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American Pravda: "The Truth" and "The Whole Truth" About the Origins of Covid-19

Ron Unz • May 10, 2021

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As every fan of the old Perry Mason show remembers, courtroom witnesses swear "to tell the truth, the whole truth, and nothing but the truth." There's a reason for that particular choice of words. A pattern of selective omissions in an otherwise entirely truthful presentation can easily mislead us as much as any outright lie.... Read More

Prominent American "Anti-Racist" Jews Are Funding Racist Gangs Attacking Arabs In Israel

Eric Striker • May 8, 2021

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American Jews are bankrolling Zionist paramilitary groups that have been assaulting and terrorizing random Arabs on the streets of East Jerusalem. Two weeks ago, 100s of Israelis chanted "Death To Arabs" as they attacked non-Jewish men, women and children during a demonstration organized by Lehava. Lehava describes itself as a group militantly opposed to race-mixing... Read More

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Oh What a Lovely New War! False Flagging in the Middle East?

Philip Giraldi • May 6, 2021

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There has been virtually no American media coverage of last week’s arrival of a senior Israeli delegation in Washington to discuss Iran. The delegation included the head of the Israeli external intelligence service Mossad Yossi Cohen and Israel’s National Security Advisor Meir Ben-Shabbat. Their itinerary included briefings at the Pentagon and also with national security... Read More

The US Brainwashes the World

Paul Craig Roberts • May 6, 2021

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The American Establishment uses the presstitute lie machine to control the narrative for most of the world by broadcasting disinformation in 59 languages. Countries and their news services rely on “news” from the US to comprehend world events. Most of the world has little alternative to American news sources except for the BBC which is... Read More

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An Empire in Love with Its Afghan Cemetery

Pepe Escobar • May 6, 2021

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One cannot but feel mildly amused at the theatrical spectacle of the US troop pullout from Afghanistan, its completion day now postponed for maximum PR impact to 9/11, 2021. Nearly two decades and a staggering US$2 trillion after this Forever War was launched by a now immensely indebted empire, the debacle can certainly be interpreted... Read More

Giant Killers Tackle Google

Israel Shamir • May 3, 2021

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The digital giants have taken over the world. Nobody has ever amassed this much power. Hitler would die of envy if shown the greatness of Google. Huxley and Orwell’s protagonists could only dream of what Bezos and Gates do. The latter overthrew the US President and installed one they prefer, and for good reason. The... Read More

The Camp of the Saints Is Upon Us

Paul Craig Roberts • May 3, 2021

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The national disintegration of France is progressing precisely as Jean Raspail predicted in his novel. Those who see the disintegration and urge its halt are the ones punished exactly as in the novel. The situation in the United States is far more serious than in France. In the United States the authorities have brainwashed themselves... Read More

Will Special Interests Allow America’s ‘Longest War’ to Finally End?

Ron Paul • May 3, 2021

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Even if “won,” endless wars like our 20 year assault on Afghanistan would not benefit our actual national interest in the slightest. So why do these wars continue endlessly? Because they are so profitable to powerful and well-connected special interests. In fact, the worst news possible for the Beltway military contractor/think tank complex would be... Read More

Can War with Russia be Avoided?

Paul Craig Roberts • April 28, 2021

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The Russian Free Press (svpressa) Interviewed me on the Topic of Avoiding Conflict Between the Russian Federation and the United States. The interview in English can be found here: The film date of the interview is April 23, 2021. The Interview in Russian is here: and here: Considering the level of tension between the nuclear... Read More

Will Whites Support A Globalist American Empire That Picks Fights Abroad and Wars Against Them At Home?

