(CD) — As local journalists in Yemen reported that at least 15 civilians were killed in Saudi airstrikes in the port city of Hodeidah on Wednesday, U.S. Secretary of State Mike Pompeo officially certified that Saudi Arabia and the United Arab Emirates (UAE), whose three-year assault on the country has been made possible by U.S. support, are […]
WASHINGTON — Despite his having expressed his desire to get U.S.
For over two decades, US neo-cons have been pushing for an attack on Iran on the pretext that it was developing nuclear weapons. Israeli Prime Minister Netanyahu has been a key player in this effort, exerting as much pressure as he and the Israeli lobby can for an US attack. Netanyahu also often threatens that Israel might attack Iran. Note these are the same people who pushed for the illegal US attack on Iraq based on the bogus claim that Iraq had weapons of mass destruction.
On Friday US Secretary of State Mike Pompeo issued a statement ahead of the Syrian government’s campaign to liberate Idlib from ISIS/Al Qaeda jihadist control.
Pompeo sent a warning to Russian Foreign Minister Sergey Lavrov, followed with a tweet pretending to care about the people in Idlib, captive under the very jihadists the CIA and Obama White House helped train and arm…
“The 3 million Syrians, who have already been forced out of their homes and are now in Idlib, will suffer from this aggression. Not good. The world is watching.”
Raids by U.S. commandos in Afghanistan. (I could be talking about 2001 or 2018.)
A U.S. drone strike in Yemen. (I could be talking about 2002 or 2018.)
Missions by Green Berets in Iraq. (I could be talking about 2003 or 2018.)
— Nick Turse, Chronicles Magazine, July 2018
The spectacle is not a collection of images, but a social relation among people, mediated by images.
— Guy Debord, The Society of the Spectacle, 1967
(ANTIWAR.COM) — In a flurry of Tweets on Friday, President Trump has announced that he has told Secretary of State Mike Pompeo to cancel next week’s trip to North Korea, which he announced just yesterday. Trump cited a lack of progress on denuclearization as his reasoning. This is an unusual position to take, as the administration had long […]
21st Century Wire says…
Last week, we told you about a new ‘Iran Action Group’ the US established to coordinate all of its anti-Iran policies – a brainchild no doubt of fellow neocons Secretary of State Mike Pompeo and National Security Adviser John Bolton.
State Department Action Group ‘echoes the lead-up to the 2003 invasion of Iraq’, Iranian American advocacy organisation says. (MEE) — US Secretary of State Mike Pompeo announced on Thursday the establishment of the Iran Action Group, a task-force to coordinate all of President Donald Trump’s efforts against Iran. The group will be led by Brian Hook, a […]
