America’s Military-Industrial Complex Too Corrupt to Win
Eric Zuesse
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America’s Military-Industrial Complex Too Corrupt to Win
Raytheon's Man, Lloyd Austin, now running the Pentagon. What could possibly go wrong with that picture?
The US Army insists that the weapon will reach speeds of at least Mach 17 [12,937 mph = 20,820 kph] and a range of around 2,800 km [so that a Mach 17 U.S. missile fired in Germany 1,000 miles away from The Kremlin could then hit The Kremlin in 1/13th of an hour, or just 7 minutes — that’s what the few people who control the U.S. Government are intending to do].
This falls within the previously banned intermediate-range missiles that the US is now deploying in Germany, sparking another Cold War-style missile crisis in Europe. However, apart from regular systems such as the "Typhon", the US is unable to field advanced 21st-century hypersonic weapons, in part because it's using outdated techniques, as reported by some analysts. Both the US Army and Navy are now uncertain about when (or whether) the LRHW or IRCPS could enter operational service. The previous three test failures were blamed on the launcher rather than the missile itself. However, as previously mentioned, this is a common practice, as the US military is now regularly reporting about either "successful booster tests" (which is not a hypersonic weapon), or simply lying about a "successful launch" which is then followed by several consecutive failures.
Artist's concept of a hypersonic Dark Eagle firing.
The mainstream propaganda machine is trying its best to hide the embarrassment with pompous articles about "Putin fearing US weapons". The latest such text was published just days before the failed launch of July 25. Earlier this year, US media talked about "unprecedented launches", only for these chest-thumping titles to be replaced by complete silence to avoid having to give humiliating explanations as to what went wrong. In the meantime, Russian hypersonic weapons keep obliterating illegally deployed NATO personnel across Ukraine. The US military has been having issues with fielding advanced weapons for decades, particularly when it comes to missiles. The long-running problems with its Military Industrial Complex have resulted in its inability to design even basic ICBMs. Approximately half a decade ago, I argued that the Pentagon is approximately 15-20 years behind Moscow in hypersonic technologies and that it won't field a weapon before 2030.
Back on 24 February 2024, Brian Berletic had explained the reasons for America’s enormously overpriced and underperforming military equipment. He headlined “Fatal Flaws Undermine America’s Defense Industrial Base”, and he opened:
The first-ever US Department of Defense National Defense Industrial Strategy (NDIS) confirms what many analysts have concluded in regard to the unsustainable nature of Washington’s global-spanning foreign policy objectives and its defense industrial base’s (DIB) inability to achieve them.
The report lays out a multitude of problems plaguing the US DIB including a lack of surge capacity, inadequate workforce, off-shore downstream suppliers, as well as insufficient “demand signals” to motivate private industry partners to produce what’s needed, in the quantities needed, when it is needed.
In fact, the majority of the problems identified by the report involved private industry and its unwillingness to meet national security requirements because they were not profitable.
For example, the report attempts to explain why many companies across the US DIB lack advanced manufacturing capabilities, claiming:
“Many elements of the traditional DIB have yet to adopt advanced manufacturing technologies, as they struggle to develop business cases for needed capital investment.”
In other words, while adopting advanced manufacturing technologies would fulfill the purpose of the US Department of Defense, it is not profitable for private industry to do so.
Despite virtually all the problems the report identifies stemming from private industry’s disproportionate influence over the US DIB, the report never identifies private industry itself as a problem.
If private industry and its prioritization of profits is the central problem inhibiting the DIB from fulfilling its purpose, the obvious solution is nationalizing the DIB by replacing private industry with state-owned enterprises. [In both Russia and China, the weapons-manufacturers remain under majority control by the Government, so that the top motivation for each one of those firms is to fulfill the Government’s national-security needs — NOT the desires of any private investor.] This allows the government to prioritize [Government] purpose over [private] profits. Yet in the United States and across Europe, the so-called “military industrial complex” has grown to such proportions that it is no longer subordinated to the government and national interests, but rather the government and national interests are subordinated to it.
