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US should pay Iran reparations David Swanson | Published: 00:00, Feb 09,2021 | Updated: 22:28, Feb 08,2021   Shah Mohammad Reza Pahlavi meets US president Jimmy Carter in 1977. — World Socialist Web Site WHY would I say such an outrageous, treasonous, delusional, obviously-funded-by-Putin thing? Am I hoping to enrage war-crazed sadists who’ve seen too much television ‘news’? Not at all. I want them to still be around when I say that it would actually be preferable for the United States to pay reparations to the entire rest of the eart...

Joe Biden made climate change a national security priority — what’s next? Oil is less valuable, and water is becoming more scarce Share this story Photo by Per Breiehagen / Getty Images President Joe Biden signed a sweeping executive order today that makes climate change a top US national security priority. He commissioned a “National Intelligence Estimate on the security implications of climate change.” He also directed the Department of Defense and other federal agencies to develop plans to adapt to a warming world. Climate change could be deliberately “weaponized” The environm...

Why Michael Morell Cannot Be CIA Director Gross manipulation of CIA analysis under George W. Bush pushed a new generation of “yes men” into the agency’s top ranks and now one of them is being considered by Joe Biden for the top job. By Ray McGovern December 12, 2020 " Information Clearing House" - As President-elect Joe Biden names his cabinet and other chief advisers, what has escaped wide attention is the fact that none of his hawkish national security advisers – except for his nominee for defe...

Intimidation? when to your reporting, they're looking into both clapper and brennan, two vocal opponents -- or critics of president trump? >> many people i talked to do consider this political intimidation. but john durham has a sterling reputation. he was a man hired by eric holder to investigate the cia. and the question whether anyone should be prosecuted over torture. he did a long and thorough investigation and concluded he couldn't file charges. almost everyone i talked to still has hope that john durham, at the end of the day, will do the right thing if he finds no cause for wrongdoing ...

>> great seeing you, chris. >> help me out on the iranian side. first side is this new? >> no, it's not. we created a national intelligence estimate in 2007 that actually said that the iranians had stopped the weaponization part of their program, missiles still going on, centrifuge is still spinning, but the actual building of the weapon they had stopped in 2003. i'm fond of saying we based that not on absence of evidence but on evidence of absence. now, we went on to say some dual use stuff, some research went on. all right? they were hedging their bets. they wanted to keep their options open...