As the US media bombards the public with images guaranteed to provoke outrage and generate support for an escalatory, “we must do something” approach, here are some facts Americans ought to remember about our failed US policy in the region:

by Chipit to /s/WorldNews from counterpunch.org

We Need an International Antiwar Movement, Not a Cheerleading Squad for the Arms Industry

by Drewski to /s/Antiwar from counterpunch.org

America’s Real Adversaries are Its European and Other Allies. The U.S. aim is to keep them from trading with China and Russia.

by Chipit to /s/OpinionPieces from counterpunch.org

The Cypherpunks Mobilize to Save Julian Assange

by Drewski to /s/WikiLeaks from counterpunch.org

Right-Wing Hate Speech Runs Rampant in India’s Elections. As part of its vote-gathering arsenal, the BJP has developed a strategy to provoke religious violence, polarize the population, and ensure that the majority Hindu vote gathers under its banner.

by Budget-song-budget to /s/WorldNews from counterpunch.org

Biden Defied the Military Establishment: Is the Kennedy-Nixon Rule Still in Effect?

by Drewski to /s/Antiwar from counterpunch.org

Cuban and Mexican Presidents Strengthen Solidarity in Remarkable Display

by Budget-song-budget to /s/WorldNews from counterpunch.org

Boris Johnson’s Cabinet “Night of the Long Knives”

by Budget-song-budget to /s/WorldNews from counterpunch.org

Germany’s New Neo-Nazis: The Reichsbürger

by Budget-song-budget to /s/WorldPolitics from counterpunch.org

Why Special Drawing Rights (SDR) Belong to States, Not Central Banks. The IMF’s SDR, some of the world’s most stricken economies are floundering when it comes to putting that liquidity to use, due to disagreements in some cases about who has ownership over the funds: central banks or governments.

by Budget-song-budget to /s/WorldNews from counterpunch.org

Rwanda’s Military is the French Proxy on African Soil

by Budget-song-budget to /s/WorldNews from counterpunch.org

What Will be Done About America's Growing Disparity in Wealth?

by Budget-song-budget to /s/WayOfTheBern from counterpunch.org

The Neocons Speak: Afghanistan as Political Real Estate. A large shield is employed: women, rights of the subject, education. Remove the shield, and we are left with a simple equation of power gone wrong in the name of paternalistic warmongering.

by Budget-song-budget to /s/WayOfTheBern from counterpunch.org

Drought Clobbers the World

by Budget-song-budget to /s/environment from counterpunch.org

The American Fool: How Provincialism, Arrogance, and Greed Make American Foreign Policy an Exercise in Idiocy

by Budget-song-budget to /s/politics from counterpunch.org

Afghanistan and the Racism of Imperial Progress

by Budget-song-budget to /s/Antiwar from counterpunch.org

It’s Time to End the U.S. War on Syria, Not Restart It

by Drewski to /s/Antiwar from counterpunch.org

How the CIA made Afghanistan safe for the opium trade. The different psyops and false flags run by the US government to justify the US occupation.

by HibikiBlack to /s/conspiracy from counterpunch.org

Lift the Blockade on Yemen Now

by Drewski to /s/Antiwar from counterpunch.org

The CIA in Vietnam and Laos.

by HibikiBlack to /s/conspiracy from counterpunch.org

Meet the CIA: Guns, Drugs and Money - CounterPunch.org

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Meet the CIA: Guns, Drugs and Money - CounterPunch.org

by [deleted] to /s/WayOfTheBern from counterpunch.org

Meet the CIA: Guns, Drugs and Money - CounterPunch.org

by [deleted] to /s/Organize_the_Left from counterpunch.org

Meet the CIA: Guns, Drugs and Money - CounterPunch.org

by [deleted] to /s/Progressivism from counterpunch.org

The Plot Against Libya - An Obama-Biden-Clinton Criminal Conspiracy

by [deleted] to /s/USnews from counterpunch.org

Seven Shots in the Back: a Chant for Our Time

by [deleted] to /s/USnews from counterpunch.org

How the CIA made Afghanistan safe for the opium trade. The different psyops and false flags run by the US government to justify the US occupation.

by HibikiBlack to /s/conspiracy from counterpunch.org

Pardoning Julian Assange: Trump, WikiLeaks and the DNC - CounterPunch.org

by gv99v to /s/news from counterpunch.org

Rupert Murdoch and the Israeli Genie - CounterPunch.org

by iraelmossadreddit to /s/conspiracy from counterpunch.org

The Dark Secrets in the Fed’s Last Wall Street Bailout Are Getting a Devious Makeover in Today’s Bailout - CounterPunch.org

by Jesus to /s/WorldNews from counterpunch.org

The Dark Secrets in the Fed’s Last Wall Street Bailout Are Getting a Devious Makeover in Today’s Bailout - CounterPunch.org

by Jesus to /s/conspiracy from counterpunch.org