How the news media promotes war. It’s a constant

By on    Conflict - violence and war, MEDIA, Media and conflict, Military & militarism (MIMAC), TFF PressInfo, Thinking, US Empire decline  

How the news media promotes war. It’s a constant

“Long before Trump and “deep state” became an expression, I produced one ginormous investigation — Top Secret America — for the Washington Post and I wrote a nasty book — American Coup — about the creeping fascism of homeland security.” William M. Arkin June 5, 2023 (When I wrote this open letter in January 2019, […]

With a new weapon in Donald Trump’s hands, the Iran crisis risks going nuclear

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With a new weapon in Donald Trump’s hands, the Iran crisis risks going nuclear

By William Arkin January 29, 2020 Ten days before Donald J. Trump was elected president in 2016, the United States nuked Iran. The occasion: a nuclear war exercise held every year in late October. In the war game, after Iran sank an American aircraft carrier and employed chemical weapons against a Marine Corps force, the […]