By Steven MacMillan Listening to the speeches of the Russian President, Vladimir Putin, and the President of the United States, Barack Obama, at the United Nations General Assembly in New York on Monday, one is instantly struck by the polarization of the leader’s interpretation of world events. It is obvious that one leader resides in […]
Ashton Carter the milk-toast US Secretary of War has no military or diplomatic experience at all. He has no idea what he’s talking about in any area of government or the military whatsoever: He never served in any branch of the military and yet Obamanation and the congress have appointed Carter to a post that […]
(conservativepapers.com) Surprise, Putin does in a week what Obama could not do in years regarding the a conflict in Syria. Just days into the conflict and Russian jets have already performed 14 combats flights, conducting six pinpoint airstrikes against Islamic State targets in Syria on Friday. The question is why did Obama not order such airstrikes months ago when […]
The US has been bombing Syria for a year without permission from the Syrian government and without a UN Security Council resolution authorizing an attack on a sovereign nation. That means US strikes on Syrian soil are illegal according to international law. However the first US response to the Russian strikes against ISIS in Syria […]
by michael hudson In his Orwellian September 28, 2015 speech to the United Nations, President Obama said that if democracy had existed in Syria, there never would have been a revolt against Assad. By that, he meant ISIL. Where there is democracy, he said, there is no violence or revolution. This was his threat to […]
By Joseph A. Klein President Obama delivered his annual speech to the United Nations General Assembly on September 28th. He spoke mostly in generalities, with his usual platitudes extolling the benefits of multilateral cooperation, diplomacy and international law rooted in what he called “universal,” “self-evident” truths. He condemned “the belief that power is a zero-sum […]
By Jim Kouri At just about the same time the news media swooned over President Barack Obama’s speech at the United Nations on Monday, hundreds of Islamist terrorists from the group the President boasted about was on the decline during a bloody ambush that recaptured the city of Kunduz in northern Afghanistan. The members of […]
U.S. ARMY Soldiers in Iraq will soon have a new shoulder sleeve patch to signify their service in the fight ‘against’ the Islamic State (ISIS). ARMY TIMES All told, there are about 3,335 troops in the region training Iraqi troops, providing security and conducing bombing missions on Islamic State targets in Iraq and neighboring Syria. (Which […]
Submitted by Paul Craig Roberts, Washington’s IQ follows the Fed’s interest rate – it is negative. Washington is a black hole into which all sanity is sucked out of government deliberations. Washington’s failures are everywhere visible. We can see the failures in Washington’s wars and in Washington’s approach to China and Russia. The visit of […]
God forbid, that a child born alive, surviving an abortion, should be given medicare. Well, Obama forbids it anyway. In a statement issued last week, the Obama administration said the president will veto a bill that would protect babies born alive during abortion procedures because such a measure would have a “chilling effect,” reducing “access […]
