What Stinks in Saudi Ain’t the Camel Dung
by F. William Engdahl, December 8, 2015 In recent weeks one nation after another is falling over themselves, literally, to join the turkey shoot known, erroneously, as the war...
Saudi Arabia Leads the Jihadist Nations; U.S. Assists Them
by Eric Zuesse Did you know that Saudi Arabia’s Ambassador to the United States, the Saudi Prince Bandar bin Sultan Al Saud (affectionately known in the U.S. as “Bandar...
US, Saudis consider partnering with Al-Qaeda ally
The ultimate Orwellism? Screenshot of the title of Foreign Policy’s report quoted below. Sputnik International reports: The world’s major powers plan to convene in Saudi Arabia on Tuesday for...
Al-Qaeda declares war on ISIS in rural Damascus, infighting in FSA at Dumayr
Al-Nusra supporters in Syria. Al Masdar News reports: Earlier today in the Qalamoun Mountains that are situated between the Syrian and Lebanese borders, the Syrian Al-Qaeda group “Jabhat Al-Nusra”...
New Yorker: Syrian opposition groups stop pretending
The Free Syrian Army in Kafranbel sends a Christmas message to the Pope in 2012. The New Yorker reports: The pretense that the so-called Syrian opposition-in-exile speaks for those...
Cameron Overreaches With “70,000” Claim Nobody Believes
From craigmurray.co.uk Cameron is in serious trouble at Westminster after overreaching himself by the claim that there are 70,000 “moderate rebels” willing to take up the ground war with...
The 7 Questions Corbyn SHOULD Have Asked
by Kit Today David Cameron made his case, such as it is, for Britain extending their air-strikes from Iraq into Syria. British bombing will make Britain “safer” he says....
Why did Turkey dare shoot down a Russian Plane?
Juan Cole, Informed Comment, November 25, 2015 The Turkish government decision to down a Russian jet operating in the north of the Syrian province of Latakia is breathtaking in...
Russia Insider: “This is nothing short of a Middle Eastern coup”
West-funded “moderate” “Syrian” “human rights activists” waiting for Russian planes. Andrey Davydov tweet. […] Make no mistake, this is shaping up to be the most spectacular US foreign policy...
Media frantically re-shaping AlQaeda as the good guys
by Robert Parry via Consortium News The key sentence in The New York Times’ lead article about Russian airstrikes against Syrian rebel targets fell to the bottom of the...
CENTCOM Analysts: ISIS intelligence manipulated
The Daily Beast reports: More than 50 intelligence analysts working out of the U.S. military’s Central Command have formally complained that their reports on ISIS and al Qaeda’s branch...
Putin Giving Up on Assad, Says Erdogan
by Eric Zuesse Turkey’s President, Recep Tayyip Erdogan, was asked by an interviewer last week: On the question of Syria, have you seen changes in the attitude of Russian...
Hillary Clinton’s Neocon Legacy: Coups, Dictators, Corruption, Chaos, Executions and Assassination
Hillary Clinton has on her liberal mask. She is all smiles and is trying hard to “out Bernie” Bernie Sanders. She is hitting all the populist...
VIDEO: FBI responsible for more terror attacks than any other organization
by Kit There’s an organization responsible for more terrorism plots in the United States than al-Qaeda, al-Shabaab and ISIS combined: The FBI. How? Why? In an eye-opening talk, investigative...
The Pentagon’s New Boogeymen: The Rise of ISIS and the Decline of Al-Qaeda
It’s been a month now since newly declassified US intelligence documents confirmed that the rise of ISIS was not only predicted by the West, the Gulf States and Turkey,...
NYT’s Friedman: Should we be arming ISIS?
I readily admit to not taking my daily dose of “New York Times” op-eds since these pages deteriorated to mostly superficial exceptionalism and exemptionalism on international affairs. Take for...
Better late…
What Glenn Greenwald has to say on his latest piece in The Intercept came as a great surprise to me. An excerpt: Russian President Vladimir Putin has long said that...
