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Iran’s Accidental Downing of a Ukrainian Plane Is Already Being Used to Smear MH-17 Skeptics

Max Parry • January 11, 2020

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When the Pentagon confirmed the assassination of Iranian Major General Qasem Soleimani, U.S. President Donald Trump took to social media to post a single image of the American flag to the adulation of his followers. Unfortunately, most Americans are ignorant of the other flag synonymous with U.S. foreign policy, that of the ‘false flag’ utilized... Read More

How Controlled Explanations Are Achieved

Paul Craig Roberts • December 28, 2019

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In 2014 Progressive Press published a book by a French author, Laurent Guyenot, titled JFK-9/11: 50 Years of Deep State. The book contains much interesting reporting that shows that the official explanations we are given about even major events, such as the assassination of a President and 9/11, are transparently false. Yet, these transparently false... Read More

Pearl Harbor Debate: Conspiracy? Cover-Up? Who Was Really to Blame?

Thomas Kimmel vs. Webster Tarpley

Kevin Barrett • December 5, 2019

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Introduction It has been roughly one human lifetime since the United States of America underwent a cataclysmic transformation. December 7, 2019 marks the 78th anniversary of the Japanese attack on Pearl Harbor—the event that turned the United States from a constitutional republic into a globe-straddling empire, which today deploys more than 900 military bases in... Read More

A History of the 21st Century

Paul Craig Roberts • October 31, 2019

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In the 1990s with the Soviet Union collapsed as a result of the communist hardliners’ arrest of Soviet President Gorbachev and Yeltsin serving as Washington’s puppet while Americans and Israelis looted Russia, the neoconservatives called for Washington to overthrow Middle Eastern governments. The neocon scenario for remaking the Middle East was set out prior to... Read More

Epstein Pedoscandal Mossad-Timeline

Marco de Wit • September 27, 2019

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The following timeline is a work in progress. All additions listed below have been integrated into the timeline; however those additions are noted here so those who read the material earlier are aware of revisions to the timeline. The author expects 1-2 additions to the timeline per week. 8 September 2019 10 September 2019 12... Read More

The Coverup of President John F. Kennedy’s Assassination Is Wearing Thin

Paul Craig Roberts • September 24, 2019

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Here is a several years old documentary of 35 minutes summarizing the powerful evidence that the Warran Commission Report on the assassination of President John F. Kennedy is a cover-up. All available evidence points to the CIA and the US Joint Chiefs of Staff, with the cooperation of the Secret Service, as the murderers of... Read More

We Are All Hostages of 9/11

After years of reporting on the Great War on Terror, many questions behind the US attacks remain unresolved

Pepe Escobar • September 12, 2019

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Afghanistan was bombed and invaded because of 9/11. I was there from the start, even before 9/11. On August 20, 2001, I interviewed commander Ahmad Shah Massoud, the “Lion of the Panjshir,” who told me about an “unholy alliance” of the Taliban, al-Qaeda and the ISI (Pakistani intel). Back in Peshawar, I learned that something... Read More

Some of the Many Things Most Americans Never Heard About 9/11

Paul Craig Roberts • September 11, 2019

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The “Dancing Israelis” who turned out to be Israeli Mossad agents caught filming and celebrating the destruction of the twin towers. Arrested by police and released without investigation, they were not mentioned in the 911 Commission Report. Later on Israeli TV they said they were sent to New York to film the destruction of the... Read More

Workers use cutting torches as they clear the site of the Sept. 11 attacks on New York’s World Trade Center, Jan. 23, 2002. Richard Drew | AP

More Americans Questioning Official 9/11 Story As New Evidence Contradicts Official Narrative

Whitney Webb • September 11, 2019

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Evidence continues to mount that the official narrative itself is the irrational narrative of September 11, and it becomes ever more clear that the media remains committed to preventing legitimate questions about that day from receiving the scrutiny they deserve. Today the event that defined the United States’ foreign policy in the 21st century, and... Read More

9/11 After 18 Years

Paul Craig Roberts • September 9, 2019

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I would appreciate hearing from readers whether they have come across a report in the print, TV, or NPR media of the highly professional four-year investigation of WTC Building 7’s demise. The international team of civil engineers concluded that the official story of Building 7’s destruction is entirely false. I reported their findings here: I... Read More

