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Journalism & Mass media

How the Pentagon failed to sell Afghan government’s bunk ‘Bountygate’ story to US intelligence agencies

Posted on July 9, 2020July 9, 2020By Editor

Another New York Times Russiagate bombshell turns out to be a dud, as dodgy stories spun out by Afghan intelligence and exploited by the Pentagon ultimately failed to convince US intelligence agencies. … Read More >How the Pentagon failed to sell Afghan government’s bunk ‘Bountygate’ story to US intelligence agencies

Journalism & Mass media

US claim of ‘Russian Bounty’ plot in Afghanistan is dubious and dangerous

Posted on July 3, 2020July 3, 2020By Editor

Multiple US media outlets, citing anonymous intelligence officials, are claiming that Russia offered bounties to kill US soldiers in Afghanistan, and that President Trump has taken no action. … Read More >US claim of ‘Russian Bounty’ plot in Afghanistan is dubious and dangerous

Journalism & Mass media

Uncovering John Bolton’s ‘distorted’ tales in ‘The Room Where It Happened’

Posted on July 3, 2020July 3, 2020By Editor

Red Lines host Anya Parampil responds to ABC’s interview with former White House National Security Advisor John Bolton about his new book “The Room Where It Happened”. … Read More >Uncovering John Bolton’s ‘distorted’ tales in ‘The Room Where It Happened’

World

Israel leverages dubious ‘Nuclear Archives’ to secure new IAEA demands on Iran

Posted on June 22, 2020June 22, 2020By Editor

The International Atomic Energy Agency has once again lent itself to the political interests of the United States and Israel, provoking a needless conflict with Iran … Read More >Israel leverages dubious ‘Nuclear Archives’ to secure new IAEA demands on Iran

USA

From Occupation to ‘Occupy’: The Israelification of American domestic security

Posted on June 21, 2020June 21, 2020By Editor

(Editor’s note: The eruption of national protests against police brutality following the murder of George Floyd have shed new light on Israel’s training of local police officers across the country. … Read More >From Occupation to ‘Occupy’: The Israelification of American domestic security

Crippling new sanctions punish Syrian civilians for US defeat in proxy war

Posted on June 20, 2020June 20, 2020By Editor

As Syria tries to recover from a nearly decade-long war, the US has imposed crippling new sanctions under the Caesar Act that target reconstruction. … Read More >Crippling new sanctions punish Syrian civilians for US defeat in proxy war

World

Wikipedia formally censors The Grayzone as regime-change advocates monopolize editing

Posted on June 12, 2020June 12, 2020By Editor

On Wikipedia, a small group of regime-change advocates and right-wing Venezuelan opposition supporters have blacklisted independent media outlets like The Grayzone on explicitly political grounds, violating the encyclopedia’s guidelines. … Read More >Wikipedia formally censors The Grayzone as regime-change advocates monopolize editing

World

Meet Wikipedia’s Ayn Rand-loving founder and Wikimedia Foundation’s regime-change operative CEO

Posted on June 12, 2020June 12, 2020By Editor

Wikipedia has become a bulletin board for corporate and imperial interests under the watch of its Randian founder, Jimmy Wales, and the veteran US regime-change operative who heads the Wikimedia Foundation, Katherine Maher. … Read More >Meet Wikipedia’s Ayn Rand-loving founder and Wikimedia Foundation’s regime-change operative CEO

World

Hong Kong’s ‘pro-democracy’ movement allies with far-right US politicians that seek to crush Black Lives Matter

Posted on June 10, 2020By Editor

As a Hong Kong protest leader promotes far-right condemnations of US anti-racism demonstrations and activists shut down a Black Lives Matter rally in the city, Hong Kong organizers forge close ties with hardline Republicans in Washington. … Read More >Hong Kong’s ‘pro-democracy’ movement allies with far-right US politicians that seek to crush Black Lives Matter

Journalism & Mass media

US police state faces revolt as Trump expands it at home and abroad

Posted on June 8, 2020June 8, 2020By Editor

Dr. Gerald Horne on the George Floyd protests, the black freedom struggle, and Trump’s expansion of the US police state at home and around the world. … Read More >US police state faces revolt as Trump expands it at home and abroad