Tag Archives: US foreign policy

Smackdown of US foreign and military policy and policymakers. Reminiscence of the FutureDaniel L. Davis Hits It Out Of The Ball Park.Andrei Martyanov

What your government is up to. It is illegal under the UN Charter. Quite revealing that the US military high command would sign on to it. A foreign-mounted overthrow of a sovereign state's government without a UN Security Council resolution is a war crime. Calling it a "coup" is a misnomer. This is the overthrow of a government by a foreign state using its military to do so. There is no way to verify the document appended as genuine since it is labeled "Top Secret" however. But if true,...

More than 40,000 people have died in Venezuela since 2017 as a result of U.S. sanctions, according to a new report by the Center for Economic and Policy Research co-authored by economists Jeffrey Sachs and Mark Weisbrot. The report examines how U.S. sanctions have reduced the availability of food and medicine in Venezuela and increased disease and mortality. We speak with Jeffrey Sachs in our New York studio. In the report, he writes, “American sanctions are deliberately aiming to wreck...

Another backgrounder, but more about the US and Russia than China.Strategic Culture FoundationPentagon Obsession: China, China, China Pepe Escobar

Col. Lang backs the intel chiefs rather than the neocons handling Trump. Sic Semper Tyrannis Trump and the Spookery Col. W. Patrick Lang, US Army (ret.) At the Defense Intelligence Agency, Lang was the Defense Intelligence Officer (DIO) for the Middle East, South Asia and counter-terrorism, and later, the first Director of the Defense Humint Service. At the DIA, he was a member of the Defense Senior Executive Service. He participated in the drafting of National Intelligence...

After he won, Trump had a problem. He was completely unprepared to govern and had hardly anyone on his team who was qualified to hold high office in matters of national security. This dearth, coupled with his continuing grudge against the establishment experts who opposed him during the campaign, led him to turn to retired generals and captains of industry, including James Mattis as secretary of defense, Rex Tillerson as secretary of state, Gary Cohn as director of the National Economic...

So, what is going on? Well, the US military complex is ‘for real’ on this. They are gearing-up for the coming military-standoff with China. The constant harking on themes that China is stealing America’s technology, its knowhow and its data – and now the barrage of allegations about China ‘hacking’ and (shades of the Russiagate) interfering in US elections, essentially (but not wholly) is about shaping a casus belli versus China. The rude fact is that the US military were shocked to find...

The first cracks appear.SouthFrontUS-Style “Troops Withdrawal”: Pentagon Plans To Keep Special Forces In Syria

This is flat nuts… Marx Brothers in Duck Soup nuts. Sic Semper TyrannisJames Jeffrey wants no-fly-zone over Syria… all of Syria TTG

Continually pushing for dominance in the backyards of the world's nuclear powers is madness. Not if one thinks that they can win a nuclear war, which the neocons apparently do. Then, it's perfectly "rational." The National InterestWhy America Shouldn't Threaten Preemptive War Doug Bandow | senior fellow at the Cato Institute and former special assistant to President Ronald ReaganSee alsoWorld Beyond WarAlice Slater: Time Out for Nukes!AlsoIn These TimesHow Pro-War Democrats Use Russiagate...