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Biden isn’t ending the Afghanistan War, he’s privatizing it: Special Forces, Pentagon contractors, intelligence operatives will remain

Jeremy Kuzmarov·April 16, 2021

Over 18,000 Pentagon contractors remain in Afghanistan, while official troops number 2,500. Joe Biden will withdraw this smaller... Read More

White Helmets jihadists Idlib Syria flag

Trump gives $4.5 million to Syria’s White Helmets, which partnered with jihadists and joined Turkey’s ethnic cleansing

Ben Norton·October 28, 2019

While touting his efforts to end US involvement in Syria, Trump approved $4.5 million more for the White... Read More

US troops are staying in Syria to ‘keep the oil’ – and have already killed hundreds over it

Ben Norton·October 23, 2019

Hundreds of American soldiers are remaining in Syria to occupy its oil reserves and block the Syrian government... Read More

De Exxon a ’embajador’: Cómo Carlos Vecchio se convirtió en el principal lobista del golpe de estado

Anya Parampil and Diego Sequera·June 22, 2019

La historia del ascenso del cerebro del cambio de régimen a travéz de instituciones de la élite estadounidense... Read More

Did Venezuelan coup leaders pocket $70 million from Citgo’s stolen US assets?

Anya Parampil·June 19, 2019

Venezuela’s government has claimed the Department of Justice will investigate Citgo’s opposition-appointed board for the theft of $70... Read More

From Exxon to ‘ambassador’: How Carlos Vecchio became Venezuela’s top coup lobbyist

Anya Parampil and Diego Sequera·June 18, 2019

The story of regime-change brain Carlos Vecchio’s rise through elite US institutions and the oil industry captures the... Read More

Venezuela Coup Leader’s Oil Plans Revealed: Guaidó Hopes to Privatize State-Controlled Industry

Ben Norton·March 14, 2019

US-appointed coup leader Juan Guaidó and his right-wing economic advisers drafted plans to privatize Venezuela’s oil industry and... Read More

WSJ Confirms: Trump-Appointed Venezuela Coup Leader Plans Neoliberal Capitalist Shock Therapy

Ben Norton·February 3, 2019

Venezuela’s US-appointed coup leader Juan Guaidó plans to privatize state assets and give foreign corporations access to oil,... Read More

US Coup in Venezuela Motivated by Oil and Corporate Interests – Militarist John Bolton Spills the Beans

Ben Norton·January 29, 2019

In an interview on Fox Business, Trump’s hyper-militaristic National Security Adviser John Bolton admitted the US-led coup in... Read More

Obama admits bipartisan capitalist ‘Washington Consensus’ fueled far-right and multiplied inequality

Ben Norton·December 21, 2018

Former US President Barack Obama admitted that the neoliberal capitalist policies he and his predecessors supported fostered the... Read More

At elite gala with ex-Bush official, Obama tells Wall Street to thank him for making so much money

Ben Norton·November 30, 2018

“Just say thank you, please,” former President Obama told a room full of bankers, and boasted of making the... Read More

PUSHBACK

Challenged on Syria cover-up, OPCW chief lies and US-UK-France evade

At UN, ex-Colin Powell aide calls out ‘egregious’ OPCW Syria cover-up

In moving UN speech, veteran diplomat confronts OPCW ‘stonewalling and smear tactics’ on Syria

REDLINES

USAID admits to Venezuela regime change fraud

US escalates in Ukraine battleground

Vijay Prashad explains Myanmar coup

ESPAÑOL

Policía mundial: Washington busca encarcelar a empresarios extranjeros por incumplir sanciones ilegales

En sádico manual de sanciones, enviado de Biden para Irán se jacta de privar de alimentos a los civiles, aumentando la desigualdad iraní

El ‘embajador virtual’ de EEUU tiene una cumbre de golpistas venezolanos antes del reconocimiento a Guaidó de Biden

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