The truth at any cost lowers all other costs — curated by former US spy Robert David Steele.
CRS on Islamic State and US Policy Phi Beta Iota: The CRS report is superb on the facts in relation to the Islamic State of Syria and Iraq (ISIS) if one assumes they are an autonomous entity. It falls severely short in failing to inform Congress on the culpability of elements of the US Government …
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Hitting Saudi Arabia Where It Hurts Exclusive: Though faced with a global terrorism crisis, Official Washington can’t get beyond its neocon-led “tough-guy-gal” rhetoric. But another option – financial sanctions on Saudi Arabia – might help finally shut down the covert supply of money and arms to Al Qaeda and the Islamic State, writes Robert Parry.
The Saudi Connection to Terror Exclusive: While Official Washington devotes much sound and fury to demands for a wider war in Syria and the need to turn away Syrian refugees, Democrats and Republicans dodge the tougher question: how to confront Saudi Arabia about its covert funding for Islamic State and Al Qaeda terrorists, writes Daniel Lazare.
NATO is harbouring the Islamic State Why France’s brave new war on ISIS is a sick joke, and an insult to the victims of the Paris attacks Conspicuously missing from President Hollande’s decisive declaration of war however, was any mention of the biggest elephant in the room: state-sponsorship. … Earlier this year, the Turkish daily …
Blowback—–The Washington War Party’s Folly Comes Home To Roost EXTRACT: But the everlasting truth is that the relative handful of suicidal jihadi who have perpetrated murderous episodes of terror like 9/11 and this weekend’s carnage in Paris did not exist in November 1989; and they would not be marauding the West today save for the unrelenting arrogance, stupidity, duplicity and mendacity of Imperial Washington.
ISIS wants to destroy the ‘grey zone’. Here’s how we defend it Nafeez Mosaddeq Ahmed 16 November 2015 After the Paris attacks, it is imperative that we safeguard this arena of co-existence, where people of all faith and none remain unified on the principles of common humanity. EXTRACT While Hollande’s reactionary declaration of war is …
Isis in five charts Tunesia, Saudi Arabia, Jordan, Morocco, Lebanon, Libya, Turkey, Egypt, Iraq provide most fighters. Biggest fifth columns are from and in France, Britain, Germany, Australia, and Belgium. ISIS, Qatar, Saudi Arabia and their ‘Sovereign Wealth Funds’ The rapid spread of Islamic State could only have occurred with a high degree of funding …
