British SAS Special Forces “Dressed Up as ISIS Rebels” Fighting Assad in Syria

Stephen Lendman | Global Research | August 04, 2015 On August 2, Britain’s Sunday Express newspaper headlined “SAS dress as ISIS fighters in undercover war on jihadis,” saying: “More than 120 members belonging to the elite regiment are currently in the war-torn country” covertly “dressed in black and flying ISIS flags,” engaged in what’s called Operation Shader…

Here’s why Julian Assange is picking a fight with international relations professors

Washington Post | 3 Aug 2015 Recently, WikiLeaks and the profession of international relations have been having a little scuffle. In an Der Spiegel interview, WikiLeaks founder Julian Assange laments that the U.S. academy hasn’t engaged with WikiLeaks’ store of leaked diplomatic cables. He suggests that the reason international relations scholars have failed to examine…

Washington’s Fifth Columns Inside Russia and China

Paul Craig Roberts | 3 Aug 2015 It took two decades for Russia and China to understand that “pro-democracy” and “human rights” organizations operating within their countries were subversive organizations funded by the US Department of State and a collection of private American foundations organized by Washington. The real purpose of these non-governmental organizations (NGOs)…

Obama Authorizes Airstrikes On Assad Troops

RT | 3 Aug 2015 Taking sides in Syrian civil war? Obama authorizes airstrikes ‘to defend’ US-trained rebels The US president has reportedly authorized the Air Force to protect Syrian rebels trained by Washington to fight against Islamic State by bombing any force attacking them, including Syrian regular troops. Thus the US may become involved…

Jimmy Carter: The U.S. Is an “Oligarchy With Unlimited Political Bribery”

The Intercept | 31 July 2015 Former president Jimmy Carter said Tuesday on the nationally syndicated radio show the Thom Hartmann Program that the United States is now an “oligarchy” in which “unlimited political bribery” has created “a complete subversion of our political system as a payoff to major contributors.” Both Democrats and Republicans, Carter said, “look upon this…