Undercover in Idlib Province
May 17, 2017
Journalist Jenan Moussa has sent undercover reporters to Idlib Province, home of Uncle Sam and friends’ “moderate” al Qaeda fighters there. Yet U.S. support for these terrorists continues under President Donald Trump. Reprinted with permission from The Libertarian Institute.
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10 Reasons Trump Should Not Strengthen US-Saudi Ties
May 17, 2017
Donald Trump has selected Saudi Arabia as the destination for his first trip abroad, strengthening U.S. ties to a regime that is fueling the very extremism, intolerance and violence that the US government purports to eradicate. Here’s 10 reasons why the United States should not be closely allied with the Saudi kingdom. The Saudis export […]
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Trump Shares Classified Material With Russia – Duck and Cover!
May 17, 2017
U.S. media outlets have been consumed by the story today that President Trump improperly or unwisely shared classified material on ISIS with the Russians, material that apparently came from Israel. For its part, the Trump administration denies the charge that information was improperly or unwisely shared. A couple of comments. First, the president has broad […]
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Would You Have Chelsea Manning’s Courage When Called?
May 17, 2017
Chelsea is free! With more than a little irony, while I was in Iraq working for the State Department, Chelsea Manning’s office was across the hall from mine. While I was winning the war by writing emails to the embassy, Manning was across the hall capturing the texts of hundreds of thousands of State Department […]
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Nakba Day 2017
May 17, 2017
Monday was Nakba Day, the day set aside to remember the catastrophe that befell the Palestinian Arabs in 1948 in connection with the creation of the “Jewish State” of Israel. Over 700,000 Palestinians were driven from their homes and villages, and many massacred, in an ethnic-cleansing operation that should shock the conscience. Hundreds of villages were […]
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Why Washington Took al-Qaeda in Syria Off the Terrorist List
May 16, 2017
It might come as a surprise to many Americans that their government does not classify al-Qaeda in Syria as a terrorist organization. The reason it refuses to make the determination would shock them even more. The Syrian franchise of the organization involved in the 9/11 attacks on New York and Washington has long gone by […]
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Ron Paul on ‘Russiagate’ – National Security Threat… Or Just Politics?
May 16, 2017
The latest “Russiagate” breathless revelation is that President Trump revealed secret information to the Russians in the Oval office. The Washington Post cites unnamed “former and current” intelligence sources for the leaked information. The leakers were obviously not in the room, but National Security Advisor H.R. McMaster who was in the room and refuted the […]
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William J. Astore on Icons of American Militarism
May 16, 2017
At this moment, it’s hard to think of a better symbol of American militarism than a giant bomb with a U.S. flag on it. President Donald Trump touted the use of the “mother of all bombs” (MOAB) in Afghanistan as a “very, very successful mission” even though evidence of that success is scant. He further […]
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NATO’s Biggest Challenge – Make ‘Frightened’ Europe Pay Up!
May 14, 2017
The Baltic countries, and some of their Scandinavian neighbors, are mortally terrified of Russia. Or so they would have us believe. They clamored to join NATO as soon as the Soviet Union collapsed and are currently among the most shrill anti-Russian voices outside of Hillary campaign hangers-on and their newfound neocon allies. Just this week, […]
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The Fog of Cold War
May 12, 2017
“Once the rockets are up, who cares where they come down? That’s not my department,” says Wernher von Braun.~ From Tom Lehrer’s ballad of Wernher von Braun From MAD to Madness: Inside Pentagon Nuclear War Planning is the enlightening memoir by Paul Johnstone, a man who worked in the "department" that decided where "they" would […]
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