The Anti-Empire Report #138 - Cold War 2.0, part I
• http://williamblum.org, By William BlumIn last month's Anti-Empire Report I brought you the latest adventure of US State Department Spokesperson Jen Psaki trying to defend the indefensible.
Contents Pages by Subject
Foreign Policy
US Increases Involvement in Saudi War Against Yemen
• antiwar.comUS Planes to Begin Aerial Refueling Operations
Why Putin Doesn't Need To Pander To The West
• zerohedge.comIt's quiet on the eastern front – as quiet as a conflict between world superpowers can be.
Israel Risks UN Isolation as US Tensions Worsen
• antiwar.comUS Not Guaranteed to Veto Israel Resolutions at UN
Iran Framework Deal Reached, Officials Confirm
• http://news.antiwar.com, Jason DitzTalks Aimed at Finalizing Deal by End of June
America's Foreign-Policy Makers Endanger Us
• http://sheldonfreeassociation.blogspot.com,American politicians frequently declare that the government's first duty is to protect us from foreign threats. If that's so, why have they embroiled us in the Middle East?
America's Foreign-Policy Makers Endanger Us
• http://sheldonfreeassociation.blogspot.com,American politicians frequently declare that the government's first duty is to protect us from foreign threats. If that's so, why have they embroiled us in the Middle East?
Neocon's New Rome To Be Built On The Ashes of Vladimir Putin
• Truthdig.comThe neoconservatives in Washington envisage the United States becoming a "New Rome," exercising its unmatched military power "against civilization's opponents" in order to revive classical values and eventually establish a universal...
Imperial Collapse And A License To Kill
• Zerohedge.comAs empires collapse, they turn inward, and subject their own populations to the same ill treatment to which they subjected others. Here, America is unexceptional: the number of Americans being murdered by their own police...
How America and the West got it wrong in Yemen
• globalpost.comA Saudi-led coalition of several Arab countries launched an aerial assault in Yemen that involved over 100 aircraft engaged in strikes for four hours late Wednesday night.
Assad: US Airstrikes a Recruiting Bonanza for ISIS
• antiwar.comWarns Attacks Are Only Making Things Worse
Afghan Peace Council: US Drawdown Halt Hurting Peace Process
• antiwar.comKeeping US Troops Means Peace With Taliban Harder to Reach
A Middle East Holocaust -- Paul Craig Roberts
• paulcraigroberts.orgThe "Christian" West is a master at propaganda and self-deception. Look at the evangelical churches. They support a criminal, inhumane regime while professing to be followers of Christ.
Teen libertarian is face of Brazil's young free-market right
• http://bismarcktribune.comThe March 15 demonstration was the largest Sao Paulo had seen in more than three decades, since 1984 protests demanding democratic elections after a long dictatorship.
Repeal, Don't Reform the IMF!
• thedailybell.comA responsible financial institution would not extend a new loan of between 17 and 40 billion dollars to a borrower already struggling to pay back an existing multi-billion dollar loan.
The Psychopathic State: Another Week, Another War
• Informationclearinghouse.infoThe War on Terror began as a monstrous hybrid of imperialist adventurism, blood-money boondoggle and psychosexual power trip for the stunted, blunted second-rate souls who hold sway in our corrupt system.
The Enemy of My Enemy
• lewrockwell.com, By Patrick J. BuchananThe forces that do not want a U.S. nuclear deal with Iran, nor any U.S. detente with Iran, are impressive.
Yemen Exploding: Is The Stage Set for the Big War?
• https://www.lewrockwell.com, By Ron PaulRapid changes are occurring in Yemen.
Insanity: U.S. House Calls For Regime Change In Russia
• Informationclearinghouse.infoThe resolution gets to the root of what America's elite really want...the dismantling, and subsequent resource plundering of the Russian Federation.
Putin Security Council Slams Obama Attempts At "New World Order"
• zerohedge.comMoscow -- which may or may not have to nuke Denmark -- says the US has adopted a national security strategy that is decidedly anti-Russian.
US-Armed Rebels Force Yemen President To Flee Country As Saudis Prepare For War
• zerohedge.comUPDATE: *PRESIDENT OF YEMEN SAID TO HAVE LEFT THE COUNTRY ON BOAT FROM ADEN, AP SAYS
Justin Raimondo: Rand Paul Has Committed Treason
• Targetliberty.comThe spectacle of virtually the entire Senate GOP caucus mobilizing in support of a foreign power in order to drag us into war with Iran has certainly been instructive. Not since the Federalist party plotted with the British during the War of 1812...
Jordan has signed a $10 billion nuclear power plant deal with Russia
• http://www.businessinsider.comAMMAN (Reuters) - Jordan signed an agreement with Russia on Tuesday worth $10 billion that sets the legal basis for building the kingdom's first nuclear power plant with a total capacity of 2,000 megawatt.
Are NGOs Agents of Subversion?
• antiwar.comThough "Bibi" Netanyahu won re-election last week, the Senate Permanent Subcommittee on Investigations will still look into whether the State Department financed a clandestine effort to defeat him.
Ukrainian Oligarch vs. Ukrainian Oligarch
• globaleconomicanalysis.blogspot.comIn an unusual scene, camouflage-clad guards in full military gear, some armed with assault rifles, surrounded Ukrnafta's headquarters in central Kiev on Sunday.
TGIF: Rethinking the U.S.-Israeli Relationship
• http://sheldonfreeassociation.blogspot.com,The Benjamin Netanyahu on display in the days before and after Tuesday's Israeli election is the same one who has been in power all these years.
Glenn Greenwald: U.S. Threatened Germany Over Snowden Asylum
• http://jonathanturley.orgDuring a conference held to award Journalist Glenn Greenwald the Siebenpfeiffer Prize for Journalism, Greenwald reported a conversation in which German Vice Chancellor Sigmar Gabriel shared...
US Policy Toward Crimea to Remain Denial of Reality
• https://www.lewrockwell.com,By Daniel McAdamsWashington's policy toward Crimea is a denial of reality on the ground, and it will remain as such in the near future, Executive Director of the Ron Paul Institute for Peace and Prosperity Daniel McAdams told Sputnik.
What Would Ike Do?
• antiwar.comIn November 1956, President Eisenhower, enraged he had not been forewarned of their invasion of Egypt, ordered the British, French and Israelis to get out of Suez and Sinai. They did as told.
Netanyahu, the George Wallace of the Middle East
• antiwar.comSay bye-bye to the "special relationship"
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