In 2002, when Dick Cheney launched a war for oil, we could have had the alternate: democracy and renewables. In 2026, as Trump expands another war for oil, the US will have something far worse.
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Child Rapist George Nader Introduced Dick Cheney and Ahmad Chalabi
Last night, BuzzFeed released the second-to-last dump of 302s in their Mueller FOIA. There's a ton that's interesting in it (and I'm just skimming much of it). But -- as I said to Jason Leopold -- this George Nader interview, by itself, made the FOIA dump worth the...
The StuxNet Team Reunion
On Thursday, DOJ had a big dog and pony show over the indictment of 7 Iranians in connection with cyberattacks on US banks and a small dam in suburban NY. A grand jury in the Southern District of New York indicted seven Iranian individuals who were employed by two...
The Latest 60 Minutes Propaganda: We Need a Crypto Back Door because ISIS Is “Coming Here” with WMD
It has been clear for several years now that 60 Minutes has become a propaganda vehicle for the intelligence community (post, post, post). So it was unsurprising that John Brennan was given an opportunity to fearmonger last night without pesky people like Ron Wyden...
Implementation Day Fallout: Neocons Have Nuclear Meltdown Over Prisoner Exchange
The main editorial in today's New York Times puts into proper prospective the momentous events of this past weekend. The declaration of Implementation Day for the deal negotiated over the past two years between the P5+1 group of nations and Iran merits the title of...
Implementation Day: Full Description From JCPOA Text
It is now just over six months to the day since the historic P5+1 agreement with Iran was reached, dramatically decreasing Iran's pathways to a nuclear weapon in return for dropping economic sanctions. Although some small amounts of cash have been freed up for Iran in...
Why Tell the Israeli Spying Story Now?
“Intelligence professionals have a saying: There are no friendly intelligence services,” the WSJ describes former House Intelligence Chair Mike Rogers saying, on the record. While there's no way of telling -- particularly not with WSJ's described "more than two dozen...
Jahn’s AP Report Was Wrong. Was He Manipulated or Did He Intend to Mislead?
On August 19, AP's George Jahn set off a firestorm of controversy when he published an article on how Iran's Parchin site would be inspected as part of the P5+1 agreement reached earlier on Iran's nuclear technology. Iran deal opponents jumped onto the story...
AIPAC and Bibi: The Reckoning
Faced with what will be its biggest legislative defeat ever -- the passage of the Iran deal, possibly by upholding Obama's veto -- AIPAC is lashing out, blaming Bibi. An official from the American Israel Public Affairs Committee, the leading pro-Israel lobby in the...
John Yoo’s Assistance in Starting Iraq War Might Help Obama Avoid an Iran War
Last week, Steven Aftergood released a January 27, 2003 OLC memo, signed by John Yoo, ruling that the Executive Branch could withhold WMD information from Congress even though 22 USC § 3282 requires the Executive to brief the Foreign Relations committees on such...
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