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Israel Bombs the Associated Press Offices in Gaza! Building Leveled! What Now, Media???

Andrew Anglin • May 16, 2021

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This could possibly be the funniest thing ever. The only reason that the AP has offices in Palestine is to shill for Israel. But Israel goes ahead and bombs them, presumably because they just weren’t shilling hard enough. This is obviously intended to be a message to all journalists worldwide: shill harder. AP: An Israeli... Read More

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American Pravda: "The Truth" and "The Whole Truth" About the Origins of Covid-19

Ron Unz • May 10, 2021

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As every fan of the old Perry Mason show remembers, courtroom witnesses swear "to tell the truth, the whole truth, and nothing but the truth." There's a reason for that particular choice of words. A pattern of selective omissions in an otherwise entirely truthful presentation can easily mislead us as much as any outright lie.... Read More

The US Brainwashes the World

Paul Craig Roberts • May 6, 2021

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The American Establishment uses the presstitute lie machine to control the narrative for most of the world by broadcasting disinformation in 59 languages. Countries and their news services rely on “news” from the US to comprehend world events. Most of the world has little alternative to American news sources except for the BBC which is... Read More

Rampaging Israeli Settlers

Calls for "Death to Arabs" in Jerusalem

Philip Giraldi • April 27, 2021

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Last week there were some interesting stories that were very definitely underreported partly due to the fact that the mainstream media was heavily into the distraction provided by its beatification of George Floyd. For example, the tale of how a mob consisting of hundreds of Israeli Jews, composed mostly of settlers and the extremist so-called... Read More

The "Russian Threat"

Paul Craig Roberts • April 25, 2021

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During 2016 CIA director John Brennan and FBI director James Comey, together with the corrupt Democrat party, began orchestrating Russiagate in order to prevent Trump from reducing the risk of nuclear war by normalizing relations with Russia. President Trump tried to nip a New Cold War in the bud, but that was not in the... Read More

Putin Rewrites the Law of the Geopolitical Jungle

Pepe Escobar • April 23, 2021

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Putin’s address to the Russian Federal Assembly – a de facto State of the Nation – was a judo move that left Atlanticist sphere hawks particularly stunned. The “West” was not even mentioned by name. Only indirectly, or via a delightful metaphor, Kipling’s Jungle Book. Foreign policy was addressed only at the end, almost as... Read More

Focusing on Injustices in Just a Few ‘bad’ Nations Is a Dangerous Game

Patrick Cockburn • April 23, 2021

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During the first Cold War between the West and the Soviet Union injustice and human rights increasingly became a central issue. This ought to have been a positive development, but it was devalued by partisan use and the issue turned into an instrument of propaganda. The essence of such propaganda is not lies or even... Read More

US Air Force Flew Full-Loaded F-16s from Japanese Base to Menace China

Andrew Anglin • April 20, 2021

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The F-16 really is a beautiful piece of engineering. It is the Silver Wraith of the skies. The Drive: The four U.S. Air Force F-16 fighter jets that recently flew a mission over the highly contested South China Sea were photographed landing at Yokota Air Base in Japan, en route to their home base at... Read More

The United States Cannot Survive the Corruption of Its Leaders and the Insouciance of Its People

Paul Craig Roberts • April 19, 2021

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The United States military was sent into Afghanistan two decades ago on the basis of a lie. The warmonger neoconservative George W. Bush regime lied to the American people, to US soldiers, and to the world that Osama bin Laden was responsible for the attacks on the World Trade Center and the Pentagon, that bin... Read More

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How Bellingcat Launders National Security State Talking Points Into the Press

Alan Macleod • April 9, 2021

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AMSTERDAM — Investigative site Bellingcat is the toast of the popular press. In the past month alone, it has been described as “an intelligence agency for the people” (ABC Australia), a “transparent” and “innovative” (New Yorker) “independent news collective,” “transforming investigative journalism” (Big Think), and an unequivocal “force for good” (South China Morning Post). Indeed,... Read More

