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Mainstreaming Assassination: Endorsing a program of targeted killing opens the door for perilous reciprocation.

What constitutes evidence that a high-value target is actually near or using the phone being tracked? Is it now assumed that anyone fitting a profile residing in an area controlled by ISIS or al-Qaeda affiliate al-Nusra a legitimate target? As the information is being provided by the Pentagon anonymously, its release is actually authorized, even […]

Israel partisans bully campuses – Blum & Feinstein threaten pro-Palestinian students

Between January 2014 and June 2015 there were more than 300 incidents on 65 college campuses in 24 states involving intimidation or prevention of protests against Israel. Students at Northeastern University distributing flyers at dorms were interrogated by campus police and had their group suspended by college authorities… Richard Blum, a member of the University […]

War for Oil Revisited Once Again: Why It Is Both Fallacious and Popular

“The oil companies certainly wanted to have access to Iraqi oil but they wanted to do this in peaceful ways. Thus the oil companies were pushing for an end to sanctions against Iraq. A May 2001 Business Week article, for example, reported that the issue of easing sanctions on so-called rogue states ‘pits powerful interests […]

Israel’s Agent of Influence: Senator Ben Cardin shows how it’s done

So who does Cardin actually represent? I would suggest that he fits the mold of the classic agent of influence in that his allegiance to the United States is constrained by his greater loyalty to a foreign nation. By Philip Giraldi – “An agent of influence is an agent of some stature who uses his […]

The Attack on the Nuclear Deal, the Israel Factor, and the Iran Peace Scare

“…for the Israeli government and Israel’s American lobby, Iran’s alleged nuclear threat has served the same purpose as Saddam’s non-existent WMD—it generates public support against a target that is designated for other reasons… ”   By Stephen J. Sniegoski American critics are going all out to derail President Obama’s nuclear deal with Iran, which also […]

Did Iranian Weapons Kill Americans? Another phony argument against a deal with Iran

The bad guys who took aim at Bartlett? They were people defending their homes and families against an invader… his claim that he was maimed by Iranian provided weapons should not go unchallenged. In actual fact, it is a lie. By Philip Giraldi – There is a new entrant in the already crowded field of […]

Biden & Obama vs the Israel lobby’s push to kill Iran deal

Vice President Joe Biden had an intimate phone call with a thousand Jewish leaders, beseeching, teaching and preaching the Iran nuclear deal. Biden said, “Quite frankly, I wouldn’t be in this job or any job that I had in elected politics were it not for this community, among others.” Obama said the Iran deal would […]

Fast-track trade bill requires US to object to boycotts of Israel, could hurt dealings with Europe

…“discouraging” Israel boycotts would become one of the “principal negotiating objectives” of U.S. officials in bill just passed by both chambers of Congress… The bill’s passage could compromise trade dealings with Europe… AIPAC pushed inclusion of the language… JTA, “Congress writes boycott opposition into trade talks” June 25, 2015 — Congress included a provision in […]

Hawkish Hillary Clinton and Her Israel-First Political Sugar Daddy Haim Saban

 Hillary Clinton’s greatest billionaire backer has been Haim Saban, a dual United States-Israel citizen and hardline supporter of Israel, who has openly commented, “I’m a one-issue guy, and my issue is Israel… Saban is her “major financial backer: one could go so far as to say that he and his donor circle constitute her ‘base’ […]

TSA has no excuse to continue the groping / Chertoff’s role in “security”

James Bovard, USAToday – Last August, Transportation Security Administration chief John Pistole attacked an article I wrote, stating that it was “Misleading, inaccurate and unfairly disparages the dedicated (TSA) workforce. … We will not sit back and allow misinformation and conjecture to malign our employees.” Pistole resigned last December — in time to miss the […]

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