Saudis Lobby Washington Insiders To Support U.S. Led Regime Change In Syria

Saudi Arabia’s Deputy Crown Prince Mohammed bin Salman, left, walks into the West Wing of the White House in Washington escorted by Mark E. Walsh, center, Deputy Chief of Protocol, Friday, June 17, 2016. The audacious undermining of Obama by the Saudis in their backing of a Washington revolt against the president’s policy strongly suggests…

US to deploy Israeli missile system on Russian borders: General

This file photo shows an Israeli Iron Dome missile system. The US military has tested an Israeli short-range missile for possible use in its European network of missile systems to deter Russia, says a US Army general.Major General Glenn Bramhall of the US Army’s Air and Missile Defense Command  made the comments on Monday, as…

The Dollar Rebellion

The Dollar Rebellion

This morning, I happened to overhear something I found to be highly hilarious, to say nothing of guffaw-inducing. Ok, so I’m here in Tucson and I walk all over the place. To date, I have only been approached twice in about a year by panhandlers asking for money. And I see the homeless all the…

Declassifying the Syrian Jihad: CIA vs. the Pentagon

On a Monday morning in September of 2014 White House Press Secretary Josh Earnest stepped out in front of cameras to respond to questions of “intelligence failure” and explained that both the administration and intelligence community were caught completely “surprised” over the shocking and “rapid advance” of ISIS into Iraq over the course of that…

How Russia, China are Creating Unified Eurasian Trade Space

  Russia is pushing ahead with its project of a “more extensive Eurasian partnership” involving the Eurasian Economic Union, Moscow’s CIS partners as well as China, India, Pakistan and Iran; meanwhile, Beijing and Moscow continue to build a Eurasian economic corridor that will stretch from Shanghai to Berlin. Russian President Vladimir Putin’s visit to Beijing, scheduled…

Taiwan to test-fire missiles in US as China tensions rise
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Taiwan to test-fire missiles in US as China tensions rise

Taiwan plans to test-fire its newest anti-missile system for the first time in the United States next month as relations with rival China deteriorate, a defence source and media reports said Monday. Relations between China and Taiwan have cooled rapidly under the island’s new Beijing-sceptic president Tsai Ing-wen, who took office in May, ending an…