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 almost entirely stopped producing oil as the government loses control of much of the country to militia fighters. Mutinying security men have taken over oil ports on the Mediterranean and are seeking to sell crude oil on the black...
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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 and undermines the foundations of statehood. A significant part, if not most, of the responsibility for what is happening lies with the government, headed by the founder and leader of the Islamic Call Party, Nouri Kamil...
Joe Lieberman: The US Constitution ‘Aids our Enemies’
by Daniel Spaulding | Sep 3, 2013 | Neocon Watch
Former Senator Joseph Lieberman has decided to add his valued commentary to President Obama's handling of Syria. According to the former Senator, "our enemies are cheering" because Obama decided to seek congressional approval rather just go ahead and bomb Syria. Like Peter King, John McCain, and Jennifer Rubin before him, Lieberman has utter contempt for the Constitution, the rule of law, and the separation of power. But Lieberman goes even further than the others, in suggesting that adhering...
John ‘Torture Memo’ Yoo is Sick of Laws That Limit War
by Chris Rossini | Sep 3, 2013 | Neocon Watch
Neocon John Yoo -- you know, the guy who tortured the English language to pave the way for Bush to continue torturing people -- has had enough of messing around with laws and constitutions: It is time for the United States to stop hiding behind such obsolete, formalistic views of the laws of war and embrace a pragmatic approach in keeping with long American practice. Such is the mentality of unlimited power. If the war machine wants something, the war machine gets it! Now is not the time to...
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 striking from the Kremlin’s transcript is that Putin spoke far more extensively than what the media reports suggested, and, second, he spoke on virtually every aspect of the explosive situation.The timing is very important, too, as...
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. Not even NATO wants to take part in bombing Syria. So who wants the United States to bomb Syria?The same people who brought us the war in Iraq, that’s who.On August 27, the Foreign Policy Initiative, a reincarnation of the...
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 analogy fails. A shot across the bow is deliberately designed to miss an adversary, intending to send a clear and threatening warning. In contrast, Obama and his advisers plan to hit and destroy specific military targets in Syria to...
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 from conception to law.As according to past practice, the first draft is considered "too broad" for some Members and Senators. Senator Patrick Leahy opened the bidding, emerging from a closed-door classified intelligence briefing...
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 Professor Jeffrey Rosen's interview last week on The Take Away, it becomes disturbingly clear that Americans are one step away from this level of government snooping on our activities. Rosen details how police can use facial...
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 even if every single Member and Senator votes for another war, it will not make this terrible idea any better because some sort of nod is given to the Constitution along the way. Besides, the president made it clear that...
The Commissar Goes Collectivist
by Chris Rossini | Aug 30, 2013 | Neocon Watch
Neocon commissar, Jennifer Rubin, is high on war fever. With no rational argument available to justify U.S. aggression against Syria, she falls back on good ‘ole collectivism: Assad’s crimes are not merely against Syrians but against the civilized world. Wow! Assad (without any proof whatsoever) has now used chemical weapons against “the civilized world”. Talk about a statement of desperation!First of all, every use of violence against the innocent is an act of aggression that is wrong,...
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 that America’s political class, including Obama himself, remains unwilling to face the political risks posed by any fundamental revision of Washington’s 20+-year, deeply self-damaging drive to dominate the region.Obama initially...
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 White House argument for war on Syria: A chemical attack took place. Trust us. Someone (the Israelis) told us they tapped a call where two Syrian government officials talked about the attack in an incriminating way. Trust us. 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 convinced him that the Syrian government had carried out an attack on innocent civilians. Anyone who questions this, he said, "needs to check their conscience and their own moral compass." That's it. With an intelligence budget of...
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 interests and concerns as a sovereign country even remotely. The Obama administration is publicizing in advance that it is going to be a "limited" military attack by the US on Syria. It is even willing to give advance notice of...
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 doubt'' that the Bashar al-Assad government used chemical weapons against its own citizens. On Monday, Secretary of State John Kerry ramped it up to ''undeniable'' - and accused Assad of ''moral obscenity''. So when the US bombed...
What's To Blame For The Mess In Ukraine?
Is the Russian incursion into Ukraine a desperate "land grab" by an unhinged Russian president? Is it as simple as that? That is what the mainstream media across the political...
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