America’s Rocky Road to Raqqa

America’s Rocky Road to Raqqa

In her final debate with Donald Trump, Hillary Clinton promised that the United States and its allies would follow up the offensive against ISIS-occupied Mosul with an assault on ISIS headquarters in Raqqa in neighboring Syria. Last week, Secretary of Defense Ashton Carter assured the press that an offensive was on the way. “It starts in…

US War in Afghanistan Silently Slips into the Abyss

US War in Afghanistan Silently Slips into the Abyss

Despite the United States being engaged in what it calls “reconstruction” in Afghanistan, quarterly reports on their progress doing so reveals expanding violence and deepening poverty. Washington Times in an article titled, “Afghanistan failures rising, progress eroding 15 years after U.S. intervention,” reports that: Opium production is up 43 percent in Afghanistan, the economy is…

Vladimir Putin – Straight From The Horse’s Mouth

Vladimir Putin – Straight From The Horse’s Mouth

Vladimir Putin in particular, and Russia in general, have been the focus of an intensive high-drama propaganda campaign of late. Are you buying it? For the time being, Russophobia has replaced Islamophobia as the driving force behind the lies. Various US officials have been frantically warning Americans that the Russians are behind everything: hacking the DNC, controlling Trump,…

Hillary and Bill Clinton: The «Bonnie and Clyde» of American Politics

Hillary and Bill Clinton: The «Bonnie and Clyde» of American Politics

Whether the information originated from hacked e-mails and computer files or Freedom of Information Act requests, the revelations about the political and business activities of Hillary and Bill Clinton and their cronies hearken back to another era, the Great Depression of the 1930s and the crime spree of another unscrupulous couple: bank robbery desperados Bonnie…