THOMAS KNAPP—Posturing America as “the exceptional nation,” Kim as a supplicant in rags, and those other governments as mere hangers-on could have had only two possible outcomes. One was the status quo ante. The other — a danger faced by then-president Barack Obama in negotiating the Iran nuclear deal — was those other parties negotiating their own deal, leaving a petulant, marginalized America to watch their parade from the sidelines.
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On the matter of Soros: Unrequited Love Note to the Washington Post
An article in the Washington Post on Sunday eulogized George Soros, and in describing his past, it stated that he is “a Holocaust survivor,” even though he’s not. One of our authors, Eric Zuesse, therefore sent the following email to the newspaper’s Editor, as well as to the author of this Soros-eulogy, requesting that it be corrected — but he went even further:
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The U.S. and Israel: a Match Made in Hell
ROBERT FANTINA—When one is discussing a violent nation, one that disdains international law, hold human rights in contempt, and cares nothing for its reputation on the international stage, one is generally discussing either the United States or Israel. They are so often complicit in each other’s crimes, and that fact is becoming clearer as each nation is led by an unstable, corrupt and egotistical mad man.
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The Blue Wave is a Yellow Tide of Cowardice
JACK PERRY—The Blue Wave is backwash from a cesspool. It’s a septic tank of bogus “resistance” to policies the Democrats all support regardless of who is in the White House or who is in the majority in Congress. I write this again, the Blue Wave is a Yellow Tide of cowardice. It’s also a Green Tsunami of campaign funds from Israel. The only thing “blue” for poor Americans will be the blues of eviction notices, debt, and poverty.
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“Blood Is on Your Hands”: Nikki Haley Heckled During University Speech (VIDEOS)
The war of words continued into 2018, with Haley deriding Palestinian Authority President Mahmoud Abbas by declaring his administration “lacks what is needed to achieve peace” in February, the Jerusalem Post reported. Later that month, after a speech before the UN Security Council in which Abbas said the US was “closing the door on a two-state solution” and he called upon UN member states that have not yet recognized Palestine as a state to do so, Abbas notably snubbed the next two speakers, Israel’s UN ambassador, Danny Danon, and Haley, the US ambassador, walking out of the council chamber after his remarks were finished.
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The Trump White House is a Chaotic Clown Car Filled with Bozos Who Think They’re Brilliant
DAVE LINDORFF—But the concept didn’t work in Vietnam, which drove the US out. It didn’t work in Iraq, which is now an client state of Iran, it didn’t work in Afghanistan, where the US is still fighting the Taliban 17 years after invading that poorest of countries. Truth to tell, the only time the policy really has worked was against the tiny island nation of Grenada, where the primary resistance to the US armada that assaulted the place was a company of Cuban construction workers working on a new airport. (7000 medals were awarded to US military personnel following that triumphant victory.)
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Pompeo’s Outrageous Speech on Iran
FARHANG JAHANPOUR—This obsession with the past and a deliberate decision to bring about a regime change in Iran will have incalculable costs. Let’s not forget that prior to Iraq war, Paul Wolfowitz, one of the authors of that war, predicted that it would be a “cake walk”, that it “would pay for itself”, and that “US forces would be welcomed with roses”. Fifteen years after that disastrous war, American forces are still operating in that country, and the war which has cost trillions of dollars to US taxpayers has killed and wounded millions of innocent Iraqi people, shattered that country and has given rise to a number of vicious terrorist movements.
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