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March 9th, 2021
Report: US Preparing Cyberattack Against Russia Over SolarWinds Hack According to a report from The New York Times, the Biden administration is planning cyberattacks against Russia in the coming weeks. The cyber offensive could come with new sanctions and would mark a serious escalation towards Moscow from the new administration.
Anonymous US officials told the Times that the first "major move" is expected to happen over the next three weeks. It will consist of a "series of clandestine actions across Russian networks that are intended to be evident to President Vladimir V. Putin and his intelligence services and military but not to the wider world."
The officials said the cyberattack will come along with new economic sanctions on Russia. Last week, the Biden administration slapped sanctions on Russian officials over the jailing and alleged poisoning of opposition figure Alexei Navalny. By Dave DeCamp Read the full story >
Biden Extends 1995 Emergency Executive Order That Sanctions Iran On Friday, President Biden extended an executive order that declares a state of emergency with respect to Iran. First signed by President Clinton in 1995, Executive Order 12957 has been renewed periodically and was set to expire on March 15th.
The order sanctions Iran's petroleum sector on the grounds that Tehran poses a national security threat to the US. The order prohibits "certain transactions with respect to the development of Iranian petroleum resources in Iran."
In a statement on the extension, President Biden claimed that Iran's government continues "to pose an unusual and extraordinary threat to the national security, foreign policy, and economy of the United States." Biden extended the order for another year. By Dave DeCamp
The Biden administration has been attempting to deal with an unruly world and found it no more receptive to his polite talk and gentle ministrations than to President Donald Trump's vociferous demands and blustering threats. Implementing the president's active internationalist vision will be harder to implement than planned.
President Joe Biden and his advisers are charter members of the Blob, the wide-ranging establishment including politicians, academics, analysts, journalists, business leaders, think tankers, bureaucrats, and staffers who collectively shape foreign policy. And its mantra is to intervene - now, then, and forever. Pre-President Biden occasionally dissented on the details, opposing the Obama administration buildup in Afghanistan, for instance. Overall, however, he always was well within the Washington mainstream. By Doug Bandow How the National Security State Manipulates the News Media An especially dangerous threat to liberty occurs when members of the press collude with government agencies instead of monitoring and exposing the abuses of those agencies. Unfortunately, collusion is an all-too-common pattern in press coverage of the national security state's activities. The American people then receive official propaganda disguised as honest reporting and analysis.
The degree of collaboration frequently has reached stunning levels. During the early decades of the Cold War, some journalists even became outright CIA assets. Washington Post reporter Carl Bernstein's January 1977, 25,000-word article in Rolling Stone was an extraordinarily detailed account of cooperation between the CIA and members of the press, and it provided key insights into that relationship. In some cases, the "journalists" were actually full-time CIA employees masquerading as members of the Fourth Estate, but Bernstein also confirmed that some 400 bona fide American journalists had secretly carried out assignments for the ClA during the previous 25 years. By Ted Galen Carpenter Biden's Bombing of Syria Is a Dangerous Step Backward For the first time, the Biden Administration ordered a cross-border military attack in the Middle East.
On February 26, seven US missiles slammed into a facility used by Iranian-backed militias in Syria. Washington was retaliating for the February 15 attack on a US base in northern Iraq.
The Pentagon claims self-defense. "We have acted in a deliberate manner that aims to de-escalate the overall situation in both eastern Syria and Iraq," said Pentagon Press Secretary John Kirby.
At the same time, the US "sends an unambiguous message," according to the Pentagon. "President Biden will act to protect American and Coalition personnel."
Whoever was supposed to get the message didn't. On March 3, missiles hit an Iraqi base occupied by troops from the US and its allies. By Reese Erlich American Coups: Biden's First Tests The Biden administration promised that things would change. The first month has already offered a few opportunities for an early measure of whether that change includes coups. It hasn't been a great start. By Ted Snider
US Reaffirms 'Unwavering' Commitment to Saudi Arabia Amid Houthi Attacks Ryan McMaken on the Apocalyptic Threat of Nuclear Weapons US Pacific Commander Defends $27 Billion Plan to Confront China Do you want more news? Keep your finger on the pulse of US foreign policy. Subscribe to our Daily Digest and each evening, the day's top news stories and editorials are delivered straight to your email. Please support our work by signing up. Subscribe now >Antiwar.com, 1017 El Camino Real #306, Redwood City, CA 94063 | 323 512 7095 | www.antiwar.com
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