The truth at any cost lowers all other costs — curated by former US spy Robert David Steele.
Ghani named winner of Afghan election, will share power with rival in new government KABUL — Former finance minister Ashraf Ghani was declared the winner of Afghanistan’s contested presidential election Sunday, setting the stage for President Hamid Karzai’s departure from office and a security agreement allowing American troops to remain in the country after this …
The US is now involved in 134 wars or none, depending on your definition of ‘war’ The White House spent much of last week trying to figure out if the word “war” was the right one to describe its military actions against the Islamic State. US Secretary of State John Kerry was at first reluctant: …
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The Great Concentration or the Great Fragmentation? Tom Engelhardt TomDispatch, 18 September 2014 EXTRACTS Could there be any question that dominance, or even as the U.S. military liked to put it, “full-spectrum dominance,” was the obvious, uncontested, and only possible result? A Jihadist Paradise on Earth As the present chaos across large swathes of our …
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Huh? What is Khorasan? Syria’s hard cell: Rise of Khorasan group alarms U.S. Wikipedia / Greater Horasan See Also: Graphic: Muslim Sunni – Shi’ite Distribution (Global) ISIS @ Phi Beta Iota Tip of the Hat to Jaime Enoch Ortega at LinkedIn.
The Impossible War Isis cannot be beaten as long as there is civil war in Syria BY PATRICK COCKBURN CounterPunch • SEPTEMBER 11, 2014 A letter printed at the bottom of this article was emailed by a friend soon after her neighbourhood in Mosul was hit by Iraqi airforce bombers. This was some hours before …
America’s perpetual war on terror by any other name If you embark on something with your eyes half-open, you are likely to lose sight of reality Financial Times, 14 September 2014 EXTRACT The reality is the US war on terror has succeeded where it was supposed to. Mr Bush’s biggest innovation was to set up …
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How the West Created the Islamic State Follow the Money, Follow the Oil Nafeez Ahmed Counter-Punch, 12-14 September 2014 EXTRACTS Missing from the chorus of outrage, however, has been any acknowledgement of the integral role of covert US and British regional military intelligence strategy in empowering and even directly sponsoring the very same virulent Islamist …
