Norman Finkelstein, whose latest book is I’ll Burn that Bridge When I Get to It, returns to Useful Idiots with as much heretical bravado as ever: he’s coming out swinging. First, he’s dissecting the embarrassing Nazi celebration in Canada: the Orwellian push to have it erased from history, Trudeau’s fake apology, and the despicable claims that Zelensky, who speaks English and understands Ukrainian history, didn’t know that he was saluting a Nazi soldier. “When he [Zelensky] raised his hand,” Norman explains, “this Jew as we’re constantly told, he was lending himself to the Nazi cause.”
WESTERN EXCEPTIONALISM
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The Impact America’s Defeat in Ukraine Will Have on the 2024 U.S. Presidential Election
12 minutes readERIC ZUESSE—If Russia wins in Ukraine, then only RFK Jr. could beat any Republican nominee. However, if America wins in Ukraine (which Russia won’t allow, because that would pose a severe existential threat to Russia’s national security — it would mean the end of Russia as an independent sovereign nation), then Biden (or another neoconservative Democrat) will (tragically for the entire world) win in 2024.
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Blinken: US Does Not Oppose Ukrainian Attacks Inside Russia With US-Supplied Missiles
26 minutes readCAITLIN JOHNSTONE—In an article published in Antiwar this past July titled “ATACMS: Be Very Afraid of This Acronym,” West Suburban Peace Coalition president Walt Zlotow wrote that this missile system “has potential to draw the US and NATO into all out war with Russia”
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Billy Bob’s Dispatches: The West & the Rest—the world situation discussed intelligently from every angle
12 minutes readEDITOR—Given the dimensions of this crisis, and with an increasingly enraged or clueless public clamoring for a restoration of some sort of tolerable normalcy that is in itself an illusion—the disease is too far advanced—we need lucidity, political sophistication, and honesty to guide our actions. People who can make sense of the myriad forces defining this new reality and who can sketch out the possible solutions and escape routes. Obviously such people will not come from the ranks that constitute the disease. The solutions won’t be found in the capitalist playbook. They won’t come from the liberal/globalist mob currently in control of the Democratic party, always a fraud, and currently the main tool for the Deep State’s antisocial machinations.
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BIG SERGE—It’s crucial to understand that the Russian toolbox is fundamentally different than it was during the battle for Kherson last year, due to the rapidly expanding production of a variety of Russian standoff weapons – most notably the Lancet and the UMPK glide modifications for gravity bombs. The Lancet in particular has been a star performer – there are claims that the trusty little loitering munition is responsible for nearly half of Russia’s artillery kills – and has filled a crucial capability gap that troubled the Russian army episodically throughout the first year of the war.