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May 16, 2020

Why U.S. Must Be Prosecuted for Its War Crimes Against Iraq

The reason why the U.S. Government must be prosecuted for its war-crimes against Iraq is that they are so horrific and there are so many of them, and international law crumbles until they become prosecuted and severely punished for what they did. We therefore now have internationally a lawless world (or “World Order”) in which “Might makes right,” and in...

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May 5, 2020

America the Victim: Are Enemies Lining Up for Revenge in the Wake of the Coronavirus?

When in trouble politically, governments have traditionally conjured up a foreign enemy to explain why things are going wrong. Whatever one chooses to believe about the coronavirus, the fact is that it has resulted in considerable political backlash against a number of governments whose behavior has been perceived as either too extreme or too dilatory. Donald Trump’s White House has...

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April 26, 2020

Will Trump go to war with Iran to Save America’s Oil Industry?

It’s believed that a US-Iran war would disrupt the flow of Middle Eastern oil and, as such, should be avoided at all costs. With US oil futures trading in the negative, has the risk of such a war suddenly become attractive? Last week, nearly a dozen Iranian Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps Navy (IRGCN) vessels harassed a formation of US Navy...

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April 19, 2020

Is Coronavirus Creating Problems for Washington’s Wars?

Based on reports by American media outlets and discussions in US political circles, there are ongoing debates about policy on Iran and on how to develop it. Undoubtedly, they have become more heated due to the Coronavirus pandemic, and the indifference that US leadership has shown towards the misfortunes which have befallen Iran by not providing humanitarian aid to it....

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April 14, 2020

The Yemeni Tragedy Beyond the Pale of International Law

Egregious news has come from Yemen, already devastated by the civil war stoked by Riyadh. Information Minister Daifullah al-Shami of the Houthi-run government has said that the Royal Saudi Air Forces had been ordered to begin airdropping surgical masks infected with the Covid-19 coronavirus over Shiite areas. The Houthi official was commenting on reports that Saudi Arabia allegedly intends to...

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April 10, 2020

Saudi Arabia’s “Blitzkrieg”-Fiasco in Yemen

Five years ago, Saudi Arabia, under the pretext of coming to the aid of a legitimate Yemen government led by President Abdrabbuh Mansur Hadi at the time, spearheaded a coalition consisting of 10 Arabic nations that began Operation Decisive Storm against the majority-Zaidi Shia Houthi movement (or Ansar Allah, the Arabic for “Helpers/Supporters of God”) in Yemen. In the author’s...

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April 4, 2020

“The Coming War on China” – Watch John Pilger’s Powerfully Relevant Documentary

“The aim of this film is to break a silence: the United States and China may well be on the road to war, and nuclear war is no longer unthinkable,” Pilger says in his 2016 documentary The Coming War on China, which you can watch free on Youtube here or on Vimeo here. “In a few years China has become the...

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March 22, 2020

17 Years Later: The Consequences of Invading Iraq

While the world is consumed with the terrifying coronavirus pandemic, on March 19 the Trump administration will be marking the 17th anniversary of the U.S. invasion of Iraq by ramping up the conflict there. After an Iran-aligned militia allegedly struck a U.S. base near Baghdad on March 11, the U.S. military carried out retaliatory strikes against five of the militia’s weapons factories...

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Tag: War

Why U.S. Must Be Prosecuted for Its War Crimes Against Iraq

America the Victim: Are Enemies Lining Up for Revenge in the Wake of the Coronavirus?

Will Trump go to war with Iran to Save America’s Oil Industry?

Is Coronavirus Creating Problems for Washington’s Wars?

The Yemeni Tragedy Beyond the Pale of International Law

Saudi Arabia’s “Blitzkrieg”-Fiasco in Yemen

“The Coming War on China” – Watch John Pilger’s Powerfully Relevant Documentary

17 Years Later: The Consequences of Invading Iraq