by Anthony Watts | Watts Up With That? | October 14, 2014 Takes the air out of the alarmism balloon Hot on the heels of the Lewis and Curry paper, we have this new paper, which looks to be well researched, empirically based, and a potential blockbuster for dimming the alarmism that has been so…
RT | 12 Oct 2014 President Obama admits the rise of Islamic State was never properly addressed by the U.S. intelligence. Vice-President of the States puts all the blame on America’s allies, saying it were they who funded jihadists. Terrorists threaten direct attacks on American soil. Is the U.S. ready to respond with more than…
RT | 10 Oct 2014 The West and Russia can’t seem to get over their differences, with the tensions between the Washington and Kremlin changing the stakes for the whole world. How far would this confrontation go? Is there another Cold War coming? And finally, will the world once again know the horror of a…
Peter Dale Scott | WhoWhatWhy | 5 Oct 2014 Peter Dale Scott is considered the father of “Deep Politics”— the study of hidden permanent institutions and interests whose influence on the political realm transcends the elected, appointed and career officials who come and go. A Professor of English at Berkeley and a former Canadian diplomat, he is the…
by Alexander Cockburn And Jeffrey St. Clair | Counterpunch | 15 Jan 1998 Q: The former director of the CIA, Robert Gates, stated in his memoirs [“From the Shadows”], that American intelligence services began to aid the Mujahadeen in Afghanistan 6 months before the Soviet intervention. In this period you were the national security adviser…
By Peter Koenig | Global Research | October 10, 2014 “Today you pretend making a coalition against the Islamic State of Iraq and the Levant (ISIL), but in fact you’re their allies,” Those are the frank words by Cristina Fernandez Kirchner, the Argentinian President, spoken in a calm and secure voice at the UN General…
John C. Hulsman | City AM | 14 Oct 2014 In his magisterial work The Best and the Brightest, David Halberstam makes clear that the essential tragedy of the Vietnam War was US decision-makers’ inability to see beyond the Potomac river in Washington, DC. Every policy debate concerned what would sell in the city’s foreign…
Brent Bambury | CBC | 9 Oct 2014 A former U.S. senator and co-chair of the Joint Congressional Inquiry into the 9/11 attacks says the rise of ISIS could have been stemmed if 28 pages from the inquiry’s report had not been classified. As co-chair, Bob Graham was one of the authors of the report,…
Global Warming Policy Foundation | 13 Oct 2014 UK Manufacturers Sound The Alarm Over Rising Energy Costs Britain will struggle to “keep the lights on” unless the Government changes its green energy policies, the former environment secretary will warn this week. Owen Paterson will say that the Government’s plan to slash carbon emissions and rely…
The Vinny Eastwood Show | 15 Sept 2014 [youtube https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_VNSTA-jX40?feature=player_detailpage&w=640&h=360] Video script Ladies and gentlemen, John Key, Leader of the National Party Prime Minister Of New Zealand since 2008 Everyone Voted for him without knowing his track record, Who he worked for, Where his career originated & how he does business today. By the end…