December 29, 2016 (Tony Cartalucci - NEO) - The Washington Post - among others - hit the ground running in the wake of an apparent terrorist attack in Germany's capital of Berlin before evidence was forthcoming and even before German police arrested a suspect.A truck plowed into a crowded Christmas market, killing 12 and injuring
December 24, 2016 (Tony Cartalucci - NEO) - Predictions aside, there are obvious trends, plots, and paradigm shifts that will continue onward into the new year, that geopolitical observers should be distinctively aware of.1.
December 20, 2016 (Tony Cartalucci - NEO) - Just days after the liberation of Syria's northern city of Aleppo, Russia's ambassador to Turkey, Andrei Karlov, was gunned down while giving a talk at an art gallery in Turkey's capital of Ankara. The gunman, identified as a former Turkish police officer, flashed the familiar one finger gesture used by terrorist org
December 18, 2016 (Ulson Gunnar - NEO) - A report published by The Century Foundation (TCF), a US-based policy think tank, helps shed light on the inner workings of the small northern city of Idlib, Syria.Idlib is to US State Department-listed foreign terrorist organization Jabhat Al Nusra (also known as
December 14, 2016 (Tony Cartalucci - LD) - After a day of claiming up to 82 civilians were "shot on the spot" by Syrian forces battling to retake the northern city of Aleppo from armed terrorists who have occupied it since invading the city in 2012, no evidence or even the source of the claim has surfaced.According to the BBC, the UN Human Rights office in Geneva received reports of the incident.Despite Western journalists having been on the g
December 14, 2016 (Tony Cartalucci - LD) - For months as terrorists backed by the United States, Turkey, and their Persian Gulf allies lost significant ground to the Syrian Arab Army in Syria's northern city of Aleppo, the battle was characterized by the Western media and Western politicians as a brutal assault on the city's residents - the extinguishing of a 6 year-long uprising.However, in reality,
December 12, 2016 (Ulson Gunnar - NEO) - In 2011, the United States successfully overthrew the government of Egyptian President Hosni Mubarak amid the regional so-called Arab Spring.
December 11, 2016 (Ulson Gunnar - NEO) - Is there a way the United States or one of the Islamic State's admitted state sponsors could be airdropping supplies without triggering suspicion?
December 7, 2016 (The New Atlas) - The Brookings Institution's Daniel Byman in a paper titled, "The limits of air strikes when fighting the Islamic State," laments that America's alleged war on the Islamic State (IS) is limited by a lack of capable local allies.The paper states more specifically that:
December 7, 2016 (Tony Cartalucci - NEO) - US-based corporate-financier funded policy think tank, the Brookings Institution, published a particularly incoherent piece titled, "Should we work with the
