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Excerpted fromĀ War Is Still A Lie. Since I wroteĀ War Is A LieĀ in 2010 and updated it in 2015, the lies used to…
Robin Andersenās The Complicit Lens is a tour de force: not only does she focus on US legacy/mainstream/capitalist media coverage of Israelās…
The lawsuit filed after U.S. Customs and Border Protection (CBP) questioned Max Blumenthal and seized two of his cellphones has renewed debate…
Democratic Socialists of America candidates won several Democratic primaries for Congress and the state legislature in New York. Seven months into his term, New…
Despite the raving reviews for the new, and apparently monumental, film The Odyssey, there is something that much of the mainstream media…
Yesterday Pete Hegseth triumphantly tweeted a picture of Iranās Chabahar maritime port tower collapsing following an attack by the US regime. The image bore…
The British government has announced it is going to ban Iranās Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps, an idea which on the face of it sounds…
US Secretary of State Marco Rubio on June 26 triumphantly announced the āsigning of the Trilateral Framework between Lebanon, Israel and the United States.ā…
Introduction Since October 7, 2023, the world has witnessed one of the largest waves of protest since the Iraq War. Student encampments…
Inside the subterranean caverns of the hottest, most secretive club in Donald Trumpās Washington, a pair of ring girls stepped into a…
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