The Emirates’ status in Washington is a story of extensive lobbying, generous funding and rapprochement with Israel regardless of the latter’s war crimes in the region.
AS`AD AbuKHALIL: The UAE’s Game in Washington
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JOHN KIRIAKOU: Child’s Play at the FBI
Why prosecute Medicare/Medicaid fraud or bank fraud or wire fraud when you can, let’s say, wait for a kid in a chat room to turn 18?
PATRICK LAWRENCE: Europe’s Identity Crisis
As European leaders continue to import a version of U.S. militarism, rearmament will cost the Continent its postwar social contract.
AS’AD AbuKHALIL: The Revenge to Come
Thousands of Palestinians — and other Arabs — will be planning violent acts of revenge over Gaza. How far will Arab governments go in shielding U.S. and Israeli interests from their angry populations?
PATRICK LAWRENCE: Authorized Atrocities
Israel’s lawlessness has a history that those in the West share with the apartheid state.
SCOTT RITTER: The CIA’s Secret War — Using Russian Fascists to Fight Russia
Disrupting the Russian presidential election and creating an atmosphere of weakness around Putin is precisely what the U.S. intelligence agency would seek to engender.
JOHN KIRIAKOU: Assange & the Sickness of US Prisons
Speaking from his own experience as an imprisoned whistleblower, Kiriakou reflects on the grim medical outlook for the WikiLeaks publisher if he gets extradited.
AS`AD AbuKHALIL: Hamas’ Official Account
Hamas speaks for the frustration and disenchantment by Arabs toward the notion of international justice. Second of two-part article.
PATRICK LAWRENCE: The Russians in Ukraine
Recent disclosures provide an incomplete inventory of the West’s covert activities in Ukraine. There is more than we have been told, surely.
SCOTT RITTER: The Minds of Desperate Men
France’s Emmanuel Macron last week suggested the suicidal idea of sending NATO troops to Ukraine to confront Russia militarily.