Richard Hall
Senior U.S. Correspondent at The Independent
Senior Correspondent with @Independent writing about foreign policy, politics, extremism, Americana, and everything in between. Former MidEast correspondent.
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6 days ago |
thedemlabs.org | Richard Hall |Deepak Puri
Trump rose to power criticizing Bush-era politicians for lying about weapons of mass destruction. Now he is accused of doing the same - Richard HallGeorge W. Bush and his administration of neocons spent years building a spurious case for the war in Iraq. They collated sketchy intelligence about supposedly hidden weapons of mass destruction, fed it to a pliant press, went through the motions of seeking United Nations resolutions and formed a ramshackle coalition of the willing before going to war.
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1 week ago |
independent.co.uk | Richard Hall
analysisANALYSIS: Carlson’s anti-war advocacy even earned him reluctant praise from his arch-nemesis, Jon Stewart, Richard Hall writes. From reproductive rights to climate change to Big Tech, The Independent is on the ground when the story is developing.
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1 week ago |
independent.co.uk | Bel Trew |Richard Hall
middle east in crisisWhile the world has its attention fixed on a regional war, desperate Palestinians are being killed by the dozen as they seek food at controversial American-run aid sites in Gaza, write Bel Trew and Richard Hall“My son went to get some flour for his family, but came back in a coffin and a death shroud.” These are the words of father-of-six Iyad Abu Darabi describing how Israeli forces killed his 25-year-old son Mussa in southern Gaza in the first few weeks of June.
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1 week ago |
independent.co.uk | Richard Hall
analysis ANALYSIS: Donald Trump rose to power criticizing Bush-era politicians for lying about weapons of mass destruction. Now he is accused of doing the same, Richard Hall writes. George W. Bush and his administration of neocons spent years building a spurious case for the war in Iraq.
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1 week ago |
independent.co.uk | Richard Hall
AnalysisThe Washington, D.C., parade featured families, picnics and bad weather, Richard Hall reports. Some feared that Donald Trump’s military parade would bring a touch of North Korea to the nation’s capital. The sight of tanks rolling into the city in the same week the president deployed the troops to quell protests and delivered a deeply political speech to soldiers at Fort Bragg did little to alleviate those fears.
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If the U.S. military were to react in the same way every time the streets of a major city looked like this, tanks would descend on Philadelphia every time the City of Brotherly Love won a major sports trophy. https://t.co/7EzKY5Duky
This is too much. Trump said SEND IN THE TROOPS, but they have to stop for a few days for training because they don't know how to do crowd control.
US official tells Fox: the 700 Marines ordered to help in LA have not yet arrived to help control the riots. The Marines will remain at Seal Beach south of Los Angeles and will be undergoing training for a few more days, despite Defense Secretary Hegseth telling lawmakers today
RT @MerylKornfield: “Indeed, on Sunday, even as some downtown blocks turned chaotic, events elsewhere carried on as usual: The city’s joyfu…
