Bernard Lewis, a British-American historian of the Middle East, has been formidably influential in America – his policy ideas have towered over Presidents, policy-makers and think-tanks, and they still do. Though he died last year, his baleful views still shape America’s thinking about Iran. Mike Pompeo, for example, has written: “I met him only once, but read much of what he wrote.
Recently dispatched B-52s and ships are an act of theatrical bravado that ignore the real threat.
Scott RITTER
National Security Advisor John Bolton’s announcement this week that the U.S. is deploying a carrier strike group and a bomber task force to the U.S. Central Command region seemed perfectly framed to put America on a war footing with Iran. And it is.
Moon of Alabama
363 days ago the U.S. left the Joint Comprehensive Plan of Action (JCPOA), the ‘nuclear deal’ with Iran, and reintroduced sanctions against trade with Iran.
The catalyst that sent the overall situation into an uncontrolled spiral was the phone call made on the 15th April by US President Donald Trump to Field Marshal Khalifa Haftar declaring his support for Haftar. The Trump call was clearly unbeknownst to the US State Department and probably other US agencies and departments, and even some of Trump’s closest advisors.
Trump’s instincts still remain that a channel with Mr Putin is essential. But the demonization of Russia will not be stilled with the publication of the Mueller investigation. It will just swap to a new narrative.
#regimechange #venezuela #news A segment of a recent episode of the Sunday Wire I hosted where the first few minutes focused on the modern geopolitical spectrum and how resume change operations occur. From the time of the Inquiry to the Oss to the CIA, regime change operations have become a technology.
This week on the New World Next Week: false flags fly over Syria as the Trump neocons begin to circle Idlib; the technocrats patent our Orwellian nightmare future; and a cancer researcher is called out for being on the take.
