JIM HIGHTOWER—This adds a totally hokey “expense” of up to $5 billion a year to the USPS corporate ledger, creating the fake “loss” Trump is now so bombastically citing as the rational for his destructive inquisition. The humble U.S. postal system has 30,000 outlets serving every part of America, employs 630,000 people in good middle-class jobs and delivers letters and packages clear across the country for a pittance. It is a jewel of public service excellence.
Therefore, it must be destroyed.
branford perry
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PETER CROWLEY—When the Times video does not portray Gazan ‘joy’ or Hamas coopting the protests, it focuses on aspects of the protest that attempt to call into question its unarmed nature, including Israel’s claims that grenades and Molotov cocktails were thrown by protesters, kites set on fire, cutting barbed wire and tires burnt to put up a smokescreen to sniper fire. Sorely missing were the children, journalists and unarmed civilian protesters killed by the IDF’s live-fire.
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India Calls Washington’s Bluff, Will Buy Russia’s S-400 Despite Empty Sanctions Threat
10 minutes readFRANZ-STEFAN GADY—The Indian defense minister is expected to raise the issue of sanctions under CAATSA, which could kick in on any Indo-Russian defense procurement deal above $15 million, at the upcoming 2+2 talks between the Indian and U.S. defense and foreign ministers scheduled for this month in Washington DC. The imposition of sanctions by the United States on India is seen as highly unlikely. Nonetheless, India’s decision to move ahead with the S-400 acquisition could impact future U.S.-India defense deals, including the possible procurement of armed U.S.-made Predator drones or the establishment of joint aircraft production facilities.
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THE SAKER—Ostashko is absolutely right. The truth is that Israel, unlike Iran, has very little to offer Putin or Russia. This does not mean that Israel does not have influence over the Kremlin, it most definitely does, but that influence is all “stick”, no “carrot” (which is one of the conceptual flaws in the position of those who deny the existence of a Zionist 5th column in Russia – they are denying the existence of the “stick” while producing no “carrot” thus making Russian policies appear both contradictory and unexplainable: hence a need for all sorts of mental contortions to try to explain them).