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12 Reasons America Doesn’t Win Its Wars

Thu, 18 Jun 2015 00:00:00 -0700

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TPP: The Case for Treason

Mon, 01 Jun 2015 00:00:00 -0700

readersupportednews.org - By Marc Ash - Jun. 01 (Opinion) - The TPP seeks to directly subjugate and invalidate American law, granting to multinational investors and to the agreement itself and its dispute resolution process ultimate authority, literally, over American home rule. All while American service members fight and die to protect the interests of whoever the investors are.

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Egypt’s Descent into Despotism

Sun, 31 May 2015 00:00:00 -0700

Consortium News - By Lawrence Davidson - May. 31 (News Analysis) - Egypt’s brief experiment with democracy was crushed by internal and external forces alarmed by a populist Islamic government. With the backing of Israel, Saudi Arabia and others, a brutal military despotism took over and consolidated power, but it shouldn’t be called a government

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Neocons: The Men of Dementia

Thu, 28 May 2015 00:00:00 -0700

Consortium News - By William R. Polk - May. 28 (Opinion) - In the classic novel Don Quixote de la Mancha, the great Spanish writer Cervantes explored the danger of mixing delusions of grandeur with adventurous combat. Yet, today instead of the man of la Mancha, we have the neocons playing the men (and some women) of dementia

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US Replenishes Israel's Arsenal With $1.9 Billion in New Weapons

Sat, 23 May 2015 00:00:00 -0700

readersupportednews.org - By Paul Gottinger - May. 23 (News Report) - This week the U.S. State Department approved almost $1.9 billion in new weapons for Israel. The approval comes just weeks after the Israeli rights group Breaking the Silence collected reports of possible violations of international law during Israel’s 2014 “Operation Protective Edge” in Gaza

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Seymour Hersh Article Alleges Cover-Up in Bin Laden Hunt

Mon, 11 May 2015 00:00:00 -0700

New York Times - By Matthew Rosenberg, Seymour Hersh - May. 11 (Investigative Report) - in a 10,000-word article in The London Review of Books, the journalist Seymour M. Hersh challenges nearly every facet of the semiofficial narrative that has emerged over the years, alleging a vast cover-up that involves hundreds, possibly thousands, of people and goes all the way to President Obama himself.

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One question Seymour Hersh never answers in his alt-history of the killing of Osama bin Laden - Quartz

Mon, 11 May 2015 00:00:00 -0700

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Seymour M. Hersh · The Killing of Osama bin Laden

Sun, 10 May 2015 00:00:00 -0700

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Obama’s Unaccountable Drone War | The American Conservative

Thu, 07 May 2015 00:00:00 -0700

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"Kill Anything": Israeli Soldiers Say Gaza Atrocities Came from Orders for Indiscriminate Fire

Wed, 06 May 2015 00:00:00 -0700

Democracy Now - By Amy Goodman, Juan Gonzalez - May. 06 (News Report) - A new report based on testimonies of Israeli soldiers concludes the massive civilian death toll from last summer's Israeli assault on Gaza resulted from a policy of indiscriminate fire. The Israeli veterans group Breaking the Silence released testimonies of more than 60 Israeli officers and soldiers which it says illustrate a "broad ethical failure" that "comes from the top of the chain of command." More than 2,200 Palestinians were killed in the assault, the vast majority civilians. On Israel's side, 73 people were killed, all but six of them soldiers. During the 50-day operation, more than 20,000 Palestinian homes were destroyed, and hundreds of thousands of people are still displaced. We hear candid video testimonies from the soldiers and speak to former Israeli paratrooper Avner Gvaryahu, director of public outreach at Breaking the Silence.

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AP: Americans Strongly Support Different, Imaginary Drone Program

Fri, 01 May 2015 00:00:00 -0700

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The Day After Damascus Falls

Thu, 30 Apr 2015 00:00:00 -0700

Consortium News - By Robert Parry - Apr. 30 (News Analysis) - The Saudi-Israeli alliance has gone on the offensive, ramping up a “regime change” war in Syria and, in effect, promoting a military victory for Al-Qaeda or its spinoff, the Islamic State. But the consequences of that victory could toll the final bell for the American Republic

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The Word That Cannot Be Uttered (It's Drones) - The Intercept

Fri, 24 Apr 2015 00:00:00 -0700

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Is Hillary Clinton a Neocon-Lite?

Thu, 23 Apr 2015 00:00:00 -0700

Consortium News - By Robert Parry - Apr. 23 (Opinion) - As Democrats line up behind Hillary Clinton as their presumptive 2016 presidential nominee, many are whistling past the graveyard of her disastrous record on foreign interventions, judgments that raise doubts about her fitness for the job

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Meet the 8 Democrats Trying to Sabotage Diplomacy with Iran

Wed, 15 Apr 2015 00:00:00 -0700

AlterNet - By Zaid Jilani - Apr. 15 (News Report) - The Democratic sponsors of the Corker legislation all have one thing in common: support from the pro-Israel lobby. 1. Senator Bob Menendez (D-NJ),pro-Israel cash: $341, 170. Menendez, who has been indicted following allegations he did special favors for a Florida-based donor, is one of the prime movers of the Corker legislation. Of any Democrat in the Senate, he is the favorite of pro-Israel donors.

