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Archives for December 2024

A Saudi Atheist and a Web of Lies: The Distortion of the Magdeburg Attack

False claims and Islamophobic rhetoric turned a tragic event into a propaganda tool for pro-Israel influencers.

Robert Inlakesh
By Robert Inlakesh
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In a calculated effort to stoke anti-Muslim hysteria, pro-Israeli right-wing social media accounts distorted the facts surrounding a tragic car-ramming attack on a German Christmas parade. This manipulation aligns with a broader trend of reviving post-9/11 Islamophobia to advance imperialist war narratives that ultimately benefit Israel. When

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Suitcases of Qatari Cash: Unpacking Israel’s Role in ‘Funding Hamas’

Robert Inlalkesh takes a deep dive into Israel’s role in facilitating aid to Gaza and whether it served to bolster Hamas’s power.

Robert Inlakesh
By Robert Inlakesh
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You might have heard that Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu has been propping up Hamas in Gaza… but is there more to the story? Some argue that Netanyahu has an 'alliance' or at least an interdependency with Hamas to serve his own goals, but is that really true? In the first two parts of this series, we explored whether Israel helped

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Black Money, Black Flags: How USAID Paved the Way for Syria’s Militant Takeover

New evidence reveals how U.S.-backed NGOs provided funds and legitimacy to a terrorist-led administration in Syria. Was this negligence—or deliberate policy?

Alexander Rubinstein
By Alexander Rubinstein
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As the designated terrorist group Hayat Tahrir al-Sham (HTS) establishes its proto-government in Idlib, notoriously corrupt NGOs are stepping in to fill the gaps in public services, with some even defecting to work alongside the group. The United States, which spent two decades and $5.4 trillion overthrowing governments hostile to al-Qaeda, now

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Chris Hedges: How Fascism Came

Hedges unravels the toxic brew of deindustrialization, corporate greed, and authoritarian religion fueling America’s descent into fascism.

Chris Hedges
By Chris Hedges
Inside Out – by Mr. Fish

Washington DC — (Scheerpost) — For over two decades, I and a handful of others — Sheldon Wolin, Noam Chomsky, Chalmers Johnson, Barbara Ehrenreich and Ralph Nader — warned that the expanding social inequality and steady erosion of our democratic institutions, including the media, the Congress, organized labor, academia and the courts, would

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Worthy Victims: Why the New York Times Deleted Israeli Fan Rampage Video

The New York Times deleted a video of violence in Amsterdam it published, once it realized that the perpetrators were Israelis, and not an anti-Semitic mob. Why did they do this, rather than inform viewers of what really happened?

Alan Macleod
By Alan Macleod
Alan Macleod Explainer - Worthy and Unworthy Victims

The New York Times deleted a video of violence in Amsterdam it published once it realized that the perpetrators were Israelis and not an anti-Semitic mob. The Times had falsely claimed that the video showed Israeli football fans being attacked while in the Netherlands to support their team. What the video actually showed was a group of Israelis

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Staged Again? CNN’s Syrian Prisoner Story Adds to Its History of Fabrications

A fact-check exposes the latest in a series of misleading CNN reports, revealing how the netwrok’s dramatic inaccuracies repeatedly align with US government narratives.

Robert Inlakesh
By Robert Inlakesh
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A CNN report claiming to show one of its journalists freeing a Syrian detainee from a secret prison has been debunked as false. Far from an isolated incident, this report aligns with a broader pattern of fabricated news stories crafted to serve as cinematic propaganda in support of regime change. On December 12, CNN correspondent Clarissa Ward

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