Tension is soaring in the two insanely dangerous wars in Ukraine and the Mideast. We pick the brains of Ray McGovern, Scott Ritter and Ted Postol at 8pm EST tonight!
WATCH: CN Live! — ‘Escalation’
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Caity Johnstone: Today in Imperial Recklessness & Insanity
Predictably, Benjamin Netanyahu has responded to this decision by shrieking about antisemitism. He’s doing this because he doesn’t have anything resembling a real argument in his defense, and neither does anyone else.
Ukraine Fires US Missiles at Russia Risking Wider War
The Pentagon refuses to say whether Joe Biden even informed it of his reckless decision to allow the strikes, which the DoD has strenuously opposed, reports Joe Lauria.
McBride Speaks From Prison at Australia’s Top Press Award Event
Imprisoned whistleblower David McBride spoke to the Walkley Awards ceremony, Australia’s Pulitzers, in a nationally-televised address that was a challenge to the authorities who jailed him. Consortium News was there.
On Way Out, Reckless Biden Allows Deep Russia Strikes
With his party decisively beat at the polls, the rejected president is gambling with regional security to preserve his ‘legacy’ and to saddle the incoming president, who wants to end the war, with a major new crisis, writes Joe Lauria.
Caitlin Johnstone: Suppressing Speech to Aid Israel
Trump literally standing before an Israeli flag and vowing to kill free speech for Israeli interests makes a lie of everything the “MAGA movement” says it stands for, exposing it for the scam it’s always been.
LISTEN: Trump’s Disturbing Cabinet Picks
Roger Waters, Larry Johnson, Gerald Celente and Joe Lauria joined Randy Credico’s Live on the Fly radio show on WBAI in New York Friday to discuss Trump’s cabinet nominations.
JOHN KIRIAKOU: Gabbard Could Help Change US Foreign Policy
We need someone in the post willing to rein in the neocon intelligence and foreign policy establishments when they urge the president to double down on military action based on phony or incomplete intelligence.
Craig Murray: Two Weeks in Beirut
In the middle of a shopping street in Dahiya, our driver pulls up at a checkpoint manned by armed militia in civilian clothes, to see if we could start filming. Then it all starts to go wrong.
SCOTT RITTER: Tulsi Gabbard & the Trump Revolution
Gabbard is well positioned to become the most influential advisor to President Trump regarding the critical foreign policy and national security problems that will be faced by his administration.