The narrative of Russian intelligence attacking state and local election boards and threatening the integrity of U.S. elections has achieved near-universal acceptance by media and political elites. And now it has been accepted by the Trump administration’s intelligence chief, Dan Coats, as well. But the real story behind that narrative, recounted here for the first […]
The Media’s Brazen Dishonesty About North Korean Nuclear Violations…
U.S. Public Was Misled on Trump-Kim Summit by Gareth Porter…
How Obama’s CIA Armed Terrorists in Syria by Gareth Porter…
U.S. ‘Deep State’ Sold Out Counter-terrorism to Keep Itself in Business by Gareth Porter…
New York Times columnist Tom Friedman outraged many readers when he wrote an opinion piece on 12 April calling on President Trump to “back off fighting territorial ISIS in Syria”. The reason he gave for that recommendation was not that US wars in the Middle East are inevitably self-defeating and endless, but that it would […]
New Revelations Belie Trump Claims on Syria Chemical Attack…
White House Report: Assad Regime’s Use of Chemical Weapons on April 4, 2017…
How ‘New Cold Warriors’ Cornered Trump by Gareth Porter…
Opponents of the Trump administration have generally accepted as fact the common theme across mainstream media that aides to Donald Trump were involved in some kind of illicit communications with the Russian government that has compromised the independence of the administration from Russian influence. But close analysis of the entire series of leaks reveals something […]
More Bluster and Bluff on Iran by Gareth Porter…
The first public pronouncements by President Donald Trump’s administration on Iran have created the widespread impression that the U.S. will adopt a much more aggressive posture towards the Islamic Republic than under Barack Obama’s presidency. But despite the rather crude warnings to Tehran by now ex-National Security Advisor Michael Flynn and by Trump himself, the […]
How Clinton Defeat Derailed Syrian War by Gareth Porter…
A new coalition of US-based organizations is pushing for a more aggressive U.S. intervention against the Assad regime. But both the war in Syria and politics in the United States have shifted dramatically against this objective. When it was formed last July, the coalition hoped that a Hillary Clinton administration would pick up its proposals […]