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Learning to Love McCarthyism
Learning to Love McCarthyism Special Report: Many American liberals who once denounced McCarthyism as evil are now learning to love the ugly tactic when it can be used to advance the Russia-gate “scandal” and silence dissent, reports Robert Parry. The New York Times has finally detected some modern-day McCarthyism, but not in the anti-Russia hysteria […]
How Afghans View the Endless US War
How Afghans View the Endless US War To understand why the 16-year-old U.S. war in Afghanistan continues to fail requires a look from the ground where Afghans live and suffer, a plight breeding strong opposition to the U.S. presence, explains Kathy Kelly. On a recent Friday at the Afghan Peace Volunteers‘ (APV) Borderfree Center, here […]
How America Spreads Global Chaos
How America Spreads Global Chaos The U.S. government may pretend to respect a “rules-based” global order, but the only rule Washington seems to follow is “might makes right” — and the CIA has long served as a chief instigator and enforcer, writes Nicolas J.S. Davies. As the recent PBS documentary on the American War in […]
US Tries to Stir Up Trouble for Iran
US Tries to Stir Up Trouble for Iran As President Trump’s foreign policy falls deeply under the Israeli-Saudi spell, his Mideast diplomats are stirring up conflict against Iran and drawing a rebuke from Iraq, as ex-CIA analyst Paul R. Pillar explains. In Iraq, as in Syria, the imminent extinguishing of the mini-state of the so-called […]
The Ploy to Shift 9/11 Blame to Iran
The Ploy to Shift 9/11 Blame to Iran The U.S. government often plays the game of blaming “enemies” and excusing “friends,” a particularly ugly reality in the push to blame Iran and absolve Saudi Arabia for the 9/11 attacks, says 9/11 widow Kristen Breitweiser. Largely unreported and widely unknown is the recent push to re-establish […]
NYT’s Assault on Press Freedom
NYT’s Assault on Press Freedom Exclusive: The New York Times, which once postured as the champion of a free press, now is seeking crackdowns on news that the public gets from the Internet under the guise of combatting “Russian propaganda,” explains Daniel Lazare. Once upon a time the danger to a free press came from […]
Perpetual War: Treadmill of America’s Mind
Perpetual War: Treadmill of America’s Mind Like a caged hamster on a running wheel, the American people are trapped in perpetual wars that the foreign policy elites offer no way to end, only excuses to continue, observes ex-CIA analyst Paul R. Pillar. The newest issue of Foreign Affairs features the theme of “America’s Forgotten Wars,” […]
California Wildfires Inflict More Devastation
California Wildfires Inflict More Devastation Among recent natural disasters striking the U.S. are devastating wildfires that torched California’s wine country, destroyed thousands of homes and killed more than 40 people, report Dennis J Bernstein and Miguel Gavilan Molina. The Tubbs neighborhood in Santa Rosa, Sonoma County, one of the hardest hit by the recent fires […]
The Strange World of Russian ‘Trolls’
The Strange World of Russian ‘Trolls’ A big part of the Russia-gate hysteria is to accuse Russia of spreading U.S. dissension via Internet “trolling,” but that’s just one more wild exaggeration among many, as William Blum describes at Anti-Empire Report. Webster’s dictionary: troll – verb: To fish by running a baited line behind a moving […]
Busting Upward the Military Budget
Busting Upward the Military Budget The Trump administration and Congress are in accord on one thing: the budget constraints on military spending must be busted to sustain overseas bases and to fund local pork projects, writes Ivan Eland. Although the Senate and House of Representatives have both passed the National Defense Authorization Act for fiscal […]
Understanding the ‘Fake News’ Hysteria
Understanding the ‘Fake News’ Hysteria The mainstream media’s hysteria over “fake news” is aimed less at the few instances of intentionally fabricated stories than at well-reported articles that challenge the U.S. government’s dubious official narratives, says David P. Hamilton. For the most part, “fake news” is a fake concept designed by the corporate news media […]
The Legacy of Reagan’s Civilian ‘Psyops’
The Legacy of Reagan’s Civilian ‘Psyops’ Special Report: When the Reagan administration launched peacetime “psyops” in the mid-1980s, it pulled in civilian agencies to help spread these still-ongoing techniques of deception and manipulation, reports Robert Parry. Declassified records from the Reagan presidential library show how the U.S. government enlisted civilian agencies in psychological operations designed […]
Trump’s Scary Nuclear Doctrine
Trump’s Scary Nuclear Doctrine Pleasing Israeli Prime Minister Netanyahu and terrifying almost everybody else, President Trump is threatening nuclear war against North Korea and, by implication, war with Iran, as ex-British diplomat Alastair Crooke explains. There are acres of print analyzing “will he, or won’t he” in respect to President Trump taking military action in […]
A Deaf Ear to Dire Russian Warnings
A Deaf Ear to Dire Russian Warnings Official Washington is so obsessed with the hyped Russia-gate allegations that it isn’t picking up on dire warnings from Russia that continued U.S. military interference in Syria won’t be tolerated, as Gilbert Doctorow notes. From time to time, the Kremlin uses the Sunday evening weekly news wrap-up program […]
America’s Long History of Warfare
America’s Long History of Warfare Americans like to view their country as a force for peace in the world when the historical reality is almost the opposite, a reality ignored by the PBS Vietnam War documentary, writes Lawrence Davidson. If you go to the Wikipedia page that gives a timeline of U.S. foreign military operations […]
