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Military Analyst Daniel Hale to Be Sentenced for Exposing Drone Killings to Public
The Washington Post reports “Former intelligence analyst Daniel Hale pleads guilty to leaking classified information.” JESSELYN RADACK, jess@exposefacts.org, @JesselynRadackRadack serves as Hale’s whistleblower attorney. She heads the Whistleblower and Source...
0Advocates and Celebrities Call for Immediate End to Saudi Blockade of Yemen
April 6, 2021 The Saudi blockade is a leading driver of starvation in Yemen. In response to the growing humanitarian crisis, the Friends Committee on National Legislation, Yemen Relief and Reconstruction Foundation, Demand Progress, and Just Foreign Policy sent a letter to President Joe...
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Saudi Starvation Blockade of Yemen — Why is Biden Admin Denying it’s Happening?
April 6, 2021 Friends Committee on National Legislation, Yemen Relief and Reconstruction Foundation, Demand Progress, and Just Foreign Policy have teamed up with actor and humanitarian Mark Ruffalo and the creators of the 2021 Oscar-nominated film “HUNGER WARD,” to urge President Biden...
0Defense Secretary Vows ‘Ironclad’ Commitment to Israel During Visit to Talk Iran Deal
Israeli DM demands nuclear deal protect Israel Jason Ditz Posted on April 11, 2021Categories NewsTags Biden, Iran, Israel A Sunday meeting between Defense Secretary Lloyd Austin and his Israeli counterpart Benny Gantz is looming large over nuclear talks with Iran, with the US trying to...
0Iran Sees Israeli Cyber attack as Nuclear Terrorism
Officials blame Mossad for blackout Jason Ditz Posted on April 11, 2021Categories NewsTags Iran, Israel Seemingly timed to disrupt ongoing P5+1 nuclear talks in Vienna, a cyberattack against Natanz has caused a power failure, and forces the uranium enrichment facility to temporarily stop...
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Lokman Slim’s war: The life and mysterious death of a Western collaborator in Lebanon
On February 4, a Lebanese employee of foreign embassies and NGOs was murdered in the southern Lebanese village of Addousiyeh. Few Lebanese people had heard of the 58-year-old socialite who had made his living in recent years by informing on his own community. But the Western diplomatic...
0US Secretaries of Defense and State Headed to NATO Headquarters Over Ukraine Crisis
Rick Rozoff Posted on April 10, 2021Categories News The Defense Department announced on April 8 that Secretary of Defense Lloyd Austin was to leave today to consult with civilian and military leaders in Israel, Germany, NATO headquarters in Brussels and Great Britain. Topics to be...
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Biden is picking up where Trump left off as US readies itself for a titanic tech cold war with China
Tom Fowdy is a British writer and analyst of politics and international relations with a primary focus on East Asia.9 Apr, 2021 16:14 Get short URL © Getty Images / da-kuk Follow RT on America’s addition of more Chinese companies to its entity list shows it’s now being used as a vehicle...
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DIANA JOHNSTONE: The Imperialism of Foolery
April 7, 2021 Pro-Western Syrian exiles have issued a diatribe against the most informative critics of U.S. war policy at a time when Washington’s aggressiveness is reaching new levels of intensity. A protest placard in the Kafersousah neighborhood of Damascus, Syria, Dec. 26, 2012....
0US Not Willing to Lift All Trump-Era Sanctions on Iran to Revive Nuclear Deal
Vienna talks will reconvene next week Dave DeCamp Posted on April 9, 2021Categories NewsTags Iran After a week of indirect talks between the US and Iran in Vienna, a US official clarified with reporters on Friday that the Biden administration is not willing to lift all Trump-era...
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Mozambique’s conflict and the question of foreign intervention
Attack on Palma has again increased pressure for more foreign military intervention, which Maputo has long resisted. By Joseph Stepansky9 Apr 2021 The bloody takeover late last month of Palma, a northern town at the centre of Mozambique’s vast oil and natural gas prospects, has again...
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A Global Demand to 35 Governments: Get Your Troops Out of Afghanistan / A Thank You to 6 That Already Have
Target: Governments with Troops Occupying Afghanistan The governments of Albania, Armenia, Australia, Austria, Azerbaijan, Belgium, Bosnia-Herzegovina, Bulgaria, Czechia, Denmark, Estonia, Finland, Georgia, Germany, Greece, Hungary, Italy, Latvia, Lithuania, Luxembourg, Mongolia,...
0Ukraine’s Top Commander Invokes NATO’s Article 5 Military Assistance Clause as West Continues to Oversee Ukraine’s War in the Donbass
Rick Rozoff Posted on April 9, 2021Categories News Colonel-General Ruslan Khomchak, the commander-in-chief of Ukraine’s armed forces, is quoted today as boasting that his nation’s military is capable of responding to what he deemed the “aggravation of the situation” in the Donbass, in...
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PATRICK LAWRENCE: Biden’s Inhumanity on Syria
April 6, 2021 By Patrick LawrenceSpecial to Consortium News For a time after Joe Biden took office not quite three months ago, among the questions raised was how the new administration would address the Syria question. I do not think we will have to wonder about this much longer. It is...
0US Mulls Sending More Warships to Black Sea To ‘Send Message’ to Russia
Rick Rozoff Posted on April 8, 2021Categories News CNN reports that a U.S. defense official informed them Washington is considering deploying warships to the Black Sea as a demonstration of support to the government of Ukraine in response to what was described as increased Russian...
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US-Funded Uyghur Activists Train as Soldiers of Empire
April 8, 2021 Profoundly illiberal forces lie behind the veneer of a peaceful campaign for human rights, Ajit Singh reports. By Ajit SinghThe Grayzone On March 21, U.S.-government-funded Uyghur activists were caught on video disrupting a gathering against anti-Asian racism in...
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Nuclear Weapons: “The Taproot of Violence”: Plowshares Activist Being Sentenced Friday
April 8, 2021 As the Biden administration assesses U.S. nuclear weapons policy, Colville is facing sentencing on Friday morning for entering the Kings Bay Naval Submarine Base in Georgia to protest such policy. Colville’s sentencing — the last one of the activists to be sentenced — will...
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Biden to request $715B budget for the Pentagon, slight increase from last year
It’s a modest increase from the current level, but below the level projected by the Trump administration in its final budget. The White House is set to release the broad outlines of its fiscal 2022 budget submission on Friday. | Chip Somodevilla/Getty Images By CONNOR O’BRIEN and...
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