Marcus Aurelius: Collapse of American Influence Recalls Dis-Integration of Soviet Union, Fall of France

Collapse of American Influence Recalls Dis-Integration of Soviet Union, Fall of France By CONRAD BLACK | September 7, 2013 Not since the disintegration of the Soviet Union in 1991, and prior to that the fall of France in 1940, has there been so swift an erosion of the world influence of a Great Power as …

Anthony Judge: Part II – Enabling Suffering through Doublespeak and Doublethink Indifference to poverty and retributive justice as case studies

PART II: Enabling Suffering through Doublespeak and Doublethink Indifference to poverty and retributive justice as case studies Cultivating indifference to suffering through doublespeak Enabling suffering through religious doublespeak Enabling suffering through legal doublespeak Enabling suffering through political doublespeak: Iraq vs. Syria Exploiting suffering as a means of moral and emotional blackmail Transcendent justification for indifference …

Chuck Spinney: Ambassador Chas Freeman — “Don’t Just Stand There, Bomb Something!”

Below is a thoughtful essay by Ambassador Chas Freeman.  He describes how the United States has painted itself into a corner on the Syrian Question.  Many see this problem in terms of President Obama’s missteps, but Freeman shows it goes far beyond one man’s grand-strategic foibles. While Freeman does not express the evolution of grand …

Wayne Madsen: American Generals Stand between War and Peace — John Brennan to Hang, Obama to Face Impeachment Over Benghazi?

American Generals Stand between War and Peace The Chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff of the United States, General Martin Dempsey, backed by his Joint Staff generals and admirals, stood between a hasty and knee-jerk President Obama who was intent on launching a military attack on Syria and a tenuous peace in the Middle …

Berto Jongman: US Intelligence Missed Signs of WMD Attack? Or Just Now Leveraging Fabricated Israeli or Saudi-Concocted “Intercepts”?

US spies missed signs of Aug. 21 Syrian WMD Strike By KIMBERLY DOZIER Associated Press, 4 September 2013 WASHINGTON (AP) — U.S. intelligence agencies did not detect the Syrian regime readying a massive chemical weapons attack in the days ahead of the strike, only piecing together what had happened after the fact, U.S. officials say. …

Chuck Spinney: Patrick Coburn on Chaos in Libya – What Has US “Power” Done?

Special report: We all thought Libya had moved on – it has, but into lawlessness and ruin Libya has plunged unnoticed into its worst political and economic crisis since the defeat of Gaddafi PATRICK COCKBURN Independent, TUESDAY 03 SEPTEMBER 2013 http://www.independent.co.uk/news/world/africa/special-report-we-all-thought-libya-had-moved-on–it-has-but-into-lawlessness-and-ruin-8797041.html Related articles