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A roving reporter who covered Italy’s top politicians explains to The Grayzone how his country was reduced to a joint US-Israeli “aircraft carrier,” and raises troubling questions about an Israeli role in the killing of former Prime Minister Aldo Moro.For years, Israel’s Mossad monitored and secretly influenced a violent communist faction that carried out the March 16, 1978 kidnapping and murder of Italian statesman Aldo Moro, veteran investigative journalist Eric Salerno has documented.Having worked closely alongside multiple Italian heads of state during his 30-year career as a correspondent, Salerno published an expose of their secret relationship with Israeli intelligence in...

A Lebanese-based newspaper aligned with Syria released details Monday morning of the assassination of a senior Islamic Jihad terrorist near Damascus Sunday morning. On Sunday, the terror group announced that Ali Ramzi al-Aswad, 31, an engineer, was shot and killed by an "agent of the Zionist enemy" near Damascus, calling the killing a “cowardly assassination bearing the fingerprints of the Zionist enemy.” Islamic Jihad stated "we hold the Zionist enemy responsible for this crime" and vowed to respond to the assassination. A day later, the pro-Assad Al-Akhbar published a report with details of the assassination. At 8:00 a.m. Sunday morning,...

On Thursday, The Washington Post’s blog ran a list that names children who were killed in recent Israeli airstrikes on Gaza. The blog post, written by Ishaan Tharoor, list the names and the causes of death of 83 people including 21 children who were killed in the recent bombing. However, Tharoor’s source may not be all that credible. The names were first published in a virulently anti-Israeli newspaper called Al-Akhbar—the editor of which, Nour Samaha, makes not even the slightest effort to hide her ideological bent and anti-Israel agenda. …