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Is the US trying to destroy ISIS?
Is the US trying to destroy ISIS? Someone asked me to find war lies during the past few years. Perhaps they had in mind the humanitarian pretenses around attacking Libya in 2011 and Iraq in 2014, or the false claims about chemical weapons in 2013, or the lies about an airplane in Ukraine or the […]
The Android Administration: Google’s Remarkably Close Relationship With the Obama White House, in Two Charts
Illustration by The Intercept. Photo: Emmanuel Dunand/AFP/Getty Images THE ANDROID ADMINISTRATION Google’s Remarkably Close Relationship With the Obama White House, in Two Charts WHEN PRESIDENT OBAMA announced his support last week for a Federal Communications Commission plan to open the market for cable set-top boxes — a big win for consumers, but also for Google — the cable […]
8 Reasons 9/11 Could NOT Have Been An Inside Job
8 Reasons 9/11 Could NOT Have Been An Inside Job Below, we’ll show that 9/11 could NOT have been an inside job … I. The 9/11 Commission and Congressional Investigation Into 9/11 All Disproved Any Conspiracy 9/11 was thoroughly and exhaustively investigated by the 9/11 Commission, Congress and U.S. scientific agencies. This horse has already […]
The US military industrial complex, Wall Street and Big Oil are vying to buy the presidency
The US military industrial complex, Wall Street and Big Oil are vying to buy the presidency A dummies guide to who might own the White House The Republican primaries have represented a veritable political orgasm in the mainstreaming of xenophobia. And the two leading GOP candidates, Donald Trump and Ted Cruz, have been quick to […]
A Desperate China Begged Fed For “Plunge Protection Playbook” As Its Market Crashed
A Desperate China Begged Fed For “Plunge Protection Playbook” As Its Market Crashed Last June, China’s stock market miracle ended in tears. The SHCOMP’s inexorable, parabolic ascent was to a large degree facilitated by an explosion of margin debt, the likes of which could not be found in any other major market across the globe. […]
Geopolitics, the State, and Cybersecurity in a Globalized World
Geopolitics, the State, and Cybersecurity in a Globalized World On February 9th of this year, the Obama administration announced that after a seven year observation of the cybersecurity environment, it was going to establish the Cybersecurity National Action Plan (CNAP). The new cybersecurity plan was formulated to counter the ever-morphing threats and hackings […]
Creating Russia/China Bogeymen
Creating Russia/China Bogeymen Relying on the most unreliable propaganda, Washington’s foreign policy establishment is seeking massive new military spending to counter Russian and Chinese “aggression” — when a more sober analysis would show these “threats” to be wildly exaggerated, as Gilbert Doctorow explains. Where Russia is concerned – and now also China – one can […]
Stocks Slump After Saudis Threaten Nukes Against “Nefarious” Iran
Stocks Slump After Saudis Threaten Nukes Against “Nefarious” Iran Earlier this month, a black swan landed in the Mid-East when Saudi Arabia executed prominent Shiite cleric Nimr al-Nimr along with 46 other “terrorists.” Most of those executed were not Shiites but that didn’t matter. Al-Nimr was a key voice among Saudi Arabia’s dissident Shiite minority […]
On Conspiracy Theories
On Conspiracy Theories “In many nations, rational people end up believing crazy things, including (false) conspiracy theories. Those crazy thoughts can lead to violence, including terrorism. Many terrorist acts have been fueled by false conspiracy theories, and there is a good argument that some such acts would not have occurred in the absence of such […]
CISA Is Now The Law: How Congress Quietly Passed The Second Patriot Act
CISA Is Now The Law: How Congress Quietly Passed The Second Patriot Act Back in 2014, civil liberties and privacy advocates were up in arms when the government tried to quietly push through the Cybersecurity Information Sharing Act, or CISA, a law which would allow federal agencies – including the NSA – to share cybersecurity, […]
US calls on Turkey to withdraw ‘unauthorized’ troops from Iraq
US calls on Turkey to withdraw ‘unauthorized’ troops from Iraq © Yilmaz Kazandioglu / Reuters The US has urged Turkey to withdraw its “unauthorized” military forces from northern Iraq, calling on Ankara to respect the country’s sovereignty and territorial integrity. US Vice President Joe Biden has spoken to Iraqi Prime Minister Haider al-Abadi regarding Turkey’s […]
House Democrat Warns Obama’s Actions Could Lead To “Devastating Nuclear War”
House Democrat Warns Obama’s Actions Could Lead To “Devastating Nuclear War” It was so much easier when Obama was running a military “sneakers on the ground” campaign in Iraq and Syria where there was no official confirmation of the thousands of “military advisors” engaging directly with various known and unknown adversaries. However, a recent surge of […]
