Mike Whitney - Archive

Putin vs. Erdogan: Who’s Going to Blink First? By Mike Whitney, February 20, 2020
Gas Wars in the Mediterranean By Mike Whitney, February 10, 2020
The “Repo” Fiasco; the Fed’s Cash Injections Send Stocks Soaring By Mike Whitney, February 03, 2020
Pompeo to Iraq: If You Kick Us Out, We Will Bury You By Mike Whitney, January 21, 2020
Pompeo Says Gangland-Style Hit on Soleimani Was “Restoration of Deterrence” By Mike Whitney, January 19, 2020
Did Pompeo Dupe Trump into the Soleimani Hit? By Mike Whitney, January 13, 2020
Five Years Ago: Was Malaysia Flight MH17 Shot Down by a Ukrainian Fighter Plane? By Mike Whitney, July 18, 2019
China’s Belt and Road Initiative: A Tectonic Shift in the Geopolitical Balance of Power By Mike Whitney, May 04, 2019
Brzezinski’s Warning to America. The Liberal World Order is Falling Apart. America’s Unavoidable Decline By Mike Whitney, April 16, 2019
Will RussiaGate Junta-Mastermind, John Brennan, Ever Face the Music? By Mike Whitney, April 12, 2019
Trump’s Neocons See Erdogan as Their Ticket to a Region-Wide Middle East War By Mike Whitney, April 08, 2019
How Brzezinski’s Chessboard Degenerated into Brennan’s Russophobia By Mike Whitney, April 04, 2019
Bolton Torpedoed the Trump-Kim Hanoi Summit By Mike Whitney, April 01, 2019
The Media’s 6 Biggest Lies About North Korea By Mike Whitney, March 12, 2019
Whose Interests Are Served by the US Occupation of East Syria: America’s or Israel’s? By Mike Whitney, March 12, 2019
Has Trump Gone Full Neocon?? By Mike Whitney, March 09, 2019
Syria
Trump’s Plan to Stay in Syria Leaves Erdogan No Good Options By Mike Whitney, March 07, 2019
The Trump-Kim Summit: What Really Happened in Hanoi? By Mike Whitney, March 05, 2019
The Strange Death of Hugo Chavez. Was He Assassinated? By Eva Golinger and Mike Whitney, February 06, 2019
Dems Put Finishing Touches on America’s One-Party ‘Surveillance Superstate’ By Mike Whitney, June 08, 2018
Conspiracy Theory
Can We Call It a Coup Now? By Mike Whitney, May 22, 2018
Foreign Policy Insiders Try to Scuttle Trump-Kim Nukes Deal By Mike Whitney, May 18, 2018
If the US Wants Peace in Korea, It Should Keep Its Word By Mike Whitney, March 02, 2018
Goofy Indictments Divert Attention from Criminal Abuses at the FBI and DOJ By Mike Whitney, February 20, 2018
The Obnoxious Pence Shows Why Korea Must End US Occupation By Mike Whitney, February 19, 2018
Who is the Mastermind Behind Russiagate? By Mike Whitney, February 16, 2018
If There’s a War in Korea, Blame Trump By Mike Whitney, February 07, 2018
White Supremacy Colonialism
Washington Widens the War in Syria by Provoking Turkey By Mike Whitney, January 30, 2018
Trump’s Plan B for Syria: Occupation and Intimidation By Mike Whitney, January 21, 2018
Will Trump Use “Human Rights” to Kill the Iran Nukes Deal? By Mike Whitney, January 08, 2018
Why the Democrats Will Run Michele Obama in 2020 By Mike Whitney, December 02, 2017
ISIS Last Stand; End Times for the Caliphate By Mike Whitney, November 26, 2017
Brennan and Clapper: Elder Statesmen of the Intelligence Community or “Serial Fabricators”? By Mike Whitney, November 19, 2017
Is Hillary Just the “Fall Guy” for the Intel Agencies and Their Moneybag Bosses? By Mike Whitney, November 10, 2017
KCNA picture shows a test-firing drill of anti-ship missiles at sea © KCNA / Reuters
The U.S. Pushed North Korea to Build Nukes: Yes or No? By Mike Whitney, October 18, 2017
Where’s the Beef? The Senate Intel Committee and Russia. Confirmation Bias, Endorses Accuracy of Intelligence Community Assessment (ACA) By Mike Whitney, October 13, 2017
Washington’s Iron Curtain on the Euphrates By Mike Whitney, September 29, 2017
Uncle Sam vs. Russia in Eastern Syria: the Nightmare Scenario By Mike Whitney, September 24, 2017
Starve Them to Death: Wall Street Journal’s Solution to North Korea By Mike Whitney, September 19, 2017
The Russian Hacking Story Continues to Unravel By Mike Whitney, September 15, 2017
Why Trump Won’t Start a War with North Korea. A War with North Korea Serves No Strategic Purpose By Mike Whitney, September 10, 2017
What the Media Isn’t Telling You About North Korea’s Missile Tests. The DPRK has No Plans to Nuke the West By Mike Whitney, September 05, 2017
Why Can’t Wheeler-Dealer Trump Cut a Deal with North Korea? By Mike Whitney, August 26, 2017
Did Hillary Scapegoat Russia to Save Her Campaign? By Mike Whitney, August 02, 2017
Comey’s Lies of Omission By Mike Whitney, June 15, 2017
The DNC Hacking Scandal: Seth Rich, Craig Murray and the Sinister Stewards of the National Security State By Mike Whitney, May 20, 2017
Is North Korea a Diversion for a US-Jordan Invasion of Syria? By Mike Whitney, May 04, 2017
Is “Mad Dog” Planning to Invade East Syria? By Mike Whitney, April 26, 2017
Military Adventurism: The Problem is Washington, Not North Korea By Mike Whitney, April 18, 2017
Will Washington Risk World War III to Block an Emerging EU-Russia Superstate? By Mike Whitney, March 24, 2017
Trump’s One Trillion Dollar Infrastructure Boondoggle. Handing Over Public Assets to Private Corporations By Mike Whitney, March 16, 2017
Stronger U.S. Economic Growth? Over My Dead Body, Says Janet Yellen By Mike Whitney, March 14, 2017
McMaster Takes Charge: Trump Relinquishes Control of Foreign Policy By Mike Whitney, February 25, 2017
Blood in the Water: the Trump Revolution Ends in a Whimper By Mike Whitney, February 19, 2017
Trump Plays Cat and Mouse with Iran By Mike Whitney, February 09, 2017
Trump and “The Berkeley Incident”. Who is Threatening Free Speech? By Mike Whitney, February 04, 2017
US Intelligence Agencies Try to Strong-Arm Trump into War with Russia By Mike Whitney, January 12, 2017
The Trump Stock Market Bubble. “Make it Bigger” By Mike Whitney, January 07, 2017
Trump’s Economic Plan is a Betrayal of the People Who Voted for Him By Mike Whitney, December 23, 2016
Congress Votes to Give Jihadists Anti-Aircraft Missiles By Mike Whitney, December 15, 2016