G H ELIASON—As journalist Robert Parry wrote in October 2016, the propaganda campaign in favor of military confrontation with Russia was driven by “a consensus among the major think tanks of Official Washington, where there is near universal support for Hillary Clinton, not because they all particularly like her, but because she has signaled a return to neocon/liberal-hawk strategies.”
January 28, 2018
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Denying the Obvious: Leftists and Crimestop
19 minutes readED CURTIN—That this is the approach of the mainstream corporate media (MSM) should not be surprising, for they are mouthpieces for official government lies. But when the same position is taken by so many liberal and progressive intellectuals and publications who are otherwise severely critical of the MSM for their propaganda in the service of empire, it gives pause.
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Iran – New Unjust Accusations by Washington
14 minutes readPETER KOENIG—Most sanctions on Iran were lifted at the start of 2016 under the nuclear deal, which is enshrined in a U.N. Security Council resolution. The resolution still subjects Tehran to a U.N. arms embargo and other restrictions that are technically not part of the nuclear deal.
Haley has said the Security Council could strengthen the provisions in that resolution or adopt a new resolution banning Iran from all activities related to ballistic missiles. To pass, a resolution needs nine votes in favor, and no vetoes by the United States, Britain, France, China or Russia.
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While affluent American “feminists” continue to make noise and posture as defenders of human rights and especially women’s rights, they care nothing about the realities of women in the Middle East and remain willfully ignorant of the huge quality of life differences between Saudi Arabia and Iran.
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STEPHEN LENDMAN—Why to hear a serial liar, an unindicted war criminal, a supporter of Big Brother spying, a Russophobe and Islamophobe, responsible for US high crimes and other human rights abuses on his watch, a servant of Wall Street and other corporate predators, a major media darling – complicit in his criminality by suppressing it.