“What mattered then and matters now is that the material uncovered is true.”
Read more: https://original.antiwar.com/justin/2018/07/22/martyrs-to-the-cause-carter-page-and-julian-assange/
“Contradiction has become the norm for US foreign policy over the past many years – an observation that is clear to anyone even remotely paying attention. On Tuesday the US State Department spokesperson was asked during the daily press briefing about the obvious contradiction inherent in US ally and NATO member Turkey shelling US-backed Kurdish forces in Afrin – the Kurdish held zone in northwest Syria near the Turkish border.”
“One of the reasons that Americans are unable to draw the parallels between Great Britain and the United States is that the U.S. version of empire hasn’t followed the British model. Instead of converting foreign lands into colonies, the U.S. government has followed the Soviet Union’s model of empire that was established in Eastern Europe. It uses local proxies or ‘puppets’ to serve as agents for the U.S. government, just as the Soviets did in Eastern European countries. This has enabled the United States to maintain the façade of supporting ‘independent’ regimes in the countries it controls, which just happen to ‘invite’ the United States to maintain military bases in their countries.”
Read more: https://www.fff.org/2018/01/10/british-empire-yemen/
“The United States and Iran are moving rapidly to defend Iraq from rampaging Sunni Islamist insurgents, with Washington urgently considering air strikes on the jihadi militants and Tehran dispatching its foremost powerbroker to help arrange the defence of Baghdad. Senior US officials told the Guardian that an air campaign was under serious discussion, possibly targeting fighters not just in Iraq but in Syria, where they have seized swaths of territory in the past two years. President Barack Obama said that decisions would be taken in the ‘days ahead’. The president [..] signalled a new, reluctant openness to returning the US to war in Iraq.”
http://www.theguardian.com/world/2014/jun/13/us-iran-fight-jihadis-iraq
“The Organisation of Islamic Cooperation on Wednesday condemned alleged poison gas attacks in Syria, blaming the government and calling for ‘decisive action’ in response. The world’s largest grouping of Muslim nations ‘stressed the need to hold the Syrian government legally and morally accountable for this heinous crime and to bring its perpetrators to justice’. The OIC called on the UN ‘Security Council to discharge its duty of preserving international security and stability, taking a unified position against this monstrous crime and its perpetrators.'”
http://www.rawstory.com/rs/2013/08/28/muslim-leaders-urge-decisive-action-against-syria/