REALPOLITIK: Roland Dumas, Former French Foreign Minister: “The War against Syria was Planned Two years before The Arab Spring”

Source – globalresearch.ca – In an interview with the French TV station LCP, former French minister for Foreign Affairs Roland Dumas said: ‘’ I’m going to tell you something. I was in England two years before the violence in Syria on other business. I met with top British officials, who confessed to me that they…

REALPOLITIK: Russia Is Putting On A Display Of Firepower That Is Shocking The World – By Michael Snyder

Source – investmentwatchblog.com, By Michael Snyder – The Russians have unleashed their own version of “shock and awe” in Syria, and the brutal efficiency of their airstrikes against ISIS targets has stunned many observers around the globe.  For more than a year, the Obama administration has claimed that its bombing campaign in Syria has been…

REALPOLITIK: To Understand US Action in the Middle East, Look to the Wolfowitz Doctrine – By Makia Freeman

Source – ToolsForFreedom.com – The Wolfowitz Doctrine, a document authored by Zionist neo-con Paul Wolfowitz, is the key to understanding the United States’ geopolitical policy and behavior. The Wolfowitz Doctrine is the unofficial name given to the early version of the Defense Strategy for the 1990s: The Regional Defense Strategy report for the 1994–99 fiscal years. It…

REALPOLITIK: Mid-East Coup, As Russia Pounds Militant Targets, Iran Readies Ground Invasions While Saudis Panic

Source – zerohedge.com – Back in June, the commander of Iran’s Quds Force, Qasem Soleimaini, visited a town north of Latakia on the frontlines of Syria’s protracted civil war. Following that visit, he promised that Tehran and Damascus were set to unveil a new strategy that would “surprise the world.” Just a little over a…

PAX AMERICANA: America’s Secret Army Is Deployed in an Astounding 135 Countries – By Nick Turse

Source – TomDispatch.com – It was an impressive effort: a front-page New York Times story about a “new way of war” with the bylines of six reporters, and two more and a team of researchers cited at the end of the piece. “They have plotted deadly missions from secret bases in the badlands of Somalia. In Afghanistan, they…

KANADA: Barricading Canada, Who Killed Canadian Democracy? – By Anthony James Hall

Source – veteranstoday.com – The International Mining Pariah, Barrick Gold, Has Many Deep and Incestuous Relationships with Republican Party Politicians and Their Canadian Counterparts. Barrick’s Barricudas Include George H.W. Bush, Newt Gingrich, Brian Mulroney, John Baird, and Nigel Wright. Canada’s PM, Stephen Harper, Has Empowered Barrick’s Operatives to Help Rig Canada’s Federal Election Campaign. Harper…

REALPOLITIK: With the Iran Deal and Russia in Syria, Is Israel Being Boxed In? – By Juan Cole

Source – truthdig.com – With the success of the Iran deal virtually assured and with Russia moving into Syria, Israel’s hawks are facing an unprecedented setback.  These developments could be demoting Israel from regional hegemon to marginal player, and severely limiting Tel Aviv’s freedom of movement.  Israeli Prime Minister Binyamin Netanyahu’s startling assertion that he…

REALPOLITIK: The Munich Betrayal, How Western powers ‘sold’ Czechoslovakia to Hitler

Source – sputniknews.com – The Munich Agreement of September 30, 1938, concluded by Europe’s major powers with Adolf Hitler, allowed the Nazis to absorb parts of Czechoslovakia and hammered the final nail in the coffin of the concept of European collective security pushed ahead by the USSR, Canadian professor of history Michael Jabara Carley told…

REALPOLITIK: The Refugee Crisis, Separating the Conspiracies from The Conspiracy – By Eric Draitser

Source – globalresearch.ca – As the refugee crisis in Europe has come to dominate western media headlines, it has predictably given rise to a complex web of theories, analyses, and politically and ideologically charged omissions and distortions. The corporate propagandists of ‘acceptable journalism’ have presented the issue in a purely humanitarian and cultural light, with…

REALPOLITIK: The Secret ISIS Safe Havens Nobody Wants You to Know About – By Gordon Duff

Source – journal-neo.org – With recent talk of mysterious Russian forces inside Syria, forces no one has been able to locate, including Syrian President Assad, wondrous possibilities open to redress the both regional and global threat that ISIS represents. It isn’t just the ISIS safe havens, certainly the many ISIS bases, prison camps and slave…

REALPOLITIK: Why Powerful Factions in America Are Hellbent on Spreading Mideast Chaos – By Noam Chomsky

