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Ted Cruz’s Religious Play

February 8, 2016

Sen. Ted Cruz known for his brash, boastful and brutal proclamations is remaking himself in the image of the Lord Savior as he appeals to the Republican Religious Right to pave his way to the GOP nomination and the White…

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Foreign Policy, Media, Obama Administration, Right Wing, Secrecy

A Look at Ukraine’s Dark Side

February 7, 2016

Exclusive: Americans have been carefully shielded from the ugly underbelly of Ukraine’s Maidan uprising in 2014 that overthrew the elected president and installed a U.S.-backed, fiercely anti-Russian regime which has unleashed armed neo-Nazis. But a French documentary has dared to…

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

Still Sabotaging the Iran-Nuke Deal

February 7, 2016

Since Israel and the influential U.S. neocons never wanted the Iranian nuclear deal, many U.S. politicians including presidential candidates are lining up to sabotage the agreement by finding new excuses to sanction Iran. This trick is a dangerous game, writes…

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Foreign Policy, Human Rights, Obama Administration, Right Wing

Risking World War III in Syria

February 6, 2016

Exclusive: After Saudi-backed Syrian rebels balked at peace talks and the Russian-backed Syrian army cut off Turkish supply lines to jihadists and other Syrian rebels, the U.S. and its Mideast Sunni “allies” appear poised to invade Syria and force “regime…

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

Behind the North Korean Nuke Crisis

February 6, 2016

Exclusive: One fallout from the Hillary Clinton-led “regime change” in Libya after Muammar Gaddafi gave up his WMD deterrence is that North Korea keeps building up its nuclear-weapon program. Its leaders don’t want to suffer Gaddafi’s grisly fate, another case…

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

Giving Peace Very Little Chance

February 5, 2016

Exclusive: What the next U.S. president can do to bring endless warfare to an end is one of the most important issues of Campaign 2016, but it is getting only a cursory treatment in debates as politicians seem to fear…

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

How Fox News Undercut Trump

February 5, 2016

The Republican Establishment, led by powerful media boss Fox News’ Roger Ailes, undercut Donald Trump’s anti-Establishment campaign with some last-minute maneuvers in Iowa, including baiting Trump to boycott a Fox debate, as JP Sottile explains.

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Foreign Policy, Intelligence, Lost History, Secrecy

The Reality of Robert Gates

February 4, 2016

Official Washington hails Robert Gates as one of its Wise Men and the former CIA director and defense secretary clearly concurs as he shows in his new book but the reality is far less complimentary, as ex-CIA analyst Melvin A.…

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

Hillary Clinton’s ‘Progressive’ Persona

February 4, 2016

Desperate to blunt Bernie Sanders’s surge of support especially among young Democrats, Hillary Clinton is pitching herself as a “progressive,” but many of her policies were anything but from supporting military coups to favoring corporate interests, writes Jeff Cohen.

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Campaign 2016, Media, Obama Administration, Politics

Shaking Up the Democratic Party

February 3, 2016

By demanding a “revolution” to shift power away from Wall Street, Sen. Sanders is attracting millions of young Americans who want fundamental change. He’s also upsetting the Democratic establishment which favors only incremental “reforms” acceptable to corporate interests, as Norman Solomon notes.

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

Seeking More Cold War with Cuba

February 3, 2016

The neocons who dominate Official Washington speak most loudly through their flagship newspaper, The Washington Post, almost always seeking confrontation rather than cooperation in addressing the world’s problems, such as Cold War-era hostility toward Cuba, as ex-CIA analyst Paul R.…

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

Hillary Clinton’s Hawkish Record

February 2, 2016

Surviving Iowa in a dead heat with Sen. Bernie Sanders, ex-Secretary of State Hillary Clinton now hopes her establishment-backed campaign will grind down her opposition and pave the way for her presidential nomination. But many Democrats remain leery of her hawkish foreign policy, writes…

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Foreign Policy, Obama Administration, Politics

Feeding the Military-Industrial Complex

February 1, 2016

Exclusive: Because he had commanded Allied forces in World War II, President Eisenhower understood the excesses of the war industry and warned Americans about the dangers of the military-industrial complex, a force that continues to siphon off tens of billions…

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

Letting US ‘Lead’ Against Islamic State

January 31, 2016

America’s Mideast “allies” are less eager to take on Islamic State terrorists themselves than to urge the U.S. military to do so, raising questions about whether much of today’s campaign-trail tough-guy/gal talk about Washington taking the lead really means doing…

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Foreign Policy, Human Rights, Media, Obama Administration

‘Cut-out’ Anti-Drone Protest Brings Arrests

January 31, 2016

The U.S. government’s lethal drone program continues to spark protests from anti-war activists, including a novel “blockade” outside upstate New York’s Hancock air base where a dozen protesters arrayed life-size cut-outs of the late anti-war activist Jerry Berrigan and faced…

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

Hillary Clinton’s Iraq War Albatross

January 30, 2016

George W. Bush’s Iraq invasion may rank as the worst foreign policy disaster in U.S. history spreading chaos across the Mideast and now into Europe, yet polls show Democrats nationwide favor nominating Hillary Clinton, who voted for the war and…

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

The Dangerous Ideology of Religion

January 30, 2016

Ideology, in the hands of true-believers, tends to reject facts in favor of some grander “truth,” an especially dangerous tendency when mixed with religious conviction and certainty, as Lawrence Davidson explains.

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Campaign 2016, Obama Administration, Politics

Lobbying’s Mile-High Plateau

January 30, 2016

Special-interest money in Washington may have peaked but it looks more like it has plateaued at mile-high altitudes, with hundreds of millions of dollars continuing to fill the coffers of lobbying firms each year as they sign up ex-members of…

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

A Russian Diplomat’s Take on the World

January 29, 2016

As the West’s mainstream media portrays Russia as a crazy rogue state, Moscow’s thoughtful critiques of world affairs are ignored, not fitting the propaganda theme. Such was the case when Foreign Minister Lavrov explained why there would be no more…

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

Hillary Clinton’s Own Petard

January 29, 2016

In 2008, Hillary Clinton sought to exploit Barack Obama’s limited foreign policy experience by claiming she was more fit to answer a 3 a.m. phone call announcing some crisis, but her national security judgments continue to demonstrate serious weaknesses and…

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