Tag Archives: Syria
Hills
In the 2016 presidential campaign we had one sociopath who boasted of “grabbing woman by the pussy” and one sociopath who joked in a television interview, “We came, we saw, he died” and laughed, after hearing that Gaddafi had been captured … Continue reading
Terrorist ‘r’ us
The war on terror was always a sick joke considering the US’s history of using terrorists to carry out its foreign policies, but now that Ahmed al–Sharaa arrived at the White House to meet President Donald Trump it’s more obvious … Continue reading
Gangster State
The US is a gangster state, where foreign policies mirror organized criminal behavior. Any cursory examination of post-war history reveals that the US operates like the Mafia, maintaining its empire through unceasing violence. Liberals view Trump as a horrifying aberration … Continue reading
Blowback
Inquiring minds want to know if there’s a connection between the US’s weaponization of terrorist proxies in Syria to overthrow the Bashar Assad regime and the truck attack in New Orleans? Has the war of terror come home? A US … Continue reading
Six out of Seven
Wesley Clark, a former US Army general, recounted a visit to the Pentagon a few weeks after 9/11, where he was shown a classified document that set out how the US was going to “take out seven countries in five years, starting … Continue reading
Rolling the Dice
All empires fall. And all empires experience a sort of go-for-broke response from the ruling elite, who fight to preserve their wealth and privilege, while committing monstrous atrocities along the way. In Ukraine and the Middle-East, the American empire is … Continue reading
Priorities
At the end stages of empires the priorities of its elite diverge radically from those of its citizens. “The United States can certainly afford wars on two fronts,” Treasury Secretary Janet Yellen told Sky News. Not to be outdone in … Continue reading
Times they are a changing
The outbreak of the Ukraine conflict, the way it’s turning out, and the outraged but limited US/NATO response, are only a surprise to those who haven’t been paying attention to the fundamental changes already underway for some time. Even though … Continue reading