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Interview: Julian Assange Freed + Palestine’s Ancient History

by Jeremy R. Hammond | Jul 10, 2024 | Blog

I recently joined Mike Leavitt again on his show And If Love Remains, this time to discuss the release of WikiLeaks founder Julian Assange from prison as well as my new free e-book (and audiobook) A Brief History of Palestine: From Canaan through the Mandate Era.

Bullet-Point Summary

Topics we discussed include:

How Julian Assange was long persecuted by the US government for exposing its criminal activities.
Why Assange’s release from prison is fantastic news, although the downside remains that the US government has effectively criminalized the practice of journalism.
How WikiLeaks’ role in exposing the fundamentally undemocratic system in the US led the Democratic Party in collaboration with the Deep State to perpetrate the whole “Russiagate” hoax.
How Americans are indoctrinated from a young age into what I call “the state religion”, and why it is so critical for people to free themselves from this mental slavery.
Why I had stopped writing about the Israel-Palestine conflict entirely in recent years until I returned to the topic because of the Hamas-led attacks in Israel on October 7, 2023, and Israel’s genocidal retaliation in Gaza.
How I came to write my freely downloadable e-book A Brief History of Palestine: From Canaan through the Mandate era (also downloadable as an audiobook narrated by me).
How Christian Zionists who “support Israel no matter what” somehow manage to overlook the central theme of the Hebrew Tanakh, or what Christians call “The Old Testament”.
Why many Orthodox Jews viewed the Zionist movement as heretical (and why there are still Orthodox Jews who are anti-Zionist).
How key Biblical narratives cited by Jewish and Christian Zionists are unsupported by archaeological evidence.
The surprising truths that genetic studies have revealed about the ancestry of Jews and Palestinians.
Why the argument that all of Mandatory Palestine belonged to “the Jews” is totally nonsensical.
Why the claims that there was never any place called “Palestine”, that Arabs only recently immigrated to the area, and that the very idea of a “Palestinian” people is a modern invention are all idiotic hoaxes.
How the faux “libertarian” argument from genocide apologists Walter Block and Alan Futerman that the root cause of the conflict is inherent Arab anti-Semitism is contradicted even by their own cited sources.
How one major reason for Western support for the Zionist movement was rampant anti-Semitism (and the two other major reasons why the British government issued its infamous Balfour Declaration policy).
How Jews, Christian Arabs, and Muslim Arabs had peaceful relations in Palestine until the Zionist movement.
Why the claim that Arab states in 1948 launched an aggressive war to wipe Israel off the map is ahistorical nonsense.
Why the popular belief that the UN created Israel is a myth.
Why the ongoing genocide in Gaza is an effort to finish the job that was started in 1948 when Israel was created by ethnically cleansing most of the Arab population from their homes in Palestine.
How the US-led so-called “peace process” was always the means by which Israel and its superpower benefactor blocked implementation of the two-state solution.
Why Israel to this day does not meet the definition of statehood under international law.
Why to achieve a just peace requires Americans to awaken to the true nature of the conflict (as opposed to persisting in delusional beliefs resulting from indoctrination into Zionist propaganda narratives).

Highlighted Clips

Here are a few subtitled clips from the interview along with social media links for you to share!

The Common Ancestry of Jews and Palestinians

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Debunking Walter Block et al. on the Root Cause of Israeli-Palestinian Violence

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3 Reasons Why Great Britain Supported the Zionist Project

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The Myth of an Arab Invasion of Israel in 1948

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The Path to Peace in Palestine

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Mentioned Books

Here are the books of mine mentioned during the show:

Free e-Book + Audiobook: A Brief History of Palestine: From Canaan through the Mandate Era
Obstacle to Peace: The US Role in the Israeli-Palestinian Conflict

Past Appearances on Mike’s Show

Cross-posted from JeremyRHammond.com.

They Will Want Boys and Men again… Anti-War Blog

by Kym Robinson | Jul 10, 2024 | Blog

The war pigs mount one another in squeals calling for blood as the drums of death beat to their cries. They want your boys and men…again. As war looms and imperial ambitions swell, the non-binary, obese, depressed, expecting mothers (or baby carrying persons) and furies never swelled to the recruitment centres, despite expensive advertisement campaigns. That was for the sort of peaceful times, the progressive facade of corporate government. Technology is not quiet there for the machines to operate themselves or a full force of distant controllers manipulating drones.

