The U.S. secretary of state ignored evidence of siege warfare against civilians in Gaza because he knew he would face no consequences, writes Caitlin Johnstone.
Blinken Lied to Congress
Tag: George W. Bush
When VIPS Said Iran Is Not the Threat the US Says It Is
As war looms with Iran, in 2017, a group of U.S. intelligence veterans urged the U.S. stop false claims about Iran being the leading state sponsor of terrorism and a threat to the West.
Gaza & the Legacy of Netanyahu’s ‘War on Terror’
What happened on Oct. 7 represents the collapse of an erroneous doctrine the Israeli leader has consistently promoted throughout his career, writes Hédi Attia.
John Pilger: The Coming War — It’s Time to Speak Up
Silences filled with a consensus of propaganda contaminate almost everything we read, see and hear, warned the late John Pilger last May. War by media is now a key task of so-called mainstream journalism.
John Pilger: The Great Game of Smashing Nations
More than a generation ago, Afghanistan won its freedom, which the U.S., Britain and their “allies” destroyed.
Destroying History to Preserve an Illusion
With the stated aim of providing “context,” The Guardian instead has destroyed the historical context that puts Western foreign policy towards the Middle East in a very grim light, writes Joe Lauria.
JOHN PILGER: We Are Spartacus
There can’t be democracy and colonial war; one aspires to decency, the other to fascism. Meanwhile, once welcomed mavericks are heretics now in an underground of journalism amid a landscape of mendacious conformity.
Why Americans Are Never Told Why
When Western media discusses terrorism against the West, such as 9/11, the motive is almost always left out, even when the terrorists state they are avenging longstanding Western violence in the Muslim world, reports Joe Lauria.
Avoiding Nuclear War
The road to possible nuclear Armageddon has been littered with lost opportunities for peaceful co-existence with Russia and signposted by repeated U.S. provocations, but Ukraine’s neutrality remains key to everyone’s security, writes Edward Lozansky.
Chris Hedges: The Donald Trump Problem
Donald Trump is not being targeted for the misdemeanors and serious felonies he appears to have committed but for discrediting and undermining the entrenched power of the ruling duopoly.