Craig Murray: Twisting the Terrorism Narrative
Just as soon as Western powers installed terrorists to power in Damascus, examples of terrorist blowback immediately followed in the U.S., with some very strange details.
I Was the Only U.S. Official Imprisoned Over the Torture Program — Because I Opposed It
The only person associated with the CIA's global torture program who was prosecuted and imprisoned was the man who blew the whistle on it — John Kiriakou.
Avoiding the War on Terror Would Have Saved Over 10 Million Lives at Home and Abroad
By Bharat Dogra / CounterCurrents The peace movement in various parts of the world has emphasized in various contexts that if the huge amounts spent on various wars had been…
I Crashed an Anti-Syria Lobby Meeting Where They Pushed For a New Caliphate and Starvation Sanctions
I crashed the meeting of a lobbying front that ended the life-saving General License 2023 on Syria, and is now pushing to extend Washington’s economic war for another 8 years.…
Chain of Corruption: How the White Helmets Compromised OPCW Investigations in Syria
By enlisting the sectarian insurgent-allied, US-funded White Helmets for chemical weapons probes in Syria, the OPCW abandoned impartiality and broke its fundamental rules for collecting evidence.
How Obama-Biden Team Empowered Terrorists in Syria
Ukraine is the Obama-Biden team's second major proxy war against Russia. The first was Syria, where US support for the insurgency helped create an Al Qaeda safe haven.
The Endless Shadow of the War on Terror
However unsuccessful, the war on terror will continue. The only difference: It won’t be called a war anymore.
Robert Scheer: Was Al Qaeda a Bush Boogeyman?
By Robert Scheer / Los Angeles Times Editor’s Note: The Los Angeles Times wrote in 2011, “This 2005 opinion piece by columnist Robert Scheer was found among hundreds of pieces…
The U.S. Government Lied For Two Decades About Afghanistan
Using the same deceitful tactics they pioneered in Vietnam, U.S. political and military officials repeatedly misled the country about the prospects for success in Afghanistan
Peter Jan Honigsberg: The Stain on America’s Soul That Will Not Wash Away
Although the extent of our lawless detention program in Guantanamo Bay is something most of us know little about, it defines us all.
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John Duffy and Ray Nowosielski: The Illegal CIA Operation That Brought Us 9/11
Was it conspiracy or idiocy that led to the failure of U.S. intelligence agencies to detect and prevent the 2001 terror attacks?