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'You Have to be Ready to Eliminate the Threat': Fearmongering and GOP Groveling at NRA Convention

Sat, 11 Apr 2015 00:00:00 -0700

AlterNet - By Tana Ganeva - Apr. 11 (News Report) - In the afternoon, the NRA-IRL's leadership forum gets off to a good start, militarism-wise, with Oliver North launching the proceedings. He leads a prayer, followed by the Pledge of Allegiance, followed by the Star Spangled banner. The large hall sports a banner that warns "If they can ban one, they can ban them all!" referencing a bill -- one that failed -- that would have prohibited armor-piercing bullets can now be used in new type of semi-automatic weapon.

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Former Bush Administration Official: 'GOP Has Scores of Racists'

Fri, 10 Apr 2015 00:00:00 -0700

Salon - By Emmanuel A. Otiko - Apr. 10 (News Report) - When Powell was attacked by conservatives in 2012 for endorsing Barack Obama for reelection — Mitt Romney surrogate John Sununu famously suggested the endorsement was motivated by race — Wilkerson sprung to the defense of his former boss, saying that the Republican Party was “full of racists.”

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Republicans Got it Wrong on Iraq and Now They're Doing the Same with Iran

Thu, 09 Apr 2015 00:00:00 -0700

ringoffireradio.com - Apr. 09 (Opinion) - The Iraq War that the George W. Bush administration pushed America into a little over a decade ago was a complete debacle. The Republicans in DC could not have gotten it more wrong, and none of the administration’s high-ranking officials have taken responsibility for the mess.

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Judith Miller’s Blame-Shifting Memoir

Tue, 07 Apr 2015 00:00:00 -0700

Consortium News - By Veteran Intelligence Professionals for Sanity (VIPS) - Apr. 07 (Review) - U.S. intelligence veterans recall the real story of how New York Times reporter Judith Miller disgraced herself and her profession by helping to mislead Americans into the disastrous war in Iraq. They challenge the slick, self-aggrandizing rewrite of history in her new memoir.

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The Cross and the Sword

Sat, 04 Apr 2015 00:00:00 -0700

firstlook.org - By Marcin Mamon - Apr. 04 (Special Report) - Korchynsky does not pretend to be moderate, but he doesn’t appreciate the worst epithet used against his forces. “We are not Nazis,” he tells me. “We are patriots and nationalists.” Korchynsky is nearly a caricature of a Russian-hating Ukrainian nationalist.

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5 Most Ridiculous Right-Wing Reactions to Iran Deal

Fri, 03 Apr 2015 00:00:00 -0700

AlterNet - By Zaid Jilani - Apr. 03 (News Report) - The deal struck between P5+1 countries and Iran has earned global applause, and cheers were perhaps loudest among Iran's 77 million people themselves, who have long sought closer relations with the West and a de-escalation of tensions. But in the United States,

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Former Iranian Ambassador: Historic Nuclear Dear has Prevented a New War in the Middle East

Fri, 03 Apr 2015 00:00:00 -0700

Democracy Now - By Amy Goodman - Apr. 03 (Interview) - After eight days of talks in Switzerland, Iran and world powers have reached a framework agreement on curbing Iran's nuclear program for at least a decade. In return, the United States and Europe plan to lift economic sanctions on Iran. As part of the deal, Iran must reduce the number of its centrifuges that can be used to enrich uranium into a bomb by more than two-thirds. Iran also has to redesign a power plant so it cannot produce weapons-grade plutonium, eliminate much of its stockpile of low-enriched uranium and be subject to regular international nuclear inspections. While U.N. Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon said the deal would contribute to peace and stability in the region, praise for the deal was not universal. Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu condemned the agreement as a "threat to Israel’s existence." We speak to Seyed Hossein Mousavian, a former nuclear negotiator for Iran. He served as Iran’s ambassador to Germany from 1990 to 1997. He joins us from Princeton, New Jersey, where he is ...

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Obama Steadily Builds Diplomatic Legacy

Fri, 03 Apr 2015 00:00:00 -0700

Huffington Post - By Ryan Grim - Apr. 03 (News Analysis) - It may be hard to remember today, but Barack Obama became president, more or less, thanks to his foreign policy. His early opposition to the war in Iraq gave him the wedge he needed to differentiate himself from the far-and-away frontrunner, Hillary Clinton.

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Deciphering the Mideast Chaos

Tue, 31 Mar 2015 00:00:00 -0700

Consortium News - By Robert Parry - Mar. 31 (News Analysis) - The tangle of conflicts in the Middle East is confusing to many Americans who lack some key facts, such as the transformational Israeli-Saudi alliance that is dragging the American people into a sectarian religious war dating back 1,300 years

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Netanyahu's Spying Denials Contradicted by Secret NSA Documents

Thu, 26 Mar 2015 00:00:00 -0700

firstlook.org - By Glenn Greenwald, Andrew Fishman - Mar. 26 (News Analysis) - Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu yesterday vehemently denied a Wall Street Journal report, leaked by the Obama White House, that Israel spied on U.S. negotiations with Iran and then fed the intelligence to Congressional Republicans. His office’s denial was categorical and absolute, extending beyond this specific story to U.S.-targeted spying generally, claiming: “The state of Israel does not conduct espionage against the United States or Israel’s other allies.” Israel’s claim is not only incredible on its face.

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