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Israel’s Hidden Faces : A Long Day’s Night for Us All

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With Israel’s politics trending dangerously further to the right,this information is significant.

January 20th, 2013 | Posted in 9/11,AfPak,Editors' Picks,Expert Opinions ME,History,Iraq War,Libya,Middle East Conflicts,News From the Region,War | Read More »

Obama’s Foreign Policy: The Way Forward With Iran

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The notion that the only way to deal with Iranian problem is to start a war with Iran,is not a service to the American national interest….

January 17th, 2013 | Posted in AfPak,Civil Liberties and Freedom,Corruption,Cost to the US,Editors' Picks,Expert Opinions ME,Expert Viewpoints,Foreign Relations,Government,Heroes,Iraq War,Israel Lobby in Action,Legislation,Libya,Middle East Conflicts,Military,News From the Region,Politico,Support the Troops,War | Read More »

The Chickenhawk Meme Is it legitimate?

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The heated debate over Chuck Hagel’s nomination as Secretary of Defense has led to the resurgence of the “chickenhawk” meme.

January 15th, 2013 | Posted in AfPak,Editors' Picks,Expert Opinions ME,Heroes,Libya,Middle East Conflicts,Military,News From the Region,Support the Troops,War | Read More »

The Onion Spoof : Israel Vows To Use Veto Power If Chuck Hagel Confirmed As U.S. Secretary Of Defense

"Time is ripe for America’s liberation..."

Hagel’s defeat would obviously mean a victory for the zio-cons and other hard-line supporters of Israel and would be a step closer to war with Iran.

January 14th, 2013 | Posted in AfPak,Americas,Asia,Bahrain,China,Editors' Picks,Egypt,Europe,Global,Iran,Israel,Middle East,Middle East Conflicts,Oceana,Oman,Palestine,Syria,United Kingdom,War,Yemen | Read More »

The Resiliency of the Neoconservatives: General Petraeus and the Kagans

Robert Kagan is a senior fellow in the Center on the United States and Europe in Foreign Policy at Brookings. His most recent book isThe World America Made. Dr. Kagan also serves as a member of Secretary of State Hillary Clinton’s Foreign Affairs Policy Board and is co-chairman of the bipartisan Working Group on Egypt. He writes a monthly column on world affairs for the Washington Post, and is a contributing editor at both the Weekly Standard and The New Republic.

The neocons’ influence has far exceeded just the lingering effects from their past policy decisions in the George W. Bush administration; rather they continue to energetically work to influence American policy with more than a little impact.

January 11th, 2013 | Posted in AfPak,Editors' Picks,Expert Opinions ME,Heroes,Iraq War,Libya,Middle East Conflicts,Military,News From the Region,Support the Troops,War | Read More »

The Hagel Battle: ‘Why is Obama Doing This?’

Former U.S. Sen. Chuck Hagel, R-Neb., speaks at the White House on Monday after President Obama nominated him to replace Defense Secretary Leon Panetta.

Justin Raimondo gets quite in-depth and is overall an adroit writer. Interesting to get the parallels he’s drawing, but if he’d just left out all the China business and the details in the comparisons, it’d be much more compact reading.

January 10th, 2013 | Posted in AfPak,Americas,Asia,Bahrain,China,Editors' Picks,Egypt,Europe,Expert Opinions ME,Global,Iran,Iraq War,Israel,Libya,Middle East,Middle East Conflicts,News From the Region,Oceana,Oman,Palestine,Syria,United Kingdom,War,Yemen | Read More »

President Obama : Chuck knows that war is not an abstraction

HAGEL NOMINATION

As President Obama nominated Chuck Hagel for Secretary of Defense Monday, opposition to the choice appeared to be receding somewhat.

January 7th, 2013 | Posted in AfPak,Editors' Picks,Expert Opinions ME,Heroes,Iraq War,Libya,Middle East Conflicts,Military,News From the Region,Support the Troops,War | Read More »

Many Conflicts Rolled Into One

Basically, no matter what slant a news outlet takes, the only news stories that are reported are those that do not contradict the dominant ‘civil war’ or ‘proxy war’ narrative. ~ Darth Nader ~

The policy of the US and its allies is increasingly bizarre: on the one hand, they recognize the opposition National Coalition as the legitimate government of Syria but, on the other, they label its most effective fighting force, the al-Nusra Front, as “a terrorist organization” linked to al-Qa’ida.

January 4th, 2013 | Posted in AfPak,Editors' Picks,Expert Opinions ME,Iraq War,Libya,Middle East Conflicts,News From the Region,War | Read More »

Veterans Denounce Neoconservative ‘Swiftboating’ of Chuck Hagel

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He has served his country with courage and principle over many years in public service—which is far more than can be said for most of his adversaries.

January 1st, 2013 | Posted in AfPak,Americas,Asia,Bahrain,China,Drug War,Editors' Picks,Egypt,Europe,Expert Opinions ME,Global,Heroes,Iran,Iraq War,Israel,Libya,Middle East,Middle East Conflicts,Military,News From the Region,Oceana,Oman,Palestine,Support the Troops,Syria,United Kingdom,War,Yemen | Read More »

America’s Descent into Deception and Tyranny: Agenda Prevails Over Truth

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In the Western world truth no longer has any meaning. In its place stands agenda.