Understanding Anti-Putin PSYOPs: Preparing for War

The Saker • March 31, 2021

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Intro: cause vs pretext It is not an exaggeration to say that in the mythology of the AngloZionist Empire Putin is something akin to Satan or, at least, that he is a kind of “Sauron” who is the epitome of evil. And, we all heard that recently, Biden, in a recorded interview, declared that Putin... Read More

The Washington Post Is a Propaganda Organ for War

Paul Craig Roberts • March 28, 2021

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The Washington Post has been long regarded as a CIA asset. That does not mean it is, but whether it is or isn’t, the Washington Post behaves as one. Consider its March 26 editorial. The Washington Post champions Alexei Navalny, “an irrepressible spirit” attempting to rescue Russia from Putin’s corruption and dictatorship, despite being “in... Read More

Nike openly supports “death to America” rhetoric. Because it’s the right thing to do, I guess?

Nike Condemns the Chinese, Says They’re Not Using Products from Xinjiang

Andrew Anglin • March 26, 2021

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Nike: leading the forefront of global morality since 2018. Fox News: (The Jewish media is spinning a story about cotton-picking slaves. This is the narrative. They’re accusing the Chinese of the same sins they accuse White Americans of. You see how that works?) The social media fallout comes as relations between the United States and... Read More

Is Joe Biden Enabling Russiagate 2?

His national security team provides the script

Philip Giraldi • March 23, 2021

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The old expression that “lightning never strikes the same place twice” is frequently used in the aftermath of a truly awful experience, meaning that the odds are that something exactly like that will never occur again. Unfortunately, however, we Americans will now have to endure lightning striking twice due to the emergence of President Joe... Read More

The Case of Alexei Navalny

Reviving the Cold War

John Ryan • March 21, 2021

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The mainstream media considers Alexei Navalny to be Vladimir Putin’s main opponent. However, a “Levada Center poll from November 2020 — three months after Navalny’s poisoning — found that only 2% of Russians would vote for Navalny if he were a presidential candidate. That is a number that has remained steady for years.” How is... Read More

Uncle Shmuel Is Truly Brain Dead…

The Saker • March 17, 2021

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By now, you have all heard it. Here is the official transcript: GEORGE STEPHANOPOULOS: Director of National Intelligence came out with a report today saying that Vladimir Putin authorized operations during the election to under -- denigrate you, support President Trump, undermine our elections, divide our society. What price must he pay? PRESIDENT JOE BIDEN:... Read More

American Pravda: Covid-19, Its Impact and Origins After One Year

As We Rapidly Approach a Million American Deaths

Ron Unz • March 15, 2021

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Winston Churchill famously observed that in wartime the truth must be surrounded by a bodyguard of lies. Many of my own long and most controversial articles have followed a somewhat analogous presentation, with the opening sections that sometimes run hundreds of words or longer often being rather innocuous or even somewhat off-topic. These are intended... Read More

Our Lives Between the Covers of the Raging Twenties

Pepe Escobar • March 11, 2021

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I have a new book out, Raging Twenties: Great Power Politics Meets Techno-Feudalism. For those who don’t use Amazon, here is a mini-guide on how to order and buy the book. The journey of a book finding its readers is always an idiosyncratic, mysterious and fascinating process. To set the scene, permit me a short... Read More

More Suggestions for Dealing with Israel

Recusal and banning dual nationality good places to start

Philip Giraldi • March 2, 2021

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My article last week that made some suggestions about what ordinary Americans can do to put pressure on Israel and on the lopsided bilateral relationship with Washington that has done so much damage to the United States proved to be quite popular. It also resulted in some comments by readers who saw other issues that... Read More

Book Review: "Disintegration" by Andrei Martyanov

Indicators of the Coming American Collapse

The Saker • March 1, 2021

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This is the third book by Andrei Martyanov that I am reviewing, the first one was “Book Review - Losing Military Supremacy: the Myopia of American Strategic Planning by Andrei Martyanov”, while the second one was “Book Review: Andrei Martyanov's The (Real) Revolution in Military Affairs”. I also interviewed Andrei about this second volume here.... Read More

Is Russophobia Like Anti-Semitism?

