By David Martosko, U.s. Political Editor and James Nye and Associated Press The Daily Mail 16 June 2014 President Obama announced on Monday evening that US ground troops ‘equipped for combat’ are being sent to Iraq – just days after claiming that no American soldiers would be deployed to the war-torn country. In a letter…
by Kurt Nimmo | Infowars.com | June 17, 2014 The corporate media, taking its cues in part from Foreign Policy, a magazine formerly owned by the misnamed Carnegie Endowment for International Peace, insists the gains of ISIS in Iraq took the establishment by surprise. “We got caught flat-footed. Period,” Daveed Gartenstein-Ross, described as a terrorism…
WMD 17 June 2014 Aaron Klein JERUSALEM – Members of the Islamic State of Iraq and the Levant, or ISIS, were trained in 2012 by U.S. instructors working at a secret base in Jordan, according to informed Jordanian officials. The officials said dozens of ISIS members were trained at the time as part of covert…
Yahoo News / AFP 14 June 2014 Dan de Luce Washington (AFP) – The rise of Al-Qaeda-linked militants in Iraq can be traced to America’s invasion of the country more than a decade ago, as it left a power vacuum and unleashed sectarian bloodletting, experts said Friday. With television footage of Sunni extremists sweeping across…
Ron Paul Institute 15 June 2014 Ron Paul In 2006, I invited the late General Bill Odom to address my Thursday Congressional luncheon group. Gen. Odom, a former NSA director, called the Iraq war “the greatest strategic disaster in American history,” and told the surprised audience that he could not understand why Congress had not…
RT ‘The Truthseeker’ 15 June 2014 [youtube https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=AsU3g20vhMI?feature=player_detailpage&w=640&h=360] The openly Nazi core of Kiev’s new army; WikiLeaked cables set Ukraine ‘nationalists’ in NATO ‘dirty wars’ abroad; and the ‘psychopaths’ who run CIA special operations. Seek truth from facts with the world’s leading scholar on NATO’s Operation Gladio Dr. Daniele Ganser; Editor of new book Flashpoint…
NZ Herald 16 June Nikki Preston Hamilton’s measles epidemic is growing with 53 cases confirmed including one where the person was fully immunised. But the Waikato District Health Board says getting up to date with the two doses of the measles-mumps-rubella vaccine is still the best way to combat measles, despite one person contracting the…
Atlas Monitor | 16 June 2014 Xena Warrior Princess actress Lucy Lawless persists with her pseudoscientific ultracrepidarianism. She echoes US President Obama’s bald assertions that climate change ‘deniers’ are ignoring science. Some detail and nuance is required in this discussion. The often cited “97% of scientists agree global warming is happening and caused by human…
The Power Principle (2012) [youtube https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=r5If2YaLtX4?feature=player_detailpage&w=640&h=360] Part I – Empire An Introduction to the Empire; Iran – Oil and Geopolitics; Guatemala – the “merger of state and corporate power”; The Congo – Neocolonialism; Grenada – “The Mafia Doctrine”; Chile – “libertarianism with a small l”; Globalization: Consequences. 1945: Grand Area Strategy; Fascism: a…
by Tony Cartalucci | Land Destroyer | June 15, 2014 Heavily armed, well funded, and organized as a professional, standing army, the forces of the Islamic State of Iraq and Syria (ISIS) swept southward into Iraq from Turkey and northeastern Syria, taking the cities of Mosul and Tikrit, and now threaten the Iraqi capital city of Baghdad…