FRED REED—Don’t believe it. The US military does not defend America. The last time it did this was in 1945, at the end of World War Two. Since then, American soldiers were sent for twenty years to Afghanistan. Is Afghanistan America? No. Was it, is it, important to America? No. Then Iraq, Syria, Iraq again, and Serbia, bombing helpless cities. Iraq isn’t America. In my day–I’m an old guy–it was Vietnam, Laos, Cambodia, where 63,000 Americans died, and killed huge numbers of peasants who did nothing wrong–for no reason. Washington is now getting ready to start a war with China. China is on the other side of the world.
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RON UNZ—A sort of frenzied blood-lust and megalomania seems rampant across Israeli society, with the leaders seemingly unaware of just how bizarre they may appear to most of the rest of the world. Not long after the Hamas attack, a top Israeli political figure interviewed on KremlinTV had denounced Russia for being insufficiently pro-Israel in the current conflict and therefore outrageously threatened the country possessing the world’s largest nuclear arsenal. The Israeli government and organized Jewry have often stoked this sort of paranoia, with Israel’s national broadcaster releasing a propaganda video showing sweet young Israeli children singing a song calling for the total annihilation of Gaza and all of its inhabitants.
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JOAN ROELOFS—”They may be off the bases, but they get grants from the military. And people are going to be silent about wars. I can talk a little bit about New Hampshire, where I live. BAE Systems, which is British-owned, is the largest military contractor, and there are quite a few other weapons producers, including Elbit Systems, which is Israeli-owned. But also, among the businesses that get contracts are parts suppliers including a firm called Warwick Mills, which produces technical textiles such as those used in body armor…”
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ERIC ZUESSE—The 2009 Nobel Peace Prize winner Barack Obama led the U.S. to bomb and destroy Libya in 2011, though Libya likewise never had endangered U.S. national security; and, then, starting right after Obama’s 2012 re-election, he began trying to overthrow and replace the Government of Syria, which likewise never endangered America but created an international war there; and, starting in 2013, he organized the February 2014 coup that overthrew and replaced the Government of Ukraine and thereby started the war in Ukraine that Putin finally responded to on 24 February 2022 by invading Ukraine.
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PEPE ESCOBAR sums up and explains the developing situation in the aftermath of Prigozhin’s death, his plane supposedly shot down by a missile—but whodunnit? He also delves into the prospects for Wagner in Africa Francophone and beyond, their immediate task to wipe out the US-controlled Jihadists wreaking havoc in the Sahel.