Julian Macfarlane • February 28, 2021

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American Contradictions Many Americans will argue that Russophobia is not like antisemitism in any way at all; they will tell you they don’t hate Russian people as individuals – just Vladimir Putin, who is a public figure. Putin is also a person and an individual. But never mind the logic. Argue with an American who... Read More

AP and Atlantic Council Anoint Me “COVID Conspiracy Super-Spreader”— and Erase Ron Unz

Kevin Barrett • February 16, 2021

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The bad news is that two of the most powerful institutions in America have anointed me a “COVID super-spreader.” The good news is that I stand accused of super-spreading “COVID conspiracy theories,” not the actual disease. But the worse news is that the way things are going, “conspiracy spreaders” may soon be quarantined in COVID... Read More

The Guardian Revealed Its True Face in Sacking a Columnist for Criticising US Military Aid to Israel

Jonathan Cook • February 11, 2021

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The revelation that a leftwing journalist, Nathan J Robinson, has been sacked as a Guardian US columnist for criticising Israel on Twitter – and that he was pressured to keep quiet about it by Guardian editors – should come as no surprise. He is only the latest in a long line of journalists, myself included,... Read More

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Would a “Russian Dissident” Do Better in the “Free World?”

Gregory Hood • February 11, 2021

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Most Western media call Russian dissident Alexei Navalny a hero. Mr. Navalny is now in a Russian prison, and our most prestigious newspapers are cheering his anti-Putin crusade. These are official editorial statements from leading publications. “The Times view on Alexei Navalny’s bravery: Russian Hero,” The Times, December 23, 2020 “The Extraordinary Courage of Aleksei... Read More

Off to a Diverse Start

Biden Doubles Down on Some Bad Policies and Appointments

Philip Giraldi • February 11, 2021

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The prize for the truly awful story of the week goes to the appointment of AIPAC monster to head Pentagon planning for the Middle East. The extension of the nuclear arms agreement between Russia and the United States and the decision to stop directly supporting the war on Yemen may have been the only good... Read More

Prominent Left Wing Columnist Fired By the Guardian for Tweet Criticizing Israel

Eric Striker • February 10, 2021

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Socialist writer Nathan J. Robinson, a fixture in the Bernie Sanders movement, has been fired from his job at the "progressive" newspaper The Guardian after authoring tweets criticizing Congress for prioritizing military aid to Israel over COVID relief for struggling Americans. The Guardian prides itself as one of the most left-wing mainstream media outlets in... Read More

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Zionists Lie As Naturally As They Breathe

Jewish Control, Zionist Subversion and the “Contradictions” of Anti-Semitism

Tobias Langdon • February 2, 2021

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Parasite’s grin: Bibi Netanyahu greets Jonathan Pollard, the Jewish spy who did huge harm to his “own nation” of America on behalf of Israel Like all decent people, I stand unshakably with the powerless Jewish community against the vile scourge of anti-Semitism and anti-Jewish racism. And in order to better defend cowering Jews against their... Read More

Zone B Exists, Thus There Is Hope, I Promise You!

The Saker • January 20, 2021

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Today it appears that the triumph of our adversaries is total. I want to post this column saying that I don’t believe for one second that this is true. All I want to do today is explain why. Thus, just to make clear to those alternatively gifted, this is not a comprehensive analysis and I... Read More

Russiagate Redux

Paul Craig Roberts • January 20, 2021

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Hillary & Nancy Say It Wasn’t the stolen election that Discredited American Democracy, It Was Putin’s Order to Trump to Cause an Insurrection on January 6 Listen to the Idiots Into Whose Hands Our Country Has Been Put: Hillary Clinton asks House Speaker Nancy Pelosi if a new Russiagate investigation is necessary in order to... Read More

China Trolls the West’s Delusions and Hypocrisies

Gregory Hood • January 12, 2021

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Respectable political opinion in the West is mostly nonsense. Sometimes, even race realists become so used to the stupidity that we are like the fish who never notice water. Sometimes it takes China, a self-respecting civilization-state, to expose our elites’ silly beliefs and shameless hypocrisy. American journalists and politicians are in a moral panic over... Read More

The Mob Did Not Win!

