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 General Ban Ki-moon withdraw the chemical weapons inspectors before they can assess the evidence and make their report. The UN Secretary General stood up to the Washington war criminals and rejected their demand. However, as with...
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McCain and Graham: Let’s Do Syria…NOW!
by Chris Rossini | Aug 25, 2013 | Neocon Watch
As RPI Executive Director, Daniel McAdams, has pointed out, Syria is starting to look like “Iraq: The Sequel”.Neocon Senators McCain and Graham know the playbook quite well and have issued a very predictable joint statement on Syria: Now is the time for decisive actions. The United States must rally our friends and allies to take limited military actions in Syria that can change the balance of power on the ground and create conditions for a negotiated end to the conflict and an end to Assad's...
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 precedent for more such wars. The pretext of “saving the Kosovars” from an imaginary “genocide” was as false as the “weapons of mass destruction” pretext for war against Iraq, but the fakery has been much more successful with the...
Ron Paul on Larry King’s Politicking Program
by Ron Paul | Aug 24, 2013 | Congress Alert
Ron Paul interviewed by Larry King yesterday -- don't miss it! Unfortunately at this point it is audio only, but please do not let that discourage you from listening to this excellent and informative video:
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 brew of Kosovo, Iraq, and Libya all rolled into one. The possibility for an infinitely more toxic conflagration is exponentially higher, to boot, adding for the interventionists much excitement to the mix.Here is the latest:A fourth...
Max Boot’s America
by Chris Rossini | Aug 23, 2013 | Neocon Watch
Max Boot gives a glimpse of how cold neocons are when it comes to the value of an individual human life: “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.” Naturally, when aggression is your tool, “it can be messy,” as Boot admits. A famous Soviet ruler thought along the same lines. Joseph Stalin said that: "You can't make an omelette without breaking a few...
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 Censorship,” as censorship is the effect, in part, of this chapter.In fact, the amendment of §793 that added subsection (e) was part of the Subversive Activities Control Act of 1950, which was, in turn, Title I of the Internal...
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 forces on the outskirts of the Syrian capital on Wednesday morning. The United States, Britain, France, Germany, the European Union and the Arab League are among those who have demanded for urgent action. Unsurprisingly, the Syrian...
The NSA: ‘The Abyss from Which There Is No Return'
by John W. Whitehead | Aug 20, 2013 | Featured Articles
“The National Security Agency’s capability at any time could be turned around on the American people, and no American would have any privacy left, such is the capability to monitor everything: telephone conversations, telegrams, it doesn’t matter. There would be no place to hide. If a dictator ever took over, the N.S.A. could enable it to impose total tyranny, and there would be no way to fight back.”—Senator Frank Church (1975) We now find ourselves operating in a strange paradigm where the...
Leslie Gelb on Egypt: Hold Your Nose and Back the Junta!
by Daniel McAdams | Aug 18, 2013 | Neocon Watch
Long-time foreign policy insider Leslie Gelb, president emeritus of the Council on Foreign Relations, believes democracy is when the guys he likes win. Free elections that produce "enemies" of the US or Israel are by definition not democratic and the winners should be overthrown by the US and its allies. Last month, in a column urging President Obama to avoid the "democracy-elections trap in Egypt," he argued that pushing democracy too strongly may bring unacceptable results, as happened in...
Should You Be Able to Buy Food Directly From Farmers? The Government Doesn’t Think So
by David E. Gumpert | Aug 18, 2013 | Featured Articles
This would seem to embody the USDA’s advisory, “Know your farmer, know your food,” right? Not exactly. For the USDA and its sister food regulator, the FDA, there’s a problem: many of the farmers are distributing the food via private contracts like herd shares and leasing arrangements, which fall outside the regulatory system of state and local retail licenses and inspections that govern public food sales. In response, federal and state regulators are seeking legal sanctions against farmers in...
Why The 2,776 NSA Violations Are No Big Deal
by Ron Paul | Aug 18, 2013 | Featured Articles
Thanks to more documents leaked by Edward Snowden, this time to the Washington Post, we learned last week that a secret May 2012 internal audit by the NSA revealed 2,776 incidents of “unauthorized” collection of information on American citizens over the previous 12 months. They are routinely breaking their own rules and covering it up. The Post article quotes an NSA spokesman assuring the paper that the NSA attempts to identify such problems “at the earliest possible moment.” But what happened...
Storm on the Nile
by Eric Margolis | Aug 17, 2013 | Featured Articles
Egypt’s US-financed armed forces have gone to war against Egypt’s people. Arab spring has become Arab winter.So far, army and security police have scored brilliant battlefield victories against unarmed men, women and children, killing and wounding thousands who were demanding a return to democratic government.The latest Cairo protests by supporters of the elected Morsi government have been scattered by gunfire and huge armored bulldozers resembling the giant vehicles used by Israel to smash...
Michael Rubin: More Egyptian Blood!
by Chris Rossini | Aug 16, 2013 | Neocon Watch
If you really want to get a sense of the dark side of neoconservatism, look no further than Michael Rubin’s thoughts on Egypt. He writes today, as the streets continue to flow with blood: The notion that the United States should castigate or abandon the Egyptian army because it caused more deaths than the Muslim Brotherhood is short-sighted and based on the corrosive notion that the stronger side has a responsibility for restraint.Too many in the media and the State Department suffer from the...
Egypt's Junta Has Nothing to Lose
by Melkulangara Bhadrakumar | Aug 16, 2013 | Featured Articles
The appointment of Robert Ford as the new American ambassador to Egypt was indeed an ominous sign that the Obama administration expected civil war conditions to arise in Egypt. Ford’s forte during his hugely successful “diplomatic’ assignment in Baghdad in the middle of the last decade was to organize the notorious death squads, which tore Mesopotamia apart and destroyed Iraq almost irreparably. Equally, Ford played a seminal role in his subsequent ambassadorial assignment in Damascus in 2011...
Egypt May Cost Us Money, Sen. Graham Fears
by Chris Rossini | Aug 15, 2013 | Neocon Watch
Senator Lindsey Graham, tweets: “A failed state in #Egypt will likely create ripple effects which impact American pocketbooks here at home.” Graham is concerned about “American pocketbooks” now? After all the financial damage that neocons’ aggressive foreign policy has wrought, how can anyone take this sudden concern seriously? Just in Egypt alone over the past 30 years, some $60 billion American taxpayer dollars were sent over to former Egyptian dictator Hosni Mubarak. Even today, while Egypt...
Fog Of War: What's Behind Russia's Ukraine Strike?
Russia's wide-ranging assault on Ukrainian military targets in the early hours of the morning has surprised Western capitals even as they repeatedly predicted an imminent attack....
Fog Of War: What's Behind Russia's Ukraine Strike?
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Russia's wide-ranging assault on Ukrainian military targets in the early hours of the morning has surprised Western capitals even as they repeatedly predicted an imminent attack....
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