By Lee CAMP The U.S. military’s incredibly secretive African Command, or AFRICOM, has been steadily growing over the past 15 years – and with almost no media coverage. The Pentagon keeps a lot of the details about AFRICOM secret. What we do know comes from leaked...
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The U.S. Captagon Act: Tightening Syria’s Siege Under New Pretext
Potential new US legislation aimed at curbing Syria’s illicit drug trade is being weaponized to strike at the state and starve its people. By Firas Al-SHOUFI On 15 December, a bill introduced by US lawmakers into the 2023 Department of Defense budget to “Combat the...
Brand Zelensky’s Qatari Red Card Spells Trouble
Although the problems of China and Russia would remain (Zelensky’s rump Reich doesn’t matter and never did except as a casus belli against Russia), their fate must wait for another day. Although Qatar hosted a first-class World Cup tournament with a Hollywood-scripted...
U.S. Veterans Join Calls for Ending War in Ukraine
“We want urgent, good-faith diplomacy to end the war in Ukraine, not more U.S. weapons, advisers and endless war,” writes Gerry Condon. By Gerry CONDON Winter’s arrival in the northern hemisphere brings increased concern about the war in Ukraine — now in its 10th...
Of Course the Feds Were All Over Twitter
Twitter was staffed by craven functionaries eager to please contacts and former colleagues in the national security state. By Micah MEADOWCROFT Readers will, I hope, forgive me for visiting a topic two weeks in a row. But perhaps they’ll agree that the so-called...
Morocco Slush Fund in Brussels Was Network of Bent MEPs Which Qatar Accessed
How much does the cash-for-whitewashing scandal effect Morocco’s current claims on Western Sahara, both at the UN and at EU level? After the dust is starting to settle on the biggest corruption scandal the EU has ever had, it seems that it was not created by Qatar,...
U.S. Sanctions Are Killing Syrians and Are a Human Rights Violation
About 12 million Syrians are facing a deadly winter without heating fuel, gasoline for transportation, and dark houses each evening. Damascus is now bitterly cold and is soon to be blanketed with snow. About 12 million Syrians are facing a deadly winter without...
Winterhilfe for the Eastern Front
The cynicism of this bogus humanitarian campaign, in which all the major institutions of the collective West are taking part, is appalling. I originally wanted the title of this text to read “for Ukraine,” but I quickly realised that I must correct myself. Ukraine as...
Syria Is Not Another NATO Narco State
The stolid resistance of the Syrian people will still be saluted when every last one of us is dead and buried, Declan Hayes writes. NATO’s’ claims to the contrary, the Syrian Arab Republic is not another failed NATO narco state. Because it is an unbowed republic, that...
Washington Is Prolonging Ukraine’s Suffering
Washington’s refusal to acknowledge Russia’s legitimate security interests in Ukraine and negotiate an end to this war is the path to protracted conflict and human suffering. By Douglas MACGREGOR During a speech given on November 29, Polish Vice-Minister of National...
U.S. Military Thanks and Praises Retiring CNN ‘Journalist’ for Her Service
By Caitlin JOHNSTONE The US military has been showering CNN’s retiring Pentagon correspondent Barbara Starr with effusive thanks and praise for her lifetime of service, giving some insight into the cozy working relationship between the media and the war machine inside...
Peace Is Not Our Profession
The Madness of Nuclear Warfare, Alive and Well in America By William J. ASTORE Hey, cheer up because it truly is a beauty! I’m talking about this country’s latest “stealth bomber,” the B-21 Raider, just revealed by Northrop Grumman, the company that makes it, in all...