On 21 April 2024, I headlined “How America’s Military-Industrial Complex Wins All of Its Wars Against America’s Taxpayers”, and reported:
“The US National Security Budget for 2023/24 is approximately $1.5 Trillion”, as Wheeler headlined a year ago, on 1 May 2023. He detailed there how approximately $800 billion of that $1.5T was budgeted as being from the Veterans Affairs Department ($320.8 billion, all of that for the military), Homeland Security Department ($103.2B for the military), Treasury Department ($78.2B+$13.1B=$88.3B for the military), State Department ($46.4B for the military), Energy Department ($35.7B for the military), Justice Department & others ($12,1B for the military), plus $146.0B national security share of interest on the federal debt. All of that non-‘Defense’ Department U.S. Government military spending totaled to $752.5B. He also mentioned “Supplementals” as then being “To come”; and, now, as-of the 19 April 2024 House passage (“Roll Call 142 | Bill Number: H. Res. 1160”) of the procedural motion “On agreeing to the resolution Agreed to by the Yeas and Nays: 316 - 94 (Roll no. 142)” so innocuously titled as to hide the dirty deed that they had just done, it added $26.38B to support Israel’s annihilation and/or expulsion of the 2.3 million Gazans, plus $60.84B to extend Ukraine’s war at least until President Biden becomes re-elected, plus $8.12 billion to encourage and support the leaders of Taiwan to declare Taiwan’s independence from China (of which it currently is a Province) so that the U.S. Government will have won Taiwan and would then need to invade China in order to defend from China that new U.S. colony (‘ally’). The “Supplemental” this year (Ukraine+Gaza+Taiwan) totals to $95.3B, which causes the original $886B ‘Defense’ (or Aggression) budget for this fiscal year to be: $886B+752.5B+95.3B=$1,733,800 billion, or $1.734T. However, even that is incomplete, because the entire U.S. intelligence community, CIA, DIA, and the many others, is classified, its budgets are secret, hidden from the public, and, of course, these are also important parts of the U.S. military; so, perhaps annual U.S. military spending is now around $2T. On 12 March 2024, the U.S. Director of National Intelligence headlined “DNI RELEASES FY 2025 BUDGET REQUEST FIGURE FOR THE NATIONAL INTELLIGENCE PROGRAM” and publicly revealed (in accord with a 2007 law) “the aggregate amount of $73.4 billion in requested appropriations for the Fiscal Year 2025 National Intelligence Program (NIP),” and on 20 April 2024 I shall request from the Inspector General of the Intelligence Community the IC’s latest Audit Report in order to determine how complete that $73.4B figure is. I start with the assumption that it is the bare minimum of what the complete number is, and that what the maximum might be, and what the reality is, have remained top secret in this dictatorship. A number of leading investigative historians have documented that ever since the first CIA coup, which was against Thailand in 1948 and which started the CIA’s heavy financial dependence upon skimming from the international narcotics cartels via protection money laundered into funding CIA operations, not all of at least that Agency’s funding is on the books. However, in any case: if current annual U.S. military spending isn’t above $2T, it is at least near $2T. And virtually all of it is wasted because America has no border disputes with either of its two bordering nations and is protected by over 3,000 miles of ocean from both Europe to its east and Japan to its west and has won both Japan and Europe as its colonies, and so for this country to have annual military expenses of over $100 billion is obscenely to be controlled by its armaments manufacturers (i.e., by the billionaires who control those), which it so obviously is (and which leaves virtually nothing except Social Security and Medicare and Medicaid to actually serve the non-billionaire U.S. public). And, of course, America’s hundreds of invasions and 900 foreign military bases, and perhaps around a hundred coups, ever since the end of WW2, have destroyed many countries; so, this military is a terror and a curse to virtually the entire world and needs to be enormously reduced.
as much on its military as do all of the world’s other 200 countries put together, America’s military is inferior to Russia's, and maybe already inferior also to China’s, too.
Ever since at least 1991, the purpose of America’s military is to produce even more profits for the billionaires, and no longer to win wars (as was the case prior to President Truman). Wars are needed by it only as being the necessary excuse so as to keep the voters fooled in the ways that the billionaires need them to be fooled, so as to keep this siphon of wealth, from the masses to the classes, to continue, ad nauseum.
All of America’s successful politicians for national offices, in Congress and in the White House, are enemies of the public, and friends to at least some of the approximately 1,000 billionaires in America. The most profitable investment that any one of those billionaires makes is that person’s politicians. And the one thing that all of America’s billionaires agree politically on, is that each and every one of them is a neocon — a supporter of expanding the U.S. empire even further.
