The mad chase for Russia-gate prey
By Daniel Lazare, Consortium News, June 30, 2017 As the Russia-gate imbroglio proves, a grave danger in journalism comes when the pack is running headlong in pursuit of the same prey and casts [...]
Trump courts war risks with Iran
By Paul R. Pillar, published on Consortium News, June 30, 2017 Pushed by Israel and Saudi Arabia, President Trump is edging toward war with Iran, possibly beginning with “mission creep” in Syria, [...]
U.S. sanctions Chinese bank, plans to sell $1.4bn worth of arms to Taiwan
RT.com, June 30, 2017 The Trump administration plans to sell Taiwan just over $1.4 billion in weapons, while China’s ambassador to the U.S. has reportedly said the deal goes against the [...]
New York Times forced to retract longstanding lie about Russian hacking
By Caitlin Johnstone, published on Medium.com, June 29, 2017 (see original posting for video and social media links) “Seventeen intelligence agencies” — if you’ve been following the maniacal [...]
Syrian Foreign Ministry: U.S. chemical attack claim aims at justifying new aggression on Syria
Report by Syrian Arab News Agency (SANA), Thursday, June 29, 2017 DAMASCUS – The misleading campaign launched by the United States over the past few days alleging that Syria intends to [...]
Russiagate is bullshit, and we f****** told you so
By Caitlin Johnstone, published on Medium.com, June 28, 2017 I’ve been saying for months that we will never, ever see any proof that Trump colluded with the Russian government to steal the 2016 [...]
It’s official: Any future gas attacks in Syria are definite false flags
By Caitlin Johnstone, published on Medium.com, June 27, 2017 The Trump administration has issued statements which confirm beyond a doubt that if there are any chemical weapons attacks on [...]
Two days after Seymour Hersh’s revelations of phony ‘chemical weapons’ accusation against Syria in April 2017, White House issues another ‘chemical weapons’ accusation
New Cold War.org, June 27, 2017 (updated on June 30) Two days ago, Germany’s conservative Die Welt newspaper published a story (in English) by renowned U.S. journalist Seymour Hersh that [...]
Seymour Hersh’s new Syria revelations buried from view
By Jonathan Cook, published on his website blog, June 26, 2017 ‘Hersh’s new investigation was paid for by the London Review of Books, which declined to publish it. This is almost as [...]
Seymour Hersh questions intel behind Trump’s April 7 missile attack against Syria
By Ray McGovern, Consortium News, June 25, 2017 The mainstream media is so hostile to challenges to its groupthinks that famed journalist Seymour Hersh had to take to Germany his take-down of [...]
