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Stumbling into Catastrophe

Posted on February 1, 2020February 1, 2020By Editor

There is a real danger for foreign policy advisors and analysts – and especially those they serve – when they are in a bubble, an echo chamber, and all of their conclusions are based on faulty inputs. Needless to say it’s even worse when they believe they can create their own reality and invent outcomes out of whole cloth. … Read More >Stumbling into Catastrophe

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A New US Air Force Video Game Lets You Drone Bomb Iraqis and Afghans

Posted on February 1, 2020February 1, 2020By Editor

The United States Air Force has a new recruitment tool: a realistic drone operator video game you can play on its website. Called the Airman Challenge, it features 16 missions to complete, interspersed with facts and recruitment information about how to become a drone operator yourself. … Read More >A New US Air Force Video Game Lets You Drone Bomb Iraqis and Afghans

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Trump’s Impeachment Defense Is Incoherent By Design

Posted on January 31, 2020January 31, 2020By Editor

While the GOP may indeed preserve Trump’s tenure through their death grip on a slim Senate majority, history books will not be kind to the deceit they have displayed and the fools they have made of themselves. … Read More >Trump’s Impeachment Defense Is Incoherent By Design

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To rig primary against Bernie, DNC chair Tom Perez nominates regime-change agents, Israel lobbyists, and Wall Street consultants

Posted on January 31, 2020January 31, 2020By Editor

With Senator Bernie Sanders surging in the polls, DNC chair Tom Perez has put forward a cartoonishly neoliberal cast of foreign policy hacks and corporate lobbyists to sabotage his nomination. … Read More >To rig primary against Bernie, DNC chair Tom Perez nominates regime-change agents, Israel lobbyists, and Wall Street consultants

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US government censorship? Social media giants disappear accounts of Iranian and Venezuelan academics, journalists

Posted on January 31, 2020January 31, 2020By Editor

Red Lines host Anya Parampil talks with Professor Mohammad Marandi of the University of Tehran. Professor Marandi’s Facebook and Instagram accounts were recently shut down without warning as part of a US campaign to remove so-called “pro-Iranian content” from the social media sites. … Read More >US government censorship? Social media giants disappear accounts of Iranian and Venezuelan academics, journalists

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US Lawmakers Introduce Bill to Reform NSA’s Data Collection, Surveillance Program

Posted on January 31, 2020January 31, 2020By Editor

A new, bipartisan-backed bill introduced in the US House of Representatives seeks to limit the National Security Agency’s (NSA) authority to conduct surveillance on Americans’ phone records and collect other associated communications. … Read More >US Lawmakers Introduce Bill to Reform NSA’s Data Collection, Surveillance Program

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First case of direct transmission of coronavirus confirmed in US – CDC

Posted on January 31, 2020January 31, 2020By Editor

The first US case of person-to-person coronavirus transmission has been recorded in Chicago, the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention and Illinois officials confirmed. … Read More >First case of direct transmission of coronavirus confirmed in US – CDC

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Hollywood has been more heavily censored since 2001, films bashing US army & CIA can’t go public – Oliver Stone to RT

Posted on January 31, 2020January 31, 2020By Editor

The American film industry changed beyond recognition after the milestone year of 2001, director Oliver Stone told RT, with producers using financial restraints to censor movies challenging the US military or the CIA. … Read More >Hollywood has been more heavily censored since 2001, films bashing US army & CIA can’t go public – Oliver Stone to RT

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Leaked memo shows US border patrol agents instructed to interrogate travelers with ‘Iranian links’ at Canadian border – report

Posted on January 30, 2020January 30, 2020By Editor

An apparent US Customs and Border Patrol (CBP) memo sent anonymously to a Canadian immigration lawyer purports to show instructions to border officers to interrogate travelers with ‘links’ to Iran. … Read More >Leaked memo shows US border patrol agents instructed to interrogate travelers with ‘Iranian links’ at Canadian border – report

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US House votes to block funding for military action against Iran

Posted on January 30, 2020January 30, 2020By Editor

The House of Representatives has voted to restrict President Donald Trump’s ability to launch military strikes on Iran, and will debate a measure to repeal a 2002 act that gives the US broad warmaking powers in Iraq. … Read More >US House votes to block funding for military action against Iran

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