Sunk By Jeff Stein, August 21, 2012 Gwenyth Todd had worked in a lot of places in Washington where powerful men didn’t hesitate to use sharp elbows. She had been a Middle East expert for the National Security Council in the Clinton administration. She had worked in the office of Defense Secretary Dick Cheney …
Category: War
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Jan 15 2023
Death by Doughnut
Black WWII soldiers asked a White woman for doughnuts. They were shot. By Justin Wm. Moyer, January 15, 2023 at 7:00 a.m. EST The Black soldiers — Allen Leftridge and Frank Glenn — were challenged by a White sergeant, according to a witness. When a White armed guard arrived, he fatally shot the two …
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Aug 03 2022
When a tangled web woven unravels
1950s U.S. Foreign Policy Looms Large in Lebanon By Jacob Boswell, July 29, 2022 The Cold War may be over, but the legacy of containment looms large over Lebanon. For decades, the U.S. has been the single largest financial supporter of the Lebanese Armed Forces (LAF), in a bid to balance Iran’s influence in …
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Jan 30 2022
Thank you for your service
‘I didn’t know who I was any more’: how CIA torture pushed me to the edge of death By Abu Zubaydah, Sat 29 Jan 2022 04.30 EST I found myself chained to a steel bed in a white room. As soon as I started letting myself fall asleep, a small amount of water …
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Jul 23 2021
100 Years Ago
What is Happening in Palestine Danger of Zionists Acquiring Supreme Power. By Lord Syndenham of Combe, June 1 1921 Do the British people understand whither Mr. Balfour’s Palestine policy is leading us? asks Lord Sydenham in an article in the Nineteenth Century, and he goes on to give a pessimistic view of the results …
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Aug 08 2020
Until the next Dahiya
Israel Is in Shock, in a Sickening Show of Hypocrisy By Gideon Levy, Published on 07.08.2020 Official Israel presented itself as shocked at the disaster that struck its neighbor, Lebanon, yesterday. Almost everyone put on a sorrowful face. Except for Richard Silverstein, who writes a blog, Tikkun Olam, no one accused Israel of causing …
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Jun 22 2020
You may rejoice, I must mourn
The Meaning of July Fourth for the Negro By Frederick Douglass, July 5, 1852, at Rochester, New York’s Corinthian Hall, addressing the Rochester Ladies’ Anti-Slavery Society Mr. President, Friends and Fellow Citizens: He who could address this audience without a quailing sensation, has stronger nerves than I have. I do not remember ever to …
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