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Turkey’s Faltering Democracy

July 18, 2016

Turkish President Erdogan crushed a military coup this weekend but this victory for civilian rule will do little to revive Turkish democracy which Erdogan has been strangling with his autocratic grip on power, notes ex-CIA analyst Paul R. Pillar.

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Foreign Policy, Human Rights, Intelligence, Lost History, Media, Obama Administration, Secrecy

MH-17: Two Years of Anti-Russian Propaganda

July 17, 2016

Exclusive: Two years ago, Malaysia Airlines Flight 17 was shot out of the sky over eastern Ukraine killing 298 people and opening an inviting path for a propaganda campaign toward a new Cold War with Russia, writes Robert Parry.

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Foreign Policy, Human Rights, Intelligence, Lost History, Media, Obama Administration, Secrecy, The Bush-43 Administration

The Long-Hidden Saudi-9/11 Trail

July 16, 2016

The U.S. government and mainstream media are playing down the long-hidden 9/11 chapter on official Saudi connections to Al Qaeda’s hijackers, hoping most Americans won’t read it themselves, as 9/11 widow Kristen Breitweiser observes.

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

How the Right Tears Down America

July 16, 2016

America surely has problems, but the Republican Right tends to ignore its role in causing them and now – under President Obama – exaggerates how bad the situation is, writes former Republican staffer Mike Lofgren.

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

Turkey’s Lose-Lose Coup Attempt

July 16, 2016

Turkish President Erdogan has abetted jihadist terror and cracked down on political dissent – making him a contributor to Mideast troubles – but a military coup is the wrong way to remove him, says ex-CIA official Graham E. Fuller.

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Foreign Policy, Human Rights, Lost History, Media, Obama Administration, Politics

The New Cold War’s Frontline in Crimea

July 16, 2016

The mainstream U.S. reporting on the Ukraine crisis has been as biased and imbalanced as any in recent memory, leaving many Americans confused about what the on-the-ground reality is, as retired Col. Ann Wright discovered.

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Foreign Policy, Human Rights, Lost History, Obama Administration, Right Wing, Secrecy

What Really Happened in Syria

July 15, 2016

Exclusive: The U.S. government blames the Syrian civil war almost entirely on Bashar al-Assad – and some progressives have bought into that propaganda narrative – but there is another side of the story, as Daniel Lazare describes.

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Campaign 2016, Constitution, Human Rights, Obama Administration

America’s Unbridged Racial Divide

July 15, 2016

Last week’s killings of two black men by white police and the killing of five Dallas police officers by a black sniper exacerbated America’s racial tensions which have roots going back generations, recalls Michael Winship.

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Campaign 2016, Foreign Policy, Human Rights, Politics, Right Wing

Still Sabotaging the Iran-Nuke Agreement

July 14, 2016

Iran has lived up to the terms of the nuclear agreement, now one year old, but that has not stopped its neocon opponents from conjuring up new reasons to bomb-bomb-bomb Iran, as ex-CIA analyst Paul R. Pillar explains.

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Foreign Policy, Human Rights, Lost History, Media, Obama Administration

Western Propaganda for a New Cold War

July 14, 2016

Western propaganda portrays Russia as the aggressor and NATO as the victim, but the reality looks almost opposite from the ground level, Rick Sterling found on a recent fact-finding trip.

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

GOP Ups Ante on Clinton’s Israel Pander

July 14, 2016

By inserting Israel-first promises in the Republican platform, GOP regulars challenge Donald Trump’s America-first policies and open a possible bidding war with Hillary Clinton over pandering to Israel, as Chuck Spinney explains.

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

Ramstein: A Key Link in the Kill Chain

July 14, 2016

As the U.S. military relies more and more on remote-controlled drones to kill people half a world away, one of the key links in the chain of death is in southwest Germany, the Ramstein Air Base, reports Norman Solomon for…

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Media, Obama Administration

NFL’s Crazy Conspiracy Theory Prevails

July 13, 2016

Exclusive: The lesson of the absurd “Deflategate” case is that a powerful institution like the NFL can ride roughshod over almost anyone, including quarterback Tom Brady, regardless of what the facts and logic are, reports Robert Parry.

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Foreign Policy, Human Rights, Obama Administration

Free Trade and a Textile Fire Tragedy

July 13, 2016

So-called “free trade” in textiles has led retailers to seek out the cheapest labor and to neglect safety measures, factors in a devastating Bangladesh fire in 2013 that killed more than 1,000 workers, recalls Dennis J Bernstein.

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Campaign 2016, Politics, Right Wing

GOP’s Last Line of Anti-Trump Defense

July 12, 2016

Exclusive: Donald Trump shook up Republican politics with his populist challenge to the party’s economic and foreign policy orthodoxies, but the GOP establishment has one last chance to stop his nomination, reports ex-CIA analyst Peter W. Dickson.

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

Iraq War, an Unaccountable Crime

July 12, 2016

Britain’s Chilcot report recalled the Iraq War lies that justified an aggressive war that claimed hundreds of thousands of lives, but this international crime has largely been sloughed off with almost no accountability, as Eric S. Margolis noted.

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Foreign Policy, Human Rights, Intelligence, Media, Obama Administration, Politics, Secrecy

NATO Reaffirms Its Bogus Russia Narrative

July 11, 2016

Exclusive: President Obama and NATO leaders signed on to the false narrative of a minding-its-own-business West getting sucker-punched by a bunch of Russian meanies, a storyline that suggests insanity or lies, reports Robert Parry.

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

‘War on Terror’ Blowback Hits Dallas

July 11, 2016

The blowback from America’s “war on terror” swept into Dallas last Friday when an Afghan War veteran allegedly killed five police officers and was killed in turn by a remote-controlled robot deploying a bomb, writes retired Col. Ann Wright.

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Constitution, Foreign Policy, Human Rights, Intelligence, Obama Administration, Right Wing

Chicago Police Adopt Israeli Tactics

July 11, 2016

From the Archive: Recent cases of white police killing unarmed black men raise concern that some U.S. police are applying counter-terrorism tactics, including some learned at Israeli academies, retired JAG Major Todd E. Pierce wrote in 2015.

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Campaign 2016, Foreign Policy, Lost History, Obama Administration, Politics

NATO as an ‘Entangling Alliance’

July 11, 2016

There are many ugly aspects of Donald Trump’s candidacy, but Trump raises a legitimate question about the value of NATO, which represents the epitome of the “entangling alliances” that the Founders warned against, notes Ivan Eland.

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