Increasing Threat of #War with #Russia

Battlefield Libya: Fruits of US-NATO Regime Change
By Tony Cartalucci
The confusing chaos that has continually engulfed Libya since 2011 should come as no surprise. It is the predictable outcome that follows any US-led political or military intervention. Other examples showcasing US-led regime change “success” include Afghanistan, Iraq, and Ukraine. Read more...

The Nation’s Food: Hazardous US Chemical and Biological Products
By Stephen Lendman
Trump’s Health and Human Services Secretary Alex Azar is a former drug industry lobbyist and executive. He was president of Lilly USA LLC, Eli Lilly’s largest affiliate company, earlier serving as Bush/Cheney’s deputy HHS secretary. Read more...

Western Spies Among the Jihadis in Idlib: Planning A New Drama? A Chemical Attack?

By Steven Sahiounie
Recently, the Russian Defense Ministry warned that European intelligence agents were inside Idlib, and planning a chemical attack, which would be blamed on the Syrian and/or Russian military. Read more...

Terrorist Designations: Trump and Iran’s Revolutionary Guard Corps
By Dr. Binoy Kampmark
The designation by the Trump administration of Iran’s Revolutionary Guard Corps (IRGC) as a foreign terrorist organisation was meant to expand options for the US while shutting others out. While Trump attempts to defrost matters with North Korea, Iran has played the convenient bug bear. Read more...

The Fall of Baghdad 16 Years Ago
By Eresh Omar Jamal
Three weeks into the invasion of Iraq, coalition forces led by the US army entered Baghdad and formally occupied it on April 9, 2003. The city’s infrastructure was seriously damaged. Read more...

Elite and Media Support for NATO, Increasing Threat of War with Russia
By Shane Quinn
Following extensive skirmishes in summer 2008 along Russia’s southern frontier, on 7 August of that year Moscow-led forces launched an intervention into Georgian territory – a military incursion that experienced Russian expert Richard Sakwa, of the University of Kent, described as “a response to the threat of NATO enlargement” and also “in effect the first of the ‘wars to stop NATO enlargement’”. Read more...

The Boston Trial: Another African Convicted in Another Racist, Chauvinist Western Court
By Ann Garrison
In other words, yet another racist, chauvinist, Western court convicted yet another African of participating in mass violence that the US and its Western allies engineered in order to expand their imperial influence in East and Central Africa at the expense of France. Read more...

Greens Say ‘No to NATO’ While War Parties Give Standing Ovations to NATO
By Kevin Zeese
Last week was one of contrast over the issue of war and militarism as the North Atlantic Treaty Organization (NATO) came to Washington, DC. “No to NATO” protests began on March 30 and continued until the meeting of NATO foreign ministers on April 4. Read more...