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Netanyahu Claims Iran Has a Secret Nuclear Site

Addressing the United Nations General Assembly, Netanyahu showed an aerial photograph of the Iranian capital marked with a red arrow.

Middle East Monitor
Par Middle East Monitor

Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu on Thursday described what he said was a secret atomic warehouse in Tehran and accused Europe of appeasing Iran as he sought to rally support for US sanctions against the Islamic Republic, Reuters reports. Addressing the United Nations General Assembly, Netanyahu showed an aerial photograph of the Iranian

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US-Funded Report Illuminates Enormous South Sudan Death Toll but Leaves America’s Role in the Dark

The recently published, U.S.-financed report on South Sudan’s brutal conflict is just another dramatic illustration of how the U.S. publicly laments violence it has helped to create and perpetuate while obfuscating the sordid legacy of its foreign interventions.

Whitney Webb
Par Whitney Webb
US role South Sudan

LONDON -- A new report financed by the U.S. government on the state of South Sudan’s civil war has found that the conflict has resulted in the deaths of nearly 400,000 people since it began five years ago, indicating that past statistics had severely underestimated the death toll. Yet, while the U.S.-funded report bemoans the situation in

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Iran Warns It Will Respond to Future Israeli Strikes Targeting Syria and Its Allies

Leaked State Department emails have shown that chaos in Syria benefits Israel, suggesting a strategic motive on Israel’s part for the taking the risk of sparking a major war by continuing its air attacks on its neighbor.

Whitney Webb
Par Whitney Webb
Iran's Revolutionary Guard

TEHRAN, IRAN -- Concerns that the conflict in Syria could soon escalate have now grown exponentially following comments from Iran’s top security official that Israel will face retaliatory actions if the country continues to launch unilateral strikes against Syrian military installations. Ali Shamkhani, Secretary of Iran’s Supreme National

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Empire of Lies: Are ‘We the People’ Useful Idiots in the Digital Age?

While we claim to value freedom, privacy, individuality, equality, diversity, accountability, and government transparency, our actions and those of our government rulers contradict these much-vaunted principles at every turn.

John Whitehead
Par John Whitehead
social media

Back in the heyday of the old Soviet Union, a phrase evolved to describe gullible western intellectuals who came to visit Russia and failed to notice the human and other costs of building a communist utopia. The phrase was “useful idiots” and it applied to a good many people who should have known better. I now propose a new, analogous term more

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War Powers Act Invoked to End US Support for Saudi-Led Slaughter of Civilians in Yemen

« This resolution should be a no-brainer for Congress. What more do they need to finally end this tragedy? »

Jessica Corbett
Par Jessica Corbett

Amid reports that civilian deaths have "surged dramatically" in Yemen since June, when the Saudi-led coalition launched an offensive to take control of the port city Hodeidah, Rep. Ro Khanna (D-Calif.) on Wednesday officially introduced a highly anticipated resolution invoking the War Powers Act of 1973, in hopes of ending American support for the

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US Pulls Patriot Missiles From Middle East as Focus Shifts to China, Russia

While some Patriot systems will remain in the region, removal of the four batteries « amounts to a major drawdown of the capability Patriots provide in the region. »

ZeroHedge.com
Par ZeroHedge.com
patriot missiles

The Pentagon is removing Patriot missile systems from several Middle Eastern countries next month, in a move that the Wall Street Journal says coincides with a "realignment of forces and capabilities as the military steps up its focus on threats from China and Russia," citing multiple senior military officials. The relocation of the systems out of

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