Source – atimes.com – The real Masters of the Universe in the U.S. are no weathermen, but arguably they’re starting to feel which way the wind is blowing. History may signal it all started with this week’s trip to Sochi, led by their paperboy, Secretary of State John Kerry, who met with Foreign Minister Lavrov…
Source – davidstockmanscontracorner.com – The brouhaha over an alleged 1994 Iranian plot to bomb a Jewish community center in Argentina, of all places, has been in and out of the news for years. Hysterical headlines, fantastic allegations, simmering intrigue, a mysterious suicide that some are claiming was a murder – it all sounds like a…
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 – rt.com – There is in-fighting among the Cabalist bankers and politicians nowadays. Looks like they’re in each others’ throat right now and they could not contain it anymore. No less than the European Commission president is accusing London and Wall Street money magicians of plotting to overthrow the EUrozone for their own benefit.…
Source – corbettreport.com – Transcript of Episode 297 of The Corbett Report podcast, “China and The New World Order: JAMES CORBETT: Welcome ladies and gentlemen to another edition of the Corbett Report. I’m your host as always James Corbett of corbettreport.com coming to you from the sunny climes of western Japan here on the 7th…
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 – original.antiwar.com – Ron Paul, as usual, was prescient when he warned – in 2007 – of a Gulf of Tonkin type incident in the Persian Gulf that could bring us to the brink of war with Iran. The seizure by the Iranians of a commercial vessel flying under the Marshall Islands flag in…
Source – in.rbth.com – Exactly 40 years ago the Vietnamese burst into Saigon, catching the Americans in their underpants. As well as mounting a brave defence of their country, the Vietnamese used one superpower’s firepower to defeat another. To get a sense of how viciously the Vietnam War was fought and – more importantly –…
Source – in.rbth.com – On December 10, 1971 at the peak of the India-Pakistan war, Russian intelligence tracked several British warships, led by the aircraft carrier Eagle, moving towards India’s west coast. The advance of the British fleet was aimed at applying pressure on India and lifting Pakistani morale. In response, Moscow despatched the 10th…
Source – globalresearch.ca – April 1975 marks the official end of the Vietnam War. Yet today, Vietnam is an impoverished countries. The Hanoi government is a US proxy regime. Vietnam has become a new cheap labor frontier of the global economy. Neoliberalism prevails. In a bitter irony, Vietnam which was a victim of US war…
Source – commondreams.org – For three days, wearing a kaleidoscope of camouflage patterns, they huddled together on a military base in Florida. They came from U.S. Special Operations Command (SOCOM) and U.S. Army Special Operations Command, from France and Norway, from Denmark, Germany, and Canada: 13 nations in all. They came to plan a years-long…
Source – nexusilluminati.blogspot.ca – “A secret cabal of immensely rich and powerful men – the Secret Elite – was formed in England in 1891 with the explicit aim of expanding the British Empire across the entire globe. They planned a European war to destroy Germany as an economic, industrial and imperial competitor” – The truth…
Source – russia-insider.com – Foreword by the Saker: The analysis below is, by far, the best I have seen since the beginning of the conflict in the Ukraine. I have regularly posted analyses by Ishchenko on this blog before, because I considered him as one of the best analysts in Russia. This time, however, Ishchenko has truly…
Source – davidstockmanscontracorner.com – It’s good and right that we commemorate the mass killing in the Ottoman Empire during World War I of between 500,000 and 1.5 million Armenians. Many nations now call the slaughter of 1915-1916 a “genocide.” This week the 100th anniversary of the notorious event was observed. Pope Francis and the European…
Source – rt.com – The US Navy has deployed its first ever combat laser. The futuristic weapon has boosted the arsenal of the Fifth Fleet’s command vessel in the Persian Gulf. The laser is said to be effective against numerous small targets, such as Iran’s gunboats. A 30-kilowatt-class Laser Weapon System has been equipped on…
Source – .constantinereport.com – The Ivy League’s favorite war criminal: Why the atrocities of Henry Kissinger should be mandatory reading. In an appearance at Yale last week, the Nixon official’s horrific record was casually glossed over. But why? Ex-government officials have always occupied a particular sweet spot for members the Ivy League. Regardless of what…
Source – crimesofempire.com – A Deal to Sign a Deal: As I write these words the US President is announcing that a deal has been made, at least a framework deal has been made with Iran and the West. Sanctions relief will be phased. The deal guarantees no Iran nuke, not that they were actually…
