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Television Wars (Crossing a Line in Serbia)

August 24, 2016

From the Archive: President Bill Clinton’s bombardment of Serbia in 1999 marked a grim turn in the practice of “information warfare,” with a lethal NATO attack targeting a Serb TV station which criticized the war, observed war correspondent Don North.

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Campaign 2016, Foreign Policy, Human Rights, Lost History, Media, Obama Administration, Politics, Right Wing, The Bush-43 Administration

The Bogus ‘Humanitarian’ War on Serbia

August 24, 2016

NATO’s war on Serbia in 1999 was the template for other “humanitarian” wars – in Iraq, Libya and now Syria – but it wasn’t “news” when the Serbian leader was cleared, notes John Pilger.

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Campaign 2016, Foreign Policy, Human Rights, Lost History, Obama Administration, Politics, Right Wing, The Bush-43 Administration

A Clinton Family Value: ‘Humanitarian’ War

August 23, 2016

Exclusive: The transformation of the Democratic Party from the relative “peace party” to a belligerent “war party” occurred during Bill Clinton’s presidency and is likely to resume if Hillary Clinton is elected, writes James W Carden.

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Campaign 2016, Foreign Policy, Human Rights, Media, Obama Administration, Politics

Propaganda for Syrian ‘Regime Change’

August 23, 2016

Neocons and liberal hawks have poured millions of dollars into propaganda to justify “regime change” in Syria and are now desperate to keep the war going until President Hillary Clinton gets a chance to escalate, as Rick Sterling describes.

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Campaign 2016, Constitution, Human Rights, Lost History, Obama Administration, Politics, Right Wing

Trump’s White Supremacist Factor

August 22, 2016

The darkest part of Donald Trump’s presidential campaign is its white nationalist element with some white male supremacists seeing Trump as the way to protect their historical dominance of America, says Nicholas C. Arguimbau.

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

Hillary Clinton’s ‘Pivot’ or ‘Spin’?

August 22, 2016

To stave off Bernie Sanders, Hillary Clinton became a born-again progressive, critical of trade deals and tough on fracking, but her preparations for a presidential transition presage a pro-corporate and hawkish administration, says Norman Solomon.

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Campaign 2016, Foreign Policy, Human Rights, Intelligence, Obama Administration, Politics

US Hawks Advance a War Agenda in Syria

August 21, 2016

Exclusive: The U.S. government, having illegally sent American troops into Syria, is now threatening to attack the Syrian military if it endangers those troops, an Orwellian twist that marks a dangerous escalation, explains Daniel Lazare.

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Campaign 2016, Constitution, Foreign Policy, Human Rights, Intelligence, Obama Administration, Politics, Right Wing, The Bush-43 Administration

Trump Hypes a New ‘War on Terror’

August 21, 2016

Donald Trump has urged a new “war on terror” that brings back torture and seeks revenge on terrorists’ families, but another problem with the Republican nominee’s approach is his exaggeration of the danger, writes ex-CIA analyst Paul R. Pillar.

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Campaign 2016, Foreign Policy, Human Rights, Intelligence, Media, Obama Administration, Politics, Secrecy, The Bush-43 Administration

A Lawless Plan to Target Syria’s Allies

August 20, 2016

Exclusive: Official Washington’s disdain for international law – when it’s doing the lawbreaking – was underscored by ex-CIA acting director Morell voicing plans for murdering Iranians and maybe Russians in Syria, ex-CIA analyst Ray McGovern says.

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

A Cheap Shot at Bernie Sanders’ Summer Home

August 20, 2016

Exclusive: Charles Lane and other Washington Post editorialists defend neocon and neoliberal orthodoxies by demonizing foreign leaders who step out of line and now by making fun of Bernie Sanders for buying a summer home, writes Robert Parry.

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Campaign 2016, Foreign Policy, Human Rights, Lost History, Media, Obama Administration, Politics, Right Wing, Secrecy, The Bush-43 Administration

Trump and the Long History of Media Bias

August 19, 2016

Exclusive: The mainstream U.S. news media insists that its bias against Donald Trump is an aberration justified by his extraordinary recklessness, but the truth is U.S. media bias has a long history, says longtime journalist Robert Parry.

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Foreign Policy, Human Rights, Obama Administration

More False Outrage on the Syrian War

August 18, 2016

Washington’s neocon hypocrisy surfaced again with the furor over Russia using an Iranian base to launch airstrikes against terror groups in Syria, while the U.S. uses other Mideast bases for the same purpose, as ex-CIA analyst Paul R. Pillar notes.

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Foreign Policy, Human Rights, Obama Administration, Politics

Washington Hawks Prey on Syrian Killing Fields

August 18, 2016

Official Washington loves to show heartbreaking images of wounded Syrian children with the implicit message that it’s time to invade Syria and impose “regime change” (rather than commit to peace talks), a dilemma addressed by Michael Brenner.

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Campaign 2016, Media, Obama Administration, Politics, The Bush-43 Administration

How a Question’s Phrasing Hobbles Third Parties

August 18, 2016

By asking Americans who they expect to vote for rather than who they want to be President, pollsters skew the numbers in favor of major-party candidates and help exclude third-party challengers from crucial debates, notes Sam Husseini.

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

Turkey’s Sensible Détente with Russia

August 17, 2016

Official Washington is so set on making Russia the new boogeyman that Turkish President Erdogan’s visit there is setting off alarms, but the easing of Moscow-Ankara tensions is really a positive sign, says ex-CIA official Graham E. Fuller.

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Foreign Policy, Human Rights, Intelligence, Media, Obama Administration, Politics, Right Wing

How ‘Think Tanks’ Generate Endless War

August 17, 2016

U.S. “think tanks” rile up the American public against an ever-shifting roster of foreign “enemies” to justify wars which line the pockets of military contractors who kick back some profits to the “think tanks,” explains retired JAG Major Todd E. Pierce.

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Campaign 2016, Foreign Policy, Human Rights, Intelligence, Lost History, Media, Obama Administration, October Surprise, Politics, Right Wing, The Bush-43 Administration

America’s Journalistic Hypocrites

August 16, 2016

Exclusive: The U.S. news media flip-flops on whether international law is inviolate or can be brushed aside at America’s whim – and similarly whether killing civilians is justified or not depending on who’s doing the killing, says Robert Parry.

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Campaign 2016, Media, Obama Administration, Politics

Why Not Expand the Presidential Debates?

August 16, 2016

Amid unprecedented dissatisfaction with the two major party candidates, public interest in opening the presidential debates to the Libertarian and Green party nominees should be honored, says Jeff Cohen.

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Campaign 2016, Foreign Policy, Human Rights, Lost History, Obama Administration, Politics, The Bush-43 Administration

Washington’s Outrage and Excuses

August 16, 2016

Sometimes it seems that if not for double standards, Official Washington would have no standards at all – especially when it comes to outrage against some “strongmen” and excuses for others, as Lawrence Davidson describes.

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Campaign 2016, Foreign Policy, Lost History, Media, Obama Administration, Politics, Right Wing, The Bush-43 Administration

Simplistic Second-Guessing on ISIS

August 15, 2016

Official Washington’s neocons, the mainstream U.S. media and Donald Trump are on the same page at least in blaming President Obama for ISIS, a case of all three parties being wrong, as ex-CIA analyst Paul R. Pillar explains.

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