(ANTIWAR.COM) Over the past few weeks there’ve been multiple reports of President Trump planning to unveil a massive arms sale to Saudi Arabia during his Riyadh visit, and the figures have kept rising. What was $100 billion earlier this week is now, according to the most recent reports $350 billion.
Russia has always occupied a special place in the west’s imagination. The stereotype of Russians is long-standing and seemingly immutable – brutish, backward, drunken and menacing. Essentially the opposite of how the west thinks of itself. Indeed, in the western mind Russia and Russians are an important negative reflection of how the west defines itself.
(ANTIWAR.COM) While publicly US strategy in the Afghan War has been based around the conceit that the conflict is in a “stalemate,” despite mounting losses by the Afghan government. Advisers have offered a classified assessment on the conflict recently, however, conceding that the Ghani government’s survival is at risk, and that the war is being “slowly” lost.
Obama was always in Wall Street’s pocket – Democrats must stop taking its money
by Ian Sinclair
International Business Times
2 May 2017
The news that Barack Obama is to be paid $400,000 to speak at a conference organised by the Wall Street firm Cantor Fitzgerald has generated headlines across the globe.
(MPN) Saudi Arabia is being marketed to U.S. audiences as a nation on the precipice of reformation. But the efforts made by corporate-backed pundits to whitewash the country can’t hide its wrongdoings.
[audio mp3="http://www.corbettreport.com/mp3/2017-04-27%20James%20Evan%20Pilato.mp3"][/audio]This week on New World Next Week: Obama takes his payday from the banksters; Trump's pedogate woes grow as campaign chair arrested for child sex trafficking; and a man is fined $500 for using the word "engineer" without governmental permission.
