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New Defense Strategy: War With Great Nations & Arms Race By Kevin Zeese and Margaret Flowers
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… Continue reading
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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… Continue reading
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2018 begins with US police reign of terror
While largely ignored by the mass media, the reign of terror by police officers continues to rage across the United States. The entire state apparatus, from local cops to immigration agents, has been unleashed by the Trump administration to beat, maim and kill with impunity. Continue reading
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America’s National “Defense” Is Really “Offense”: Selected Articles
28 January 2018 — Global Research Shifting Geopolitical Realities in Afghanistan. Threat to US Hegemony? By Fraidoon Amel, January 28, 2018 Violent geopolitical rivalries between imperialist and hegemonist powers over Afghanistan’s natural resources, trade and transit routes, and geostrategic location have dramatically intensified. Despite sixteen years of heavy-handed US presence to establish its hegemony in Afghanistan and… Continue reading
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Blackouts and Flashpoints in 2018: Who Rules America, Globalization and Geopolitics By Prof. James Petras
I believe that we will experience a radical making and remaking of political and economic integration, East and West, within and without nations states. ‘States Rights’ will re-emerge as an antidote to globalization. Big countries will compete in regional wars with limited commitments but with global goals. Continue reading
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US-Turkey Clash in Northern Syria. Turkey’s “Operation Olive Branch”: Selected Articles
23 January 2018 — Global Research Ankara is militarizing the Afrin district of Syria with operation code-named “Olive Branch” to establish a “safe zone” along the Turkish-Syrian border. The district is controlled by US-backed People’s Protection Units (YPG) which are allegedly the target of the Turkish forces in the region. Will this invasion mount up the existential crisis in… Continue reading
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US Military Confrontation with Russia and China: Selected Articles
21 January 2018 — Global Research “Explosive”, “Shocking” and “Alarming” FISA Memo Set to Rock DC, “End Mueller Investigation” By Zero Hedge, January 21, 2018 All hell is breaking loose in Washington D.C. after a four-page memo detailing extensive FISA court abuse was made available to the entire House of Representatives Thursday. The contents of the memo are so… Continue reading
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Trump Keeps US in Syria and Sets Off New War
Just days after the announcement of a U.S.-backed Kurdish “border force” and an indefinite U.S. military presence in Syria, Turkey is shelling Kurdish areas and threatening a ground assault. We speak to Max Blumenthal and Ben Norton about what the Trump administration’s renewed commitment to both regime change and confronting Iran means for Syria. Continue reading
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The US is Arming and Assisting Neo-Nazis in Ukraine, While Congress Debates Prohibition By Max Blumenthal
The American government’s collaboration with committed Nazi ideologues to undercut Russian geopolitical goals is not new, nor has it been a particularly well-kept secret. In his 1988 book length expose, “Blowback,” investigative journalist Christopher Simpson lifted the cover off the CIA’s program of rehabilitating former assets of Nazi Germany, including documented war criminals, and revealed… Continue reading
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After Hawaii Scare, Trump Worsens Nuclear Danger
Trump’s bellicose statements about North Korea and the recent false missile alert in Hawaii have raised global alarm over nuclear war. Now, in an unprecedented step, a draft of the new U.S. Nuclear Posture calls for authorizing nuclear weapons use even in response to a non-military attack Continue reading
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The Pentagon’s New Syria War Plan: Selected Articles
18 January 2018 — Global Research Syrian Air Defense Ready to Destroy Turkish Warplanes If They Attack Afrin – Deputy FM By South Front, January 18, 2018 Syria’s Air Defense Forces are ready to react to any Turkish hostile action in Afrin and the Damascus government will consider the Turkish military operation there as an act… Continue reading
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The Pentagon’s New Syria War Plan: Selected Articles
18 January 2018 — Global Research Syrian Air Defense Ready to Destroy Turkish Warplanes If They Attack Afrin – Deputy FM By South Front, January 18, 2018 Syria’s Air Defense Forces are ready to react to any Turkish hostile action in Afrin and the Damascus government will consider the Turkish military operation there as an act… Continue reading
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#TheAssistance: Democrats Hand Trump Warrantless Spying
Fifty-five House Democrats, including #Resistance stalwarts, have joined Republicans to give Trump’s NSA broad warrantless surveillance powers. The Senate is likely to follow. We speak to Trevor Timm of the Freedom of the Press Foundation. Continue reading
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Trump’s “More Nukes”: Selected Stories
15 January 2017 — Global Research Trump’s Despicable Statement: Is There Such a Thing as a “Shithole Country”? By Andrew Korybko, January 14, 2018 The question should be rephrased to whether there’s such a thing as a “shithole” period, and yes, there is, but the stereotypical “Third World” socio-economic and physical conditions that the word often embodies… Continue reading
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US – More Hawkish Than Ever? Building an Empire, Fomenting a Unipolar World
12 January 2018 — Global Research News It’s Nato that’s Empire-building, not Putin By Peter Hitchins and True Publica, January 11, 2018 Propaganda is information that is not objective and is used primarily to influence an audience and further an agenda, often by presenting facts selectively to encourage a particular synthesis or perception, or using loaded language to produce an emotional rather than… Continue reading
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History of US-Iran Relations: “Regime Change” and the Islamic State in 1979? By Masud Wadan
According to Masud Wadan in this timely analysis of Iran’s 1979 Revolution, the US and its European allies favored the creation of an Islamic State headed by Ayatollah Khomeini, Iran’s spiritual leader, with a view to undermining Iran’s leftist-progressive revolutionary movement. Continue reading
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In Fusion GPS Testimony, More Questions Than Answers
As President Trump refuses to commit to an interview with Special Counsel Robert Mueller, the long-awaited testimony of Glenn Simpson, founder of the firm behind the Steele dossier, has been released. Independent journalist Marcy Wheeler and Aaron Mate discuss Continue reading
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The campaign over the “unfitness” of Donald Trump
The publication of Michael Wolff’s insider account of the early months of the Trump administration, Fire and Fury, has become the occasion for a media firestorm powered by allegations that Trump is mentally unfit to be president. Media pundits and Democratic politicians have cited the book’s portrayal of Trump to claim that the president should… Continue reading
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Think Tank-Addicted Media Turn to Regime Change Enthusiasts for Iran Protest Commentary By Adam Johnson
Since the outbreak of mass demonstrations and unrest in Iran last week, US media have mostly busied themselves with the question of not if we should “do something,” but what, exactly, that something should be. As usual, it’s simply taken for granted the United States has a divine right to intervene in the affairs of… Continue reading
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Anglo Saxon alliance helps its ally to kill another 54 civilians – running amok?
Widely reported: on 26 December, airstrikes on a crowded popular market in Al Hayma sub-district in Attazziah district, Taizz Governorate led to at least 54 civilians being killed, including eight children, and 32 others injured including six children. More than 350 high-profile figures including six Nobel peace prize laureates, former military generals, politicians, diplomats and… Continue reading
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