JIM KAVANAGH—That Iran has been the ultimate target is also made clear in an exceptionally important and detailed NYT report, “The Secret History of the Push to Strike Iran” (published before the Syria decision), which I urge everyone to read. It chronicles how “Hawks in Israel and America have spent more than a decade agitating for war against the Islamic Republic’s nuclear program,” and asks “Will Trump finally deliver?” It details Benjamin Netanyahu’s obsessive “personal crusade” against Iran, and his attempts to cajole, browbeat, and bluff the US into attacking Iran for the Jewish state…
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TOM LUONGO—Trump ordering US troops out of the region put the Kurds on notice that they either make a deal with Russia and the Syrian government or get slaughtered by the Turks. That took all of a day. It also, as the great Pat Buchanan points out in his latest article, put the Saudis on notice that they no longer set US foreign policy objectives because they sell their oil in dollars and splash some money around D.C. and the media. Their bloodthirst for war with Iran can be done on their dime or not at all. The most shocking part in all of this is Trump just made the same statement to, of all people, Israel. And that’s where the highest concentration of anguish is coming from in the media and elsewhere.
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5 minutes of blinding truth—Tulsi explains why she’s being smeared by Hillary and her media shills
13 minutes readPATRICE GREANVILLE—Tulsi Gabbard defends herself against the latest Ckintonite smear, and she does it, of course, on Fox, since the corrupt “liberal” media —from the NYTimes to MSNBC and CNN—won’t move a finger to denounce the Clinton empress and her proxies. And it is Tucker Carlson, again, of all people, who allows Tulsi to say it clearly and forthrightly. Strange times indeed, but probably the craziness of rightwingers like Tucker is nothing compared to the repulsive corruption of the liberals (wrongly described by the Right and themselves as “the Left”.)
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CAITLIN JOHNSTONE—So the establishment narrative managers now have an official three-word debunk of any criticism of the establishment which employs them, which applies even when that criticism is fully based in facts and reality. Facts are a Kremlin talking point, and anyone who believes them is Russian. Facts are Russian. Truth is Russian. Skepticism is Russian. Asking questions is Russian. Dissent is Russian. Revolution is Russian.
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Xi Jinping’s tough warning on Western subversion in Hong Kong-Xinjiang-Taiwan is a direct cue from citizens’ NBA outrage
20 minutes readJEFF J. BROWN—In a recent article I came down really hard on Messrs. Morey and Silver, because like them, I too used to be a “liberal, do-gooder racist”, who thought I had all the best Western answers for the rest of the world’s inferior peoples.