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Worst Foreign Policy Disaster in American History?
Vietnam War? Iraq War? Or the Creation of Israel? Or World War I?
•�December 4, 2024
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It's often been said, during and in the aftermath of the Iraq War, that it was the single greatest foreign policy failure/fiasco in US history. Was it? Of course, given the passions surrounding the event then spiraling out of control, many agreed with the assessment(especially given the incompetence of George W. Bush), but in retrospect,... Read More
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The ICC Arrest Warrant for Netanyahu Is Also an Indictment of US Policy and Complicity
•�November 21, 2024
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Ultimately, this is the story of how the Israel lobby undermined America, wrecked the Middle East, and set a series of international crimes against humanity in motion. It’s official now. America’s closest ally, Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu, the one accorded more than 50 standing ovations in Congress just months ago, is under indictment by... Read More
Extermination Works. At First.
•�October 14, 2024
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Extermination works. At first. This is the terrible lesson of history. If Israel is not stopped — and no outside power appears willing to halt the genocide in Gaza or the destruction of Lebanon — it will achieve its goals of depopulating and annexing northern Gaza and turning southern Gaza into a charnel house where... Read More
From 11 September to 7 October: The Fake ‘War on Terror’ Collapses
•�September 13, 2024
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The events of 11 September 2001 were intended to impose and enshrine a new Exceptionalist paradigm on the young 21st century. History, though, ruled otherwise. Cast as an attack on the US Homeland, 11 September 2001, immediately generated the Global War on Terror (GWOT), launched at 11 pm on the same day. Initially christened “The... Read More
Was Osama Bin Laden Really Behind 9/11?
•�September 6, 2024
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Twenty-three years ago this month the 9/11 attacks on the World Trade Center and Pentagon shook the United States and horrified the world. Almost three thousand Americans died. The US launched attacks across the Muslim world in what the media called ‘the War on Terror.’ The repercussions of these events continue today. Washington quickly blamed... Read More
'Karbala Is the Path to al-Aqsa': An Iraq Diary
•�August 29, 2024
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BAGHDAD and KARBALA – Arriving in Baghdad today comes as an electric shock to any visitor who remembers recent, somber Iraqi history. There are virtually no checkpoints, apart from sensitive government areas. None of those ghastly cement blocks from the time of the American occupation, forcing a slow slalom every few minutes. No sense of... Read More
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"The End of Days"
•�August 24, 2024
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24 AUGUST—Orit Malka Strook serves in the Netanyahu government as minister of settlements and national missions. She has a seat in the Knesset representing the National Religious Party–Religious Zionism, a political amalgam formed last year when the Religious Zionism party merged with the Jewish Home party, which was itself a merger of three Zionist-extremist parties.... Read More
We Are the Bad Guys
•�August 12, 2024
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In Murder in Samarkand I describe how as a British Ambassador, when I discovered the full extent of our complicity in torture in the War on Terror, I thought it must be a rogue operation and all I had to do was make ministers and senior officials aware and they would stop it. When I... Read More
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There Is Something Rotten in Washington
Scott Ritter is harassed by FBI for calling for peace while Israel’s Lobby overthrows elections
•�August 8, 2024
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One thing you can say about the Administration of President Joe Biden is that nearly every week there is something new and exciting to discuss. Galloping dementia recently gifted us with Joe’s 11 minute abdication speech in which he announced that he would not be running for another term as president. He babbled about how... Read More
Predicting the Uniparty: Peter Oborne’s "The Triumph of the Political Class"
•�July 23, 2024
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Words and phrases often enter the political lexicon via the US media before crossing the Atlantic Ocean to the UK, and one such recent migrant is the “uniparty”. The Americans have been using it for some time, and the Right-of-center media in Britain are now cautiously trying it out. The idea, of course, is that... Read More
Can the US and Iraq Move Beyond Military Ties?
Prime Minister Mohammed Shia' Al Sudani is in Washington next week with both sides hoping to expand they’re economic...
