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Aux Barricades Mes Enfants!
Time for the sans-culottes to rise up against Washington's insanity
• October 9, 2018
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On October 21st there will be a Women's March on the Pentagon hosted by the Global Women’s Peace Action. My wife and many of our friends will be going and even I will tag along in support in spite of my gender. We participate with some reservations as we have only demonstrated publicly twice since... Read More
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One Click Closer to Annihilation
Last week Washington threatened Iran, Syria, China, Venezuela and Russia
• October 2, 2018
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The nuclear war doomsday clock maintained on the Bulletin of Atomic Scientists website has advanced to two minutes before midnight, the closest point to possible atomic apocalypse since the end of the Cold War. In 1995 the clock was at fourteen minutes to midnight, but the opportunity to set it back even further was lost... Read More
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The Path to World War III
Risky Israeli behavior threatens everyone
• September 25, 2018
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The minimal U.S. press coverage accorded to last Monday’s shooting down of a Russian intelligence plane off the coast of Syria is, of course, a reflection both of lack of interest and of Israel’s involvement in the incident. If one had read the New York Times or the Washington Post on the morning after the... Read More
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The Anne Frank Test
More power to the wicked
• September 18, 2018
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The week leading up to the funeral of Senator John McCain produced some of the most bizarre media effusions seen in this country since the assassination of John F. Kennedy in 1963. McCain, who never saw a war or regime change that he didn’t like, was apparently in reality a friend of democracy and freedom... Read More
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Target Syria
Will a new war be the October Surprise?
• September 11, 2018
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It’s official. The Syrian Army assisted by Russian air support is closing in on the last major pocket of terrorists remaining in the country in the province of Idlib near Aleppo. The United States, which has trained and armed some of the trapped gunmen and even as recently as a year ago described the province... Read More
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Israel's Fifth Column
Exercising control from inside the government
• September 4, 2018
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Referring to Israel during an interview in August 1983, U.S. Navy Admiral and former head of the Joint Chiefs of Staff Thomas Moorer said "I've never seen a President — I don't care who he is — stand up to them. It just boggles the mind. They always get what they want. The Israelis know... Read More
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The Crucifixion of Jeremy Corbyn
Israel's friends demand total surrender
• August 28, 2018
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Many believe that the easily observable dominance of the friends of Israel over some aspects of government policy is a phenomenon unique to the United States, where committed Jews and Christian Zionists are able to control both politicians and the media message relating to what is going on in the Middle East. Unfortunately, the reality... Read More
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Will the Real John Brennan Please Stand Up?
When will he answer for his war crimes?
• August 21, 2018
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The battle between many former intelligence chiefs and the White House is becoming a gift that keeps on giving to the mass media, which is characteristically deeply immersed in Trump derangement syndrome in attacking the president for his having stripped former CIA Director John Brennan of his security clearance. One of the most ludicrous claims,... Read More
America the Punitive
• August 17, 2018
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There has been a dramatic shift in how the United States government carries out its business internationally. Admittedly, Washington has had a tendency to employ force to get what it has wanted ever since 9/11, but it also sometimes recognized that other countries had legitimate interests and accepted there was a place for diplomacy to... Read More
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Why Confronting Israel Is Important
The Jewish state is no friend
• August 14, 2018
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I am often asked why I have this “thing” about Israel, with friends suggesting that I would be much more respected as a pundit if I were to instead concentrate on national security and political corruption. The problem with that formulation is that the so-called “special relationship” with Israel is itself the result of terrible... Read More
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More Lies About the White Helmets
Is resettling a terrorist front group in the West a good idea?
