Consortium News: John Walsh on Daniel Ellsberg on Dismantling the Doomsday Machines (Dead Hand Nuclear Flash Bang, 2 Billion Dead for Sure)

Dismantling the Doomsday Machines What Ellsberg discovered is that some of these “others” are military people who are concerned that they too could be hit in a decapitating strike.  So they also have the authority to delegate. In fact, no one, perhaps not even the president, nor his circle of advisors, knows who can launch …

Marjorie Cohn: Progressive Except Palestine Problem

The Progressive Except Palestine Problem The Jewish community has a special responsibility to fight Israel’s illegal occupation of Palestinian lands, says Marjorie Cohn. There is a false equivalency between criticizing Israel and being anti-Semitic. Any criticism of Israeli policy is labeled anti-Semitism, even though many Jews—including members of Jewish Voice for Peace, Jewish Center for …

Donald Trump: “I Told You So…” Death of RussiaGate — and the Castration of Felix Sater

Tip of the Hat to Disobedient Media. Death Of Russiagate: Mueller Team Tied To Mifsud’s Network In April last year, Disobedient Media broke coverage of the British involvement in the Trump-Russia collusion narrative, asking why All Russiagate Roads Lead To London, via the quasi-scholar Joseph Mifsud and others. The issue was also raised by WikiLeaks’s Julian …