Tony Blair must be the most reviled politicians in the UK. He has amassed a personal fortune since standing down as prime minister – often acting as an adviser to controversial businesses and regimes, while notionally trying to sort out the Israeli-Palestinian conflict (achieving zero). He signed a secret contract with a Saudi oil company …
A joint Navy SEAL /Green Beret exercise was organised in Texas and ofher States. Texan extremist conspiracy theorists took this to be the long-expected Obama move to put Texas under martial law. Texans have loaded weapons at home to guard against this expected move. Governor Greg Abbott, pandering to these nut-cases, actually ordered the Texas …
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A follow-on from the previous post: Congress has used trade negotiations to solidify Israeli control over Palestinian lands. Boycotts are a constitutionally protected form of free speech, and action to prevent them could be unconstitutional. In any event this legislation puts a chilling effect on efforts in the EU to uphold international law by boycotting …
Jewish Voice For Peace is an American liberal, Jewish organisation whose membership is mostly young. I happen to be a member. JVP reports that Congressional leaders are quietly pushing through fast-track legislation for the controversial Trans-Pacific Partnership (TPP) and Transatlantic Trade and Investment Partnership (T-TIP) trade agreements currently being negotiated in secrecy and opposed by …
You may recall that General Nagata is a top US General. He is quoted as saying, “We do not understand ISIS, and until we do, we are not going to defeat it. We have not defeated the idea. We do not even understand the idea.” How telling this is. In 1995, a similar shocking statement …
