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Democracies Don’t Start Wars. But Democrats Do

Philip Giraldi • December 24, 2020

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It may have been President Bill Clinton who once justified his wrecking of the Balkans by observing that liberal interventionism to bring about regime change is a good thing because “Democracies don’t start wars with other democracies.” Or it might have been George W. Bush talking about Iraq or even Barack Obama justifying his destruction... Read More

Sen. Kamala Harris D-Calif. speaks at the 2017 American Israel Public Affairs Committee (AIPAC) Policy Conference, Tuesday, March 28, 2017, at the Washington Convention Center in Washington. (AP Photo/Jose Luis Magana)

Democrats Go All-Out for Israel

Joe is a Zionist and Kamala panders to Jewish donors

Philip Giraldi • September 15, 2020

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Those of us who have longed for an end to America’s military engagement in the Middle East have hoped for a candidate who was not tied hand and foot to Israel, which is the root cause of the badly-broken and essentially pointless U.S. foreign policy in the region. But the real tragedy is that in... Read More

Democratic Party Boosters Have Little to Offer

Few want to return to Obama or Clinton

Philip Giraldi • August 4, 2020

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Donald Trump might be described as unique as a president of the United States in that he constantly impulsively self-promotes in a bizarre fashion which the Independent has described as “wild days of authoritarian and incoherent outbursts.” But normally politicians are canny enough to steal and connive out of sight without letting on what they... Read More

The Fall of Eliot Engel: Israel-Firster Defeated in Congressional Primary

Philip Giraldi • June 26, 2020

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Sometimes listening to the morning news on television is a bit like entering into an alternate universe. Last Wednesday, the day after primary elections in New York State, CBS News reported that New York Congressman Eliot Engel was “facing a challenge” from Democratic Party challenger Jamaal Bowman. NBC News reported that Engel was “trailing.” The... Read More

The Arrogance of Zionist Power

Openly Demonstrating that the Tribe Always Comes First

Philip Giraldi • April 12, 2020

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There are two recent stories that involve the arrogance of the Jewish community in the United States. The first involves a lobbying group in Washington and the second concerns a hospital in New York City. It has often been observed that some Jews of the Alan Dershowitz persuasion boast about how powerful Jews are in... Read More

A Few Recent Political Developments Which Should Not Go Unnoticed

The Saker • March 25, 2020

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The COVID19/SARS-CoV-2 pandemic is, by any measure, an immense planetary crisis which will probably change the world we live in forever. Still, there are other issues which are maybe not quite as dramatic and important, but which deserve not to be forgotten. Here are some of those The grand betrayal of Tulsi Gabbard It was... Read More

Seth Rich, Julian Assange and Dana Rohrabacher. Credit: Public domain/Gage Skidmore/ Flickr

Seth Rich, Julian Assange and Dana Rohrabacher - Will We Ever Know the Truth About the Stolen DNC Files?

Philip Giraldi • February 29, 2020

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The media is doing its best to make the Seth Rich story go away, but it seems to have a life of its own, possibly due to the fact that the accepted narrative about how Rich died makes no sense. In its Iatest manifestation, it provides an alternative explanation for just how the information from... Read More

Is Pete Buttigieg the Israel Lobby Choice?

Cyberwarfare began in Iowa

Philip Giraldi • February 11, 2020

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Many Americans might consider it decidedly odd that the recent impeachment trial of U.S. President Donald Trump also featured constant vilification of President Vladimir Putin, to such an extent that one might have though that the Russian leader was also in the dock awaiting sentencing. The irony is, of course, that while “Russian interference” has... Read More

Democrats Ignore Trump’s Real Violations

Ron Paul • February 10, 2020

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This week the latest Democratic Party attempt to remove President Trump from office – impeachment over Trump allegedly holding up an arms deal to Ukraine – flopped. Just like “Russiagate” and the Mueller investigation, and a number of other attempts to overturn the 2016 election. We’ve had three years of accusations and investigations with untold... Read More

Why Both Republicans and Democrats Want Russia to Become the Enemy of Choice

Philip Giraldi • February 6, 2020

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One of the more interesting aspects of the nauseating impeachment trial in the Senate was the repeated vilification of Russia and its President Vladimir Putin. To hate Russia has become dogma on both sides of the political aisle, in part because no politician has really wanted to confront the lesson of the 2016 election, which... Read More

