Gareth Porter
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Investigative historian and journalist on the national security state; author of Manufactured Crisis: The Untold Story of the Iran Nuclear Scare (2014).
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My latest piece explains how the original "Military Industrial Complex" has morphed into something much more frightening -- a Permanent War State in which the political power of a drone contractor is a crucial factor.
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My final article on the IDF campaign against Shifa Hospital confirms IDF found no evidence that Hamas ever used the hospital itself to wage war. In fact IDF did not even know when or if it had ever been used by Hamas.
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Big media are all repeating the Trump-Pompeo justification that
#Soleimani
was responsible for killing 600 American boys in Iraq. But as I've documented in great detail, that was a completely fabricated story Cheney was using to justify an attack on Iran.
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My exclusive report shows how the Israelis military have manipulated and deceived U.S. public opinion to believe Shifa Hospital was the Hamas high command's bunker so it could take over and destroy it, as they are doing to all Gaza hospitals.
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Republican national security elite is said to be in a panic about possibility Trump would replace Bolton with anti-interventionist Col. Doug Macgregor, who would support Trump on withdrawal from Afghan and Syria wars and ending the state of war in Korea.
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On this day 51 years ago U.S. troops killed more than 500 innocent men, women and children in My Lai, South Vietnam. And Americans were soon misled to believe those murders were not in line with a fundamental policy adopted by the US command in Vietnam.
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Israel's one daily newspaper capable of dissent, Ha'aretz, reports the story no major US media outlet would dare to touch, quoting Noam Chomsky saying, "Israeli intervention in U.S. elections vastly overwhelms anything the Russians may have done."
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The fact that women now run 4 of the 5 top arms contractors is bad news. Women who compete in the world of war have proven to be more extreme in their dedication to the cause than men, e.g., Hillary Clinton.
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With the
#MattisResignation
and big media outrage at Trump over
#Syria
and
#Afghanistan
, the U.S. appears to be entering a new phase of conflict between the power of the permanent war state and the popular desire for an end to the state of permanent war.
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The practice of honoring troops who died in American wars such as World War I, Vietnam and Iraq without explicitly acknowledging that they were sacrificed for the interests of the powerful and not for the rest of us perpetuates the war system. And it is designed to do so.
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Looks like
#Bolton
was trying to steer
#Trump
toward a strike against Iran in September. Fortunately neither Trump nor the Pentagon were interested. Time for Bolton to go -- before he and Netanyahu do something to blow up the
#SyriaWithdrawal
.
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@nytopinion
The New York Times should be ashamed of themselves to publish the Israeli Ambassador's call for the Palestinian people to commit "suicide" and give up their national identity -- an explicit expression of Israel's strategy of slow-motion genocide of Palestinians.
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The lesson of World War I was that those with the power to make war never care in the least about the monumental sacrifice of human lives for their petty games and profits. We will continue to face exactly the same problem until enough people rise up and take away that power.
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My new piece shows that the now-discredited stories of Hamas atrocities on Oct. 7 came from the IDF, with the intent to ensure that the Biden administration would go along with the genocidal Israeli attack on Gaza that followed.
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Attention
@UNHumanRights
: the Ecuadorean government, under U.S. government pressure, has turned what is supposed to be asylum status for Julian
#Assange
at its London Embassy into a de facto prison sentence. Urgent investigation/action is required.
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The full story of the U.S. shoot-down of the Iranian Airbus, for which the crew of the VIncennes were decorated, is one of the most shameful episodes in U.S. military history and has left an indelible imprint on the memories of Iranian military and civilian officials.
On this day in 1988, the US Navy committed a major act of terror by shooting down an Iranian airliner, killing 290 civilians (including 66 children). The US attempted to cover-up its responsibility for the atrocity & has never apologized. Many of the bodies were never found.
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My story at The Grayzone details the efforts by the US military chiefs to get President Eisenhower to agree to a nuclear attack on
#China
in 1958 -- showing dramatically just how dangerous the chiefs have been to real US security.
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This Russia-Taliban story reeks of the same shameless media collaboration with the national security state to generate support for its chosen policies that critics have been documenting for decades. Shame on anyone in Congress who falls for it.
