Day: August 6, 2017

Milk-Bar Clausewitzes, Bean Curd Napoleons: In the Reign of Kaiser Don

August 6, 2017 Opinion

Why do those inadequate little men in Washington and New York dream of new wars? Because the empire is near a tipping point. Washington must either either start a war in Korea, or gets faced down by t…

Time to End the Lost Afghan War

August 6, 2017 Opinion

Media reports claim President Donald Trump let loose on his generals behind closed doors, blasting them royally for their startling failures in Afghanistan, America’s longest war. The president has ma…

Is Iraq’s al-Sadr Going Saudi?

August 6, 2017 Opinion

Shiite Leader In The Sunni Kingdom Iraqi Shiite cleric Muqtada al-Sadr is known to the Western audience as the man who led part of the anti-occupation resistance against the US during the high tide of…

Neocons Leverage Trump-Hate for More Wars

August 6, 2017 Opinion

A savvy Washington observer once told me that the political reality about the neoconservatives is that they alone couldn’t win you a single precinct in the United States. But both Republicans and Demo…

The Magnitsky Hoax? Who Stole All the Money?

August 6, 2017 Opinion

Sergei Magnitsky was a Russian lawyer hired by an Anglo-American investment fund operating in Moscow to investigate the apparent diversion of as much as $230 million in taxes due to the government. He…

Swamp for Trump: Third US President Vows to Win 16-Year Afghan War

August 6, 2017 Opinion

Clearly frustrated by the Pentagon’s ineffective strategies, Donald Trump has vowed to fire some of his top generals and aggressively gain ground in Afghanistan. But will the US president be able to p…

Israel to Starve Palestinians with Underground Wall Between Gaza and Sinai

August 6, 2017 Opinion

Israel has declared plans to build an underground wall separating the Palestinian territory of Gaza from Egypt’s Sinai peninsula, an area of Egyptian territory which was previously illegally occupied …

Washington and Brussels: Running in Reverse

August 6, 2017 Opinion

Washington and Brussels’ response to foreign affairs challenges, as they face their own political and economic disasters and decline, has been to impose economic sanctions, boycotts and issue increasi…