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Trump White House plagiarized Iran war manifesto from Israel-aligned think tank

Wyatt Reed — Fri, 20 Mar 2026 23:49:56 +0000

The Trump White House plagiarized its justification for attacking Iran from the Foundation for the Defense of Democracies, the main DC outfit promoting war with Tehran. The think tank was originally founded to “enhance Israel’s image,” and partners closely with the Israeli government. The Trump Administration appeared to plagiarize its official justification for its war on Iran, copying almost word-for-word a document originally produced by the Foundation for the Defense of Democracies (FDD), a pro-war think tank with close ties […]

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IDF threatens ‘elimination’ for Russian leaders who ‘wish Israel ill’

Wyatt Reed — Wed, 18 Mar 2026 16:54:59 +0000

Israel’s veiled threat to Moscow came just after Russian media warned traffic cameras in Moscow were vulnerable to the same exploits that Israel reportedly used to monitor Ayatollah Khamenei’s residence before assassinating him. Israeli military spokeswoman Anna Ukolova has drawn outrage in Moscow after threatening that Russian authorities who “wish Israel ill” could be subject to “elimination,” while suggesting Israel could hack into Russian closed-circuit television cameras to identify and track targets. Asked by a journalist with Russian radio broadcaster […]

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Cómo Israel y el FBI manipularon planes de asesinato para llevar a Trump a la guerra con Irán

Max Blumenthal — Fri, 06 Mar 2026 21:15:21 +0000

El FBI fabricó complots para convencer a Trump de que Irán buscaba asesinarlo, mientras que Israel y los aliados dentro de su propia administración explotaron los temores más profundos del presidente para mantenerlo en la senda de la guerra. “Le di antes de que me diera a mí”, dijo un animado Donald Trump a un reportero cuando le preguntó sobre los motivos por los que autorizó el asesinato del líder de Irán, Ayatolá Alí Jamenei, el 28 de febrero de […]

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How Israel and the FBI manipulated assassination plots to goad Trump into Iran war

Max Blumenthal — Fri, 06 Mar 2026 16:26:34 +0000

The FBI manufactured plots to convince Trump that Iran sought to kill him, while Israel and its administration allies exploited the president’s deepest fears to keep him on the war path. “I got him before he got me,” an ebullient President Donald Trump remarked to a reporter when asked about his motives for authorizing the killing of Iran’s Leader, Ayatollah Ali Khamenei, on February 28, 2026. With his off-the-cuff remark, Trump revealed that anxiety about his own assassination at the […]

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Epstein Army: Jeffrey Epstein helped place 18-year-old woman in ‘elite IDF unit’

Wyatt Reed — Wed, 04 Mar 2026 04:41:48 +0000

Emails show sex trafficking billionaire Jeffrey Epstein worked Israeli connections to help his lawyer’s daughter join an elite IDF unit. The woman, who Epstein wrote would make a “fantastic ambassador for Israel” at Columbia University, served on the board of Hillel International. Jeffrey Epstein personally recruited an 18-year-old girl from New York to serve “in one of the elite IDF units,” email records show. Epstein’s request came in a June 29, 2011 email to Anat Barak, the daughter of former […]

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NED leader cut off in Congress after boasting of ‘deploying’ 200 Starlinks to Iran amid violence

Max Blumenthal — Tue, 24 Feb 2026 20:11:06 +0000

The National Endowment for Democracy’s president, Damon Wilson, bragged to a House committee of his group’s aggressive efforts to spark unrest in Iran, including by smuggling Starlink terminals and fashioning anti-Iran narratives for the media. Damon Wilson, the head of the National Endowment for Democracy (NED), was interrupted by a member of Congress during a House oversight hearing on February 24 after revealing that his agency “began supporting the deployment [and] operation of about 200 Starlinks early on” amid the […]

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Keir Starmer-tied think tank paid PR firm to target The Grayzone

Kit Klarenberg — Mon, 16 Feb 2026 04:35:22 +0000

A shadowy think tank run by British PM Keir Starmer’s top strategist has been exposed for paying a PR firm to spy on journalists including me and the outlet I write for, The Grayzone. Will the scandal push an already collapsing Starmer government over the edge? Leaked files have revealed that Labour Together, the shadowy think tank run by disgraced former top Keir Starmer aide Morgan McSweeney, paid the Washington DC-based corporate intelligence firm APCO Worldwide to spy on journalists […]

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Apple buys Israeli ‘pre-speech’ tech firm implicated in Gaza genocide

¡Do Not Panic! — Sun, 15 Feb 2026 20:04:59 +0000

The world’s second-largest tech company just acquired a military-linked Israeli startup that uses “facial skin micromovements” to anticipate what users will say before they speak. This article was originally published by ¡Do Not Panic! Tech giant Apple has quietly paid nearly $2 billion for a “pre-speech” tech company whose employees helped Israel commit genocide in Gaza. In the second-biggest deal in its history, Apple paid this money for a company that doesn’t have a product, doesn’t have any revenues and whose website […]

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Iran war described as ‘biggest opportunity’ at US oil lobby’s DC summit

Max Blumenthal — Fri, 13 Feb 2026 17:14:30 +0000

An attendee told The Grayzone that oil industry heavyweights were less excited about Trump’s Venezuela policy, privately complaining about the President’s aggressive push to restart their operations. When the American Petroleum Institute (API) gathered oil industry leaders and lobbyists for a “State of American Energy” summit on January 16, 2026, the geopolitical landscape seemed to be shifting dramatically in their favor. However, an attendee of the resource extraction cartel’s most important annual lobbying conference told The Grayzone that participants privately grumbled about […]

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EEUU tiene imputación secreta contra Delcy Rodrígez, según periodista opositora

Max Blumenthal — Tue, 10 Feb 2026 22:35:32 +0000

Una periodista de oposición financiada por Estados Unidos reveló que el Departamento de Justicia de Trump ha elaborado una acusación secreta contra la Presidenta Encargada de Venezuela para que “penda sobre su cabeza” y la ejecutará si ella se “desvía”. La administración Trump está usando una acusación secreta para usarla contra la presidenta encargada de Venezuela Delcy Rodríguez, según la editora en jefe del medio, financiado por Estados Unidos, Armando.info. “Una de las informaciones que manejamos es que Estados Unidos […]

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US holds secret indictment of Delcy Rodriguez, top opposition journo claims

Max Blumenthal — Tue, 10 Feb 2026 18:46:50 +0000

A US-funded opposition journalist revealed the Trump DOJ has crafted a secret indictment of Venezuela’s Acting President to “hold it over her head,” and will execute it if she “derails.” The Trump administration is using a secret indictment to assert leverage over Venezuela’s Acting President Delcy Rodríguez, according to the editor-in-chief of the US government-funded outlet, Armando.info. “One of the information we manage is that the US is holding an indictment against [Rodriguez] to make it public, just in case […]

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Kincora: British intelligence-run sex abuse brothel?

Kit Klarenberg — Fri, 06 Feb 2026 18:18:44 +0000

Half a century after the public learned that boys at a Belfast group home were sexually assaulted by senior staff, a key question remains unanswered: was British intelligence implicated in the abuse conspiracy, and did Kincora serve as a ‘honeypot’ to entrap and blackmail powerful figures? A vast trove of declassified files on Jeffrey Epstein’s sexual, political, and intelligence escapades released by the US Department of Justice has once again thrust disgraced former Prince Andrew Mountbatten-Windsor into the spotlight. With […]

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