Prison Planet | November 11, 2015 Deborah Lee James, secretary of the United States Air Force, admitted on Tuesday the end game for Syria: occupation and governing Syrians who have not fled to Europe. James said “air power” (i.e., bombing) “can’t do everything” and it “cannot occupy territory and very importantly it cannot govern territory,…
LewRockwell.com | 21 Oct 2015 The American Empire is deteriorating. It’s been going downhill for decades. The descent is likely to continue, alleviated irregularly by policies that retard the decline or even reverse it for a time. The general pattern set by declines of previous empires is occurring in this country. There have been at…
Webster G. Tarpley | 16 Oct 2015 The Tax Wall Street Party deplores the churlish, disgraceful, and dishonorable behavior of many representatives of the US government which has been on such egregious display in the two weeks since Russia joined the bombing campaign against ISIS terrorists in Syria. Secretary of Defense Ashton Carter, in a…
The New American | October 15, 2015 The Senate has approved a 2016 Defense Department spending bill that earmarks nearly $1 billion to arm Syrian and Ukrainian rebels, including several batallions adopting neo-Nazi symbols and slogans. By a veto-proof 70-27 vote, the Senate voted on October 7 to approve the $612 billion Pentagon appropriation bill for…
The Bureau of Investigative Journalism | 14 Oct 2015 In spring 2003 an unnamed official at CIA headquarters in Langley sat down to compose a memo. It was 18 months after George W Bush had declared war on terror. “We cannot have enough blacksite hosts,” the official wrote. The reference was to one of the…
RT | 25 Sept 2015 In 2014, President Obama named the three major threats to US national security; ISIS, Russia and Ebola (because spiraling national debt, unequal distribution of wealth, over-incarceration, climate change etc are less pressing issues.)%))) It would be fair to say that Russian politicians took much offence to being placed in this…
Paul Craig Roberts | 28 Sept 2015 Today is the 70th anniversary of the UN. It is not clear how much good the UN has done. Some UN Blue Hemet peacekeeping operations had limited success. But mainly Washington has used the UN for war, such as the Korean War and Washington’s Cold War against the…
RNZ | 30 Sept 2015 The Crown has been unable to produce the original notices asking for Kim Dotcom and his co-accused to be extradited to the United States. The hearing to decide whether Mr Dotcom, Mathias Ortmann, Bram van der Kolk and Finn Batato should be sent to the US to face copyright and…
Alfred W. McCoy | 15 Sept 2015 In ways that have eluded Washington pundits and policymakers, President Barack Obama is deploying a subtle geopolitical strategy that, if successful, might give Washington a fighting chance to extend its global hegemony deep into the twenty-first century. After six years of silent, sometimes secret preparations, the Obama White…
Silent Crow | 14 September 2015 The United States does not lack institutions that continue to conspire, and that’s why I am using this gathering to announce that we have decided to expel USAID from Bolivia” Bolivian President Evo Morales Washington wants Ecuador’s President Rafael Correa removed from power. Washington says it is concerned about the…