DEEP STATE

ERIC ZUESSE—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.]

EDITORS—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.

DEMOCRACY NOW—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.”

CAITLIN JOHNSTONE—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.

EDITORS—The team examines the far-reaching consequences of the latest ICJ verdict, deeming Israel’s policies illegal and criminal, and ordering Tel Avid to cease and desist and effect prompt restitution to the victims. This enormously important judicial finding has been largely downplayed by the mainstream media and denounced in many pro-Zionist channels.