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Buying Punishment for “Terrorists”: Washington’s Reward Program Is Largely Ineffective

Philip Giraldi • April 15, 2020

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Many people worldwide are aware of the fact that the United States government offers cash rewards to informants who provide information on individuals and groups that it chooses to define as terrorists. The program is referred to as the Rewards for Justice Program (RFJ). It was established in 1984 as part of the Act to... Read More

Victim of Anti-Fascist Terrorism Mikis Mantakas Commemorated by Italian Deputy Speaker

Eric Striker • March 2, 2020

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Last week marked the 45th anniversary of the shooting of Mikis Mantakas, a 23-year-old Greek who studied medicine in Rome and engaged in activism with the Italian Social Movement (MSI). The MSI, which campaigned as the successor of the socialist and nationalist ideals of the Italian Social Republic (RSI), was a force to reckon with... Read More

After Pensacola (And Pearl Harbor): How Ruling Class Sent Fort Hood Shooting Down the Memory Hole?

John Derbyshire • December 15, 2019

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Adapted from the latest Radio Derb, available exclusively at VDARE.com Here’s an anniversary that, even after the Pensacola (and Pearl Harbor) shootings, doesn’t seem to have been mentioned in the Main Stream Media: the Fort Hood massacre, which occurred just over ten years ago, on November 5th, 2009. In that incident a crazy Muslim, Army... Read More

Cuckmongers Hall and the London Bridge Massacre—I Don’t Want U.S. to End Up Like This

John Derbyshire • December 8, 2019

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Adapted from the latest Radio Derb, available exclusively at VDARE.com The latest terrorist killings in London got me reading up on Fishmongers' Hall. I'll confess I knew next to nothing about the place, in spite of having been born and raised in England and lived five years in London. The hall existed in my mind,... Read More

Fight Another 'Terror War' Against Drug Cartels? There's a Better Way!

Ron Paul • December 2, 2019

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The 50-year US war on drugs has been a total failure, with hundreds of billions of dollars flushed down the drain and our civil liberties whittled away fighting a war that cannot be won. The 20 year “war on terror” has likewise been a gigantic US government disaster: hundreds of billions wasted, civil liberties scorched,... Read More

Germany: Halle Synagogue Goers Laugh and Cheer After Two Gentiles Shot Dead

Eric Striker • October 9, 2019

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The wire service Reuters, whose editor-in-chief Stephen J Adler is Jewish, is disseminating through the controlled airwaves a narrative that German-Jews are now living in "fear" in the wake of a shooting in the eastern German city of Halle. The dispatch quotes members of the Jewish community in Germany claiming that the moderate criticisms of... Read More

Syrian tank near Idlib facing Uyghurs and other terrorists

March of the Uyghurs

Again, The West Tries to Destroy China, Using Religion and Terror

Andre Vltchek • July 23, 2019

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They are everywhere, where their Western, Gulf states and Turkish handlers want them to be. Their combat as well as political cells and units are based in Syria and Indonesia, in Turkey and occasionally in Egypt. When they are told to kill, they murder with unimaginable brutality; decapitating, or cutting to pieces priests, infants, old... Read More

Outrage Grows at Spanish Media Silence on State Complicity in Barcelona Attack

Alejandro López • July 22, 2019

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The media silence on online newspaper Público’s revelations that Spain’s National Intelligence Center (CNI) intensively followed the Islamic State (IS) terror cell until the day of the Barcelona attacks in August 2017 is provoking growing outrage in Spain. Público’s report provides evidence of criminal behavior at top levels of the Spanish state. It directly contradicts... Read More

Hurricane Barry Proves Terrorist Threat Is A Hoax

Paul Craig Roberts • July 13, 2019

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What Hurricane Barry tells us as it floods an already flooded New Orleans is that the “terrorist threat” that the US allegedly faces is a hoax. What do I mean? Think about it this way. Terrorists, if such exist, have had ample warning about New Orleans’ precarious position with the swollen Mississippi river in flood... Read More

Why Shouldn’t the Boston Marathon Bomber Vote? U.S. Politicians Radicalized Him

Max Parry • May 14, 2019

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Last month, 2020 U.S. presidential hopeful Bernie Sanders stirred controversy at a CNN town hall after answering a loaded question about whether his position on extending voting rights to incarcerated felons barred any exceptions such as the Boston Marathon bomber currently on death row. It was impossible for Sanders to respond honestly without being entrapped... Read More

We Can Finish ISIS - But Only if the West Winds Down Its Proxy Wars

Patrick Cockburn • April 26, 2019

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Western governments have been swift to pledge action to strike at Isis, as it becomes clear that the organisation was behind the suicide bombings that killed 253 people in Sri Lanka. A video released by Isis after the attacks shows Zahran Hashim, an Islamic preacher and alleged leader of the bombers, pledging allegiance together with... 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

