Robert Parry | 19 July 2015 Despite the disastrous Iraq War, neocons still dominate Official Washington’s inside-outside game, government policymakers coordinating with think-tank opinion leaders to keep world tensions high and money flowing to military projects, a process personified by Robert Kagan and Victoria Nuland, says Robert Parry. If the neoconservatives have their way again, U.S. ground troops will reoccupy Iraq, the…
Paul Craig Roberts | 18 July 2015 Obama is being praised as a man of peace for the nuclear agreement with Iran. Some are asking if Obama will take the next step and repair US-Russian relations and bring the Ukrainian imbroglio to an end? If so he hasn’t told Assistant Secretary of State Victoria Nuland…
VT | 20 July 2015 The Donald Doubles Down on His “McCain Not a War Hero” Statements Over the weekend, “the Donald” backed down on his attacks on McCain, calling “Hanoi John” a “war hero.” However, Donald is not going to be able to close the can of worms he opened. Today, McCain is trying…
The Independent | 4 May 2015 It amazes me that all these warriors of the air don’t regularly crash into each other Let me try to get this right. The Saudis are bombing Yemen because they fear the Shia Houthis are working for the Iranians. The Saudis are also bombing Isis in Iraq and the…
The Guardian | 15 Oct 2013 How do you settle a rather sizeable bill for your milk delivery? If you are a cash-strapped superpower the answer is, apparently, to offer up a pair of fighter jets and a nuclear submarine as payment. The extraordinary offer was made by Russia to New Zealand in 1993, a…
The Hindu | 17 July 2015 Thousands of Saudi documents shows how the government’s goal was not just to spread Sunni Islam but also to undermine its primary adversary: Shia Iran. For decades, Saudi Arabia has poured billions of its oil dollars into sympathetic Islamic organisations around the world, quietly practicing chequebook diplomacy to advance…
Atlas Monitor | 20 July 2015 Americans who criticize and label Putin as an authoritarian dictator driving Russia to ruin need not look as far afield as Russia for such a spectacle. They can find their own in the White House. In terms of dictatorial tendencies the last 20 US presidents have issued on average…
Haaretz | 15 July 2015 In a phone conversation between the two leaders Tuesday, Netanyahu did not respond to the offer, said the official, who requested anonymity U.S. President Barack Obama has offered Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu immediate talks to upgrade the Israel Defense Forces’ offensive and defensive capabilities in the wake of the deal…
News With Views | 17 July 2015 Part 1, Was he truthful to his Tea Party and Women Defending America followers about his relationship with key Satanic leader, Michael Aquino? Perhaps reading this, the first of 4 articles planned for the next 4 weeks on this sobering subject, it might be helpful to review the…
Tony Cartalucci | NEO | 12 July 2015 Late last year, Germany’s broadcaster Deutsche Welle (DW) investigated what turned out to be hundreds of trucks a day carrying billions of dollars in supplies, flowing across the Turkish border into Syria and directly into the hands of the so-called “Islamic State” (ISIS). The border crossing near the Turkish…