Winter Watch original articles and aggregated US news.
By John Wear | 13 October 2018 WEARS WAR — During the first week of August 1964, warships under the command of U.S. Adm. George Stephen Morrison allegedly came under attack while patrolling Vietnam’s Tonkin Gulf. […]
By Glenn Greenwald | 14 February 2014 THE INTERCEPT — One of the many pressing stories that remains to be told from the Snowden archive is how western intelligence agencies are attempting to manipulate and control […]
Americans wouldn’t cut funding to universities critical of Israel By Grant Smith | 29 November 2017 ANTIWAR — The House Judiciary Committee held a hearing on November 7 to discuss the “Anti-Semitism Awareness Act.” Proponents of ASAA claim it is a […]
By Anna Giaritelli | 31 October 2018 WASHINGTON EXAMINER — U.S. Border Patrol agents based in San Diego have spotted 15 drones flying between Tijuana, Mexico, and Southern California over the past 12 months, according to new data […]
By Kit Knightly | 30 October 2018 OFF GUARDIAN — gab.com is an alternative social network, set up and launched in 2016. It’s founder, Andrew Torba, stated he wanted to create a home for free […]
Don Lemon, CNN’s prime-time evening news anchor, is facing an online backlash for calling white men the “biggest terror threat” in the U.S. Referencing recent boogeymen psyops, Lemon says to CNN’s Chris Cuomo, “So, we […]
By Matthew Daly | 23 October 2018 AP — President Donald Trump says he is nominating a former executive at agribusiness giant Monsanto to head the Fish and Wildlife Service. Aurelia Skipwith of Indiana is currently […]
By Stephen Dinan | 31 October 2018 THE WASHINGTON TIMES — The U.S. tied its all-time record for new immigration — both legal and illegal — in 2016, with 1.75 million arrivals, according to a new […]
At a Berlin security conference, hardline neocon Jamie Fly appeared to claim some credit for the recent coordinated purge of alternative media. By Max Blumenthal and Jeb Sprague | 23 October 2018 GRAY ZONE — This October, […]
Recent Economist-YouGov surveys indicate that the generally positive views of Israel are being steadily eroded in the hyperpolarized Trump era By Chemi Shalev | 26 October 2018 HAARETZ — A new poll released this week […]
At this stage of our national arrested development, if we can’t find an intrepid journalist(s) with a pair — like a Michael Hastings or Gary Webb, for example — to investigate the Squirrel Hill and […]
The gunman had a history of anti-Semitic posts on the site By Andrew Liptak | 27 October 2018 THE VERGE — Earlier today, a gunman walked into the Tree of Life synagogue in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania and killed eleven people before […]
By Tyler Durdan | 28 October 2018 ZERO HEDGE — Update3: Gab has given an interview to NPR regarding the situation: Gab.com ✔@getongab http://Gab.com interview with NPR (airs tomorrow, here it is in full) https://www.pscp.tv/w/bqYW0zFxTGpHSm5Zd2RKS0p8MXZBeFJ5YVlwenFKbNsnGasjt0bU1xI36D71dAMNbgjMSHQqKJh67d7QC_RH … 1:42 PM […]
By Chris Menahan | 24 October 2018 INFORMATION LIBERATION — You’ll no doubt be shocked to learn the “weaponized autists” at 4Chan are not buying the latest bomb scare targeting Democrats less than two weeks out from […]
By Harris Kupperman | 23 October 2018 ADVENTURES IN CAPITALISM — During every credit cycle, there is one national lender that all other lenders try to emulate. This is because a combination of rapid asset growth […]
By Ron Unz | 15 October 2018 THE UNZ REVIEW — In our modern era, there are surely few organizations that so terrify powerful Americans as the Anti-Defamation League (ADL) of B’nai B’rith, a central organ […]
Anthony [‘Carlos Danger’] Weiner set to be released from prison early for good behaviour By Reuven Blau | 8 October 2018 THE STAR — Former New York Rep. Anthony Weiner is set to go free from […]
The Lugenpresse on Wednesday reported that six “bombs” were discovered among the mail of the worst of the worst Democrat mucky mucks. But real bombs don’t have giant, stupid, beeping clocks on them. Instead, a cell-phone call […]
By Katia Dmitrieva | 23 October 2018 BLOOMBERG — While the opioid epidemic keeps claiming the lives of Americans, deaths from another drug are picking up. In the 12 months through March, overdose deaths from […]
By Tyler Durden | 23 October 2018 ZERO HEDGE — While we have grown used to Alan Greenspan’s flexible world views appearing regularly among US media channels, when former Fed Chair Paul Volcker speaks, it’s low […]
A Torchy Rant Yet another so-called “migrant caravan” is making it’s way north to the United States and growing in size along the way. The clear and obvious objective of the “caravan” is to overwhelm […]
By James Rufus Koren | 22 October 2018 THE SACRAMENTO BEE — Paid protesters are real. Crowds on Demand, a Beverly Hills company that’s an outspoken player in the business of hiring protesters, boasts on its […]
By Emily Birnbaum | 21 October 2018 THE HILL — President Trump‘s approval rating before the November elections has jumped to a higher level than former President Obama’s ahead of the 2010 midterms, according to a new NBC/Wall Street […]
By Brad Reed | 19 October 2018 RAW STORY — Rep. Joaquin Castro (D-TX) on Friday shocked CNN’s Poppy Harlow when he said that Trump son-in-law Jared Kushner may have slipped U.S. intelligence to Saudi […]
By Andre Damon | 13 October 2018 WORLD SOCIALIST WEB SITE — Media outlets removed by Facebook on Thursday, in a massive purge of 800 accounts and pages, had previously been targeted in a blacklist of […]
By Zachary Petrizzo | 10 October 2018 An Ohio University student has been charged with a misdemeanor after police say she made “false alarms” against herself. Ohio University student-run newspaper The Post reported that the […]
Abuse survivors angry over Pope’s praise for fallen cardinal By Daniel Burke | 12 October 2018 CNN — Pope Francis accepted the resignation of Cardinal Donald Wuerl, the embattled archbishop of Washington. But the Pope’s […]
By Caitlin Johnstone | 5 October 2018 MEDIUM — Journalist David Sirota has just published an excellent op-ed titled “America’s new aristocracy lives in an accountability-free zone”, which begins with the observation that “Enron executives were among the […]
By Adam Ashton | 14 October 2018 THE MERCURY NEWS — The California State Lottery has paid more than $500,000 to settle lawsuits filed by two former investigators who claimed they were fired for calling […]
On Tuesday, the FBI arrested Paul Rosenfeld, a New York man who confessed to plotting a suicide bombing on Election Day in Washington, D.C.’s National Mall in order to draw attention to “sortition,” which is […]