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And Nikki Haley at the U.N. has also used the U.S. veto to block any independent inquiry into the violence, demonstrating once again that the White House team is little more than Israel’s echo chamber. America’s enabling of the brutal reality that is today’s Israel makes it fully complicit in the war crimes carried out against the helpless and hapless Palestinian people.... It's significant that Col. Lang choose to repost this at his place considering that Giraldi has been ostracized for...

You guessed it. Oil and gas. AntiMedia | OpEdThe Real Reason Israel and Lebanon Are on the Verge of War Darius Shahtahmasebi

Stirring up the hornet's nest.Sic Semper Tyrannis Trump kicked the Islamic world in the teeth today, and loved doing it.Col. W. Patrick Lang, US Army (ret.) At the Defense Intelligence Agency, Lang was the Defense Intelligence Officer (DIO) for the Middle East, South Asia and counter-terrorism, and later, the first Director of the Defense Humint Service. At the DIA, he was a member of the Defense Senior Executive Service. He participated in the drafting of National Intelligence Estimates....

Guest post by Jeff Mosenkis of Innovations for Poverty Action. A quick housekeeping item, if you haven’t seen. Chris migrated his site to new servers so had some downtime this week, but all the content should be back up by now. They’re still getting SSL set up so your browser may warn you that you’re not reading in https yet (so don’t enter your credit card information into the comments till that’s squared away). Jobs: A really interesting feature story and blog posts from the New York...

Guest post by Jeff Mosenkis of Innovations for Poverty Action. A quick housekeeping item, if you haven’t seen. Chris migrated his site to new servers so had some downtime this week, but all the content should be back up by now. They’re still getting SSL set up so your browser may warn you that you’re not reading in https yet (so don’t enter your credit card information into the comments till that’s squared away). Jobs: A really interesting feature story and blog posts from the New York...

Liberal democracy, or theocratic apartheid state? Until today the state of Israel has not decided whether it is a theocracy for Jews or a democratic sovereign state. The ultra-orthodox appear to be on the road to winning this fundamental battle of principles. Ultra-orthodox radicals are increasingly occupying key positions, thereby imposing their stamp on the secular majority. Israeli’s secular democrats are growing increasingly worried that Israel’s future may resemble Saudi Arabia and...

More ethnic tribalism. (Of course, this is one person's opinion, and he is an American, not an Israeli.)MONDOWEISS — News & Opinion About Palestine, Israel & the United States Israeli Jews will never accept Palestinians as equals — Klutznick, chair of Americans for Peace Now Philip Weiss | Founder and Co-Editor of Mondoweiss.net.

US and Israel back another terrorist group (in addition to Al Qaeda and ISIS) when it is useful. Fort RussIran: internal grievances, external agendas Jay Tharappel | Guest Contributor See also Wikipedia People's Mujahedin of Iran (Mojahedin-e Khalq, acronyms MEK, MKO) See also  The Guardian (23 Sep 2012)Five lessons from the de-listing of MEK as a terrorist group Glenn Greenwald What could go wrong with getting in bed a bit with the devil as long you don't worship him? Using...

With the Trump and Netanyahu administrations now working in lockstep, U.S.-Israeli hostility towards Iran has now ripened into a plan to repeat what befell Syria over six years ago – the hijacking of minor protests and their transformation into the cover for a foreign-funded insurgency intent on toppling Iran’s elected government. Mint PressBirth Of An Insurgency: The US-Israeli “Secret Deal” To Manipulate Protests In Iran Whitney WebbSee alsoShort and important. Flores is a good analyst....

Robotization of the military. The story is about Israel, but other countries are also doing so, including the US, Russia, and China, which all have the necessary industrial capability.While this will be an expensive area to develop, it's a whole lot less costly than supporting a human force and less controversial with respect to domestic politics.It's coming down to who has the most industrial power and computing power.The Chinese have an natural advantage in that their strategy is based on...