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The Democratic Party elite -- especially those in the "national security" elite -- must be called to account for continuing their long-running endeavor of distracting Americans from the realities of this country by repeating this pathetically lame
#Russia
conspiracy claim.
More of Susan Rice speculating on CNN that Russia is fueling US protests: "I would not be surprised to learn that they have fomented some of these extremists on both sides using social media. I wouldn't be surprised to learn that they are funding it in some way, shape, or form."
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A new study at Brown University's "Costs of War" project shows just how ruinous US "counterterrorism" has been for people in 8 ME and African countries: at least 37 million people--and possibly many millions more--have been displaced by US operations.
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The Israeli military has been been going into every local archive on the Nakba for a decade systematically removing every document showing Israeli massacres against Palestinians throughout the West Bank during 1948. And it doesn't even deny it has done it.
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Israel routinely drenches protesters & houses with "Skunk Water", which combines the foul smells of sewage and rotting human corpses. It causes violent gagging and vomiting and leaves its stench on skin for days. And it is supplied by a US company!
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This post should have read "did not know when or if the tunnel under it had ever been used by Hamas." Apologies to all for being flummoxed by space limitation to the point of missing the key point!
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Current and former Israeli intel officers reveal IDF is deliberately bombing civilian targets it defines as “power targets” (“matarot otzem”), to "create a shock" on civil society. This is a new and supremely evil form of high tech genocide.
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AIPAC has gone way too far, suggested that Rep. Betty McCollum, whose bill defends Palestinian children from Israeli torture, may be "more sinister" than ISIS. She's fighting back, calling the attack "hate speech" and AIPAC a "hate group. Right on, Betty!
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It's now clearer than ever before that the U.S. indictment of
#Assange
is based on fraud. A key accuser admits he lied to the help set up Assange. How much evidence does the Justice Department need stop this criminal abuse of power?
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This hard-hitting, detailed investigative takedown by
@MaxBlumenthal
of how Pete Buttigieg has been hiding his background as faithful servant of the global US empire and permanent war state should end his aspirations for national office once and for all.
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Big media reported those alleged nuclear documents supposedly stolen by Mossad as evidence of Iranian perfidy. But my investigation reveals it was a Netanyahu hoax aimed at destroying the JCPOA and steering Trump into war with Iran.
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Joe Biden says he doesn't "have enough information" to have a position on whether U.S. sanctions on
#Iran
are causing more Iranian deaths and suffering. Okay, Joe, then do the right thing and step aside for someone who does, okay?
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Every major corporate news outlet eagerly put out the story of a top N. Korean negotiator at Hanoi summit being executed. Then he turned up in public. It was fake news, and it shows big media don't give a damn about the most basic journalistic values.
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Behold the new U.S-legitimized "moderate" guise of the former Syrian al Qaeda chief, now prepped for a leading role in a long-running U.S. intervention in a Syria that has already resulted in carving up the country into foreign-sponsored mini-states.
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Israeli snipers have now deliberately killed 49 Palestinian civilians and wounded 7,000 in seven weeks of protests. Yet western governments continue to avert their eyes and refuse to condemn Israel's cynical cruelty.
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Devastating report by former head of DOD test and evaluation says the F-35, which has already cost $100 b over 25 years & would cost $1.4 trillion to buy and operate, still can't fulfil its basic missions. Undeniable proof DOD is about private profit.
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Source close to transition team on Bolton: "He's a man whose time has passed." Group now in control appears intent on keeping neocons out.
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Israeli killings in Gaza make 3 things clear: many 1000s of Gazans are ready to die as martyrs rather than submit to Israel's policy of slow death; Israeli snipers will continue 2 kill Palestinian demonstrators in cold blood; US gov't & news media have given Israel a green light.
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Here's my story on how the Israelis created the myth of Fakhrizadeh as the father of a covert Iranian nuclear weapons program which they used to justify their terrorist provocation. And Mossad has pulled such a trick to justify assassination before.
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UK navy officer told Iranian patrol boat the UK vessel was "conducting transit passage in a recognized international strait" (just what Iranian ship was doing when UK seized it July 4) and "passage must not be impaired". Brits don't see their hypocrisy?