•�April 12, 2024
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Twenty-one years ago, the U.S. and its allies invaded Iraq in the erroneous belief that the country possessed weapons of mass destruction and was allied with al-Qaida, the terror group responsible for the 9/11 attacks. The U.S. created an occupation authority, but failed to restore order and helped spawn the insurgency that bedeviled it by... Read More
After 20 Years, It’s Time for America to Leave Iraq
•�January 11, 2024
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On Jan. 4, 2024, the U.S. assassinated Mushtaq Jawad Kazim al-Jawari, a commander in an Iran-linked Iraqi militia. The Pentagon press release called the militia a “terrorist group” and claimed the strike was in “self-defense.” But it neglected to mention the militia was also part of the Popular Mobilization Forces (PMF), an Iraqi government body... Read More
Does Bin Laden Get the Last Laugh?
•�November 28, 2023
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Osama bin Laden may be in Hell, but he could be having the last laugh. TikTokers recently discovered Osama bin Laden’s “Letter to America” which was written in 2002 and residing online in plain sight. The letter, allegedly written by bin Laden’s #2, the late Ayman al-Zawahiri, was al-Qaeda’s justification for attacking America on 11... Read More
A Message to Donald Rumsfeld’s Ghost About My Known Knowns
•�October 9, 2023
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On February 12, 2002 at a Pentagon news conference, Secretary of Defense Donald Rumsfeld was asked by Jim Miklaszewski, the NBC Pentagon correspondent, if he had any evidence that Iraq had weapons of mass destruction and was supplying them to terrorists. Rumsfeld delivered a famous non-answer answer and said: When he was pressed by Jamie... Read More
The Priority Must be to Put Bush, Blair and Cheney Behind Bars, Before Trump
•�October 2, 2023
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There is not much to thank Dick Cheney for. But perhaps he deserves credit for one thing: illustrating how effectively our political systems can rehabilitate even the most monstrous of moral monsters. Just watch this short clip that went viral on X (formerly Twitter), in which Cheney warns against the re-election of Donald Trump. Perhaps... Read More
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Kaganism: The People Steering Us Into Another World War
•�August 10, 2023
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The Iraq war debacle, the relative (to Bush) restraint of the Obama administration, and the 2016 anti-interventionist campaign of Donald Trump may have seemingly discredited the neo-conservative movement and its personalities, but they have come roaring back. This new stage in American foreign policy could be characterized as Kaganism: neither Democrat or Republican, but rather... Read More
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The Difference Between Secrets and Lies
Can the White House even understand the difference?
•�May 9, 2023
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Recent developments in Washington relating to Ukraine and the Middle East remind me that there is a big difference between maintaining secrecy when a situation warrants it and lying over issues where there is no compelling reason to do so beyond political expediency. Having spent more than twenty years in American intelligence agencies where secrecy... Read More
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The Extreme Center: How the Neocons Went Woke
•�May 2, 2023
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No lessens, no consequences The Iraq war was spearheaded by a remarkably small group of people. It has become politically untenable to justify that overt disaster and some of the key architects of that war have, much belatedly, come to acknowledge as much. As late as 2013 Max Boot was still arguing there was No... Read More
Senate Leaves 2001 AUMF for Secret Wars In Force, Rejects Paul and Hawley Proposals
Vatican, in Same Spirit, Rescinds “Doctrine of Discovery”
•�April 3, 2023
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On March 29, the Senate voted to repeal two Authorizations for the Use of Military Force, (AUMF’s), one passed in 1991 and another in 2002. The repeal now goes to the House. But those Authorizations are irrelevant to the present; they apply only to the Iraq war. But a third AUMF, passed in 2001, was... Read More
The Best Way to Protect US Troops in Syria
•�March 27, 2023
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Last week saw a sharp increase in attacks on US troops occupying northeastern Syria, with a drone strike against a US base blamed on “pro-Iran” forces and a US counter-strike said to have killed at least 19 people. After the US retaliation, another strike by “pro-Iran” forces hit a number of US sites in Syria.... Read More
Russia: 20 Years After Iraq Invasion, No One on Earth Is Safe from Uncle Sam
•�March 22, 2023
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The US really does not seem to want to even think about how much this narrative of “US as satanic, terroristic world bully” resonates with the entire third world, most of the second, and a lot of the first. The world has become like a children’s story where the villain can’t grasp the fact that... Read More
'A Total Fiasco in All Aspects': 20 Years On, How the Illegal Invasion of Iraq Backfired on the US
In March 2003, then President George W Bush approved the military attack, with major repercussions for US politics, and...