• August 7, 2018
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When is a terrorist group not a terrorist group? Apparently the answer is that it ceases to be terrorist when it terrorizes someone who is an enemy of the United States. The most prominent recent example is the Mujaheddin e Khalq (MEK), a murderous Iranian Marxist cult which assassinated five Americans in the 1970s as... Read More
Let's Hear It for Congressman Ron DeSantis
• August 1, 2018
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Sometimes what comes out of Congress is so revolting that it begs for a response. Here is a link to Congressman Ron DeSantis of Florida, currently running for state governor, taking down Democratic candidate for Congress Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez, whom he refers to “this girl Ocasio-Cortez or whatever she is.” You note that it is all... Read More
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The Yellow Peril Comes to Washington
Following the Israeli model?
• July 31, 2018
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So President Donald Trump reckoned on Monday that the United States Intelligence Community (IC) just might be wrong in its assessment that Russia had sought to interfere in the 2016 U.S. election but then decided on Tuesday that he misspoke and had the greatest confidence in the IC and now agrees that they were correct... Read More
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Is Bill Browder the Most Dangerous Man in the World?
The darling of the war party needs to answer some questions
• July 24, 2018
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At the press conference following their summit meeting in Helsinki, Russian President Vladimir Putin and American President Donald Trump discussed the possibility of resolving potential criminal cases involving citizens of the two countries by permitting interrogators from Washington and Moscow to participate in joint questioning of the individuals named in indictments prepared by the respective... Read More
The Establishment Strikes Back
• July 19, 2018
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There are a number of elements in the recent release of an indictment of twelve named alleged Russian military intelligence GRU officers by Deputy Attorney General Rod Rosenstein looking into possible ties between Moscow and the Trump Administration that I find either implausible or even incoherent. But before considering that, it is necessary to consider... Read More
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A Tale of Two Poisonings
Shaping a story to fit the agenda
• July 17, 2018
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Poisoning enemies has a long history with Augustus Caesar’s wife Livia allegedly a master of the art, as were the Borgias in Renaissance Italy. Lately there has been a resurgence in allegations regarding the use of poisons of various types by several governments. The claims are particularly damaging both morally and legally as international conventions... Read More
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A Neoconservative Plan for Punishing Iran
No understanding in the White House of what might come next
• July 10, 2018
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President Donald Trump makes a point of insisting that he has nothing against the Iranian people and is only interested in opposing what he regards as the dangerous activities of their government, but his own record in office belies that claim. It is clear that what he is trying to do is put pressure on... Read More
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Feeding the Monster
Washington's spinelessness enables Israeli brutality
• July 3, 2018
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I have just spent a couple of days in New York City. Returning to Virginia on Wednesday morning, I had a somewhat strange experience. I cleared through my emails before leaving the hotel and also read through a number of the featured news articles. One, in particular, caught my eye. It described how the Democratic... Read More
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Space Command Is About to Launch!
Beam me up, Scotty!
• June 26, 2018
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I thought that perhaps I had tuned into John Oliver or to Saturday Night Live in error, but no doubt about it, there was an unmistakable President Donald Trump speaking before an audience at the National Space Council. He was saying that on his own presidential authority "I'm hereby directing the Department of Defense and... Read More
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Will the Real Donald Trump Please Stand Up?
Who is he and what does he want to do?
• June 19, 2018
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I had coffee with a foreign friend a week ago. The subject of Donald Trump inevitably came up and my friend said that he was torn between describing Trump as a genius or as an idiot, but was inclined to lean towards genius. He explained that Trump was willy-nilly establishing a new world order that... Read More
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Understanding Jewish Power
Who has helped create a war-addicted America?
