national security
Islamic Radicalism: A Consequence Of Petro-Imperialism
Submitted by Tyler Durden on 01/08/2016 19:01 -0500The mainspring of Islamic extremism and militancy isn’t the moderate and democratic political Islam, because why would people turn to violence when they can exercise their right to choose their rulers? The mainspring of Islamic militancy is the despotic and militant political Islam of the Gulf variety. The Western powers are fully aware of this fact, then why do they choose to support the same forces that have nurtured jihadism and terroris?
Enough Already! It's Time To Send The Despicable House Of Saud To The Dustbin Of History
Submitted by Tyler Durden on 01/06/2016 21:15 -0500For more than four decades Washington’s middle eastern policy has been dead wrong and increasingly counter-productive and destructive. Washington’s Mideast policy is predicated on the assumption that the answer to high oil prices and energy security is deployment of the Fifth Fleet to the Persian Gulf. And that an associated alliance with one of the most corrupt, despotic, avaricious and benighted tyrannies in the modern world is the lynch pin to regional stability and US national security. Nothing could be further from the truth. The House of Saud is a scourge on mankind that would have been eliminated decades ago, save for Imperial Washington’s deplorable coddling and massive transfer of arms and political support.
How Corrupt Is the American Government?
Submitted by George Washington on 01/06/2016 01:18 -0500- 8.5%
- Agent Orange
- Alan Greenspan
- Bank of America
- Bank of America
- Bitcoin
- Commodity Futures Trading Commission
- Corruption
- Department of Justice
- FBI
- Federal Reserve
- Federal Reserve Bank
- General Electric
- Iran
- Iraq
- Lehman
- Main Street
- Monsanto
- national security
- New Orleans
- Obama Administration
- Quantitative Easing
- Rating Agencies
- SPY
- TARP
- Tim Geithner
- Treasury Department
- Washington D.C.
- White House
- World Bank
See For Yourself ...
Playing The Government’s Game: When It Comes To Violence, We All Lose
Submitted by Tyler Durden on 01/04/2016 22:15 -0500It doesn’t matter what the issue is - whether it’s a rancher standing his ground over grazing rights, a minister jailed for holding a Bible study in his own home, or a community outraged over police shootings of unarmed citizens - these are the building blocks of a political powder keg. Much like the heated protests that arose after the police shootings in Ferguson and Baltimore, there’s a subtext to the Oregon incident that must not be ignored, and it is simply this: America is a pressure cooker with no steam valve, and things are about to blow. Now all that remains is a spark, and it need not be a very big one, to set the whole powder keg aflame.
2006 Redux? Israel Shells Lebanon After Hezbollah Bombs Israeli Convoy
Submitted by Tyler Durden on 01/04/2016 13:41 -0500“The Israelis are hiding like rats along the border. The retaliation to Samir’s assassination will inevitably come. Hezbollah would not tolerate the blood of our jihadist fighters and brothers to be shed anywhere in this world.”
Re-Branding Dissent - The Quiet Destruction Of Democracy
Submitted by Tyler Durden on 01/02/2016 13:20 -0500The Global Over-Class have decided that Democracy is a threat to their wealth and power and have more than likely given some thought to how best to neuter it while appearing to do no such thing. Simply put, in their minds, we cannot any longer allow you to choose unwisely! The key problem for the Over Class is that no matter how much they might like to, they cannot just come out and say dissent – aka radically different opinion – is a bad thing. Being able to hold a dissenting opinion, even a radically dissenting opinion, is, after all, the core of democratic freedom.
Putin Names US As Threat To Russian National Security In New Strategy Document
Submitted by Tyler Durden on 01/02/2016 11:17 -0500"The strengthening of Russia happens against the background of new threats to the national security [while] conducting an independent policy has triggered a counteraction from the USA and its allies," Russia's new national security strategy document reads. While the Western media has been quick to say that the new appraisal is further evidence of deteriorating relations between Moscow and Washington, an objective take may tell a different story.
