Team Trump remains under the Saudi-Israeli spell that Iran is the region’s strategic threat, which explains the policy incoherence of supporting Bahrain’s repression of Shiites, a dilemma addressed by ex-CIA analyst Paul R. Pillar.
Category: Human Rights
Blaming Russia for Everything
Exclusive: The Senate Intelligence Committee launched its Russia-gate investigation by inviting some “experts” in to rant about how everything that goes wrong in the United States is the fault of the Russians, observes Robert Parry.
Duping Americans on Healthcare and War
Aiding Saudi Arabia’s Slaughter in Yemen
Trump Succumbs to Bush/Obama Perpetual War
Trump-Obama Continuity for Nukes
Israel Hits Back Against Boycott
Exclusive: Israeli officials are attacking on several fronts against people who support the BDS movement as a nonviolent way to pressure Israel to respect Palestinian human rights, writes Marjorie Cohn.
The Sleazy Origins of Russia-gate
Trump’s Dangerous Government of No
US Media’s Global Warming Denialism
Exclusive: Besides nuclear war, arguably the greatest threat to human civilization is global warming, but the U.S. news media virtually ignored the issue in 2016, bowing to economic and political pressures, writes Jonathan Marshall.