‘Nobody Ever Gets Points for Saying Anything Good About Russia’: Stephen Cohen Says, as Rep. Schiff Spreads Ignorance About Putin

Stephen F. Cohen • January 28, 2020

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US Congress heavyweights like Adam Schiff deeply misunderstand Russia but keep on bashing Moscow because it has become “politically advantageous” in Washington, Russia researcher Stephen Cohen said. “Being highly-critical of Russia is good politics in the United States,” Cohen, professor emeritus of Russian studies at New York University and Princeton University, told the Grayzone's Aaron... Read More

How Impeachment Is Escalating the New US-Russian Cold War

Stephen F. Cohen • December 27, 2019

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How the Pro-War “Left” Fell for the Kurds in Syria

Max Parry • December 22, 2019

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The October decision by U.S. President Donald Trump to withdraw American troops from northeastern Syria did not only precipitate the Turkish offensive, codenamed ‘Operation Peace Spring’, into Kurdish-held territory which followed. It also sparked an outcry of hysteria from much of the so-called “left” that has been deeply divided during the 8-year long conflict over... Read More

Inconvenient Truths

Alarming things we have learned under Trump, but not always about him.

Stephen F. Cohen • November 6, 2019

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Almost daily for three years, Democrats and their media have told us very bad things about Donald Trump’s life, character, and presidency. Some of them are true. But in the process, we have also learned some lamentable, even alarming, things about the Democratic Party establishment, including self-professed liberals. Consider the following: The Democratic establishment is... Read More

The Plundering of Ukraine by Corrupt American Democrats

A talk with Oleg Tsarev reveals the alleged identity of the "Trump/Ukraine Whistleblower"

Israel Shamir • October 25, 2019

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Top Dems are involved in the plundering of the Ukraine: new names, mind-boggling accounts. The mysterious ‘whistleblower’ whose report had unleashed the impeachment is named in the exclusive interview given to the Unz Review by a prominent Ukrainian politician, an ex-Member of Parliament of four terms, a candidate for Ukraine’s presidency, Oleg Tsarev. Mr Tsarev,... Read More

Tulsi Gabbard Is Right, and Nancy Pelosi Wrong. It Was US Democrats Who Helped Cultivate the Barbarism of Isis

Jonathan Cook • October 21, 2019

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There is something profoundly deceitful in the way the Democratic Party and the corporate media are framing Donald Trump’s decision to pull troops out of Syria. One does not need to defend Trump’s actions or ignore the dangers posed to the Kurds, at least in the short term, by the departure of US forces from... Read More

Is America in Her Final Days? Will America be Here Next Year, Next Decade?

Paul Craig Roberts • October 10, 2019

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Will the American People Rise Against Adam Shit, the Bitch Pelosi, and the Nadler Turd and Save their Country from Ruin, or will the American People Submit to The Rule By Lies? What Confidence Can We Have in the American People? Many people regard Matt Taibbi as a leftish as he writes for the sometimes... Read More

Will the Democrats’ Treasonous Coup Against Trump Succeed?

Paul Craig Roberts • October 7, 2019

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The orchestrated coup to overthrow Trump based entirely on lies moves forward despite having been completely exposed, while the Trump administration’s indictments of the Obama era officials who organized the coup remain remote. It seems that the entirety of Washington, including Trump’s own administration, has organized against the outsider who would upset the privilege-ridden system.... Read More

Unasked Questions About US-Ukrainian Relations

Is US national security being trumped by loathing for Trump?

Stephen F. Cohen • October 3, 2019

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The transcript of President Trump’s July 25 telephone conversation with Ukraine’s recently elected president, Volodymyr Zelensky, has ignited the usual anti-Trump bashing in American political-media circles, even more calls for impeachment, with little, if any, regard for the national security issues involved. Leave aside that Trump should not have been compelled to make the transcript... Read More

Tar Baby Ukraine

Eric Margolis • September 28, 2019

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A crime worthy of impeachment? Not really, just another unethical, improper, crass act by President Donald Trump. Many Democrats are cock-a-hoop over the idea of impeaching Trump. They would bed down with the Devil just to get rid of the boor in the White House. But unless really damning information emerges regarding Trump’s efforts to... Read More

Tulsi Gabbard: R.I.P.

