Politico | 18 Dec 2017 An ambitious U.S. task force targeting Hezbollah’s billion-dollar criminal enterprise ran headlong into the White House’s desire for a nuclear deal with Iran. In its determination to secure a nuclear deal with Iran, the Obama administration derailed an ambitious law enforcement campaign targeting drug trafficking by the Iranian-backed terrorist group…
The National Interest | 1 Aug 2016 In Iraq, the U.S. intervened and occupied, and the result was a costly disaster. In Libya, the U.S. intervened and did not occupy, and the result was a costly disaster. In Syria, the U.S. neither intervened nor occupied, and the result is a costly disaster. “Eight years in…
Richard Falk | 24 May 2016 There is an irony that would be amusing if it was not depressing about news that Donald Trump has been courting the 92-year old foreign policy sorcerer Henry Kissinger. Of course, the irony is that earlier in the presidential campaign Hillary Clinton proudly claimed Kissinger as “a friend,” and…
Norman Solomon | 8 Dec 2015 Obama’s America … manufacturing enemies faster than he can kill them … President Obama’s primetime speech on terrorism sought to calm a jittery nation, but by omitting relevant details, he left many thoughtful Americans scratching their heads. To clarify the unspoken parts of Obama’s speech, Norman Solomon has translated the speech into the…
Wayne Madsen | October 8, 2015 The real scandal surrounding Democratic presidential hopeful Hillary Clinton’s private email system may be that she was running, in concert with a private consulting firm tied closely to George Soros, an outsourced and parallel State Department answerable only to her and not President Obama, the Congress, or the American people.…
Foreign Policy Journal | 14 Aug 2015 There is a re-emergence of the dirty tactics of the Cold War, where information is weaponized and truth becomes the first casualty. ormally, a Russian worker suing their employer on the grounds that they failed to provide her with the requisite paperwork detailing the terms of her contract…
NZ Herald | 3 July 2015 Comedian and activist Russell Brand has labelled the British government’s call for a one minute silence today as “total bulls***”. David Cameron announced earlier in the week there would be a minute’s silence in memory of the 27 British tourists murdered after a gunman went on a rampage at…
NEO | 29 May 2015 don’t often get shocked in this business anymore but Obama’s first Arab publication interview with the Ashraq Al-Awsat newspaper did the trick. We took a giant leap from Iran finally being taken off the terrorism list as part of the nuclear talks progression, to being put back on it in…
William Blum | 23 May 2015 Their precious young minds and our precious young minds She was a redheaded rebel, the singer in the family, a trash-talking, tattooed 21-year-old wrapped up in a hip-hop dream of becoming Holland’s Eminem. Then Betsy found Allah. After her sudden conversion to Islam last summer, Betsy began dressing in…
Metanoia Films | 2012 A gripping, deeply informative account of the plunder, hypocrisy, and mass violence of plutocracy and empire; insightful, historically grounded and highly relevant to the events of today. This documentary is about the foreign policy of the United States. It demonstrates the importance of the political economy, the Mafia principle, propaganda, ideology,…