How the CIA, Mossad and “the Epstein Network” Are Exploiting Mass Shootings to Create an Orwellian Nightmare

Whitney Webb • September 6, 2019

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Following another catastrophic mass shooting or crisis event, Orwellian “solutions” are set to be foisted on a frightened American public by the very network connected, not only to Jeffrey Epstein, but to a litany of crimes and a frightening history of plans to crush internal dissent in the United States. Following the arrest and subsequent... Read More

9/11 and Jeffrey Epstein: Media Malfeasance on Steroids

Kevin Barrett • September 5, 2019

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As the 18th anniversary of 9/11 approached, the arrest and alleged suicide of Jeffrey Epstein made headlines—and raised questions about the credibility of official narratives. As Eric Rasmusen writes: “Everybody, it seems, in New York society knew by 2000 that Jeffrey Epstein and Ghislaine Maxwell were corrupting teenage girls, but the press wouldn’t cover it.”... Read More

The Saker Interviews Max Van der Werff About the MH-17 Conspiracy

The Saker • August 28, 2019

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From “Spook Air” to the “Lolita Express”: the Genesis and Evolution of the Jeffrey Epstein-Bill Clinton Relationship

Whitney Webb • August 23, 2019

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Far from being the work of a single political party, intelligence agency or country, the power structure revealed by the network connected to Epstein is nothing less than a criminal enterprise that is willing to use and abuse children in the pursuit of ever more power, wealth and control. On August 10th, and for several... Read More

Conspiracy Theories from the Elders of Zion to Epstein’s Youngsters

Gilad Atzmon • August 17, 2019

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Following Jeffery Epstein’s alleged suicide last week we have been deluged by a tsunami of narratives that do not adhere to the shifting official reports of his death. Presumably a few of the intimate secrets of the most powerful people on this planet will be buried with Epstein. While it is rational to believe that... Read More

The Epstein Mystery

Paul Craig Roberts • August 12, 2019

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I appreciate my readers’ confidence in me. However, I cannot clear up the Epstein matter for you. Perhaps I can help you to think about it in a careful way. First of all, many jail “suicides” are murders. In 1995 Jesse Trentadue’s brother, Kenneth, was mistakenly identified as the possible “missing man” who was thought... Read More

Mega Group, Maxwells and Mossad: the Spy Story at the Heart of the Jeffrey Epstein Scandal

Whitney Webb • August 7, 2019

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The picture painted by the evidence is not a direct Epstein tie to a single intelligence agency but a web linking key members of the Mega Group, politicians, and officials in both the U.S. and Israel, and an organized-crime network with deep business and intelligence ties in both nations. As billionaire pedophile and alleged sex-trafficker,... Read More

An Open Invitation to Tyranny

Paul Craig Roberts • August 7, 2019

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The FBI has published a document that concludes that “conspiracy theories” can motivate believers to commit crimes. Considering the growing acceptance of pre-emptive arrest, that is, arresting someone before they can commit a crime that they are suspected of planning to commit, challenging official explanations, such as those offered for the assassinations of John F.... Read More

Marianne Williamson Is Right: We Need a Spiritual Awakening—and a Real Investigation of 9/11

Kevin Barrett • August 5, 2019

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Is the mainstream mind-control machine starting to worry about Marianne Williamson? Boston Globe: “It’s a very good bet Williamson won’t win the nomination. But her growing prominence in the Democratic field gives her the biggest platform she’s ever had. And as we now know all too well, an entertaining fringe candidate can sometimes catch on.”... Read More

Government by Blackmail: Jeffrey Epstein, Trump’s Mentor and the Dark Secrets of the Reagan Era

Whitney Webb • July 25, 2019

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Appalling for both the villainous abuse of children itself and the chilling implications of government by blackmail, this tangled web of unsavory alliances casts a lurid light on the political history of the U.S. from the Prohibition Era right up through the Age of Trump. Jeffrey Epstein, the billionaire who now sits in jail on... Read More

