Under President Trump and Crown Prince Mohammed bin Salman, the long-standing U.S.-Saudi relationship, lubricated by oil and weapons sales, has degenerated into a gangsterly alliance in which MBS feels free to intimidate his rivals and critics while Jared Kushner pursues business deals. Case in point: former Saudi intelligence chief Saad Aljabri. He was the head...
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How the U.S. Exported Torture to One South American Country
This fact-filled CounterPunch dispatch from Brett Wilkins traces how the CIA exported torture techniques to one South American country, Uruguay, via an instructional manual entitled KUBARK. Fifty years ago, one of the top officials in the U.S. torture program in Uruguay , Dan Mitrione, was kidnapped and later executed by left-wing guerrillas. One of the...
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Brennan Is Reportedly Not a Target of John Durham investigation
If this Washington Examiner report proves to be true, it will be a bitter pill for right-wing media. The Examiner and other pro-Trump outlets have talked themselves into believing, on the basis of very little evidence, that Durham had a criminal case against former CIA director John Brennan. The Obama-era CIA director has been told...
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Russian Propaganda Repurposed by American Right-Wing Media
Source: A Bible Burning, a Russian News Agency and a Story Too Good to Check Out – The New York Times the Portland Bible burnings appear to be one of the first viral Russian disinformation hits of the 2020 presidential campaign. How does Russian disinformation work? The Russian technique is a kind of information laundering,...
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How Sen. Ron Johnson’s Investigation Became an Enabler of Russian Disinformation
The hard-right Attorney General Bill Barr says that the FBI investigation Donald Trump’s entourage in 2016, amounted to “spying.” Left- wing columnist Matt Taibbi, says the Trump-Russia investigation was a “hoax.” But that’s kind of last year’s debate. In the 2020 election cycle it is hard to dispute Ryan Goodman and Asha Rangappa’s piece in...