Source – whowhatwhy.org – Self-Interest and Secret Social Backchannel Paved the Way for War; An extremely important story has come and gone in a flash, almost unnoticed, like so many important stories. It revealed that President George W. Bush and British Prime Minister Tony Blair had agreed to invade Iraq long before the first bombs fell on…
Source – demonocracy.info – A New Perspective on Cost of War: United States, Britain and the UN-Member nations all went into Afghanistan and Iraq to help save the world. This is how much it cost them to “Ensure safety for the World”. One Hundred Dollars $100 – Most counterfeited money denomination in the world. Keeps…
Source – muckraker-gg.blogspot.ca – “… Jeb was also integral in securing a number of ‘pardons’ of Cubans involved in terrorist acts. A prominent example was his intervention to help release Cuban terrorist Orlando Bosch from prison and grant him US residency. …” Over the years various researchers and investigations have suggested, even asserted at times, that…
Source – churchandstate.org.uk – Excerpt from GOD AND THE FASCISTS; The Vatican Alliance with Mussolini, Franco, Hitler, and Pavileć, by Karlheinz Deschner, Prometheus Books, 2014). Reprinted by permission of the publisher. This is the prologue to the book: Why, after almost fifty years, should there be a reprint of Karlheinz Deschner’s work God and the Fascists…
Source – ww4report.com – While visiting New York City last spring, Pope Benedict surely visited the offices of his “personal prelature”—the Opus Dei organization. Most certainly, he marveled at their spanking new 17-story national headquarters, an imposing red brick building on 34th and Lexington, which the highly secretive Catholic lay organization purchased for a cool…
Source – ibtimes.co.in – As the American government is contemplating on whether or not to launch an airstrike on ISIS that is threatening to destroy Iraq, reports have now surfaced that way back in 2012, the US Army had trained members of the same terrorist group in Jordan. As per several corroborated reports, hundreds of ISIS militia…
Source – schillerinstitute.org – Dope, Inc.: Britain’s Opium War Against the World: By the Editors of Executive Intelligence Review (Joshua Tree, Calif.: Progessive Press, September 2010 328 pages, paperback, $25): For the first time since 1992, the underground bestseller book by the Editors of Executive Intelligence Review, that tore the lid off of the British…
Source – mintpressnews.com – Against the objections of the United Nations, this week the United States and the United Kingdom together helped arm the world’s child soldiers. Tuesday through Friday this week, the British capital played host to the world’s largest arms fair, Defence and Security Equipment International, where global arms vendors — many from…
Source – dailymail.co.uk – Tom Cruise has been keeping himself busy with several film projects, most recently shooting scenes for the CIA drama Mena in Madison, Georgia. In Mena, Tom plays real-life drug smuggler Barry Seal, a 280-pound father-of-three nicknamed ‘El Gordo’ (Spanish for The Fat Man). Seal was a daredevil pilot who made millions…
Source – MintPressNews.com, Mnar Muhawesh – Don’t let anyone fool you: As we have detailed since 2013, sectarian strife in Syria has been engineered to provide cover for a war for access to oil and gas, and the power and money that come along with it. Editor’s note: This article has been updated to reflect…
Source -preventdisease.com, By Marco Torres – Hemp is a tall, beautiful and gracious looking annual plant that can reach heights over twelve feet. Although hemp (cannabis sativa) and marijuana (cannabis sativa var. indica) come from a similar species of plant, they are very different and confusion has been caused by deliberate misinformation with far reaching…
Source – wakingtimes.com – If you objectively and consistently observe the mainstream media and its interpretation of global events, its omissive and deceptive character soon becomes abundantly clear. This could hardly be called incompetence. The coverage, which is popularly called “news,” is in fact nothing but a propaganda mechanism, designed to persistently shape public opinion in…
Source – constantinereport.com – “… Maurice Tempelsman’s diamond interests were established in the Congo in the early 1960’s with the help of the CIA. …”: Templesman and the Mobutu Coup … Belgian business tycoon Viscount Étienne Davignon is chairman of the board of directors of S.N. Brussels Airlines, which he co-founded after the bankruptcy of…
Source – informationclearinghouse.info – As Greece’s spending on weapons shows, it’s not pensions or benefits that cripple economies, it’s the military-industrial complex. “The Guardian” – Somewhere in a Greek jail, the former defence minister, Akis Tsochatzopoulos, watches the financial crisis unfold. I wonder how partly responsible he feels? In 2013, Akis (as he is popularly…
Source – derechos.org – By Roland G. Simbulan, Convenor/Coordinator, Manila Studies Program, University of the Philippines (Lecture at the University of the Philippines-Manila, Rizal Hall, Padre Faura, Manila, August 18, 2000): For a long time, Manila has been the main station, if not the regional headquarters, of the Central Intelligence Agency (CIA) for Southeast Asia.…
Source – theguardian.com – UK and wealthy states revel in their generosity while allowing their companies to plunder Africa’s resources, say NGOs Western countries are using aid to Africa as a smokescreen to hide the “sustained looting” of the continent as it loses nearly $60bn a year through tax evasion, climate change mitigation, and the…
