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The Duran’s Alex Christoforou and Editor-in-Chief Alexander Mercouris discuss a study by the Senate Select Committee on Intelligence which found that the Obama White House was “not well-postured” to deal with the $4,000 Facebook ad spend by Russian social media firms that apparently subverted the multi-billion dollar presidential campaign of Hillary Clinton.
The report failed to investigate why the Obama White House was conducting meetings on the 2016 elections and the Trump campaign, failing to document their discussions and leaving no paper trail of their conversations.

Susan Rice, US envoy to the UN from 2009 to 2013, with some of her fellow ambassadors, clockwise from left: Peter Wittig of Germany;  Mark Lyall Grant of Britain; Li Baodong of China; Vitaly Churkin of Russia; and Gérard Araud of France, June 9, 2010. A study by a German scholar of US ambassadors to the UN reveals four styles, he writes: unilateralist, moderate unilateralist, moderate multilateralist and multilateralist. EVAN SCHNEIDER/UN PHOTO

Vice President Pence suddenly showed up at the UN on April 10, 2019, to demand that the Security Council strip the current Venezuelan ambassador’s UN credentials. That has not happened. The US mission to the UN lacks a permanent representative amid an outflow of a range of personnel. Some UN diplomats say, “There is no one left.” MANUEL ELIAS/UN PHOTO

By Darius Shahtahmasebi | RT | February 28, 2019 US President Donald Trump’s failure to make any meaningful progress with North Korea was an expected outcome of the recent summit, but not for the reasons the mainstream media and regular talking-heads want you to believe. The so-called summit with North Korean leader Kim Jong-un in Hanoi […]

“Hotel Rwanda” is a touchstone of interventionist ideology, writes Ann Garrison. Debunking that script helps show why the closure of the assassination case against Rwanda’s President Paul Kagame serves Western interests. By Ann Garrison Black Agenda Report Most Westerners believe…Read more →

Historical revisionism, rigged results and 'First Man' + this day in history w/the Golden Dragon massacre and our song of the day by Twenty One Pilots on your Morning Monarchy for September 4, 2018.

Sputnik – 16.08.2018 WASHINGTON – US Senator Rand Paul said in a statement on Wednesday that he urged President Donald Trump to revoke the security clearance of former CIA Director John Brennan. “I applaud President Trump for his revoking of John Brennan’s security clearance,” Paul said in the press release on Wednesday. “I urged the […]

COMMENTARY: Former CIA agent John Kiriakou argues that no former intelligence official should be allowed to keep their security clearances when they leave government, especially if they work in the media. By John Kiriakou Special to Consortium News Libertarian senator…Read more →

By Ray McGovern | Consortium News | March 19, 2018 What prompted former CIA Director John Brennan on Saturday to accuse President Donald Trump of “moral turpitude” and to predict, with an alliterative flourish, that Trump will end up “as a disgraced demagogue in the dustbin of history”? The answer shines through the next sentence in […]

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 […]