Some of our special stories in August focused on the dangerous new Cold War with Russia, the serious problems with both major party candidates for U.S. president, and the troubling collapse of professional journalism.
“New Cold War at the Olympics” by Rick Sterling, Aug. 1, 2016
“Is Hillary Double-Talking on Trade Deals?” by JP Sottile, Aug. 1, 2016
“The Mystery of Turkey’s Failed Coup” by Joe Lauria, Aug. 2, 2016
“Terrorism as a Word and Epithet” by Michael Brenner, Aug. 4, 2016
“The Danger of Excessive Trump Bashing” by Robert Parry, Aug. 4, 2016
“Needing an Exit from Afghan Quagmire” by Alon Ben-Meir, Aug. 5, 2016
“Letting Saudi Arabia Off the 9/11 Hook” by Lawrence Davidson, Aug. 5, 2016
“Al Qaeda’s Name Game in Syria” by Gareth Porter, Aug. 6, 2016
“Stalling Obama’s Overtures to Russia” by Alastair Crooke, Aug. 6, 2016
“How US Spies Secured the Hiroshima Uranium” by Joe Lauria, Aug. 6, 2016
“Why Neocons Can’t Stomach Trump” by JP Sottile, Aug. 7, 2016
“Hillary Clinton’s Turn to McCarthyism” by Robert Parry, Aug. 9, 2016
“Donald Trump’s Incendiary Language” by Robert Parry, Aug. 10, 2016
“Magical Thinking in US Foreign Policy” by James W Carden, Aug. 11, 2016
“Mike Morell’s Kill-Russians Advice” by Ray McGovern, Aug. 12, 2016
“US War Crimes or ‘Normalized Deviance’” by Nicolas J S Davies, Aug. 15, 2016
“Why Not Expand the Presidential Debates?” by Jeff Cohen, Aug. 16, 2016
“America’s Journalistic Hypocrites” by Robert Parry, Aug. 16, 2016
“How ‘Think Tanks’ Generate Endless War” by Todd E. Pierce, Aug. 17, 2016
“Turkey’s Sensible Détente with Russia” by Graham E. Fuller, Aug. 17, 2016
“How a Question’s Phrasing Hobbles Third Parties” by Sam Husseini, Aug. 18, 2016
“Washington Hawks Prey on Syrian Killing Fields” by Michael Brenner, Aug. 18, 2016
“Trump and the Long History of Media Bias” by Robert Parry, Aug. 19, 2016
“A Cheap Shot at Bernie Sanders’ Summer Home” by Robert Parry, Aug. 20, 2016
“A Lawless Plan to Target Syria’s Allies” by Ray McGovern, Aug. 20, 2016
“US Hawks Advance a War Agenda in Syria” by Daniel Lazare, Aug. 21, 2016
“Hillary Clinton’s ‘Pivot’ or ‘Spin’?” by Norman Solomon, Aug. 22, 2016
“Propaganda for Syrian ‘Regime Change’” by Rick Sterling, Aug. 23, 2016
“A Clinton Family Value: ‘Humanitarian’ War” by James W Carden, Aug. 23, 2016
“When Boats Brought Hope to Gaza” by Ann Wright, Aug. 25, 2016
“Sanders’s ‘Our Revolution’: Promise and Gaps” by Norman Solomon, Aug. 25, 2016
“The Battle Over the Burkini” by Graham E. Fuller, Aug. 26, 2016
*“The High Cost of American Hubris” by Natylie Baldwin, Aug. 26, 2016
“The Dumbed-Down New York Times” by Robert Parry, Aug. 27, 2016
“Abu Zubaydah: Torture’s ‘Poster Child’” by Marjorie Cohn, Aug. 28, 2016
“Obama’s Imperial Mideast Policy Unravels” by Daniel Lazare, Aug. 29, 2016
“When Putin Bailed Out Obama” by Ray McGovern, Aug. 31, 2016
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