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Congressional Committee Condemns (Nearly) Every Feature of the Covid Response

Congressional Committee Condemns (Nearly) Every Feature of the Covid Response

by | Dec 10, 2024 |

Are there words in the English language that fully describe what happened during the Covid years that are not already overused? Calamity comes to mind. Disaster. Cataclysm. Ruin, devastation, catastrophe, unprecedented debacle, fiasco, and utter wreckage – all fine words and phrases but nothing quite captures it.  Given that, there is probably no report on the thing that can properly characterize the whole of it. On the other hand, it’s worth trying.  Meanwhile, the results of Covid...

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When Rights Become Privileges: Is the Constitution Becoming Optional?

When Rights Become Privileges: Is the Constitution Becoming Optional?

by | Dec 10, 2024 |

Disguising its power grabs in the self-righteous fervor of national security, the Deep State has mastered the art of the bait-and-switch. It works like this: first, the government foments fear about some crisis or threat to national security, then they capitalize on it by seizing greater power and using those powers against the American people. We’ve seen this play out over and over again. The government used its so-called War on Terror to transform itself into a police state. Then the police...

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Peace Plans, Schmese Plans: Key Path to Ukraine Peace Long Ignored by All

Peace Plans, Schmese Plans: Key Path to Ukraine Peace Long Ignored by All

by | Dec 10, 2024 |

Politico ran the headline, "Ukraine Peace Plans Galore." Ukraine, Russia, and China each have a peace plan. Trump is developing one. The Alliance of Democracies has one. It looks a lot like Ukraine's plan at first glance. There's talk of a Demilitarized Zone between Ukraine and Russia. There's also the suggestion of imposing a frozen conflict. They seem like an open invitation for continued stress between the countries, not real peace. So, what's the ignored key path to peace I'm talking...

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Winners and losers in Syria

Winners and losers in Syria

by | Dec 9, 2024 |

Iran and Russia are the two big losers in the ouster of Syria’s President Bashar al-Assad on Sunday by the Sunni Islamist groups affiliated to al-Qaeda. Assad fled in the nick of time  after giving orders that there be a peaceful handover of power. The likelihood is that he is in Russia. At any rate, a rollback of the Islamist takeover in Syria is out of the question. The Arab oligarchies of the Gulf region are full of trepidation over the surge of a variant of political Islam that may...

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‘This is Not the Time for Balance’: LA Times Columnist Resigns in Protest . . . Over Balanced Commentary

‘This is Not the Time for Balance’: LA Times Columnist Resigns in Protest . . . Over Balanced Commentary

by | Dec 9, 2024 |

When now President-Elect Donald Trump was convicted, the thrill-kill atmosphere around the courthouse and the country was explosive, but no one was more ecstatic than liberal columnist and former prosecutor Harry Litman. The then L.A. Times columnist told MSNBC’s Nicolle Wallace that it was a “majestic day” and “a day to celebrate.” A lawfare advocate, Litman excitedly laid out how Trump could be barred from office, declaring that the raid in Mar-a-Lago was the “whole...

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The Real Scandal of Hunter‘s Pardon

The Real Scandal of Hunter‘s Pardon

by | Dec 9, 2024 |

Politicians and pundits spent much of last week commenting on President Biden’s pardon of his son Hunter for lying on a federal gun purchase form, failing to pay taxes, and any other offenses he may have committed over the past decade. Much of the controversy is because President Biden repeatedly pledged that he would never pardon his son. Some have also observed that the pardon’s timeline starts the year Hunter Biden joined the board of the Ukraine energy company Burisma. This has led to...

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What’s Going on in Syria?

What’s Going on in Syria?

by | Dec 7, 2024 |

Syria is the mother of all mysteries. Even the Romans couldn’t figure out all the intrigues, plots, factions, coups and assassinations that were common there. Nor could they understand or deal with its hotbed of religions and weird sects. Two thousand years later, not much has changed. This week, irregular forces of a former al-Qaida outfit named Hayat Tahrir al-Sham (HTS) appeared out of the countryside and seized Syria’s second most important city, Aleppo. Syria’s dormant 14-year-old civil...

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Biden’s Nuclear Going Out of Business Sale

Biden’s Nuclear Going Out of Business Sale

by | Dec 7, 2024 |

Has the world forgotten the real danger of nuclear war? Do we live in a fantasy world where we think we can escalate tensions and put entire portions of the world under threat by using Ukraine as a sacrificial pawn (in what is classically sold as providing humanitarian and ally support) in a decades-long psychopathic foreign policy play to destroy Russia? According to the laws of war, NATO, the U.S., the U.K., and France have determined to become “direct participants” in Europe's deadly...