James Kirkpatrick • April 27, 2021

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The American Ruling Class is deliberately attacking the country’s core demographic group at just the same time that it is picking fights with major powers like Russia, China, and even Turkey. The Biden Administration is demonizing whites as the main domestic threat and is developing a complicated racial caste system that punishes whites for their... Read More

Vienna Shadow Play Hangs Over Iran Nuke Deal

Pepe Escobar • April 27, 2021

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Few people, apart from specialists, may have heard of the JCPOA Joint Commission. That’s the group in charge of a Sisyphean task: the attempt to revive the 2015 Iran nuclear deal through a series of negotiations in Vienna. The Iranian negotiating team was back in Vienna yesterday, led by Deputy Foreign Minister Seyed Abbas Araghchi.... Read More

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Calls for "Death to Arabs" in Jerusalem

Philip Giraldi • April 27, 2021

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Last week there were some interesting stories that were very definitely underreported partly due to the fact that the mainstream media was heavily into the distraction provided by its beatification of George Floyd. For example, the tale of how a mob consisting of hundreds of Israeli Jews, composed mostly of settlers and the extremist so-called... Read More

What Just Happened in the Ukraine?

The Saker • April 25, 2021

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Before we look into what just happened in the Ukraine, we need to first recall the sequence of events which lead to the current situation. I will try to make a short summary (skipping a lot of details) in the bullet-point style: Whether Ze initially intended to stop the war in the eastern Ukraine we... Read More

Uncharted Waters

Israel Shamir • April 25, 2021

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The US has been fighting two wars: with Ukraine against Russia, and with Russia against Climate. Both are very costly, both bring no profit to Americans, both are entirely unnecessary, but both are essential for the Biden regime at this time, as the Covid pandemic runs out of steam. How will matters proceed? The Ukrainian... Read More

The "Russian Threat"

Paul Craig Roberts • April 25, 2021

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During 2016 CIA director John Brennan and FBI director James Comey, together with the corrupt Democrat party, began orchestrating Russiagate in order to prevent Trump from reducing the risk of nuclear war by normalizing relations with Russia. President Trump tried to nip a New Cold War in the bud, but that was not in the... Read More

20 French Generals Sign Letter Condemning Oppression of Yellow Vests; Warn of Coming Race War

Eric Striker • April 24, 2021

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20 high ranking French military officials have released an explosive protest letter against the government demanding action against the rising crime of immigrant gangs, terrorism, American-style anti-white political activism, and no-go zones. They contrasted the state's total lack of interest in facing these challenges with the Macron regime's brutal repression of the white populist Yellow... Read More

Putin Rewrites the Law of the Geopolitical Jungle

Pepe Escobar • April 23, 2021

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Putin’s address to the Russian Federal Assembly – a de facto State of the Nation – was a judo move that left Atlanticist sphere hawks particularly stunned. The “West” was not even mentioned by name. Only indirectly, or via a delightful metaphor, Kipling’s Jungle Book. Foreign policy was addressed only at the end, almost as... Read More

Afghanistan Under the Taliban: It Won't be Like Last Time

Ted Rall • April 23, 2021

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We've been in Afghanistan 20 years, Joe Biden's generals told him. All we need is a little more time. The president overruled them, ordering a complete withdrawal of American troops by Sept. 11. Madiha Afzal and Michael O'Hanlon of the Brookings Institution articulate the opposition to Biden's decision to call it quits. Remove the U.S.... Read More

Focusing on Injustices in Just a Few ‘bad’ Nations Is a Dangerous Game

Patrick Cockburn • April 23, 2021

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During the first Cold War between the West and the Soviet Union injustice and human rights increasingly became a central issue. This ought to have been a positive development, but it was devalued by partisan use and the issue turned into an instrument of propaganda. The essence of such propaganda is not lies or even... Read More

Latest Skirmish with Syria Shows Israel Is Much Weaker Than It Looks

Eric Striker • April 22, 2021

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For years Israel's Arab neighbors have grown accustomed to routine unprovoked attacks on their infrastructure, soldiers and civilians by the Jewish state. While Syria's air defense has been increasing its success rate in quashing Israeli raids, the latest exchange between the two countries has opened up the possibility to strike back. Yesterday, a missile bypassed... Read More

Who Wags the Dog? Israel’s Friends in Washington Mean Constant War in the Middle East

Philip Giraldi • April 22, 2021

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Biden, like presidents before him, is caught in the trap between an extremist-dominated Israel and the all-powerful domestic Israel Lobby. Donald Trump, who was elected President of the United States in 2016, may have won due to voters attracted by his pledge to end many of the “stupid” wars that the American military was involved... Read More

