PETER KOENIG—”…our enemies are too many outside the environment of society and the country. There is a front of enemies against us. Well thankfully, we have delivered blows to this front until today. We have defeated it and pushed it back and this will be the case from now on too, but we should know that we are not faced with a single enemy, rather we are faced with a front of enemies.”
AMERICAN BRAINWASH
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DIANE GEE—It is becoming impossible to have a real conversation around here. Being an out-where-the-buses-don’t-run, fringe leftist has always made conversations difficult. The neo-cons think we are crazy. The liberals think we are delusional purists. The centrists don’t think at all… wait, that’s not fair. The centrists mostly think that our system is as fixed as gravity, a universal truth that cannot be changed, so any activism is tilting at windmills; hand me the remote, let me get a beer and chill already.
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CHARLES PIERSON— Landler writes that Trump “holds a radically different view of the United States’ role in the world than most of his predecessors” and has broken with the “rules-based postwar international order” the US has upheld for the past seventy years. Hogwash. Even before the coming of Sauron the Orange-Haired to Washington, the US was a lawless, imperialist Leviathan.
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TELESUR—Rallies were held in the cities of Ahvaz, Kermanshah, Bushehr, Abadan, Gorgan and Qom. State media reported new rallies will be held on Thursday in other towns and cities. A massive rally is expected on Friday, after prayers, in Tehran.
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LAWRENCE WITTNER—Lockheed began work on developing the technologically-advanced warplane in the 1980s and, since 2001, the U.S. government has expended over $100 billion for its production. Today, estimates by military analysts as to the total cost to taxpayers of the 2,440 F-35s desired by Pentagon officials range from $1 trillion to $1.5 trillion, making it the most expensive procurement program in U.S. history.