Mike Whitney explains why he believes the US is going to be asked to provide the military muscle for a lunatic operation that will pit US firepower against Hezbollah and Iran, neither of who pose any threat to American national security. The objective being to eliminate Israel’s enemies so that it can assume the role of regional hegemon
The Houthis will only allow shipping into Israel’s Red Sea port if Israel ends its blockade of Gaza. So if the U.S. wants to reopen the Red Sea’s shipping why doesn’t it just ask Tel Aviv to lift the blockade, if only briefly? The reason it won’t do this is because Israel is calling the shots. Not Washington
The U.S. is not going to allow itself to get slapped-around in public by a country it sees as a ‘third-rate power.’ It’s going to roll-out the heavy artillery and then send in the ground troops. Mike Whitney explains
As a result of Houthi actions not a single cargo ship has arrived in Israel for the last two weeks. Moreover, this situation is expected to continue for another four weeks, at least
Mike Whitney argues that the Israeli military operation in Gaza is not about destroying Hamas. The objective is ethnic cleansing, pure and simple
There is no physical evidence, no forensic evidence, and no photographic evidence but a lot of unanswered questions. Mike Whitney explains
Mike Whitney talks to a Russian dissident on the whether Putin is opposed to the New World Order/the Great Reset, as some Westerners seem to think. Or whether he’s manoeuvring to make Russia an integral, dominant part of it
The destruction of Nordstream is a key to understanding how Washington plans to deal with China, writes Mike Whitney; as the U.S. has set up chokepoints across central Asia on trade corridors between China and the West.
If recent economic figures from China are any indication then the attack really hit home
If Washington wants to maintain U.S. economic global preeminence it may have no option. Mike Whitney explains
The U.S. needs an enemy. Mike Whitney argues that China is increasingly being portrayed America’s enemy
Is the Biden administration preparing to do in Taiwan what it just did in Ukraine? Is it preparing to use the breakaway Chinese island as a proxy in a war with China?