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…
Foreign Affairs | 24 Sept 2015 [AM editor’s note: here is an example of the diabolical cynicism of the Washington foreign policy establishment, exemplified by such private councils of power as the Council on Foreign Relations. WIll anyone rid us of this infernal cabal?] Early September brought the news that the Russians were deploying military…
NEO | 23 Sept 2015 With recent talk of mysterious Russian forces inside Syria, forces no one has been able to locate, including Syrian President Assad, wondrous possibilities open to redress the both regional and global threat that ISIS represents. It isn’t just the ISIS safe havens, certainly the many ISIS bases, prison camps and…
The Telegraph | 22 Sept 2015 Pentagon-trained rebels in Syria are reported to have betrayed their American backers and handed their weapons over to al-Qaeda in Syria immediately after re-entering the country. Fighters with Division 30, the “moderate” rebel division favoured by the United States, surrendered to the al-Qaeda-affiliated Jabhat al-Nusra, a raft of sources…
SMH | 22 Sept 2015 Oslo: Syria’s civil war has prompted the first withdrawal of crop seeds from a “doomsday” vault built in an Arctic mountainside to safeguard global food supplies. The seeds, including samples of wheat, barley and grasses suited to dry regions, have been requested by researchers in the Middle East to replace…
Infowars.com | September 21, 2015 Russian marines clashed with ISIS near Latakia, Syria, on Sunday, according to Russian media. During the fight the marines allegedly killed several militants and captured others after ISIS attempted to attack an airbase operated by Russian military, reported the Russian newspaper Segodnya. Interestingly, the newspaper also reported the ISIS militants…
Ryot | 19 Sept 2015 The United States bills itself as a peacemaker, but a newly released WikiLeaks document could point to the country having played a significant role in the heightening of tensions between the regime of President Bashar al-Assad and Syrian rebels in the Middle Eastern nation, Al Bawaba English reports. The alleged document…
VT | 19 Sept 2015 Ex-DIA Chief General Flynn: “I think it was a decision. I think it was a willful decision [to allow ISIS to evolve].” US ex-intelligence chief on ISIS rise: It was ‘a willful Washington decision’ … from Russia Today, Moscow [ Editor’s note: Here is a classic from August 2015. My hat…
Australian National Review |16 September 2015 In early 2015, Yousaf al Salafi, a man believed to be the Pakistani commander of the Islamic State, confessed during investigations that he has been receiving money through the United States. A few months after al Salafi revealed the funding he was receiving was routed through the United States,…
Webster G. Tarpley | 19 Sept 2015 Here is the face-saving formula used by US Secretary of State Kerry in London today to signal that the United States is finally jettisoning the absurd and utopian demand that Syrian President Assad’s immediate removal from power be a precondition for negotiating a political settlement for Syria. Kerry…