Yearly Archives: 2017

Jonas E. Alexis--Back in 2002, right after Israeli military forces took over Palestinian TV stations in Ramallah in the West Bank, they immediately shut down all other TV stations and started broadcasting pornography.

The Western press has been bashing Raeisi, whose legendary incorruptibility suggests that he would not put Iran up for sale to the highest Western bankster bidder.

Jim W. Dean - This was a strange twist of fate, and not unfairly so. That is because, during the two previous ceasefires, the US failed to separate their opposition forces from Al-Nusra and ISIS, proving itself an unreliable partner.

According to the information confirmed by several channels on May 1, aided by Al-Jazeera’s professional crew including cameraman Samir Samarin, Hayat Tahrir al-Sham militants...

Damascus:  Dr Bassam Barakat and Nahed al Husaini of Veterans Today are at the residence of Dr. Najm Hamad al Ahmad.  I met Dr....

Jonas E. Alexis--Those who don’t think that capitalism is a sophisticated way of cheating the masses probably don’t know what capitalism really is.

Polls show about 80% of Muslims reject the official account of 9/11. Are their beliefs – despite being backed by logic and evidence – illegal in Canada?

Jim W. Dean - The fairy tale of Emmanuel Macron emerging as an "organic candidate", new party and all, out of the blue, always struck me as the Deep State crowd testing if P.T. Barnum's old maxim, "There's a sucker born every minute" was still in play. It is.

ProPublica journalist Justin Elliott reported that the Trump Administration has hired yet another appointee that has been involved in sexual assault, this one far more personally...

If the Democratic Primary had elected Bernie Sanders as the party's candidate, how different of a world would we live in today? Could Sanders have...

“The Palestinian people are likely to prevail” and “the Israelis are going to have to listen and finally back down...”

Editor's note: De Mistura says that the Putin/Trump phone conversation may well have provided the basis for this agreement. According to director of the Kazakh...

Nauman Sadiq for Veterans Today Lately, it has become a habit of Orientalist apologists of Western imperialism to offer reductive historical and theological explanations of...

Reports coming out of Damascus have former Syrian Minister of Justice arrested while boarding a plane to flee Syria.

When Pakistan came into being on August 14, 1947 under the sagacious leadership of Quaid e Azam Muhammad Ali Jinnah, Indian leaders didn’t reconcile with moth eaten Pakistan that had been treacherously slashed by the conniving Mountbatten and Radcliffe.

Gordon Duff, senior editor of Veterans Today, believes Israel’s refusal to join the nuclear Non-Proliferation Treaty (NPT) has been a decades-long issue, adding that...

...from SouthFront Clashes continued between Jaish al-Islam and the joint forces of the Al-Rahman Corps and Hayat Tahrir al-Sham (formerly Jabhat al-Nusra, the Syrian branch...

By Paul Fitzgerald and Elizabeth Gould From Trotsky to Burnham, from Burnham to Machiavelli and Machiavelli to neoconservatism, the circle of British imperialism closes The recent...

Jonas E. Alexis--“Jared Kushner, the president’s son-in-law and senior adviser, is currently in business with Goldman Sachs Group Inc. and billionaires George Soros and Peter Thiel, according to people familiar with the matter and securities filings…"

The two sides issued separate statements on Wednesday, urging a resolution to Libya's political and economic conflict. They also stressed the importance of unifying efforts to fight Takfiri terrorist groups.

Jim W. Dean - Director Comey is nothing if not a good "testifier". It is not a common talent to find on an executive resume, but a much needed one for a department head inside the Beltway,

The CIA and Pakistani Intelligence Service, ISI 's Puppet, Criminal Warlord, "the Butcher of Kabul," Gulbuddeen Hekmatyr, and Daesh (ISIS), who are CIA mercenaries, are Not the Solution for Afghanistan.

Already Authoritarian, Totalitarian and Fascism elements of the past are blinking red warning lights for the world's evolutionary urge to unite as well as evolve and at our great risk : Allen L Roland, PhD

Jim W. Dean - Almost everywhere that combat is going on, some civilians are in the way, and the jihadis and opposition use them as human shields and their corpses as "proof" of Assad being the ruthless tyrant. They forget that we are onto their scam.