Source – voltairenet.org – 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 author of…
Source – journal-neo.org – Since ancient times an army required significant logistical support to carry out any kind of sustained military campaign. In ancient Rome, an extensive network of roads was constructed to facilitate not only trade, but to allow Roman legions to move quickly to where they were needed, and for the supplies needed…
Source -.geopoliticalmonitor.com – Libya is quietly slipping into chaos while the more established debacles of Iraq and Syria dominate in Western headlines and corridors of power. The more grave and consequential the Libyan civil war becomes, the less attention is paid to it. It’s almost as if the country has already been relegated to an…
Source – newageislam.com, By Adam Hudson – “”the Philippines may have untapped mineral wealth worth between $840 billion and $1 trillion.’ Mindanao, in particular, is seen as ”a treasure trove” of minerals – after the September 11 terrorist attacks, the Philippines joined the U.S. in the global War on Terror. The effort became a subterfuge…
Source – klausra.com – “There remains one major source of power that can sort out and solve this mess that we have created for ourselves. It is not the multinational corporations – they just reflect the ultimate form of our own greed. It is not the international bankers – they just reflect the ultimate form…
Source – nafeezahmed.com – Judicial Watch, shows that Western governments deliberately allied with al-Qaeda and other Islamist extremist groups to topple Syrian dictator Bashir al-Assad From the first sudden, and quite dramatic, appearance of the fanatical Islamic group known as ISIS which was largely unheard of until a year ago, on the world’s stage and…
Source – consortiumnews.com – Exclusive: Victoria Nuland and Robert Kagan have a great mom-and-pop business going. From the State Department, she generates wars and – from op-ed pages – he demands Congress buy more weapons. There’s a pay-off, too, as grateful military contractors kick in money to think tanks where other Kagans work, writes Robert Parry – Neoconservative…
Source – globalresearch.ca – “…After the Second World War ended, The Vatican, the CIA, the ex-Nazis, and the Sicilian/American Mafia forged an alliance to fight the Cold War against the former Soviet Union and the rising pro-Soviet governments in Europe and the rest of the world” OPERATION GLADIO:THE UNHOLY ALLIANCE BETWEEN THE VATICAN,CIA AND THE…
Source – usahitman.com – Perhaps few people know that Pietro Beretta arms factory Ltd. (the largest arms industry in the world) and is controlled by the Holding SpA Beretta and the majority shareholder of the Beretta Holding SpA after Gussalli Ugo Beretta, is the IOR (Institute for Works of Religion [commonly known as the Vatican…
Source – zerohedge.com – Over the course of the last several months, we’ve witnessed meaningful escalations in multiple conflict zones across the globe. In Syria, an ISIS incursion into the Yarmouk refugee camp transformed an already desperate humanitarian crisis into what U.N. Secretary General Ban Ki-moon called “the worst circle of hell,” as Palestinian fighters…
Source – informationclearinghouse.info – “Iraq’s fate was sealed from the moment we invaded: it has no future as a unitary state … Iraq is fated to split apart into at least three separate states…This was the War Party’s real if unexpressed goal from the very beginning: the atomization of Iraq, and indeed the entire Middle East. Their…
Source – consortiumnews.com, By Gareth Porter – have indulged in highly publicized handwringing over their belief that such a nuclear deal would represent a fundamental strategic shift in U.S. policy towards the region at the expense of its traditional alliances with Israel and Saudi Arabia. But the Obama administration is no more likely to lurch…
Source – globalresearch.ca – “Once again a country “liberated” by the West is sinking deeper and deeper into chaos.” Global Research. This could be anyone of the countries in conflict, where Washington and its Western and Middle Eastern stooges sow war – eternal chaos, misery, death – and submission. This is precisely the point: The…
Source – projectcensored.org – The American Deep State makes a compelling case for a hidden “deep state” that influences and often opposes official U.S. policies. Prominent political analyst Peter Dale Scott begins by tracing America’s increasing militarization, restrictions on constitional rights, and income disparity since the Vietnam War. He argues that a significant role in…
Source – original.antiwar.com – In my essay “The Herd Mind,” I explained how “War is the health of the State,” according to Randolph Bourne: in particular, how war causes a country to regress from a diverse civilization to a uniform herd locked in fight-or-flight mode, and easily driven by the government. As I mentioned in…
Source – 21stcenturywire.com – There are some war hawks embedded in government, media and in high-flying (Rockefeller-funded) think tanks who are at pain to accept the reality that the US and the British governments no longer have a monopoly on global information, opinion and analysis. Foreign Policy Magazine, mouthpiece for the Council on Foreign Relations…
Source – consortiumnews.com – While denouncing Iran and its supposed Yemeni “Shi’a” allies in a recent speech, the governor of Saudi Arabia’s eastern province, Saud ibn Nayyef bin Abdel Aziz, put his country’s Shi’a community — fellow citizens — squarely in his sights. “While our country is going through what it is going through and…
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