Paul Craig Roberts • August 5, 2019

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It is unfortunate that Tulsi Gabbard succumbed to the Israel Lobby. The forces of the Empire saw it as a sign of weakness and have set about destroying her. The ruling elite see Gabbard as a threat just as they saw Trump as a threat. A threat is an attractive political candidate who questions the... Read More

Who Won the Debate?

Tulsi Gabbard let the genie out of the bottle

Philip Giraldi • July 2, 2019

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Last Wednesday’s debate among half of the announced Democratic Party candidates to become their party’s nominee for president in 2020 was notable for its lack of drama. Many of those called on to speak had little to say apart from the usual liberal bromides about health care, jobs, education and how the United States is... Read More

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Memo to Trump: Trade Bolton for Tulsi

Pat Buchanan • June 28, 2019

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"For too long our leaders have failed us, taking us into one regime change war after the next, leading us into a new Cold War and arms race, costing us trillions of our hard-earned tax payer dollars and countless lives. This insanity must end." Donald Trump, circa 2016? Nope. That denunciation of John Bolton interventionism... Read More

Tulsi Gabbard Pushes No War Agenda – and the Media Is Out to Kill Her Chances

Philip Giraldi • June 6, 2019

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Voters looking ahead to 2020 are being bombarded with soundbites from the twenty plus Democratic would-be candidates. That Joe Biden is apparently leading the pack according to opinion polls should come as no surprise as he stands for nothing apart from being the Establishment favorite who will tirelessly work to support the status quo. The... Read More

The Tulsi Gabbard Phenomenon as a Diagnostic Tool

The Saker • February 15, 2019

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Ever since Tulsi Gabbard announced that she will be running for President in 2020 her personality and candidacy have been a subject of heated debates and after I posted a rather small message from her, I have been getting panicked emails warning me that she is a fake and that I not should "jump on... Read More

Is Tulsi Gabbard for Real?

America Is Ready for a Genuine Peace Candidate

Philip Giraldi • February 14, 2019

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The lineup of Democrats who have already declared themselves as candidates for their party’s presidential nomination in 2020 is remarkable, if only for the fact that so many wannabes have thrown their hats in the ring so early in the process. In terms of electability, however, one might well call the seekers after the highest... Read More

Curious Bedfellows: the Neocon and Progressive Alliance to Destroy Donald Trump

The neocon metamorphosis is nearly complete as many of the neocons, who started out as Democrats, have returned home,...

Philip Giraldi • January 20, 2019

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The Roman poet Ovid’s masterful epic The Metamorphoses includes the memorable opening line regarding the poem’s central theme of transformation. He wrote In nova fert animus mutatas dicere formas corpora, which has been translated as “Of shapes transformed to bodies strange, I purpose to entreat…” Ovid framed his narrative around gods, heroes and quasi-historical events... Read More

‘Russiagate’ Zealots (Mainly Democrats) Have Become a Major Threat to US National Security

At an international summit in Vietnam last week, President Trump took necessary steps to reduce the perils of the new...

Stephen F. Cohen • November 15, 2017

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Nation contributing editor Stephen F. Cohen and John Batchelor continue their weekly discussions of the new US-Russian Cold War. (Previous installments, now in their fourth year, are at TheNation.com.) Cohen argues that America is now in unprecedented danger due to two related crises. A new and more dangerous Cold War with Russia that is fraught... Read More

Do Liberal Democrats Want War with Russia?

“Russiagate” is abetting the possibility of direct military conflict with Moscow, and liberals, once opponents of...

