The National Director Emeritus for the Anti-Defamation League has announced on Twitter that he is cancelling his subscription to The New York Times, claiming that a front-page story featuring the photos of children killed in Israel’s assault on Gaza this month constitutes “blood libel” against Jews. “I am cancelling my subscription to NYTimes,” tweeted Abraham Foxman. …
Read More »Caitlin Johnstone: We’re told US’ only option is to escalate aggression against Russia & China. It’s a LIE, detente IS possible
On a recent 60 Minutes interview with Norah O’Donnell which focused on the Biden administration’s China policy, US Secretary of State Tony Blinken talked about the United States as a defender of the rules-based international order and about the importance of bringing Beijing into compliance with it. “Our purpose is not to contain …
Read More »Caitlin Johnstone: Biden lied about Yemen
We are being lied to about yet another US war by yet another US president. “The United States continues to provide maintenance support to Saudi Arabia’s Air Force given the critical role it plays in Saudi air defense and our longstanding security partnership,” Pentagon spokesperson Jessica McNulty informed Vox reporter Alex …
Read More »Caitlin Johnstone: The rising threat of nuclear war is the most urgent matter in the world
US Strategic Command, the branch of the US military responsible for America’s nuclear arsenal, tweeted the following on Tuesday: “The spectrum of conflict today is neither linear nor predictable. We must account for the possibility of conflict leading to conditions which could very rapidly drive an adversary to consider nuclear …
Read More »Caitlin Johnstone: Meditations on US forces firing a howitzer into the empty desert ‘just to say we’re here’
“In Syria, McKenzie visited the Green Village, a community of decrepit apartment blocks near a bombed-out oil facility that served as the operational headquarters for the final push to erase the caliphate, in 2019. These days, the only military action there is from US forces firing a 155-millimetre howitzer twice …
Read More »Caitlin Johnstone: Everything the West claims it values is invalidated by its treatment of Assange
Truth. Justice. Freedom. Democracy. We are taught from an early age that these are the sacred values our society upholds with the utmost reverence, and that we are very fortunate to have been born in a part of the world which holds such virtue. You see this haughty self-righteousness pop …
Read More »Caitlin Johnstone: The entire world should be laughing at America for pretending to care about Muslims in China
The current representative of the US empire finally held his first full press conference yesterday, an embarrassing and undignified affair which saw a gaggle of obsequious imperial stenographers gather round to make believe that important policy decisions about the operation of the most powerful government in the world are actually …
Read More »Caitlin Johnstone: 18 years on, no changes were made to ensure that evils of Iraq invasion won’t repeat
The reason it’s so important to stay enraged about Iraq is because it’s never been addressed or rectified in any real way whatsoever. All the corrupt mechanisms which led to the invasion are still in place and its consequences remain. It isn’t something that happened in the past. The Iraq invasion feels kind of like …
Read More »Caitlin Johnstone: All the governments we hate interfered in our election, says US intelligence cartel
Ahem. Yeah, so, that’s the news. According to the US intelligence cartel, the nations which sought to interfere in the outcome of the US election include Russia, Iran, China, Lebanese Hizballah, Cuba and Venezuela. Interestingly, exactly zero nations aligned geopolitically with the United States are listed as having interfered in its …
Read More »Caitlin Johnstone: There’s only one news story, repeating over and over again
Sometimes you see a three-legged pony up there, sometimes a gargoyle, sometimes a laughing baby, but really you’re only ever watching tiny water droplets being moved around by atmospheric winds. They can take on any number of different shapes, but no matter how long you lay there staring up at …
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