GEOPOLITICS & WAR

The United States has given Israel more foreign aid than any country in history — over $300 billion in total. AIPAC spent $100 million in a single election cycle. The ICJ has ruled the occupation illegal. None of this is conspiracy theory. It's the documented record of the most heavily lobbied foreign policy position in American politics.

In 1990, US Secretary of State James Baker told Mikhail Gorbachev that NATO would expand 'not one inch eastward.' NATO has since expanded from 16 to 32 members, adding seven Eastern European countries. Russia invaded Ukraine in 2022. Whether these facts are causally connected is the most contested foreign policy question in the world.

Fifteen of the nineteen 9/11 hijackers were Saudi citizens. The 28 pages of the Joint Congressional Inquiry were classified for 15 years. When they were released in 2016, they documented connections between the hijackers and Saudi government officials. The FBI is still in litigation over what it knows.

The US, UK, and France launched 105 missiles at Syria before the chemical weapons inspectors even arrived. When the inspectors did their work, two of them went public: the published findings had been altered to remove evidence that contradicted the story used to justify the strikes.

The United States invaded Iraq based on intelligence that was fabricated, manipulated, and presented as certain when it was anything but. The Duelfer Report found no WMDs. The Downing Street Memo proved the intelligence was 'fixed around the policy.' 4,600 Americans and up to 300,000 Iraqis died for a lie. No one was held accountable.