The general expectation was indeed that the United States President Barack Obama’s annual address at the United Nations General Assembly session on Tuesday would contain some major pronouncements of new American policy direction on the Syrian conflict and over the situation around Iran. No doubt, the Middle East dominated his speech and all but edged out other global issues such as climate change or the US’ rebalancing strategy in Asia or global disarmament. This in itself is stunning:...
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Kenya Mall Attack: The Bitter Fruits of Interventionism
by Daniel McAdams | Sep 25, 2013 | Featured Articles
In his speech yesterday at the United Nations General Assembly, President Obama devoted little time to the recent slaughter of some 62 shoppers at the Westgate Mall in Nairobi, Kenya.Said Obama, in toto: But even a glance at today’s headlines indicates that dangers remain. In Kenya, we’ve seen terrorists target innocent civilians in a crowded shopping mall. And our hearts go out to the families of those who’ve been affected. Yes, what happened in Kenya is a terrorist act. But for Obama to tell...
US Policy is to Prolong the Violence in Syria
by Jeremy R. Hammond | Sep 24, 2013 | Featured Articles
Although the threat of U.S. strikes against Syria has for the time being abated due to intervention from Russian President Vladimir Putin and an agreement from Syrian President Bashar al-Assad to declare its stockpiles of chemical weapons to the Organization for the Prohibition of Chemical Weapons (OPCW) in The Hague to be eventually turned over and destroyed, the ultimate goal of U.S. policy remains regime change.The U.S. has long been supporting the armed rebels seeking to overthrow the...
Washington's Tyranny
by Paul Craig Roberts | Sep 24, 2013 | Featured Articles
The war criminal Barack Obama has declared his “outrage” over the 62 deaths associated with the takeover of a Nairobi, Kenya, shopping mall by al-Shabaab fighters. But the attack on the shopping mall was Obama’s fault. Al Shabaab spokesmen said that the attack on the Nairobi mall was a retaliatory response to the Kenyan troops sent to fight against them in Somalia. The Kenyan troops, of course, were sent to Somalia as a result of pressure from Washington. Just as the outbreak of violence in...
Michael Rubin Grabs A Page From W’s Playbook
by Chris Rossini | Sep 23, 2013 | Neocon Watch
The Muslim Brotherhood has been on quite a roller-coaster ride in Egypt over the last year. In 2012, Mohamed Morsi was elected as Egypt’s very first President who was not a part of the military.This past summer, just one year later, the military overthrew Morsi and took back control. To add insult to injury, today the news was released that an Egyptian court has completely banned the Muslim Brotherhood.Talk about a turnaround!Neocon Michael Rubin gives his stamp of approval: ..the Egyptian...
Can Washington Reciprocate Iran's 'Constructive Engagement'?
by harley | Sep 23, 2013 | Featured Articles
As New York prepares for the annual opening of the United Nations General Assembly next week, the volume of Western media speculation about the prospects for a U.S.-Iranian diplomatic breakthrough is mounting to impressive levels. Predictably, much of this speculation amounts to little more than wondering how many concessions the Islamic Republic’s new president, Hassan Rohani, is willing and will be able to make, especially on the nuclear issue.As usual, we prefer looking at facts and...
The ‘Promoting Democracy’ Trick
by Chris Rossini | Sep 22, 2013 | Neocon Watch
Neocons love to wrap themselves in the cloak of promoting “democracy” to justify their constant calls for war and destruction. Just last month, Max Boot explained this tough job that the neocons have assigned to themselves: “Promoting democracy can be messy in the short-run and isn’t always possible in every circumstance but, in general, it is the best long-term bet for promoting American interests.” Neocons sure know how to make it “messy”. That’s about it. The rest is all a ruse.“Promoting...
Lawrence Wilkerson Interview: 'John McCain and Lindsey Graham Need to Shut Their Mouths'
by Lawrence Wilkerson | Sep 22, 2013 | Featured Articles
(Transcript) JESSICA DESVARIEUX, TRNN PRODUCER: Welcome to The Real News Network. I'm Jessica Desvarieux in Baltimore. And welcome to this edition of The Wilkerson Report. Now joining us is Larry Wilkerson. He was the former chief of staff to Colin Powell and is an adjunct professor at William & Mary College. Thanks for being with us, Larry.COL. LAWRENCE WILKERSON: Good to be here.DESVARIEUX: So, Larry, what we'd like to discuss this week is the Iranian government's attempts to thaw...
