Alison Weir is president of the Council for the National Interest and founder of If Americans Knew. Articles mentioned in the video: “White Man’s Burden,” by Ari Shavit, Ha’aretz, April 3, 2003: http://iakn.us/2ggApnF “Perles of Wisdom for the Feithful,” by Akiva Eldar, Ha’aretz, October 1, 2002: http://iakn.us/2hkzdzo “The Bush Neocons and Israel,” by Kathleen and […]
Republican Senators John McCain and Lindsey Graham are exploiting the allegations to block any possible initiatives by Trump to improve ties with Moscow, which might have serious consequences down the road… By Philip Giraldi On Friday, the Washington Post reported that the CIA has concluded that Russia acted to aid Donald Trump in winning the election. […]
…The Anti-Semitism bill makes Jews and Jewish interests a legally protected class, immune from any criticism. “Free speech” means in practice that you can burn an American flag, sell pornography, attack Christianity in the vilest terms or castigate the government in Washington all you want but criticizing Israel is off limits if you want to […]
Many of us have longed for a president who will shake up the smug oligarchy that runs the New York-Washington bankster-crooked politician axis. Trump may or may not be that man but he at least deserves a chance to prove himself, particularly if he is genuinely interested in détente with Russia and is unwilling to […]
Someone should tell them that calling someone an anti-Semite is fortunately a slur that is losing its effectiveness through overuse and lack of credibility. Joe Sobran put it very well when he observed that anti-Semite used to be an expression applied to people who hate Jews but now it is more often used to describe […]
Hillary, the Establishment’s war candidate, though she carefully wraps it in humanitarian “liberal interventionism.” As Senator and Secretary of State, Hillary has always viewed a foreign crisis as an opportunity to use aggressive measures. She can always be relied upon to “do something,” a reflection of the neocon driven Washington foreign policy consensus…. By Philip […]
Pillorying Trump ignores how awful Hillary Clinton is in her own way. Hillaryland promises to bring with it a likelihood of more war, not only against various players in the Middle East, but also against Russia in Europe, as well as Syria and China in the Pacific….Carl Gershman of NED attacks Russia… By Philip Giraldi The relentless […]
Recent interventions have not worked very well and have in fact increased the number of enemies rather than reduce them while also killing nearly 7,500 American soldiers and more than a million inhabitants of the countries Washington has become entangled with. By Philip Giraldi, The following in an edited version of a paper I presented […]
Israel is a strategic liability. It requires the expenditure of considerable American political capital to protect it in the U.N. It cannot be used as a forward base for the U.S. military. During Desert Storm in 1991, it had to be bribed by Washington to stay out of the conflict… Some critics have also noted that medical […]
Congresswoman Barbara Comstock traveled to Israel on a trip paid for by the Israel Lobby, where Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu warned her about the Iranians. It never occurs to Ms. Comstock that Netanyahu might be feeding her and the other congressmen a lot of rubbish. Neither Israel’s own generals nor the American ones at the Pentagon […]
