The Veteran Intelligence Professionals for Sanity (VIPS) sent this memo to George W. Bush about Dick Cheney’s deceptive role in the Iraq invasion, published by Consortium News in 2003.
VIPS on Dick Cheney: Intelligence Unglued
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ROBERT PARRY: The Sleazy Origins of Russiagate
CN‘s founding editor already wrote in March 2017 that Christopher Steele’s “investigative dossier suggests that we can’t really think for ourselves. We are all Putin’s puppets.” Russiagate adherents clearly stopped thinking for themselves.
Chris Hedges: War Deja Vu
We heard these canards leading up to the 2003 war in Iraq. Twenty-two years later they have been resurrected. Anyone who advocates for negotiations, for diplomacy and peace, is a stooge for terrorists.
Israel’s War on Iran Has No Future
M.K. Bhadrakumar predicts that Netanyahu, by underestimating the Islamic Republic’s powers of resistance, will meet the same fate as Saddam Hussein in the Iraq-Iran War.
Chris Hedges: The Folly of a War With Iran
Iran has a large arsenal of ballistic missiles it can unleash on Israel, as well as on American military installations in the region. While initial waves can be intercepted, repeated attacks would swiftly deplete the Israeli and U.S. air defense…
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.
The Chris Hedges Report: Arab Regimes & the Betrayal of Palestine
“Endemic spiritual death” — Farah El-Sharif on this time of harrowing dehumanization of Muslim communities worldwide by a global Western war of terror.
Jonathan Cook: 30 Years of Middle East Lies
The “War on Terror” was built on a series of deceptions to persuade the Western public that its leaders were crushing Islamist extremism. In truth, they were nourishing it.
LISTEN: The Imperial Presidency
Scott Harris of WPKN 89.5 FM Radio in Bridgeport, Connecticut, interviewed Consortium News’ Editor Joe Lauria about the U.S. Imperial Presidency and Donald Trump.
Vijay Prashad: The Change in Syria
The fall of Damascus and rise of HTS signal a dangerous shift in Syria, deepening regional instability and isolation for Palestine. From Israel to Africa’s Sahel region, what comes next?