•�March 20, 2023
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Twenty years ago, the world was shaken by one of the major geopolitical events of this century. On the morning of March 20, 2003, the US officially launched its illegal invasion of Iraq. The rationale was based on Iraqi President Saddam Hussein’s alleged ties with terrorists, and intelligence regarding the presence of weapons of mass... Read More
39% of Fatmericans Don’t Think the Iraq War Was a Bad Idea
•�March 19, 2023
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Only 61% of Americans think the Iraq War was a mistake. We’re supposed to have a universal suffrage democracy, where this large body of people – nearly 40% who do not think the Iraq War was a bad idea – has an equal say in the way the country is run as Daily Stormer readers... Read More
9/11 After 21 Years
•�September 11, 2022
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Today is the 21st anniversary of the attack on the World Trade Center in New York City. There has never been an official US investigation of the attack. After much pressure from families of those who died in the collapse of the towers, the White House finally and most reluctantly assembled a 9/11 Commission consisting... Read More
What If... al Gore Had Taken the Presidency in 2000? 9/11 and Iraq War and the Trajectory of the 21st Century
•�June 20, 2022
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Certain moments in US history were inevitabilities, like the 1984 Presidential Election when Ronald Reagan was expected to thump Walter Mondale. Certain races were very close, like Gerald Ford vs Jimmy Carter, but the result was accepted and uncontested. The 2000 election was, in contrast, marred by controversy. Al Gore won the popular vote but... Read More
Neocon Propaganda Backfires
E. Michael Jones Credits "the Cunning of Reason"
•�May 21, 2022
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Watch the latest False Flag Weekly News with E. Michael Jones - click HERE for links to the stories we covered Pro-Russia analysts Andrei Martyanov, the Saker, and others have complained about Russia losing the propaganda war. But is it really? If you consume a lot of mainstream media it sometimes looks that way. The... Read More
George W. Bush Accuses Putin of Launching a "Wholly Unjustified and Brutal Invasion of Iraq"
•�May 20, 2022
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This might well be the single funniest thing that has ever happened in all of human history. George W. Bush was giving a speech denouncing Russia and made a Freudian slip, calling out Putin for launching a “wholly unjustified and brutal invasion of Iraq.” The moronic former Moron-in-Chief slowly corrected himself: “I mean the Ukraine.... Read More
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Liberal Interventionists and Neoconservatives Dominate US Foreign Policy
And the bad outcomes are predictable
•�May 10, 2022
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Once upon a time United States foreign policy was based on actual national interests, but that was long ago and far away before the country was beguiled into a colonial war with Spain followed by a twentieth century that was chock-a-block full of any type and intensity of warfare that one might imagine, including the... Read More
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Getting Away with Murder
What’s a little torture between friends?
•�March 22, 2022
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So Russian President Vladimir Putin is a “thug and a murderous dictator.” That is the judgement of President of the United States Joe Biden, delivered directly to Putin during a phone conversation, and it is backed up by a unanimous vote in the US Senate endorsing Biden’s more recently expressed view that Putin is also... Read More
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Information Blockades – How and Why?
