Day: August 18, 2018

Is the Saudi War on Yemen a Proxy War by the US? Selected Articles

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15 August 2018 — Global Research News

US Provided “Intelligence” and Bomb Used in Massacre of Yemeni Schoolchildren

By Whitney Webb, August 15, 2018

The involvement of U.S. military intelligence in “fine-tuning” the targets of coalition airstrikes is likely the main factor explaining why the U.S. government has refused to condemn the strike and has refused to support an independent investigation into the atrocity.
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The Anti-Empire Report #159 By William Blum – Published August 17th, 2018

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18 August 2018 — Anti-Empire Report

The mind of the mass media: Email exchange between myself and a leading Washington Post foreign policy reporter:

July 18, 2018

Dear Mr. Birnbaum,

You write Trump “made no mention of Russia’s adventures in Ukraine”. Well, neither he nor Putin nor you made any mention of America’s adventures in the Ukraine, which resulted in the overthrow of the Ukrainian government in 2014, which led to the justified Russian adventure. Therefore …?

If Russia overthrew the Mexican government would you blame the US for taking some action in Mexico?

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Black Agenda Report 17 August 2018: Black Male Youth Feel Threatened; Opposing Warmongering is Defending US Workers; US Wages Economic War Against Venezuela

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17 August 2018 — Black Agenda Report

New Study Reveals Old Fact: Black Male Youth Feel Threatened

– Glen Ford , BAR executive editor
Every study that measures the enhanced anxiety of Black tweens that find themselves on a strange corner, is an indictment of the white men at the top of the capitalist pyramid.

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