Ben Griffin | Change.org | 15 Nov 2014 I served in the Parachute Regiment and the Special Air Service for eight years. I have spoken out about the reality of the war in Iraq on numerous occasions since I left the army but only recently have I learned about another of its cruel legacies; chemically toxic…
The Artist Taxi Driver | 9 Nov 2014 Video By The Artist Taxi Driver “You will see, in the end, there will be no winner.” [youtube https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UeG95iGL–Q?feature=player_detailpage&w=640&h=360]
Press TV | 8 Nov 2014 Former US President George W. Bush says he regrets the fact that the US-led invasion of Iraq paved the way for the ISIL terrorist group, which is operating in Iraq and Syria. “I think it was the right decision [to go into Iraq],” Bush told CBS News in an…
By Rodrigue Tremblay | The New American Empire | 7 Nov 2014 [There] “is a memo [at the Pentagon] that describes how we’re going to take out seven countries in five years, starting with Iraq, and then Syria, Lebanon, Libya, Somalia, Sudan and, finishing off, Iran.” General Wesley Clark, former Supreme Allied Commander of NATO…
by Voltaire Network | November 4, 2014 On 1 November 2014, Western and Gulf TV channels showed a convoy of 155 Pehsmerga (pro-Israeli) – that is to say, the police forces of the Kurdistan Regional Government of Iraq -rolling through Turkey to the applause of Turkish Kurds. Said media claimed that the convoy had reached…
Gordon Duff | Veterans Today | 29 Oct 2014 During the ten years of occupying Iraq, the US deliberately refused to rebuild Iraqi military capabilities, an analyst tells Press TV. [youtube https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=EV_-5Vx3_OE?feature=player_embedded&w=640&h=360] The current military situation in Iraq would not have existed “if the United States had genuinely built a military force for Iraq in…
John C. Hulsman | City AM | 14 Oct 2014 In his magisterial work The Best and the Brightest, David Halberstam makes clear that the essential tragedy of the Vietnam War was US decision-makers’ inability to see beyond the Potomac river in Washington, DC. Every policy debate concerned what would sell in the city’s foreign…
John Pilger | Oct 2014 In transmitting President Richard Nixon’s orders for a “massive” bombing of Cambodia in 1969, Henry Kissinger said, “Anything that flies on everything that moves”. As Barack Obama ignites his seventh war against the Muslim world since he was awarded the Nobel Peace Prize, the orchestrated hysteria and lies make one…
Mike Whitney | Counterpunch | 6 Oct 2014 “Since 2003, Anglo-American power has secretly and openly coordinated direct and indirect support for Islamist terrorist groups linked to al-Qaeda across the Middle East and North Africa. This ill-conceived patchwork geostrategy is a legacy of the persistent influence of neoconservative ideology, motivated by longstanding but often contradictory ambitions…
Veterans Today–RT | 3 Oct 2014 Veteran’s Today [ Editor’s note: You know what I am going to say…”You just can’t make this stuff up.” Biden spilled the beans, but only some of them, on the Jihadi Frankensteins unleashed in Syria to help do what the FSA could not. He used his high-profile Harvard talk to…