•�March 4, 2022
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We are all aware of the ability of the Anglo-Zionist International Cabal of Gangsters (ICG) to propagate the preferred story-line for every occasion, as with the Russia/Ukraine conflict today. Generally, they employ the power of the Western media to overwhelm the world’s publics with the accepted version of events. But how do the US and... Read More
Perhaps We Need More Uncertainty, Maybe
•�January 21, 2022
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"We know where they are," Secretary of Defense Donald Rumsfeld said in March 2003 about Iraq's weapons of mass destruction. "They're in the area around Tikrit and Baghdad and east, west, south and north somewhat." We found nothing. Rumsfeld knew nothing. A year after the invasion, most voters believed the Bush administration had lied America... Read More
Colin Powell, Moral Weakling
•�October 22, 2021
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If Colin Powell's life has meaning, it is as a cautionary tale about the perils of going along to get along. Rarely has history offered such a stark example of a human being offered a clear existential choice between right and wrong. Hardly ever has so much hung in the balance for humanity and for... Read More
Twenty Years On, We’ve Learned Nothing from 9/11
•�September 13, 2021
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Nothing upset the Washington Beltway elites more than when in a 2007 presidential debate I pointed out the truth about the 9/11 attacks: they attacked us because we’ve been in the Middle East, sanctioning and bombing the civilian population, for decades. The 9/11 attackers were not motivated to commit suicide terrorism on the Twin Towers... Read More
20 Years After 9/11 -- Are We Better Off?
•�September 10, 2021
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When the hijacked planes hit the twin towers of the World Trade Center and the Pentagon that first 9/11, the Taliban were in control of Afghanistan and providing sanctuary for al-Qaida. Today, the Taliban are in control of Afghanistan and providing sanctuary to al-Qaida. What then did our longest war accomplish? The Afghan army and... Read More
20 Years After 9-11
•�September 10, 2021
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Have we learned anything? This video is available on BitChute. Twenty years ago, at the time of the 9/11 attacks, American Renaissance was a monthly newsletter. The attacks were the cover story, with the title, “Will America Learn its Lessons?” I noted that the 19 hijackers all entered the country legally and attracted hardly any... Read More
"Breaking the Code of Silence"
Eddie Gallagher and the changing story of a death in Iraq
•�August 29, 2021
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The core explanation, as usual, went missing. The soldiers broke their code of silence, but the media kept its secrets. On Sunday, Aug 29, 2021, the CBS network on its special Sunday edition aired a gripping and tragic segment, bearing images seldom seen on US tv screens. The clip was tersely summed up in this... Read More
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The Evil That Men Do Lives After Them
How about some accountability for Afghanistan, Iraq, Libya, Syria and Yemen?
•�August 24, 2021
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If you want to know how the United States wound up with “government by stupid” one need only look no farther than some of the recent propaganda put out by members of Congress, senior military officers and a certain former president. President George W. Bush, who started the whole sequence of events that have culminated... Read More
Iraq Needs an Independent Government, Not Training
•�August 5, 2021
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Will US occupation troops really leave Iraq? That’s the question that Washington is so far unable to answer. The White House says the official date of the long goodbye is this month, August 2021. Donald Trump announced a pullout of US troops while still in office but his deadline was simply ignored by the new... Read More
Rumsfeld Was the Living Symbol of America’s Plunge Into the Quagmire
•�July 2, 2021
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“A ruthless little b******,” was President Richard Nixon’s verdict on Donald Rumsfeld as recorded by the Watergate tapes – and everything in his career, supremely successful until the Iraq war, confirmed that Nixon had read him correctly. Rumsfeld relished such tributes to his toughness, but he was above all else a skilful bureaucratic warrior in... Read More
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China Notes That the Same Journalist Pushing Wuhan Lab Hoax Pushed Iraq WMD Hoax
•�June 5, 2021
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Previously: There is Nothing Interesting in the Fauci Emails China is inching dangerously close to dangerous anti-Semitism. RT: China’s Foreign Ministry blasted the resurgent interest in the Covid-19 lab-origin theory, noting that the journalist behind a report about Wuhan scientists falling ill is the same one who peddled lies that led to the Iraq War.... Read More
Were the Wars Wise? Were They Worth It?