Stephen F. Cohen • September 27, 2017

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Nation Contributing Editor Stephen F. Cohen and John Batchelor continue their weekly discussions of the new US-Russian Cold War. (Previous installments, now in their fourth year, are at TheNation.com.) A lifelong “liberal Democrat” of varying sorts, Cohen frames the question as follows: Each month brings the United States closer to actual war with Russia. Three... Read More

The Tale of the Brothers Awan

Debbie Wasserman-Schultz in the middle of a new scandal

Philip Giraldi • August 8, 2017

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There has been surprisingly little media follow-up on the story about the July 25th Dulles Airport arrest of House of Representatives’ employed Pakistani-American IT specialist Imran Awan, who was detained for bank fraud while he was allegedly fleeing to Pakistan. The mainstream media somewhat predictably produced minimal press coverage before the story died. The speed... Read More

Obama’s AWOL Anti-War Protesters

James Bovard • July 18, 2017

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Barack Obama campaigned for the presidency in 2008 as a peace candidate. He signaled that he would fundamentally change America’s course after the reckless carnage unleashed by the George W. Bush administration. However, by the end of Obama’s presidency, the United States was bombing seven different foreign nations. But Obama’s warring rarely evoked the protests... Read More

Corbyn Teaches Us to Embrace the Change We Need

Kevin Zeese and Margaret Flowers • June 11, 2017

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The shocking election result in the United Kingdom – the Conservatives losing their majority and the creation of a hung Parliament; and Jeremy Corbyn being more successful than any recent Labor candidate – cutting a 20 point Theresa May lead down to a near tie – gives hope to many that the global shift to... Read More

Khizr Khan and the Triumph of Democratic Militarism

Ted Rall • August 2, 2016

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Against the wishes of her New York Democratic constituents, Hillary Clinton voted with Senate Republicans to invade Iraq. (It was a pivotal vote. Without Democratic support, George W. Bush’s request for this war of aggression would have failed.) Humayun Khan, 27, was an army captain who got killed during that invasion. Eight years later, the... Read More

The Democratic Party No Longer Exists

And an orchestrated war with Russia has all of us marked for extinction

Paul Craig Roberts • July 29, 2016

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The Democratic Party that once was concerned with workers’ rights, the elderly, civil rights, and the constitutional protections of America liberty no longer exists. As the just completed Democratic presidential primaries and the Democratic presidential convention have clearly demonstrated, the United States now has two Republican parties in service to the One Percent. The organized... Read More

Democrats Prepare to Fund Longer War

Harry Reid: More Troops to Iraq!

Alexander Cockburn • December 19, 2006

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This last Sunday Harry Reid, the incoming Democratic majority leader in the US Senate, went on ABC's Sunday morning show and declared that a hike in U.S. troops in Iraq is okay with him. Here's the evolution of the Democrats' war platform since November 7, 2006, the day the voters presented a clear mandate: "End... Read More

America's Other War Party

False Hope and the Democrats

Mike Whitney • October 14, 2006

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The giddiness among Democrats about their prospects for a sweep in both Houses of Representatives has reached a level of absolute euphoria. But what exactly are the voters are hoping for? A speedy exit from Iraq? Think again. John Walsh posted a great article on CounterPunch.org; "Election 2006: The Fix is already In", which outlines... Read More

Democrats Sink Deeper Into the Ooze

From Lynndie England to Shaq

Alexander Cockburn and Jeffrey St. Clair • October 1, 2005

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Away to prison for three years goes Lynndie England, her pleas for mercy ignored by the military judge in Fort Hood, Texas. So who are the penalized thus far to indicate America's revulsion over the systematic use of torture by its own forces? It tots up to a handful of rednecks. Scot-free go those who... Read More

War Crimes in Fallujah; a Gutsy Campaign Against Lantos

"Let Them Drink Sand!"

Alexander Cockburn • November 13, 2004

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The United States is bringing "democracy" to Iraq on the same terms that the Russians imposed its federal mandate on Chechnya, a region which has Iraq's future written in its rubble. The advocates of intervention in Iraq, the epigones of Wolfowitz , should take a walk through Grozny, and measure against its ruins the fate... Read More

Kerrycrats and the War

The Great Delusion

Alexander Cockburn • October 28, 2004

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I asked one usually radical friend of mine, now a Kerrycrat, how she could support a fellow who pledges a “better”, wider war in Iraq and then a march on Teheran. “Oh” she said airily, “you can’t believe anything a candidate will say.” From where we sit, here at mission control, CounterPunch hq, (currently a... Read More

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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

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