Lee Camp: We Are Being Lied Into War Again

This is not the first time our government and our media have conspired to drag the American people into war with another country—or helped create a coup that will inevitably have disastrous results.

Lee Camp
By Lee Camp
Venezuela Hugo Chavez Death Anniversary

I was 23 when we invaded Iraq, and I wasn’t sure it was based on lies, but something deep down in me—just behind the spleen—told me it was based on lies. Kinda like if your blind date shows up and you notice he has a 2004 flip phone. It seems vaguely worrisome, and no explanation he can haltingly supply will put you at ease. Plus, anyone else who

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Britain’s Unreported Bombing of Iraq and Syria

Though largely unreported, Britain has launched 244 drone and airstrikes in Iraq and Syria during 2018, firing 512 munitions.

TruePublica
By TruePublica
syria casualties

Back in 2016, The Guardian published a piece about The Chilcott Report and how Britain should be more careful over civilian deaths in the battlegrounds of the Mid-East. “Future British governments must make a greater effort to assess the number of civilians being killed and injured during their military operations, the Chilcot report says, after

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Maduro Invokes Vietnam And Iraq Wars In Open Letter to the American People

“They want to invade and intervene in Venezuela – they say, as they said then – in the name of democracy and freedom. But it’s not like that.” – Nicholas Maduro

ZeroHedge.com
By ZeroHedge.com
Venezuela | Nicolas Maduro

Venezuelan President Nicolas Maduro has penned an open letter to the people of the United States, warning that Washington is "willing to send their sons and daughters to die in an absurd war," and that Venezuelan patriots "shall defend our homeland with all the pieces of our soul." Maduro posted an image of the letter to Twitter, which he said

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Trump To Move US Troops from Syria to Iraq to “Watch” Iran, “Protect Israel”

“We have to protect Israel. We have to protect other things that we have.” — U.S. President Donald J. Trump

Alexander Rubinstein
By Alexander Rubinstein
Donald Trump | Iraq

WASHINGTON -- In a pre-Super Bowl interview on Sunday, President Donald Trump discussed his plan for a troop withdrawal from Syria, which, as it turns out, doesn’t involve many troops vacating the Middle East. Instead, Trump said the troops would mostly be “going to our base in Iraq.” CBS’s Margaret Brennan held a wide-ranging interview with

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Lindsey Graham Prophesies ‘Iraq on Steroids’ Syria Scenario. Israel Obliges with Attack on Damascus

Graham apparently fails to appreciate the fact, or is not paid enough to admit it, that had Washington never launched an unprovoked attack against Saddam Hussein in 2003 there would never be an Islamic State in Syria today.

Robert Bridge
By Robert Bridge
Lindsey Graham | Syria

The Republican Senator from South Carolina uttered his remarks following a series of curiously timed developments in Syria, including a terror attack in the northern city of Manbij that reportedly left four Americans dead, and ongoing Israeli attacks on Syrian territory. Graham, an outspoken critic of Donald Trump’s plan to withdraw some 2,000

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Mike Pompeo Touts US Goodness and Threatens More of It

Pompeo’s speech seems to have been a not-so-subtle means of putting the entire Mideast region and world on notice that the U.S. is poised to initiate a new era of military intervention in the Middle East in order to “liberate” nations that continue to resist U.S. influence and regional hegemony.

Whitney Webb
By Whitney Webb
Mike Pompeo | Middle East

CAIRO -- During a speech given Thursday at Cairo’s American University, U.S. Secretary of State Mike Pompeo delivered remarks that some analysts have likened to a mix of evangelism and historical revisionism regarding the U.S.’ historical role in Middle Eastern and Northern African affairs. Pompeo began his speech by stating: It’s the truth,

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