EDITOR—Besides a discussion of the innumerable Israeli crimes in Gaza and elsewhere, and the US clearly hypocritical posturing, Krystal comes up with a breaking segment on Israel’s war hawks demanding US attack Iran. Considering that the US empire has long been plotting an all-out assault on Iran, but has desisted due to the potentially enormous economic cost of such an adventure, Washington may not need much prodding to join the Tel Aviv crazies. After all, from their miserable and sociopathic self-interested viewpoints, both Netanyahu and Biden may believe a huge war could save their political skins. Meantime, the US political class, chock-full of sociopaths and war criminals like Lindsey Graham and Nikki Haley, continues to bay for a much wider war.
IRAN
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WILLIAM SCHRYVER—The idea that Iran could pose any credible threat to the American military, its incomparable weaponry, and its mighty warriors … well, it is dismissed as an absurd notion by almost anyone sufficiently pretentious to speak authoritatively of such things — most of whom could not come within 1000 miles of locating Iran on an unmarked world map. Few understand what it means to be among the few extant “civilizational powers” — nations such as Iran, China, and Russia — that have somehow managed to retain for millennia both their ancestral geographical integrity and cultural cohesion. Iran is indisputably the most underestimated of the “civilizational powers”.
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P. GREANVILLE—The barbaric Israeli bombardment of Palestinian civilians in Gaza, with US and EU backing, has finally proved too much for hundreds of millions of people across the world, including people in the benighted West, who are seeing, for the first time, what is usually hidden or distorted about the true workings of the US empire and its complicit client states, such as Israel.
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MAGA: Make America Go Away—The Dispensable Nation
75 Mins readROGER BOYD—US politicians, policy makers and even international relations scholars accept this abusive, narcissistic narrative as they waffle on about a “Liberal International Order” where the US acts as the mafia-boss who makes the rules while not being subject to them, and bloviate about the decrepit “shining city” that must deliver its “gift” of liberal democratic capitalism to the world’s unwashed. Just as they did to the Amerindians in their three century war of extermination, ethnic cleansing and land theft, as they established the “new Jerusalem” of ethnic supremacy; personified by the racist bigot President Wilson who spun a good yarn about “freedom” while bringing the very opposite to not only many foreigners but also the US population.
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KARIM SHAMI—In broad terms, Qatar remains aligned with the western camp, to which NATO ally Turkiye also leans. Despite its vast media empire openly championing the Palestinian cause and its steadfast opposition to normalization without Palestinian statehood, Qatar’s support is still constrained and falls short of its full potential.