Some of the people who criticized my post in April just repeated some of the claims made by Higgins in the debate he had with Postol about the attack in Ghouta of August 2013. For instance, he claims that even…
Tag: Syria
My post about the chemical attack in Syria last year has been widely shared and some people have criticized it, so I wanted to reply to some of the criticisms, which is long overdue. (If you haven’t read it yet,…
I have been pretty sick this week and I have a lot of work, so I didn’t really have time to take care of the blog, but I wanted to let you know that I had started working on a follow-up to…
As you probably know unless you live in a cave, another chemical attack is alleged to have taken place in Syria on Tuesday, which killed several people in the town of Khan Sheikhoun. The New York Times published a story about…
Meanwhile, the New York Times also published a long piece on the alleged ties between Trump’s campaign and Russia, with the headline “Trump Campaign Aides Had Repeated Contacts With Russian Intelligence”. This makes it sound as if we are going to be treated with shocking…
Despite the weakness of the evidence they provided, after private cybersecurity companies made those claims against Russia, the media almost unanimously accepted them as facts. This became even more true after the US intelligence community started to publicly make very…
For several months, allegations that Russia interfered in the US presidential election to help Trump, as well as claims that Trump and some of his associates have ties with Russia, have been all over the media. They are repeated so…
Reuters had a pretty good article on the H-1B visa program, which people who think it’s just about bringing geniuses to work in tech companies should probably read, especially since Trump’s administration is reportedly having a look at it. Paul Mulshine wrote a…
David Byler published a very good piece in which he comes back on the theory that, as a result of demographic change, American politics was headed to a permanent Democratic majority. It was made popular by John Judis and Run Texeira’s book, The Emerging Democratic…
As you no doubt know, Trump signed an executive order about immigration on Friday, which led to mass hysteria since yesterday as some people were denied entry into the US and detained in airports. Let me start by saying that I…