Hidden in Plain Sight: the Shocking Origins of the Jeffrey Epstein Case

Whitney Webb • July 18, 2019

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Epstein is only the latest incarnation of a much older, more extensive and sophisticated operation that offers a frightening window into how deeply tied the U.S. government is to the modern-day equivalents of organized crime. Despite his “sweetheart” deal and having seemingly evaded justice, billionaire sex offender Jeffrey Epstein was arrested earlier this month on... Read More

Toronto Raptors’ Trip to Israel

The Obscenity of Jewish Power

Kevin Barrett • June 26, 2019

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I recently received an email from Code Pink: “Dunk the ball for Palestinian rights?” That is not exactly the world’s catchiest protest chant. No rhyme or alliteration, the meter doesn’t scan, and the image that comes to mind is…what, exactly? Kawhi Leonard stealing Larry Tennenbaum’s head right off his neck and slamming it through the... Read More

Simultaneous Notre Dame/al-Aqsa Fires: Coincidence or Conspiracy?

Sri Lankan Massacre Part of the Same Terror Campaign?

Kevin Barrett • April 23, 2019

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In 1988 and 1989 I lived in the heart of Paris, on Boulevard Henri IV just a few minutes’ walk from the Notre Dame cathedral—the best known and most-visited Catholic monument this side of St. Peter’s Square. Dedicated to the Holy Virgin Mary, beloved by both Christians and Muslims, Notre Dame is a product and... Read More

'Lone Wolf' Myth Covers Up Possible Mossad Role in New Zealand Terrorist Attack

Max Parry • March 27, 2019

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Ever since the news broke on March 15 of two consecutive mass shootings at the Al Noor Mosque and Linwood Islamic Centre in Christchurch, New Zealand, corporate media has been determined to establish that suspect Brenton Tarrant acted alone in the terrorist attacks that took the lives of 50 innocent Muslim worshippers and wounded 50... Read More

Alan “Israel Did 9/11” Sabrosky: Most Censored Man in America

Kevin Barrett • March 24, 2019

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Who’s afraid of Alan Sabrosky? Whoever they are, they have the ability to monitor and censor YouTube live-streams in real time. And they apparently don’t want you to know what Sabrosky thinks about the Holocaust. That’s the obvious takeaway from the highly unusual example of YouTube censorship that disrupted the March 22 live broadcast of... Read More

Forget Jussie Smollet, Here Are the Real False Flags

Kevin Barrett • February 24, 2019

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The world slipped closer to nuclear war. Big false flags—actual, suspected, and anticipated—were a key factor. But hardly anybody noticed. Everyone was riveted by the story of actor Jussie Smollet, who supposedly paid a couple of Nigerian-American bodybuilders for a staged racist-homophobic near-lynching. The ostensible motive: Add a zero to Smollet’s pathetic little million-a-year salary.... Read More

Monica E. Witt, a former United States Air Force intelligence officer, is accused of espionage on behalf of Iran. Credit: FBI/EPA, via Shutterstock/New York Times

Iranian Spying? or Neocon 9/11 Coverup?

Questioning the USG/NYT official story on Marzieh Hashemi, Monica Witt, New Horizon…and yours truly

Kevin Barrett • February 18, 2019

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It wasn’t the first time I’ve been prominently libeled in The New York Times. Nor was it the worst. Compared to Stanley Fish’s grotesquely mendacious 2006 op-ed trashing me for something I never did—advocating 9/11 truth in the classroom[1]—Alan Blinder, Julie Turkewitz and Adam Goldman treated me fairly well on today’s Sunday NYT front page... Read More

Zbigniew Brzezinski as I Knew Him

Paul Craig Roberts • February 12, 2019

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“When you hear a source called a ‘Russian agent,’ an ‘anti-semite,’ or a ‘conspiracy theorist,’ you had better listen to them. These are those in the know who accept arrow slings in order to tell you the truth.” I decided to repost this column for several reasons. One is that the misrepresentation of Brzezinski as... Read More

Why the War on Conspiracy Theories Is Bad Public Policy

Kevin Barrett • February 1, 2019

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On January 25 2018 YouTube unleashed the latest salvo in the war on conspiracy theories, saying “we’ll begin reducing recommendations of borderline content and content that could misinform users in harmful ways—such as videos promoting a phony miracle cure for a serious illness, claiming the earth is flat, or making blatantly false claims about historic... Read More

A Majority of Americans Do Not Believe the Official 9/11 Story

“Conspiracy Theorists” Now A Majority

Paul Craig Roberts • January 8, 2019

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TruePublica, a British website that has avoided the 9/11 issue, has had its fill of ignorant journalists at the BBC, Huffington Post and other propagandists for the military/security complex. The constant, shrill demeaning of experts and distinguished people who have raised questions about the official story has convinced TruePublica that skeptics who need so much... Read More

9/11: Finally the Truth Comes Out?

