Last October Yossi Cohen, head of Israel’s Mossad, spoke openly about assassinating Iranian general Qassem Soleimani, the head of the elite Quds Force in Iran’s Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps. “He knows very well that his assassination is not impossible,” Cohen said in an interview. Soleimani had boasted that the Israel’s tried to assassinate him in...
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Was the Leader of U.S. Embassy Attack in Iraq a Guest in the Obama White House?
You can read this story two ways. You could say Obama harbored an enemy of America. Or you could say that President Trump has so alienated our allies in Iraq that Iraqi political leaders once willing to work with the United States are now so alienated from U.S. government that they are besieging our embassy....
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Douma Attack: Assad War Crime or ‘Managed Massacre?’
In the long-running nightmare of the Syrian civil war, the attack at Douma was a déjà vu atrocity with big consequences in Washington. On April 7, 2018, a working class neighborhood in greater Damascus suffered a chemical attack that killed at least 43 people. Six days later, President Trump ordered a cruise missile attack on...
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Former Bush Adviser Sells Repression in the Middle East
As counterterrorism adviser to President George W. Bush, Richard Clarke advocated vastly expanded spying powers for the U.S. government. As a private citizen, he sold the same idea to a Persian Gulf oil monarchy. The Reuters investigated, and the resulting story, Made in America shows how and why private intelligence firms are flourishing. Undemocratic governments...