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Brian Heiss joins me today for another in-depth discussion discussion. We start off by touching on the recent gas attack in Syria and the bellicose rhetoric coming out of Washington. Brian and I discuss our issues with the claims that this was launched by Assad. We also talk about the Skirpal case and the recent appointment of John Bolton to National Security Adviser. Brian and I than turn out attention to Kurt Eichenwald, Justin Berry, and the child pornography scandal they were involved in.

By Stephen Gowans | what’s left | April 11, 2018 Ideologues of US power, notably those ensconced in the editorial offices of the New York Times and Wall Street Journal, believe that the United States has an imprescriptible right to exercise an absolutist tyranny over the world, to define the boundary between civilization and barbarism, […]

OffGuardian | March 20, 2018 Fifteen years ago today, March 20, the “Coalition of the Willing” declared war on Iraq. We now know that war was based on a monumental and inexcusable lie about Iraq possessing “weapons of mass destruction”, and that the war itself was a crime under international law. But we tend to […]

Women and children at My Lai moments before they were killed. Photograph : Ron Haberle/WikiCommons By Michael Uhl | Mekong Review | February, 2018 edition Monsters exist, but they are too few in number to be truly dangerous. More dangerous are the common men, the functionaries ready to believe and to act without asking questions. — […]

By Gregory Shupak | FAIR | March 15, 2018 Washington Post‘s Max Boot (3/8/18) Commentators across the spectrum of acceptable establishment opinion are alarmed by the possibility of peace breaking out on the Korean peninsula. Some oppose the idea of talks between US President Donald Trump and North Korean leader Kim Jong-un on principle. Washington […]

RT | March 7, 2018 There is $120 million in funding for “countering Russian propaganda” stashed somewhere in the State Department. There are “Russia experts” willing to blame Russia for everything. The two are meant to be together. The $120 million, of which Rex Tillerson’s diplomatic corps has failed to spend a cent, is funding […]

(TFC Opinion) — Yesterday, an article titled “Wounds From Military-Style Rifles? ‘A Ghastly Thing to See‘” graced The New York Times. The article detailed the differences between wounds caused by .223 Remington or 5.56mm NATO rounds, the most common types of ammunition fired from an AR-15, and the wounds caused by handgun ammunition. The problem with the article is […]

Former CIA officer Jeffrey Sterling, left, leaves the Alexandria Federal Courthouse on Jan. 26, 2016 with his wife Holly, center, and attorney Barry Pollack. Photo: Kevin Wolf/AP By Gareth Porter | Consortium News | March 3, 2018 Jeffrey Sterling, the case officer for the CIA’s covert “Operation Merlin,” who was convicted in May 2015 for […]

By Ray McGovern | Consortium News | March 3, 2018 Russian President Vladimir Putin’s State-of-the-Nation speech Thursday represents a liminal event in the East-West strategic balance — and an ominous one. Russian President Vladimir Putin That the strategic equation is precarious today comes through clearly in Putin’s words. The U.S. and Russia have walked backwards […]

Strategic Culture Foundation | 02.03.2018 In more than seven years of war in Syria, we have seen many times how Western governments and news media shamelessly invert reality. The same was seen this week over the grim fighting around Eastern Ghouta, the suburb near the capital, Damascus, where 400,000 people are said to be trapped. […]