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David F. Ruccio | Professor of Economics, University of Notre Dame
David F. Ruccio | Professor of Economics, University of Notre Dame
The Terrifying Rise of the Zombie State Narrative
The USA Doubles Down on its Saudi Allegiance (important backgrounder)
Craig Murray, formerly British ambassador to Uzbekistan and Rector of the University of Dundee
Reminiscence of the Future
Trump Needs Some History Update.
Andrei Martyanov
Fort Russ News
Panic strikes U.S cities – Police Departments warn Citizens of possible Iranian Attack
Joaquin Flores
The Hill
De Blasio: 'NYPD on high alert,' preparing for threats from Iran
Long War Journal
Muqtada al Sadr reactivates Mahdi Army, Promised Day Brigade
Hezbollah Brigades official reportedly calls volunteers for suicide bombings
The Independent
The Syrian Conflict Is Awash With Chemical Warfare Propaganda
Sic Semper Tyrannis
RUSSIAN FEDERATION SITREP 2 JANUARY 2020
The Syrian Conflict Is Awash With Chemical Warfare Propaganda
Sic Semper Tyrannis
RUSSIAN FEDERATION SITREP 2 JANUARY 2020
Patrick Armstrong
Trump Needs Some History Update.
Andrei Martyanov
Panic strikes U.S cities – Police Departments warn Citizens of possible Iranian Attack
Joaquin Flores
The Hill
De Blasio: 'NYPD on high alert,' preparing for threats from Iran
Tal Axelrod
Muqtada al Sadr reactivates Mahdi Army, Promised Day Brigade
Hezbollah Brigades official reportedly calls volunteers for suicide bombings
Bill Roggio and Caleb Weiss
U.S. Will Come To Regret Its Assassination of Qassim Soleimani
SULEIMANI ASSASSINATION
Patrick Armstrong
Will Trump welcome the ejection of the US from Iraq? - He should.
Col. W. Patrick Lang, US Army (ret.)
Did Donald Trump Light the Fuse on a New Middle East War?
Larry C Johnson
US State Department designates Shi’a paramilitary group active in Iraq as terrorists
U.S. and allies suspend training of Iraqi forces: Germany
Reuters
Iraq's PMF says air strike targeted medics, not senior leaders: statement
Patrick Cockburn
The Independent
Iraq's worst fears have come true – they are now at the centre of a proxy war between the US and IranPatrick Cockburn
Message by the Leader, Ayatullah Khamenei, regarding the martyrdom of Shahid Sardar Qasem Suleimani
The Saker
The Soleimani Assassination
Philip Giraldi, former CIA counter-terrorism specialist and military intelligence officer, now Executive Director of the Council for the National Interest and founding member of the Veteran Intelligence Professionals for Sanity
Slate
Can the President Just Kill Anyone He Wants Now?
Joshua Keating
Axios
"We did not take action to start a war," Trump says on airstrike that killed Iranian general
Slate
Can the President Just Kill Anyone He Wants Now?
Joshua Keating
Axios
"We did not take action to start a war," Trump says on airstrike that killed Iranian general
Orion Rummler
Middle East Monitor
Pompeo: US committed to de-escalation with Iran
Caitlin Johnstone — Rogue Journalist
“We Do Not Seek War,” Says President Who Just Started A War
Caitlin Johnstone
Middle East Monitor
Pompeo: US committed to de-escalation with Iran
Caitlin Johnstone — Rogue Journalist
“We Do Not Seek War,” Says President Who Just Started A War
Caitlin Johnstone
Sputnik International
US Has ‘Started Military War’ Against Iran by Assassinating Soleimani - Iranian Envoy to UN
A U.S. Invasion Of Iran Would Be Suicidal
Common Dreams
Hundreds of Thousands of Iranians Flood Streets to Condemn US Assassination of Qassem Soleimani
Ellie Geranmayeh
Popular Resistance
Chris Hedges: Rebellion Is The Only Way To Stop The Ruling ElitesOur Nazis: the Gehlen Org
Gaither Stewart
7 comments:
https://www.paulcraigroberts.org/2020/01/03/war-again-on-the-front-burner/
This quote is gold:
Where was Trump’s mind? Just as he is emerging from the impeachment hoax, why did he commit an impeachable act? Trump attacked another country without Congressional authorization. He thumbed his nose at Congress and the law. It is the duty of the President to enforce the laws of the United States, not break them. The Democrats now have a real impeachable offense to hang around Trump’s neck.
But they will not make us(e) of it...
It always warms my heart to know that the U.S. war machine will never become revenue constrained thanks to the miracle of Modern Money. Of course, it's just a coincidence that the precursor of modern money, the Fed, was created right before the start of WWI.
During World War I, federal expenditures ballooned and although the new income tax was able to partially finance the war effort, most of the financing was done through federal borrowing and by the highly accommodating monetary policy of the Federal Reserve. The role of the Federal Reserve at this time was expressed unambiguously by the New York Federal Reserve Bank Governor Benjamin Strong, who told a Congressional committee in 1921 that "I feel that I, or the bank at least, was their [the Treasury’s] agent and servant in those matters" and further added that the wartime inflation caused by the low interest rates maintained by the bank were "inevitable, unescapable, and necessary" for prosecuting the war (Strong, 1930).
To a "progressive", such government interference in society is called "the free market". Because "progressives" are so honest.
I always thought PCR was a bit off when he thought Trump would bring peace...
I have to wonder what's going on in the Pentagon. Is it full of crazed bloodthirsty psychopaths? There's smart evil and there's crazy evil. I had always assumed the Pentagon consisted of the former.
From Murray's article, ". The Iranians were naturally not going to stand for this and Iranian militias were successfully destroying the ISIL remnants, which is why General Qassem Suleimani was in Iraq, why a US mercenary assisting ISIL was killed in an Iranian militia rocket attack, and why Syrian military representatives were being welcomed at Baghdad airport."
Can anyone point me to more sources about this? About who "contractors" are, what they doing and about current US support for ISIS, tacit and direct? \
Its like the biased anti-war hit parade...
Hey Matt,
Gen. Soleimani was responsible for driving ISIS and Al Qaeda out of Syria and Iraq. Do you support ISIS?
Matt supports "Death to Iran".
"#1 sponsor of terrorism" might be Saudi Arabia
but there's little doubt the #1 perpetrator of terrorism is the US.
We since we back Saudi Arabia, we might also get the title of the #1 sponsor as well, if there's a transitive property of sponsorship.
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