Leaked emails show cozy ties between UAE, ex-CIA head Michael Morell, DC firms, and think tanks
Emails reveal United Arab Emirates ambassador Yousef al-Otaiba’s close relationship with former CIA acting director Michael Morell, including...
Ben Norton
Washington’s warmongers warm up to Trump: Ex-CIA director Petraeus says he is ‘more continuity than change’
Former CIA director General David Petraeus doesn’t see much difference between the Trump and Obama administrations, saying there...
How trolls pushing for regime change in Syria helped popularize Trump’s attack on the ‘Alt-Left’
A motley crew of toxic interventionists lobbying for regime change in Syria smeared the anti-war left as “alt-left”...
Pundits slam Trump’s biblical language on North Korea, but praise his defense secretary’s genocidal threats
Ben Norton and Max Blumenthal·
Trump’s supposedly “moderate” Defense Secretary James Mattis threatened North Korea with the “destruction of its people.” By Ben...
How media spread CIA’s sectarian, anti-Iran ‘Middle East Cold War’ narrative
Corporate media outlets are echoing CIA analysts to popularize a misleading narrative, erasing US intervention and portraying Middle...
Flashy NATO film honors Baltic Nazi collaborators who murdered Jews in Holocaust
Top historians slam NATO for lionizing the Forest Brothers, Baltic former Waffen SS fighters who voluntarily collaborated with...
Sam Harris and Maajid Nawaz want more Western intervention, fueling the very Islamist extremism they claim to fight
Sam Harris and Maajid Nawaz combine the worst of both worlds: the anti-Muslim, anti-refugee views of the far...
Notorious ‘New Atheist’ Sam Harris calls to ‘keep the number of Muslims down in any society’
“What is the f**king point of having more Muslims in your society?” Sam Harris asks in a podcast...
CNN hired top al-Qaeda propagandist for award-winning Syria documentary and wants to cover its tracks
Max Blumenthal and Ben Norton·
Star CNN correspondent Clarissa Ward worked with al-Qaeda “media man” Bilal Abdul Kareem to gain access to extremist...
John McCain and Paul Ryan hold ‘good meeting’ with veteran Ukrainian Nazi demagogue Andriy Parubiy
Ben Norton and Max Blumenthal·
Two of the Republican Party’s most powerful figures gave a PR boost to violent neo-Nazi forces rampaging across...
US and Gulf allies supported Islamist extremists in Syria, Qatar’s ex-prime minister admits, bolstering growing evidence
Qatar’s ex-Prime Minister Hamad bin Jassim bin Jaber al-Thani acknowledged the US and its Gulf allies backed Salafi-jihadists...
Arms industry-funded Democrats vote to help Saudi Arabia continue slaughtering civilians in Yemen
As Saudi Arabia bombs civilians in Yemen, five Democratic senators joined Republicans in narrowly voting to approve Trump’s...