Rafael Grossi, the head of the International Atomic Energy Agency (IAEA), reaffirmed on Tuesday that his organization had “no proof” that Iran decided to build a nuclear bomb ahead of Israel’s attacks on the country.
Grossi made the comments in an interview with CNN host Christiane Amanpour, who brought up the fact that US intelligence had also assessed there was no evidence Iran was working toward a nuclear weapon.
“What we informed and what we reported was that we did not have — as in coincidence with some of the sources you mentioned there, that we did not have any proof of a systematic effort to move into a nuclear weapon,” Grossi said.
He added that the IAEA couldn’t say whether or not there was “clandestine” activity that it wasn’t aware of, but based on available evidence, there was no indication that Iran was attempting to weaponize its nuclear program.
U.S. — CNN reported another peaceful night in Los Angeles, as the overwhelming majority of cars in the city were not currently on fire.
Additionally, the network reported that most police officers had not had bricks thrown at them, most federal agents had not been shot at, and most of the stores in the city had not been looted.
“It’s another quiet night in L.A.,” reported anchor Wolf Blitzer. “As you can see, the majority of cars in the city are not burning to ashes, and most people have not been assaulted or murdered. Only a very small percentage of buildings have been broken into and had everything stolen by armed mobs. President Trump’s characterization of the unrest and violence in L.A. is way overblown.”
CNN reporters then traveled to a suburb of L.A. where no violence was reported, proving beyond a shadow of a doubt that the city was under control. “We interviewed two random guys on the street in this wealthy neighborhood, and neither of them have seen any cars on fire,” said journalist Daisy Raleigh. “Clearly, the Trump administration is lying about what is really happening on the ground in L.A.”
At publishing time, the National Guard had stated that all was indeed peaceful as most CNN journalists had not been shot with non-lethal rounds.
“One would certainly expect the state to crack down on people engaging in violent acts in public. However, the US government, broadly defined, has scores of police forces – federal, state, and local – that would be far better suited to intervene than soldiers.”
“Twenty-plus years of war and occupation in Afghanistan prove that they are not a force capable of restoring civilian order.”
The Trump administration is sending 700 troops to LA to put down immigration riots.
The Wall Street Journal reported:
“Marines are deploying to the Los Angeles area to protect federal buildings and personnel in the wake of weekend protests over immigration that have already led President Trump to federalize National Guard troops, defense and congressional officials said.
The troops [. . .] won’t engage with protesters, the officials said.”
The deployment came amid heated protests against Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE), which has carried out thousands of raids to deport illegal migrants living in the US since Donald Trump returned to office.
The protests have devolved into chaos across several LA districts. In some cases, demonstrators hurled objects and launched fireworks at riot cops, who responded with flashbangs and rubber bullets. Similar protests have erupted in San Francisco, Seattle, Dallas, Louisville, Atlanta, New York and elsewhere in recent days.
The documents provided details of the CIA’s plan at the time, which was led by senior officer Kermit Roosevelt Jr., the grandson of U.S. President Theodore Roosevelt. Over the course of four days in August 1953, Roosevelt would orchestrate not one, but two attempts to destabilize the government of Iran, forever changing the relationship between the country and the U.S.
The U.S. knew about, and in one case helped, Iraq’s chemical weapons attacks against Iran in the 1980’s, according to recently declassified CIA documents obtained by Foreign Policy.
But Hersh reveals the U.S. intelligence community feared Turkey was supplying sarin gas to Syrian rebels in the months before the attack took place — information never made public as President Obama made the case for launching a strike. Hersh joins us to discuss his findings.
Being a neocon means never having to say you’re sorry. Their lack of shame displays a concomitant lack of self-reflection. Former Weekly Standard Editor Bill Kristol and his ilk are still part of the media talk show circuit as foreign policy experts, and none has ever suffered any public humiliation for the litany of disasters for which they bear responsibility.
There’s an orchestrated campaign to bring back the neoconservative voices of the Bush administration, now rebranded as Democrats and opponents of the populist right.
They’re baaaack! The neoconservatives have been lurking around the Swamp, waiting for their moment. Their war wagon got rolling again with an August endorsement of Kamala Harris and Tim Walz signed by more than 200 neocon apparatchiks, who claim to believe that “another four years of a Trump presidency would irreparably damage our beloved democracy.”
That’s pretty rich coming from the cabal of utopian airheads who brought us the Iraq debacle based entirely on skewed intelligence, as well as a bloated national security surveillance state aimed, as George W. Bush opined, at fighting an endless war on terror. Recall that Dubya went so far as to claim that his administration would “rid the world of evildoers.” Perpetual war for perpetual peace. The neocon playbook defines victory as reaching the end of history by transforming all the world’s governments into liberal capitalist democracies; in other words, “woke” globalism.
It took the neocon backbenchers several paragraphs to get to their real point, which was foreign policy. They ranted about Donald Trump and J. D. Vance’s alleged intention to kowtow to “dictators” like Russian President Vladimir Putin and Chinese President Xi Jinping. They breathlessly claim that democratic movements abroad would be “irreparably jeopardized” if Trump returns to the White House. Following the endorsement letter, former Vice President Dick Cheney and his daughter, former Congresswoman Liz Cheney, endorsed Harris-Walz, as did a list of former top-level GOP officials.
Notably, the neocons and their neoliberal allies are sometimes one and the same: Former State Department official Victoria Nuland, for instance, was a major player in backing the 2014 Ukrainian coup that led to the Russia-Ukraine war. Before taking posts in the Obama and Biden administrations, she previously had worked for Vice President Cheney. The neocons and neoliberals both fear and loathe the antiestablishment populism of Trump’s Make America Great Again movement.
The “very vocal and visible migration of the group of people who had been called neocons in the Republican Party” to the Democrats is “one of the most notable political developments over the last eight years,” the progressive investigative journalist Glenn Greenwald has observed. Many neocons endorsed Hillary Clinton in 2016 and Joe Biden in 2020; the trend continues in 2024, driven by Harris’s aggressive foreign policy comments at the Democratic National Convention.
Harris’s remarks “affirmed the core worldview of these neocons,” Greenwald remarked, “about the U.S. role in the world, about what the United States president is obligated to do.” Before they became Republicans in the 1980s and infested the Reagan administration, many neocons were former Democrats and from hard-left family backgrounds. Yet they see the world through what Greenwald calls “a militaristic lens” and believe that war is always the answer. The GOP was once viewed as the best platform for their great global crusade. Now, as the MAGA political realignment that began in 2016 consolidates its power within the Republican Party, with former Democrats like Robert F. Kennedy, Jr., and Tulsi Gabbard endorsing Trump, the neocons view the Democrats as the best vehicle for their policies.
Do Americans have any idea that Zelensky has declared war on Christianity in Ukraine? Vadym Novynskyi knows. He spent three terms in the Ukrainian parliament but now risks prison for defending his church.
A common trait of our “friends” and “allies”. A non-starter on MSM. But say anything bad about you know who and you will get cancelled or likely worse. Your tax dollars at work.
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