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The US Keeps Bombing People While Saying It Doesn’t Want To Fight

The US Keeps Bombing People While Saying It Doesn’t Want To Fight

by | Feb 12, 2024 |

One of the weirdest things happening in the world today is the way US officials keep insisting that they are not at war with the groups they’re dropping bombs on in the Middle East, and that they do not seek conflict with the people they are attacking. Shortly after another massive round of attacks on Houthi targets in Yemen, Pentagon Press Secretary Pat Ryder told reporters on Monday that the US is not at war with the group. “We don’t seek an escalation with the Houthis. We’re not at war with the Houthis. We’re not seeking to go to war with the Houthis,” Ryder said. The day before, National...

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The Power-Serving Lie That Anti-War Protests Have No Impact

The Power-Serving Lie That Anti-War Protests Have No Impact

by | Feb 21, 2023 |

Thousands of people from across the political spectrum gathered at the Lincoln Memorial in Washington, DC to protest US militarism, proxy warfare and nuclear brinkmanship in Ukraine on Sunday. I’ve been seeing some people try to downplay the numbers on social media, but footage from the Rage Against the War Machine rally makes it clear that attendance was in the thousands; people who were there place the number at around three thousand. This is significantly better attendance than any other American anti-war demonstration in recent years that I’m aware of. It’s nowhere remotely close to the...

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Neocons, “America First” Republicans Back Pelosi’s Taiwan Brinkmanship

Neocons, “America First” Republicans Back Pelosi’s Taiwan Brinkmanship

by | Jul 27, 2022 |

Octogenarian House Speaker Nancy Pelosi has decided to spend her final years on this mortal coil trying to start World War Three, pushing the Biden administration to designate Russia an official “state sponsor of terrorism” and planning a freakishly incendiary trip to Taiwan just in the last few days. Beijing has made it clear that the first visit to Taiwan by a major US official in decades would be seen as an aggressive escalation and an egregious transgression of Washington’s official one-China policy. “The U.S. side is wrong to believe that it can continue to flagrantly disregard the...

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How You Can Be Certain That The US Charge Against Assange Is Fraudulent

How You Can Be Certain That The US Charge Against Assange Is Fraudulent

by | Apr 14, 2019 | ,

Julian Assange sits in a jail cell today after being betrayed by the Ecuadorian government and his home country of Australia. A British judge named Michael Snow has found the WikiLeaks founder guilty of violating bail conditions, inserting himself into the annals of history by labeling Assange “a narcissist who cannot get beyond his own selfish interest.” So that tells you how much of a fair and impartial legal proceeding we can expect to see from the British judicial process on this matter. But the real reason that Assange has been surrendered by the Ecuadorian government, imprisoned by the...

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Caitlin Johnstone

Caitlin Johnstone is an independent, antiwar blogger and author who covers foreign policy issues on her reader supported site. Her work can be found at CaitlinJonhstone.com



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Israel Winner of the 2003 Iraq Oil War

Israel Winner of the 2003 Iraq Oil War

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From the Foreword by Lawrence B. Wilkerson: “[T]he debate over whether oil was a principal reason for the 2003 invasion has waxed and waned, with one camp arguing that it absolutely was, while the other argues the precise opposite.” “Mr. Vogler, himself a former...

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