Are the men who control the Secret Shadow Government being secretly and unknowingly mind-kontrolled by Alien ETs?

Jim W. Dean - Robert McNamara, during one his last interviews, spoke of the Cold War as really a being "Hot War", his attempt to have it viewed for what it really was.

2010 election had one purpose; war with Iran! Even if the risk is world conflict and the real loser, no matter what happens on the battlefield, is the United States.

Jonas E. Alexis--The McCain Institute Foundation received one million dollars from Saudi Arabia in 2014, and when McCain was confronted with this vital issue, his brilliant response was that he had nothing to do with his own institute!

This 2013 article for Press TV deserves a reprint. Narcotics: Business of Western wars - Gordon Duff.pdf by euripides77 on Scribd

Jim W. Dean - Iran is structuring its economic recovery to have as many foreign country trade investment partners so it can create pro-Iran trade lobbies in those respective countries to push back against current and future US sanctions.

What was needed to sustain the spirit of a global American empire was a permanent enemy, which would require a psychological campaign to keep the hatred of Russia alive for generations.

Jim W. Dean - VT had predicted that the hyped missile attack on Syria, totally a bravado exercise for Trump, gave the Russians a wide opening for upgrading Syria's air defenses, a poor trade off for Trump for the damage done.

Turkey controls the Bosphorus Strait, the link between the Black Sea to ultimately the Mediterranean and Syria. The control maintained by Turkey on this waterway is powerful leverage in its relationship with Russia.

Government professor and Middle East expert Casagranda in a lively discussion of Donald Trump's first 100 days

While Secretary of State Rex Tillerson was "taken aback" when he arrived on the job to see how much money the State Department was spending on housing and schooling for the families of diplomats living overseas" according to Bloomberg, the decision to cut as many as 2,300 employees may cause the US to loose diplomatic capabilities on multiple fronts.

Last weekend, the 5th Assault Corps and the National Defense Forces, supported by the Russian air power, began an operation against ISIS in the eastern Homs countryside. By Monday, government forces have retook the villages of Jibab Hamad, Tadmuria, Jabbab Hamad Rajm Al-Qasr, Rajm Dergam, Al-Rajm al-A’ali, Al-Rajm al-Madraji, the Al-Ay’lam hill and the Turks hill.

Jim W. Dean - Uri gives us an analysis of how the young, unknown Emmanuel Macron, with a new party, came out of the blue to win the first round in the French elections.

Is President Trump playing hardball with Russia and China to thwart the effects of the growing BRICS banking system and the expanding Shanghai Silk-Road AIIB trade pact?

Neocon-American-Zionist Imperialism (NAZI) has killed 1.3 billion people, half of them Muslim, since 1950. Have a look at the men behind the curtain who did this.

Jim W. Dean - While the story mentions Hekmatyar being a CIA asset during the Soviet-Afghan War and a close friend of Osama bin Laden, it left out that Osama was a full CIA officer, Tim Osman, who even used his medical benefits when he was on the terror lists.

Editor's note: As Trump takes the gloves off and scraps existing missile treaties, Russia is putting into service a heavy missile capable to carrying up to 20 warheads with far higher accuracy and reliability than anything the US has in the pipeline.

If Trump is able to dump campaign staffers and replace them with people like Kushner and companies like Goldman Sachs, then one can say with almost certainty that Trump’s dream of “America First” is over.

What we now desperately need at this juncture is good old practical reason in the political landscape.

Russian Foreign Minister Sergei Lavrov says the Kremlin stands ready to work with the White House to help settle the Syria crisis. Lavrov's deputy Mikhail Bogdanov also expressed hope that the opposition in the Arab country will take part in the Syria peace talks slated to be held in the Kazakh capital, Astana, on the 3rd and 4th of May.

They say that the pen is mightier than the sword, but sadly it rather looks as though Marine Le Pen will be put to the sword when France votes in the second round of the presidential election on May 7th. A French presidential election is not at all like an American one.

After 14 years of legal wrangling, costing millions of dollars to both sides, the US government has ruled on discretionary grounds by an unelected bureaucrat, Ron Rosenberg of the US Department of Homeland Security, that Ernst Zundel is banned from joining his family in the US.