The “March for Love” in Auckland on March 23

New Zealand: the Criminalization of Dissent

Kerry Bolton • March 27, 2019

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New Zealand is in a state of mass hysteria in the wake of the Christchurch mosque shootings, which even a few mainstream media pundits are starting to question, and some are calling for calm reason. A few honest liberals are also questioning the demand for the introduction of “hate speech laws.” Hypocrisy and unreason have... 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

The Latest Bomb Scare

Paul Craig Roberts • October 27, 2018

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I appreciate readers’ confidence that I can explain the mail bomb scare that has been blamed on Cesar Sayoc. I have not followed this story and regret that I don’t have an explanation to provide. Stephen Lendman raises the question whether Sayoc is a real culprit or a patsy for an operation orhestrated for political... 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

Duck-and-Cover America

Advice to College Graduates in the Age of Trump

Tom Engelhardt • May 31, 2018

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Class of 2018, I’ve always been told that a joke’s a good way to launch any talk. It’s a matter of breaking the ice, though on your graduation day, with the temperature soaring into the upper eighties, that may not be the perfect image. Still, you know what I mean: an attempt to lighten the... Read More

MEK’s Money Sure Can’t Buy Love

But it can buy a lot of politicians

Philip Giraldi • May 29, 2018

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Iran’s radical Marxist cult Mohajedeen e Khalq, better known by its acronym MEK, is somewhat reminiscent of the Israel Lobby’s American Israel Public Affairs Committee (AIPAC) in that it operates somewhat in the shadows and is nevertheless able to punch well beyond its weight by manipulating politicians and understanding how American government functions on its... Read More

Narco-Corruption, ISIS 3.0, and the Terror Drone Attack That Never Happened

Pentagon Documents Detail Dystopian Dangers

Nick Turse • May 29, 2018

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For almost 20 years, U.S. drone warfare was largely one-sided. Unlike Afghans and Yemenis, Iraqis and Somalis, Americans never had to worry about lethal robots hovering overhead and raining down missiles. Until, that is, one appeared in the skies above Florida. But that’s a story for later. For now, let’s focus on a 2017 executive... Read More

The Manchester Bomber Was Enabled by the British Government

Patrick Cockburn • May 26, 2018

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The culpability of the British government and its intelligence agencies in enabling suicide bomber Salman Abedi to blow himself up at a pop concert in Manchester is being masked one year later by the mood of grief and mourning over the death and injury of so many people. It is heartrending to hear injured children... Read More

The Caliphate of Trump

And a Planet in Ruins

Tom Engelhardt • May 8, 2018

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They are the extremists. If you need proof, look no further than the Afghan capital, Kabul, where the latest wave of suicide bombings has proven devastating. Recently, for instance, a fanatic set off his explosives among a group of citizens lining up outside a government office to register to vote in upcoming elections. At least... Read More

Isis-Inspired Terrorism Gives Impression It's a Global Force. It's Not

Patrick Cockburn • March 23, 2018

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The killing of three people in the south of France by a man claiming allegiance to Isis will make people doubt if this murderous cult is as dead as governments had announced and people had hoped. The answer is that the attack in the Carcassonne region by a single gunman, said to be a Moroccan... Read More

Here We Go Again

Andrew Napolitano • December 14, 2017

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For the second time in two months, someone who has pledged allegiance to the Islamic State has plotted to kill innocents in New York City and has executed his plot. According to police, at the height of the Monday morning rush hour this week, in an underground pedestrian walkway that I have used many times,... Read More

Is North Korea Really a 'State Sponsor of Terrorism'?

Ron Paul • November 27, 2017

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President Trump announced last week that he was returning North Korea to the US list of “state sponsors of terrorism” after having been off the list for the past nine years. Americans may wonder what dramatic event led the US president to re-designate North Korea as a terrorism-sponsoring nation. Has Pyongyang been found guilty of... Read More

Danny Sjursen: Putting the "War" in the "War on Terror"

Tom Engelhardt • November 26, 2017

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Consider the latest news from America's war zones, still spreading across the Greater Middle East and Africa. The U.S. military is now reportedly building up its troop strength (mostly Special Operations forces) in Somalia. Their number has already doubled, reaching 500, while U.S. airstrikes are increasing against al-Shabab, the well-entrenched Islamist terror outfit in that... Read More

What If?

