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Old Lies Behind Israel’s War Live On in Senate Resolution

Old Lies Behind Israel’s War Live On in Senate Resolution

by | Oct 7, 2024 |

We are now a year into the Israel government’s military action devastating the people and infrastructure of Gaza and since expanded into escalating violence against countries including Lebanon and Iran. Yet, even today, United States Senate members are repeating flagrant lies produced in the war’s early days to trick Americans and others around the world into supporting Israel’s war. On Monday, Republican US Senators introduced a resolution repeating some of these old lies that helped build...

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American Neocons Get Their Iran War as Congress Sleeps

American Neocons Get Their Iran War as Congress Sleeps

by | Oct 7, 2024 |

Over the weekend, the Commander of the US Central Command (CENTCOM), General Michael Kurilla, arrived in Israel to “coordinate” with the Israeli military and plan a military strike against Iran. Think about that for a moment: one of the highest-ranking officers in the US military is planning a war in a foreign country against another foreign country which will be fueled by American weapons, American intelligence, and American tax dollars. Did that foreign country – Iran – attack the United...

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‘We Lose Total Control’: Clinton Continues Her Censorship Campaign on CNN

‘We Lose Total Control’: Clinton Continues Her Censorship Campaign on CNN

by | Oct 7, 2024 |

Hillary Clinton is continuing her global efforts to get countries, including the United States, to crackdown on opposing views. Clinton went on CNN to lament the continued resistance to censorship and to call upon Congress to limit free speech. In pushing her latest book, “Something Lost and Something Gained,” Clinton amplified on her warnings about the dangers of free speech. What is clear is that the gain of greater power for leaders like Clinton would be the loss of free speech for ordinary...

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Blinken Approved Policy to Bomb Aid Trucks, Israeli Cabinet Members Suggest

Blinken Approved Policy to Bomb Aid Trucks, Israeli Cabinet Members Suggest

by | Oct 7, 2024 |

From the very beginning of Israel’s assault on the Gaza Strip, U.S. Secretary of State Antony Blinken had his hands on the steering wheel. After October 7, Blinken was the first senior U.S. official to arrive in Israel, on October 11. "I'm going with a very simple and clear message... that the United States has Israel's back," Blinken reportedly said before boarding the plane.  He returned again days later. This time, Blinken was there to demand that Israel rethink its decision...

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Julian Assange Describes a Dangerous Tendency in Government

Julian Assange Describes a Dangerous Tendency in Government

by | Oct 5, 2024 |

On Thursday, I wrote about the testimony of Julian Assange of WikiLeaks at a Tuesday meeting of the Committee on Legal Affairs and Human Rights of the Parliamentary Assembly of the Council of Europe (PACE). Assange’s testimony provided an informative overview of his persecution for helping expose disturbing government secrets. In his testimony, Assange stepped back at times from the particulars of his story to address broader issues related to government that are important for proponents of...

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Biden Is Pushing Israel Towards Larger War

Biden Is Pushing Israel Towards Larger War

by | Oct 4, 2024 |

After being hit by some 200 Iranian missiles Israel has not yet dared to response to to the strike. It instead has launched new air attacks into the center of Beirut and its southern area known as Dahiyeh (which simply means suburb) with its predominantly Shia population. Israel seems to have forgotten what attacks on Dahiyeh mean: Hizbullah asserts that it has established a new deterrence equation: an Israeli attack on the al-Dahieh neighborhood in Beirut will be met with a...

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‘Guns and Butter’ Is Back

‘Guns and Butter’ Is Back

by | Oct 4, 2024 |

Sabrina Carpenter has been a star since she was 12, staring on Disney’s Girl Meets World. Now she’s a singer and, I’ve heard, she has broken records set by the Beatles. She’s recorded a catchy cover of Nancy Sinatra‘s 1965 hit “These Boots Are Made For Walking.”   ”I want to feel as confident as humanly possible so I can be up there and not worry about what I’m doing,” Carpenter says. “It helps me perform better.” She ended up donning custom Swarovski-crystal...

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No, It’s Not Time to Ban Sports Gambling Again

No, It’s Not Time to Ban Sports Gambling Again

by | Oct 3, 2024 |

Writing for The Atlantic, Charles Fain Lehman claims that legalizing sports gambling was a huge mistake. “If you follow sports, gambling is everywhere. Ads for it are all over broadcasts; more than one in three Americans now bets on sports,” he laments. Lehman, a fellow at the Manhattan Institute, gets his history right if nothing else: Before 2018, sports gambling was prohibited almost everywhere. Now it’s legal in 38 states and the District of Columbia, yielding $10 billion a year in...

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Deal or No Deal?

Deal or No Deal?

by | Oct 3, 2024 |

“Oh, what a tangled web we weaveWhen first we practice to deceive.”--Sir Walter Scott (1771-1832) The case of the Gitmo plea agreement keeps getting curiouser and curiouser. A few weeks ago, we learned that a plea agreement had been entered into by way of a signed contract between the retired general in the Pentagon who is supervising all Gitmo prosecutions, the Gitmo defendants and defense counsel, and the military prosecutors. The agreement, as we understand it from sources who have seen it,...

