A tainted tale coming from a Mattisian hawk, but believable enough. This kind of disinterest is likely to be the closest thing we ever see to antiwar sentiment on the part of an American president in our lifetimes. What a world.
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Funny. Remember When Mattis Resigned Over Trump’s Syria Withdrawal?
It's clearly been canceled.
FPF #290 – The Empire is Up & Running
On FPF #290, I explain that the US Empire is operating as usual even though the mainstream media is focused on the shutdown. The US continues to slow the Korean Peace Process with sanctions. Defense Secretary James Mattis will be out on January 1st and weapon makers...
Trump the Great — This Week, Anyway
WSJ says a "substantial drawdown" in Afghanistan starts next month. And James Mattis is out as SecDef. Update: Mattis's letter of resignation. He says Trump is too mean to our allies which weakens the empire in the face of looming conflict with Russia and...
Defining “The Mission” Whether in Afghanistan Or Texas
Secretary of Defense Jim Mattis on Wednesday addressed active duty troops who've been stationed in an unlikely place: the US-Mexico border, where close to 6,000 troops have been dispatched by Trump ahead of the much hyped caravan expected to seek illegal entry into...
Foreign Policy Focus #99 – Catalonia, Kurdistan, and Afghanistan
On FPF #99, I provide quick updates on several big current events. In Catalonia, the Spanish government is trying to censor the independence movement. In Iraqi Kurdistan, the Iraqi government has shut down airspace as a punishment for voting for independence. In...
6/17/17 Gareth Porter on the Next Big ‘Surge’ Into Afghanistan
Historian and journalist Gareth Porter, author of Manufactured Crisis, discusses Trump, Mattis and McMaster's coming escalation of the Afghan war and why it cannot be won.
Mattis Celebrates First Day At Pentagon By Bombing ISIS
Trump very well may be reluctant to continue overthrowing secular dictators, but you can bank on permanent terror war against al Qaeda and ISIS for another 8 years.
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Provoked: How Washington Started the New Cold War with Russia and the Catastrophe in Ukraine
Over and over, U.S. government officials and their mainstream media allies called Russia’s 2022 invasion of Ukraine an “unprovoked attack.” The slogan became so overused that people began to ask the obvious question: Why do they protest so much? In Provoked: How...