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#Palestinian
activist invited to speak in
#Germany
is taken into custody & threatened with a year in prison if he speaks publicly, revealing dramatically how Germany gives up free speech & bows to
#Israel
, suppressing all pro-Palestinian views. Outrageous!
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The Vietnam-like end of the
#AfghanistanWar
now appears days away. Now we must hold the military accountable for a war based on deliberate lies by the military brass, as Army whistleblower Danny Davis documented in a now-forgotten devastating 2012 report.
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The US Justice Department warrant for the seizure of the Grace 1 on the argument its journey is a violation of multiple US laws perfectly illustrates the US trying to impose its domestic laws on the rest of the world. It should provoke worldwide outrage.
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It's the U.S. war crime that never ends. The United States is still killing Vietnamese by the thousands through the unexploded ordnance the U.S. military dropped and never cleaned up. 40,000 have been killed since the formal end of the war.
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Turns out calling Israel an "apartheid state" doesn't do justice to the problem. Afrikaner youths did not organize festivals of hate feverishly screaming "death to blacks!". This an apartheid system with a deep genocidal element that Americans must now reckon with.
Chanting “Death to Arabs” in Jerusalem at a nationalist march attended by three Knesset members.
17 Palestinians were arrested and over 30 were injured by Israeli forces protecting this incitement. The problem is bigger than Netanyahu — it’s apartheid.
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Time for the US to face the truth about its history in Syria: regardless of what any other party has done there, it has no legal or moral standing to continue any military role in that country. This short video of Raqqa after destruction by US & allies is a reminder of that fact.
This is the Raqqa the US will leave behind when it pulls out of Syria. A destroyed mess
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It may not be reported in US news media, but the UN Economic and Social Commission for Western Asia has issued a report accusing Israel of an apartheid policy through “strategic fragmentation of the Palestinian people” and discriminatory and practices.
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New wrinkle in "Novichok" story: UK foreign office (FCO) source reveals UK chem weapon lab Porton Down agreed to FCO's "of a type developed by Russia" formula only under heavy pressure -- much like what was applied on Blair's Iraqi WMD "dirty dossier".
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Pompeo's press briefing accusing
#Iran
of attacking a Japanese freighter represents a new level of crude and belligerent dishonesty on Iran. But it's consistent with his past lies on the subject. I will be documenting his lies on this in the days to come.
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The
#Trump
lie about intelligence for the
#Soleimani
hit has now completely disintegrated. Esper admits he never saw intelligence show a threat to U.S. Embassies, but "shared the president's view that probably...they were going to go after our embassies."
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1. The
#AfghanistanPapers
" published by WaPo show that that the US was knowingly keeping a kleptocracy in power by vast, bloody repression and suggest that most officers who served there and can now speak freely knew it was unwinnable.
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Key point in story of Trump calling off strike over downed US drone: senior administration official admits its possible it did violate Iranian airspace.
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#Pompeo
, who wields real power over
#Iran
policy, revealed a highly unstable personality unable to control his anger and aggressively asserting power over others in this chilling account by the NPR interviewer of her encounter with him.
#pompeoresign
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CIA is shocked Russia "aspired" to influence US election? US intervened in elections 81 times - including Russia's
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I have joined over 100 scholars, writers and activists in urging
#BernieSanders
to fill a gaping hole in his political program and advocate fundamental change in US military policy and the military budget. It's an absolute must for a 2020 presidential run.
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Congressional inquiry into the
#SoleimaniAssassination
and the threat of war should include whether this was a joint project of the United States and
#Israel
. Mossad chief Yossi Cohen said last October that the assassination of Soleimani "is possible".
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The independent Russian Union of Journalists, which has stood with Russian journalists threatened by repression, has awarded its Solidarity Prize to
#JulianAssange
. If only US corporate journalists were as committed to a truly free and independent press.
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Wikipedia shows once again how it serves the interests of the national security state by publishing a long entry on "Russian bounty program" that fails to mention the fact that it has been thoroughly debunked as a fiction created by Afghan intelligence.
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This is face of pure evil when confronted with truth about his deeds. It s a fundamental document illustrating how cynically those who committed crimes during the Cold War and after laughed off any effort to hold them accountable. The only thing that mattered was"we won".
