Exclusive: Given the very high stakes of a nuclear confrontation with Russia, some analysts wonder what’s the real motive for taking this extraordinary risk over Ukraine. Is it about natural gas, protection of the U.S. dollar’s dominance, or an outgrowth of neocon extremism, asks…
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Pols Line Up at Big Money Trough
Forgetting Cheney’s Legacy of Lies
Washington’s Latest War Fever
Behind Obama’s ‘Chaotic’ Foreign Policy
The Neocons’ Grim ‘Victory’ in Iraq
The Collapsing Syria-Sarin Case
From the Archive: At the first anniversary of the Sarin gas attack outside Damascus on Aug. 21, there is a concerted effort to reestablish the original conventional wisdom, blaming the Syrian government for the hundreds of deaths. The goal seems…
Cracking Down on Truth-telling
Iraq and the Oil Wars
The Hushed-Up Hitler Factor in Ukraine
Behind the Ukraine crisis is a revision of World War II history that seeks to honor eastern European collaborators with Hitler and the Holocaust by repackaging these rightists as anti-Soviet heroes, a reality shielded from the U.S. public, as Dovid…