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Archives for September 2023

Seymour Hersh: A Year of Lying About Nord Stream

The Biden administration has acknowledged neither its responsibility for the pipeline bombing nor the purpose of the sabotage.

Seymour Hersh
By Seymour Hersh
Nord Stream 2 Feature photo

Seymour Hersh / Substack — I do not know much about covert CIA operations—no outsider can—but I do understand that the essential component of all successful missions is total deniability. The American men and women who moved, under cover, in and out of Norway in the months it took to plan and carry out the destruction of three of the four Nord

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The Real Reasons the Derna Dam in Libya Broke

More than 11,000 people have been confirmed dead in the devastating floods in the Libyan city of Derna. Yet mainstream media outlets would have you believe the destruction that has drawn worldwide headlines is due to climate change.

Mnar Adley
By Mnar Adley
Derna Dam Feature photo

More than 11,000 people have been confirmed dead in the devastating floods in the Libyan city of Derna. But corporate mainstream media outlets like the BBC, the New York Times, CNN and others would have you believe the destruction that has drawn worldwide headlines is due to climate change. But here’s how this deadly disaster has everything

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Tel Aviv’s Losing Brands: The Israeli ‘Coup’ and the Death of False Democracy

The task of marketing Israel as “the only democracy in the Middle East” is no longer an easy sell.  With the ‘democracy’ pillar crumbling, the ‘stability’ pillar is falling apart, as well. And without stability, investors simply run away. 

Ramzy Baroud
By Ramzy Baroud
Bibi copyright Feature photo

From its very onset, Israel has constructed a brand for itself, a powerful gimmick that was predicated on two main pillars: democracy and stability. The main target audience for this brand has been powerful Western states that wielded disproportionate political, economic and military powers. These Western governments, along with their

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Chris Hedges: Humanitarian Imperialism Created the Libyan Nightmare

NATO’s military intervention in Libya in 2011, which overthrew the regime of Muammar Gaddafi, resulted in a chaotic and murderous failed state. Libyans pay a horrific price for this catastrophe.

Chris Hedges
By Chris Hedges
Hedges Libya Feature photo

Washington DC — (Scheerpost) — “We came, we saw, he died,” Hillary Clinton famously quipped when Muammar Gaddafi, after seven months of U.S. and NATO bombing, was overthrown in 2011 and killed by a mob who sodomized him with a bayonet. But Gaddafi would not be the only one to die.  Libya, once the most prosperous and one of the most stable

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Israel’s License to Kill: Unraveling the Sabra and Shatila Massacre

Miko Peled, who was serving in the Israeli military at the time, examines the events leading up to the infamous Sabra and Shatila massacre and questions why the world turned a blind eye to the signs of impending tragedy.

Miko Peled
By Miko Peled
Sabra and Shatila

The Sabra and Shatila massacre was no accident. Nor should it have come as a surprise to anyone. It had to have been well planned in advance and demanded a great deal of cooperation between the forces involved. The logistics had to have been worked out first. Closure of the camps, providing supplies and ammunition for the murderers, plans where

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What the Media Is Not Telling Us About West Africa

Little attention has been paid to the possibility that perhaps African countries are fed up with the old apparatus, that of Western-supported wealthy and violent dictators – and supposed ‘democrats’ – who squander their country’s wealth to remain in power.

Ramzy Baroud
By Ramzy Baroud
Africa Coups Feature photo

What if the "epidemic of coups" in West and Central Africa is not that at all but a direct outcome of outright revolutionary movements, similar to the anti-colonial movements that liberated most African nations from the yoke of Western colonialism throughout the 20th century? Whether this is the case or not, we are unlikely to find out anytime

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