The early evidence indicates that the latest plot to kill Donald Trump was directed by one or more persons in Ukraine. But you wouldn’t know that from the mainstream media, reports Joe Lauria.
Downplaying Ukraine Connection in Latest Trump Plot
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WATCH: US Calls for Release of Australian Hostage in Iraq
The U.S. hostage envoy calls for the release an Australian engineer held hostage by Iraq’s Central Bank to get out of a debt to the hostage’s company. CN Live! talks to his wife & an Australian senator about the case.
Caitlin Johnstone: Trump’s Snuff Film on Collateral Murder Anniversary
WATCH: A Foreign Policy of the Absurd
CN Editor Joe Lauria assesses the increasingly bizarre foreign policy of the Trump administration with journalist Rachel Blevins.
Jeffrey Sachs: Trump’s Impoverishing Tariffs
The rest of the world isn’t ripping off the U.S. The American trade deficit is the result of chronically large budget deficits resulting from tax cuts for the rich combined with trillions of dollars wasted on useless wars.
The ‘Disappearing’ War Chat
Had the war plans been discussed on a secure government channel a record would have been kept, but Signal offered a way to make it disappear unless someone from outside took screenshots, writes Joe Lauria.
Israel’s Most Explicit Statement of Genocidal Intent
The Israeli defense minister is simply following Trump’s position and reiterating what everyone who isn’t a blinkered partisan hack knew Trump was saying two weeks ago, says Caitlin Johnstone.
It’s Up to Europe’s Citizens
As Donald Trump and Vladimir Putin speak about ending the Ukraine war on Tuesday, European leaders are talking war and only their citizens can stop them, says Edward Lozansky.
The Phony Ceasefire
Knowing well in advance that Russia would reject it, the U.S. and Ukraine announced with fanfare that its ceasefire deal was in “Russia’s court” in what was an exercise of pure public relations, writes Joe Lauria.
Chris Hedges: Trump’s War on Education
The U.S. president’s cuts to education under the guise of fighting anti-Semitism are an effort to enforce totalitarianism in the minds of future generations. Questions are not to be asked, myths are to be enforced.