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Would Turkey Be Justified in Kidnapping or Drone-Killing the Turkish Cleric in Pennsylvania?

Turkey’sPresident Recep Tayyip Erdogan places the blame for this weekend’sfailed coup attempt on an Islamic preacher and one-time ally,Fethullah Gulen (above), who now resides in Pennsylvania with a green card. Erdogan is demanding the U.S. extradite Gulen, citing prior extraditions by the Turkishgovernment of terror suspects demanded by the U.S.:“Now we’re saying deliver this guy who’s on our terrorist list to us.” Erdogan has been requesting Gulen’sextradition from the U.S.for at least two...

Billionaires in Brazil: Understanding How Extreme Wealth and Political Power Overlap Everywhere

Alex Cuadros spent years covering the billionaire class of Latin America forBloomberg. A Portuguese-speaking American journalist who spent years based in Brazil, he has now written a highly entertaining and deeply insightful book about the particularly powerful, flamboyant, assertive, and often-crazed class of Brazilian billionaires. TitledBrazillionaires: Wealth, Power, Decadence, and Hope in an American Country, his new book was released yesterday.

As I noted when I selected it as one of...

Clinton-Led Democrats Are Now “to the Right of George W. Bush” on Palestinian Rights

The Guardian, January 10, 2008:

The Guardian, January 9, 2008:

CNN, July 10, 2016:

Haaretz, June 25, 2016:

There are countless ways to see that the rhetoricalmonuments of magnanimity, humanitarianism, and equality thatDemocratic Party leaders and their loyal followers love to erect in honor ofthemselves arenothing more than manipulative, self-glorifying dreck. But few pathologies illustrate that deceit more potently than their utter indifference, and now — in the Hillary Cl...

Clinton-Led Democrats Are Now “To the Right of George W. Bush” on Palestinian Rights

The Guardian, January 10, 2008:

The Guardian, January 9, 2008:

CNN, July 10, 2016:

Haaretz, June 25, 2016:

There are countless ways to see that the rhetoricalmonuments of magnanimity, humanitarianism and equality whichDemocratic Party leaders and their loyal followers love to erect in honor ofthemselves arenothing more than manipulative, self-glorifying dreck. But few pathologies illustrate that deceit more potently than their utter indifference, and now – in the Hillary Cl...

Chilcot Report and 7/7 London Bombing Anniversary Converge to Highlight Terrorism’s Causes

Eleven years ago today, three suicide bombers attacked the London subwayand a bus and killed 51 people. Almost immediately, it was obvious that retaliation for Britain’s invasion and destruction of Iraq was a major motive for the attackers.

Twoof themsaid exactly that in videotapes they left behind: The attacks “will continue and pick up strengths till you pull your soldiers from Afghanistan and Iraq. … Until we feel security, you will be targets.” Then,less than a year later, a secret report...

Washington Has Been Obsessed With Punishing Secrecy Violations — Until Hillary Clinton

Secrecy is a virtual religion in Washington. Those who violate its dogma have been punished in the harshest and most excessive manner — at least when they possess little political power or influence.As has been widely noted, the Obama administration has prosecuted more leakersunder the 1917 Espionage Act than all prior administrations combined. Secrecy in D.C. is so revered that even the most banal documents are reflexively marked classified, making their disclosure or mishandling a felony. A...

Washington Has Been Obsessed With Punishing Secrecy Violations — until Hillary Clinton

Secrecy is a virtual religion in Washington. Those who violate its dogma have been punished in the harshest and most excessive manner – at least when they possess little political power or influence.As has been widely noted, the Obama administration has prosecuted more leakersunder the 1917 Espionage Act than all prior administrations combined. Secrecy in DC is so revered that even the most banal documents are reflexively marked classified, making their disclosure or mishandling a felony. As...

Eventos importantes no Brasil expõem a fraude do impeachment de Dilma — e a corrupção de Temer

(The English version of this article can be read by clicking here)

Desde o começo da campanha para impedir a presidente democraticamente eleita, Dilma Rousseff, a principaljustificativa era de que ela havia se utilizado do artifício conhecido como “pedaladas” (“peddling”: atraso ilegal de pagamentos aos bancos estatais) para mascaras a dívida pública. Mas nesta semana, enquanto o Senado conduz o julgamento do impeachment, esta acusação foi suprimida: o relatório de peritos do Senado concluiu...

Major New Brazil Events Expose the Fraud of Dilma’s Impeachment — and Temer’s Corruption

(Para ler a versão desse artigo em Português, clique aqui.)

From the start of the campaign to impeach Brazil’s democratically elected President Dilma Rousseff, the primary justification was that she used abudget trick known as pedaladas(“peddling”: illegal delay of re-payments tostate banks) to mask public debt. But this week, as the Senate conducts her impeachment trial, that accusation was obliterated: The Senate’s own expert report concludedthere was “no indication of direct or indirect ac...

Brexit Is Only the Latest Proof of the Insularity and Failure of Western Establishment Institutions

The decision byU.K. voters to leave the EU is such a glaring repudiation of the wisdom and relevance of elite political and media institutionsthat — for once —theirfailures have become a prominent partof the storyline.Media reaction to the Brexit vote falls into two general categories: (1) earnest, candid attempts to understand what motivated voters to make this choice, even if that means indicting theirown establishment circles, and (2) petulant, self-serving, simple-minded attacks on disobe...