War

Among the presidential candidates of the Republican Party and their foreign policy leaders on Capitol Hill the cry is almost universal:

Barack Obama has no strategy for winning the war on ISIS.

This criticism, however, sounds strange coming from a party that controls Congress but has yet to devise its own strategy, or even to authorize the use of U.S. military force in Syria.

Congress has punted. And compared to the cacophony from Republican ranks, Barack Obama sounds like Prince Bismarck.

Russian President Vladimir Putin has named the date he plans to release proof that the US government and intelligence agencies were responsible for the “controlled demolition” of the World Trade Centre in the 9/11 attacks. Like a boxer confident in his own strength, Putin has been absorbing pressure from the US and biding his time, waiting for the right moment to strike. The evidence is so explosive he knows he only has to hit once.

One of the newly released 3,000 Hillary Clinton emails published on New Year’s Eve reveals shocking evidence that Western nations used NATO to topple Libyan leader Gaddafi in order to thwart the leaders attempts to create a gold-backed currency, which would have competed with big banks in the West.  The emails reveal that the French-led NATO military invasion of Libya was also given the go-ahead by the West in order to give France a larger share of Libyan oil production.

Defense officials have revealed that China will dispatch troops against ISIS terrorists in Syria and Iraq. In fear of growing support for Islamic State ideology among Chinese Uyghur Muslims, China’s military is likely to join with Russia in the global campaign against the so called Islamic State (ISIS).

At least seven people have been killed in a series of coordinated bomb and gun attacks in the the Indonesian capital, Jakarta. A series of explosions went off in central Jakarta, in a terrorist attack involving suicide bombers The blasts were centred around Thamrin Street, a major shopping and business district close to foreign embassies and the United Nations offices. The attackers targeted a busy shopping area in downtown Jakarta ISIS have claimed responsibility saying it was targeting foreign nationals and security forces according to a news agency linked to the group.