Paul Craig Roberts • January 4, 2019

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Although the United States is allegedly a democracy with a rule of law, it has taken 17 years for public pressure to bring about the first grand jury investigation of 9/11. Based on the work of Architects & Engineers for 9/11 Truth led by Richard Gage, first responder and pilots organizations, books by David Ray... Read More

Vice Admiral Scott A. Stearney. Credit: Wikimedia Commons

Scarce News on Admiral Stearney’s Death

David Martin • December 21, 2018

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If you are a regular reader of The Jerusalem Post you would have learned on December 1 that the top officer for all U.S. Navy operations in the Middle East, Vice Admiral Scott Stearney, had been found dead in his home in Bahrain. The Reuters wire story that The Jerusalem Post was simply passing on... Read More

Disruptive Uncle Sam, Rising Eurasia and Murky Pittsburgh

Linh Dinh • November 8, 2018

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All floridly unequivocal praise is due to Allah, Lord of the Universes, and to his faithful Servant and Prophet, Mohammed, and may Israel, that abomination, smudge and curse upon mankind, be neatly erased with no trace left behind, so the rest of us can peacefully go on with our tedious and humbling labor, all while... Read More

Everything Is A Hoax

Paul Craig Roberts • October 5, 2018

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An Israeli expert on terrorism and covert assassination procedures explains that the alleged Russian GRU attack on the Skripals with a supposedly deadly nerve agent is a completely obvious hoax to anyone who knows anything at all. The official story, says the expert, is “stupidity on stupidity.” I agree with him. The question is: Why... Read More

The Costs of 9/11 Continue to Mount

Paul Craig Roberts • September 11, 2018

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This is the 17th anniversary of 9/11. During the years that have passed large numbers of experts have established conclusively that the official government account of the event is false. Every year fewer people believe the unbelievable conspiracy theory that a handful of Saudi Arabians outwitted the entirety of the US National Security State and... Read More

American Pravda: 9/11 Conspiracy Theories

Ron Unz • September 10, 2018

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Back in 1999 I was invited to join Steve Sailer's HBD email group, where I encountered all sorts of interesting people. The participants were mostly intellectuals or journalists having sharply heterodox views about racial differences, especially those involving IQ and crime, and this was reflected in the somewhat euphemistic title, which stood for "Human Bio-Diversity."... Read More

9/11 Was an Israeli Job

How America was neoconned into World War IV

Laurent Guyénot • September 10, 2018

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Thanks to courageous investigators, many anomalies in the official explanation of the events of 9/11 were posted on the Internet in the following months, providing evidence that this was a false flag operation, and that Osama bin Laden was innocent, as he repeatedly declared in the Afghan and Pakistani press and on Al Jazeera.[1] The... Read More

Skripals – the Mystery Deepens

Craig Murray • September 6, 2018

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The time that “Boshirov and Petrov” were allegedly in Salisbury carrying out the attack is all entirely within the period the Skripals were universally reported to have left their home with their mobile phones switched off. A key hole in the British government’s account of the Salisbury poisonings has been plugged – the lack of... Read More

The False Prosecution of Dzhokhkar Tsarnaev

Paul Craig Roberts • July 20, 2018

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As I reported at the time, and as all evidence indicates, the alleged Boston Marathon Bombing was a publicly announced drill in which crisis actors were used. There were no real deaths or injuries, and the Tsarnaev brothers did not set off a bomb. The drill was turned into a real event by propagandists who... Read More

Why Was Malaysian Airlines Flight MH17 Shot Down?