• June 12, 2018
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I recently was asked to speak at an online conference entitled Deep Truth: Encountering Deep State Lies. My panel addressed Understanding Zionism: Deconstructing the Power Paradigm and my own topic was How Jewish Power Sustains the Israel Narrative. Working on my presentation, I was forced to confront the evolution of my own views on both... Read More
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Hating Russia Is a Full-Time Job
Neocons resurrect tribal memories to fan the flames
• June 5, 2018
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Having just returned from a trip to Russia, I am pleased to report that the Russian people and the officialdom that I encountered displayed none of the vitriol towards Americans that I half expected as a response to the vilifying of Moscow and all its works that pervades the U.S. media and Establishment. To be... Read More
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MEK’s Money Sure Can’t Buy Love
But it can buy a lot of politicians
• May 29, 2018
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Iran’s radical Marxist cult Mohajedeen e Khalq, better known by its acronym MEK, is somewhat reminiscent of the Israel Lobby’s American Israel Public Affairs Committee (AIPAC) in that it operates somewhat in the shadows and is nevertheless able to punch well beyond its weight by manipulating politicians and understanding how American government functions on its... Read More
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Among the Persians
Iranians want to be friends with Americans but Israel hates the idea
• May 22, 2018
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I have just spent a week in Mashad and Tehran Iran, speaking at an international conference on the future of Jerusalem as well as other related issues while also meeting with a broad range of Iranians, including journalists, students and government officials. The conference was organized by a non-government organization called New Horizon. It was... Read More
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The Ruinously Expensive American Military
Pay and benefits are out of control
• May 15, 2018
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America’s Republican politicians complain that “entitlements,” by which they mean pensions and medical care, are leading the country to bankruptcy even as they fatten the spending on the Pentagon, which now takes 12 percent of the overall budget. And it should be noted that while workers contribute to the social programs during all their years... Read More
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Protecting Israel Is Their Full-Time Job
Time to question the loyalty of some legislators and judges
• May 8, 2018
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I have a number of times discussed how the U.S. and other governments have legislated and otherwise promoted Jewish and Israeli interests in ways that most people would find unacceptable if they were aware of what exactly has been going on. Here in the United States, special Medicare coverage and immigration status have been granted,... Read More
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Dumb Moves Have Consequences
The nuclear agreement with Iran is worth preserving
• May 1, 2018
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The analysis of the recent exchanges between French President Emmanuel Macron and President Donald Trump suggest that Washington is most likely about to withdraw from the Joint Comprehensive Plan of Action (JCPOA) nuclear agreement with Iran that was signed by the U.S. and five other governments in July 2015. The decision will likely be made... Read More
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Scarier Than John Bolton?
Think of Nikki Haley for President!
• April 24, 2018
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The musical chairs playing out among the senior officials that make up the President Donald Trump White House team would be amusing to watch but for the genuine damage that it is doing to the United States. The lack of any coherence in policy means that the State Department now has diplomats that do not... Read More
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Whose Wars?
Israel continues to wag the dog for Middle Eastern wars
• April 17, 2018
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In March 2003, Pat Buchanan wrote a groundbreaking article entitled "Whose War?" in opposition to the Bush Administration fueled growing hysteria over Saddam Hussein’s alleged weapons of mass destruction which was producing demands for an armed intervention to disarm him. Buchanan rightly identified a number of prominent Jewish officials and journalists closely tied to the... Read More
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Liars Lying About Nearly Everything
Skripalgate is the latest chapter in Russiagate
• April 10, 2018
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At least since the time of Marcus Tullius Cicero in the late Roman Republic everyone has certainly understood that politicians lie all the time. To be sure, President Donald Trump has been exceptional in that he has followed through on some of the promises he made in his campaign, insisting periodically that he has to... Read More
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A Special Relationship Born in Hell
The United States should cut all ties with war criminal Israel
• April 3, 2018
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If you want to understand what the “special relationship” between Israel and the United States really means consider the fact that Israeli Army snipers shot dead seventeen unarmed and largely peaceful Gazan demonstrators on Good Friday without a squeak coming out of the White House or State Department. Some of the protesters were shot in... Read More
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Let's Investigate John Brennan
Time to find out if CIA interfered in the 2016 election
• March 27, 2018
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Former Central Intelligence Agency (CIA) Director John Brennan, a Barack Obama friend and protégé as well as a current paid contributor for NBC and MSNBC, has blasted President Donald Trump for congratulating President Vladimir Putin over his victory in recent Russian national elections. He said that the U.S. President is “afraid of the president of... Read More
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Hawks Resurgent in Washington
• March 22, 2018
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One of the most discouraging aspects of the musical chairs being played among the members of the White House inner circle is that every change reflects an inexorable move to the right in foreign policy, which means that the interventionists are back without anyone at the White House level remaining to say “no.” President Donald... Read More
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Russiagate Comes to England
Who poisoned the Russian spy?
