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The Other Side of the Post’s Katharine Graham
The Other Side of the Post’s Katharine Graham Hollywood loves to make heroes of The Washington Post for the rare moments when it has stood up for journalism – while forgetting the blood-soaked cases of the Post spreading lies to justify wars, writes Norman Solomon. Movie critics are already hailing “The Post,” directed by Steven […]
Lavishing Money on the Pentagon
Lavishing Money on the Pentagon Exclusive: It seems like it’s always Christmastime at the Pentagon where the stockings are full and budget-cutting is for those domestic social-program guys, as Jonathan Marshall explains. Wise parents who celebrate Christmas advise their young children not to make unreasonably grandiose requests of Santa. After all, he has to squeeze […]
Trump’s Illegal Syrian Mission Creep
Trump’s Illegal Syrian Mission Creep Even as the Islamic State’s “caliphate” in Syria collapses, the U.S. government is keeping about 2,000 soldiers in-country despite lacking any legal right to be there, as ex-CIA analyst Paul R. Pillar discusses. The other day we learned that there are four times more U.S. troops in Syria than any […]
Russia-gate’s Litany of Corrections
Russia-gate’s Litany of Corrections Exclusive: As much as the U.S. mainstream media insists that the Russia-gate scandal is growing, what is undeniably growing is the list of major corrections that news outlets have been forced to issue, reports Robert Parry. The U.S. mainstream media’s year-long hysteria over Russia’s alleged role in the election of Donald […]
Russia-gate’s Reach into Journalism
Russia-gate’s Reach into Journalism The investigation to somehow blame Russia for Donald Trump’s election has now merged with another establishment goal of isolating and intimidating whistleblowers and other dissidents, as Dennis J Bernstein describes. The Russia-gate investigation has reached into the ranks of journalism with the House Intelligence Committee’s subpoena of Randy Credico, who produced […]
How Russia-gate Rationalizes Censorship
How Russia-gate Rationalizes Censorship Special Report: The Russia-gate hysteria has spread beyond simply a strategy for neutralizing Donald Trump or even removing him from office into an excuse for stifling U.S. dissent that challenges the New Cold War, reports Joe Lauria. At the end of October, I wrote an article for Consortiumnews about the Democratic National Committee and Hillary […]
Cherry-picking Toward War with Iran
Cherry-picking Toward War with Iran In trying to rally American hostility toward Iran, CIA Director Pompeo and other U.S. officials are engaging in the same kind of distorted intelligence that led to the catastrophic Iraq invasion, writes ex-CIA analyst Paul R. Pillar. Although nobody knows exactly where Donald Trump intends to go with his campaign […]
America’s Military-Industrial Addiction
America’s Military-Industrial Addiction Polls show that Americans are tired of endless wars in faraway lands, but many cheer President Trump’s showering money on the Pentagon and its contractors, a paradox that President Eisenhower foresaw, writes JP Sottile. The Military-Industrial Complex has loomed over America ever since President Dwight D. Eisenhower warned of its growing influence […]
Trump Resists Progress on Global Warming
Trump Resists Progress on Global Warming Exclusive: Market trends now favor renewable energy as a cost-effective alternative to fossil fuels, but President Trump’s resistance to this good news is doing real damage in the fight against global warming, reports Jonathan Marshall. With petrochemical billionaires Charles and David Koch paying many of the GOP’s bills these […]
America’s Righteous Russia-gate Censorship
America’s Righteous Russia-gate Censorship Exclusive: Arriving behind the anti-Trump “resistance” and the Russia-gate “scandal” is a troubling readiness to silence dissent in the U.S., shutting down information that challenges Official Narratives, writes Robert Parry. A stark difference between today’s Washington and when I was here as a young Associated Press correspondent in the late 1970s […]
Trump’s Saudi Scheme Unravels
Trump’s Saudi Scheme Unravels President Trump and his son-in-law bet that the young Saudi crown prince could execute a plan to reshape the Mideast, but the scheme quickly unraveled revealing a dangerous amateur hour, writes ex-British diplomat Alastair Crooke. Aaron Miller and Richard Sokolsky, writing in Foreign Policy, suggest “that Mohammed bin Salman’s most notable […]
Stumbling Blindly into Cold War Two
Stumbling Blindly into Cold War Two As the U.S. and its Western allies lurch into a new and dangerous confrontation with Russia, the different sides don’t even have a thorough understanding of the history behind the tensions, warns Alice Slater. NATO’s recent provocative decision to build up its military forces across Europe — by sending […]
The Ongoing Misery of Puerto Rico
The Ongoing Misery of Puerto Rico Puerto Rico’s recovery from Hurricane Maria, which hit the U.S. territory on Sept. 20, remains slow and spotty with continued power outages, unsafe water and school closings, reports Dennis J Bernstein. It’s been nearly seven weeks since Hurricane Maria shredded the island of Puerto Rico and, still, conditions for […]
Saudi Arabia’s Desperate Gamble
Saudi Arabia’s Desperate Gamble Furious over defeat in Syria, Saudi Arabia’s Crown Prince is gambling again, arresting rivals at home and provoking a political crisis in Lebanon, but he may lack the geopolitical chips to pull off his bet, says ex-British diplomat Alastair Crooke. It is always tempting. The Syrian war is coming to an end, […]
How Saudi Arabia Sows Instability
How Saudi Arabia Sows Instability U.S. propaganda claims Iran causes Mideast instability, but the truth is that Saudi Arabia – from backing Islamic extremists to blockading and bombing Yemen – is the real culprit, as ex-CIA analyst Paul R. Pillar explains. The anachronistic family enterprise known as the Kingdom of Saudi Arabia has long been […]
