Sam Husseini

On Tuesday, the Associated Press reported that a “senior U.S. intelligence official says Russian missiles crossed into NATO member Poland, killing two people.” This story ripped through big media outlets which blared “BREAKING NEWS” – see from CBS: It tore through Twitter. There would be a series of followups, see how the story morphed on … Continue reading “Why Is AP Still Protecting the Source Behind its False Russia-Bombed-Poland Story?”

In the aftermath of the announcement of the death of the British Queen Elizabeth, Juju An tweeted: “I heard the chief monarch of a thieving raping genocide empire is finally dying. May her pain be excruciating.” (An is a professor at Carnage Malian University, my alma mater, though the phrase literally means “nourishing mother” and … Continue reading “Colonialism Is an Everyday Story”

An adage favored by Claud Cockburn as well as Otto von Bismarck advises "Never believe anything in politics until it has been officially denied." Indeed, it should be a clear tenet of political analysis that stated goals are frequently not actual goals. US war planners used rhetorical concerns over non-existent Iraq WMDs as a pretext … Continue reading “US-Saudi Relationship: Beyond the Obvious”

“Pandemics are like terrorist attacks: We know roughly where they originate and what’s responsible for them, but we don’t know exactly when the next one will happen. They need to be handled the same way – by identifying all possible sources and dismantling those before the next pandemic strikes.” This statement was written in the … Continue reading “Peter Daszak’s EcoHealth Alliance Has Hidden Almost $40 Million in Pentagon Funding and Militarized Pandemic Science”

Those bastards in their white lab coats Who experiment with mountain goats Should leave the universe alone It’s not their business, not their home ~ John Prine, “Lonesome Friends of Science“ People who are dismissing the possibility that the pandemic might have come from a lab – either accidentally from a Wuhan lab or them … Continue reading “Averting Our Gaze From Biowarfare: Pandemics and Self-fulfilling Prophecies”

There has been no scientific finding that the novel coronavirus was bioengineered, but its origins are not entirely clear. Deadly pathogens discovered in the wild are sometimes studied in labs – and sometimes made more dangerous. That possibility, and other plausible scenarios, have been incorrectly dismissed in remarks by some scientists and government officials, and … Continue reading “Did This Virus Come From a Lab? Maybe Not – But It Exposes the Threat of a Biowarfare Arms Race”

Pope Francis will travel to Hiroshima and Nagasaki this weekend. On Sunday, he will give a public address at the ground-zero site of the nuclear attack on Nagasaki. He is expected to give the clearest articulation yet of the Vatican’s position, since 2017, that condemns the “very possession” of nuclear weapons. This is something Plowshares … Continue reading “Can the Religious Left Take Down Nuclear Weapons?”

Presidential candidate Joe Biden is adding lies on top of lies to cover up his backing of the Iraq invasion. At last night’s ABC/DNC debate Biden lied about his Iraq record, just like he did at the first two debates. In the July debate, Biden claimed: “From the moment ‘shock and awe’ started, from that … Continue reading “Biden Taking Iraq Lies to the Max”

A president facing a major scandal, just as the highest-profile trial is about to begin, pardons the indicted or convicted officials around him to effectively stop the investigation that’s closing in on his own illegal conduct. Trump soon? We’ll see. But this actually describes what President George H.W. Bush did in 1992. The Iran/Contra scandal … Continue reading “Triumph of Conventional Wisdom: AP Expunges Iran/Contra Pardons from Barr’s Record”

In her New Years Eve announcement forming an exploratory committee for the presidency, Sen. Elizabeth Warren made a great point: “Right now, Washington works great for the wealthy and the well-connected. It’s just not working for anyone else.” In case you missed that, she pointedly did not say “the economy isn’t working well” or such, … Continue reading “Elizabeth Warren Pierces Through Rhetoric on Economy, Muddles on Foreign Policy”