Investigative historian and journalist on the national security state; author of Manufactured Crisis: The Untold Story of the Iran Nuclear Scare (2014).
Arlington, Va
Joined January 2009
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My latest piece explains how the original "Military Industrial Complex" has morphed into something much more frightening -- a Permanent War State in which the political power of a drone contractor is a crucial factor. bit.ly/2QNd1fv
The great Kelley Vlahos interviewed me on her Podcast on the whole disinformation mess surrounding Iran and its nuclear program. Thanks, Kelley
open.spotify.com/episode/4cf…
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For the record, I have never been involved with WMDs or any nuclear or that matter in Iran, but I have researched the topic extensively, and notably there is no serious evidence of a WMD Program.
The Supreme Leader who was just murdered by the USA was actually opposed to it and on numerous occasions upheld the Fatwa forbidding both Chemical and Nuclear Weapons.
Chemical Weapons in particular are a sensitive issue in Iran, because during the Iran-Iraq War they were he largest population since WW1 that has been subjected to them.
See my interview below with @GarethPorter on it.
hkrugertjie.substack.com/p/t…
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30 years of Iran almost about to get a nuke.
Gotta be some form of record - @TheEconomist is the only one who comes close, with like 25 years of China about to collapse.
Wonder how long the United States has been accusing Iran of pursuing nuclear weapons? Believe it or not last Saturday was the 30th anniversary of the first such U.S. accusation by CIA Director John M. Deutsch on March 20, 1996, without any real evidence to support it.
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South Americans need to unite and fight back, if they invade Venezuela...another Vietnam war.
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Trump wants to get the Nobel Peace Prize, but he should get the War Criminal of the Year award for his Israeli bootlicking Gaza proposal -- or maybe it should be called the Jeffrey Epstein Prize.
The UN will hold an Emergency Session for Palestine soon. Send an email to your country's leaders to Demand a UN-mandated Multinational Armed Protective Force to stop the genocide!
Click! 👇👇
stopgenocide.com/unga/
@Palestine_UN @PalestinePMO
#StopGenocide #ProtectPalestine
To my shame I have not posted about it for many months, but I must denounce the deliberate Israeli starvartion of the entire Palestinian population as the modern equivalent of the holocaust -- and denounce a servile U.S. government for its complicity in this crime.
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Trump's deranged talk about owning Gaza after Israel removes Palestinians forcibly from their homeland and deporting them to foreign countries is the low point in the modern U.S. history of horrific crimes abroad. It marks US descent into Nazi-style genocide & must be opposed.
Trump's deranged talk about owning Gaza after Israel removes Palestinians forcibly from their homeland and deporting them to foreign countries is the low point in the modern U.S. history of horrific crimes abroad. It marks US descent into Nazi-style genocide & must be opposed.
Tulsi Gabbard has been villified for assserting the Obama administration armed al Qaeda in Syria. But the documentation supporting the point is voluminous, as I detailed in my 2017 article. theamericanconservative.com/…
My thanks to Ben Cohen and the folks at the new Pierre Sprey Prize for investigative reporter for their recognition of my work as one of the three honored and hearty congratulations to my friend Max Blumenthal for winning the prize for his powerful pieces.
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#TheySaid
STARVE THOSE CHILDREN 36 months or older!!!
all Palestinians in Gaza over the age of 4 are “involved” and deserve to face Israel’s collective punishment policy of withholding food and humanitarian aid - Fmr Mossad official Rami Igra #genocide
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Why did the International Court of Justice accept all of South Africa's arguments but not order Israel to end its genocidal military assault on Gaza?
Because it dared not take on the real culprit: the US. Biden would have been forced to wield his veto at the Security Council to block enforcement.
Identifying Washington as the sponsor of genocide marked the limit of the World Court's courage.
Israelis never tire of accusigng Hamas of killing 29 Israeli children on October 7. But Israel has killed more than 10,000 Palestinian children in Gaza since then, and worse killing through deliberate starvation & disease is still to come. So who are the real child killers?
My latest describes the South African petition's catalogue genocidal consequences of Israel's attack on the Gaza'sof population, including massive deaths from starvation, and of the explicitly genocidal statements of from Netanyahu & Israeli ministers.
consortiumnews.com/2024/01/1…
To truly understand what the Israelis are doing in Gaza, watch and listen to these angelic Israeli kids singing well-rehearsed, explicitly genocidal lyrics: "In another year we will annihilate the swastika bearers" (at 7:35). youtube.com/watch?v=RmVts47H…