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February 21, 2020
As Usual, Western Media Grossly Distort Syria’s Conflict
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Richard Grenell: Trump’s Yes Man in Berlin Gets Top Intel Job
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Richard Grenell: Trump’s Yes Man in Berlin Gets Top Intel Job
February 21, 2020

It would seem rather surprising therefore that a mouthy maverick who has also worked as a Fox News pundit is now being given the top US intelligence portfolio.

Finian Cunningham
With Bloomberg Entering Race, U.S. Oligarchy Takes Stage
February 20, 2020

With media tycoon Mike Bloomberg entering the presidential race, U.S. “democracy” can be seen for what it is: it’s all about big money duking it out. Political parties are now manifestly irrelevant.

Finian Cunningham
With Bloomberg Entering Race, U.S. Oligarchy Takes Stage
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The Rise of Pete Buttigieg: The Man Who Isn’t There
World
The Rise of Pete Buttigieg: The Man Who Isn’t There
February 20, 2020

Buttigieg was plucked from nowhere on the basis of his willingness to swallow the same old internationalist, liberal, free trade party line to cover endless aggressions, fostered coups, civil wars and other crimes against humanity.

Martin Sieff
Diplomatic Immunity and RAF Croughton: Trump Goes After the Brits
February 20, 2020

The inept course of what passes for the US foreign policy continues, with the Trump Administration now going after the nation’s second oldest friend.

Philip Giraldi
Diplomatic Immunity and RAF Croughton: Trump Goes After the Brits
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Democrats Have Found Their Own Autocrat
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The West Displays Its Insecurity Complex
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The Sham of Arab Revolutions
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The Deepwater Horizon Oil Spill Was a Cover-Up, Not a Cleanup
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Understanding the Ukraine Story
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Why the U.S. Is Losing Its War Against Huawei
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NYC Taxpayers Spending Millions on Cyber Center with Controversial Ties to Israeli Intelligence
February 17, 2020
An ‘Awareness’ Question: What Business Does Turkey Have in Syria?
Lessons From the Second Declaration of Havana
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Lessons From the Second Declaration of Havana
February 19, 2020

While the current interference in Latin America may be constructed as a strategy to isolate Cuba further, imperialism is missing the point – revolutions are made by the people and the U.S. has triggered all the conditions for change in the region.

Ramona Wadi
Everything You Wanted to Know About Pete Buttigieg, But Were Too Afraid to Ask
February 19, 2020

There can be no question that he has a long future in U.S. politics, but it’s too early to tell if that will be a good thing for the American people.

Robert Bridge
Everything You Wanted to Know About Pete Buttigieg, But Were Too Afraid to Ask
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Just Go Now. ‘Prat’ Ambassador in Morocco Asked to Quit Post NOW Over Gibraltar Row – Leaving British Residents in Marrakesh Wide Open to New Terror Attack
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Just Go Now. ‘Prat’ Ambassador in Morocco Asked to Quit Post NOW Over Gibraltar Row – Leaving British Residents in Marrakesh Wide Open to New Terror Attack
February 18, 2020

British ambassador’s weird manners could cost Britain lives as hundreds of expats in Marrakesh claim they have been abandoned before an imminent terrorist attack.

Martin Jay
Europe’s Nuclear Weapons and the Arms Reduction Treaty
February 18, 2020

No matter what opinions may be held of Washington’s policies under the erratic Trump, these will always have influence in Europe’s capitals.

Brian Cloughley
Europe’s Nuclear Weapons and the Arms Reduction Treaty
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February 15, 2020
More Evidence of OPCW Cover-Up in Syria Has Come Forward
February 7, 2020
The Yalta Conference Was a Meeting of Triumphant Allies but Good Will Would Collapse
February 2, 2020
The Heroes of Stalingrad and the Debt We Still Owe Them
February 1, 2020
How Torture Became Routine in the Global War on Terror
January 25, 2020
The War for the Memory of WWII is Entering a Hot Phase
January 23, 2020
Things are Getting Harder for the US’s Global Military
January 19, 2020
The Libyan Civil War May Finally Be Coming to an End
January 18, 2020
17 Years After 'Liberation,' Iraq Again Designated US 'Enemy'
January 17, 2020
Democrats Will Not Give Up Their Russophobia
January 16, 2020
Did Soleimani Kill 600 Americans? — Questions For Corbett
Dresden Terror Bombing, Like Hiroshima, a Maniacal Warning to Moscow
History
Dresden Terror Bombing, Like Hiroshima, a Maniacal Warning to Moscow
February 17, 2020

There is good reason to believe that the rationale for the obliteration of Dresden was for one rather sinister reason. It wasn’t so much an act of terror aimed at Nazi Germany, but rather a show of maniacal power to the Soviet Union.

Finian Cunningham
Roger Stone, Bill Barr, and the Washington Civil War
February 17, 2020

The fact that three of the four Roger Stone prosecutors who resigned in a huff over Barr’s veto were part of Mueller’s Russiagate team shows how the battle lines are being drawn.

Daniel Lazare
Roger Stone, Bill Barr, and the Washington Civil War
History
Trump’s Vanished ‘Liberal Middles’
World
Trump’s Vanished ‘Liberal Middles’
February 17, 2020

Don’t the Americans understand the implications of creating a desperate, unemployed and radicalised constituency across the entire Middle East?