Ron Paul Institute at LPAC Conference
by harley | Sep 21, 2013 | Featured Articles
The Ron Paul Institute for Peace and Prosperity is participating in the Liberty Political Action Conference this weekend. Founder and CEO Ron Paul visits our booth. So many wonderful people interested in our work!More photos here.
Did Sen. Reid Let Slip Secret Plan to Use Navy Yard Killings as Excuse for New Medical Privacy Violations?
by Adam Dick | Sep 19, 2013 | Congress Alert
There is reason for concern that the US Congress and the National Rifle Association may soon work together to use the Washington, DC Navy Yard killings earlier this week as an excuse to expand a US government database of all Americans' private medical information.The day after the Navy Yard killings, US Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid was talking about bringing expanded gun transfer background checks to a vote in the Senate. Bloomberg reports: Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid, a Nevada...
Serving America’s War Machine
by David Cronin | Sep 19, 2013 | Featured Articles
For many years, I regarded “think tanks” as a godsend. As a news reporter chasing deadlines, I’d regularly call their “experts” for quotes. Usually, they could give me a few succinct lines that appeared to lend a story some intellectual heft. Then I started asking: who do these “experts” really represent? Can outfits financed by major corporations be independent? Security and Defence Agenda (SDA) describes itself as a “neutral platform” for discussing military matters. Analysts with the...
Five Lies Invented to Spin UN Report on Syria
by Tony Cartalucci | Sep 18, 2013 | Featured Articles
As predicted days before the UN’s Syrian chemical weapons report was made public, the West has begun spinning the findings to bolster their faltering narrative regarding alleged chemical weapon attacks on August 21, 2013 in eastern Damascus, Syria. The goal of course, is to continue demonizing the Syrian government while simultaneously sabotaging a recent Syrian-Russian deal to have Syria’s chemical weapon stockpiles verified and disarmed by independent observers. A barrage of suspiciously...
Licensed to Kill: The Growing Phenomenon of Police Shooting Unarmed Citizens
by John W. Whitehead | Sep 17, 2013 | Featured Articles
Here’s a recipe for disaster: Take a young man (or woman), raise him on a diet of violence, hype him up on the power of the gun in his holster and the superiority of his uniform, render him woefully ignorant of how to handle a situation without resorting to violence, train him well in military tactics but allow him to be illiterate about the Constitution, and never stress to him that he is to be a peacemaker and a peacekeeper, respectful of and subservient to the taxpayers, who are in fact his...
RPI at the Liberty Political Action Conference
by harley | Sep 17, 2013 | Featured Articles
Stop in and see us this weekend at LPAC! The Ron Paul Institute for Peace and Prosperity will have a booth at the conference and host a reception on Saturday at 5:30 PM. Executive Director Daniel McAdams will participate in the panel discussion "Working for Dr. Ron Paul" on Friday, September 20. RPI contributors Chris Rossini and Adam Dick will also be on hand at the RPI booth so stop in and meet us.Have a look at our promotional matierials for the conference. LPAC postcardBack page of...
A Short History of the War on Syria, 2006-2014
by Moon of Alabama | Sep 17, 2013 | Featured Articles
In 2006 the U.S. was at war in Iraq. Some of the enemy forces it very much struggled to fight against were coming in through Syria. The same year Israel lost a war against Hizbullah. Its armored forces were ambushed whenever they tried to push deeper into Lebanon while Hizbullah managed to continuously fire rockets against Israeli army position and cities. Hizbullah receives supply for its missile force from Syria and from Iran through Syria. Its long-term plans to attack Iran and to thereby...
Has The Tide Turned Against the Warmongers?
by Ron Paul | Sep 16, 2013 | Featured Articles
Will the history books record these past couple of weeks as the point when the tide finally turned against our interventionist foreign policy?We began September with the Obama Administration on the verge of launching Tomahawk missiles at Syria. The missiles were needed, the administration claimed, to punish the Syrian government for using poison gas on its own people. There were reports that in addition to missiles, the administration was planning airstrikes and possibly even more military...
Info Brigade! Big Tech Suiting Up For War On Russia!
Politico today reports on how a "reluctant" big tech has decided to abandon its pro-free speech approach and take the side of the US government as the Russian war in Ukraine...
Info Brigade! Big Tech Suiting Up For War On Russia!
Mar 3, 2022
Politico today reports on how a "reluctant" big tech has decided to abandon its pro-free speech approach and take the side of the US government as the Russian war in Ukraine...
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