January 1st, 2013 | Posted in AfPak,Americas,Asia,Bahrain,China,Drug War,Editors' Picks,Egypt,Europe,Expert Opinions ME,Global,Iran,Iraq War,Israel,Libya,Middle East,Middle East Conflicts,News From the Region,Oceana,Oman,Palestine,Syria,United Kingdom,War,Yemen | Read More »

Hillary for Empress, Judeamerica New World Order 2016

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Hillary Clinton’s First 2016 Campaign Ad?

December 27th, 2012 | Posted in AfPak,Americas,Asia,Bahrain,China,Drug War,Editors' Picks,Egypt,Europe,Expert Opinions ME,Global,Iran,Iraq War,Israel,Libya,Middle East,Middle East Conflicts,News From the Region,Oceana,Oman,Palestine,Syria,United Kingdom,War,Yemen | Read More »

Chuck Hagel Gets His Second Wind

Obama faces backlash from Pro-Israel groups and neoconservatives on Chuck Hagel, the ex-Republican senator tipped as his leading candidate for defense secretary.

“Defining moment” is an overused term, but this is a defining moment for President Obama.

December 26th, 2012 | Posted in AfPak,Drug War,Editors' Picks,Expert Opinions ME,Heroes,Iraq War,Libya,Middle East Conflicts,Military,News From the Region,Support the Troops,War | Read More »

Senator Chuck Hagel Keynote Speech Israel Policy Forum Annual Event

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Note this from the Israel Policy Forum on Hagel. Even the Israel Policy Forum doesn’t concur with the Kristolite and Rubinite attacks on Hagel

December 24th, 2012 | Posted in AfPak,Drug War,Editors' Picks,Expert Opinions ME,Heroes,Iraq War,Libya,Middle East Conflicts,Military,News From the Region,Support the Troops,War | Read More »

CONGRATULATIONS PRESIDENT OBAMA!

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Our world is in need of brave and honest leaders. The good Doctor’s opinion, and hopes revisited. His prescriptions have always been as good as his diagnoses.

December 18th, 2012 | Posted in AfPak,Drug War,Economics & Markets,Editors' Picks,Expert Opinions ME,Heroes,Iraq War,Libya,Middle East Conflicts,Military,News From the Region,Support the Troops,War | Read More »

President Obama Addresses the Nation on Veterans Day

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President Barack Obama addressed the nation with his Veterans Day 2012 Speech at Arlington National Cemetery today the eleventh day of the eleventh month.

November 11th, 2012 | Posted in AfPak,Drug War,Editors' Picks,Heroes,Iraq War,Libya,Middle East Conflicts,Military,Veterans,Veterans Affairs,War | Read More »

Judge Ruling Allows Anti-War Vets to March in Auburn’s Veterans Day Parade

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A federal judge has ordered the City of Auburn to allow an anti-war veterans group to march in Saturday’s annual Veterans Day Parade, ruling the city has violated one of the very rights it celebrates veterans for defending – the right to free speech.

November 11th, 2012 | Posted in AfPak,Drug War,Editors' Picks,Iraq War,Libya,Middle East Conflicts,Veterans,Veterans Affairs,War | Read More »

Next Stop: Syria

Credit: Number 10 Downing Street has tweeted this photograph of the Prime Minister speaking to US President Barack Obama. Mr Cameron congratulated him on his recent election victory and spoke about the "outstanding relationship" the UK and US share.

The regime change machine grinds on…

November 9th, 2012 | Posted in AfPak,Editors' Picks,Expert Opinions ME,Iraq War,Libya,Middle East Conflicts,News From the Region,War | Read More »

Election 2012: Ron Paul’s Revenge!

A supporter of Republican presidential candidate Ron Paul displays a Ron Paul poster after the Chairman of the Republican National Convention (RNC) Reince Priebus gaveled the convention to order at the Tampa Bay Times Forum in Tampa, Florida, on August 27, 2012. (AFP Photo/Stan Honda)

What we’ll see, this Election Day, might justifiably be called Ron Paul’s revenge, and, as Ralph Cramden would put it: “How sweet it is!”

November 8th, 2012 | Posted in AfPak,Causes,Drug War,Editors' Picks,Expert Opinions ME,Iraq War,Libya,Life,Middle East Conflicts,News From the Region,Peace,War | Read More »

Ricks: Firing ‘The Generals’ To Fight Better Wars?

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‘The Generals’ sees as a decline of American military leadership; it offers an argument about why the wars in Vietnam, Iraq and Afghanistan have been so long and so frustrating.

November 5th, 2012 | Posted in AfPak,Civil Liberties and Freedom,Corruption,Drug War,Editors' Picks,Expert Opinions ME,Foreign Relations,Government,Gulf War,Heroes,History,Iraq War,Korean Conflict,Libya,Middle East Conflicts,Military,News From the Region,Politico,Support the Troops,Vietnam War,War,World War I | Read More »

Romney’s Foreign Policy: About Face or Two-Faced?

