Warning: Growing Risk of U.S.-Iran Hostilities Based on False Pretexts

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Warning: Growing Risk of U.S.-Iran Hostilities Based on False Pretexts

  By Veteran Intelligence Professionals for Sanity (VIPS) As President Donald Trump prepares to host Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu next week, a group of U.S. intelligence veterans offers corrections to a number of false accusations that have been levelled against Iran. February 26, 2018 Originally published on ConsortiumNews MEMORANDUM FOR:  The President FROM:  Veteran Intelligence Professionals for […]

Mass starvation as a political weapon

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Mass starvation as a political weapon

  January 27, 2018 Mass starvation killed more than three million people in Stalin-era Ukraine in the 1930s and more than 18 million in China during Mao Zedong’s Great Leap Forward in the late 1950s and early 1960s. Yet by the start of this century, famines like those were all but eliminated, Alex de Waal […]