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US State Dept Defunds Twitter-Trolling ‘Iran Disinformation Project’
The U.S. State Department quietly announced over the weekend the defunding of a social media trolling project that targeted outspoken critics of the Trump administration’s foreign policy on Iran.
The Twitter account, @IranDisinfo, is run by the Iran Disinformation Project under the auspices of the State Department’s Global Engagement Center (GEC), and “exposes and counters the nefarious influence of one of the world’s few remaining totalitarian regimes.”
For the US and Israel, Iran Works Best as a Perpetual Threat
JERUSALEM, PALESTINE — According to a story in Haaretz, U.S. Special Representative for Iran Brian Hook said recently that “the United States will respond with military force if its interests are attacked by Iran.” However, there are several reasons why Israel and the U.S. will not attack Iran, at least not directly.
Meet the DC tenants’ advocacy group taking a stand… for regime change and war
The DC Tenants Advocacy Coalition (TENAC) attacked Americans defending Venezuela’s embassy from a right-wing takeover and clamored for US military…
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John Bolton’s Absurd ‘Troika Tyranny’
The real tyrants are U.S. allies in the Middle East (not Venezuela, Cuba or Nicaragua), writes Danny Sjursen. By Danny Sjursen TomDispatch.com American foreign policy can be so retro, not to mention absurd. Despite being bogged down in more military…Read more →
Bolton Alleges Iran Maritime Sabotage But Evidence Points Elsewhere
ABU DHABI, U.A.E. — On Wednesday, National Security Advisor John Bolton told a group of reporters in Abu Dhabi that “naval mines almost certainly from Iran” had been used to conduct the alleged “sabotage” attack on four commercial vessels off the coast of the United Arab Emirates’ port of Fujairah earlier this month.
Hands off Venezuela
Submitted by George Callaghan…
The United States is musing about attacking Venezuela. The US has intervened in Latin American and Caribbean countries on numberless occasions. This must stop. Now!
IRAN: Seeing Through Washington’s Thin Game
Far from promoting geopolitical stability, the current Administration in Washington has instead chosen to agitate against Iran, after it discarded the 2015 landmark JCPOA nuclear agreement. This despite the fact Tehran was in full compliance of the agreement. Since then, the US has only intensified its brutal economic sanctions regime with the aim of choking Iranian society and eventually overthrowing their current government.
That Time the U.S. Military Played a War Game Against "Iran" — and Lost
The Russian navy test-fires a Moskit P-270 antiship cruise missile in February of 2015. The P-270 Moskit is a Russian supersonic ramjet powered cruise missile (source).
The Pathology of John Bolton
John Bolton has been saying for years he wants the Iranian government overthrown, and now he’s made his move. But this time he may have gone too far, writes Joe Lauria. By Joe Lauria Special to Consortium News I knew…Read more →