Say Hello to the New Multilateral Boss

Pepe Escobar • April 21, 2021

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In times of grave geopolitical trouble it’s up for a true statesman to step up in the global podium and defuse a noxious Cold War 2.0 atmosphere. President Xi Jinping did deliver with his keynote speech at the annual Boao Forum in Hainan. Here’s the full speech. And let’s start with a single sentence: The... Read More

US Air Force Flew Full-Loaded F-16s from Japanese Base to Menace China

Andrew Anglin • April 20, 2021

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The F-16 really is a beautiful piece of engineering. It is the Silver Wraith of the skies. The Drive: The four U.S. Air Force F-16 fighter jets that recently flew a mission over the highly contested South China Sea were photographed landing at Yokota Air Base in Japan, en route to their home base at... Read More

Who Will be the Next 'America First' President?

Pat Buchanan • April 20, 2021

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When President Joe Biden announced he would withdraw all U.S. troops from Afghanistan by the 20th anniversary of 9/11, GOP hawks like Sens. Mitch McConnell and Lindsey Graham responded predictably. "Grave mistake," muttered McConnell. "Insane," said Graham, "dumber than dirt and... dangerous." Of more interest were the responses of conservative Republicans who commended the president.... Read More

Tucker Carlson Exposes Zionist Hypocrisy on Immigration

Jewish establishment embraces immigrants but only in America

Philip Giraldi • April 20, 2021

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Well, the cat is finally well and truly out of the bag when it comes to Israeli and organized Jewry’s hypocrisy. The unprincipled attack on Tucker Carlson by the Anti-Defamation League (ADL) over his alleged “white supremacism” included a demand to Fox News that he be fired. It was from a familiar playbook that groups... Read More

Key U.S. Air Base in Turkey Sits on Property Stolen from Armenians During the Genocide

David Boyajian • April 19, 2021

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Suppose the U.S. built and operated a military base in Germany on property confiscated from Jews during the Holocaust. America, Jewish Americans, Germany, and Israel would have reached a principled resolution years ago. Now consider Incirlik (EEN-jeer-leek) Air Base in Turkey. American taxpayers and the Army Corps of Engineers built it 67 years ago. Its... Read More

The United States Cannot Survive the Corruption of Its Leaders and the Insouciance of Its People

Paul Craig Roberts • April 19, 2021

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The United States military was sent into Afghanistan two decades ago on the basis of a lie. The warmonger neoconservative George W. Bush regime lied to the American people, to US soldiers, and to the world that Osama bin Laden was responsible for the attacks on the World Trade Center and the Pentagon, that bin... Read More

Did the US Just Try to Murder Lukashenko?

The Saker • April 19, 2021

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Amazing news over the week-end: President Lukashenko has declared that Biden gave the order to kill him in a coup organized by the CIA. Now, we all know that Lukashenko says all sorts of things, many of them false or plain silly. Except that the Russian FSB has confirmed it all! According to the Russians,... Read More

Why Can’t We ‘Just March Out’ of Afghanistan?

Ron Paul • April 19, 2021

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Last week President Biden announced a “full” US withdrawal from Afghanistan – the longest war in US history – by the 20th anniversary of the 9/11 attack on the United States. While this announcement is to be welcomed, the delayed US withdrawal may result in Americans and Afghans dying needlessly for good PR optics back... Read More

The Russian Bear is a peaceful animal that is not easily aroused. But once it is provoked, it is deadly.

Flashpoint Ukraine: Don't Poke the Bear

Interview with Israel Shamir

Mike Whitney and Israel Shamir • April 18, 2021

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Question 1--- For the last 4 years, Democrat leaders have blamed Russia for allegedly meddling in the 2016 elections. Now the Democrats-- who control all three branches of government -- have the power to reset US foreign policy and take a more hostile approach to Moscow. But will they? At present, there are roughly 40,000... Read More

