A man is body-searched in front of a Christian church in Baghdad, Iraq Tuesday, July 6, 2004 in the early days of America’s second invasion of Iraq. Minutes before, American soldiers had shot and killed a motorist there who had been driving too close behind them, according to witnesses at the scene. (Mohammed Uraibi/AP)
An armed Libyan rebel shoots an AK-47 at a poster of Muhammar Gaddafi in the captured rebel town of Ras-Lanuf in the east of the country (Photo: Andrey Stenin/Sputnik)
On November 20, 2015, two jihadi militants attacked the Radisson Blu hotel in Bamako, Mali, seizing about 100 hostages and “leaving bodies strewed across the building.” When it was over, 22 people (including the attackers) had been killed. As the New York Times reported:
21st Century Wire says….
From May Day riots to designer technocracy…
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US backed Kurdish fighters of the YPG guard American military vehicles in the northern Syrian village of Darbasiyah, April. 29, 2017. (AP/APTV)
CHILE (ANALYSIS) — Separated by thousands of miles and embroiled in ostensibly unique conflicts – a “civil war” and a “political crisis,” respectively – the troubling situations in both Syria and Venezuela share more similarities than differences. These similarities owe largely to the fact that the ultimate end game for both crises is a change in national leadership or regime change.
President Bush gives his State of the Union address on Capitol Hill Tuesday, Jan. 29, 2002. Bush fleshed out his vision for the war on terrorism beyond Afghanistan, to a dozen countries that he said harbor terrorists and “an axis of evil” of three more that seek weapons of mass destruction, including Syria. (AP/J.Scott Applewhite)
Many had hoped that the firing of former FBI director James Comey would bring an end to the disgrace of ‘Russiagate’.
Russiagate was quite possibly the biggest canard in recent American political history. Take for example actual US political and policy scandals starting with the biggest.
–Iraqi WMD, Syrian chemical weapons, Libya ‘killing its own people’, Yugoslavia as an ‘aggressor:
A protest against US military action in Syria during a rally in New York on Friday, April 7, 2017. (AP/Andres Kudacki)cki)
Donald Trump has given his first major interview since the illegal missile attack on Syria.
During the interview with Fox Business, the US President said,
“Are we going to get involved in Syria? No.”.