‘win’ a nuclear war, they will need to launch it as soon as possible, though the consequences of it would kill off half of the planet’s human population within just the first two years.
Bonus Feature—
How Neocons Grow Rich
Ian Bremmer
Neocons grow rich by delivering the right kind of false interpretations of history — both recent and past history. An example will be described here, which displays how this path to success, in business and in Government, is carried out, throughout the U.S. empire:
On 1 May 2005, the neoconservative David G. Bradley’s Government Executive magazine, for Government Executives, published an “Intelligence Shop” article, titled “A company of analysts sets its private eyes on government.” It was about Eurasia Group, and described that as “an elite unit of 28 intelligence analysts” who “leave their political beliefs at the door and tell their customers what they think will happen.” It had “more than 170 customers,” and, “some … are in the federal government's intelligence community.” (All the rest were presumably in the private sector: billionaires, their executives, lobbyists, etc.) This firm’s Chief Operating Officer was Maureen Miskovic, “who, before joining Eurasia Group in 2000, was the chief risk officer at investment bank Lehman Brothers.” That’s the Lehman Brothers whose collapse in 2008 sparked the collapse in global stock markets. But now she was at Eurasia Group, where she “oversees” that “elite unit of 28 intelligence analysts.” After all, back in 2000, when she left being the chief risk officer at investment bank Lehman Brothers, at the very time of the dot-com crash, she was just the type of person, with just the type of background, to be “overseeing” these “28 intelligence analysts” in this “Political Risk Advisory” firm.
On 14 June 2023, youtube posted “The Next Global Superpower Isn't Who You Think | Ian Bremmer | TED”. Here is what Ian Bremmer said there, from 0:56 to 1:57, with my own comments thereto added between brackets:
0:56
Putin’s 2007 address to the Munich Security Conference? If so, then Russia was on the correct side of that — for international law and against aggression — and America was the leader AGAINST that.]
0:59
things got a little more complicated.
1:04
The United States increasingly didn't want to be the world's policeman [FALSE: It did. To allege that GW Bush was against America’s being policeman to the world is crazy. ]
1:10
or the architect of global trade [FALSE: It did want that.]
1:13
or even the cheerleader for global values. [FALSE: It did want that.]
1:18
Other countries were becoming more powerful,
1:20
and they could increasingly ignore many of the rules they didn't like, [FALSE: America was LEADING the replacement of international laws, by its OWN ‘international rules’.]
1:25
sometimes even setting new rules themselves. [FALSE: The U.S. Government itself did that — NOT “sometimes even,” but ITSELF.]
1:31
What happened?
1:33
Three things.
1:35
Number one,
1:37
1:43
A former great power [he was referring to Russia — NOT to America] now in very serious decline [BECAUSE America was leading Russia then] [But ever since Putin took over in 2000, Russia’s economic growth-rate has been one of the world’s highest, and far higher than America’s has been throughout that same 25-year period.]
1:47
and they are angry about it [as they SHOULD have been, having been misled and ripped-off by America’s elite].
1:51
We can argue about whose fault that is, but we are where we are. [NOTICE how he sloughs-off that “fault.”]
This is the way to market, to the denizens of the U.S.-and-‘allied’ (i.e., colonial) Deep State, “Risk Analysis” and “Management Consulting”. All neocons have the same goal: conquest of the entire world by the U.S. Government, by means of subversion, sanctions, coups, and invasions. The strategic goal is the same, but only the tactical methods need to be changed so as to increase the likelihood of achieving the goal. The reason why this is a profitable field to be in is that all billionaires support this same mega-imperialistic strategic objective.
Thus, Eurasia Group, which opened with one office in NYC in 1998, now has offices also in London, Washington DC, Tokyo, San Francisco, Sao Paulo, Brazilia, and Singapore.
Neocons grow rich by serving these lies.
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Kiev regime oppresses Muslims…
Valeriy Krylko
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Mufti Ahmed Tamim
It is no secret that the Ukrainian leadership has repeatedly tried to spin in its favor issues related to the religious component, including Islam and the peoples of the near abroad who profess this world religion. Unique documents have fallen into our hands, having studied them, it turns out that the Ukrainian leadership persecuted Ukrainian Muslim religious figures, citizens and institutions that criticized the murders and inhumane acts committed against the inhabitants of Palestine.