Kees van der Pijl • July 9, 2018

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Four years ago, on 17 July 2014, in the midst of a civil war raging in eastern Ukraine, Malaysian Airlines Flight MH17 was destroyed with all 298 passengers and crew. On 25 May last, the Joint Investigation Team (JIT) entrusted with the criminal investigation of the downing and composed of the Netherlands, Australia, Belgium, Malaysia... Read More

American Pravda: Our Deadly World of Post-War Politics

Ron Unz • July 2, 2018

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Although my main academic focus was theoretical physics, I always had a very strong interest in history as well, especially that of the Classical Era. Trying to extract the true pattern of events from a collection of source material that was often fragmentary, unreliable, and contradictory was a challenging intellectual exercise, testing my analytical ability.... Read More

American Pravda: the JFK Assassination, Part II – Who Did It?

Ron Unz • June 25, 2018

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A strong dam may hold back an immense quantity of water, but once it breaks the resulting flood may sweep aside everything in its path. I had spent nearly my entire life never doubting that a lone gunman named Lee Harvey Oswald killed President John F. Kennedy nor that a different lone gunman took the... Read More

Creative Chaos?

David Lorimer • May 24, 2018

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This brilliant, meticulous and searing analysis is David Ray Griffin’s most powerful and important book about  the hegemonic foreign policy ambitions  of US neoconservatives and the way in which 9/11 was used to pursue these Machiavellian ends. This is a book that should have been written by a mainstream investigative journalist, but David has done... Read More

The Skripals Will Most Likely Never be Allowed to Talk

The Saker • May 11, 2018

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There have been major developments this week, all of them bad, including Putin re-nominating Medvedev as his Prime Minister, and Bibi Netanyahu invited to Moscow to the Victory Day Parade in spite of him bombing Syria, a Russian ally, just on the eve of his visit. Once in Moscow, Netanyahu compared Iran to, what else,... Read More

Revisiting 9/11, Betty Ong, and the Mystery of “Black Betty”

Jonathan Revusky • April 20, 2018

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"As one of the conditions of considering publication of this article, Ron Unz has required me to personally apologize to commenter Rurik for having previously threatened to "dox" him based on our private correspondence. I am therefore providing that apology, and also sincerely promising to make no such threats nor take such actions against him... Read More

Tracing the Rush to War

Craig Murray • April 15, 2018

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I have never ruled out the possibility that Russia is responsible for the attack in Salisbury, amongst other possibilities. But I do rule out the possibility that Assad is dropping chemical weapons in Ghouta. In this extraordinary war, where Saudi-funded jihadist head choppers have Israeli air support and US and UK military “advisers”, every time... Read More

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Erdogan’s Turkey: When Knives Cut Both Ways

Brett Redmayne-Titley • April 6, 2018

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On the streets, cafes, and carpet shops of Istanbul a very different story than the one presented by western media is developing about the true allegiance of Turkey’s president Recep Tayyip Erdogan. While he continues to play a dangerous international game between Russia and the NATO/ Israeli/ US alliance his biggest future enemy walks the... Read More

Was Vietnam a Holocaust for Zion?

Laurent Guyénot • April 2, 2018

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The latest Steven Spielberg film, The Pentagon Papers, made me wonder about the historical significance of this glorious episode of whistleblowing and victorious struggle for freedom of the press. The leaking and publishing in 1971, by the New York Times then the Washington Post, of excerpts from this 7000-page classified report on the Vietnam War... Read More

Four Days to Declare a Cold War

Thierry Meyssan • March 20, 2018

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The British government and certain of its allies, including US Secretary of State Rex Tillerson, have attempted to launch a Cold War against Russia. Their plan was to fabricate an attack against an ex-double agent in Salisbury and at the same time a chemical attack against the « moderate rebels » in the Ghouta. The... Read More

Russiagate Comes to England

Who poisoned the Russian spy?

Philip Giraldi • March 20, 2018

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I don’t know what happened in Salisbury England on March 4th, but it appears that the British government doesn’t know either. Prime Minister Theresa May’s speech before Parliament last Monday was essentially political, reflecting demands that she should “do something” in response to the mounting hysteria over the poisoning of former Russian double agent Sergei... Read More

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9/11 Was an Israeli Job

How America was neoconned into World War IV

Laurent Guyénot

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John McCain and the POW Cover-Up

The “war hero” candidate buried information about POWs left behind in Vietnam.

Sydney Schanberg

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America's Jews Are Driving America's Wars