Wayne Madsen

Like proverbial «bad pennies», many of the leading neo-conservative architects of America’s failed interventions in Iraq and Afghanistan are being hauled back in front of television news cameras to comment on the current predicament that Washington finds itself with a surging «Al Qaeda» spinoff attempting to seize control of eastern Syria and western and northern Iraq and transform the area into a radical Islamic «caliphate».

Although the neo-cons are identifiable by their religious-ethnic makeup – over 90 percent are strong Zionists of eastern and central European Jewish descent, the chief leader of their resurgence is former Vice President Dick Cheney, a privileged member of America’s formerly dominant white Anglo-Saxon Protestant elite. As unapologetic as ever over his failed policy of invading and occupying Iraq, Cheney went on the «fraudcast» airwaves of Fox News and the op-ed page of The Wall Street Journal to lambaste the Obama administration for its failure to prevent the overrunning of a large portion of Iraq by the Islamic State of Iraq and the Levant (ISIL), also called the Islamic State of Iraq and al-Sham (ISIS). Cheney’s op-ed in the Journal was co-written by his daughter Elizabeth, a failed U.S. Senate candidate from Wyoming and a Deputy Assistant Secretary of State for Near Eastern Affairs during her father’s vice presidency.

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Lyudmila Chernova / Paul Craig Roberts

It is already underway. It will develop into a war without limits. Few if
any will survive. The US started it and will be destroyed. What's left of
Russia may end it. What comes afterwards hardly bears thinking about.

Fearing Russia-EU Economic Integration US Provoking Moscow Over Ukraine

Washington is using the atrocities committed by Kiev against Russians in Ukraine to force Putin's hand to send troops to Ukraine, sabotaging Moscow’s prospective economic integration with Europe, former Assistant Secretary of the Treasury Paul Craig Roberts told RIA Novosti Monday.

“Washington's purpose is to force Russia to confirm Washington's propaganda about invasion and annexation, and to use Russian intervention to force Europe to break off economic relations with Russia. Washington is fearful of economic integration between Europe and Russia, especially on such an important front as energy,” Roberts said, adding Putin is hoping restraint on Russia's part will make it difficult for European politicians to go against their countries' business interests, thereby frustrating Washington's plan to isolate Russia from the West. “Germany's Merkel seems to be more under the thumb of Washington than she is responsive to German business interests,” Roberts asserted, hinting Washington's efforts to steal $10 billion from France's largest bank has made France less open to the US.

Roberts underlined that Putin needs to have direct face-to-face talks with Hollande and Merkel and determine whether Washington's strategy or Moscow’s strategy will win.

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