An Alternative Strategy for 9/12/2001

Danny Sjursen • November 26, 2017

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You’ve heard the platitude that hindsight is 20/20. It’s true enough and, though I’ve been a regular skeptic about what policymakers used to call the Global War on Terror, it’s always easier to poke holes in the past than to say what you would have done. My conservative father was the first to ask me... Read More

Iraq Says It Has Infiltrated Isis's Network of 'Sleeper Cells'

Patrick Cockburn • November 17, 2017

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Violence in Iraq has fallen to its lowest level since the overthrow of Saddam Hussein in 2003, as Isis loses its base areas and its bombing attacks are thwarted by informers and double agents. A senior Iraqi security official says that intelligence about potential Isis attacks has improved to the point that government forces can... Read More

Federal Appeals Court Agrees to Accept Evidence for Dzhokhar Tsarnaev’s Innocence

Paul Craig Roberts • November 13, 2017

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On October 26 attorney John Remington Graham explained on this website why he suspects that the trial of Dzhokhar Tsarnaev, the surving brother of the alleged Boston Marathon bombing, is a case of judicial murder. He wrote: “As a last hurrah as a lawyer, I recently filed a motion in behalf of three American citizens... Read More

I Don't HATE Muslims—I'm PRUDENT About Them. There’s A Difference.

John Derbyshire • November 4, 2017

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On the campaign trail coming up to the 2012 election, Republican hopeful Herman Cain confessed to not knowing who was the president of, quote, “Ubeki-beki-beki-beki-stan-stan.” I had a soft spot for Cain, although in retrospect it was probably just solidarity with a fellow 1945 baby and math geek, and desperation at the awfulness of the... Read More

A Muslim Ban Is Logical, Moral, Even Libertarian

Ilana Mercer • November 2, 2017

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CNN’s Jake Tapper wanted to know if there was anything that could have prevented the murderous rampage, in Manhattan, by a Muslim immigrant, who had been recruited to live in America for no good reason. Once upon a time that was known as a rhetorical question. To ask the question would have been to answer... Read More

The Ever More Orwellian Definition of Terrorism

C.J. Hopkins • October 6, 2017

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In terms of twisting the English language into a ludicrous Orwellian mockery of itself in order to short circuit critical thinking, this has been a particularly good week. My favorite part so far has been the part where respectable leftists writers have been arguing that the already arbitrary application of the label “terrorist” should now... Read More

Stop Shopping Until You Drop. or, Until A Terrorist Drops You

Ilana Mercer • September 22, 2017

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"Another attack in London by a loser terrorist, "tweeted President Trump. "These are sick and demented people who were in the sights of Scotland Yard." Prime Minister Theresa May and the mad media fumed over the president's insinuation that the Parsons Green "bucket bomber" was a "Known Wolf," and not a lone wolf. But Donald... Read More

Isis Is Stepping Up Its Atrocities to Counterbalance Its Defeat

Patrick Cockburn • September 16, 2017

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Isis is the most likely inspiration for the bomb explosion on the tube train at Parsons Green station. The attempted mass killing is similar to the attacks in Barcelona, Manchester and London earlier this year in that it aimed to murder the maximum number of civilians in the most public way possible. Isis is stepping... Read More

Empire Idiots

Linh Dinh • September 9, 2017

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In Catalonia, there’s a summer drink that combines beer with lemon soda. In Barcelona, it’s called “clara.” Further South, it’s dubbed, most charmingly, a “champu,” as in Head and Shoulders. Champu is quite good at eliminating the dandruff inside your skull. It is late summer, and I’m in Cambrils, drinking my second champu in Hawaii,... Read More

Siurana, Charlottesville and Barcelona

Linh Dinh • August 21, 2017

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The Muslim conquest of Hispania began in 711 and ended in 1492. In Catalonia, they were expelled by 1154, with their last stronghold the mountainous village of Siurana, which today has but 39 residents, though with several restaurants for tourists. Walking through it, I almost felt like I was in a theme park or movie... Read More

Barcelona and Beyond

How Politicians & Policy Wonks Play God With Your Life

Ilana Mercer • August 19, 2017

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No sooner do terrorists attack, than those who monopolize the conversation revert to abstractions: "terrorism returned," "terror struck," when, of course, not terrorism, but terrorists struck Barcelona, Spain, on August 17. Terrorists did the same days later, in Newcastle, England and in Turku, Finland. The men who murdered 14 in Spain, maiming and injuring over... Read More

Times Change Out from Under Us

Paul Craig Roberts • July 13, 2017

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He had lugged the 50 lb. bag of Milorganite into the garden in order to discover, as on many prior occasions, that he had nothing with which to open it. He blamed this on the war on terror and the TSA. As a youth he, as did every boy, had a pocket knife. Always. It... Read More

Die Lügenpresse und der Lauschangriff im Mutterland

Linh Dinh • June 27, 2017

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The Western media shame Germans, stay silent on endless attacks against Muslim countries and insist on massive immigration into mostly white nations. Meanwhile, false flags are staged that are blamed on Muslims, with the aim of flaming hatred between pale, nominal Christians and darker Muslims, for this animosity distracts from the systematic economic and war... Read More

Why Can’t the UK Stop Terror Attacks?

