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John Kiriakou, ex-CIA, Worries About War Without End

In Consortium News,John Kiriakou, former CIA officer turned whistleblower, warns of a Senate bill that  he says “gives Trump carte blanche for war.” He’s talking about Senate Resolution 59, introduced by Senators Bob Corker (R-TN), chairman of the Senate Foreign Relations Committee, and Tim Kaine (D-VA). The measure is intended to “provide an updated, transparent, and...

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What was in John Brennan’s emails?

In 2015, WikiLeaks published a tranche of emails hacked from the account of future CIA Director John Brennan. Among the documents was “The Conundrum of Iran,” a draft paper, on U.S. policy toward Iran that Brennan wrote in July 2007, with recommendations for the next president. When Barack Obama was elected, Brennan became national security adviser,...

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Responding to Iran’s Success in Syria, Mossad Confirms Role in Syrian Assassination

The New York Times, with the help of Israeli journalist Ronen Bergman, reports as fact what I suspected yesterday: Israel’s Mossad was responsible for the assassination of a Syrian rocket scientist. Confirmation came from “a senior official from a Middle Eastern intelligence agency,” which sure sounds like the return address of a Mossad message.

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Powder Keg: What Israeli Intelligence Thinks about South Syria

In March, Lawrence Wilkerson, former deputy to Secretary of State Colin Powell, told me another war was coming in the Middle East.   Now a gang of policy wonks at “War on the Rocks” asks “Is Another War Coming?” Hal Brands, a historian in the Kissingerian mode,  cites the possibility of a war betwee  Israel and Iran in...