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Will Trump’s Pyrrhic Victory End with America’s Role As Global Bully?

  I am in Iran speaking at a conference on the future of the Middle East. The timing for the meeting is particularly appropriate due to the recent American withdrawal from the Joint Comprehensive Plan of Action (JCPOA), which limited the Iranian nuclear program in exchange for suspension of sanctions. Initial discussions with Iranians revealed […]

Among the Persians

Iranians want to be friends with Americans but Israel hates the idea   I have just spent a week in Mashad and Tehran Iran, speaking at an international conference on the future of Jerusalem as well as other related issues while also meeting with a broad range of Iranians, including journalists, students and government officials. The conference was organized […]

Former CIA officer: US, Israel and Saudi Arabia, the main causes of conflicts in region

The former counter-terrorism specialist and military intelligence officer of the United States Central Intelligence Agency (CIA) said the United States, Israel and Saudi Arabia are the main contributors to the conflict and the war in the region. (AhlulBayt News Agency) – The former counter-terrorism specialist and military intelligence officer of the United States Central Intelligence Agency (CIA) […]

Congress Ignores Israel’s War Crimes: It’s the American Way

  While many European parliamentarians have been outspoken in their disgust at the “horrific” one-sided atrocity being clearly observed in the Israeli slaughter of Palestinian demonstrators last week, most of their U.S. counterparts appear to have lost their ability to express themselves over the egregious human rights violations being committed by the Israeli Army in […]

Trump’s Quds (Jerusalem) move to fulfill campaign promise to Jewish donors

  TEHRAN, May 15 (MNA) – Former counter-terrorism specialist and military intelligence officer of the United States Central Intelligence Agency (CIA) Philip Giraldi said Donald Trump fulfills a promise to very wealthy Jewish contributors to his campaign, adding Benjamin Netanyahu wanted it and Trump is seen as someone who listens to Netanyahu. Giraldi stressed that Israelis […]

Trump’s Pyrrhic Victory: the US Opts for a Path That Can Only Lead to War

  Nearly everyone loses by President Donald Trump’s decision on Tuesday to withdraw from the Joint Comprehensive Plan of Action (JCPOA) relating to Iran’s nuclear energy program and to reinstate the “highest level” of sanctions while also threatening secondary sanctions on any country that “helps” the Iranians. The whole world loses because nuclear proliferation is […]

Protecting Israel Is Their Full-Time Job

  Time to question the loyalty of some legislators and judges I have a number of times discussed how the U.S. and other governments have legislated and otherwise promoted Jewish and Israeli interests in ways that most people would find unacceptable if they were aware of what exactly has been going on. Here in the United States, […]

Congress Again Fails to Discover Collusion to Subvert the 2016 Election

  There have been a number of developments in the endless inquiry into possible collusion between the Russian government and Donald Trump to manipulate perceptions and voting relating to the two presidential candidates in the November 2016 election. In particular, it has been alleged that the Russians were, with the connivance of some in the […]

Dumb Moves Have Consequences The nuclear agreement with Iran is worth preserving

  The analysis of the recent exchanges between French President Emmanuel Macron and President Donald Trump suggest that Washington is most likely about to withdraw from the Joint Comprehensive Plan of Action (JCPOA) nuclear agreement with Iran that was signed by the U.S. and five other governments in July 2015. The decision will likely be […]

How False Flag Operations Are Carried Out Today

  False Flag is a concept that goes back centuries. It was considered to be a legitimate ploy by the Greeks and Romans, where a military force would pretend to be friendly to get close to an enemy before dropping the pretense and raising its banners to reveal its own affiliation just before launching an […]

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