US Govt Seizes News Websites Across MidEast, Including Iran’s PressTV
By Tyler Durden Via SouthFront.org, The US Department of Justice has just seized a number of websites of Iranian, Palestinian, Yemeni, Iraqi news channels. A…
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“If You Are Wondering Who Benefits”: Weapons Makers Stocks Surge as US Risks War With Iran
By Jake Johnson Almost immediately after the United States assassinated Iranian General Qassem Soleimani in a drone strike Thursday night, major American weapons manufacturers and…
Jack Keane Shows Trump Maps Of Syrian Oil Fields To Keep U.S. Troops In Syria
By Joziah Thayer On October 7th, President Donald Trump announced that U.S. troops would be leaving Syria. This announcement knocked Warhawks off their perches in…
US To Send “Thousands” More Troops To Saudi Arabia
By Tyler Durden Reuters reports, citing defense or administration sources, that the US is set to send thousands of additional troops to Saudi Arabia in the wake…
Pentagon Officials Eager to Present a Recovering ISIS, but Facts Don’t Support It
By Jason Ditz Throughout August, one of the most persistent stories has been the claim that ISIS is making a substantial recovery in Iraq and…
The U.S. Is Staging Troops At A Key Saudi Military Base That It Used During All Previous Middle East Wars
By Michael Snyder The U.S. military is following many of the exact same patterns that we witnessed during our previous wars in the Middle East,…
Trump Bypasses Congress to Approve $8 Billion in Emergency Arms Sales to Saudi Arabia
By Tyler Durden (ZH) — Not long after he reportedly agreed to send another 1,500-2,000 troops to the Middle East in yet another show of strength to…
Al Baghdadi: The US Couldn’t Wish for a Greater Ally
By Tony Cartalucci By 2013 the US-led proxy war on Syria had stalled. A staged chemical attack and threats of direct US military intervention were…
Saudi Arabia Has Become the World’s Top Arms Buyer
By Jason Ditz (ANTIWAR.COM) — Most reports on international arms sales focus on the biggest sellers. That inevitably means the United States, the largest exporter by…
In Trump’s Marshall Plan For The Middle East Tom Barrack Claims “There is no Middle East”
By Joziah Thayer In a document entitled Trump’s Middle East Marshall Plan with the subtitle (White Paper by Tom Barrack), dated March 10, 2017, Tom…
Was Timber Sycamore The Program That Created ISIS?
By Brandon Turbeville Despite the repeated demonstrations of the fact that the United States and other Western nations have armed, supported, and funded terrorists in…
UAE Court Upholds 10-Year Sentence Of Ahmed Mansoor For Criticizing The Government On Social Media
By Joziah Thayer Last week the State Security Court in the United Arab Emirates upheld a 10-year jail sentence of human rights activist and poet…
Little Sparta & Their Evil Ways
By Joziah Thayer Former Secretary of Defense Jim Mattis once called the United Arab Emirates “Little Sparta” when he was the US CENTCOM Commander. Mattis…
Multipolar World Order in the Making: Qatar Dumps OPEC
By Federico Pieraccini The decision by Qatar to abandon OPEC threatens to redefine the global energy market, especially in light of Saudi Arabia’s growing difficulties…