Trump's emergency war cabinet meeting after the Iranian rocket attack was strangely anti-climatic. Trump has engaged in non-substantive, face-saving military actions in the past, so maybe this is more of the same? Iran and Trump playing an escalation game to its...
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Was Kataib Hezbollah Even Responsible For That Rocket Attack?
by Scott Horton | Jan 7, 2020 | Blog
They denied it. Scott Ritter wonders whether what's-left-of-ISIS is jerking our chain: The U.S. blamed Iranian-backed Khaitab Hezbollah (no relation to the Lebanese Hezbollah group), for the attacks. There are several problems with this narrative, first and foremost...
Iran’s Secret Surprising Deal
by HypocriteTwins | Jan 7, 2020 | Blog
Donald Trump killed Iranian General Qassem Soleimani. But nobody talks about the secret deal that was offered prior.
Iran Hits US Targets in Iraq
by Scott Horton | Jan 7, 2020 | Blog
https://twitter.com/DEFCONWSALERTS/status/1214692730879795200 https://twitter.com/axios/status/1214692204226236417
About that Air Base in Iraq
by Sheldon Richman | Jan 7, 2020 | Blog, Foreign Policy
After the Iraqi parliament (sans Sunni and Kurdish members) voted to oust US troops from Iraq, Trump said, "We will charge them sanctions like they’ve never seen before, ever. It’ll make Iranian sanctions look somewhat tame. We have a very extraordinarily expensive...
Will Iran Choose 1,953 Sites?
by Sheldon Richman | Jan 7, 2020 | Blog, Foreign Policy
Trump tweets that he has selected 52 sites in Iran, including cultural sites, for bombing if the Iranian regime retaliates for Trump's assassination of Quds Force commander Qassem Soleimani. Why 52? That "represent[s] the 52 American hostages taken by Iran many years...
Ron Paul asks: Why Was Soleimani Assassinated?
by Ron Paul | Jan 6, 2020 | Blog
President Trump and Mike Pompeo told us that Iranian Gen. Soleimani had to be assassinated when he was in Baghdad at the end of last week because he was on a mission to plan and implement attacks on US military and diplomatic personnel in the region. But their story...
Year Zero 90: War Pigs
by Tommy Salmons | Jan 6, 2020 | Blog, Year Zero
Gen'rals gathered in their masses, Just like witches at black masses Evil minds that plot destruction, Sorcerer of death's construction In the fields the bodies burning, As the war machine keeps turning Death and hatred to mankind, Poisoning their brainwashed minds...
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Insurrection of the Mind.
Star Trek Insurrection is not one of the better films in the series, but it seeks to address issues of humanity that sometimes only science fiction can. Immortality, the value of life and human relationships with technology. It is fitting that the film starts with the...
They Know the Truth
Cut from the book. After catching Woodward faking that Lavrov quote, I had to cut all the citations from that book out of mine. But I'll leave this here at least because it's funny: Insider journalist Bob Woodward wrote in 2024 that the administration recognized...
Bob Woodward Badly Misquotes Russian FM Lavrov
I emailed Washington Post reporter Bob Woodward: Dear Bob, It appears that you have misquoted FM Lavrov on page 88 of your new book. Lavrov’s full quote was: “Those who mechanically repeat the points made in Bucharest and insist that ‘third countries’ have no right to...
NZ Ocean Floor Survey Naval Vessel Runs Aground Off Samoa
That New Zealand naval ship that ran aground, foundered, caught fire and capsized with the DEI Captain commanding was an ocean survey and mapping ship. HMNZS Manawanui was a dive and hydrographic vessel of the Royal New Zealand Navy (RNZN). It was one of five vessels...
The Carrier as Reef Complex: World’s Most Expensive Fish Apartments
*** I have returned from a long sojourn with my wife to Croatia and will be writing more regularly and trying to address issues arising more contemporaneously than the previous month. We were delayed in returning by Hurricane Milton but finally managed to get home:...
The Soul of a Socialist
From the pen of H. G. Wells (1908), socialist: War is a collective concern; to turn one’s back upon it, to refuse to consider it as a possibility, is to leave it entirely to those who are least prepared to deal with it in a broad spirit. In many ways war is the most...
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