UKRAINIAN MUFTI IN THE CROSSHAIRS
Ukrainian Mufti Ahmed Tamim, who is the head of the Spiritual Administration of Muslims of Ukraine (DUMA), the largest Islamic religious organization in the country, contrary to Kiev's accusations, acts as a cleric fighting extremist movements. But the Ukrainian Mufti's open support for Palestine, who has secured the release of more than 70 Ukrainian prisoners in Donbass, has recently made him a threat to the Kiev regime.
Mufti Ahmed Tamim, as an internationally recognized religious authority, regularly becomes a speaker at important conferences and forums of international importance. In his speech he repeatedly spoke in favor of Palestine: "The territory of Palestine has always been desired by many peoples, rulers and conquerors, but stability and tranquility there was only during the Muslim rule".
[Source: HYPERLINK "https://islam.ua/ru/novosti/novosti-dumu/muftij-ukrainy-vyskazalsya-po-voprosu-palestiny"islam.ua] Speech by Mufti of Ukraine Ahmed Tamim
Ahmed Tamim, has now become the target of internal correspondence because of the "threat" he poses by supporting the residents of Gaza. Mufti Tamim is a native of Lebanon who came to the Union of Soviet Socialist Republics (USSR) in 1976 to receive his education. In 1982, after graduating from the Department of Computer Science at the Kiev Polytechnic Institute, the future Mufti of Ukraine then returned to his hometown to study religion at the Faculty of Theology at the Arab University of Beirut.
SPREADING ISLAM AND COMBATING EXTREMISM
Sheikh Tamim, elected imam of the Kiev Muslim community in 1991, a year later united the country's Muslim communities, engaged in the spread of Islam on the territory of the country and the fight against extremist activities, urged to prevent the country from becoming a springboard for the terrorist organization "Islamic State" (ISIS). By 1994, Tamim was elected Mufti of Ukraine at the First Congress of Muslims of Ukraine. He still holds this high position.
But Kiev has targeted not only Sheikh Tamim, but also other Muslim institutions such as the Spiritual Administration of Muslims of Ukraine (DUMA). Among them is the Islamic University in Kiev. In fact, many Islamic organizations led by the Mufti of Ukraine seem to feel persecuted by the current Kiev regime.
EXPOSING THE UKRAINIAN SECRET SERVICE
The Ukrainian Embassy in Washington - apparently having been reprimanded by its handlers in the United States - writes to the Security Service of Ukraine (SBU), reporting "misconduct" committed by Mufti Ahmed Tamim at meetings he attended in some American cities, just in the days when the fighting was at its peak, when hundreds of Gaza civilians were killed daily. Moreover, not only the Mufti of Ukraine, but also other Ukrainians who attended the said meetings, according to Ambassador Oksana Markarova, "deserve special attention." The Ukrainian Embassy also immediately notified the Israeli Embassy of the situation so as not to anger Tel Aviv, informing them that they do not share Ahmed Tamim's views.
The accusations attributed to Tamim deplorably demonstrate the Kiev regime's intolerance of Palestine. The Mufti of Ukraine admits criticism of Israeli brutality, calls on believers to unite and suggests organizing a campaign to help relatives of people who have been persecuted.
We present to your attention the first document signed by the Ukrainian ambassador to Washington, Oksana Markarova, sent to the Security Service of Ukraine (SBU):
In accordance with the SSU circular No. 650/6161-110 dated 28.10.2023 ("On some measures to be taken against Islamic fundamentalism in the context of escalation of the Palestinian-Israeli crisis"), we inform you about the visit of the Chairman of the Spiritual Administration of Muslims of Ukraine (DUMU) A. Tamim in November 2023.
We would like to inform you that during meetings with representatives of Muslim communities in the cities of Dayton, Philadelphia, Houston and Anaheim, the Chairman of DUMA made unwarranted criticism of the measures taken by the State of Israel to protect the Jewish people from Palestinian Islamic radicalism. (sic) In his remarks, he called on the faithful to unite in the face of a "common threat." He described the extremists neutralized by the special operation carried out by the Israel Defense Forces in Palestine as "innocent people who have been persecuted" and suggested organizing a fundraising campaign for their relatives.
