Israel partisan Peter Berkowitz named head of State Dept Policy Planning
The new official in charge of the State Department's long-term strategic thinking is yet another neoconservative with close ties to Israel.
Category: Iraq
Israel behind Pretexts for an Attack on Iran
Ray McGovern probes the step-up in U.S. belligerence towards Iran – a country posing the same non-existent strategic threat as Iraq. Thanks to "dubious…
Clean Break II: Iran Hawks Decide to Burn it All Down
Michael Makovsky of the neocon Jewish Institute for National Security of America (JINSA) has a plan for countering Iranian influence in the Middle East:…
Oil for Israel: The Truth about the Iraq War, 15 Years Later
Oil Insider Gary Vogler writes of the Iraq War: The oil agenda I discovered and experienced was to supply Iraq oil to Israel. The…
I Helped Sell the False Choice of War Once. It’s Happening Again.
Lawrence Wilkerson, former chief of staff to Colin Powell, recalls his work to invent a case for "pre-emptive" war against Iraq. It worked like…
The Mossad’s role in the Kurdish Independence movement
Israeli strategists have long wished to break up surrounding countries into smaller units so that Israel could more easily dominate the region. The Forward…
The Crazy Imbalance of Russia-gate: What about Israel?
Robert Parry deconstructs the latest Russia-gate propaganda and examines the foreign nation that most influences U.S. elections & pushes us into wars: Israel, with…
Elliott Abrams and Gina Haspel – ghastly choices
Americans dodged a bullet when neocon Abrams was denied. He was a founding co-signer of PNAC, led the charge to invade Iraq after calling…
Trump’s “Muslim ban”: Israeli strategic plans to “remake the Middle East” from 2001 and before targeted the same countries
With a single exception, all the countries were targeted for attack in 2001, with similar plans in 1996, 1991, 1982, and the 1950s. The…
How war propaganda keeps on killing
Washington Post editorial page editor Fred Hiatt repeatedly stated the “fact” of Iraq’s hidden WMD and mocked anyone who doubted it. Even after the…