World Affairs
World On Fire
by John Rubino The latest Middle East news is right out of ISIS’ medieval playbook. But it’s not (at least not all) ISIS. US ally Saudi Arabia apparently decided to start the New Year off […]
World Affairs
World Affairs
30,000+ AMERICANS PETITION OBAMA TO DECLARE ERDOGAN’S TURKEY “STATE SPONSOR OF TERROR”
DECEMBER 31, 2015 | ZERO HEDGE On our way to documenting Turkey’s arrest of two generals and a colonel who dared to stop a weapons-laden MIT truck in route to Syria, we said that “if there’s a […]
Government
US Now World’s Top Arms Dealer
written by peter van buren monday december 28, 2015 In most people’s minds, America’s biggest exports are things like iPhones made in China, or swank Levi’s made in China. But in fact, America is the world’s […]
World Affairs
Turkish-Russian Tension Spills Into South Caucasus
In this Saturday, Aug. 2, 2014 file photo, a convoy of Azerbaijani army tanks moves in the direction of Agdam amid clashes across the Armenian border. (Photo: AP) December 27, 2015, Sunday/ 17:19:58/ MESUT ÇEVİKALP […]
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“Let Them Fly There Now”: Putin Threatens To Shoot Down Turkish Jets In Syria, Calls Erdogan An Ass Kisser
Submitted by Tyler Durden It’s been nearly a month since Turkey shot down a Russian Su-24 in what not only represented the most serious escalation to date in Syria’s five year conflict but also marked […]
Wealth Abuse
Something Strange Is Taking Place In The Middle Of The Atlantic Ocean
Submitted by Tyler Durden Early last month, we noted that something very strange was happening off the coast of Galveston, Texas. As FT reported, “the amount of oil [now] at sea is at least double the […]
World Affairs
You Want War? Russia Is Ready For War
Submitted by Tyler Durden Authored by Pepe Escobar, originally posted at Sputnik News, Nobody needs to read Zbigniew “Grand Chessboard” Brzezinski’s 1997 opus to know US foreign policy revolves around one single overarching theme: prevent […]
World Affairs
Where Will the Ukrainian Bombs Explode?
While the International Coalition planes bombed a camp of the Syrian Arab Army, December 6, Ukrainian Cyber-Berkut have made public new documents. They show that Qatar has bought Russian-made bombs in Ukraine so as to […]
World Affairs
Military Operations in Preparation in and Around Syria
The Western Press doesn’t have much to say about the military operations in Syria, except to affirm, without the slightest proof, that the Coalition is successfully bombing Daesh jihadists while the Russians continue to kill […]
Government
The Phony Mystery of Why “They” Hate Us
By Sheldon Richman What do Barack Obama and Donald Trump have in common? Among other things, they have — or pretend to have — no clue why some Muslims hate us. Trump says (I almost […]