Let’s not make the same mistake here

Philip Giraldi • June 23, 2017

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The recent series of terrorist incidents in Europe has produced the inevitable finger pointing regarding the ability of the security services to respond and has also reopened the debate over what might be done to prevent the attacks in the first place. Similar discussions have been going on in the United States for some time,... Read More

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Terror Channel Report: Moral Equivalence Is A Crock

John Derbyshire • June 23, 2017

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There’s something to report almost daily now in the war between Muslims and infidels being played out on the streets of Western cities. It’s getting to be so that any news outlet needs to just include a regular slot for these events, like the weather report. If things get any worse, some entrepreneur might start... Read More

April 8th, 2017 - Birmingham, UK: English Defence League (EDF) stages a rally.

Darren Osborne and the Finsbury Mosque Incident

A Rebellion against the Idea that Revenge Couldn’t Even Be Contemplated

Andrew Joyce • June 21, 2017

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At time of this writing, the Left and the British state are busily engaged in portraying a solitary, frustrated, drunken son of Albion as that great figure of myth — the ‘right wing extremist.’ By most accounts Darren Osborne is an everyman figure, a married father of four who enjoys his beer and the quiet... Read More

Ira Chernus: the Summer of Love and the Winter of National Insecurity

Tom Engelhardt • June 18, 2017

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If you want to know just what kind of mental space Washington’s still-growing cult of “national security” would like to take us into, consider a recent comment by retired general and Department of Homeland Security Secretary John Kelly. In late May on Fox and Friends, he claimed that “the American public would ‘never leave the... Read More

A Psychedelic Spin on “National Security”

The Summer of Surprisingly Political Love

Ira Chernus • June 18, 2017

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It’s the 50th anniversary of the Summer of Love. What better place to celebrate than that fabled era’s epicenter, San Francisco’s Golden Gate Park, where the DeYoung Museum has mounted a dazzling exhibition, chock full of rock music, light shows, posters, and fashions from the mind-bending summer of 1967? If you tour the exhibit, you... Read More

Britain Refuses to Accept How Terrorists Really Work

Patrick Cockburn • June 8, 2017

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The Conservative government largely avoided being blamed during the election campaign for its failure to stop the terrorist attacks. It appealed to British communal solidarity in defiance of those who carried out the atrocities, which was a perfectly reasonable stance, though one that conveniently enables the Conservatives to pillory any critics for dividing the nation... Read More

The Forever War?

Pat Buchanan • June 6, 2017

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On May 22, Salman Abedi, 22, waiting at the entrance of the Arianna Grande pop concert in Manchester, blew himself up, killing almost two dozen people, among them parents waiting to pick up their children. Saturday, three Islamic terrorists committed "suicide-by-cop," using a van to run down pedestrians on London Bridge, and then slashing and... Read More

Shifting the Blame for Terrorism

Paul Craig Roberts • June 5, 2017

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Brzezinski’s death is being used to shift blame for terrorism from Bush/Blair/Neocons/Israel to Brzezinski. See for example, and The main effect of these articles is to create another hate figure. The Western world, like Big Brother’s world in Orwell’s book, 1984, cannot do without hate figures. In my account of Brzezinski, I noted the important... Read More

London Attack Bears Hallmarks of Isis Trying to Show It's Still Deadly

Patrick Cockburn • June 4, 2017

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The indiscriminate slaughter of ordinary members of the public on London Bridge and in Borough Market on Saturday night is fully in keeping with the operational methods of Isis. They have yet to claim responsibility, but it is extremely likely that they were ultimately behind an attack that bears so many Isis hallmarks. The killings... Read More

Theresa May Is in Denial About Britain’s Declining Power

Patrick Cockburn • June 4, 2017

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The general election is showing the extent to which Britain has diminished in power over the last year. “L’Angleterre, ce n’est plus grand chose – England is not much anymore,” said President de Gaulle in 1963 as he vetoed Britain’s bid to join the EEC. He was premature because of Britain’s subsequent EU membership and... Read More

Kabul's Horrific Bomb Attack Reminds the World of the Afghan Conflict

Patrick Cockburn • May 31, 2017

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The explosion of a giant bomb in a sewage tanker close to the diplomatic quarter in Kabul is receiving much publicity because of the heavy loss of life and because so many foreign embassies were damaged. A BBC driver was killed and four BBC journalists were wounded by the blast. But, aside from spectacular incidents... Read More

Are We Fighting Terrorism, or Creating More Terrorism?

Ron Paul • May 28, 2017

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When we think about terrorism we most often think about the horrors of a Manchester-like attack, where a radicalized suicide bomber went into a concert hall and killed dozens of innocent civilians. It was an inexcusable act of savagery and it certainly did terrorize the population.What is less considered are attacks that leave far more... 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