Home / Politics (page 18)

Politics

NYT’s ‘Really Weird’ Russiagate Story

Exclusive: The Russiagate narrative has taken a turn toward the surreal with a report in the New York Times alleging that U.S. spies paid a “shadowy Russian” $100,000 for dirt on the president, explains Daniel Lazare. By Daniel Lazare A Russian national with ties to cybercrime and Russian intelligence snookered U.S. spooks …

Read More »

Secret Alliance: Israel Carries Out Airstrikes in Egypt, With Cairo’s O.K.

By DAVID D. KIRKPATRICK   The jihadists in Egypt’s Northern Sinai had killed hundreds of soldiers and police officers, pledged allegiance to the Islamic State, briefly seized a major town and begun setting up armed checkpoints to claim territory. In late 2015, they brought down a Russian passenger jet. Egypt appeared unable to stop them, so Israel, …

Read More »

The UK’s Hidden Hand in Julian Assange’s Detention

By Jonathan Cook_Global Research  It now emerges that the last four years of Julian Assange’s effective imprisonment in the Ecuadorean embassy in London have been entirely unnecessary. In fact, they depended on a legal charade. Behind the scenes, Sweden wanted to drop the extradition case against Assange back in 2013. …

Read More »

Making Russia ‘The Enemy’

Despite conflicting accounts about who leaked the Democratic emails, the frenzy over an alleged Russian role is driving the U.S. deeper into a costly and dangerous New Cold War. By Robert Parry January 15, 2017 “Information Clearing House” – “Consortium News” – The rising hysteria about Russia is best understood …

Read More »