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Danger from Trump’s Distrust of CIA

December 22, 2016

President-elect Trump’s distrust of the U.S. intelligence community – made worse by unproven CIA claims that Russia secretly tried to aid his election – could limit the value of daily intel briefings, says ex-CIA analyst Paul R. Pillar.

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Trump’s Need to Trust Americans

December 21, 2016

Exclusive: President Obama promised transparency but delivered a deceptive administration hostile to truth-tellers. President-elect Trump’s narrow path to greatness would require the opposite choice, writes Robert Parry.

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Foreign Policy, Obama Administration, Politics, Trump Administration

Terrorism Undermining Merkel

December 21, 2016

The bloody truck attack on Berlin’s Christmas market is a reminder how the West’s destabilization of the Mideast and North Africa now destabilizes Europe and Chancellor Merkel, as Gilbert Doctorow describes.

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Foreign Policy, Human Rights, Obama Administration, Trump Administration

A Reconciliation at Pearl Harbor

December 21, 2016

Fear of “The Enemy” or “The Other” can drive humanity toward its worst instincts – a concern that Michael Winship recalls in light of a planned visit of reconciliation to Pearl Harbor by Japanese Prime Minister Abe and President Obama.

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What the ‘Sore Losers’ Want

December 21, 2016

Disappointed Democrats are blaming Hillary Clinton’s defeat on Russian hackers, an establishment-promoted conspiracy theory that serves the interests of America’s “war party,” says Diana Johnstone.

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Campaign 2016, Foreign Policy, Intelligence, Media, Obama Administration, Politics, Right Wing, Trump Administration

The Left’s Risk in Blaming Russia

December 20, 2016

Despite the lack of verifiable evidence, many progressives have jumped on the blame-Russia-for-Trump’s-victory bandwagon, but it’s a dangerous and dead-end ride for the Left, warns Norman Solomon.

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Behind the Russia-Hack Allegations

December 20, 2016

Though no public evidence has yet been provided, it’s now conventional wisdom that Russia interfered in the U.S. presidential election, a dangerous moment in U.S.-Russia relations, explains ex-CIA official Graham E. Fuller.

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Extracting Aleppo from the Propaganda

December 20, 2016

The mainstream U.S. news has supplied a consistent narrative regarding Syria that treats the “rebels” as the good guys and the “regime forces” as the bad guys, but it has never been that clear-cut, as Dennis J Bernstein reports.

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Exploiting the Tragedy of Aleppo

December 19, 2016

Official Washington’s dominant neocons have pushed emotional propaganda about Syria as a way to justify a “regime change” project there and are now furious with its apparent failure, as ex-CIA analyst Paul R. Pillar explains.

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A Spy Coup in America?

December 18, 2016

Exclusive: As the Electoral College assembles, U.S. intelligence agencies are stepping up a campaign to delegitimize Donald Trump as a Russian stooge, raising concerns about a spy coup in America, reports Robert Parry.

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The Pre-emptive Anti-Trump Coup

December 17, 2016

Washington insiders, trying to use Russia’s alleged hack of Democratic emails to get the Electoral College to reject Donald Trump, are risking making the U.S. look like the world’s largest open-air insane asylum, says John V. Whitbeck.

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Trump to Inherit Vast Surveillance Powers

December 16, 2016

Many Democrats trusted President Obama with the vast surveillance powers inherited from President George W. Bush, but now the failure to curtail those powers means they pass on to Donald Trump, notes Nat Parry.

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Trump and the Pain of Blue-Collar Whites

December 16, 2016

  Exclusive: The plight of working-class white Americans, as their jobs have disappeared and self-destructive behavior has shortened their lives, helps explain Donald Trump’s success, writes Jonathan Marshall.

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Politicized Intelligence Kneecapping Trump

December 16, 2016

The back story behind the CIA’s leaked claim of Russia helping Donald Trump is an attempt to hobble Trump’s less-hawkish foreign policy before he even gets into the White House, says ex-British diplomat Alastair Crooke.

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Making Russia ‘The Enemy’

December 15, 2016

Exclusive: Despite conflicting accounts about who leaked the Democratic emails, the frenzy over an alleged Russian role is driving the U.S. deeper into a costly and dangerous New Cold War, writes Robert Parry.

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Foreign Policy, Human Rights, Intelligence, Lost History, Right Wing, Secrecy, Trump Administration

American Martyr to Right-Wing Repression

December 14, 2016

In 1981, Ronald Reagan signaled Guatemala’s right-wing regime to escalate its death-squad operations, a decision that led to the murder of American priest Stanley Rother, now a candidate for sainthood, writes Nicolas J S Davies.

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The Rise of White Racial Nationalism

December 14, 2016

While there were many reasons for Donald Trump’s surprise victory, a particularly ugly one was his success in touching the raw nerve of white racial animosities, writes Lawrence Davidson.

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Campaign 2016, Environment, Foreign Policy, Obama Administration, Politics, Right Wing, The Bush-43 Administration, Trump Administration

How America Disgraces Itself

December 13, 2016

The ugly spectacle of the U.S. election is spilling over into the transition with new conspiracy theories about Russia and Donald Trump, as the world looks on in shock and dismay, says ex-CIA official Graham E. Fuller.

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Constitution, Foreign Policy, Human Rights, Obama Administration, The Bush-43 Administration, Trump Administration

The Never-ending ‘War on Terror’

December 13, 2016

The Constitution granted war-making powers to Congress, but President Obama, like his post-World War II predecessors, has trampled on that provision with open-ended executive wars, writes Ivan Eland.

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Campaign 2016, Constitution, Foreign Policy, Intelligence, Media, Obama Administration, Politics, Secrecy, Trump Administration

Hypocrisy Behind the Russian-Election Frenzy

December 13, 2016

Exclusive: The madness sweeping Official Washington and the mainstream media about alleged Russian interference in the U.S. election is pervaded by breathtaking hypocrisy, writes Robert Parry.

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