Beneath all the hurled insults and heated debates, the two factions are actually furiously agreeing with one another the entire time, argues Caitlin Johnstone.
ELECTION 2020: The United Politics of America
Category: Syria
Leaked Docs Expose Massive Syria Propaganda Operation by Western Govt Contractors & Media
The documents also shine light on the British program to train and arm rebel groups, including extremist jihadists, Ben Norton reports.
LETTER FROM LONDON: The Surreal US Case Against Assange
The fox is guarding the henhouse and Washington is prosecuting a publisher for exposing its own war crimes. Alexander Mercouris diagnoses the incoherence of the U.S. case for extradition.
US Wars Kill More Like a Python Than a Tiger
Caitlin Johnstone describes the slow, suffocating strategy used by the side with all the resources and all the time in the world, the side which knows it can just relax and wait for the other side to starve to death.
Barbarism Begins at Home
The U.S. phase of the “universal civilization” project has utterly destroyed the state structures of Afghanistan, Iraq, Libya and Yemen, writes Pepe Escobar.
THE REVELATIONS OF WIKILEAKS: No. 8—Busting the Myth WikiLeaks Published Nothing on Israel & Syria
One myth about WikiLeaks is that it favors U.S. enemies and declines to publish documents against them, while another legend is that WikiLeaks, for obscure reasons, is soft on Israel, reports Patrick Lawrence.
LEE CAMP: Connecting the Dates – US Media Used To Stop The ‘Threat’ of Peace
Peace seems to have exceedingly, ridiculously, laughably bad timing, this latest time in Afghanistan, says Lee Camp.
Biden And His Ventriloquists Keep Out-Hawking Trump
In a series of truly chilling and ominous tweets, Joe Biden shows us he would dispense with Trump’s even minimal non-interventionism and return the U.S. to full-bore aggression, warns Caitlin Johnstone.
RAY McGOVERN: US-Russia Ties, from Heyday to MayDay
Whatever hopes Russia’s leader may have had for a more workable relationship with the U.S. have been “trumpled,” so to speak.
25 YEARS OF CN: ‘Obama’s Self-Deceit’—Sept. 29, 2015
This is the third story in the Best of Consortium News series as we look back at our first 25 years throughout our jubilee year.