Tag: US

Special Advisers to Obama blast “American economic warfare” against Iran

25 MAY 2019|THE INTERREGNUM|MOHAMED ELMAAZI

As Donald Trump increases his aggressive posture towards Iran, special advisers to former US president Barack Obama warn that his unrealistic hopes for a “better deal” may be leading to a “ruinous chain of events”.

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Trump is on “the brink of launching” the US into “war with Iran”, warns Tulsi Gabbard.

18 May 2019|The Interregnum|Mohamed Elmaazi

US presidential hopeful Tulsi Gabbard has issued repeated statements warning that Donald Trump is leading the US into “war with Iran”. A war that she says would make Iraq look like “a cakewalk”.

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(Part 1) Pentagon is “demarcating the highway to war with China”, warns ex-US Colonel

13 MAY 2019|THE INTERREGNUM|MOHAMED ELMAAZI

The US Department of Defense (DOD) recently published its annual report for Congress about China’s  “military and security developments”. National security and foreign policy expert Lawrence Wilkerson warned that the report is a “budget ploy”, which is part of a larger and more dangerous aggressive US posture, that sees China not only as a competitor but also as a threat to vital US national security interests. He says this world-view is setting the stage for war.

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Venezuela under assault: socialism, imperialism and oil

2 February 2019 | MEDIA DIVERSIFIED| Mohamed Elmaazi

In recent years the Venezuela government has found itself in conflict with right-wing opposition forces, but also with genuine grassroots organisers who want to carry the “Bolivarian revolution” forward. Thus democratising policies under Chavez have stalled. Mohamed Elmaazi details the steps that have led to ordinary Venezuelans being caught between a rock and a hard place.

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Inside the Temple of Covert Propaganda: The Integrity Initiative and the UK’s Scandalous Information War

17 December 2018| The Grayzone project|
MOHAMED ELMAAZI AND MAX BLUMENTHAL

The Grayzone entered the carefully concealed offices of a covert, British government-backed propaganda mill that is at the center of an international scandal the mainstream media refuses to touch.

Featured image via Mohamed Elmaazi

Recent hacked documents have revealed an international network of politicians, journalists, academics, researchers and military officers, all engaged in highly deceptive covert propaganda campaigns funded by the British Foreign and Commonwealth Office (FCO), NATO, Facebook and hardline national security institutions. 

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Leaked US documents reveal a warped vision of regime change in Syria

28 September 2018|The Canary|Mohamed Elmaazi

Featured image via US military intelligence video

Leaked US documents have revealed Washington’s vision of regime change in Syria. And it’s not pretty. Planners never thought democratic opponents to Syria’s Bashar al-Assad stood a chance, according to a 2011 US military intelligence assessment.  The US Marine Corps’ (USMC) Intelligence Department and private intelligence firm Stratfor jointly produced this August 2011 assessment. Journalist Nafeez Mosaddeq Ahmed discovered this document among a trove of leaked emails published by WikiLeaks.

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