The year was 1995. A young Elliott Abrams taught us how to laugh. Maniacally. When Allan Nairn brought up his involvement in the mass murder and torture of indigenous people in Guatemala.
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in the most outrageous act of suppression of legitimate news analysis ever by a major social media power, YouTube has banned a video by
@MaxBlumenthal
on Israel's
#GazaMassacre
in 28 countries.
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Big media treat it as big news that White House says intel community had only "low" to "moderate" confidence in the "Russian bounties" tale. But I blew up that shoddy NYTimes story, including the low intel confidence in it,
@TheGrayzoneNews
last July.
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Just when you thought the
#Israelis
couldn't be more criminal in deliberately killing and maiming
#Palestinian
civilians, IDF snipers have shot 19 Palestinian paramedics wearing clearly distinguishing jackets and killed one of them in a single day.
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Japan became the second major U.S. ally to demand more evidence for the US accusation against Iran over the freighter attacks. German Foreign Minister Heiko Maas did the same thing two days ago.
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These arrogant pro-Israel thugs who think they can still use the same old tactic of calling those who refuse to knuckle under to pressure and blandishments anti-Semites are riding for a big fall.
Here is Chelsea Clinton accusing Ilhan Omar of anti-semitism for critiquing AIPAC. You hear that? Being anti-AIPAC is now anti-semitism.
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An Israeli Jew says
@IlhanMN
is right: The Israel lobby and its minions in Congress have effectively demanded a loyalty oath to Israel. Then when Ilhan criticizes that demand, they attack her for "anti-Semitism". He sides with her view against the lobby's.
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US political discourse says Russian annexation of Crimea is the only such event in recent history, ignoring the Israeli 1981 annexation of Syrian Golan Heights.The difference? The population of Crimea was 75% Russian; Golan Heights population was Syrian.
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In another move on
#BDS
against the
#ApartheidIsrael
regime, China puts principle above economic interest for once and refuses to allow its citizens to work in occupied Jerusalem, where
#Israelis
wanted them to replace
#Palestinian
workers.
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The UN Rapporteur on Torture couldn't get a single one of 11 leading daily newspapers in the US, UK and Australia to publish his op-ed on the UK's treatment of
#JullianAssange
. Thus global corporate media show their undying support for the US War State and its allies.
#TortureVictimsDay
:
My OpEd „Demasking the Torture of
#JulianAssange
“ was offered for publication to:
@Guardian
@Times
@FT
@SMH
@australian
@canberratimes
@telegraph
@nytimes
@wapo
@Newsweek
@TRF_Stories
None responded positively.
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It's a moment when we find out who among potential candidates has a principled non-interventionist policy.
@TulsiGabbard
is the one who stepped forward.
The United States needs to stay out of Venezuela. Let the Venezuelan people determine their future. We don't want other countries to choose our leaders--so we have to stop trying to choose theirs.
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Illustrating big media's role in maintaining public support for aggressive US use of military power, a 5,000-word NY Times wrap-up on the Soleimani assassination avoids any critical examination of the clearly bogus rationale for that war-provoking attack.
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However wrong on most issues
#Trump
has grasped one basic truth: the U.S. must end its wars in the Middle East. When he first talked of pulling troops out last April, he summed up the results after 15 years of unending war: “We have nothing, nothing except death and destruction.”
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It's now simply deceitful to deny the power of the Israel lobby. Obama aide Ben Rhodes has recalled how members of Congress complained about AIPAC threats to shut down their fundraisers if they didn't vote right on legislation affecting Israeli interests.
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Shame on UK Defence Ministry for blacklisting
@declassifiedUK
after its criticism of UK supplying arms for the Saudi bombing campaign in
#Yemen
. The Council of Europe is protesting that blatant infringement on press freedom.
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#Nethanyahu
's theatrical slide show on
#Iran
's alleged weapons program, is not just old news, as news media are reporting. It's an extension of a disinformation campaign Israel perpetrated on the world years ago, as detailed in my book Manufactured Crisis.
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Great to hear
@AbbyMartin
speak with such strong conviction on the
@JoeRogan
show against the official claim of a secret
#Iranian
nuclear weapons program and cite my reporting on the issue. She's solid as a rock for the truth -- and fun to watch!
