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The Return of Doomsday
Former Energy Secretary Ernest J. Moniz and former Senator Sam Nunn have a new article in Foreign Affairs about the nuclear weapons crisis between the United States and Russia.
We can’t run it as a viewpoint since the authors accept false conventional narratives about the wars in Georgia and Ukraine, the Russiagate hoax and some other things in the article. However, it’s still really worth a read since they make many important points about the U.S. role in exacerbating the second Cold War from its side, and what could be done instead.
Fighting For Our Freedom!
U.S. Army veteran who served two tours in Afghanistan deported to Mexico
He says he suffered PTSD when he got back and then turned to alcohol and drugs.
Perez acknowledged his guilt in delivering cocaine to an undercover officer, but pointed out he took responsibility for the crime by pleading guilty and serving 7 years in prison.
In prison, he got a degree and was a teacher’s aide.
Biden Is Doubling Down on Iraq War Lies
Stephen Zunes reminds us of the real history of Joe “The Fix is In” Biden and the destruction of Iraq.
Yemen: Fighting Between Saudi Forces UAE Forces In Southern Yemen
Hard to believe the situation in Yemen could get any worse but now their are reports of Saudi and UAE forces fighting in Southern Yemen.
From the BBC
Yemeni separatists have taken effective control of the port city of Aden after days of fighting with troops loyal to the internationally backed government.
Forces aligned with the UAE-backed Southern Transitional Council (STC) – which wants an independent south – said they had seized control of military camps and the presidential palace.
The opposing Saudi-led coalition said it had responded with military action.
The government itself characterised the STC’s seizure of Aden as a “coup”.
Coalition forces had called on the STC to withdraw from their positions in Aden or face further action. It said it launched its strike against a “threat” to the country’s government.
Nasser Arrabyee is reporting that Yemenis are fleeing Aden to Sanaa because of the fighting between the two factions.
Doctors Without Borders on Saturday described Aden as “a battlefield” and said its hospital there was “stretched to the limit”. It said it treated 119 patients in less than 24 hours amid the fighting.
Nasser is interviewed here on the current situation.
As usual we hear nothing about this from the US media. The people of Yemen though know exactly who is responsible for the death and destruction of their people and country.
It Is All About the Benjamins
Wealthy Jewish donors meet to decide how to spend their money influencing American politics to help Israel. In this case, they’ve decided to go after Rep. Rashida Tlaib for supporting BDS.
Ron Kampeus writes:
At the Jewish federation round table, there was a consensus: The Palestinian-American freshman in the 13th District has got to go. …
“We in this community will go against Rashida Tlaib,” said Lisa Lis, a philanthropist who is also a contributor to Democratic candidates, and who otherwise during the roundtable was vocal in her criticism of President Donald Trump.
There were nods around the table. I was told that there had already been outreach to Brenda Jones, the Detroit City Council president whom Tlaib defeated in last year’s primary, and who is considering another run. I was also told that pro-Israel folks were already socking away money to target Tlaib…
“The weaker one is and the darker one is” determines who is “in the right,” the lay leader said of The Squad, an “anti-intellectual” posture that bodes ill for Jews and Israel.
Phil Weiss writes, “The meeting was semi-official, put together by a branch of the largest Jewish org in the U.S.”
He quotes Lara Friedman saying:
“[I]f someone was speculating that these were the views, rather than reporting what people said publicly, they’d be accused of anti-Semitism.”
@kampeas reporting from Detroit on organizational Jewish Dems’ views of @RashidaTlaib [if someone was speculating that these were the views, rather than reporting what people said publicly, they’d be accused of antisemitism…]
Let’s review.
— Lara Friedman🔥 (@LaraFriedmanDC) August 2, 2019
It was a shocking & revealing ugly portrait of intolerance. MI’s Jewish leaders are mobilizing to “take out” Rashida. Can you imagine the indignation if MI’s Arab Americans were mobilizing to “take out” newly elected Jewish members cuz they disagreed w/ their position on Is/Pal?
— James J. Zogby (@jjz1600) August 7, 2019
‘Come Be My Slave’
Yossi Gurvitz: Israeli rabbi at military academy says Palestinians should be enslaved for their own good:
Rabbi Eliezer Kashtiel, the head of Bnei David, a military religious college in the settlement of Eli in the occupied West Bank, was lecturing about “slavery and the position of workers according to Judaism”, and offered a justification of Jewish supremacy and the enslavement of Palestinians under occupation:
“Yes, we are racists, of course we are. There are races in the world and nations that have genetic attributes, and that demands that we [the Jewish people] will think of how to help them. The fact that someone is your inferior is not a reason to deride him or eliminate him, but help him. Yes, there are differences between races and that’s precisely the reason who should offer aid. Just as we know there are genetic defects within society, for instance when a child is, alas, born with a defect. Is that a reason to deride him? To taunt him, insult him? No. It calls for helping him.
“When I see that I reach much more impressive heights than he does, in the moral, intellectual, personal fields, I reach much greater achievements – then it is my duty to aid him. Not leave him poor and helpless, but to lend him my hand and say ‘come’, come be my slave, be a partner in my success. […] Do you know how it is today? A prosperous country sees a backwards country, and it turns it into its garbage heap. This is how it is today. There are countries in Africa, backward countries, and what do the superpowers do? They make it worse for them.
“[…] If occupation means to humiliate you, to deride you, to taunt you, to eliminate you – than it is bad. But if occupation means ‘I am successful, come to me’, I am calling you to join a partnership, why are you alone, why are you apart from me, I want to occupy you, to merge you – then you’d be a part of a great success. You will benefit from being my slave. You live such miserable life. Come be my slave, see what life you’ll have, to what spiritual and ethical stage [you’ll climb…].
Called It a Month Ago
Epstein’s “suicide“:
Will he shoot himself in the back of the head, or strangle himself to death?
Taking bets now.
Update: New York Post: Former MCC inmate: There’s ‘no way’ Jeffrey Epstein killed himself
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