On the District Sentinel radio show, I talked about my latest Deep State story on Elliott Abrams, the U.S. special envoy to Venezuela and veteran of U.S. regime change operations in Latin America. The best way to understand Abrams and Trump’s policy toward the bitterly divided South American country is to know Abrams’ record in...
Author: Jefferson Morley (Jefferson Morley)
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How a High School Class Penetrated the Veil of Secrecy and Forgetting
A group of high school student from Highstown, New Jersey did something fairly amazing this year: They took effective action against government secrecy. They wrote a law, and, in a bitterly divided Congress, they got it passed. And President Trump signed it. The students in Stu Wexler’s American government class, persuaded Congress to preserve and...
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China Steps Up Defense of Uighur Re-Education Camps
China’s massive effort to control and coopt the ethnic minority Uighurs is getting international attention and China is pushing back. In a diplomatic offensive, the Chinese government wants to explain to countries in the Middle East, what its Ministry of State Security is doing. The government has now invited China-based diplomats from Saudi Arabia, Morocco,...
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Acid Test for Mueller’s Investigation: Russian Spy or Political Hack?
As the Trump-Russia investigation comes to a close, the primary target of special prosecutor Robert Mueller seems to be Trump’s campaign manager Paul Manafort and his Russian translator Konstantin Kilimnik. Manafort, says Mueller, is a “hardened criminal.” But what is Kilimnik? The question goes to the heart of Mueller’s investigation. Is Kilimnik and active Russian...
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Troublesome Possibilities: The Left and Tulsi Gabbard
Richard Falk, emeritus professor and one-time thesis adviser of Princeton student Robert Mueller III, is a leading intellectual of leftist foreign policy thinking. In this piece for Counterpunch he takes a look at Rep. Tulsi Gabbard, the Hawaii Congresswoman, now running for president. She’s controversial for meeting with Syrian president Bashar al-Assad and Indian president...