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 …

Mongoose: The Hill Exposes DNC-FBI COllusion on Russia Witchhunt — DNC Lawyers (Who Funded the Fake Dossier) Met FBI Officials BEFORE FBI Sought a Surveillance Warrant

Collusion bombshell: DNC lawyers met with FBI on Russia allegations before surveillance warrant John Solomon, The Hill, 3 OCT 2018 Congressional investigators have confirmed that a top FBI official met with Democratic Party lawyers to talk about allegations of Donald Trump-Russia collusion weeks before the 2016 election, and before the bureau secured a search warrant …

Berto Jongman: Beacon and Warning: Sherman Kent, Scientific Hubris, and the CIA’s Office of National Estimates

Beacon and Warning: Sherman Kent, Scientific Hubris, and the CIA’s Office of National Estimates J. Peter Scoblic, a doctoral candidate at Harvard Business School, is a fellow in the International Security Program at New America and the author of U.S. vs. Them: Conservatism in the Age of Nuclear Terror. “From bias to probabilities, Kent anticipated …