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Age of Despair: Reaping the Whirlwind of Western Support for Extremist Violence

We, the West, overthrew Saddam by violence. We overthrew Gadafy by violence. We are trying to overthrow Assad by violence. Harsh regimes all — but far less draconian than our Saudi allies, and other tyrannies around the world. What has been the result of these interventions? A hell on earth, one that grows wider and more virulent year after year. Without the American crime of aggressive war against Iraq — which, by the measurements used by Western governments themselves, left more than a million innocent people dead — there would be no ISIS, no “Al Qaeda in Iraq.” Without the

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Support for Arthur Silber

Arthur Silber, laid low by illness and unable to write throughout much of this year, is in a dire situation. If you can, please head over to his site and offer your financial support for his past work — and for the work to come.

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Murderers Without Frontiers: An American Tradition

This is my latest column for CounterPunch Magazine, written earlier this month: When I heard of the deadly U.S. strike on the Médecins Sans Frontières facility in Kunduz on October 3, I thought of this fragment of ancient history, written by a lowly scribe years ago: “One of the first moves in this magnificent feat of arms was the destruction and capture of medical centers. Twenty doctors – and their patients, including women and children – were killed in an airstrike on one major clinic, the UN Information Service reports, while the city’s main hospital was seized in the early

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Windsor Knot: Confirmation of UK Royal Treason with Nazis

While we’re all going back in time to talk about bigwigs who supported and/or collaborated with the Nazis, let’s take a look at this smoking gun that recently appeared in the London Review of Books: documentary proof of the former King of England’s treason with the Nazis, supplying them with top-secret info from high-level war strategy meetings. (Of course, I suppose the Mufti of Jerusalem talked the Duke of Windsor into this treachery; as we all know, thanks to Benjamin Netanyahu, the Mufti had magical powers that could make even a good guy like Hitler do bad things.) This was

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13 Ways of Looking at the Deep State

Deep State is a Terror State, Torture State,Tyrant State — and it’s OK with that. Deep State was formed to bodyguard elites,keeping their dominance ever-refreshed. Deep State doesn’t care what you advocate,just as long as you toe the unsaid line. Deep State is cold, lacks true affect;hates only that which hinders it. Deep State fences the range of opinionlike a cattle baron stringing barbed wire. Deep State loves culture war, stokes all sides,thrives on strife, the bitterer the better. Deep State is not in full control; it justknows which way it wants the world to roll. Deep State kills the

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National (Blue) Velvet: The Rot of Roseburg Comes From Every Side

The shooting in Roseburg, Oregon, is turning into a David Lynch movie. First, there’s the sheriff who’s a Sandy Hook “truther,” now there’s the shooter’s mother who was stockpiling weapons and taking her troubled son to remote shooting ranges. She believed the government was about to confiscate guns, so she kept buying them. But here’s the truth: it is now far easier to buy weapons, and much harder to trace who owns them, than at ANY TIME IN US HISTORY. So where do so many people get the idea that the ‘guvmint’ is coming to take their weapons — when

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In Brief: ‘Lone Nuts’ and Natural Fruit; Moscow Murk

“Lone nut” gunmen: natural fruit of the system. Hypercapitalism destroys social, family, community and economic bonds; it sews division, isolation, competition, greed; lauds force and violence and war as supreme values; turns rape and murder into nightly entertainment; dehumanizes and commodifies human beings at every turn … and then we wonder why our society produces so many troubled, isolated, violent souls out there. A system set up on dehumanization and moral insanity is bound to produce the kind of damaged psyches we see falling prey to the hate that fills the nightmind of the internet — and the broad daylight

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Road to Damascus: An Odd Quack of Truth from the Telegraph

The Daily Telegraph is an odd duck. Loathsome in almost every respect — from its nutball, feudal lord owners to its repulsive politics — from time to time it will suddenly print a piece of reportage that undercuts the prevailing propaganda narratives of the Anglosphere’s oh-so-very-free press. For example, in the midst of America’s disastrous occupation of Iraq in the last decade, the Telegraph — pro-war Thatcherite Tory to the bone — published a remarkably in-depth story detailing the murderous “dirty war” being fought by the US/UK security apparat in Iraq: death squads, torture, arming extremists, deliberately sewing sectarian division,

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Corbyn the Kitten Eater: How Low Will Bipartisan Brit Media Go?

Looks like the Times is giving the Guardian a run for their money in the “most ludicrously trivial slanting of Corbyn coverage” contest. First the Guardian noted the lèse majesté of Corbyn’s lip movements (or lack thereof) during the national anthem; now the Times damns his bicycle for its associations with far-left mass murder. (The kind Corbyn is obviously plotting for all those who resist his evil plans to create a howling, hellish Britain with less war and fewer poor). An innocuous picture of Corbyn leaving his house was larded with feverish implications by Times, which noted (in the first

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Grief Without Wisdom: Joe Biden’s Empty Authenticity

I’m very sorry Joe Biden’s son died recently. I truly am. I know it’s a deep, genuine pain, “overwhelming,” as he told Stephen Colbert, and he will carry it the rest of his life. But when I see all our earnest media progressives gushing over Joe’s “authenticity” in sharing that pain on national TV, I also think of the hundreds of thousands of people who lost children and other kith and kin in a pointless war that Joe not only voted for, but also actively encouraged with heated Senate hearings that whipped up war fever. That faithful service to the

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