• March 20, 2018
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I don’t know what happened in Salisbury England on March 4th, but it appears that the British government doesn’t know either. Prime Minister Theresa May’s speech before Parliament last Monday was essentially political, reflecting demands that she should “do something” in response to the mounting hysteria over the poisoning of former Russian double agent Sergei... Read More
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Christopher Steele As Seen By the New Yorker
Liberal fantasies beatify the messenger
• March 13, 2018
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The latest salvo in the Russiagate saga is a 15,000 word New Yorker article entitled “Christopher Steele the man behind the Trump dossier: how the ex-spy tried to warn the world about Trump’s ties to Russia” by veteran journalist Jane Mayer. The premise of the piece is clear from the tediously long title, namely that... Read More
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AIPAC Returns to Washington
Who is interfering with American democracy?
• March 6, 2018
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The American Israel Public Affairs Committee (AIPAC) is back in Washington for its annual summit. Or at least it used to be called a summit but now it is referred to as a policy conference, which is perhaps a bit of very welcome transparency as if there is one thing that AIPAC is good at... Read More
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Blundering Into Iran
Time to tell Israel and Saudi Arabia to fight their own wars
• February 27, 2018
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The deluge of recent reporting regarding possible conflict with nuclear armed North Korea has somewhat obscured consideration of the much higher probability that Israel or even Saudi Arabia will take steps that will lead to a war with Iran that will inevitably draw the United States in. Israel is particularly inclined to move aggressively, with... Read More
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Russiagate Suddenly Becomes Bigger
Will every critic of our government policies soon be indictable?
• February 20, 2018
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It’s hard to know where to begin. Last Friday’s indictment of 13 Russian nationals and three Russian companies by Special Counsel Robert Mueller was detailed in a 37 page document that provided a great deal of specific evidence claiming that a company based in St. Petersburg, starting in 2014, was using social media to assess... Read More
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Boycotting Israel Is the Right Thing to Do
Israel's war on free speech continues
• February 13, 2018
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Tracking the consequences of Israel’s apparent conviction that it should never be bound by the rules and conventions that constrain the behavior of other countries sometimes leads one into dark places. The daily torments inflicted on the Palestinians is increasingly a horrific tale that has no apparent end, while Benjamin Netanyahu struts and boasts of... Read More
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The Nunes Memo Needs More Work
But the FBI has been lying to the public for years
• February 6, 2018
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The House Intelligence Committee Memo on possible FBI and Justice Department malfeasance relating mostly to the investigation of Donald Trump associate Carter Page is in some ways a bewildering document. As a former intelligence officer, the first thing I noticed was that the claim by Democrats on the Committee that the memo’s release amounted to... Read More
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Let's Keep Donald Trump
True believer Mike Pence could be a whole lot worse
• January 30, 2018
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When President Donald Trump traveled to Davos last week, the second foreign head of government he met with was Israel’s Benjamin Netanyahu. When the expected groveling before Bibi was concluded the rest of the world learned that Trump is right on board the Netanyahu bandwagon when it comes to making sure that the Palestinians somehow... Read More
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Destroying Syria
Why does Washington hate Bashar al-Assad?
• January 23, 2018
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The Donald Trump administration is planning to install a 30,000 strong armed “security force” in northern Syria along the borders with Turkey and Iraq. This presumably will tie together and support the remaining rag-tags of allegedly pro-democracy rebels and will fit in with existing and proposed U.S. bases. The maneuver is part of a broader... Read More
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What's Wrong with Liberal Jews?
