Scholars have documented the consistent pattern. What makes a country far more likely to be invaded, attacked, "intervened in," or in other words, bombed, is not its lack of democracy or its government's crimes and abuses, or the crimes and abuses of some non-governmental group, but its possession of oil. Yet, with each new war, we are told to imagine ...

Senate Committee on Foreign Relations Chairman Bob Corker said that Obama is using the Air Force to boost Irans power in Iraq and to support its ally Bashar Assad in Syria. WASHINGTON (Sputnik) US President Barack Obama is using the Air Force to boost Irans power in Iraq and to support its ally Bashar Assad in Syria, Senate Committee on Foreign ...