Meat in uniforms and men in boots are required. They will require many of the other genders, plenty of women too. Some won’t allow them in field force units, yet. But they won’t enlist as much as the boys. The abductions of boys and men in the Ukraine to fight as soldiers, barely trained, randomly armed and thrown to the front line meat grinder has shown us that despite being ruled by a fabulous president, it remains as it was centuries past.

The modern advertising for the military and how it has been functions has deterred those who would usually enlist and make foreign adventures possible. Conscription may again be in the cards.

Politicians and blathering media types like to discuss the importance of military service to a young man. They are given skills that they can barely use in civilian life, may suffer moral injury, or even physical ones, if they don’t die should they go to war. The previous decades of advertising and the governments own mantra has rejected the men of the past. Re-writing a history that suits the contemporary, celebrating sexuality over most other things. It sort of had the opposite effect. Not many people are enlisting. Not even the ones they were marketing to.

So the marketing has slowly changed. NATO and other Western nations are returning to the past, tried and true methods of propaganda. They want killers again, war fighters. The corporate and Hollywood tokenism and avatar box ticking is not as important now that peer vs peer conflict may occur.

No longer fighting insurgents, or conducting ‘police actions’ this may burn into a proper war. The political masters and the military seem keen on it, most of the state and corporate media all are onboard, the public is indifferent because to most of them wars are over there. These enemies, can reach over here.

So the less woke the recruitment advertising runs, the closer to war we may be. The sabre rattling and gunboat diplomacy is more than what was tolerated in the past. The hubris so swollen that its now normal. The foe are prepared for an asymmetry that arrogance and obese societies will not be prepared for. It will kill a lot of innocent people. No one will really win. But everyone shall lose.

The dog tags may have your pronoun and all those other social media tidbits no one asked to know, but the body bags will all look the same. War is a two way range, in the front while drones will hunt you down and artillery randomly explodes your TikTok followers won’t care about the dance or how you even feel. The enemy will kill you, And you will try to kill them. The civilians lost in between.

To the high schools they return, promising your kids careers. War, is not a long term job, you survive it or die. The next Hitler is in Russia, Iran, North Korea, China, Yemen, wherever they want them to go. The enemies want to take away freedom, yet they already dwindle away daily. Taken by those home grown. “War is good for the economy, conscription is a job program, be proud and patriotic, you owe your nation the service”, the repeated lies will come. You must serve your nation, those who won’t fight will bully those who must go. You all have mental health problems now, wait until the government you love marches us all to war.

July, 2024

Military Education and the Zampolit Parade Through the Institutions

by Bill Buppert | Jul 10, 2024 | Blog

The professional military education systems and the academies have been captured by the Inclusion, Equity and Diversity (IED) zampolit cadres in a detailed and comprehensive way.

In the military a zampolit is a political commissar or political officer (or politruk, a portmanteau word from Russian; translated as a political leader or political instructor); a supervisory officer responsible for the political education (ideology) and organization of the unit to which they are assigned, with the intention of ensuring political control of the military.

The report below is filled with citations and footnotes to a massive trove of insight into the creeping communist kudzu that is infiltrating the US and western militaries.

The bureaucracy this grift is creating is a massive drag not only on money but a complete reshaping of the Pentagon to become even more Soviet in ways the Russians would blanch at. The young minds being warped by this will ripple throughout the personnel ranks to curdle the flag ranks attained to a larger extent than the current stable of starred opportunists conducting their martial malpractice in the military now.

This is from 2023:

The Defense Department requested $114 million this week for its diversity, equity, inclusion and accessibility or DEIA programs.

The request, which is the Pentagon’s largest ever ask for DEIA funding, comes as the agency failed its sixth audit of its accounts in as many years.

https://www.washingtontimes.com/news/2023/nov/22/gop-arms-over-pentagons-114-million-diversity-requ/

Cut this rot out.

An immense and well-rooted bureaucracy has been created within the DOD. The cost to support it mounts: the DOD has requested $114.7 million for 2024. While that sum may be
trimmed back and Congress will likely somewhat limit DEI programming, the request signals that DEI is a priority for the DOD. With spending increasing from $68 million in 2022 to
$86.5 million in 2023, the military leadership seeks to “inculcate DEI principles across all DOD efforts,” as a strategic goal.

The report evaluated “the history, evolution, and implementation of diversity and equity programs across all branches of the military and military academies.”

