TRAVELING THE WORLD, WRITING WHAT THE PEOPLE NEED TO KNOW.
TRAVELING THE WORLD, WRITING WHAT THE PEOPLE NEED TO KNOW.
In June 2014, around the time ISIS was making headlines across the world, the Wall Street Journal reported that the terror group had 4,000 fighters in Iraq. In September 2014, the CIA released an estimate claiming ISIS had between 20,000 and 31,500 fighters combined in both Iraq and Syria, including 15,000 who were foreign fighters. Almost half Read More…
(RT) Secretary of State Rex Tillerson spoke harshly of North Korea and Iran this week, drawing on a dark legacy of US vilification of so-called “backlash states” that resist the pressure to give in to global free markets and US cultural hegemony. RT America’s Anya Parampil has the details on what the US has long Read More…
Podcast: Play in new window | Download | EmbedSubscribe: Apple Podcasts | Email | RSSWe know that Americans were lied to about Benghazi, Libya and Gaddafi, and now that country, which once had the highest standard of living of any African nation, is a terrorist hot-bed openly selling slaves, in a clear example of how Read More…
It might have been true in Afghanistan. Maybe. You remember. Bin Laden. The whole outside crew that came in during the Soviet-Afghan War and, trained and armed by the US, helped turn the tide against the Russians. And then that crew went rogue. They built a network to fight America. An unintended consequence. Let’s call Read More…
Who is to blame for the current state of chaos in Iraq? An oversimplified and misguided, if not dishonest course of action would be to blame Iraqis for being the radical, death-cult worshiping fanatics they are and ignore America’s foreign policy decision-making, which led to the current situation. In turn, one could place Iraq on Read More…
Five-hundred fifty-eight days after targeting an ostensive headquarters of the Islamic State in Mosul, Iraq, the United States finally admitted to bombing a family home and killing a university professor and three family members, wounding at least two more — even though the coalition suspected mere hours after the attack the ill-begotten mission had snuffed out the lives of Read More…