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The ‘Witch Hunters’
Trump may be paranoid, but he has real enemies among the emeriti of the intelligence establishment, and among them are the authors of three new books that collectively have sold up to a million copies: James Clapper, Michael Hayden, and James Comey. By Tim Weiner.
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War Without End
The Pentagon’s failed campaigns in Iraq and Afghanistan left a generation of soldiers with little to fight for but one another. By C. J. Chivers.
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Political War!
Washington Goes Full Retard on the Russia Hoax. By David Stockman.
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We Can Pay For Free College The Same Way We Paid For A Pointless $5.6 Trillion War
Ideas like Medicare for All are written off as fantasy thinking by the same people who support virtually unlimited military spending. By Lindsay Koshgarian.
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Midterm Congressional Elections: You Can’t Lose What You Ain’t Never Had
The buzz is that “we” have to “take back” the House and Senate in the November midterm elections. By Roger Harris.
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The Metaphysics to Our Present Global Anguish
The American millenarian ‘myth’, then and now, was and is rooted in the fervent belief in the Manifest Destiny of the United States, ‘the New Jerusalem’, to represent humanity’s best hope for a utopian future. By Alastair Crooke.
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John McCain: “American Hero”
Journalists and politicians venerating John McCain’s civility and decency have a short memory. By Branko Marcetic.
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The Manufactured McCain
Lifting Up A Bloodstained, Lying, Venal Servant of Capitalist Empire. By Bruce Dixon.
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Tyndall Air Force Base a ‘Complete Loss’ Amid Questions About Stealth Fighters
Hurricane Michael tore directly into the base, and some of the Air Force’s most advanced — and most expensive — stealth fighter jets may have been left at the base.
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The war game that could have ended the world
A military exercise staged 35 years ago this week almost triggered World War Three. Previously secret documents now reveal what happened. By Richard Hollingham.
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Ten Years Gone: Iraq and Afghanistan Vets on What It All Meant
A decade after the worst fighting overseas, five combat veterans put the Forever War and American civilian life into perspective. By Kelley Beaucar Vlahos.
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Manafort’s Lawyer Said to Brief Trump Attorneys on What He Told Mueller
The arrangement was highly unusual, and it appeared to give Mr. Trump and his advisers ammunition in their public campaign against the special counsel investigation. By Michael S. Schmidt, Sharon LaFraniere, Maggie Haberman.
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The Digital Maginot Line
Who's that standing right behind you? Be afraid. Be very, very afraid. By Renee DiResta.
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New Cold War is more dangerous than the one the world survived
"The owl of Minerva spreads its wings only with the falling of dusk." – Hegel. By Stephen Cohen.
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As Democratic Elites Reunite With Neocons, the Party’s Voters Are Becoming Far More Militaristic and Pro-War Than Republicans
Democrats once favored an end to Middle East wars. Reflecting their Trump-era ethos, Democrats are now their primary proponents. By Glenn Greenwald.
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The Vice President’s Men
When George H.W. Bush arrived in Washington as vice president in January 1981 he seemed little more than a sideshow to Ronald Reagan, the one-time leading man who had been overwhelmingly elected to the greatest stage in the world... By Seymour M. Hersh.
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Sixteen Years Later, How the Press That Sold the Iraq War Got Away With It
In an excerpt from his new book Hate Inc., Matt Taibbi looks back at how the media built new lies to cover their early ones. By Matt Taibbi,
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Trump vs. McCain: an American Horror Story
Why is Donald Trump deliberately picking a fight with the ghost of John McCain? By H. Bruce Franklin.
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Russiagate
The Great Tragic Comedy of Modern Journalism. By Matt Bivens.
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America Just Declared War on Iran and Nobody Blinked
After a destabilizing move by Trump, it's no longer a question of if U.S. forces will die but when. By Scott Ritter.
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