US/Israel rules of war: build a lie, then slaughter civilians from the air. There’s a widespread belief that every lie contains a…
President Donald Trump euphorically concluded his White House press conference on September 2 with breaking news: the US military had just blown…
I am tempted to say that US congressperson Alexandria Ocasio-Cortes (AOC) has a talent for receiving softball interviews and undeserved praise from…
Fernando Villavicencio, who was running for president of Ecuador on an anti-corruption was assassinated in broad daylight on August 9th. Who stands…
GUEST: Author and journalist Joe Emersberger. You can find his work published at CounterPunch, Fairness and Accuracy in Reporting (FAIR), MintPress News…
From the trailer alone, it’s obvious that A La Calle depicts Venezuelan opposition leader Leopoldo López as a noble democrat. That’s outrageous.
Source: FAIR Chávez was actually going to try to follow through on his promises to change the system and assert his country’s…
The US government will (perhaps within a month) probably succeed in extraditing businessman Alex Saab from Cape Verde. His “crime” was being…
I reviewed Josiah Thompson’s new book in a blog post the other day. The book makes a persuasive case that there was…
I just finished Josiah Thompson’s excellent new book on the JFK assassination: Last Second in Dallas (University Press of Kansas, 2021). Near…
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