The United States And The New World Order: Is The US In Danger Of Becoming Obsolete?

(MintPress) – Last week, the U.S. Department of Labor announced that the nation’s economy gained 146,000 jobs in November, lowering the unemployment rate to its lowest level in four years, as reported by Bloomberg. Along with a housing rebound, rising auto sales, healthier consumer finances and strong composite leading indicators — as determined by the […]

Frederick Reese
By Frederick Reese
In this Feb. 13, 2012 photo, trader Edward H. Radzienwicz works the floor of the New York Stock Exchange. (AP Photo/David Karp)

(MintPress) - Last week, the U.S. Department of Labor announced that the nation’s economy gained 146,000 jobs in November, lowering the unemployment rate to its lowest level in four years, as reported by Bloomberg. Along with a housing rebound, rising auto sales, healthier consumer finances and strong composite leading indicators — as determined by

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Illegitimate Sanctions On Iran Harm International Interests

(CHICAGO) — Washington bears full responsibility for imposing illegitimate sanctions on Iran. Other countries are pressured to agree. Doing so harms their own interests. Heavy-handed U.S. bullying largely gets its way. Rule of law principles and norms are violated. At issue is advancing Washington’s imperium. America’s 1977 International Emergency Economic Powers Act (IEEPA) lets presidents […]

Stephen Lendman
By Stephen Lendman
In this photo released by the semi-official Iranian Fars News Agency, and taken on Sunday, May 9, 2010, a helicopter flies over a submarine during Iranian naval maneuvers in the Oman Sea in a part of Iranian southern waters. (AP Photo/Fars News Agency, Hossein Zohrevand, File)

(CHICAGO) -- Washington bears full responsibility for imposing illegitimate sanctions on Iran. Other countries are pressured to agree. Doing so harms their own interests. Heavy-handed U.S. bullying largely gets its way. Rule of law principles and norms are violated. At issue is advancing Washington's imperium. America's 1977 International

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Washington’s Total War On Syria

(CHICAGO) — Syria attacked no one. It threatens no one. It’s victimized by naked Western aggression. Proxy death squads are used. They’re armed, funded, trained and directed by regional and Western states. Washington’s scorched earth mass killing and destruction constitutes total war. It’s U.S. policy in all conflicts. Syrians struggle to survive. They’re proud, partisan […]

Stephen Lendman
By Stephen Lendman
Free Syrian Army soldiers sit on a sidewalk at the northern town of Sarmada, in Idlib province, Syria, Wednesday, Aug. 1, 2012. (AP Photo)

(CHICAGO) -- Syria attacked no one. It threatens no one. It's victimized by naked Western aggression. Proxy death squads are used. They're armed, funded, trained and directed by regional and Western states. Washington's scorched earth mass killing and destruction constitutes total war. It's U.S. policy in all conflicts. Syrians struggle to

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CIA Calls Israel Main US Regional Spy Threat

(CHICAGO) — On July 28, AP reported it. Anonymous sources were cited. The CIA’s Tel Aviv station chief discovered “sensitive equipment he used (at home) to communicate with” headquarters personnel in Langley, Va. was compromised. He told his superiors. It happened to Washington’s previous station chief. It wasn’t coincidental. It showed allies spy on each […]

Stephen Lendman
By Stephen Lendman
In this March 5, 2012 file photo, President Barack Obama meets with Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu in the Oval Office of the White House in Washington. (AP Photo/Pablo Martinez Monsivais, File)

(CHICAGO) -- On July 28, AP reported it. Anonymous sources were cited. The CIA's Tel Aviv station chief discovered "sensitive equipment he used (at home) to communicate with" headquarters personnel in Langley, Va. was compromised. He told his superiors. It happened to Washington's previous station chief. It wasn't coincidental. It showed allies

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Before Deadly Bulgaria Bombing, Tracks Of A Resurgent Iran-Hezbollah Threat

This story was co-published with Foreign Policy. After a decade in which al Qaeda dominated the world stage, the global terror threat from Iran has escalated sharply, generating a swarm of recent plots from Delhi to Mombasa to Washington and signaling an aggressive new strategy, counterterror officials say. But there were meager results until this […]

Sebastian Rotella
By Sebastian Rotella
The attack occurred shortly after the Israelis boarded a bus outside the airport in the Black Sea resort town of Burgas, a popular destination for Israeli tourists a€” particularly for high school graduates before they are drafted into military service. (AP Photo/Bulgarian Interior Ministry)

This story was co-published with Foreign Policy. After a decade in which al Qaeda dominated the world stage, the global terror threat from Iran has escalated sharply, generating a swarm of recent plots from Delhi to Mombasa to Washington and signaling an aggressive new strategy, counterterror officials say. But there were meager results until

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Permanent War: Official US Policy

Nations don’t wage permanent wars and survive. Imagine one calling itself a democracy trying. Washington spends more on militarism and imperial wars than the rest of the world combined. At the same time, vital domestic needs go begging. America lives by the sword. One day it’ll perish by it. Perhaps so will humanity. The more […]

Stephen Lendman
By Stephen Lendman
In this Sunday, July 29, 2012 photo, Free Syrian Army soldiers are seen at the border town of Azaz, some 20 miles (32 kilometers) north of Aleppo, Syria. (AP Photo/Turkpix)

Nations don’t wage permanent wars and survive. Imagine one calling itself a democracy trying. Washington spends more on militarism and imperial wars than the rest of the world combined. At the same time, vital domestic needs go begging. America lives by the sword. One day it'll perish by it. Perhaps so will humanity. The more wars it wages

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