Monthly Archives: August 2016
Intelligence Community Failures: Hidden Behind a Cloak of Secrecy
Turkey’s recent coup attempt epitomizes the immediate need to reform intelligence community tradecraft. Failures to predict events like the Arab Spring, Iran’s Green Revolution, the overthrow of Egyptian President Morsi, and Russia’s invasion of Ukraine are becoming the new norm.
Poisoned Air for All
... that includes all of us. Every body is included, no one is excluded. The only escape is by death.
Syrian air defense to Israeli regime: It’s time to make you taste your own...
The Israeli regime has always thought that they could do just about anything they want. No more.
Subjects and Serfs of the Lesser Gods (Part I)
If you sleep with dogs you can get fleas. This is worse, much worse.
Rag Radio: Legal Scholar Julius Getman: Why Labor Law Is Failing American Workers
Thorne Dreyer is back with guest Julius G. Getman, a labor law scholar and an emeritus professor of law at the University of Texas at Austin.
Germany Should Offer Russia Concrete Cooperation or ‘Balance Will Be Lost’
Jim W. Dean - These are hopeful words from Mr. Steinmeier, as he is speaking for the German government, but not for NATO. Military brass often does not like balance, always preferring superiority.
Serious actions of western services to enable terrorists in South East Asia
Encep Nurjaman better known by his alias, “Hambali,” also known as Bin Laden of Indonesia in Indonesian Local media and region appeared before the Guantanamo Periodic Review Boards and asked to be released.
Another Scandal in US Democrat Party
New York previous mayor and current manager of Donald Trump's promotional campaign for the presidential election announced in press interviews yesterday: it has come as a surprise how Ms. Clinton's Women Foundation, a so-called feminist group, has received millions of dollars in bribes from Saudi government, which is clearly against women.
The FBI promotes child pornography
If child pornography is wrong, then people like Wilhelm Reich would be condemned as well.
EXCLUSIVE: Witness Reveals Who’s to Blame for 2013 Ghouta Gas Attack in Syria
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The chemical attack on Ghouta, Syria, took place in the early hours of August 21, 2013. The town was struck by rockets...
Turkey plan for Syria incursion in the works for over 2 years
Jim W. Dean - This story reminds me of the classic line, "There is no honor among thieves". We now see the Kurds have been used as canon fodder by the US after fighting for months to take Manbij from ISIS.
Boston Hosts Secretive Military Drills With US Defense Department
Throughout the week, the city of Boston has been hosting Homeland Security training exercises that include helicopters flying extremely close to buildings, but police...
ANALYSIS: Kurds see ‘no friends but the mountains’ after US rebuke
Pro-Kurdish fighters claim US, Syria, Turkey and Iran are collaborating to undermine them, after having served US as shock troops against IS
Wladimir van Wilgenburg
QAMISHLI,...
Pakistan has been repeatedly duped
Asif Haroon Raja
The US was the first country to dupe and trap Pakistan after 9/11 for the achievement of its go-strategic objectives in the...
Saudis and a farcical threat
Saudi Arabia has threatened that if political talks fail over Syrian crisis, they will use military force against Syrian president Bashar al-Assad.
Saudi Arabia and a Political Standoff
Saudi Arabia’s policy to incite uproar in the region has benefitted Islam’s opponents. Everywhere they have ever set foot on and intervened has dealt a blow to their very being because they don’t acknowledge countries’ national identities.
Indonesia Opens up New Horizons for Iran in Southeast Asia
Jim W. Dean - Iran pulls another major flanking move in the heart of the US/Asia Pivot, with its forging new major economic relations with the Muslim powerhouse of the region, Indonesia, while bridging the Shia-Sunni religious gap to do so.
‘They Stole My Dream’: Russian Paralympic Athlete Reacts to Ban From Rio Games
Member of the Russian Paralympic team for fencing, Roman Fedyaev, lost a leg in an accident on the slopes. The athlete continues to prepare...
Marines Test Super-Cobra in Libya
Under new commander Marine Gen. Thomas Waldhauser, AFRICOM has deployed the lethal helicopter in the Libyan theater to deplete and degrade violent extremists.
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US Treasury Hits Out at EU Tax Probe Into Apple, Starbucks, Fiat, Amazon
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In a remarkably strident report, the US Treasury has criticized the European Commission's tax probe into Apple, Starbucks, Fiat (now Fiat Chrysler...
