6 December 2019 — Strategic Culture Foundation
If the NATO summit this week marking the 70th anniversary of its foundation in 1949 was meant to be a resounding celebration, it backfired spectacularly, more as a resounding farce. Amid all the pomp and ceremony afforded by an official reception at Buckingham Palace, hosted by the British Queen, the two-day gathering descended into squabbling, sneering and back-stabbing.
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23 August 2019 — Indian Punchline
Prime Minister Narendra Modi (L) and Russian President Vladimir Putin (R) at informal meeting in Sochi in May 2018
Within a week of National Security Advisor Ajit Doval’s consultations in Moscow on August 21, External Affairs Minister S. Jaishankar is travelling to the Russian capital for talks with his Russian counterpart Sergey Lavrov on Tuesday.
28 June 2019 — Internationalist 360
National Security Advisor Zbigniew Brzezinski imagined using the Muslim Brotherhood for terrorist operations against the Afghan Communist government, which led to the USSR’s intervention.
21 December 2018 — Craig Murray
Even the neo-con warmongers’ house journal The Guardian, furious at Trump’s attempts to pull US troops out of Syria, in producing a map to illustrate its point, could only produce one single, uncertain, very short pen stroke to describe the minute strip of territory it claims ISIS still controls on the Iraqi border.
10 November 2017 — Global Research
US Strikes Soaring in Afghanistan, Along with Civilian DeathsBy Jason Ditz, November 09, 2017
With the US once again escalating the war in Afghanistan, the number of US warplanes dropping munitions on the central Asian country are on the rise, and with it, the number of civilians being killed in those strikes. Continue reading
25 October 2017 — Global Research
Syrian Government Urges UN Security Council to Put an End to US Coalition Crimes against Civilians
By News Desk, October 25, 2017
The US-led coalition, whose operation in Syria had not been authorized by the UN or Damascus, has denied that its airstrike resulted in civilian casualties in Deir ez-Zor. Continue reading
7 July 2017 — Drone Wars
Drone Wars UK will be in court next week seeking to overturn the refusal of the Ministry of Defence (MoD) to release how many of the UK’s fleet of ten armed Reaper drones are deployed and where they are located. The MoD currently releases such deployment details about its other armed aircraft, but has insisted since late 2014 that such information cannot be released about its armed drones.
7 August 2014 — Global Research
The consequence of Washington’s reckless and irresponsible political and military interventions in Iraq, Libya, and Syria has been to unleash evil. The various sects that lived in peace under the rule of Saddam Hussein, Gaddafi, and Assad are butchering one another, and a new group, ISIS, is in the process of creating a new state out of parts of Iraq and Syria.
7 November 2013 — Information Clearing House
Torture on Tape:
Disturbing Video Shows U.S. Special Forces Observing Brutal Afghan Interrogation
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A video just posted online shows a hogtied prisoner being whipped by Afghan security forces, as what appears to be two unidentified American military officers look on.
http://www.informationclearinghouse.info/article36785.htm
1 November 2013 — The Hampton Institute
Part 1: Political Language and the ‘Mafia Principles’ of International Relations
Part 2: Barack Obama’s Global Terror Campaign
Part 3: America’s “Secret Wars” in Over 100 Countries Around the World
While the American Empire – and much of the policies being pursued – did not begin under President Obama, the focus of “Empire Under Obama” is to bring awareness about the nature of empire to those who may have – or continue – to support Barack Obama and who may believe in the empty promises of “hope” and “change.” Empire is institutional, not individual. Continue reading
27 October 2013 — David Swanson
Ann Jones’ new book, They Were Soldiers: How the Wounded Return from America’s Wars — The Untold Story, is devastating, and almost incomprehensibly so when one considers that virtually all of the death and destruction in U.S. wars is on the other side. Statistically, what happens to U.S. troops is almost nothing. In human terms, it’s overwhelming.
23 October 2013 — Information Clearing House
US is Fighting in Yemen’s Civil War
By Ryan Goodman
The president is waging a secret war in Yemen, and it’s time for him to come clean.
http://www.informationclearinghouse.info/article36620.htm
20 October 2013 — Information Clearing House
It Took Decades for Truth to be Revealed in Algeria. How Long Will it Take Syria?
By Robert Fisk
The real story of the much more recent Algerian war – between the Islamists and the government in the 1990s (total deaths 250,000, a hundred thousand more than in Syria today) – still cannot be told by Algerian historians.
http://www.informationclearinghouse.info/article36597.htm
19 October 2013 — Information Clearing House
Assassination Pushes Libya Towards Civil War Two Years after Gaddafi Murder
By Chris Stephen in Tripoli
Fighting rages in Benghazi as Tripoli braces for fallout from the kidnapping of prime minister Ali Zaidan.
http://www.informationclearinghouse.info/article36579.htm
16 October 2013 — Information Clearing House
US War On Iraq Claimed Half a Million Lives, Study Finds
By Joseph Brownstein
US Public perception of the civilian death toll from the war is in the neighborhood of 10,000.
http://www.informationclearinghouse.info/article36540.htm
15 October 2013 — Information Clearing House
Breaking: Iran, US Hold Direct Talks in Geneva
By Al-Monitor
The U.S. and Iranian nuclear negotiating teams met for one on one talks for one hour this evening, Iranian and American officials confirmed.
http://www.informationclearinghouse.info/article36536.htm
13 October 2013 — Information Clearing House
Post-Intervention Libya: A Militia State
By Richard Falk
The seizure of al-Libi and the subsequent kidnapping of the prime minister may be metaphors of what ‘governance’ in Libya has come to signify.
http://www.informationclearinghouse.info/article36513.htm
12 October 2013 — Strategic Culture Foundation
12.10.2013 | 00:00 | Valentin KATASONOV
The published piece called America’s Debt: Upper and Lower Tips of Iceberg offers a wide range of assessments to determine the size of US debt. Today the country has to raise the debt ceiling again, otherwise the United States will lapse into a coma. But are there any limits to raising the ceiling? What is used as the debt backup? Is America able to serve the debt?.. The US economy assets (including financial assets) are not enough to cover even a half of consolidated debt… The total interest rates expenditure goes beyond the US national debt limits, states municipalities, banks, corporations, and households have debts of their own. The last years the experts have tried many times to estimate the total US debt service expenditure… Continue reading
11 October 2013 — Information Clearing House
Foreigners Train Syrian Rebels in Afghanistan to Use Chem Weapons – Russian Foreign Minister
By RT
“Al-Nusra Front is planning to smuggle toxic compounds and relevant specialists into Iraqi territory to stage terrorist attacks there this time,” Lavrov said.
http://www.informationclearinghouse.info/article36498.htm
11 October 2013 — Links International Journal of Socialist Renewal
Front de Gauche leader Jean-Luc Mélenchon addressed the fete of left newspaper L´Humanité in Paris on September 15, 2013. In this six-part video Mélenchon discusses French foreign policy in relation to Iraq, Afghanistan and Libya, the colossal failures of “Chicago School” [neoliberal] economics, the attacks of the European Union, the Front de Gauche’s program when elected, religion and politics, and the front’s opposition to militarism. Continue reading
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