Stephen M. Walt | Foreign Policy | 9 Feb 2015 hould the United States start arming Ukraine, so it can better resist and maybe even defeat the Russian-backed rebels in its eastern provinces? A lot of seasoned American diplomats and foreign policy experts seem to think so; a task force assembled by the Brookings Institution,…
Fort Russ | 8 Feb 2015 No one in history has ever won a war with Russia at its borders – an American military expert Why Ukraine can not win the war with Russia and why America will not supply the Ukrainians with weapons, explained the military expert of the Academy of Public Policy at…
ANP | 9 Feb 2015 The tweet from Matt Drudge seen above is getting an awful lot of attention across the internet as Drudge warns a ‘greasy Obama in Grammy vid…hoarse…watery eyes…like he knows something terrible coming….very unsettling.’ Coincidentally, or not, this occurred at the same time as a massive explosion in the Ukraine, leading…
Michael Krieger | Liberty Blitzkrieg | 4 February 2015 NBC Nightly News anchor Brian Williams admitted Wednesday he was not aboard a helicopter hit and forced down by RPG fire during the invasion of Iraq in 2003, a false claim that has been repeated by the network for years. The admission came after crew members on the…
Niall McCarthy | Statista | 4 Feb 2015 Expensive wars have become an American tradition and the global “War on Terror” is proving no exception. The cost of “War on Terror” operations including both Afghanistan and Iraq reached $1.6 trillion by FY2014, according to data compiled by the Mercatus Center citing the Congressional Research Service.…
Tom Engelhardt | 3 Feb 2015 Well, it’s one, two, three, look at that amputee, At least it’s below the knee, Could have been worse, you see. Well, it’s true your kids look at you differently, But you came in an ambulance instead of a hearse, That’s the phrase of the trade, It could have…
Riley Waggaman | Russia Insider | 1 Feb 2015 Oxford professor Timothy Garton Ash seems keen on a very, very hot war. Okay, but who is going to fight it? Certainly not Timothy Garton Ash Since the beginning of time, television pundits and other serious thinkers have beckoned the young to die or lose limbs in…
Robert Parry | Consortium News | 30 Jan 2015 The armchair warriors of Official Washington are eager for a new war, this time with Russia over Ukraine, and they are operating from the same sort of mindless “group think” and hostility to dissent that proved so disastrous in Iraq, reports Robert Parry. If you wonder how…
Paul Craig Roberts | 31 Jan 2015 Robert Parry is one of my favorite columnists. He is truthful, has a sense of justice, and delivers a firm punch. He used to be a “mainstream journalist,” like me, but we were too truthful for them. They kicked us out. I can’t say Parry has always been…
Miriam Elder | Buzzfeed | 23 Jan 2015 DAVOS, Switzerland — The head of a leading Kremlin-owned bank warned on Friday that further banking sanctions would lead Russia and the U.S. to the “brink of war.” Andrei Kostin, the head of VTB, reacted angrily when asked what the consequences would be if Russia were excluded…