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Saudi Crown Prince Mohammed bin Salman, center, and Managing Director of the International Monetary Fund Christine Lagarde, left, attend the opening ceremony of Future Investment Initiative Conference in Riyadh, Saudi Arabia, Oct. 24, 2017. (Saudi Press Agency/AP)
The Forgotten War

MBS Wants Yemenis to “Shiver” for Generations when They Hear Saudi Arabia, Vows to Continue Targeting Children

Archives for août 2018

Political Revocation of Security Clearances is Only Part of the Story

What the mainstream media does not ask is: “Why do these ex-government and military personnel get to keep their security clearance in the first place?”

Ian Berman
Par Ian Berman
Former CIA Director John Brennan is reflected in a table as he prepares to testify on CapitolHill in Washington, May 23, 2017, before the House Intelligence Committee Russia Investigation Task Force. Pablo Martinez Monsivais | AP

WASHINGTON -- Ex-CIA Director John Brennan, who has been critical of President Trump, has now lost his security clearance. In addition, the White House has identified a number of others who are at risk of losing the security clearance they obtained at their previous positions. The mainstream media is correct to highlight the threat to government

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In Stunning Reversal, Michael Cohen’s Attorney Backpedals On Trump-Russia Claims

Davis said in an interview that he is « no longer certain about claims he made to reporters on background and on the record in recent weeks about what Cohen knows about Trump’s awareness of the Russian efforts. »

ZeroHedge.com
Par ZeroHedge.com
A couple kisses in front of graffiti depicting Russian President Vladimir Putin, left, and Republican presidential candidate Donald Trump, on the walls of a bar in the old town in Vilnius, Lithuania, Saturday, May 14, 2016. (AP Photo/Mindaugas Kulbis)

Lanny Davis - the attorney for Michael Cohen, has massively backpedaled on "confident assertions" that Cohen would share information with investigators that President Trump knew of Russian efforts to undermine Democratic nominee Hillary Clinton - a lifelong friend of Davis'. The Washington Post reported on Sunday that Davis said in an interview

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Inside the “Humanitarian” Regime-Change Network Exploiting Jo Cox’s Death

From the Kosovo Protection Corps in the Balkans to the White Helmets of Syria, a group of well- connected people with the fundings of governments and elite billionaires have sought to wage a war on public opinion and have recently exploited Jo Cox’s death to do so.

Vanessa Beeley
Whitney Webb
Par Vanessa Beeley
Et Whitney Webb
Brendan Cox makes a speech during a Jo Cox memorial in Trafalgar Square, London, June 22, 2016. Alastair Grant | AP

LONDON -- The Jo Cox Fund, set up in memory of the slain MP soon after her death in 2016, was established by a cadre of pro-interventionist “humanitarians” with a history of involvement in past regime-change operations and whose connections to some of the world’s most ardent imperialists, as well as the Not for Profit Industrial Complex (NPIC), are

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Why US Imperialism Loves the Afghanistan Quagmire

Afghanistan may be a seething swamp of suffering. But it’s a swamp that is at the same time spawning immense advantages for a select few overseeing US imperialist interests.

Finian Cunningham
Par Finian Cunningham
Afghanistan US Army

It may seem paradoxical that any American interest would seek to deliberately prolong the Afghan quagmire. Costing trillions of dollars to the national debt, one would think that US planners are anxious to wind down the war and cut their immense losses. Not so, it seems. Like the classic 1960s satire film, Dr. Strangelove, and how he came to

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In South Africa, Trump Embraces a Global Neo-Nazi Myth

White South Africans are 8 percent of the country’s population and hold 70 percent of its arable land. Apparently that’s not enough for a global chorus of white supremacists.

Francis Njubi Nesbitt
Par Francis Njubi Nesbitt
White South Africans comprise a tiny minority of South Africa's population, but own most of the country's farmland. Schalk van Zuydam | AP

President Donald Trump recently voiced support for a Neo-Nazi ideology in South Africa that accuses the government of “white genocide.” This ideology posits that the government of South Africa and the ruling African National Congress are inciting their followers to invade and occupy ranches owned by white farmers. Ironically, Trump’s statement

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The Other Side of John McCain

If the paeans to McCain by diverse political climbers seems detached from reality, it’s because they reflect the elite view of U.S. military interventions as a chess game, with the millions killed by unprovoked aggression mere statistics, says Max Blumenthal.

Max Blumenthal
Par Max Blumenthal
In this March 28, 2012 file photo, Sen. John McCain, R-Ariz., listens during a news conference on Capitol Hill in Washington. (AP Photo/Jacquelyn Martin, File)

As the Cold War entered its final act in 1985, journalist Helena Cobban participated in an academic conference at an upscale resort near Tucson, Arizona, on U.S.-Soviet interactions in the Middle East. When she attended what was listed as the “Gala Dinner with keynote speech”, she quickly learned that the virtual theme of the evening was, “Adopt a

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