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An Elite Coalition Emerges Against a Trump-Kim Agreement Media coverage of the Trump-Kim summit has highlighted a political reaction that threatens to torpedo any possible U.S-North Korean agreement on denuclearization of the Korean peninsula, says Gareth Porter. The real concern of the opposition to Trump’s diplomacy, therefore, is no longer that he cannot succeed in …

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How Corporate Media Are Undermining a US-North Korea Nuclear Weapons Deal These examples of flagrant misrepresentation of facts and irrelevant and nonsensical arguments reflect a fundamental problem with the corporate media as well as the political elites of the United States: They are so wedded to the interests of the national security state and to …

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Was There Ever an Iranian Nuclear Weapons Program? A review of the evidence points to Israeli and MEK disinformation, not an open-and-shut case.

The Latest Act in Israel’s Iran Nuclear Disinformation Campaign Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu’s claim in his theatrical 20-minute presentation of an Israeli physical seizure of Iran’s “atomic archive” in Tehran would certainly have been the “great intelligence achievement” he boasted if it had actually happened. But the claim does not hold up under careful …

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Did John Bolton Leak Intelligence to Sabotage a Trump-Kim Deal? The graphite factory episode would not be the first time Bolton had used alleged intelligence to try to block a negotiated agreement. In early 2004, Bolton, as undersecretary of state for arms control and international security, was determined to prevent the British, French and German …

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