Alastair Crooke
Constitutional Tensions Flare Between Trump and the States
February 16, 2020

Not since the civil rights movement of the 1950s and 60s have tensions been so high between a U.S. administration and the states of the federal republic.

Wayne Madsen
Constitutional Tensions Flare Between Trump and the States
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Reading Sun Tzu in Tehran
Alastair Crooke
January 15, 2020
Iran – wisely – has eschewed direct, state-to-state military conflict, for a more subtle, and pernicious war on the US presence in the Middle East – a war, which if successful, will re-cast the region.
The Kerfuffle War - Trump’s Iran De-escalation Succeeds
Joaquin Flores
January 9, 2020
De-escalation requires that both parties save face, and can come away with tangible minor victories and agree that the real underlying dispute is resolved in the future.
The Deeper Story Behind the Assassination of Soleimani
Federico Pieraccini
January 8, 2020
Trump has evidently been convinced by someone that the U.S. can do without the Middle East, that it can do without allies in the region, and that nobody would ever dare to sell oil in any other currency than the U.S. dollar.
The Middle East Strategic “Balance” Shredded
Alastair Crooke
January 6, 2020
The strategic balance seemed more or less sustainable until its upending with the assassination of Qasem Soleimani and Al-Muhandis, ordered by Trump.
Western Campaign Against Orthodox Church Turns to Montenegro
James George Jatras
December 28, 2019
Maybe we’ll be pleasantly surprised and Washington and Brussels will demand that their Montenegrin flunkies back off. Don’t bet on it though. There’s still a lot more of the Orthodox Church left to disrupt.
From Russia With Sense: Putin Says ‘Nyet’ to PC Radicals Replacing ‘Mothers’ and ‘Fathers’
Robert Bridge
December 4, 2019
Meanwhile the West is facing demons of its own making as victims of ‘sexual reassignment surgery’ want to change back to their original selves.
Rethinking National Security: CIA and FBI Are Corrupt, but What About Congress?
Philip Giraldi
November 21, 2019
The national security state should not be roaming the world looking for trouble and should instead only respond to actual threats.
The End of NATO? Macron Laments ‘Brain Death’ and Pushes for a European Military
Joaquin Flores
November 10, 2019
While Trump hides that the US simply can’t afford its empire, Macron hides that Europe has pushed for its own army even before Trump assumed office.
Can Trump Survive Ending Project Syria?
Tom Luongo
October 21, 2019
With Putin signing major deals with Saudi Arabia and the UAE, China welcoming Iraq into the Belt and Road family and Turkey all but leaving NATO, what are a bunch of feckless and politically spent neocons going to do?
The Russian Masterpiece in Syria: Everyone Wins
Federico Pieraccini
October 16, 2019
The world is now witnessing one of the greatest diplomatic masterpieces bringing closer the end of the seven-year-long Syrian conflict.
New Hampshire Buries Biden and Warren, Prepare for the Rise of Little Pete
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New Hampshire Buries Biden and Warren, Prepare for the Rise of Little Pete
February 16, 2020

Buttigieg offers yet another childish, meaningless “glass ceiling” to be broken in the way so beloved of infantile romantic-liberal Americans.

Martin Sieff
The Philippines Want the U.S. Out and They Are Not Alone
February 15, 2020

The pawns of the Grand Chessboard are starting to move much more boldly – in an unpredicted by the punditry decision the Philippines have asked U.S. forces to leave their islands indefinitely.

Tim Kirby
The Philippines Want the U.S. Out and They Are Not Alone
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Censorship Is the Way that Any Dictatorship — and NO Democracy — Functions
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Censorship Is the Way that Any Dictatorship — and NO Democracy — Functions
February 15, 2020

If you think that some censorship is good, then you have bought into the fundamental belief that is promulgated in any dictatorship.

Eric Zuesse
Mexico’s Fight for National Banking Revives a Forgotten History
February 14, 2020

Obrador’s stated aim is to have 13 000 branches built across Mexico which would far outnumber the total number of all private banks and will also provide a vital tool for the economic liberation of Mexico.

Matthew Ehret
Mexico’s Fight for National Banking Revives a Forgotten History
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Why Bernie Is Democrats’ Best Hope to Beat Trump
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Why Bernie Is Democrats’ Best Hope to Beat Trump
February 14, 2020

There is no sign that the corrupt Democratic hierarchy has learnt anything about their flawed concept of centrism. To win an election, what is needed is a politician who speaks to people’s grievances and passions.

Finian Cunningham
More Damning Evidence of OPCW Cover-Up in Syria
February 14, 2020

The cover-up appears to have been orchestrated at the top in response to political pressure from the US and Western allies.

More Damning Evidence of OPCW Cover-Up in Syria
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Is It Time for a Parliamentary Inquiry Into the German State Broadcaster, Given the Number of Grave Allegations Against Its Management?
Society
Is It Time for a Parliamentary Inquiry Into the German State Broadcaster, Given the Number of Grave Allegations Against Its Management?
February 13, 2020

Martin Jay tells about his experience of being a correspondent with Deutsche Welle, recently embroiled in a scandal over alleged racism and bullying.

Martin Jay
Fringe Candidates Are Integral to Election Manipulation
February 13, 2020

In an era of social media manipulation, political “dark money” infusion into fringe campaigns, and computerized voting with razor-thin outcomes, fringe candidates can mean the difference between victory or defeat on election nights.

Wayne Madsen
Fringe Candidates Are Integral to Election Manipulation
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