon be debating raising the government’s borrowing limit again. Any delay in, or opposition to, raising the debt ceiling will inevitably be met with hand-wringing over Congress’ alleged irresponsibility. But the real irresponsible act would be for Congress to raise the debt ceiling. Cutting up its credit card is the only way to make Congress reduce spending. Anyone who...
Want to Understand Syria?
by A.J. Schmeltzer | Oct 18, 2015 | Featured Articles
Seven Important Points:1) While Hafez Al-Assad was indisputably in power, his son was not groomed for succession, and was basically parachuted out of his London Ophthalmologist practice into Damascus. There he immediately became a puppet of the Alawite Mukhabarak (intelligence services), something he eventually managed to partially minimize. 2) In the original protests, Assad initially attempted negotiations, but, partly due to ingrained behavior and partly due to the quite considerable regime...
Turkey: Slow-Motion Crash
by Eric Margolis | Oct 17, 2015 | Featured Articles
Turkey, once a pillar of Mideast stability, looks increasingly like a slow-motion truck crash. What makes this crisis so tragic is that not very long ago Turkey was entering a new age of social harmony and economic development. Today, both are up in smoke as this week’s bloody bombing in Ankara that killed 99 people showed. America’s ham-handed policies in the Mideast have set the entire region ablaze from Syria to South Sudan and Libya. Turkey sits right on top of the huge mess, licked by the...
Obama Won’t Admit the Real Targets of Russian Airstrikes
by Gareth Porter | Oct 16, 2015 | Featured Articles
The US response to Russia’s new Syrian military campaign in support of the Assad regime has struck a pose of moral superiority by arguing that the Russians have not been targeting the Islamic State but rather the non-ISIS Syrian opposition to the Assad regime. That US response is superficially accurate but deliberately misleading. Although the Russians are not focusing on targets in ISIS-controlled territory, there is a very good reason: it is not ISIS but the forces aligned with al-Qaeda’s...
Is Hillary Clinton Above the Law?
by Justin Raimondo | Oct 16, 2015 | Featured Articles
What did we learn from the Democratic presidential debates? We learned that Hillary Clinton hates Edward Snowden, loves the Patriot Act, and considers “the Iranians” among her biggest enemies. In short, we learned that she may very well be Lindsey Graham in drag. And we also learned what many already knew: that she considers herself above the law. What we didn’t know, however, but do now, is that Bernie Sanders agrees with her. Or, as he put it: Let me say — let me say something that may not...
New Poll: Americans Unmoved By Jan. 6th Hearings
Despite relentless propaganda and juicy threats of impending arrests, a new poll of Americans shows the January 6th "insurrection" hearings are not shifting any opinions on the...
New Poll: Americans Unmoved By Jan. 6th Hearings
Aug 10, 2022
Despite relentless propaganda and juicy threats of impending arrests, a new poll of Americans shows the January 6th "insurrection" hearings are not shifting any opinions on the...
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