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‘Target is Damascus,’ Erdogan Hopes ‘Smooth March’ Toward Toppling Assad

‘Target is Damascus,’ Erdogan Hopes ‘Smooth March’ Toward Toppling Assad

by | Dec 7, 2024 |

After Friday prayers in Ankara, Turkish President Tayyip Erdogan issued an unexpected statement which for many is tantamount to a full-on admission this his intelligence services are behind Hayat Tahrir al-Sham's capture of Aleppo, and ongoing blitz south.  "The target is Damascus," he said bluntly. "I would say we hope for this advance to continue without any issues." Thus the president of Turkey has just issued over approval for a jihadist-led regime change...

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US Has Stopped Ukrainian ATACMS Strikes On Russia

US Has Stopped Ukrainian ATACMS Strikes On Russia

by | Dec 7, 2024 |

As further ATACMS strikes on Russia seem to have stopped this timeline is of interest. November 18: U.S. allows Ukraine to use ATACMS missiles against targets within Russia: The reversal of policy, nearly 1,000 days since Russia started its full-scale invasion on Ukraine, comes largely in response to Russia's deployment of North Korean troops to supplement its forces, a development that has caused alarm in Washington and Kyiv, a U.S. official and a source familiar with the decision...

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Romanian Court Annuls Vote, Declares Presidential Election Do-Over, After ‘Far Right, Pro Russian’ Candidate On Top

Romanian Court Annuls Vote, Declares Presidential Election Do-Over, After ‘Far Right, Pro Russian’ Candidate On Top

by | Dec 6, 2024 |

Something unprecedented just happened in the NATO and EU member country of Romania - a top court on Friday annulled the first round of the country's presidential election. Essentially there will now be a 'do over' election. The Constitutional Court made the decision even as voting is still underway in the diaspora. "The electoral process for the election of the President of Romania will be resumed in its entirety, with the Government required to set a new date for the...

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The End of Pluralism in the Middle East

The End of Pluralism in the Middle East

by | Dec 6, 2024 |

A truly seismic change in the Middle East appears to be happening very fast. At its heart is a devil’s bargain – Turkey and the Gulf States accept the annihilation of the Palestinian nation and creation of a Greater Israel, in return for the annihilation of the Shia minorities of Syria and Lebanon and the imposition of Salafism across the Eastern Arab world. This also spells the end for Lebanon and Syria’s Christian communities, as witness the tearing down of all Christmas decorations, the...

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Erdogan’s Idlib Shock Shadows ‘Kursk’

Erdogan’s Idlib Shock Shadows ‘Kursk’

by | Dec 6, 2024 |

“Doomsters” is an occasional Russian expression used to categorise commentators that only see the “dark side to events” (a vice quite prevalent during the Soviet era). Marat Khairullin, a highly respected Russian military analyst, says, “Today, a network of mercenary war bloggers has begun another round of moaning - this time about Syria, where apparently everything is lost for Russia.” “Many see the events in Syria (and some add Georgia to the mix) as attempts to open additional fronts...

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Three Cheers for Hunter’s Pardon

Three Cheers for Hunter’s Pardon

by | Dec 5, 2024 |

My initial reaction to the issuance of a full pardon by President Joe Biden to his son Hunter was emotional. What father wouldn’t pardon his own son, if he could? I suspect that the president has harbored these paternal thoughts even while he denied numerous times that he was planning on doing so. We have come to expect lying in politicians. When the president denied that he planned to pardon his son, he had every reason to believe that he’d be a candidate for reelection -- and he wanted his...

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You’d Better Watch Out: The Surveillance State Is Making a List, and You’re On It

You’d Better Watch Out: The Surveillance State Is Making a List, and You’re On It

by | Dec 5, 2024 |

You’d better watch out—you’d better not pout—you’d better not cry—‘cos I’m telling you why: this Christmas, it’s the Surveillance State that’s making a list and checking it twice, and it won’t matter whether you’ve been bad or good. You’ll be on this list whether you like it or not. Mass surveillance is the Deep State’s version of a “gift” that keeps on giving…back to the Deep State. Geofencing dragnets. Fusion centers. Smart devices. Behavioral threat assessments. Terror watch...

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Neocons Try Again in Syria

Neocons Try Again in Syria

by | Dec 4, 2024 |

On the neocon list of ways to make the world safer for Israel, Iran originally occupied pride of place. “Real men go to Tehran!” was the muscular brag. But Prime Minister Ariel Sharon was persuaded to acquiesce in a less ambitious plan — to “do Iraq” and remove the “evil dictator” in Baghdad first. As the invaders/occupiers got bogged down in Iraq, it seemed more sensible to “do Syria” next. With the help of “friendly services,” the neocons mounted a false-flag chemical attack outside Damascus...

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The Enriched Bread Scam

The Enriched Bread Scam

by | Mar 25, 2023

Back in grade school PE class the coach would, on occasion, have the students sit together on the gymnasium floor for a short lecture. One of those lectures I have thought about...

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