Foreign Policy Journal

Which wars are you referring to? Just in case that the Six Day War was one of them, it's worth pointing out that there's evidence that Isreal started this war: http://www.foreignpolicyjournal.com/2010/07/04/israels-attack-on-egypt…

President George W. Bush and other key members of his administration were convicted of war crimes… https://www.foreignpolicyjournal.com/2012/05/12/bush-convicted-of-war-… I expect similar results for Putin.

I'd add to the list: indirectly creating ISIS, enabling an enormous amounts of ethnic cleaning/genocide of minorities, allowing a takeover of the country by Iran and related militias, and hosing down the place with depleted uranium: https://www.foreignpolicyjournal.com/2019/09/21/new-study-documents-de…

Don't forget the lasting effects of depleted Uranium munitions: https://www.foreignpolicyjournal.com/2019/09/21/new-study-documents-de… that's a particularly nasty thing to be lobbing around. The shell that just keeps on shellin' long after the war is over.

>>>why would CIA interfere other countries? Why can't the US just leave other countries alone and mind our own business? Because our entire economic system is built on dominating international finance via the PetroDollar. Countries are starting to wise up to how this is a raw deal for them and want to explore other arrangements. The US will fight that tooth and nail, by every means available. The death of the PetroDollar will likely bring the death of American hegemony and Pax Americana, and include a crippling economic crisis for the US with the expected quality of life impacts on the citizens as well. https://www.investopedia.com/articles/forex/072915/how-petrodollars-af… https://www.foreignpolicyjournal.com/2016/01/06/new-hillary-emails-rev… https://core.ac.uk/download/pdf/36733213.pdf <-about the Iranian oil bourse

Actually the first link says " the Israeli exports include military technology developed by the US, and which Washington expressly forbids from being exported to China." Arguably the only reason they have a large defense industry is the billions of dollars the US gives them to subsidize it. Yet somehow those billions are never at risk when they do shady things like this. I could probably dig up a half dozen examples of this; I try not to pay attention to politics, but I am old and every time I hear this story again I figure we couldn't possibly have any secrets left for the Israelis to sell to China. Heres one: http://www.israelnationalnews.com/News/News.aspx/175404 Moar examples: https://www.foreignpolicyjournal.com/2014/06/06/how-israel-has-betraye… Denying this is kind of like denying the sky is blue.

The unemployment rate is definitely not the whole picture and is kind of a BS metric. I think you'll find the Labor Force Partcipation Rate gives a more accurate assessment of what you're looking for. "Make-Believe America: Why the US Unemployment Rate Doesn’t Indicate Economic Recovery" https://www.foreignpolicyjournal.com/2018/03/08/make-believe-america-w…

There hasn't been much questioning of the narrative in MSM. This might by one of those rare instances https://www.informationliberation.com/?id=58259 However, outside MSM, there are questions across the political spectrum however. Such as... https://www.alternet.org/grayzone-project/what-really-happened-khan-sh… https://www.foreignpolicyjournal.com/2018/04/12/idiocy-is-bringing-the… However, Iraq WMD's were all reported by legitimate news sources at the time. Sometimes in the present, it is never clear as to what may or not be ultimately revealed.

The Economist is owned in part by the Rothschild family[1]. Yes, the same family who popularized central banking! Here's a good general overview of the plan [2]. You might think it's a good plan, or a bad plan depending on whether you like nation states or think they shouldn't exist. The same goes for why the economist would support a global carbon tax as thst can't be good for rich people. It's because it would fund a global government with limited accountability and drain national treasuries. The goal is globalism. The enemy is the nation state. They've been working on this for decades and they've failed a bunch, but they never ever give up. [1] https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Economist_Group [2] https://www.foreignpolicyjournal.com/2011/03/24/a-rothschild-plan-for-…

Read this article too: http://www.foreignpolicyjournal.com/2013/10/17/the-crying-of-flight-65…

It would be like the Malaysians going to America to investigate and arrest George Bush due to alleged war crimes. They wouldn't get particularly far unless they OK'd it all with the relevant local authorities. P.s I've no idea if the story is factually correct. I'm just using it as an example. http://www.foreignpolicyjournal.com/2012/05/12/bush-convicted-of-war-c…

I know that there are many Brazilians who seize on any opportunity to point to Brazilian corruption, and corruption IS a big problem, but THIS is not an issue where Brazil is worse than many other countries. Take the case of Germany. Free speech? A complete joke! http://www.foreignpolicyjournal.com/2010/04/30/testing-the-limits-of-f…