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#Israel
is the world's worst violator of international law forbidding collective punishment. Now it prevents the Palestinian authority from delivering money to any needy Palestinian family that has relatives in Israeli prisons. This is stunningly evil.
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Now the truth on the
#SuleimaniAssassination
begins to emerge. Officials briefed on the intel reveal the claims of an Iranian plan for an "imminent" attack on U.S. interests in the region was a fiction, and that Pompeo was at the center of the plot.
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This is the same Esper who last week defended the "exquisite intelligence" the U.S. had gathered on Soleimani and said the threat he posed was just "days away". We need legislation imposing long-term prison sentences for officials who consciously lie to justify an attack abroad.
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This essay reviews the evidence that
#Israel
always intended to annex the West Bank, and that it claimed the absolute right to do so without regard for the rights of those who were there before Israel. Zionism was and is an ideology of oppression.
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The time is now ripe for a national movement to stop US funding of the most oppressive foreign army in the world-- the Israel Defense Force -- which has continued for decades despite its violations of US laws. "Defund the IDF" is the obvious slogan.
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The bombing of Laos was indeed one of the most heinous U.S. war crimes ever. My friend Fred Branfman tried his best to drew attention to it while it was happening. It should be condemned in conjunction with the indiscriminate bombing of Cambodia and S. Vietnam.
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Rania is right. This is not a criterion that is applied in a neutral manner. It's being used by an elite that is wielding unaccountable power over what is supposed to be a political-intellectual commons to suppress views that oppose the dominant political narrative.
Facebook has suspended all of
@IntheNow_tweet
's facebook pages, apparently in coordination w/ CNN, on the grounds that In The Now doesn't disclose who funds it (Ruptly). This is an outrageous standard that is not applied to other outlets, like NPR or AJ+.
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Japan is doing what the White House, the Congress and the U.S. media have failed to do thus far: demand that Pompeo produce real evidence that Iran was the culprit in the tanker attacks before plunging the US and the entire ME deeper into a war crisis.
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Finally
@washingtonpost
covers the obvious fact that the
@guardian
story on Manafort meetings with
#Assange
is a fabrication. Now how about covering the other
@lukeharding1968
fabrication -- how Russians plotted to smuggle Assange out of the UK secretly?
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The Covid-19 pandemic has made one thing clear: financial, health care and military-industrial elites control all national levers of power, including both parties. Only a populist-leftist movement/proto-party can save the US from this ruinous regime. Who will step up start it?
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Must read from Patrick Cockburn
@Independent
on the fraud of that never-changing official UN figure of 10,000 Yemeni dead in the
#Saudi
#Yemen
War. He reports the best estimate is 56,000 Yemenis have died -- NOT counting starvation/cholera-related deaths.
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Grayzone has broken the biggest story on the whole Russia-gate tale that you won't read about in corporate media: just-released House Intel Com transcript shows Crowdstrike, hired by the DNC, admitted it had no evidence DNC emails were stolen by hackers.
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The IDF taunted the owner of a
#Gaza
high-rise apartment building and gave him 5 minutes to evacuate all seven floors before destroying it completely -- then had the nerve to claim that it was a military target. That's the
#israeli
way of
#WarCrimes
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Another Pahlavi wants the US to restore right-wing power in
#Iran
, seeking to duplicate the Shah's collaboration with the CIA to overthrow Mossadegh. And he's being promoted by the neocons. It's history repeatIng itself first as tragedy then as farce.
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I am deeply saddened by the news that my friend Bob Parry, founder and editor of
@Consortiumnews
, has died. He was a rock of journalistic integrity in a time when that was increasingly rare. All of us who knew his work will miss him very much.
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Former IDF Navy commander and chief of Shin Bet calls for strong Jewish opposition to Israel's unjust war against Palestinians, which he says is fueling anti-Semitism all over the world.
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Pentagon has just spent $1.1 b to buy eight Boeing F-15X jets instead of a cheaper alternative -- to keep Boeing in the tactical fighter jet business, a senior official explains. Not related, of course, to the fact acting Defense Secretary is from Boeing,
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