“Other anti-Isis volunteers have been arrested and questioned, with former volunteer Joshua Walker acquitted of unrelated terror charges over possessing a copy of the Anarchists Cookbook.”
“The U.S. attack is completely illegal under such international law as exists. The U.N. charter is very clear on that. One cannot help but reach the conclusion that something is dreadfully wrong in our system. Germany, Italy and Japan, when they were fascist-controlled, similarly launched expansionary and aggressive moves against various regions.”
Read more: https://www.lewrockwell.com/lrc-blog/u-s-bombs-assad-forces-openly/
“Adding together President Trump’s call to the Saudi king, where they discussed Iran’s ‘destabilizing’ actions, and a preemptive war authorization bill languishing in the US House, the current danger of a US strike on Iran is just an accident – or a false flag – away.”
Read more: https://www.antiwar.com/blog/2017/02/01/war-drums-trumps-national-security-advisor-threatens-iran/
“Citizens of the United States tend to have short memories. The historical reality is that Iran did have a secular, democratic government, led by Prime Minister Mohammad Mossadegh between 1951 and 1953 — but Mossadegh was removed from power in a coup organized and funded by the CIA and Britain’s Secret Intelligence Service, also known as MI6.”
Read more: https://theintercept.com/2018/02/05/iran-cia-coup-mossadegh-ayatollah/
“Powell, who was secretary of state under President George W. Bush, was much more than just horribly mistaken: He fabricated ‘evidence’ and ignored repeated warnings that what he was saying was false. Unfortunately, Congress never investigated Powell’s use of the intelligence he was given, so we don’t know many of the specifics.”
“The government succeeded in suffocating the flare-up in part by shutting off key social media and messaging apps, but the lesson was clear: The same oxygen that can resuscitate commerce can also give breath to potential revolt. Authorities’ solution has been to create a so-called ‘halal net,’ Iran’s own locally controlled version of the internet aimed at restricting what the public can see. As Iran approaches the 40th anniversary of the revolution that brought its cleric-led rule to power, how it handles the power of cyberspace will be crucial to its future, determining whether it moves to greater openness or seals itself off from the world.”
“These were the techniques Israel used to carry out at least 2,700 assassination operations in its 70 years of existence. While many failed, they add up to far more than any other Western country, the book says.”
“The U.S. invaded Afghanistan, killed, tortured, and incarcerated hundreds of thousands of people, and bombed the country to smithereens because the Taliban refused to comply with Bush’s unconditional extradition demand. It’s also why the invasion was not limited to simply capturing or killing bin Laden but also extended to a regime-change operation against the Taliban itself. That’s why there has been a civil war in Afghanistan ever since.”
Read more: https://www.fff.org/2018/01/30/u-s-destruction-afghanistan/
“In Iraq, the U.S. morphed from heroic liberators into brutal occupiers within a matter of weeks. In Fallujah, which would later become an ISIS stronghold, U.S. troops opened fire on a crowd of peaceful protesters in April 2003, killing and wounding dozens of Iraqis. The shootings, the torture, the general chaos, all helped drive thousands of Iraqis from the minority Sunni community into the arms of radical groups led by brutal gangsters, such as Abu Musab al-Zarqawi. Zarqawi’s Al Qaeda in Iraq, formed in 2004 to fight U.S. troops and their local allies, was a precursor organization to … ISIS.”
Read more: https://theintercept.com/2018/01/29/isis-iraq-war-islamic-state-blowback/
“Anyone who was paying attention during George W. Bush’s State of the Union addresses in 2002 and 2003 would have found Trump’s statements frighteningly familiar: Trump used exactly the same justifications for war with North Korea as Bush had for war with Iraq when standing at the same podium.”
Read more: https://theintercept.com/2018/01/30/donald-trump-state-of-the-union-north-korea/