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Tag: Foreign Policy

  • U.S., Iran, Syria, Libya & the Petrodollar

    There’s been a lot of conflict in the Middle East. And most of it has to do with the petrodollar. Take Iran, for example. The country is undergoing a bout of hyperinflation. This came about because of the pressing sanctions the West placed on Iran. But it’s not the only way America is trying to…

  • “Obama, Romney – Same Police State”

    Johnson’s first point was that the US political system is in desperate need of transparency.  Whether Obama or Romney is elected next month, he told the audience, we will still have “a heightened police state in the US.”  And Obama and Romney are guaranteed to continue American military interventions abroad, he added. via RT. Indeed. …

  • Islamist Radicals Visited White House

    A year-long investigation by the Investigative Project on Terrorism (IPT) has found that scores of known radical Islamists made hundreds of visits to the Obama White House, meeting with top administration officials. via The Investigative Project on Terrorism. This is a problem. A real mo fo problem. No word yet from the Ministry of Truth.…

  • Benghazi Attack Organizer Mocks Obama

    Five weeks after an assault on the US consulate in Benghazi left Ambassador Chris Stevens and three other Americans dead, the reaction from Washington has been anything but fruitful. No elected official has yet to reveal with certainty who led the attack, and both the White House and the US State Department have at times…

  • Obama Wrong: US Troops to Remain in Afghanistan

    Despite repeated pleas from US President Barack Obama to conclude the war in Afghanistan by the end of 2014, a leading official with the State Department tells reporters this week that the United States is readying plans that will leave boots on the ground for the unforeseeable future, perhaps long after the Obama-insisted deadline comes…

  • Marines Guard Embassy … in Barbados

    When terrorists attacked the U.S. consulate in Benghazi, Libya, on Sept. 11 of this year and killed the U.S. ambassador and three other Americans, there were no U.S. Marines deployed in Libya to defend U.S. diplomats, diplomatic facilities and classified information and equipment. However, says the State Department, a Marine Security Detachment was deployed on…

  • Benghazi Security Cut; Vienna Gets Chevy Volts

    While our consulate in Benghazi was guarded by unarmed Libyan contractors making $4 an hour, our embassy in Vienna received an expensive charging station for its new electric cars to help fight climate change.  … [There were] 230 security incidents in Libya between June 2011 and July 2012. With 48 taking place in Benghazi, two…

  • China Crushes Man by Steamroller

    A villager in northern China attempting to resist a forced government relocation by remaining on his land was brutally crushed to death by a road flattening truck on the orders of a Chinese government official.  … The victim, He Zhi Hua, refused to accept a paltry payment from the government which has forcefully evicted Changsha…

  • Obama, Iraq & Afghanistan, Peace & War

    There an amazing story about mine clearing activities in the Persian Gulf.  Before we get to it though we really need to consider some history. Do we remember: There is no military solution to the war in Iraq. Our troops can help suppress the violence, but they cannot solve its root causes. And all the…