Belarusian Harvest: Lukashenko Treats Steven Seagal to Local Produce (VIDEO)
Popular American actor Steven Seagal met President of Belarus Alexander Lukashenko who showed his guest around the country’s capital, introduced him to the national...
Donald Trump is the candidate of the ‘white undereducated’ and the ‘losers.’
Jay Michaelson: Donald Trump is the candidate of the 'white undereducated' and the 'losers.'
VT Exclusive: Largest Pedophile Ring in History, 70,000 Members, Heads of State, the Rats...
Millions read the news today, the pedophile ring "busted" or the earlier article about how the FBI actually ran it for several weeks, expanding it, drawing in tens of thousands.
NEO – Aleppo: The Reality Is Not Good News for Americans
Jim W. Dean - Aleppo has been pushed out of the news with the fighting between the US-backed Kurds and the Syrian Army which had the US threatening to shoot down Syrian planes that even "threatened" US advisers.
Trump: CIA officers helped Turkey coup attempt, evidence available
Donald Trump, US Republican presidential candidate, claims in his new tweet that he has evidence that CIA officers helped in Turkey's attempted coup. It is probably make a new turmoil amid the heated presidential race between him and the Democratic nominee Hillary Clinton.
Russia calls for airport closure in Northern Iraq. Fierce operation in Syria draws near
Russian government has announced that it aims to launch an operation in Syria against IS, urging Iraqi officials to cancel all flights in Erbil and Sulaimaniyah airports in order to prevent any hazardous incidents from happening.
Al ash-Sheikh Condemns Saudi Arabia’s Participation in Olympic Games and Pronounced Anathema upon its...
In a speech published on his website, Al ash-Sheikh, the head of Permanent Committee for Islamic Research and Issuing Fatwas, condemned the participation of Saudi Arabia in the Rio 2016 Olympic Games of, Brazil.
Extreme Heat and the Middle East Crisis
Record-setting heats have deeply affected the Middle East, stretching from Morocco to Saudi Arabia and also other countries.
Joyce Carol Oates’ Time of Trouble
By Jo Neace Krause for VT
How did this happen? How did a woman like Joyce Carol Oates become an ethnic partisan, seemingly against her...
Turkish Army moves into Syria to take Jarablus
Jim W. Dean - We now have a dirty dance going on, with the US supporting the Turkish attack on Jarablus to clear Daesh from the border town, but which will also prevent the Kurds from getting that important border town.
Iraqi airstrike kills 19 senior Daesh commanders east of Mosul
The Iraqi Joint Operations Command announced in a statement on Saturday that the military aircraft struck a militant gathering in al-Sahel al-Aysar region, which lies east of the militant-held city of Mosul.
US gave another $1.3 billion of Iran money
Jim W. Dean -I am still waiting to see why no one is interested in finding out who helped themselves to the Shah's looted billions kept in foreign banks.
CNN’s Smerconish threatens Giuliani over “9/11 inside job”
Team Trump and its cheerleader and presumptive DHS Chief, Rudy Giuliani just got "9/11 was an inside job" rammed down their throats by a leading CNN political operator, Michael Smerconish.
250Gbps: Russian scientists aim to revolutionize computing with plasma-driven antennas
Jim W. Dean - News on this kind of technology does not always meet the public eye like this, especially if it has military applications which could give some a huge advantage that a powerful nation does not want others to have.
Charles Krauthammer: Vladimir Putin Connects!
What is driving Charles Krauthammer’s political philosophy is ancestor worship, Zionism, and finally the Talmud.
7.4 Billion Cheers for Real Democracy (A Major Revision)
In a real democratic entity, the people themselves make all major political, legal, and judicial decisions. The absence of real democracy provides one explanation for the growing strength of the Invisible Government—and for that Government’s successful campaigns against freedom, peace, living standards, spirituality, and the biosphere.
MI5 blocked arrest of ISIS-supporting radical preacher Choudary for years
Jim W. Dean - My first Press TV Debate show with a major jihdai was with Britain's Anjem Choudary back on October 21, 2013. I thought I had died and gone to heaven, but his recent conviction was even better.
Where were You When the Anti-Christ Came?
On the Road to Damascus
How ISIL Emerged
Everything began with a gathering. Almost twelve years ago a gathering was held in Tel Aviv under the title, "how to control Muslims."