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Billionaire Saban Advises Clinton to Differentiate Herself From Obama on Israel

Emails from Israeli billionaire Haim Saban to Clinton’s inner circle, mainly relating to Israel Ha’aretz – Israeli-American tycoon and major Hillary Clinton donor Haim Saban had advised the Democratic nominee for U.S. president as early as June 2015 to distance herself from President Barack Obama’s policies on Israel, according to emails made public by WikiLeaks on […]

The Legacy of United States Interventionism: What Iraq teaches us

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’s $38 Billion Scam: Bibi wants more and Congress might deliver

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 […]

Did U.K.’s Nuclear Chief Nyman Levin Spy for Israel?

Nyman Levin was entrusted with the U.K. and the U.S.’ most sensitive nuclear secrets. Did he pass on some of those secrets to Dimona? By Avner Cohen and Meirion Jones, Haaretz The Friday of January 22, 1965, was one of those cold and gray English winter mornings. London may have been starting to swing, but not […]

Israel Wins in November: It doesn’t matter who is elected – Comstock is an example

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 […]

5 Things To Watch as Trump Woos Megadonor Adelson (like Gingrich did before)

Will Adelson make good on his promise to give Trump $100 million?  In 2012, Adelson and his wife gave at least $98 million to GOP candidates… Sheldon Adelson is the largest donor of the Republican Jewish Coalition… Funneling his contributions through the Jewish group could push Trump to be more pro-Israel… Adelson has made clear that Trump’s stand on Israel is critical in […]

The Obstacle to Peace: Washington’s Role as Israel’s Enabler

Hammond sees a Washington that has been so thoroughly subverted by Israeli interests that it has no wiggle room to behave independently ….. When General David Petraeus spoke candidly in 2010, saying that Israel’s treatment of the Palestinians was endangering American soldiers operating in the Middle East, he was quickly forced to recant. Hammond also examines […]

Another example of how Israel treats Americans: 17-year-old girl strip searched

I am a 17-year-old American girl. I grew up in a small town in Massachusetts.  My mother is from the U.S. and my father is a U.S. citizen born in Morocco. In the summer of 2016, I went through Ben Gurion Airport.  Going into the country I had no issues. Leaving, however, was a different […]

‘Propagandising For War’ – Gareth Porter Responds To The BBC Today Programme On Syria

‘The BBC interview is so one-sided and distorts the most basic realities of the issue in Syria that it is a caricature of the media propagandizing for war. It has offered the public two flavors of essentially neoconservative thinking — one perhaps closer to Bush administration thinking, the other closer to the views of Hillary […]

The Neoconservatives, the War on Iraq, and the National Interest of Israel

The neoconservatives were the driving force in the George W. Bush administration’s war on Iraq… Not by happenstance, the targeted regimes were staunch enemies of Israel, and included Iraq, Iran, Syria, and even Saudi Arabia… Stephen J. Sniegoski August 23, 2016 The neoconservatives were the driving force in the George W. Bush administration’s war on Iraq […]

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