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Revealed: The Israeli Spies Writing America’s News

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  Revealed: The Israeli Spies Writing America’s News Alan Macleod   Illustrationg by MintPress News One year after Oct. 7 attacks, Netanyahu is on a winning streak.” So reads the title of a recent Axios  article  describing the Israeli prime minister riding on an unbeatable wave of triumphs. These stunning military “successes,” its author Barak Ravid notes, include the bombing of Yemen, the assassinations of Hamas chief Ismail Haniyeh and Hezbollah leader Hassan Nasrallah, and the  pager attack  against Lebanon. The same author recently went viral for an article that claimed that Israeli attacks against Hezbollah are “not intended to lead to war but are an attempt to reach ‘de-escalation through escalation.’” Users on social media mocked Ravid for this bizarre, Orwellian reasoning. But what almost everybody missed is that Barak Ravid is an Israeli spy – or at least he was until recently. Ravid is a former  analyst  with Israeli spying agency Unit 8200, and as recently as  last year , w

American Pravda: Michael Collins Piper, Miles Mathis, and Proving Pi=4

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  American Pravda: Michael Collins Piper, Miles Mathis, and Proving Pi=4  Ron Unz Audio Player Discovering the Existence of American Pravda I’ve always enjoyed solving historical puzzles and figuring out what really happened, but I’d never had the slightest interest in conspiracy theories, which I’d always dismissed as nonsense. As a consequence, I’d spent nearly my entire life never doubting nor questioning the broad sweep of our last century of world history, as had been so conveniently presented to me in all my academic courses, books, magazines, and newspapers. But in the aftermath of the 9/11 Attacks, I gradually became increasingly suspicious of the credibility of the mainstream media sources that I had always relied upon for my knowledge of the world. This first became apparent to me during the anthrax mailings that followed so soon after the terrorist attacks themselves, a wave of envelopes filled with deadly spores that so terrified our entire country and stampeded Congress in