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Politics
Given $120M To Fight Russian Meddling, US State Dept Spends $0
None of the 23 analysts at the anti-propaganda office who have been tasked with countering Russian “disinformation” even speaks Russian, while a partial hiring freeze ordered by Tillerson has prevented the department from hiring IT professionals capable of tracking Russian experts. The U.S. press is currently in an uproar over the shoddy state of affairs at Read More…
Saudi FM Defends Invasion Of Yemen As A ‘Just War, Supported By International Law’
Speaking on BBC Radio 4, Saudi Foreign Minister Adel al-Jubeir defended his nation’s 2015 invasion of Yemen, and ongoing attacks in the country as a “just war, supported by international law.” The Saudi FM did not elaborate on how the Saudi war was legal, but rather went on to accuse British opponents of the conflict, Read More…
US Imposes More Sanctions On North Korea Despite Diplomatic “Breakthrough”
Editor’s Note: This is all too expected. Just when it seems peace is possible, the US “discovers” some new factor which drives the hostilities forward. Two things to note here. First, there is no reason anyone should trust the word of the US government in regard to discussions of chemical weapons (and all else for Read More…
No, There Will Not Be Any Civil War In America
I know I’m usually the one urgently warning everybody of the dangers of nuclear holocaust, climate chaos and plutocratic tech dystopia, but there’s one disaster I keep seeing people worrying themselves about which absolutely will not happen. I’d like to take a minute to set everyone’s mind at ease about the prospect of civil war Read More…
US Meddling In Foreign Elections: A CIA Tradition Since 1948
In a shocking display of relative independence from the post-Operation Mockingbird control of the media by the Central Intelligence Agency, a recent article in The New York Times broke with current conventional pack journalism and covered the long history of CIA meddling in foreign elections. A February 17, 2018, article, titled, “Russia Isn’t the Only One Meddling in Read More…