“Syria, Iraq and Afghanistan: This trifecta of semi-permanent US military engagements reflects the extraordinary power of the Pentagon to sway even a president who had made opposition to such policies a central element of his campaign.”
“Trump and his unabashedly Iranophobic generals have allowed the United States to become a patsy for Saudi Arabia, actively abetting or tacitly endorsing MBS’s ambitions. Yet whatever the administration’s purported intent, throwing in with the Crown Prince will only exacerbate the disorder that previous U.S. administrations have done so much to create.”
Read more: http://www.theamericanconservative.com/articles/president-trumps-friends-in-saudi-arabia/
“The [Iran] episode exposes a malady of American foreign policy. It lacks consistency, coherence and moral clarity, treats friends and adversaries by separate standards, and is reflexively interventionist. Thus has America lost much of the near-universal admiration and respect she enjoyed at the close of the Cold War. This hubristic generation has kicked it all away.”
Read more: http://buchanan.org/blog/americas-mission-now-128460
“Listen to the state-‘guided’ US media this past week and you’d believe a series of spontaneous anti-government protests broke out across Iran. The protests, according to President Donald Trump and his Israeli allies, were caused by `anger over Iran’s spending billions on wars in Syria, Iraq and Lebanon and helping the Palestinian movement Hamas.’ Trump tweeted that Iranians were finally rising up against what he called their hated, brutal regime. Talk about manufactured news.”
Read more: https://ericmargolis.com/2018/01/trumps-failed-coup-in-iran/
“As is always true of censorship, there is one, and only one, principle driving all of this: power. Facebook will submit to and obey the censorship demands of governments and officials who actually wield power over it, while ignoring those who do not. That’s why declared enemies of the U.S. and Israeli governments are vulnerable to censorship measures by Facebook, whereas U.S and Israeli officials (and their most tyrannical and repressive allies) are not.”
“The timing couldn’t be worse, coming amid reports the US and Saudi governments intend to push a new peace deal which is overwhelmingly biased in favor of Israel, and which leaves the Palestinians with only ‘limited sovereignty’ and no state.”
Read more: http://news.antiwar.com/2017/12/05/trump-to-relocate-israel-embassy-to-jerusalem/
“The House of Saud is in crisis as MBS consolidates his hold on the kingdom and prepares to transform Saudi Arabia in his image. But what is behind the purge, and how does it relate to the future of the world monetary system. Join James for a classic Corbett Report debriefing on the Saudi purge and the rise of the petroyuan.”
“When presented with a list of expenditure categories, and polled about which should be the single top priority for budgetary cuts by Congress, ‘US military actions in the Middle East’ was far and away their top choice. But most Americans probably have little idea how enormous those costs truly are.”
Read more: http://original.antiwar.com/smith-grant/2017/11/15/poll-americans-cut-middle-east-war-spending/
“The city of Dickinson, Texas, told individuals and businesses on Monday that they are now accepting applications for ‘grants from the fund generously donated to the Dickinson Harvey Relief Fund’ for storm damage repair. In order to apply for the grant, however, applicants must agree to a number of clauses, one of which is asserting that they do not boycott Israel. The clause stems from a Texas law passed in May, which became effective on September 1, that requires all state contractors to verify in writing that they are not participating in boycotts of Israel.”
Read more: https://www.rt.com/usa/407324-hurricane-harvey-boycott-israel/
“Most Americans are completely unaware that a United States naval vessel was once deliberately targeted and nearly sunk by America’s ‘greatest friend and ally’ Israel. The attack was followed by a comprehensive cover-up that demonstrated clearly that at least one president of the United States even back nearly fifty years ago valued his relationship with the state of Israel above his loyalty to his own country.”
Read more: http://www.unz.com/pgiraldi/the-uss-liberty-wins-one/