PATRICK LAWRENCE—Think, then, about the ever-increasing imperial distance from which the reigning regime operates, and about the decay of America’s Constitution, its Bill of Rights, its Congress, its courts, its educational institutions, its public discourse and its common language, its ideals. How shall we understand what is happening to America and its people?
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Second Nakba; Same Israeli Lies; Same Western Narrative
18 minutes readJONATHAN COOK—After its mass ethnic cleansing operations of 1948 and 1967, Israel tried to manage the remaining Palestinian population through the traditional apartheid model of herding the natives into reservations, as its predecessors did with the remnants of the “locals” who survived their efforts at extermination.
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Biden is the Greater and Less Effective Evil
14 minutes readMARGARET KIMBERLEY—The only way to defend Biden is to claim that Donald Trump would have allowed Israel to kill even more people. But Trump isn’t in office anymore and imagining the hypothetical actions of a now-disgraced former president doesn’t cut it as the 2024 campaign season begins in a few months. The Democratic Party already announced there will be no debates for Sleepy Joe should any challengers emerge, so great is the fear that he will fall apart on a national media stage.
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Pepe Escobar: Russia-China-North Korea Alliance DESTROYS the Neocons, Signals Demise of the West
65 mins readEDITOR—Journalist and geopolitical analyst Pepe Escobar analyzes the significance of a growing alliance between Russia, China, and the DPRK and why it scares the neocon foreign policy establishment in the Collective West so much.
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Donald Rumsfeld’s Ghost About My Known Knowns
36 minutes readE J CURTIN—Thirteen months after Rumsfeld’s exchange in the news conference, the United States invaded Iraq on March 19, 2003, knowing it had no justification. It was a war of aggression. Millions died as a result. And none of the killers have been prosecuted for their massive war crimes. The war was not launched on mistaken evidence; it was premeditated and based on lies easy to see. Very, very easy to see.