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Thomas C. Mountain
Free Speech or Terror TV? Al Jazeera’s Support for ISIS and Al Qaida
25 Jul 2017
by Thomas C. Mountain People calling themselves “progressives” defend Al Jazeera as a beacon of “freedom of speech” in the Middle East, ignoring its service as a mouthpiece for the genocidal aims of Al Qaida. Untold numbers of Africans were lynched as rapists based on the lies spread by Al Jazeera…
Intel Vets Challenge “Russia Hack” Evidence
25 Jul 2017
by Veteran Intelligence Professionals for Sanity (VIPS) A group of former U.S. intelligence officers have informed President Trump that the “purported ‘hack’ of the DNC by Guccifer 2.0 was not a hack by Russia or anyone else, but was rather a copy of DNC data onto an external storage device.”…
by BAR contributor Ann Garrison Ann Garrison
Will the CIA Obey a Trump Order to Stop Funding Terrorists? An Interview with Rick Sterling
26 Jul 2017
by BAR contributor Ann Garrison President Trump seems so afraid of the War Party, he almost whispered his recent cancellation of CIA sponsorship of jihadist fighters in Syria. Whatever Trump’s intentions, progressives should support Tulsi Gabbard’s ‘Stop Arming Terrorists’ bill. The corporate media…
by BAR contributor Danny Haiphong
The Unraveling of the US State
26 Jul 2017
by BAR contributor Danny Haiphong Born in genocide and slavery, the U.S. state “can neither reform itself out of economic crisis without attacking the poor, nor manage the exploitation of the oppressed without intensifying state repression.” U.S. imperialism has devolved to a permanent state of war…
by BAR editor and senior columnist Margaret Kimberley
Freedom Rider: Democrats Smear Jill Stein
26 Jul 2017
by BAR editor and senior columnist Margaret Kimberley The Democratic Party’s Grand Inquisition has move leftward, targeting 2016 Green Party presidential candidate Jill Stein, whose political crime was to attend an RT dinner in Russia, the year before. The Democrats are trying to yoke her into…
by BAR executive editor Glen Ford
Trump Faces Down the CIA and Co-Opts the Pentagon on Syria (for the time being)
27 Jul 2017
by BAR executive editor Glen Ford The crazed, racist, stupid, boorish man in the White House “this summer defied the War Party and its corporate media mouthpieces, negotiating a cease-fire with the Russians in several regions of Syria, and possibly ending the CIA’s not-so-covert role as Grandmaster…
Oscar Wailoo
Canada Pays and Fails Omar Khadr
01 Aug 2017
The Canadian courts have acknowledged the wrong done to Omar Khadr, a 15 year-old child soldier who was tortured and imprisoned as an “enemy combatant” at Guantanamo for allegedly killing a U.S. soldier in Afghanistan. Khadr received a monetary settlement, but the Canadian government has never…
Timothy T. Schwartz
How Haitian Earthquake Relief Efforts Pulled Off a Huge Con Job, with the Help of Mainstream Media
01 Aug 2017
In the space of a year, donors contributed $13.1 billion to Haitian earthquake victims – enough money to finance the national budget for 13 years. But the Haitian government got only 1% of it. The world’s richest “aid” outfits and their contractors got most of the rest. “Money that was promised to…
Resumen Latinoamericano
Despite the Efforts of the Opposition, Over 8 Million People Voted for the Constituent Assembly in Venezuela
01 Aug 2017
The government of President Nicolás Maduro claims more than 41 percent of registered voters went to the polls to elect candidates for a National Constituent Assembly that will rewrite Venezuela’s Constitution. The right-wing opposition attempted to disrupt the process. “Polls were open until 10pm…
Chris Hedges
Trump and the Christian Fascists
01 Aug 2017
Donald Trump, the authoritarian billionaire liar, has lots in common with the mega-preachers of the far Right, who run despotic fiefdoms and “prey on their followers by extracting ‘seed offerings,’ ‘love gifts,’ tithes and donations and by selling miracle healings along with ‘prayer clothes,’ self-…