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Former U.N. Ambassador John Bolton speaking at the 2015 Conservative Political Action Conference (CPAC) in National Harbor, Maryland. (Photo: Gage Skidmore)
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Regime Change, Partition, and “Sunnistan”: John Bolton’s Vision for a New Middle East

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Bolton’s Past Advocacy for Israel at US Expense Heralds Dangerous New Era in Geopolitics

Notorious war hawk John Bolton – who has long been vying for a position in Trump’s administration – has been especially eager to work with a president with minimal foreign policy knowledge or experience, allowing him maximum effect in achieving his policy goals.

Whitney Webb
Por Whitney Webb
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This article is Part I of a series exploring the past of soon-to-be National Security Adviser John Bolton and what his recent appointment will mean for U.S. foreign policy, with a focus on the Middle East, Latin America, and the Koreas. Part I explores Bolton’s history of putting the interests of the Israeli government ahead of those of the U.S.,

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Should Israeli Settlers be Considered Civilians?

Article 49 of the Fourth Geneva Convention: “The Occupying Power shall not deport or transfer parts of its own civilian population into the territory it occupies.”

Robert Inlakesh
Por Robert Inlakesh
The Israeli Jewish-settlement of Maale Adumim, near Jerusalem, Feb. 7, 2017. (AP/Oded Balilty)

It is time to pose a question: Are Israeli settlers civilians? Or are they illegal occupiers? A group of Israeli settlers made the move, to seize land in East Hebron (al-Khalil) last Monday (06/03/18), setting up camp - adjacent to the ‘Kharsina settlement’ - backed by an entourage of heavily armed soldiers. This move threatens three Palestinian

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From Madison Avenue to Pennsylvania Avenue: How They Sold Operation Iraqi Freedom

The same techniques (and often the same PR gurus) that have been used to hawk cigarettes, SUVs and nuclear waste dumps were deployed to retail the Iraq war.

Jeffrey St. Clair
Por Jeffrey St. Clair
President Bush announces he has reached an agreement with House leaders on a resolution giving him authority to oust Saddam Hussein, in the Rose Garden, Wednesday, Oct 2, 2002. Bush is joined by, from left to right front row, Speaker of the House of Representatives Dennis Hastert, R-Ill, Bush, Sen. Trent Lott, R-Miss., and House Minority Leader Dick Gephardt, D-Mo. As part of the deal with the House, Bush bent to Democratic wishes and pledged to certify to Congress that diplomatic and other peaceful means alone are inadequate to protect Americans from Saddams weapons of mass destruction. (AP Photo/Ron Edmonds)

The war on Iraq won’t be remembered for how it was waged so much as for how it was sold. It was a propaganda war, a war of perception management, where loaded phrases, such as “weapons of mass destruction” and “rogue state” were hurled like precision weapons at the target audience: us. To understand the Iraq war you don’t need to consult

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The Sacramento Police Department Are No Angels

If we are going to go digging into people’s pasts after a police shooting, let’s start with the ones holding the smoking guns.

Monique Judge
Por Monique Judge
Helmeted Sacramento Police officers block the entrance to the Sacramento City Council chambers from demonstrators protesting the shooting death of Stephon Clark by Sacramento Police, Tuesday, March 27, 2018, in Sacramento, Calif. Clark, who was unarmed, was shot and killed a week earlier by two officers responding to a call about a person smashing car windows. (AP Photo/Rich Pedroncelli)

While the shooting death of Stephon Clark has made national headlines over the last two weeks, it is not the first questionable shooting the Sacramento, Calif., Police Department has had. It is just one in a long list of many questionable incidents or activities the department has been linked to. Each and every time there is a police shooting

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UN Independent Expert: Venezuela Should Take US to the International Court of Justice

The sanctions against Venezuela have exacerbated the economic crisis caused by the collapse of oil prices leading to serious shortages of medicines and food.

Mariela Acuña Orta / Marian Martínez Perdomo
Por Mariela Acuña Orta / Marian Martínez Perdomo
Alfred de Zayas, U.N. independent expert on international order, hold a news conference calling for the abolition of tax havens, Oct. 21, 2016, at U.N. headquarters. (AP/Bebeto Matthews)

Alfred de Zayas, a UN Independent Expert for the promotion of an international democratic and equitable order, told Venezuela’s newspaper Últimas Noticias that “it is time” for Venezuela to ask the International Criminal Court “for an investigation into the crimes against humanity committed by the United States for imposing sanctions against

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BDS Calls for Boycott of Netflix Israel ‘Propaganda’ Series, Fauda

BDS says that “Fauda” celebrates secret Israeli military units which are known to have carried out numerous assassinations and extrajudicial executions, murder and the brutal arrest of unarmed demonstrators, including children.

Middle East Monitor
Por Middle East Monitor
A screenshot from Episode 1 of the Netflix series 'Fauda'.

The international Boycott, Divestment and Sanctions (BDS) movement is leading a campaign against the hit Israeli series, “Fauda”. Denouncing the widely acclaimed series as “racist propaganda for the Israeli occupation army”, BDS called on Netflix, which bought the rights to “Fauda”, to remove the show or face legal action. In its statement

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