•�June 1, 2021
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Through the long Memorial Day weekend, anyone who read the newspapers or watched television could not miss or be unmoved by it: Story after story after story of the fallen, of those who had given the "last full measure of devotion" to their country. Heart-rending is an apt description of those stories; and searing are... Read More
The Endless War: Afghanistan Goes On and On
•�April 2, 2021
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All indications are that the Pentagon will be able to maneuver more effectively in Washington than on the battlefield. Given the present atmosphere in Washington in which there is no lie so outrageous as to keep it out of the mainstream media, a great deal of policy making takes place without even key players in... Read More
I Am a Victim of Republican Cancel Culture
•�March 26, 2021
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The debate over cancel culture centers around how the Democratic Party, "woke" activists and politically correct "social justice warriors" expel people from social acceptability or force them into joblessness because something they said or did provoked an online mob. But Republicans have been canceling people for much longer. I am living proof. My career grew... Read More
The ‘humanitarian’ Left Still Ignores the Lessons of Iraq, Libya and Syria to Cheer on More War
•�January 22, 2021
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The instinct among parts of the left to cheerlead the right’s war crimes, so long as they are dressed up as liberal “humanitarianism”, is alive and kicking, as Owen Jones reveals in a column today on the plight of the Uighurs at China’s hands. The “humanitarian war” instinct persists even after two decades of the... Read More
Fisk Was a ‘historian of the Present’ Who Illuminated the World
•�November 3, 2020
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I first met Robert in Belfast in 1972 at the height of the Troubles when he was the correspondent for The Times and I was writing a PhD on Irish history at Queen’s University. I was also taking my first tentative steps as a journalist, while he was swiftly establishing a reputation as a meticulous... Read More
'Iraq War Diaries' At Ten Years: Truth Is Treason
•�October 26, 2020
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The purpose of journalism is to uncover truth – especially uncomfortable truth – and to publish it for the benefit of society. In a free society, we must be informed of the criminal acts carried out by governments in the name of the people. Throughout history, journalists have uncovered the many ways governments lie, cheat,... Read More
Weapons of Mass Distraction
•�October 22, 2020
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The most remarkable thing about the Iraq war debacle isn't the trillions of dollars wasted or hundreds of thousands of innocent people and US servicemen killed, but the fact that all of the journalists who promoted the lie to the American people were never held to account. During the 2000s, a bipartisan cabal of overwhelmingly... Read More
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Trump Confirms U.S. Is Israel’s “Protector”
“Check out any time you like, but you can never leave”
•�September 29, 2020
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For many years the security framework in the Middle East has been described as a bilateral arrangement whereby Washington gained access to sufficient Saudi Arabian oil to keep the energy market stable while the United States provided an armed physical presence through its bases in the region and its ability to project power if anyone... Read More
Are You Feeling Safer? ‘War of the Worlds’ Pits U.S. and Israel Against Everyone Else
•�September 24, 2020
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The media being focused on an upcoming election, coronavirus, fires on the West Coast and burgeoning BLM and Antifa unrest, it is perhaps no surprise that some stories are not exactly making it through to the evening news. Last week an important vote in the United Nations General Assembly went heavily against the United States.... Read More
New Study: 37 Million People Have Been Displaced By US Military Intervention Since 2001
•�September 9, 2020
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Washington's foreign policy since September 11th, 2001 is one of the most destabilizing factors in the world, a new study by Brown University has found. A paper titled "Creating Refugees: Displacement Caused by the United States' Post 9/11 Wars" by Vine, Coffman, et al studied the impact of American forever wars in Afghanistan (2001-Present), Pakistan... Read More
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Our American Pravda •�31m ▶
The major media overlooked Communist spies and Madoff’s fraud. What are they missing today?
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The Life and Legacy of Lt. Gen. William Odom •�19m ▶
While other top brass played press agents for the administration’s war, William Odom told the truth about...
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The War on Iraq: Conceived in Israel
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The WMD Lies
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Gulf War 1991
Prefiguration and prelude to the 2003 Iraq debacle
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