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US Media Rushes to Manufacture Legal Legitimacy for Trump’s Venezuela Oil Tanker Piracy
Venezuela oil exports are not “black market” and US sanctions are not “international sanctions.” Why does our media keep saying otherwise?
 • Adam Johnson
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 • Adam Johnson
Media Pontificating About Trump’s Motives for Attacking Venezuela Keep Ignoring that he Openly Admitted It Was to Take Their Oil
BBC, Politico, WaPo, CNN entertain many reasons for why Trump wants regime change in Venezuela—while ignoring the most obvious.
 • Adam Johnson
The ADL Ignores Yet Another Elon Musk ‘Great Replacement’ Meltdown
Why does the alleged civil rights group continue to give a free pass to America’s most prominent antisemite?
 • Adam Johnson
It’s Not Just 'Netanyahu': The Rise of Liberals’ One Bad Man Theory to Explain Away Gaza Genocide
Attempts to pin the horrors on “Netanyahu" obscure the reality of just how popular genocide is with US elites and within Israel itself.
 • Adam Johnson
Child Amputees, Aid Massacres, Mass Starvation—the Israeli War Crimes NYT Covers Less than Mamdani and 'Globalize the Intifada'
Theoretical, third order, speculative violence must be condemned while actual, real world mass violence, that actually exists in reality, is seen as…
 • Adam Johnson
Lawmakers and Pundits Speed Run Iraq WMDs-Level Lies About Iran
The US intelligence consensus is that Iran does not have a nuclear weapons program. Why does our media and political class keep implying—and explicitly…
 • Sarah Lazare and Adam Johnson
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