President Barack Obama has another four years in office and a unique opportunity to establish a lasting legacy for himself and the United States. Deficits and national debt, along with other bread-and-butter issues like unemployment,…
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To humiliate and degrade: Impressions of Gaza Even a single night in jail is enough to give a taste of what it means to be under the total control of some external force. And it hardly…
IN 1961, President Dwight D. Eisenhower left office warning of the growing power of the military-industrial complex in American life. Most people know the term the president popularized, but few remember his argument. In his…
As President Obama confirmed in an interview with the Atlantic [3] on March 2, 2012, one of the strategic goals of U.S. policy in Syria has been to weaken and isolate Iran by removing or helping to remove its strongest Arab ally. Asked what the U.S. could do to accelerate the removal of President Assad, Obama replied, laughing, “Well, nothing that I can tell you, because your classified clearance isn’t good enough.” In practice, as President Obama implied, the U.S. government has played a “disguised, quiet, media-free” [4] but nonetheless significant role in the escalation of violence in Syria. As early as last December, even as a Qatari-funded YouGov opinion poll found that 55% of Syrians still supported President Assad [5], former CIA officer Philip Giraldi reported [6] that unmarked NATO planes were delivering weapons and militiamen from Libya to Turkish air-bases near the Free Syrian Army (FSA) headquarters in Iskanderum.
With barely a week and a half to go until the November 6 presidential elections, the entire spectrum of the American pseudo-left is exerting maximum efforts to turn out votes for Obama with the claim…
Imagine if George W. Bush had stood on the smoking ruins of the World Trade Center and declared, “We are going to continue our pursuit of world domination and environmental destruction until the oceans rise,…
[anyplayer:url=http://cdn.rt.com/files/news/bani-walid-syria-militias-genocide-258/ice99864f10019168e839111a4c18ef65_00b6d360.dv.flv type=FLV width=600 height=450] The Libyan city of Bani Walid is reported to be under heavy attack from pro-government forces and militias. Witnesses say that more civilians are being killed by shelling, while…
UN Security Council and Pentagon back military solution amid claims of Islamists threats Western imperialist states with the support of the United Nations Security Council are preparing for a full-scale military intervention in the West…
[anyplayer:url=http://cdn.rt.com/files/news/bani-walid-gas-bomb-904/id378477963f3afe7ba0a1315e11fee6f_bani-witness-web.flv type=FLV width=600 height=450] Pro-government militias intercept food, fuel and medicine and use grad rockets and gas weapons against Bani Walid, a man whose family remains in the town told RT. He claims the…
Step 1: Demonizing the Enemy War is always sold by artificially demonizing the enemy. Countries need to lie about their enemies in order to demonize them sufficiently so that the people will support the…