Submitted by John Whitehead via The Rutherford Institute,
“Never has our future been more unpredictable, never have we depended so much on political forces that cannot be trusted to follow the rules of common sense and self-interest—forces that look like sheer insanity, if judged by the standards of other centuries.” ? Hannah Arendt, The Origins of Totalitarianism
Last week we brought you drone footage from Homs, Syria’s third-largest city.
The clip was just the latest bit of evidence to support the contention that when the US and its allies seek to bring about regime change in the Mid-East, the results are very often far worse than whatever the political “problem” was in the first place.
Via EconomicNoise.com,
Hans Christian Andersen told the story of “The Emperor’s New Clothes” as part of his Fairy Tales Told for Children collection. The tale is almost two hundred years old. Most know how a little boy was the first to announce that the emperor had no clothes. Andersen’s tale is being re-written today and should be entitled “The Empire Has No Clothes.” This story is one occurring around the world.
Submitted by Lukas Vez via The Mises Institute,
Russian President Vladimir Putin has ordered nuclear forces in Russia, including 10 regiments of Strategic Missile Forces (SMF), to be on their “highest alert” after revelations emerged that the Obama administration are planning on unleashing a false flag chemical weapons strike in Syria, in order to justify an invasion. The MoD say that they have received intelligence that shows troops belonging to the US Army’s Medical Research Institute of Chemical Defense (USAMRICD) and Edgewood Chemical Biological Center (ECBC) arrived in Syria’s northern province of Hasakah, armed with 524 tons of ch