Hamid Dabashi: An American and an Arab Walk Into a Saudi Consulate….One (Thomas Friedman) Come Out Smiling and Writes About Saudi Reforms, the Other (Jamal Khashoggi) is Tortured, Dismembered, and Never Seen Again. What Can We Learn from This?

An American and an Arab journalist walk into a Saudi Consulate On Thomas Friedman, ‘his friend’ Jamal Khashoggi, and our duty to expose the malicious ignorance of imperial messengers. Hamid Dabashi, Hagop Kevorkian Professor of Iranian Studies and Comparative Literature at Columbia University. The New York Times is the barometer of the health and sickness …

Gareth Porter: The Shaky Case That Russia Manipulated Social Media to Tip the 2016 Election — a Dismantling of the Deep State Narrative Promulgated by the CIA and the NYT

The Shaky Case That Russia Manipulated Social Media to Tip the 2016 Election Published in full text online with permission of the author in order to enable this important work to be read in Russian and other languages using the translation widget. The idea promoted by NYT’s Shane & Mazzetti that the Russian government seriously …

Berto Jongman: Obama Makes Euro 2 Million Attacking Trump, Nationalism Across Scandanavia

All earned in one week. Obama takes a dig at Trump by blasting ‘politics driven by racial divisions and rejection of science’ as he speaks to audience including Princess Marie of Denmark In an apparent reference to his successor, the former US president said he was worried about the rise of nationalistic views and rejection …

Robert Steele: Rod Rosenstein and Legalized Lying and Cheating at Justice — The Week in Review

Not now, but soon. Top to bottom coast to coast cleansing of the stables. ROBERT STEELE: I have known for years that the Department of Justice claims the right to lie to the Courts; I have known for years that the Federal Bureau of Investigation is a theatrical agency with a pedophile chain of command …