Israelis Treat Palestinians Like Nazis Treated Jews

Paul Craig Roberts • April 18, 2021

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The Nazis had “the Jewish problem.” Israelis have “the Palestinian problem.” The US Congress has long been owned by the Israel Lobby. Indeed, members of the US Congress routinely put Israel ahead of the interests of Americans and human rights. As far as Israel and the US Congress are concerned, Palestinians have no rights to... Read More

Biden Bids Farewell to a 'Forever War'

Pat Buchanan • April 16, 2021

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"It is time to end the forever war." So said President Joe Biden in his announcement that, as of Sept. 11, the 20th anniversary of the attacks on the World Trade Center and Pentagon, all U.S. troops will be gone from Afghanistan. The longest war in our history, which cost 2,400 dead, 20,000 wounded and... Read More

So Who Wants a Hot War?

Pepe Escobar • April 16, 2021

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It’s not by accident that the Hegemon is going no holds barred to harass and try to smash Eurasian integration by all means available. It’s a scorpion battle inside a vortex of distorted mirrors inside a circus. So let’s start with the mirrors in the circus. The non-entity that passes for Ukrainian Foreign Minister traveled... Read More

The Latest US Moves Against Russia

The Saker • April 15, 2021

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Bad news all around today. The US has just slammed provocative sanctions against Russia even though the US ambassador to Moscow was summoned to the Foreign Ministry and clearly told that if the US imposes more sanctions there will be no meeting between Putin and Biden. Then there is this: the US has informed the... Read More

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Shock and Awe Is a State of Mind: Millions of Deaths Have Not Made Americans Safer

Philip Giraldi • April 15, 2021

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That the United States likes to use expressions like “shock and awe” or “maximum pressure” would rather suggest that there is a psychopath working in the White House basement whose full-time job is to come up with pithy one-liners to somehow euphemize government bad behavior. The expressions hardly mean anything in and of themselves apart... Read More

One Question Before Us Is: Will We be Destroyed in War Before We Lose Our Civil Liberty to the Establishment’s Orchestrated “Covid Pandemic”?

Paul Craig Roberts • April 14, 2021

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Americans have few sources of reliable information except for a handful of websites that few know anything about. Americans are unaware that the low-grade morons currently ruling and disinforming them from Washington have given an American military guarantee to the neo-nazis installed in Ukraine with Washington’s “Maidan Revolution.” The Ukraine government, if that is what... Read More

Biden Calls the "Killer"

The Saker • April 13, 2021

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The big news of the day is that Biden decided to call Putin. Here is how the Russians reported this: At the initiative of the American side, a telephone conversation took place between President of the Russian Federation Vladimir Putin and President of the United States of America Joseph Biden. The current state of Russian-American... Read More

The Magic of Israel

Now you see it, now you don’t

Philip Giraldi • April 13, 2021

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The popular narrative of plucky little Israel prevailing over hordes of bloodthirsty Arabs has captured the Western imagination even though it is manifestly false in almost every detail. But Israel’s greatest accomplishment might well be something else, it’s ability to make things disappear. It plausibly all began in June 1967 when Israel attacked the USS... Read More

Putin & XI Have Red Lines, Too

Pat Buchanan • April 13, 2021

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What are Vladimir Putin and Xi Jinping up to? In recent days, Russian tanks, artillery, armor, trucks and troops have been moving by road and rail ever closer to Ukraine, and Moscow is said to be repositioning its 56th Guards Air Assault Brigade in Crimea. Military sources in Kyiv estimate there are now 85,000 Russian... Read More

Countdown to Destruction

Biden Lunatics Aggressively Harassing Russia and China

Andrew Anglin • April 12, 2021

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The situation in the Ukraine is spinning out of control rapidly. The Biden People have B-1 nuclear-capable bombers patrolling in Scandinavia. They’ve begun flooding the region with warships. Last week, they upped the ante and did a patrol with B-1 bombers over the Aegean Sea. CNN, April 9: Those are not normal patrol jets. They’re... Read More

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A Movable Feast

Israel Shamir • April 10, 2021

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Israeli elections are a movable feast. The fourth round is over, and they already anticipate the fifth, perhaps in August. The Israelis just can’t form a stable government. They’ve got the Italian merry-go-round virus of unstable governments. Italians get a new government at an average of one every thirteen months. The Israeli mutation of the... Read More