Progressive except for Palestine
• January 16, 2018
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Jerry Seinfeld, the Jewish American comedian, who was performing in Tel Aviv Israel at the Menora Mavtichim Arena at the end of December, recently made the news over his real live adventure at an anti-terrorism tourism camp. The so-called Counter Terror and Security Academy named Caliber 3 is a tourist training camp near the Efrat... Read More
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Surrounded by Neocons
They are all the news that fits
• January 9, 2018
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Award winning journalist James Risen has recently described in some detail his sometimes painful relationship with The New York Times. His lengthy account is well worth reading as it demonstrates how successive editors of the paper frequently cooperated with the government to suppress stories on torture and illegal activity while also self-censoring to make sure... Read More
Meet the Corrupt Billionaire Who Has Brought About a New Cold War
• January 2, 2018
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One has to ask why there is a crisis in US-Russia relations since Washington and Moscow have much more in common than not, to include confronting international terrorism, stabilizing Syria and other parts of the world that are in turmoil, and preventing the proliferation of nuclear weapons. In spite of all that, the US and... Read More
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Let's End the Israeli Tie-That-Binds
A new Declaration of Independence for 2018
• January 2, 2018
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Now that 2017 has ended with a whimper it is possible to look forward to what the new year might bring. Nuclear armed North Korea is the potential flash point for a new war, but unless leader Kim Jong-un is actually intent on personal and national suicide, it is unlikely that Pyongyang will take the... Read More
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National Security Searches for a Strategy
Proliferating enemies with no end in sight
• December 26, 2017
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The end of the year is full of goodies. I watched with glee the 128 to 9 vote at the United Nations condemning the Trump Administration decision to move the U.S. Embassy to Jerusalem and was even more amused when the Associated Press and the New York Post tried to twist the story into a... Read More
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A Good Year for Israel and Its Friends
A bad year for the U.S. Constitution
• December 19, 2017
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The unfortunate Donald Trump Administration decision to recognize Jerusalem as the capital of Israel serves no visible American interest, in spite of what some of the always-loyal-to-Israel punditry has been suggesting. Israel is already moving to exploit the situation in its usual fashion. Immediately after the announcement was made, Israeli Ambassador in Washington Ron Dermer... Read More
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Bad Moon Rising
A new cabinet will mark neocon ascendancy
• December 12, 2017
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Back during the admittedly brief shock and awe period that immediately followed on the Trump electoral victory, it appeared that there might be an actual realignment of American foreign policy. The neoconservatives virtually unanimously had opposed Donald Trump in the most vile terms, both in the GOP primaries and during the actual electoral campaign, making... Read More
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Russiagate Becomes Israelgate
Who was corrupting the American political system?
• December 5, 2017
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Reading the mainstream media headlines relating to the flipping of former National Security Adviser Michael Flynn to provide evidence relating to the allegations about Russian interference in America’s last presidential election requires the suspension of one’s cognitive processes. Ignoring completely what had actually occurred, the “Russian story” with its subset of “getting Trump” was on... Read More
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Phil Giraldi is a former CIA Case Officer and Army Intelligence Officer who spent twenty years overseas in Europe and the Middle East working terrorism cases. He holds a BA with honors from the University of Chicago and an MA and PhD in Modern History from the University of London. In addition to TAC, where he has been a contributing editor for nine years, he writes regularly for Antiwar.com. He is currently Executive Director of the Council for the National Interest and resides with his wife of 32 years in Virginia horse country close to his daughters and grandchildren.


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Americans Should be Ashamed
A Modern Guernica Enabled by Washington
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How the Israel Lobby Works
Pressuring Candidates Even Before They Are Nominated
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Israel Is No Ally
But is it even a friend?
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Who’s Afraid of Sibel Edmonds?
The gagged whistleblower goes on the record.
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Counter Intelligence
Today’s CIA serves contractors and bureaucrats—not the nation.
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The Spy Who Loves Us
Pay no mind to the Mossad agent on the line.
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