Australia’s public broadcasting network gave Hillary Clinton an open mike to defame WikiLeaks’ Julian Assange as “a tool of Russian intelligence” without giving him a chance to respond, as John Pilger describes.
Category: Trump Administration
Uncle Sam: The Ultimate Gun Nut
The murky motive behind the Las Vegas massacre – carried out by a heavily armed “gun nut” – parallels the incomprehensible rationales for the global wars waged by the ultimate “gun nut,” Uncle Sam, writes JP Sottile.
Man Bites Dog: NYT Does Journalism
Exclusive: When the Trump administration blamed Cuba for a “sonic attack” on U.S. diplomats, a New York Times reporter did something unusual for his newspaper: he tried objectively to assess the evidence, as Robert Parry reports.
Trump’s Nihilism on Healthcare
The Indonesia Massacre’s Historic Message
Blaming Russia for the Internet ‘Sewer’
Trump Escalates Anti-Leak Campaign
Why the Vengeance Toward Sgt. Bergdahl
The Thwarted Dreams of Kurdistan
Almost a century ago, European powers promised the Kurds a state but soon reneged on the deal, leaving Kurdish nationalists to fume for generations and leading to Iraq’s recent military capture of Kirkuk, reports Lawrence Davidson.