Source – kochcash.org – We created The Kochtopus as an interactive map of the money, structure, and scale of the Kochs’ influence network, and how Koch Cash is damaging democracy. Follow the chains of influence to learn more on how the Koch Brothers have corrupted our democratic process. http://kochcash.org/the-kochtopus/
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…
Source – zerohedge.com – Over the past several months, we’ve argued that between the collapse of petrodollar mercantilism and the rise of a China-led, yuan-influenced multinational development bank, the days of dollar hegemony are likely numbered. The implications of the shift away from a global economic order that has prevailed since the end of WWII…
Source – nationalinterest.org – The conservative German daily Die Welt, well-known for its unflinching support for Israel, recently published an article stating “with near certainty” that the Federal Republic of Germany, or West Germany, helped finance Israel’s nuclear program in the 1960s. According to the Welt report, in 1961 West Germany agreed to loan $500…
Source – stopmakingsense.org – ‘Of all the writers in the “realist” canon—from Thucydides and Hobbes to Morgenthau and Mearsheimer—it is Niccolo Machiavelli who retains the greatest capacity to shock. In 1513, banished from his beloved Florence, Machiavelli drafted his masterwork, The Prince. Five centuries later his primer on statecraft remains required if unsettling reading for…
Source – mintpressnews.com – With the world on the brink of another world war over a fire lit in the Middle East, oil and gas — not ideology, religion or even nationalism — are at the very core of the equation of power and greed. Russia and the United States’ hegemonic ambitions were laid bare…
Source – jamesperloff.com – False flags do not stand alone. They are better understood – and more credibly explained to skeptics – when seen in history’s context. On the morning of December 7, 1941, Japanese planes, launched from aircraft carriers, attacked the American fleet at Pearl Harbor in Hawaii, sinking or heavily damaging 18 ships…
Source – journal-neo.org – There is a real and active military alliance between the US and Iran, one denied by both but real, functional and as seen in Tikrit, highly effective. All the while, stories of American threats against Iran are bolstering Obama and Rouhani, with the controlled press stupidly playing the “dog” to the…
Source – geopoliticalmonitor.com – In Yemen there is no longer a government or a president. On January 22, after the Houthi, (Zaydi Shiites) militiamen in the north besieged the presidential palace in Sana’a, both interim President (since 2012) Abdu Rabu Mansour Hadi and Prime Minister Khaled Bahah (of a caretaker government which secured parliamentary confidence…
Source – voltairenet.org – “The geopolitical closed door policy towards Southeast Asia constructed by the Pentagon and the Department of State failed as a containment policy” Despite US opposition, the global rise of the yuan has become unstoppable. In the light of IMF reunions, the Chinese government is now looking for a way to incorporate…
Source – newdawnmagazine.com – When the war-drums start beating in Washington against a state or statesman, one is entitled to wonder what transgression might have been made against the ‘New World Order’. Over the past few decades we have seen one nation after another succumb to either financial blandishments, or when those fail, long-planned, well-funded…
Source – spyghana.com – The Saudi military is almost entirely staffed by mercenaries. The Saudi jets bombing an air defenseless Yemen are piloted by Pakistanis. Its mid and low level officers are mainly from Jordan and most ominously for its ability to actually launch a ground invasion, its rank and file soldiers are almost entirely from Yemen. That’s…
Source – spiegel.de – Klaus Barbie was a notorious Nazi war criminal known as the “Butcher of Lyon” because of his horrific deeds in occupied France. Now new research has revealed that he also worked as a spy for Germany’s BND intelligence agency while in hiding in Bolivia after the war. The agency almost certainly…
Source – zengardner.com – The Untold Story of the Zionist intent to turn Palestine into a Jewish State – By William A. Cook (Based on classified documents from the Jewish Agency and its affiliated organizations seized by the British Mandate Police, materials that confirm that the Zionist controlled Jewish community intended to remove the Arab…
Source – sputniknews.com – The rapid rise of the AIIB was foreseeable: the world’s emerging economies got really frustrated when the US-dominated Bretton Woods institutions disregarded them as a “group of banana republics,” F. William Engdahl noted. © AFP 2015/ Takaki Yajima /POOL China-Led Development Bank Establishes New Multipolar Economic Order Washington’s policy makers have…
Source – consortiumnews.com, By Robert Parry – Few Americans seem to comprehend what is unfolding in the Middle East – with the latest conflict involving Saudi airstrikes against the Houthi rebels who now control Yemen’s capital of Sanaa. In this swirl of regional wars, it’s often not clear where the U.S. government stands and how…
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