The DEI bureaucracy advancing critical race theory in the American military is vast and intrusive. Borrowing heavily from programs and ideas launched by human relations departments in large
corporations and academia, that bureaucracy exists not to defend the nation or produce the military leaders of the future. Instead, it produces training materials that parrot dubious, even
dangerous, theories that sow the seeds of division and resentment within the ranks of the military.

https://cai.asu.edu/sites/default/files/2024-06/CAI%20Civic%20Education%20in%20the%20Military%20Report%20-%20Digital%20v3.pdf

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Regime Apologists Continue to Insist the Carrier is Useful

by Bill Buppert | Jul 9, 2024 | Blog

this is how an atomic bomb melts an aircraft carrier

They misspelled disposable.

There is nothing hard to target about a very large ship traveling at very large ship speeds with very large wakes in the modern era by air breathing and non-air breathing detection assets. What this means is that all the carriers deployed (you’d be fortunate to get four of the eleven US carriers underway at once due to refitting and refueling maintenance cadence) can’t get near contested coastlines of sophisticated militaries like Russia and China but then again the Houthis in Yemen recently chased off a carrier battle group out of the Red Sea with no Navy whatsoever.

Go figure.

ADM Paparo: “Through the combination of counter-targeting, mobility, deception, electronic warfare, directed energy, and kinetic kill, a layered approach can provide defense-in-depth against and across enemy kill chains…”

Wrong, leakers in mass salvo competition will hit a part of the five acres of carrier deck. You don’t have to sink a carrier; reduce its speed by crippling a shaft or put a five degree list on it and it can’t launch aircraft. Or a Ford that can’t reliably launch and retrieve aircraft by design.

This tired and anachronistic apologia could have been written in the 1990s.

This is stunning and brave at the Naval Institute.

I am sure much applause happened off camera at the Aircraft Carrier Industrial Base Coalition (ACIBC).

Stop building these twentieth century dinosaurs.

https://www.usni.org/magazines/proceedings/2024/july/aircraft-carriers-still-indispensable

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The F35 Continues to Excel at the Pentagon

by Bill Buppert | Jul 8, 2024 | Blog

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The “mission capable rate” of these F35s is simply appalling.

23 years in and it still doesn’t work.

23 years.

And Congress won’t kill it but continues to feed money into the F35 industrial wood-chipper.

The jets have often been stuck on the ground due to engine design flaws that cause the aircraft to overheat, damaging parts and boosting maintenance costs. This inability to stay in the air has made it more difficult to get pilots sufficient training in real-life scenarios, which increases the likelihood of crashes and other costly accidents, according to Dan Grazier of the Project on Government Oversight.

The effort to fix these engine issues helps show why the F-35’s costs keep rising. In the early 2010s, the Pentagon asked military contractors to propose a new engine prototype while simultaneously pushing RTX subsidiary Pratt and Whitney to upgrade its original F-35 engine. Last year, the Defense Department told Congress that it no longer needs the $588 million per year prototype program, but lawmakers refused to kill it, choosing instead to fund the prototype and the upgrades simultaneously in a move one expert derided as “just throwing money at everything.”

https://responsiblestatecraft.org/f35-cost/

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But the advanced fighter jet, which replaced the fourth-generation F-16, just reached full-rate production this year, meaning it is finally at the highest rate of readiness after more than 23 years. It was expected to reach full production by 2019.

No, now the projection is two trillion dollars wasted on this now infamous program.

Two trillion dollars.

Today, the F-35 is the Pentagon’s most expensive weapon system. The U.S. operates 630 of the aircraft and plans to purchase 2,500 by the mid-2040s and to continue operating them through the 2080s.

The Government Accountability Office (GAO) said in a report this year that the total costs to sustain the F-35 fleet through 2088 would be more than $2 trillion. An individual aircraft will cost more than $6 million annually to operate and sustain.

At the same time, the Navy, Marines and Air Force have each projected a decrease in flying the F-35, which has not had a single model meet mission goals from fiscal 2019 through 2023. Lockheed also continues to deliver the aircraft late.

The GAO also said in the report that around 70 percent of its recommendations have not been addressed by the Pentagon, including creating a new sustainment strategy or reassessing Lockheed’s responsibility for sustainment.

In 2021, the tides began to turn against the program. Then-acting Defense Secretary Christopher Miller, who served in the last days of the Trump administration, publicly called it a “piece of s—,” while Smith, then chair of the HASC, referred to the F-35 program as a “rathole.”

https://thehill.com/policy/defense/4754671-congress-f-35-program-problems/mlite/

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“Trillion Dollar Trainwreck…”

by Bill Buppert | Jul 5, 2024 | Blog

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Hot garbage on the wing.

