General Soleimani Killed in US Air Strike, Iran Vows Revenge: Updates
Also killed in the attack was Abu Mahdi al-Muhandis, commander of the Kata'ib Hezbollah militia.
3 January 2020 - 13:29
Russiagate Investigation Now Endangers Obama
Former US President Barack Obama is now in severe legal jeopardy, because the Russiagate investigation has turned 180 degrees; and he, instead of the current President, Donald Trump, is in its cross-hairs. The biggest crime that a US President can commit is to try to defeat American democracy (the Constitutional functioning of the US Government) itself, either by working with foreign powers to take it over, or else by working internally within America to sabotage democracy for his or her own personal reasons. Either way, it’s treason (crime that is intended to, and does, endanger the continued functioning of the…
2 January 2020 - 22:48
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20/20 Insight: Robert Bridge’s Top Ten Political Predictions for the New Year
Currently, it seems the only thing preventing the US economy from falling into recession, possibly dragging the rest of the world down with it, is the overspent American consumer, who is in debt to the tune of over $13 trillion.
2 January 2020 - 10:48
Where’s the Logic behind the Outsized US Embassy in Baghdad?
"I could never fully comprehend the logic behind our modern monument to imperialistic hubris that is our outsized Embassy in Baghdad."
2 January 2020 - 07:48
Iraqi Rioters Attack US Embassy in Baghdad
President Trump: "Iran will be held fully responsible for lives lost, or damage incurred, at any of our facilities. They will pay a very BIG PRICE! This is not a Warning, it is a Threat."
31 December 2019 - 22:35
Patrick Armstrong: Twenty Years Later, How Did Putin Do?
In 1999, Putin wrote, "It will take us approximately fifteen years and an annual growth of our Gross Domestic Product by 8 percent a year to reach the per capita GDP level of present-day Portugal or Spain." In 2018, Russia’s GDP at purchasing power parity was nearly 12 times as high as Portugal’s, and twice Spain’s.
30 December 2019 - 13:48
The Crazy Events of the Past Month and What They Mean for 2020
"North Korea has indicated they have no intention of continuing, and the initial deal itself is being exposed as the fraudulent nothing-burger it always was. Like the China trade deal, the North Korean talks are designed to fail. China will not quadruple its agricultural purchases from the US for any meaningful length of time, and North Korea will never voluntarily denuke."
24 December 2019 - 23:07
Preserving our Values amid Growing Turbulence
It is imperative for both Australia and New Zealand to find a practical foreign policy solution to the ever-increasing turbulence between the United States and China.
24 December 2019 - 19:48
Saudi Arabia: A Family Holding Company, Not a Friend
This symbiosis used to be justifiable on the basis of containment of the USSR and the oil of Arabia. Neither of those necessities exist any longer.
10 December 2019 - 04:48
Will the European Union Form Its Own Army?
The EU now has its Military Planning and Conduct Capability, its Single Intelligence Analysis Capacity, its Defence Intelligence Organisation, its Satellite Centre (its Galileo and Copernicus programmes are both part of its Global Strategy), its European Security and Defence College, its Military Erasmus, to promote a ‘European strategic culture’, its Institute for Security Studies, its European Political Strategy Centre, its European Air Transport and its European Tactical Airlift Centre.
3 December 2019 - 10:48
Michael Wood: The Future is East, Time for Electoral Realism
Cold Storage is a chain of grocery stores. Well that does not quite do it justice. Imagine your favourite Waitrose, add some Harrods and Fortnums and you are close. The chain, majority British owned, has stores throughout S.E. Asia and is spreading to China too.
30 November 2019 - 01:48
The Brennan Dossier: All About a Prime Mover of Russiagate
President Obama's role in U.S. intelligence is yet one more mystery. In both the final months of his presidency and in the period since, Obama has said very little publicly about the Russia investigation. But he attended various meetings with top officials about Trump-Russia theories. It’s not clear what he said, but their efforts ramped up in the months that followed.
25 November 2019 - 12:32
A Week of Protests in Iran Leaves at Least One Hundred Dead
"Seems that Iranian authorities don’t want us to see how they are shooting unarmed protesters from rooftops of government buildings."
23 November 2019 - 23:00
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Bill Blain: Will China Employ a ‘Million Flea Bite’ Strategy?
Rather than a shock, China can afford to play a longer game, sniping down the insurrectionists one-by-one – the million flea bites.
22 November 2019 - 01:48
Michael Snyder: The Red Horse Is “at the Edge of the Precipice” as China Threatens the U.S. with “Revenge” for Siding with the Hong Kong Protesters
"Needless to say, the Chinese are extremely angry about this new law, and the official newspaper of the ruling communist party is warning that the U.S. needs to “rein in the horse at the edge of the precipice” and that China will soon “take resolute revenge”…"
21 November 2019 - 22:48
Trump Stands Up to UN Pressure, Repeats “There Is No International Right to Abortion”
Representatives from the other countries (Brazil, Belarus, Egypt, Haiti, Hungary, Libya, Poland, Senegal, St. Lucia, and Uganda) were also rightly concerned about the promotion of abortion through sex education programs to be advanced under the summit initiatives.
20 November 2019 - 04:48
Peter Kurti: Don’t Let Antisemitism Spread Here
"Criticism of Israeli government policy is legitimate. But criticism that denies the legitimacy of Israel itself, or questions the motives of Jewish communities and people is antisemitism. Those on the Australian left must distinguish between criticism of the government of the state of Israel and attacks on the legitimacy of the Jewish state, or on Jews in general."
16 November 2019 - 01:48
Larry C. Johnson: Understanding the Foreign Service Officer Nerd Behavior
Many FSOs looked down their nose at these knuckle dragging gorillas masquerading as Special Operations forces at U.S. They assumed they were barely literate. Imagine their shock when the FSOs discovered that a member of the elite U.S. Army CT unit or a member of the SEALS could actually speak a foreign language, had read some real literature and held an advanced college degree.
15 November 2019 - 14:48
Brian Cloughley: How Surveillance and Propaganda Work in ‘the Free World’
The Wandsworth borough in London, in particular, has more CCTV cameras than Boston, Dublin, Johannesburg and San Francisco put together!
13 November 2019 - 01:48
Brexit Party Will Not Stand against Sitting Conservative MPs
"So, in a sense, we now have a leave alliance. It's just that we've done it unilaterally."
11 November 2019 - 22:33
Federations No Longer a Fad
Labour MP Austen Albu said, during the debate on accession to the EEC, “No one believes that there will be any very rapid advance towards a federal Europe.
11 November 2019 - 16:48
The Brexit Logjam Finally Breaks
We can be sure that the EU will do everything it can to stop the UK from being able to adopt policies that make us more competitive. This does not mean lower standards, but better standards and regulations designed by UK legislators for UK conditions and not by EU bureaucrats.
7 November 2019 - 19:48
The Single Market Isn’t Working: Why Doesn’t the Left Understand This?
"The Tories may well change the rights of workers but at least we will have the possibility as a Labour Party and trade union movement to put those back, as we have done before. When those rights go in the EU, they are gone for good. They become more or less unalterable.”
6 November 2019 - 19:48
Patrick Armstrong: What about Whataboutism?
Accusing someone of 'whataboutism' is supposed to be a final, complete and crushing response.
4 November 2019 - 22:48