Rob Urie, Zen economist, makes the case that impeachment is “Brought to You by the CIA .” Like Senator Ron Johnson, the Counterpunch contributor doesn’t trust the agency to be apolitical. That’s a reasonable stance, prompting Urie to ask a good question: Given the CIA’s history of overthrowing democratically elected leaders and governments for the...
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Blast From the Past: How the U.S. Covered Up Israel’s Nuclear Test
Foreign Policy magazine has brilliantly unpacked a story relevant to the ongoing confrontation between Iran and the United States. It’s a revealing story of how intelligence findings are manipulated for political ends. It’s a tale of why the United States has no credibility on the issue of nuclear proliferation in the Middle East. It’s what...
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RIP: Dr. Robert McClelland, Key JFK Witness
Dr. Robert McClelland, the surgeon who oversaw the effort to save President Kennedy’s life in 1963, died earlier this month at age 89. In his interviews, you sense a man of considerable dignity, humility, and integrity. It comes as no surprise that he self-published an anthology of writings on surgery to which thousands of doctors subscribed. He...
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While Impeachment Talk Grows, Trump Is Gaining Control of U.S. Intelligence
This is what White House control of the U.S. intelligence apparatus looks like: the acting director of national intelligence, Adm. Joseph Maguire, quashed the finding of his inspector general that a still-unnamed whistleblower had made serious allegations about President Trump that urgently need to be addressed by Congress. Its preview of how the president will...
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Trump, the ‘Deep State,’ and the Democrats
(Published in The New Republic, “Democrats Are Trapped in Trump’s ‘Deep State’ War.” The ongoing contretemps between President Donald Trump and the intelligence community forces a dismal and daunting question: Whose side must be taken in a power struggle between a legion of professional liars and a consummate bullshit artist? Both the president and the...