Ask Western elites – oh, those were the days, in the 17th century, when the rise of European sea powers led to the collapse of the caravan trade and the end of the Silk Road as Europe found a cheaper – and safer – way of trading between East and West. By Pepe Escobar (Asia Times – Roving Eye) This […]
Former U.S. President George W. Bush recently dedicated his Presidential Library in Dallas. The ceremony included speeches by President Obama, ex-President Bush, and every other living ex-president. But none of the speeches so much as mentioned to Iraq war — the undertaking that dominated George W. Bush’s presidency, and will define his historic legacy. This omission might be due, at […]
The thrice-promised land it has been called. It is that land north of Mecca and Medina and south of Anatolia, between the Mediterranean Sea and the Persian Gulf by Patrick Buchanan In 1915 — that year of Gallipoli, which forced the resignation of First Lord of the Admiralty Winston Churchill — Britain, to win Arab support for its war against […]
In Mafia terms, it’s called “making an offer that can’t be refused”. The “offer” is not one of free choice between options that may benefit the object party. In reality, it is about setting up a scenario of duress, under which the object party is coerced to capitulate to detrimental terms of extreme prejudice determined cynically by the other party […]
Gerald Celente is on fire in this latest Trends Journal update Warning – Contains Adult Language
By agency reporter (ekklesia) Lawyers for the UK Government claimed yesterday (21 May) that it should not be held accountable in British courts for its role in the rendition and torture of Gaddafi opponents in 2004. Responding to a claim brought against the Government by a Libyan victim of a joint UK-US-Libyan ‘rendition’, ministers’ lawyers argued that the case should […]
Cornel West, professor of African American Studies at Princeton and of Religious Philosophy and Christian Studies at the Union Theological Seminary in New York, the most outspoken anti-imperialist lecturer and writer, the most well known defender of Black and minority civil rights since Martin Luther King Jr. and prominent member of the Democratic Socialists of America, has been for years […]
FBI whistle-blower Sibel Edmonds was described as “the most gagged person in the history of the United States” by the American Civil Liberties Union. Was the Sunday Times pressured to drop its investigation into her revelations? By Dr Nafeez Ahmed (Ceasefire) A whistleblower has revealed extraordinary information on the U.S. government’s support for international terrorist networks and organised crime. The government has denied […]
Hamid Karzai has let the Pentagon’s cat out of the bag — to the displeasure of the Obama Administration. The Afghan president revealed inside information about President Obama’s war plans after all U.S. “combat troops” completely withdraw in 17 months at the end of 2014 by Jack A. Smith As was known in recent years, the Obama Administration actually plans […]
World View: After the fiasco over Iraq’s weapons of mass destruction, people around the world are rightly sceptical about claims of gas attacks by Patrick Cockburn (The Independent) ‘I am not afraid of anything except for God and poison gas,” said an Iraqi officer who had fought in the Iran-Iraq war. “It’s like a ghost. You have no defence against it.” […]
So Bashar al-Assad has spoken – exclusively, to Argentine daily El Clarin (there’s a huge Syrian diaspora in Argentina, as well as in neighboring Brazil) by Pepe Escobar (Asia Times – ‘Roving Eye’) Cutting through the fog of Western hysteria, he made some valuable points. The record shows that, yes, the regime has agreed several times to talk to the […]
Jeju Island, Key Strategic Naval Base for America’s “Asia Pivot” by Bruce Gagnon This base will be a key port for the US Navy that is now moving 60% of its forces to the Asia-Pacific as part of Obama’s dangerous and destabilizing military “pivot” into the region. Gangjeong village sits just 300 miles from the Chinese mainland making the proposed […]