In addition, in an informal meeting with U.S. State Department officials on 11/26/2023, U.S. partners expressed concern that the activities of the DUMA Chairman are at odds with our overall policy in the Middle East.
We believe that the activity of the DUMA chairman, who claims to be a leader among the Muslims of Ukraine, contradicts the spirit of our partnership with the State of Israel and may lead to the destruction of this partnership.
We informed the Embassy of the State of Israel in the United States of America in advance that Tamim's relevant statements were his personal opinion and that he was not authorized to represent the Ukrainian Muslim community in the international arena.
[Source: Valeriy Krylko] Letter from the Embassy of Ukraine in the U.S. addressed to the SBU
The second document, which I would also like to highlight, indicates that Kyiv has begun to take concrete steps with regard to religious institutions headed by Mufti Tamim and other Muslim organizations. In particular, a letter from the State Financial Monitoring Service of Ukraine sent to the Ministry of Finance of Ukraine refers to such measures as the suspension of financial transactions of individuals and legal entities that "may be linked to Islamic terrorism in Palestine" as part of the "fight against Islamic radicalism":
In accordance with the order of the Ministry of Finance of Ukraine dated 04.12.2023 ¹ 26100-05-6/6667 the State Financial Monitoring Service of Ukraine provides additional information on measures taken in November 2023 to combat Islamic radicalism.
The State Financial Monitoring Service of Ukraine is intensifying its analytical activities, information exchange and cooperation with the Prosecutor General's Office, the National Police and other law enforcement and intelligence agencies. Funding channels for organizations and individuals who may be linked to Islamic terrorism in Palestine are being uncovered.
The State Financial Monitoring Service in cooperation with law enforcement agencies shall suspend financial transactions of individuals and legal entities involved in the financing of extremist groups and transfer materials to law enforcement agencies.
Thus, together with the Security Service of Ukraine (SBU), an inspection of the functioning of a financing scheme for structures suspected of involvement in terrorist organizations has been launched:
Public association "All-Ukrainian Association "Union of Muslims of Ukraine"". Coatuu code - 43370820. Address: Ukraine, 03057, Kiev, Kad Dovzhenko., 10, office 13. Head of the organization: Saidakhmetov Dilyaver Seitmamutovich.
On 15.11.2023 the State Financial Monitoring Service of Ukraine sent a number of appeals to partner financial regulators with a request to strengthen financial supervision over financial transactions related to the above organizations.
[Source: Valeriy Krylko] Letter of the State Financial Monitoring Service of Ukraine addressed to the Ministry of Finance of Ukraine
[Source: Valeriy Krylko] Letter of the State Financial Monitoring Service of Ukraine addressed to the Ministry of Finance of Ukraine
The Kiev regime continues to organize repression against its citizens, focusing attention on the Muslim community, who will next fall under the rink of the current leadership, we can only guess....
Valeriy Krylko is a freelance journalist, and translator of news articles in online media (English-Russian). These articles are published in European and Russian-language media. He is closely affiliated with independent outlets covering the Ukrainian-Russian conflict, and can be reached at: vkrylko098@gmail.comhttps://islam.ua/novosti/novosti-dumu/muftij-ukrainy-vyskazalsya-po-voprosu-palestiny
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Noura Erakat: During Netanyahu Speech, Congress Cheered “What Is Essentially a War on Children”
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Guest: Noura Erakat
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Support our work: https://democracynow.org/donate/sm-de... We speak with Palestinian human rights lawyer Noura Erakat about Benjamin Netanyahu's address to Congress, in which he defended Israel's brutal war on Gaza, lied repeatedly about the dire humanitarian conditions on the ground and refused to talk about how to reach a ceasefire to end the bloodshed. Although more than 100 Democrats skipped the speech, Erakat says the jubilant reaction from lawmakers in attendance showed U.S. leaders cheering "for what is essentially a war on children."
