A sensationalist, award-winning ‘NY Times’ podcast on Islamic Jihadism was based on a fraud
An award-winning breathless New York Times podcast about Islamic Jihadism that was downloaded millions of times in 2018 turns out to have been based on a…
Category: Iraq
U.S. is in Middle East ‘to protect Israel’ not for oil, Trump says
Donald Trump recently said the U.S. isn’t involved in the Middle East for oil, but because we “want to protect Israel.” The comments have…
Israel played ‘key role’ in pushing war against Iraq
Stephen Walt reports how numerous Israeli leaders & pro-Israel lobby groups pushed for the U.S. invasion of Iraq... 'Given all the problems that the…
From Resistance to Assistance: Little Pushback to Trump’s Iran Assassination
Corporate media like to present themselves as holding the current administration to account, in reality they offer little meaningful resistance to its foreign policy…
The Soleimani Assassination: The US is now at war with Iran
The assassination of Iranian Quds Force Commander General Qassem Soleimani will shift the long-simmering conflict between the two nations into high, dangerous gear. The…
Israel partisan Peter Berkowitz named head of State Dept Policy Planning
The new official in charge of the State Department's long-term strategic thinking is yet another neoconservative with close ties to Israel.
Israel behind Pretexts for an Attack on Iran
Ray McGovern probes the step-up in U.S. belligerence towards Iran – a country posing the same non-existent strategic threat as Iraq. Thanks to "dubious…
Clean Break II: Iran Hawks Decide to Burn it All Down
Michael Makovsky of the neocon Jewish Institute for National Security of America (JINSA) has a plan for countering Iranian influence in the Middle East:…
Oil for Israel: The Truth about the Iraq War, 15 Years Later
Oil Insider Gary Vogler writes of the Iraq War: The oil agenda I discovered and experienced was to supply Iraq oil to Israel. The…
I Helped Sell the False Choice of War Once. It’s Happening Again.
Lawrence Wilkerson, former chief of staff to Colin Powell, recalls his work to invent a case for "pre-emptive" war against Iraq. It worked like…