Exclusive: As guilty as Saudi Arabia may be over 9/11, the broader guilt is shared by generations of U.S. officials who coddled Saudi extremism and cooperated in building a jihadist movement for geo-political gain, writes Daniel Lazare.
Tag: Ronald Reagan
Russia-Baiting and Risks of Nuclear War
Are US Presidential Debates Worthless — or Less?
US War Crimes or ‘Normalized Deviance’
Trump as the Reagan Reboot
How the Right Tears Down America
How US Wars Have Bred Terrorism
Lost History of Iran’s 1981 Coup
The U.S. mainstream media avoids the word “coup” when a disfavored leader is ousted, but the silence around Iran’s 1981 coup also may have served Ronald Reagan’s political self-interest in keeping secret his own “coup,” as Mahmood Delkhasteh reflects.
How Roy Cohn Helped Rupert Murdoch
Democrats Are Now the Aggressive War Party
Exclusive: For nearly a half century – since late in the Vietnam War – the Democrats have been the less warlike of the two parties, but that has flipped with the choice of war hawk Hillary Clinton, writes Robert Parry.