New Defense Strategy: War With Great Nations & Arms Race By Kevin Zeese and Margaret Flowers

4 February 2018 — Popular Resistance

This week, following the recent announcement of a new National Defense Strategy that focuses on conflicts with great powers and a new arms race, the Pentagon announced an escalation of nuclear weapons development. The United States’ military is spread across the world, including several dangerous conflict areas that could develop into an all-out war, possibly in conflict with China or Russia. This comes at a time when US empire is fading, something the Pentagon also recognizes and the US is falling behind China economically. This is not unexpected considering that one year ago President Trump sought an inaugural parade that put tanks and missiles on display. Continue reading

Danger of US-Russia Confrontation: Selected Articles

4 February 2018 — Global Research

FISA Memo Released. Will witch-hunt Russiagate investigations end? Will Trump and his campaign team be exonerated?

By Stephen Lendman, February 04, 2018

The FBI and Justice Department sought multiple FISA warrants based on unverified information from former MI6 spy Christopher Steele’s dodgy dossier on Trump – his work funded by Hillary and the DNC to denigrate him during the 2016 presidential campaign, continuing once in office. Continue reading

Fourteen-year-old Ghada was the latest victim of Israel’s dehumanising machine By Jonathan Cook

4 February 2018 — Jonathan Cook

The National – 4 February 2018

How did a 14-year-old Palestinian girl who has never set foot in the open-air prison of Gaza find herself being dumped there by Israeli officials – alone, at night and without her parents being informed?

The terrifying ordeal – a child realising she had not been taken home but discarded in a place where she knew no one – is hard to contemplate for any parent.

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