Source – pando.com – “In a number of countries, including Venezuela and Bolivia, USAID is acting more as an agency involved in covert action, like the CIA, than as an aid or development agency.” —Mark Weisbrot, Center for Economic and Policy Research Last week, we learned from the Associated Press that USAID (United States Agency…
Source – news.nationalgeographic.com -Two hundred years ago, Napoleon Bonaparte and The Duke of Wellington met at Waterloo, in what is now Belgium. At stake was world dominance. Many books have been written about this epic battle but most have concentrated on military tactics and strategy. In Waterloo: The History of Four Days, Three Armies, and…
Source – journal-neo.org – “Hacked emails also reveal Soros’ machinations with the US Government and the officials of the European Union in a scheme where, if he succeeds, he could win billions in the plunder of Ukraine assets. All, of course, would be at the expense of Ukrainian citizens and of EU taxpayers” – Rarely…
Source – washingtonsblog.com – The Coup: 1953, the CIA, and the Roots of Modern U.S.-Iranian Relations deals with such an engaging topic that even this new book can’t really make it boring, hard as it seems to try. When asked what historical figure I would most like to bring back to life and have a…
Source – truthandshadows.wordpress.com, By Barrie Zwicker – IF YOU DON’T WANT TO KNOW how sausages are made, don’t start reading Visas for Al Qaeda: CIA Handouts That Rocked the World by Michael Springmann. The sausages in this case: the string of too-easily-swallowed accounts of bloody events in the “global war on terror,” served up daily…
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 – presstv.ir – The “aggressive” policies of the United States toward Russia are “morally reprehensible” and a violation of international law, a writer and investigative journalist in Arizona. The agenda of the “maniac” neoconservatives in Washington is to provoke a global war with Moscow, said Joachim Hagopian, a columnist at Veterans Today and a…
Source – consortiumnews.com – “The U.S. House of Representatives has admitted an ugly truth that the U.S. mainstream media has tried to hide from the American people – that the post-coup regime in Ukraine has relied heavily on Nazi storm troopers to carry out its bloody war against ethnic Russians, reports Robert Parry”: Last February, when ethnic Russian…
Source – theantimedia.org, By John VibesJohn Vibes – On Thursday, August 29th 2002, famous journalist and writer Hunter S. Thompson did an interview with Mick O’Regan from Radio National’s Media Report, an Australian Radio show. In the interview, Thompson predicted the invasion of Iraq and discussed how Osama Bin Laden may have already been dead,…
Source – geopoliticalmonitor.com – Syria’s disintegration into civil war since 2011 has created a strategic dilemma for Israel that the upcoming US-Iran deal will throw into stark relief. On the one hand Israeli security has benefited from the conflict in two concrete ways. Firstly its enemy the Syrian Baath party-state has partially collapsed, losing territory,…
Source – .zerohedge.com – Two topics we’ve deemed critically important to a thorough understanding of both global finance and the shifting geopolitical landscape are the death of the petrodollar and the idea of yuan hegemony. Last November, in “How The Petrodollar Quietly Died And No One Noticed,” we said the following about the slow motion…
Source – csmonitor.com – They are Russia‘s forgotten and abandoned victims of terror. A small, forlorn-looking knot of people gathered on Moscow‘s Kashirskoye Shosse this morning, as they do every year at this time, to mark and mourn the anniversary of the wave of devastating apartment bombings that are widely referred to as “Russia’s 9/11.”…
Source – defence-blog.com – In the future, a fleet of heavy transport aircraft will reportedly be capable of moving a strategic unit of 400 Armata tanks, with ammunition, to anywhere in the world. And probably at hypersonic speed, enabling Russia to mount a global military response. According to a new design specification from the Military-Industrial…
Source – globalresearch.ca – Or should that be the language of ‘assumed’ power? The United Kingdom has been swamped by examples of sneering, belittling statements issuing from the Westminster bubble over the last few months, many of the insults being directed at Scotland during the Independence Referendum and the General Election, making the Scots justifiably…
Source – iol.co.za – Explosive information potentially implicating intelligence operatives from Britain, the US and the former apartheid government in the killing of former UN secretary-general Dag Hammarskjöld is under intense scrutiny by a high-level panel established by the UN. It is probing the circumstances under which Hammarskjöld and other UN officials died. Among the…
Source – rt.com – The West, despite its claims to be in a “War on Terror,” has been in alliance with the most sectarian forces to weaken Syria, Iran and Libya – rather than cooperating with them against ISIS, said Dan Glazebrook, political writer and journalist. At least 38 policemen were killed and 46 people…