Obama Folds To Iran (Again), Will Delay New Sanctions After Rouhani Threat
Submitted by Tyler Durden on 01/01/2016 10:19 -0500"If the president’s announced sanctions ultimately aren’t executed, it would demonstrate a level of fecklessness that even the president hasn’t shown before."
We're All Fascists Now
Submitted by Tyler Durden on 12/31/2015 21:50 -0500If Donald Trump is a megalomaniac salivating over taking control of American Weimar, then both Hillary Clinton and Marco Rubio are führers in the making. The same goes for the rest of the field, where each and every candidate aspires to be the Celebrity-in-Chief. Trump only looks worse because he doesn’t have the benefit of a sympathetic media on his side.
15 News Stories From 2015 You Should Have Heard About But Probably Didn't
Submitted by Tyler Durden on 12/31/2015 17:45 -0500In 2015, the iron fist of power clamped down on humanity, from warfare to terrorism to surveillance, police brutality, and corporate hegemony. The environment was repeatedly decimated, the health of citizens was constantly put at risk, and the justice system and media alike were perverted to serve the interests of the powers that be. However, while 2015 was discouraging for more reasons than most of us can count, many of the year’s most underreported stories evidence not only a widespread pattern that explicitly reveals the nature of power, but pushback from human beings worldwide on a path toward a better world.
Obama To Hit New "Friend" Iran With Fresh Sanctions Over Contested Ballistic-Missile Program
Submitted by Tyler Durden on 12/31/2015 07:53 -0500On the heels of a “close call” in the Strait of Hormuz on Sunday, Washington is preparing new sanctions against a handful of companies and individuals tied to Tehran’s ballistic-missile program. "We've been looking for some time at options for additional actions related to Iran's ballistic missile program based on our continued concerns about its activities,” an unnamed US official says. Iran calls the new actions "illegal."
In Latest NSA Spying Scandal, World Learns Obama Lied Again; Congress Furious it Was Spied On
Submitted by Tyler Durden on 12/29/2015 22:45 -0500"The bottom line is that people around the world, regardless of their nationality, should know that the United States is not spying on ordinary people who don’t threaten our national security, and that we take their privacy concerns into account in our policies and procedures. This applies to foreign leaders as well." - Barack Obama, January 17, 2014
Democratic Senator Calls For Extra Tax To Fund "War" Against ISIS
Submitted by Tyler Durden on 12/29/2015 14:31 -0500"In March, I introduced a federal budget amendment that would impose a temporary surtax to pay for our military operations against ISIS. When the Senate reconvenes in 2016, I again plan to explore this option."
The Plutocrats Are Winning (Don't Let Them!)
Submitted by Tyler Durden on 12/29/2015 14:15 -0500The $1.15 trillion spending bill passed by Congress last Friday and quickly signed by President Obama is just the latest triumph in the plutocratic management of politics that has accelerated since 9/11...proof that Washington can work. Mainstream media didn’t stop to ask: “Yes, but work for whom?” Instead, the anchors acted as amplifiers for official spin - repeating the mantra-of-the-hour that while this is not “a perfect bill,” it does a lot of good things. “But for whom? At what price?” went unasked. Secrecy today. Secrecy tomorrow. Secrecy forever. They are determined that we not know who owns them.
What's In Store For Our Freedoms In 2016? More Of Everything We Don't Want
Submitted by Tyler Durden on 12/28/2015 22:25 -0500James Madison, the father of the Constitution, put it best: “Take alarm,” he warned, “at the first experiment with liberties.” Anyone with even a casual knowledge about current events knows that the first experiment on our freedoms happened long ago. Worse, we have not heeded the warnings of Madison and those like him who understood that if you give the government an inch, they will take a mile. Unfortunately, the government has not only taken a mile, they have taken mile after mile after mile after mile with seemingly no end in sight for their power grabs. All of the signs point to something nasty up ahead.



