Bob Woodward on Trump in the White House: Fear!

Bob Woodward on Trump in the White House: Fear!

  Washington Post reporter Bob Woodward has covered nine White Houses going back to President Richard Nixon and Watergate. His latest book, “Fear: Trump in the White House,” is revelatory in its look at chaos and discord within the current administration as witnessed by those inside the West Wing. In his first TV interview for […]

Trying – trying – to stop a blank cheque for war on Iran…

Trying – trying – to stop a blank cheque for war on Iran…

  US Congresswoman Tulsi Gabbard discusses her attempt to remove 3 pages from the huge US defense bill that authorizes the United States to go to war with Iran – letting State Department and Pentagon devise and implement a plan for “countering” Iran. Guess what that means! Her amendment – taking that authorization out of […]

Preface • Regime Change – Not Iran Too!

Preface • Regime Change – Not Iran Too!

  Part 1. Preface – Background and forthcoming book on Iran   By Farhang Jahanpour September 1, 2018   Background I am a British national of Iranian origin. I was born in Shiraz, near Persepolis, the capital of Pars Province in Iran, which gave its name to Persia and to two ancient Persian Empires, the […]

The anti-dollar awakening could be ruder and sooner than most economists predict

The anti-dollar awakening could be ruder and sooner than most economists predict

  Thwarting the anti-dollar coalition should be Washington’s top national priority   By Gal Luft August 30, 2018   The United States is currently waging economic warfare against one tenth of the world’s countries with cumulative population of nearly 2 billion people and combined gross domestic product (GDP) of more than $15 trillion. These include […]

Intro • Regime Change: Not Iran Too!

Intro • Regime Change: Not Iran Too!

  TFF launches a new educational series on regime change in the Middle East to help prevent a repetition on Iran – #NotIranToo   By Jan Oberg August 17, 2018 TFF is about to publish a series of articles on regime change in the Middle East over the last few decades. The series has a […]

The Truth about Oil and the Iraq War, 15 Years Later

The Truth about Oil and the Iraq War, 15 Years Later

By Gary Vogler Author or Iraq and the Politics of Oil April 24 marks the 15th anniversary of my initial entry into Baghdad as the senior oil advisor to retired Lieutenant General Jay Garner, our US government civilian leader in Iraq. It was the beginning of my six-plus years in Iraq working in the oil […]

“Why, This Isn’t Cuba” – On America’s Exceptionalism

“Why, This Isn’t Cuba” – On America’s Exceptionalism

    By David Swanson April 9, 2018 Back in the 1890s those who believed conquering a continent was killing enough (without taking over Hawaii, the Philippines, Cuba, Puerto Rico, etc.) included Speaker of the House Thomas Reed. He clipped an article out of a newspaper about a lynching in South Carolina. He clipped a […]

SPAR – The “Silk Peace Art Road” Project

SPAR – The “Silk Peace Art Road” Project

  By Jan Oberg Jan Oberg, Oberg PhotoGraphics and The Transnational Foundation for Peace and Future Research, TFF, has been invited by the Global Art Affairs (GAA) Foundation and the European Cultural Center to exhibit at Palazzo Mora in Venice during the Biennale 2019. This exciting opportunity stimulated the development of a bigger idea that […]

A Debate on Peacemaking: Ending Occupation or Apartheid

A Debate on Peacemaking: Ending Occupation or Apartheid

  By Richard Falk discussing with Jeff Warner and Yossi Khen   Prefatory note This post consists of an exchange of views prompted by my talk at a United Methodist Church in Culver City (Los Angeles) published by Tikkun’s online magazine, March 6, 2018. The core disagreement is whether to retain the emphasis on ending […]

Academic and cultural people tell “the world” to drop law and destroy Syria’s government

Academic and cultural people tell “the world” to drop law and destroy Syria’s government

  By Jan Oberg The New York Review of Books has published an Open Letter headlined “The World Must Act Now on Syria”  – and about 200 people from the world of culture and academia, from Syria and the rest of the world, have signed. It’s also published by PulseMedia here – on February 27, […]