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The Mitt Romney who showed up on debate night was a different person. The questions for voters will be: for which Mitt Romney are they being asked to vote? And should he win, which Mitt Romney would show up for work?

November 3rd, 2012 | Posted in AfPak,Editors' Picks,Expert Opinions ME,Iraq War,Libya,Middle East Conflicts,News From the Region,War | Read More »

Romney’s Five Wars

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Four or five wars and lots of other conflicts are not a foreign policy vision, they are a nightmare.

October 31st, 2012 | Posted in AfPak,Drug War,Editors' Picks,Expert Opinions ME,Iraq War,Libya,Middle East Conflicts,News From the Region,War | Read More »

Sleazy Salesman vs. the Tongue-tied Incumbent

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I guess I prefer a cautious coward over a bucket of sleaze at this juncture in time.

October 30th, 2012 | Posted in AfPak,Editors' Picks,Expert Opinions ME,Iraq War,Libya,Middle East Conflicts,News From the Region,War | Read More »

Blaming the Muslims

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Neither President Barack Obama nor Gov. Mitt Romney has dared to say the truth, which is that the past 11 years have been disastrous for the United States because of a gross overreaction to a terrorism problem that we helped create.

October 29th, 2012 | Posted in AfPak,Editors' Picks,Expert Opinions ME,Heroes,Iraq War,Libya,Middle East Conflicts,Military,News From the Region,Support the Troops,War | Read More »

Britain Rejects US Request to Use UK Bases in Nuclear Standoff with Iran

US diplomats are said to have also lobbied for permission to use US bases on British territory such as Diego Garcia. Photograph: AFP

Secret legal advice states pre-emptive strike could be in breach of international law as Iran not yet ‘clear and present threat’

October 28th, 2012 | Posted in AfPak,Americas,Asia,Bahrain,Causes,China,Civil Liberties and Freedom,Corruption,Cost to the US,Editors' Picks,Egypt,Europe,Expert Opinions ME,Expert Viewpoints,Foreign Relations,Global,Government,Heroes,Iran,Israel,Israel Lobby in Action,Middle East,Middle East Conflicts,Military,News From the Region,Oceana,Oman,Palestine,Peace,Politico,Support the Troops,Syria,United Kingdom,War,Yemen | Read More »

URI AVNERY : “Israel will not attack Iran” UPDATED

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Uri Avenery expounds on the objectives of the Israeli rhetoric that it will attack Iran, one of the main objectives being to push America and Europe to do something.

October 26th, 2012 | Posted in AfPak,Americas,Asia,Bahrain,China,Drug War,Editors' Picks,Egypt,Europe,Expert Opinions ME,Global,Iran,Iraq War,Israel,Libya,Middle East,Middle East Conflicts,News From the Region,Oceana,Oman,Palestine,Syria,United Kingdom,War,Yemen | Read More »

The October Surprise Mysteries

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With hopes brightening that President Obama is close to a negotiated settlement of the Iran nuclear dispute, Mitt Romney’s campaign is eager to counter any positive news. The moment is reminiscent of past October Surprise moments, says Robert Parry in this article adapted from America’s Stolen Narrative.

October 26th, 2012 | Posted in AfPak,Drug War,Editors' Picks,Expert Opinions ME,History,Iraq War,Libya,Middle East Conflicts,News From the Region,Vietnam War,War | Read More »

US Presidential Debate Summary: Israel, Israel, Israel, Israel

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The Israel-pandering was obsessive. Both candidates know the American people are sick unto death of war and endless intervention around the world…

October 24th, 2012 | Posted in AfPak,Editors' Picks,Expert Opinions ME,Iraq War,Libya,Middle East Conflicts,News From the Region,War | Read More »

No wonder Romney/Ryan pretends there’s no war in Afghanistan

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Paul Ryan was more lost in Afghanistan than the Russian army ever was. In the realm of national security, geopolitical stability and human rights, Romney and Ryan are both clueless

October 12th, 2012 | Posted in AfPak,Editors' Picks,War | Read More »

Giraldi : Why I Dislike Israel

Dr. Philip Giraldi, Executive Director of Council for the National Interest (CNI), is a former CIA counter-terrorism specialist and military intelligence officer who served 18 years in Turkey, Italy, Germany, and Spain. He was Chief of Base in Barcelona from 1989 to 1992, and designated as the Agency’s senior officer for Olympic Games support..

“…it has successfully manipulated my country, the United States, and has done terrible damage both to our political system and to the American people, a crime that I just cannot forgive, condone, or explain away.”

October 5th, 2012 | Posted in AfPak,Editors' Picks,Expert Opinions ME,Iraq War,Libya,Middle East Conflicts,News From the Region,Support the Troops,War | Read More »

The Think Tank Clown: Patrick Clawson

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They after all exist as aborted children of the State of Israel, a direct issue of AIPAC, a think-tank of intellectuals created for the sole purpose of extolling the State of Israel while condemning all who would question Israel’s policies or people.

September 30th, 2012 | Posted in AfPak,Editors' Picks,Expert Opinions ME,Iraq War,Libya,Middle East Conflicts,Military,News From the Region,Support the Troops,War | Read More »

 

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