Politics

Submitted by Dan Sanchez via AntiWar.com,

If I am not mistaken, Kerry is in for a big surprise on Tuesday. He's about to learn that Putin takes war very seriously and is not going to let Washington sabotage his plans for success. If Kerry's smart, he'll pass along that message to Obama and tell him he needs to dial it down a notch if he wants to avoid a war with Russia.

There’s no shortage of speculation about the possible role the West plays in funding, arming, and otherwise assisting Islamic State. 

The theories range from the outright conspiratorial (the CIA created and to this day supports the group) to the probable (the US and its allies saw the establishment of a Salafist principality in Syria as a potentially destabilizing event for the Assad government and so initially encouraged Islamic State’s rise, only to face the worst case of blowback the world has ever known). 

Submitted by Patrick Buchanan via Buchanan.org,

“Buchanan, if you ever hear of a group getting together to stop X, be sure to put your money on X.”

 

So, Richard Nixon told me half a century ago, after he had been badly burned in just such a futile and failed enterprise.

It was the Cleveland Governors Conference of 1964.

Sen. Barry Goldwater had just defeated Gov. Nelson Rockefeller in the final and decisive winner-take-all primary in California.

Last week we reported that in a move which the FT dubbed would "arguably represent the biggest transfer of sovereignty since the creation of the single currency" Brussels was about to propose the creation of a standing European border force that could take control of the bloc’s external frontiers — even if a government objected.