Alan MacLeod on the global influence of the U.S. agency that has been hit by a funding pause.
USAID’s Giant Network of ‘Independent’ Media
Category: Propaganda
The Chris Hedges Report: Arab Regimes & the Betrayal of Palestine
“Endemic spiritual death” — Farah El-Sharif on this time of harrowing dehumanization of Muslim communities worldwide by a global Western war of terror.
Jonathan Cook: 30 Years of Middle East Lies
The “War on Terror” was built on a series of deceptions to persuade the Western public that its leaders were crushing Islamist extremism. In truth, they were nourishing it.
Remembering Robert Parry, Who Died 7 Years Ago Today
We remember the great investigative reporter Robert Parry, who founded this website in 1995. He left us way too soon on Jan. 27, 2018.
Caitlin Johnstone: Trump Is the Empire Unmasked
The U.S. presidential returnee either doesn’t understand or doesn’t care about the importance of keeping a polite face on the imperial machine.
Genocidal President, Genocidal Politics
Acclimatizing the U.S. to the Gaza genocide was most crucially abetted by Biden and his loyalists, who pretended he wasn’t doing what he was really doing, says Norman Solomon.
BBC Middle East Editor Collaborated With CIA, Mossad
Alan MacLeod reports on the connections of Raffi Berg, now at the center of a scandal over the BBC’s systematic pro-Israel bias, to the U.S. national security-state and an Israeli intelligence agency.
Caitlin Johnstone: Where the Aggression Really Begins
The empire’s favorite trick is to begin the historical record at the moment its enemies retaliate against its abuses.
US Congress Revives Cold War Tactics With New Anti-Communism School Curriculum
Alan MacLeod on the “Crucial Communism Teaching Act,” which is now being read in the U.S. Senate, where it is all but certain to pass.
PATRICK LAWRENCE: Blinded to Syria
Decades after deploying mass violence and rendering citizens grotesquely ignorant of the world, U.S.-led powers appear willing to risk world war, while reinventing a terrorist to lead what was a secular nation until last week.