The Saker • January 11, 2021

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The mob did not win! This is how the supposedly conservative FoxNews celebrated the supposed defeat of a supposed mob. See for yourself: FoxNews finally showed its true face during the election steal when it declared that Trump had lost the election long before any evidence in support of this thesis materialized. It is now... Read More

The Assange Saga: Practicing Real Journalism Is Criminally Insane

Pepe Escobar • January 7, 2021

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Synchronicity is definitely fond of mirror wonderwalls. The Julian Assange saga seemed to have entered a new chapter as he was, in thesis, on his way to – conditional - freedom this past Monday, only one day after the first anniversary of the start of the Raging Twenties: the assassination of Maj Gen Qassem Soleimani.... Read More

Remember When Hong Kong Protesters Stormed the Government Building?

Andrew Anglin • January 7, 2021

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You might remember – but you probably don’t – that in July of 2019, Hong Kong’s so-called “democracy protesters” rushed the main government building in that city, attacked people, committed vandalism and occupied the main legislative chamber. Here’s a little news bite from July 1, 2019 in the British Evening Standard: Hundreds of activists in... Read More

What Julian Assange’s Win Today Really Means for the World

Patrick Cockburn • January 5, 2021

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The 10-year campaign by the US government to criminalise reporting critical of its actions has failed in rather peculiar circumstances, with the unexpected decision by the court in London to reject the US demand for Julian Assange's extradition. Judge Vanessa Baraitser gave as the reason for her decision Assange’s mental health and possible suicide risk,... Read More

Assange Wins. the Cost: Press Freedom Is Crushed, and Dissent Labelled Mental Illness

Jonathan Cook • January 4, 2021

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The unexpected decision by Judge Vanessa Baraitser to deny a US demand to extradite Julian Assange, foiling efforts to send him to a US super-max jail for the rest of his life, is a welcome legal victory, but one swamped by larger lessons that should disturb us deeply. Those who campaigned so vigorously to keep... Read More

National Justice Investigates: American Tax Payers Spend At Least $23 Billion On Israel Every Year

Eric Striker • January 1, 2021

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Last September, Donald Trump accidentally upended an entire generation of myths invented by the left and right that purport to explain America's costly and unpopular military adventures in the Middle East: As Mondoweiss pointed out at the time, the explosive admission went completely unmentioned in the mainstream media, which traditionally hangs on every one of... Read More

Robert Fisk, 2010. Credit: Wikimedia Commons/Mohamed Nanabhay. CC BY 2.0.

Establishment Journalists Are Piling on to Smear Robert Fisk Now He Cannot Answer Back

Jonathan Cook • November 30, 2020

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Something remarkable even by the usually dismal standards of the stenographic media blue-tick brigade has been happening in the past few days. Leading journalists in the corporate media have suddenly felt the urgent need not only to criticise the late, much-respected foreign correspondent Robert Fisk, but to pile in against him, using the most outrageous... Read More

The Planet Cannot Begin to Heal Until We Rip the Mask Off the West’s War Machine

Jonathan Cook • November 27, 2020

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Making political sense of the world can be tricky unless one understands the role of the state in capitalist societies. The state is not primarily there to represent voters or uphold democratic rights and values; it is a vehicle for facilitating and legitimating the concentration of wealth and power into fewer and fewer hands. In... Read More

A Historic Presidency

Pat Buchanan • November 25, 2020

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In the first two decades of the century, President-elect Joe Biden's choice for secretary of state supported U.S. wars in Afghanistan, Iraq, Libya, Syria and Yemen. He was an ever-reliable liberal interventionist. This same Antony Blinken could spend the first years of a Biden presidency helping extricate our country from the misbegotten wars he championed.... Read More

Hezbollah the Beautiful

Taxi • November 24, 2020

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A warrior’s soul sleeps in his fist. Wakes in his fist. Till his dying breath, will exist in his fist. No gun and no mortal danger can unfold this fist. A warrior will live and die with his fist clenched. This is not for love of violence nor for the thrills of war. Not because... Read More