The pursuit of US and Western air dominance is a pipe dream but a fever dream for the military industrial complex. The existential failure of this fighter program has been stunning to behold.

The days of manned fighter aircraft are numbered in years and not decades.

It’s a startling development for advocates of American air power. For generations, the whole US military – not to mention the militaries of America’s closest allies – have depended on the US Air Force to achieve air superiority against even the most determined and sophisticated foe, affording freedom of action for troops on the ground and ships at sea.

For generations, the US Air Force has gained control of the air by fighting for it, jet to jet, with the world’s best air-to-air fighters – and highly-trained pilots. Late in the Cold War and into the 2000s, the Boeing F-15C Eagle fighter was the world’s top fighter. Later, the Lockheed Martin F-22 Raptor assumed this position.

The last few dozen F-15Cs are finally retiring after five decades of service. The 180 or so F-22s are pushing 20 years old – and won’t last forever. The US Air Force has already asked the US Congress for permission to retire the three dozen least-capable F-22s in order to free up a billion dollars for other priorities – a request lawmakers have denied, for now.

The disaster of the F35 is now harming and crowding out research and development efforts to develop and field the F35 successor, an aircraft that first flew in 2000.

The US Air Force developed the F-35 in the late 1990s and early 2000s as an affordable replacement for the service’s thousands of older F-16 fighters and A-10 attack jets. The plan, all along, has been the US Air Force to buy more than 1,700 F-35s. The F-35 is classified as fifth-generation like the Raptor: it should be more capable than all but a handful of today’s Chinese and Russian aircraft.

But deliveries of the $80-million F-35s to USAF squadrons stalled last year as the US Air Force and Lockheed Martin struggled to complete testing of the type’s latest software. Today there are scores of complete USAF F-35s sitting in storage, awaiting software. That’s billions of dollars worth of fighters that aren’t even available to front-line squadrons.

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It’s not for no reason that aviation expert Bill Sweetman refers to the F-35 as a “trillion-dollar trainwreck.” The fighter is eating the US Air Force’s budget – and forcing the service to rethink its next fighter.

https://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/2024/06/29/us-air-force-f35-stealth-fighter-jet-5th-6th-generation/

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All Hail Homo Sovieticus Booboisie in America

by Bill Buppert | Jul 4, 2024 | Blog

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Happy Dependence Day, Helots.

The Declaration of Independence continues to be a masterwork of brevity and directness in its promise to sever ties and formalize a divorce. There is no sizable sector of America today that would even have the temerity to sign it much less live up to it. Well, maybe at an abolitionist meeting but I digress.

The Constitution is the tombstone for the Declaration of Independence.

Most of the ahistorical tax Helots automatically associate the 4th of July with the wretched Constitution anyway. Constitution Day is in September but why wait when the DI has been so famously and ingloriously betrayed in every aspect of its essence and message.

The Fourth of July is the same day in 1863 that the defeats at Vicksburg and Gettysburg snuffed out any hope of the South prevailing in its divorce proceedings during the Second American Revolution and the Lincolnian juggernaut would take the Constitution to its final stages of expanding and securing a place for the leviathan state in North America.

Alexander Hamilton’s vision of Soviet America realized.

Unpossible! Another Fraud Complex Found in DoD Contractor

by Bill Buppert | Jul 3, 2024 | Blog

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Another fraud incident with overcharging.

Sikorsky is a Lockheed-Martin subsidiary.

Sikorsky Support Services Inc., a helicopter manufacturer headquartered in Stratford, Conn., agreed to pay the federal government $70 million in a settlement alongside Wisconsin-based Derco Aerospace Inc. because of claims that it knowingly overcharged the Navy for spare parts and other materials needed to repair and maintain the aircraft it already uses.

According to a release from the Department of Justice, Sikorsky and Derco, which are both owned by the same parent company, Lockheed Martin, entered into a type of contract that violates federal statute because it gives suppliers an incentive to drive up government costs — which is what the lawsuit argued the two companies were doing.

The release said Sikorsky was purchasing parts from Derco at the original cost plus an additional markup of 32%, and then submitting cost vouchers to the Navy for reimbursements. The lawsuit alleged that Sikorsky and Derco’s failure to disclose those markup costs meant that both companies knowingly presented the Navy with false and fraudulent cost vouchers.

https://www.wshu.org/connecticut-news/2024-06-21/ct-sikorsky-doj-derco-settlement-fraud-charges

https://www.justice.gov/opa/pr/sikorsky-support-services-inc-and-derco-aerospace-inc-agree-pay-70m-settle-false-claims-act