Source – rt.com/news/257841-russia-china-us-hegemony/ – The White House is determined to block the rise of the key nuclear-armed nations, Russia and China, neither of whom will join the “world’s acceptance of Washington’s hegemony,” says head of the Institute for Political Economy, Paul Craig Roberts. The former US assistant secretary of the Treasury for economic policy, Dr…
Source – veteranstoday.com – Many have long argued that our rulers (=Invisible Government) keep themselves in power in part through a massive program of intimidation, smearing, incarcerations, and assassinations. A recent, more comprehensive, treatment of this thesis is available, for example, here. It’s seems worthwhile to catalog such cloak-and-dagger incidents as they occur. Shortly after the announcements…
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 – washingtonsblog.com – “President Bush gave the CIA permission to create a top secret assassination unit to find and kill Al Qaeda operatives. The program was kept from Congress for seven years. And when Leon Panetta told legislators about it in 2009, he revealed that the CIA had hired the private security firm Blackwater…
Source – theinternetpost.net – “International Atomic Energy Agency ( IAEA) claim it was PROBABLY exploded by Israel”: – SAUDIS have ISRAEL “NUKE” Yeman for them: video proof as IAEA confirms “probable” Israeli Nuclear Attack on Yemen, May 20, 2015 – A. The range of the camera is calculated to be about 4 to 5 miles…
Source – presstv.ir – “The view from London and Washington and New York is we have to go to war, we cannot allow this BRICS alliance between Russia, China, India, South Africa and most of Latin America creating new financial institutions to take away our ability to loot the resources in the developing sector”: –…
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 – .foreignpolicyjournal.com – From a perspective of continually searching for knowledge and relationships, for synthesizing information into a larger paradigm I have reached a point where the world—the human world and its cultural and physical geography—is reaching certain tipping or turning points. Several genres of interest—financial, military, and environmental—appear to be at a stage…
Source – mintpressnews.com – Despite shifts on Cuba and Venezuela, the Obama administration’s appointment of a man who’s been involved in the overthrow of leftist governments since the 1980s, to head the White House’s top agency on Latin American affairs shows little may have really changed: The Obama administration announced in December that it would…
Source – paulcraigroberts.org – Memorial Day commemorates soldiers killed in war. We are told that the war dead died for us and our freedom. US Marine General Smedley Butler challenged this view. He said that our soldiers died for the profits of the bankers, Wall Street, Standard Oil, and the United Fruit Company. Here is…
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 – .zerohedge.com – While admitting that reaching agreement between the two countries will be difficult to achieve, George Soros – speaking at The World Bank’s Bretton Woods conference this week – warned that unless the U.S. makes ‘major concessions’ and allows China’s currency to join the IMF’s basket of currencies, “there is a real…
Source – consortiumnews.com – An article from the first investigative series published at Consortiumnews in early 1996 revealed top-secret “talking points” used by Secretary of State Haig in 1981 to brief President Reagan about the Middle East, including an alleged U.S. “green light” for Iraq to invade Iran. Journalist Robert Parry found the document in old congressional…
Source – veteranstoday.com – The declining credibility of elections in many countries is creating a crisis of legitimacy severing bonds of trust that once linked citizens to the institutions that govern us. Without credible proof that those governing on our behalf really have earned our supportive consent in free and fair elections, one of humanity’s…
Source – freedomoutpost.com, By Tim Brown – Well the truth about Benghazi is finally starting to see the light. As we have theorized in several articles, the Obama administration was involved in an international Fast and Furious by trafficking arms through Benghazi into Syria. Today that theory has been confirmed. Newly released documents show that…
Source – english.farsnews.com – A senior Syrian legislator said the US will soon shift its energy policy and start replacing Saudi Arabia with Iran for supplying crude oil as Riyadh’s anti-democratic and reactionary actions are growing increasingly costly for Washington. “The US administration assumes the (nuclear) agreement with Iran will serve its interests in the…
Source – thecommonsenseshow.com – Have you ever wondered why President Obama is so willing to chase ISIS into Syria and risk war with Russia, but he allows an ISIS base camp to remain intact only 8 miles from El Paso? Both this article and the subsequent interview will answer the aforementioned question while demonstrating how…
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