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Paris under Attack: Was it a False Flag? A Pretext for NATO to Intervene in Syria and the Middle East? By Peter Koenig Global Research, November 15, 2015 France is at war! – Exclaimed President Hollande several times in each of his three what appeared like scripted speeches he gave within 12 hours after the…
A Decisive Shift In The Power Balance Has Occurred The world is beginning to realize that a sea-change in world affairs occurred on September 28 when President Putin of Russia stated in his UN speech that Russia can no longer tolerate Washington’s vicious, stupid, and failed policies that have unleashed chaos, which is engulfing…
“They want to empty the country.” Sept. 20, 2015, Refugees wait at a bus terminal in Istanbul. Ahmet Sik / Getty Images ISTANBUL — The 53-year-old father of two was convinced that Bashar al-Assad wanted him to flee Syria. More than two years after he buried the bodies from a massacre in his village near…
Chinese Admiral: South China Sea ‘Belongs to China’ By Franz-Stefan Gady Global Research, September 16, 2015 The Diplomat 16 September 2015 Region: Asia At a recent naval conference a Chinese Vice Admiral did not mince words. Speaking at this year’s First Sea Lord/RUSI International Sea Power Conference in London, Chinese Vice Admiral Yuan Yubai, commander…
A List of Media Where the ‘News’ Is Censored — And Where It’s Not Posted on September 20, 2015 by Eric Zuesse. —— A good test of the extent to which a given news-medium censors out news that the aristocracy (especially the people who control international corporations — the people who possess the ultimate authority…
A self-selected group of former top military officers, CIA insiders and think-tankers, declared Tuesday in Washington that a seven-month review of the deadly 2012 terrorist attack has determined that [Gaddafi offered to abdicate as leader of Libya.] ‘Gaddafi wasn’t a good guy, but he was being marginalized,’ [Retired Rear Admiral Chuck ] Kubic…
This was no chemical fire, this was China’s 9-11. Who were the terrorists? In 1996 under the Clinton administration, the B61-11 tactical nuclear weapon was slated to be used by the US in an attack against Libya. …by Ian Greenhalgh, Britain – with Jeff Smith, USA Sometimes we like…
Editor, Tom Dispatch.com The Superpower Conundrum Posted: 07/02/2015 The Rise and Fall of Just About Everything Cross-posted with TomDispatch.com The rise and fall of great powers and their imperial domains has been a central fact of history for centuries. It’s been a sensible, repeatedly validated framework for thinking about the fate of the planet. So…
Don’t Push A Bad Position! Bill Holter | June 26, 2015 – 11:07am Facebook Twitter Forward Print “Don’t push a bad position”! This is good advice in many varied quests. It is good advice in games like chess or poker. Good advice in sports, business, politics, geopolitics and certainly in…