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The US-Israeli Regime Change Operation in Iran
While Israel fuels violent protests in Iran, the US is citing the Iranian government’s deadly crackdown as a pretext for a military attack aimed at regime change.
The Health Ranger’s Denouncement of MAHA’s Alliance with Zionism
Health freedom advocates are faced with a choice this election of whether they believe that all children’s lives matter, or not.
Interview: Anti-Zionism Is Not Anti-Semitism
I responded to arguments from a Zionist in this interview on the causes of the Israel-Palestine conflict.
New York Times Persists in Russia Election Hacking Conspiracy Theory
The New York Times persists in propagating the unevidenced conspiracy theory that the Russian government hacked into US election infrastructure in 2016.
New York Times Propagates Russia Hacking Conspiracy Theory
The New York Times reports as fact that Russia hacked the 2016 US presidential election despite failing to present any evidence to support this claim.
Who Has Strengthened ISIS in Syria?
Iraq war architect Paul Wolfowitz charges Assad with deliberately supporting ISIS in Syria, but his argument is even more applicable to the US.
John McCain on Syria: Do more of what caused the problem!
John McCain's solution to the tragedy in Syria is to continue doing the same things that caused the rise of ISIS in the first place.
Film Review: Cries from Syria
The HBO documentary film Cries from Syria doesn’t tell the whole story about the so-called “Civil War” there, but it does highlight the most critical part.
The Obama Administration’s ‘Assertive Diplomacy’
John Kerry hails the Obama administration's "assertive diplomacy" as though the US's policies under his two terms wasn't the opposite of diplomacy.
Hillary Clinton: I Advocate Willfully Killing a Lot of Syrian Civilians
Hillary Clinton knows a no-fly zone in Syria would necessitate killing a lot of Syrian civilians, but she advocates one anyway.
Bombing Libya Won’t Solve the Problem, It Is the Problem
Press TV asks me about US airstrikes in Libya, and I point out that doing more of what caused the rise of ISIS in the first place won't solve the problem.
Fact Checking the WaPo’s ‘Fact Checker’ on the DIA ISIS Memo
The Washington Post's "Fact Checker" Glenn Kessler responds to Donald Trump's remarks about how ISIS came to be. How does his own version hold up?
Iranian ‘Human Rights’ NGO Censors Criticism of Iran’s Rights Violations
The Habilian Association, and Iranian self-described "Human Rights NGO", censors criticisms of the Iranian regime's rights violations for its audience.
How the CIA Helped Fuel the Rise of ISIS
The New York Times tosses previously reported facts down the memory hole, whitewashing the US's role in Syria leading ultimately to the rise of ISIS.
On the Paris Attacks and American Ignorance
The terrorist attacks in Paris, France, have served to manufacture even further consent for the US's disastrous policy in Syria.
The Fictional MSM Narrative of Obama’s ‘Reluctance’ to Intervene in Syria
Reuters presents the standard fictional narrative that the Obama administration has been reluctant to intervene in Syria.
Goal of US Syria Policy Remains to Prolong the Violence
The goal of the Obama administration's policy towards Syria remains to prolong the violence.
NYT Whitewashes US Support for Syrian Armed Rebels (Again)
The New York Times, in keeping with its standard propaganda narrative, once again whitewashes the US support for Syrian armed rebels in a recent editorial.
The Danger of Invoking the ‘Responsibility to Protect’ in Syria
Danny Postel and Nader Hashemi argue in a New York Times op-ed that the international community should invoke the "Responsibility to Protect" principle to intervene in Syria but unwittingly illustrate why this is a dangerous doctrine.
Blaming US ‘Disengagement’ in the Middle East for Consequences of US Engagement
Roger Cohen argues in a recent New York Times column that U.S. "disengagement" has been disastrous for Egypt even while citing facts illustrating that precisely the opposite is true.
Who Launched the Aug. 21 Chemical Weapons Attack in Syria?
The New York Times admits that its earlier claim that Assad was responsible for the Aug. 21 chemical weapons attack in Syria was baseless.
Did the Syrian Islamic Front Capture US Arms?
Last week, the New York Times reported that the U.S. was temporarily suspending "nonlethal" aid to the rebels after the Syrian Islamic Front coalition of jihadist groups raided warehouses where U.S.-supplied materials intended for the Free Syrian Army (FSA) were being stored. But the London-based Asharq Al-Awsat provides a different story...
The Obama Administration’s Manufactured Pretext to Bomb Syria
The great Seymour M. Hersh has an article in the London Review of Books about the Obama administrations efforts to manufacture a pretext to bomb Syria by blaming the Augst 21 chemical weapons attack in Damascus on the Bashar al-Assad regime despite knowing that rebel forces were capable of producing the nerve agent.
US ‘Diplomacy’ in International Relations: Understanding Newspeak
The U.S. mainstream media has a rather strange understanding of what "diplomacy" in international relations means. Under the headline "Obama Signals a Shift From Military Might to Diplomacy", Mark Landler in the New York Times offers two problematic examples that are somehow supposed to support this thesis: Iran and Syria.
NYT Continues to Downplay How CIA-Funneled Arms to Syrian Rebels Helped Strengthen Jihadists
As usual, the New York Times is spinning information to willfully obfuscate the role of the U.S. in arming Syrian rebels whose ranks include al-Qaeda-affiliated and other Islamic extremist groups, with most of the arms falling into the hands of the jihadists.
Syrian Chemical Weapons Facilities Under Rebel Control
One of the U.S. government's main arguments for why we are supposed to have concluded that Syrian government forces were responsible for the August chemical weapons attack in Damascus is that the rebels being armed by the U.S. whose ranks include al-Qaeda...
The Fictional Zionist Narrative of the 1973 Arab-Israeli War
Yesterday, October 7, marked 40 years since the beginning of the 1973 Arab-Israeli war, so naturally the mainstream media has been unashamedly busy propagating the fictional Zionist narrative.
Americans Mustn’t Be Naive About U.S. Policy Towards Iran
What Americans mustn't be naive about is their own government and the false pretexts it uses to manufacture consent for its policies.
Syria: Could Rebel Forces Have Fired CW Rockets from Mt. Qasioun?
U.N. investigators were able to determine from what trajectory the CW rockets were fired, and the azimuths could be traced back to the direction of Qasioun Mountain, where Syrian military bases are located.
About the Author
I am an independent researcher, journalist, and author dedicated to exposing mainstream propaganda that serves to manufacture consent for criminal government policies.
I write about critically important issues including US foreign policy, economic policy, and so-called "public health" policies.
My books include Obstacle to Peace: The US Role in the Israeli-Palestinian Conflict, Ron Paul vs. Paul Krugman: Austrian vs. Keynesian Economics in the Financial Crisis, and The War on Informed Consent.
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