Consortium News | 7 July 2017 In 2016, when a British parliamentary report demolished the excuse for the U.S. and its allies invading Libya in 2011, it should have been big news, but the U.S. mainstream media looked the other way, reports Joe Lauria. By Joe Lauria (Corrects to show that a Times story was…
Sheep Media | 13 June 2017 Hillary’s emails truly are the gifts that keep on giving. While France led the proponents of the UN Security Council Resolution that would create a no-fly zone in Libya, it claimed that its primary concern was the protection of Libyan civilians (considering the current state of affairs alone, one must rethink…
Zero Hedge | 10 April 2017 Prophetically foreshadowing the current crisis (and apparent action plan), leaked CIA documents from the reign of Bashar al-Assad’s father in the 1980s show a Washington Deep State plan coalescing to “bring real muscle to bear against Syria,” toppling its leader (in favor of one amenable to US demands) ,…
The Libertarian Institute | 14 Feb 2017 A newly declassified CIA document explored multiple scenarios of Syrian regime collapse at a time when Hafez al-Assad’s government was embroiled in a covert “dirty war” with Israel and the West, and in the midst of a diplomatic crisis which marked an unprecedented level of isolation for Syria. The 24-page formerly classified memo entitled Syria: Scenarios…
Counter Punch | 12 Sept 2016 “Secret cables and reports by the U.S., Saudi and Israeli intelligence agencies indicate that the moment Assad rejected the Qatari pipeline, military and intelligence planners quickly arrived at the consensus that fomenting a Sunni uprising in Syria to overthrow the uncooperative Bashar Assad was a feasible path to achieving…
Breaking Views | 7 July 2016 Operation Regime Change (as I’ll call it) achieved some of its objectives, particularly the elimination of Saddam Hussein and Muamar Ghadaffi, but has been an unmitigated disaster for the MENA region and for the world at large. It gave us ISIS in Iraq and Syria, and the disintegration of…
Marjorie Cohn | 22 June 2016 Secretary of State Kerry met with dissident State Department “diplomats” to hear their call for U.S. airstrikes on Syrian government troops, but the plan is both dangerous and illegal In an internal “dissent channel cable,” 51 State Department officers called for “targeted military strikes” against the government of Bashar…
Prof Michel Chossudovsky | 1 June 2016 (Image) Wall Street Mastermind Henrique de Campos Meirelles, Interim Minister of Finance Control over monetary policy and macro-economic reform was the ultimate objective of the Coup d’Etat. The key appointments from Wall Street’s standpoint are the Central Bank, which dominates monetary policy as well as foreign exchange transactions,…
Catch News | 14 May 2016 Whistleblower website WikiLeaks has described the Senate-imposed President of Brazil, Michel Temer, as a “US Embassy informant” in a tweet. The website provided two links where Temer’s candid thoughts on Brazilian politics serve as the basis for a report by the US embassy in Brazil, reported Telesur (La Nueva…
Tony Cartalucci | 28 April 2016 Another day, another protest in Armenia. And if we were to simply believe the Western media regarding this ‘other protest,’ we might get the impression that the Armenian people are upset with Russian policy and “Putinism.” In reality, the protests are led by the same verified US-proxies exposed at…