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Pompeo’s Diabolical Diplomacy
The following interview devoted to Pompeo’s three day visit to Israel and Occupied Palestine conducted by Eshrat Mardi, was published in the Tehran Times Interview Nov. 28, 2020.] Continue reading
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US Election: A Color Revolution ‘Comes Home to Roost’
It has been more than three weeks since election day and the incumbent US president still has yet to concede defeat. Despite the media’s distraction over the perspiration of his personal attorney during a bizarre press conference, the legal team led by former New York City Mayor Rudolph Giuliani has actually done a decent job… Continue reading
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Russia, China reinvent their moorings in Central Asia
The United States, which was de facto assuming the historical role of Great Britain in the 19th century Great Game in Central Asia, was inclined to take a relaxed view of China’s return to the region in the first decade of the post-Soviet period. China’s rise had not yet become a compelling geopolitical reality in… Continue reading
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FBI and DOJ prepared takedown of ‘Iranian’ American Herald Tribune website with years of legal chicanery
The new powers claimed by the FBI to seize “Iranian” outlets could have serious implications for the basic American freedom to publish and access news and opinion. Continue reading
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Biden’s “normalcy” means return of “ancien régime”
There has been a spate of reports in the American media that the US president-elect Joe Biden is assembling his cabinet of ministers. Most reports mention that Biden’s secretary of state will be Susan Rice, former US ambassador to the United Nations and National Security Advisor in the Barack Obama administration. Reportedly, Biden’s choice for… Continue reading
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US – UK Intel Agencies Declare Cyber War on Independent Media
British and American state intelligence agencies are “weaponizing truth” to quash vaccine hesitancy as both nations prepare for mass inoculations, in a recently announced “cyber war” to be commanded by AI-powered arbiters of truth against information sources that challenge official narratives. Continue reading
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Deep State Member Admits Sabotage Of Trump’s Policies
That the Pentagon, the State Department and the various secret services were and are lying to Trump is not new. That one of their guys now openly admits this is refreshing. Continue reading
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America 2020: First Comes a Rolling Civil War…
The massive psyops is ongoing. Everyone familiar with the Transition Integrity Project (TIP) knew how this would imperatively play out. I chose to frame it as a think tank gaming exercise in my Banana Follies column. This is a live exercise. Yet no one knows exactly how it will end. Continue reading
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QAnon Legal Battle Against YouTube Could Transform Free Speech Online
A lawsuit brought against YouTube and parent company Google by 15 QAnon social media stars could end up in the Supreme Court and transform the meaning of online free speech in America. Continue reading
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Joe Biden’s Victory is Still a Loss for Humanity
The Biden-Harris administration is good news for corporations, cops, war profiteers and banks too big to fail, but offers nothing to save the people and planet from multiple rises. Continue reading
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What now for the US-UK trade deal?
Over the last 4 years we’ve taken the secretive US-UK trade talks and built a movement of opposition. This movement has seen campaign actions by farmers and foodies, doctors and nurses, climate campaigners and activists working to protect our rights online. Continue reading
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Who Collects Biological Samples from Different Ethnic Groups, and for What Purposes?
Recently, US National Security Adviser Robert O’Brien tried to formally accuse China of allegedly collecting genetic data from foreigners to serve its own interests. At the same time, he stressed that having genetic data creates an advantage for China, and allows it to influence “certain groups and certain countries”. Continue reading
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How Could 70 Million Still Have Voted for Trump?
Media pundits and others have been deeply perplexed as to why so many Americans in this election–70 million in fact– nonetheless voted for Trump. Continue reading
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Interpreting the U.S. Election Results: Preliminary Observations
The victory by the Biden/Harris ticket in the 2020 American National Elections are basically good news for the country and the world, although not as good as expected (by pollsters or enthusiasts) or nearly as decisive as desirable given the dreadfully regressive behavior of Trump and the Republican Party over the past four years. And… Continue reading
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Bidengate: Hunter Biden’s Story Could Help Hillary Clinton To Become Vice President
On October 15 the New York Post published a story on Hunter Biden based on data from a laptop Joe Biden’s son had left with a repair shop. The Biden family has not disputed that the laptop or the data on it is genuine. Next to the porn on the laptop there were thousand of… Continue reading
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Why Are These Anti-Russian And Anti-Chinese Narratives So Similar?
After more than four years of Russiagate we finally learn (paywalled original) where the Steele dossier allegations about nefarious relations between Trump and Russia came from: Continue reading
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Biden Will NOT Be Soft On China; He’ll Continue Trump’s Aggressions
Hunter Biden’s former business associate Tony Bobulinski has given a lengthy interviewon Fox News’ Tucker Carlson Tonight, testifying about corrupt international business practices within the Biden family involving China and other countries, and allegedly involving Joe Biden himself while he was vice president. Continue reading
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Death, Money, and the Dueling Frauds: Trump and Biden
When The New York Times and CNN recently referred to the staged town hall spectacles of Biden and Trump as dueling events, they inadvertently revealed the truth that U.S. presidential elections are America’s favorite movie and that the corporate media is in the entertainment business. Continue reading
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With the Hunter Biden Exposé, Suppression is a Bigger Scandal Than The Actual Story
The incredible decision by Twitter and Facebook to block access to a New York Post story about a cache of emails reportedly belonging to Democratic nominee Joe Biden’s son Hunter, with Twitter going so far as to lock the 200 year-old newspaper out of its own account for over a week, continues to be a major underreported scandal. Continue reading
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Chris Hedges: The Politics of Cultural Despair
It is despair that is killing us, eating into the social fabric, rupturing social bonds, and manifesting in self-destructive pathologies. Continue reading