How about the “fact checkers” and apologists look into why the White Helmets recycled an image claiming to show a victim of “Russian airstrikes” after having previously used the same image before Russia even began bombing ISIS in Syria.
21WIRE’s Patrick Henningsen, reporting for RT International, on Trump’s ‘S***hole’ comments and more…
Congresswoman Tulsi Gabbard of Hawaii was interviewed on ABC News “This Week” following the human error that led to a false alarm missile message in Hawaii.
During one defining moment of the interview, long time Clinton staffer, George Stephanopoulos asked Gabbard point blank, “Was it a mistake for the United States to take out Gaddafi and Hussein?”
Gabbard responded without hesitation, “It was, absolutely.”
Stephanopoulos appeared shocked at the response.
(ANTIMEDIA Op-ed) — According to four-star General Wesley Clark, in a 1991 meeting with Paul Wolfowitz, then-under-secretary of defense for policy at the Department of Defense, Wolfowitz seemed a little dismayed because he believed the U.S. should have gotten rid of Saddam Hussein in Operation Desert Storm but failed to do so. Clark summarized what he says Wolfowitz said:
Congresswoman Tulsi Gabbard of Hawaii was interviewed on ABC News “This Week” following the human error that led to a false alarm missile message in Hawaii.
During one defining moment of the interview, long time Clinton staffer, George Stephanopoulos asked Gabbard point blank…
“Was it a mistake for the United States to take out Gaddafi and Hussein?”
Mostafa Afzalzadeh: Why do you think the western countries are trying to use people against Iran and not use military force? What is the difference?
One of the most ingenious propaganda weapons ever developed is that the powerful nations of the West—led by the United States—have a moral responsibility to use military force to protect the rights of people being repressed by their governments. This “responsibility to protect” (R2P) always had a dubious legal standing, but its moral justification also required a psychological and historical disengagement from the bloody reality of the 500-hundred-year history of U.S. and European colonialism, slavery, genocide and torture that created the “West.”
By George Szamuely | CounterPunch | January 9, 2018 In a recent Guardian article titled “Why NATO Must Defend Women’s Rights,” NATO Secretary-General Jens Soltenberg and Hollywood movie star Angelina Jolie assert that “NATO has the responsibility and opportunity to be a leading protector of women’s rights.” NATO, moreover, “can become the global military leader […]
Sharing the world with neocons is like living with an Alzheimer’s patient.
“I want to go home!”
“You are home, Mum. Remember? You live here now with me and Dave? And your grandkids? You’ve been living here for two years. This is your home.”
“Oh, okay.”
[Two minutes pass.]
“I want to go home!”