Fisk Had Independence of Mind – Which Is Why He Angered Governments

Patrick Cockburn • November 14, 2020

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Robert Fisk and I often used to discuss the merits and demerits of responding in print to personal attacks on us filled with provable falsehoods. The temptation to refute such falsehood is hard to resist, but we recognised that therein lies a trap because even the most persuasive refutation of a gross lie necessitates repeating... Read More

More on the Strange Demise of The American Herald Tribune

Tony Hall • November 13, 2020

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In recent days many news sites, including Unz Review, have highlighted the role of the US Department of Justice (DOJ), the FBI and the CIA in removing web sites from the Internet. For five years I have worked as Editor in Chief of one of the targeted sites that was killed as a result of... Read More

The Strange Demise of The American Herald Tribune

Another independent news source is suppressed

Philip Giraldi • November 10, 2020

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Many observers would agree that the biggest loser in the recent U.S. presidential election was not Donald Trump, it was the media. The news that was presented to the American public amounted to a tsunami of negative reporting on Donald Trump buttressed by opinion polls that turned out to be poorly executed and wrong by... Read More

Fisk Was a ‘historian of the Present’ Who Illuminated the World

Patrick Cockburn • November 3, 2020

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I first met Robert in Belfast in 1972 at the height of the Troubles when he was the correspondent for The Times and I was writing a PhD on Irish history at Queen’s University. I was also taking my first tentative steps as a journalist, while he was swiftly establishing a reputation as a meticulous... Read More

'Iraq War Diaries' At Ten Years: Truth Is Treason

Ron Paul • October 26, 2020

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The purpose of journalism is to uncover truth – especially uncomfortable truth – and to publish it for the benefit of society. In a free society, we must be informed of the criminal acts carried out by governments in the name of the people. Throughout history, journalists have uncovered the many ways governments lie, cheat,... Read More

Iran Seeks to Confuse the United States?

Philip Giraldi • October 23, 2020

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Those who have been waiting for the elusive October Surprise that will upset the apple cart on election day are admittedly running out of time. The media’s unwillingness to even consider that the antics of Hunter Biden just might constitute an embarrassment of major proportions or even something worse has done much to kill that... Read More

Weapons of Mass Distraction

Eric Striker • October 22, 2020

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The most remarkable thing about the Iraq war debacle isn't the trillions of dollars wasted or hundreds of thousands of innocent people and US servicemen killed, but the fact that all of the journalists who promoted the lie to the American people were never held to account. During the 2000s, a bipartisan cabal of overwhelmingly... Read More

American Militarism Marches On

No Discussion or Media Coverage of Washington’s War Against the World

Philip Giraldi • October 22, 2020

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Nearly everyone has heard the comment attributed for former Clinton consigliere Rahm Emanuel that one should never let a good crisis go to waste. The implication of the comment is that if there is a major crisis going on the cover it provides permits one to do all sorts of things under the radar that... Read More

Israeli Arms Trade, the Lobby and the Meaning of Chosenness

Gilad Atzmon • October 20, 2020

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"America is willing to sacrifice its young soldiers and national interests and even its economy for Israel," Gilad Atzmon, who was born in a Jewish family in Israel and grew up in Jerusalem al-Quds, tells the Tehran Times. * Atzmon, who now lives in Britain, also says, "Israeli pressure groups seem to believe that they... Read More

Colonel Alexander Vindman's Revenge

Another “expert” with an agenda surfaces

Philip Giraldi • October 13, 2020

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During last year’s impeachment process directed against President Donald Trump, Congress obtained testimony from a parade of witnesses to or participants in what was inevitably being referred to as UkraineGate. It centered around an investigation into whether Trump inappropriately sought a political quid pro quo from Ukrainian leaders in exchange for a military assistance package.... Read More

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American Pravda: Mossad Assassinations

The JFK Assassination and the 9/11 Attacks?

Ron Unz

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American Pravda: Our Coronavirus Catastrophe as Biowarfare Blowback?

Ron Unz

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9/11 Was an Israeli Job

How America was neoconned into World War IV