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America Is Falling Apart: Our National Priorities Are in Dire Need of Restructuring

America Is Falling Apart: Our National Priorities Are in Dire Need of Restructuring

by | Oct 2, 2024 |

“You don't need a weatherman to know which way the wind blows.”—Bob Dylan A water main breaks every two minutes somewhere in the U.S., resulting in contaminated drinking supplies and boil water notices. One out of three bridges in the U.S. needs repair, endangering hundreds of millions of commuters. More than 42,000 bridges across the country, carrying about 167 million vehicles each day, are in disrepair. It is estimated that 300 million people could face power...

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The US Privately Encouraged Israel To Escalate in Lebanon

The US Privately Encouraged Israel To Escalate in Lebanon

by | Oct 2, 2024 |

POLITICO reported on Monday that despite the Biden administration’s public calls for a ceasefire in Lebanon, White House officials privately told Israeli officials that they agreed with the plan to escalate in Lebanon and shift its focus to the north. The report, which cited US and Israeli officials, said the message was delivered by Brett McGurk, the top Middle East official on the National Security Council, and Amos Hochstein, an Israeli-born veteran of the Israeli Defense Forces...

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Will the Suffocating Cage of Leviathan be Avoided?

Will the Suffocating Cage of Leviathan be Avoided?

by | Oct 1, 2024 |

As the ousted “Emperor,” Biden made his “final walk” from the dias at the UN, he was not the Emperor of yore, brimming with the bravura that the U.S. is back, and “I’m running the world.” For as the Middle East explodes, and the Ukrainian bubble deflates, the White House continues to urge restraint on all parties to dial back the violence. But no one is listening. With his era stumbling to an inglorious close, Biden may have loved the idea of pulling the levers of coercive soft-power...

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Mistaking Militarism for Statecraft, Empire for Democracy and Debt for Prosperity

Mistaking Militarism for Statecraft, Empire for Democracy and Debt for Prosperity

by | Sep 30, 2024 |

“Turning and turning in the widening gyre, the falcon cannot hear the falconer. All things fall apart. The center cannot hold.”  --  W.B. Yeats, The Second Coming As of May 2024, the United States has committed over $175 (borrowed) billion to escalating the proxy war against Russia, and, as in the case of the Iraq and Afghan wars, with little regard for accountability pertaining to tracking military hardware,  equipment, funding, or  fraud prevention. One of the most...

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American Neocons Get Their Iran War as Congress Sleeps

Fed’s Rate Cut Helps Candidate Harris but Will Hurt President Harris (or Trump)

by | Sep 30, 2024 |

Many investors, businesses, and consumers cheered the Federal Reserve’s first interest rate cut since March of 2020. The Fed’s 50 basis points interest rate reduction was larger than many Fed watchers anticipated and was followed by suggestions that there are more rate cuts on the way. A drop in borrowing costs following the Fed’s rate reduction can help make people more optimistic about the general economy and their own financial situation. The uptick in consumer sentiment could help...

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John Kerry Says The Quiet Part Out Loud: ‘First Amendment Stands As Major Block’ To ‘Govern’

John Kerry Says The Quiet Part Out Loud: ‘First Amendment Stands As Major Block’ To ‘Govern’

by | Sep 29, 2024 |

The World Economic Forum held its 'Sustainable Development Impact Meetings' during last week's United Nations General Assembly in New York City. Speaking at the meeting, far-left elitist and former presidential climate envoy John Kerry expressed frustration to fellow globalists, stating that the First Amendment frequently obstructs their agenda.  "Our First Amendment stands as a major block to the ability to be able to hammer...

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Ukraine’s ‘Victory Plan’ Is Delusional

Ukraine’s ‘Victory Plan’ Is Delusional

by | Sep 28, 2024 |

n the past two years the western establishment media has effectively obscured the reality on the ground in Ukraine.  Only recently has it become clear to the public that the tales we've heard about Russia imploding due to "bad tactics" and "throwing bodies into the meat grinder" in exchange for irrelevant territory have all been a fantasy.  The problem is, propagandists often end up believing their own propaganda and then they are caught completely by surprise down the road when...

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Peace & Prosperity Blog

Julian Assange Speaks

by | Oct 3, 2024

It was wonderful news to many people last week when word came that Julian Assange would speak publicly this week. For a long time it seemed that such a day would never come as...

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J.D. Vance, Israel Firster

J.D. Vance, Israel Firster

by | Oct 2, 2024

Donald Trump likes to talk about how he puts America first. Last night, Trump’s presidential race running mate J.D. Vance made it clear that Vance has other priorities. In answer...

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US Military to Leave Iraq

US Military to Leave Iraq

by | Sep 8, 2024

In August, the news arrived that United States military forces and assets had been removed from Niger. Writing about this development, I opined on August 6 that “the US would be...

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