Source – alternet.org – The Republican Party isn’t even functioning as a real party anymore, says Chomsky: On Saturday, Chomsky spoke before a sold-out audience of nearly 1,000 people at The New School in New York City. In a speech titled “On Power and Ideology,” he addressed the Republican efforts to torpedo the Iran nuclear…

REALPOLITIK: US-China Relations, The Pentagon Versus High Tech – By James Petras

Source – unz.com – Step by step, Washington is inexorably setting up a major provocation against China. Until now, the Obama regime tightened a military encirclement of China, expanding its armed forces agreements with Japan, the Philippines and Australia. In addition, it has promoted the Trans-Pacific Partnership Agreement (TPP), a regional trade agreement which openly…

REALPOLITK: Putin’s Line in the Sand, No Regime Change in Syria – By Mike Whitney

Source – counterpunch.org –  “Obama administration officials, who have been negotiating with Turkey for months, said Thursday that they had reached an agreement for manned and unmanned American warplanes to carry out aerial attacks on Islamic State positions from air bases at Incirlik and Diyarbakir. The agreement was described by one senior administration official as…

REALPOLITIK: Hitler’s Plot to Assassinate Stalin – By Nina Kouprianova

Source – espionagehistoryarchive.com – While it is known that German intelligence targeted Soviet leader Josef Stalin during World War II, how close did they come to succeeding? The following tells the story of SS Operation Zeppelin and the brilliant counter-moves, known as Operation Fog, undertaken by Soviet military counterintelligence (SMERSH) officer Grigorii Grigorenko, who would…

REALPOLITIK: Do Jew’s Control Saudi Arabia? – Wayne Madsen

Source – strategic-culture.org – Reportedly, the Saudi monarchs and their Wahhabi religion have Jewish origins. Wayne Madsen has written about the Jewish connections to Saudi Arabia. Haim Weizman (left) and Prince Feisal, 1918 The Turkish Ottoman Empire, which included key parts of Saudi Arabia, had lots of crypto-Jews (Jews pretending to be Moslems)These crypto-Jews (also…

GLADIO: NATO’s “Global Gladio” Terror Network Reaches into Asia – By Tony Cartalucci

Source – landdestroyer.blogspot.ca – NATO terror network implicated in Bangkok blasts, appears to have been running Uyghur terrorists through Asia, into Turkey and onward to fight NATO’s proxy war in Syria. An unprecedented blast in Bangkok, Thailand last month left 20 dead and over 100 injured. The blast was the latest in a string of…

REALPOLITIK: US’s Saudi Oil Deal from Win-Win to Mega-Loose – By F. William Engdahl

Source – journal-neo.org – Who would’ve thought it would come to this? Certainly not the Obama Administration, and their brilliant geo-political think-tank neo-conservative strategists. John Kerry’s brilliant “win-win” proposal of last September during his September 11 Jeddah meeting with ailing Saudi King Abdullah was simple: Do a rerun of the highly successful State Department-Saudi deal…

REALPOLITK: The U.S. Strategy to Control Middle Eastern Oil, “One of the Greatest Material Prizes in World History” – By Andrew Gavin Marshall

Source – andrewgavinmarshall.com – In the midst of World War II, Saudi Arabia secured a position of enormous significance to the rising world power, America. With its oil reserves essentially untapped, the House of Saud became a strategic ally of immense importance, “a matter of national security, nourishing U.S. military might and enhancing the potentiality…

REALPOLITIK: Putin Targets US Monetary System, “Aims To Eliminate US Dollar From Trade”

Source – zerohedge.com – Something is afoot as de-dollarization escalates around the world. With CNY/RUB trading volumes up a stunning 400% year-over-year to record highs, and hot on the heels of China’s (and much of EM Asia) dumping dollar assets, Russian President Vladimir Putin has just unleashed a new bill aiming to completely eliminate the…

REALPOLITIK: The KGB in Africa – By Mark Hackard

Source – espionagehistoryarchive.com – Africa has long been a geopolitical battleground among the great powers, with the Cold War representing an especially intense round of this struggle. From the archives of Russia’s SVR comes an overview of the KGB First Chief Directorate’s intelligence, covert action, and political influence operations in Africa during the 1960s and…

REALPOLITIK: “Confirmation Tianjin was Nuked” – Ian Greenhalgh & Jeff Smith

Source – veteranstoday.com – [ VT Editor’s Note:   Sometimes we like to move fast on a breaking story to beat mainstream news with all their money and manpower. And it other times our sixth sense kicks in, telling us to lay back a bit, study the early reporting for clues as to what is NOT…