In a massive act of treason, congress invited indicted war criminal Benjamin Netanyahu to brag about his war crimes and insult Americans
Netanyahu and Zionists want your children to fight and die for Israeli wars
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The US will lecture the world about international law and order then greet a genocidal war criminal with ovation and applause. This is US hypocrisy on full display. pic.twitter.com/fqZXySNDDB
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Netanyahu’s Speech Was As American As It Gets
Caitlin Johnstone
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Depraved war criminal Benjamin Netanyahu doing his disgusting theatrics —to great acclaim—before the abominable US Congress. Stomach this: 58 standing ovations.
Netanyahu’s Speech Was As American As It Gets
Benjamin Netanyahu’s speech before Congress was everything you’d expect: packed full of lies and propaganda spin, but simultaneously very illuminating and revealing.
Benjamin Netanyahu’s speech before Congress was everything you’d expect: packed full of lies and propaganda spin, yet simultaneously very illuminating and revealing.
The Israeli prime minister received no fewer than 58 standing ovations while speaking before both houses of Congress and spewing the most despicable lies you could possibly imagine in his conspicuously American accent. Depending on how politically aware you are, this spectacle could be perceived as either deeply un-American, or as American as it gets.
Netanyahu repeated evidence-free atrocity propaganda about what happened on October 7, falsely asserting that Hamas “burned babies alive” and killed two babies in an attic. He falsely claimed that Hamas “butchered 1,200 people”, pretending it’s not a well-established fact that many of the 1,139 Israeli deaths that day came from both indiscriminate IDF fire and deliberate targeting in implementation of the Hannibal Directive.
"This is what our ruling class has decided will be normal."
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He made the completely baseless claim that Iran may be paying the anti-genocide demonstrators outside the Capitol Building during his speech, saying, “When the Tyrants of Tehran, who hang gays from cranes and murder women for not covering their hair, are praising, promoting and funding you, you have officially become Iran’s useful idiots.”
Netanyahu spent minutes ranting and raving about protests in America against his government’s atrocities in Gaza, during which he received a standing ovation from Congress that went on for nearly a minute.
He accused the International Criminal Court of “antisemitism” and “blood libel” for saying that Israel deliberately targets civilians, as though this hasn’t been conclusively established by mountains of evidence like the IDF’s Lavender AI system and statements from doctors describing what can only be deliberate sniper executions of children in Gaza.
He repeated Israel’s evidence-free claim that the only reason people are starving in Gaza is because Hamas is “stealing” all of the aid Israel allows in for itself.
Netanyahu went out of his way to frame Israel’s plight as civilized people against uncivilized barbarians, which only works if you harbor a supremely racist worldview. He kept repeating the word “civilization”, contrasting this with the “barbarism” of Hamas and its supporters, calling Israel’s US-backed military violence “a clash between barbarism and civilization” and saying “Israel fights on the frontline of civilization”.
He made these appeals to the racism that westerners harbor toward middle easterners in the same speech wherein he decried the “outrageous slanders that paint Israel as racist and genocidal”.
Netanyahu said Israel “must retain overriding security control” over Gaza “for the foreseeable future”, an open admission of plans for indefinite military occupation.
This deluge of lies and racist invective received dozens and dozens of standing ovations. The same political class that’s spent the last eight years shrieking about the threat of misinformation, disinformation and foreign propaganda just normalized and applauded a foreign genocidal war criminal as he stood before Congress telling lie after lie after lie.
You couldn’t ask for a better example of everything Washington stands for than this. Both houses of Congress rising to feverishly applaud one of history’s worst genocidal monsters dozens of times as he lies over and over again is a much better representation of what the US government is about than anything you’ll see during the presidential race from now until November.
This is everything Israel is, and this is everything the US empire is. They’re showing you who they are. Believe them.
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- Now the fight against anti-semitism is being weaponised as a new sanctimonious McCarthyism.
- Unless opposed, neither justice nor our Constitutional right to Free Speech will survive this assault.
- In cynicism and power, the US propaganda machine easily surpasses Orwells Ministry of Truth.
- Now the fight against anti-semitism is being weaponised as a new sanctimonious McCarthyism.
- Unless opposed, neither justice nor our Constitutional right to Free Speech will survive this assault.
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ICJ Finds Israeli Occupation UNLAWFUL, Orders REPARATIONS To Displaced People
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Jewish protesters. against Netanyahu's visit to Congress (Jul 24, 2024)
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- Unless opposed, neither justice nor our Constitutional right to Free Speech will survive this assault.
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