>Really? Really? Take a look at the unemployment in Spain or France and get back to me. Really? Really? You think the unemployment in Spain and France is because of the minimum wage? They had the minimum wage decades before they had high unemployment (and inversely for the US). Not to mention unemployment rate doesn't say much, since in the US it includes all kinds of subsistence semi-jobs that would qualify more like colonial deals in other countries -- among other manipulations: "The answer lies in the measurement of unemployment. If you have not looked for a job in the last four weeks, you are not counted as being unemployed, because you are not counted as being part of the work force. When there are no jobs to be found, job seekers become discouraged and cease looking for jobs. In other words, the 4.1 percent unemployment rate does not count discouraged workers who cannot find jobs. (...) The US Bureau of Labor Statistics has a second measure of unemployment that includes workers who have been discouraged and out of the labor force for less than one year. This rate of unemployment is 8.2 percent, double the 4.1 percent reported rate. (...) The US government no longer tracks unemployment among discouraged workers who have been out of the work force for more than one year. However, John Williams of shadowstats.com continues to estimate this rate and places it at 22 or 23 percent, a far cry from 4.1 percent. In other words, the 4.1 percent unemployment rate does not…

I feel like the burden of proof is definitely on the people suggesting that this was inevitable. The west, lead by the US, has been destabalizing the middle east since the 1940's in order to pillage their natural resources and it continues to this day. This is their clear motive, stated in writing. Here [1] is an FOIA'd email to Hillary's private server from a French aide where they are found casually talking about overthrowing Gadaffi in order to look after their interests in global oil markets, regional monetary dominance, and to make their military look good for the sake of internal political posturing. This email changed the way I saw the world so much. I used to hear people say this sort of thing and think, "Well, it's the internet. Lots of crazy people out there. I guess what they're saying is plausable, but I don't believe that our government is making such a conscious, concerted effort." But it's hard to look at an email like that, served from a .gov domain, and think that the cheap oil we get from destabalizing this region is just a pleasant side-effect of pursuing an honest humanitarian goal. And this isn't something new. It started with the Red Line Agreement in the 20's, where we entitled ourself to middle eastern oil. This became another agreement and into another, but the point is that we wanted their oil, and their political climate was in turmoil. All it takes is one nationalist movement to shut down a pipeline and our economy goes to hell. Turns out…

I recently watched a documentary on this incident (but can't find it now) but here are some further links (with slightly more information that includes the various 'he-said-she-said' nuances). https://www.foreignpolicyjournal.com/2017/07/03/the-forgotten-us-shoot… https://admiralcloudberg.medium.com/the-long-shadow-of-war-the-story-o… https://military-history.fandom.com/wiki/Iran_Air_Flight_655 https://web.archive.org/web/20070518142130/http://www.history.com/mini… https://web.archive.org/web/20190702033213/https://www.usni.org/magazi… https://wikispooks.com/wiki/Iran_Air_Flight_655 And for those that prefer YouTube https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=I-ElU38kipk https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ShruhRkOPsU https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=seiMQxvCX3A https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GEgzKRpLNAI

Here are citations to my numbers (since I seem to be downvoted): * Transportation: 28% https://www.epa.gov/greenvehicles/fast-facts-transportation-greenhouse… * Livestock is 14.5% of all GHG emissions, cows are 65% of that: http://www.fao.org/news/story/en/item/197623/icode/ * Stories on how the US Military is the world' biggest polluters: https://www.newsweek.com/2014/07/25/us-department-defence-one-worlds-b… https://www.foreignpolicyjournal.com/2009/08/15/the-worlds-worst-pollu… https://www.washingtonpost.com/opinions/america-is-the-worst-polluter-… Regarding specifically my nuclear detonation comment: https://www.ecowatch.com/military-largest-polluter-2408760609.html In addition, the U.S., which has conducted more nuclear weapons tests than all other nations combined, is also responsible for the massive amount of radiation that continues to contaminate many islands in the Pacific Ocean. The Marshall Islands, where the U.S. dropped more than sixty nuclear weapons between 1946 and 1958, are a particularly notable example. Inhabitants of the Marshall Islands and nearby Guam continue to experience an exceedingly high rate of cancer. The American Southwest was also the site of numerous nuclear weapons tests that contaminated large swaths of land. Navajo Indian…