The truth at any cost lowers all other costs — curated by former US spy Robert David Steele.
Television, turnout, and the election-industrial complex By Andrew Cockburn, Harpers “I never met a politician who started out to be a fund-raiser,” remarked Mike McKenna, a Republican energy lobbyist and recipient of constant pleas for cash from lawmakers. . . . “If you can convince the politicians that they don’t really need to spend their …
Kudos to Haaretz for its integrity. Palestinian villagers tilled their land so well, Israel is now confiscating it from them The separation barrier will cut residents of Al-Walaja from their lands by the end of the year; the beauty of the terraces they cultivated for decades was used as one of the main reasons for …
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Does America Really “Share Values” With Today’s Israel? Netanyahu and his far-right government have not only been indifferent to the danger of an unbridled nationalism that sanctifies the nation and its land, they have actively encouraged it. Henry Siegman
While circumstances of the recent shoot-down of the Russian SU-24 by a Turkish F-16 in the border region of Turkey and Syria remain murky, this is best analysis that I have seen to date. Be warned, however: I am biased, both the interviewer and the interviewee are good friends of mine. The map below …
The Reign of Absurdiocy There is no such thing as “international terrorism”. To declare war on “international terrorism” is nonsense. Politicians who do so are either fools or cynics, and probably both. . . . The modern media, by their very nature, are the terrorist’s best friend. Terror could not flourish without them. The next …
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Obama’s drone war a ‘recruitment tool’ for Isis, say US air force whistleblowers Four former service members – including three sensor operators – issue plea to rethink current airstrike strategy that has ‘fueled feelings of hatred’ toward US Ed Pilkington in New York and Ewen MacAskill in London Guardian, 18 November 2015 Phi Beta Iota: …
