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Does a Now Not So Secret U.S. Military Base in Israel Portend a Wider U.S. War in the Middle East?

In August, two months before the Tribe of Nova Music Festival massacre, the Pentagon awarded a $35.8 million contract to build U.S. troop facilities for a secret base it maintains deep within Israel’s Negev desert, just 20 miles from Gaza, code-named “Site 512.” Procurement records describe the secret base, located off Mt. Qeren, as a […]

“The Death Row You Don’t Want to Know:” An Inmate at San Quentin Reveals What Death Row is Really Like

From the date of being arrested (March 4, 1979) in one of the most racist counties in California (Riverside), and enduring one of what would be called by many, “a circus trial” on December 12, 1979, I was brought to the sixth floor of North Block, better known as the original Death Row. I’ll never […]

Finally, A School that Teaches Kids to Protest War and Support Peace

The Maine-Endwell School District in Upstate New York Set a Wonderful Precedent By Hosting a Peace Day on September 21 Children around the world need to be taught that killing brothers and sisters, and fellow humans anywhere is murder and should never be allowed.  In the United States, the vast majority of teachers hide that […]

With All Other Reasons Having Run Out, Biden Now Urging Support For Ukraine War on Spurious Economic Grounds

With Ukraine’s global image having taken a hit because of its identification with Naziism along with the failings of its summer counteroffensive, the Biden White House is now urging lawmakers in both parties, according to Politico, to sell the war effort in Ukraine as a job creator and economic stimulus in the U.S. In an […]

Yigal Amir is Israel’s Oswald

Amir Was Convicted for the 1995 Assassination of Israeli Prime Minister Yitzhak Rabin But Was Clearly Set Up Twenty-eight years ago, the Israeli nation went into mourning after the assassination of Labor Party Prime Minister Yitzhak Rabin on November 4, 1995, allegedly by a right-wing West Bank settler named Yigal Amir. A law student at […]
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Will David Again Slay Goliath?

A Palestinian boy living on Israel’s West Bank rolled a rubber truck tire toward an already burning fire. Wearing a mud-smeared T-shirt and a determined expression, he dumped the tire and ran for another. “There’s my column,” I said to my wife, Stephanie, pointing to the TV screen as we watched morning BBC news. “Him, […]
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Washington Post Lifts the Veil on CIA’s Shadow War Against Russia Waged Since 2014

In August 2022, Ukrainian security service (SBU) operatives hid explosives in a crate intended for a cat in a car driven by a woman and her twelve year old daughter. After the car passed through the Russian border, the SBU planted the bomb in the SUV of Russian journalist Darya Dugina, the daughter of well […]

American Weapons Leftover in Afghanistan After U.S. Forces Withdrew Fell Into Hands of Terrorist Organizations and Are Now Surfacing in Israel, Kashmir and Pakistan

Officials from Pakistan, India, and Israel have confirmed—after the U.S. withdrawal from Afghanistan—U.S. weapons left behind have been found in the hands of terrorist groups. This issue gained significant attention when, on October 7, 2023, Hamas launched attacks on Israel. British politician Jim Ferguson wrote on X—formerly Twitter—and shared a link from Aamaj News, along […]

The Saga of Richard M. Taus

There are no coincidences. I can attest to that. I am now a true believer that certain things were meant to be and others were not. And the ones that were not meant to be have made all the difference. My dream of being a rock star journalist never came true. My time in investigative […]
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Notorious “Secret Team” Headed by CIA Agent Theodore Shackley Was Involved in the Kidnapping and Assassination of Italian Premier Aldo Moro, Italian Parliamentary Investigations Show

The Secret Team was a group of CIA agents run by CIA’s “Blond Ghost” Theodore Shackley that was involved in the most scandalous U.S. foreign policy interventions throughout the 1970s and 1980s, including the “October Surprise” and Iran-Contra affair. Now, Shackley’s “secret team” has been found to have had extensive connections to the assassination of […]