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How Bellingcat Launders National Security State Talking Points Into the Press

Alan Macleod • April 9, 2021

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AMSTERDAM — Investigative site Bellingcat is the toast of the popular press. In the past month alone, it has been described as “an intelligence agency for the people” (ABC Australia), a “transparent” and “innovative” (New Yorker) “independent news collective,” “transforming investigative journalism” (Big Think), and an unequivocal “force for good” (South China Morning Post). Indeed,... Read More

The Yankees Are Coming Home: the Taliban Won. Get Over It

Philip Giraldi • April 8, 2021

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American soldiers can still win wars, but it has to be a real war where there is something genuine at stake, like protecting one’s home and family. It hardly made the evening news, but the New York Times reported last week that after twenty years of fighting the Taliban are confident that they will fully... Read More

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The Dictatorship of Numbers

In Continuation of a Conversation with Paul Craig Roberts

Andrei Martyanov • April 7, 2021

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Here are few numbers, we’ll start with two: 447 million and 4.67 billion. These two numbers speak volumes, and are in the foundation of the America’s decline and increasingly irrational behavior which may, quoting Bachman Turner Overdrive’s famous hit, get us to the point of a proverbial ain’t seen nothing yet. The first number is... Read More

WEF Warns of Cyber Attack Leading to Systemic Collapse of the Global Financial System

Whitney Webb • April 7, 2021

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A report published last year by the WEF-Carnegie Cyber Policy Initiative calls for the merging of Wall Street banks, their regulators and intelligence agencies as necessary to confront an allegedly imminent cyber attack that will collapse the existing financial system. In November 2020, the World Economic Forum (WEF) and Carnegie Endowment for International Peace co-produced... Read More

Ukraine Redux

War, Russophobia and Pipelineistan

Pepe Escobar • April 7, 2021

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Ukraine and Russia may be on the brink of war – with dire consequences for the whole of Eurasia. Let’s cut to the chase, and plunge head-on into the fog of war. On March 24, Ukrainian President Zelensky, for all practical purposes, signed a declaration of war against Russia, via decree No. 117/2021. The decree... Read More

Washington’s Follies Are Dangerous to Us and to the World

It is 1939 all over again

Paul Craig Roberts • April 7, 2021

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A country without a media is lost to the follies of its government, and that is precisely the position of America today. In the nuclear era, the entire world is at the mercy of Washington’s follies. At the present moment the incompetent fools that an insouciant American public permits to rule them are preparing nuclear... Read More

Lawsuit: FBI Thugs Used Surveillance Tools to Subject An Innocent Man and His Family to Years of Harassment, Threats and Intimidation

Eric Striker • April 6, 2021

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The Michigan ACLU filed a civil rights complaint today on behalf of a Lebanese-American family man who, in spite of not being suspected of any wrongdoing, was subjected to years of sustained abuse at the hands of the FBI. In Chebli v. Kable, et al, Ahmad Chebli is suing Charles Kable of the Terrorist Screening... Read More

Washington Is Misreading Russia at the World’s Peril

Paul Craig Roberts • April 6, 2021

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On August 31, 2018, I wrote: “So, the questions for Andrei Martyanov, The Saker, and for Putin and the Russian government is: How long does turning your other cheek work? Do you turn your other cheek so long as to allow your opponent to neutralize your advantage in a confrontation? Do you turn your other... Read More

For What Should We Fight Russia or China?

Pat Buchanan • April 6, 2021

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Last Monday, in a single six-hour period, NATO launched 10 air intercepts to shadow six separate groups of Russian bombers and fighters over the Arctic, North Atlantic, North Sea, Black Sea and Baltic Sea. Last week also brought reports that Moscow is increasing its troop presence in Crimea and along its borders with Ukraine. Joe... Read More

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American Pravda: Our Coronavirus Catastrophe as Biowarfare Blowback?

Ron Unz

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American Pravda: Mossad Assassinations

The JFK Assassination and the 9/11 Attacks?

Ron Unz

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9/11 Was an Israeli Job

How America was neoconned into World War IV