The Obama administration is now “concerned” about civilian deaths in a war that they have been enabling for the last ten months:
The White House on Saturday said it was deeply concerned about reports of harm to civilians amid escalating violence in Yemen, and called on all sides involved in the conflict to resume peace talks.
Presidential Crimes Then And Now
Reprinted from Paul Craig Roberts, The Neoconservative Threat to World Order (Clarity Press, 2015)
Are Nixon’s and the Reagan administration’s crimes noticable on the scale of Clinton’s, George W. Bush’s, and Obama’s?
Submitted by Robert Parry via ConsortiumNews.com,
A curious reality about Official Washington is that to have “credibility” you must accept the dominant “group thinks” whether they have any truth to them or not, a rule that applies to both the mainstream news media and the political world, even to people who deviate from the pack on other topics.
On Friday, we noted that at least some local businesses in Texas are sympathetic to the pitiable plight of the state’s beleaguered oil patch workers.
Houston-based Gramercy Cleaners on Richmond avenue, we observed, is demonstrating their compassion for the imploding energy sector by offering service discounts.
The U.S. government have been secretly colluding with Saudi Arabia who have funded the CIA’s “black op” programs in Syria. A New York Times investigation has found that President Obama authorised the CIA to arm Syrian rebels in 2013 with money and weapons from the brutal Saudi Arabian regime. Thefreethoughtsproject.com reports: Code-named Timber Sycamore, the clandestine operation initially authorized the CIA to provide nonlethal assistance and training to the rebels but not weapons.