Monthly Archives: September 2016

81% 0f Americans oppose the $38 billion military gift to Israel

Posted on September 25, 2016 by Pat Lang

   "A solid majority of Americans would redirect $38 billion the Obama Administration pledged to Israel toward other priorities. The Obama administration last week signed an executive agreement with Israel pledging $38 billion ($3.8 billion per year) in foreign aid … Continue reading →

Posted in As The Borg Turns, Israel, Policy | 53 Comments

Flash! Washpost discovers that Syria War may be “winnable.”

Posted on September 24, 2016 by Pat Lang

" … the launch of the offensive called into question the entire premise of the agreement painstakingly negotiated by Kerry and Lavrov over the past eight months: that Russia shares the Obama administration’s view that there is no military solution … Continue reading →

Posted in As The Borg Turns, Borg Wars, Current Affairs, Middle East, Russia, Syria, The Military Art | 98 Comments

“A Ramble on Hillary” By Richard Sale

Posted on September 23, 2016 by Pat Lang

  (I told Pat that I was writing about Hillary Clinton, and wanted the article to be in two parts. This is the first part.  The second will attempt to describe the email scandal.) Kissinger once observed that in contemporary … Continue reading →

Posted in Uncategorized | 56 Comments

“A State of confused Agony …” Saker

Posted on September 23, 2016 by Pat Lang

"The latest developments in Syria are not, I believe, the result of some deliberate plan of the USA to help their “moderate terrorist” allies on the ground, but they are the symptom of something even worse: the complete loss of … Continue reading →

Posted in As The Borg Turns, Borg Wars, Current Affairs | 38 Comments

Look out Charlotte! He’s coming!

Posted on September 22, 2016 by Pat Lang

Apparently the dreaded "out of state agitators" are flocking to Charlotte, NC from all around.  Charlotte is 35% Black.  It seems that the embattled African-Americans there need reinforcements and they are on the way.  Some appear to be veterans of … Continue reading →

Posted in As The Borg Turns, Syria | 85 Comments

Another Warning

Posted on September 21, 2016 by Pat Lang

I was never very tolerant and am less so now.  Some of you both Left and Right think you can crowd the limits of my toleration of incivility.  You are wrong.  In particular Tyler, herb and Pacifica Advocate are at … Continue reading →

Posted in Ukraine Crisis | 53 Comments

Russia asks for formal UN investigation of convoy attack.

Posted on September 21, 2016 by Pat Lang

  "“I am confident that such coincidences require serious analysis and an investigation.” On September 19, a humanitarian convoy consisting of 31 trucks was attacked while heading to Aleppo. According to the Red Cross, 20 civilians and one aid worker … Continue reading →

Posted in As The Borg Turns, Borg Wars, Middle East, Politics, Russia, Syria | 56 Comments

“US Special Forces sabotage White House policy gone disastrously wrong with covert ops in Syria” – TTG

Posted on September 20, 2016 by Andrei Martyanov

By JACK MURPHY 09.14.2016 “Nobody believes in it. You’re like, ‘Fuck this,’” a former Green Beret says of America’s covert and clandestine programs to train and arm Syrian militias. “Everyone on the ground knows they are jihadis. No one on … Continue reading →

Posted in Intelligence, Syria, The Military Art, TTG | 110 Comments

What happened to the Red Crescent convoy?

Posted on September 20, 2016 by Pat Lang

  There is something very strange about the supposed Syrian or Russian air attack  on a relief convoy somewhere to the west (?) of government held west Aleppo.  "Barish" is a German member of the SST community and he offers … Continue reading →

Posted in Syria | 39 Comments

The new McCarthyism

Posted on September 19, 2016 by Pat Lang

  "Traditional U.S. journalism and the American people are facing a crisis as the preeminent American newspaper, The New York Times, has fully lost its professional bearings, transforming itself into a neoconservative propaganda sheet eager for a New Cold War with Russia and … Continue reading →

Posted in As The Borg Turns, Media | 64 Comments