Foreign Policy

Excellent parable about the Israeli and Palestinian conflict.

Politics

Netanyahu is under investigation in Israel.

The politicization of hiring women in high tech.

The story about Debbie Wasserman Schultz's corrupt IT guys has disappeared.

Foreign Policy

European rulers denounce new sanctions against Russia proposed by the US as self-serving. You don't say.

The pressure on Qatar is a result of the US and its allies not liking al Jazeera because it tells the truth.

The growing alliance between China and Russia is the most important foreign policy event in the world.

Israel and the US are behind the sudden rise of the Muslim threat.

War

Escalation of war and tensions with Russia in Syria.

Israel attacks Syrian army to help al Qaeda fighters.

War

It's largely gone unreported that Israel is waging war on Syria.

War

Israeli Prime Minister Netanyahu rejected peace plan offered by Jordan and Egypt. Of course he did. He gets money and power from war.

The US military is planning to take over US cities.

"According to “Megacities: Urban Future, the Emerging Complexity,” a Pentagon training video created by the Army for U.S. Special Operations Command, the U.S. military plans to use armed forces to solve future domestic political and social problems.
What they’re really talking about is martial law, packaged as a well-meaning and overriding concern for the nation’s security.
The chilling five-minute training video, obtained by The Intercept through a FOIA request and made available online, paints an ominous picture of the future—a future the military is preparing for—bedeviled by “criminal networks,” “substandard infrastructure,” “religious and ethnic tensions,” “impoverishment, slums,” “open landfills, over-burdened sewers,” a “growing mass of unemployed,” and an urban landscape in which the prosperous economic elite must be protected from the impoverishment of the have nots.
And then comes the kicker.
Three-and-a-half minutes into the Pentagon’s dystopian vision of “a world of Robert Kaplan-esque urban hellscapes — brutal and anarchic supercities filled with gangs of youth-gone-wild, a restive underclass, criminal syndicates, and bands of malicious hackers,” the ominous voice of the narrator speaks of a need to “drain the swamps.”" 

2030 seems late.

US sends conventional troops into Syria.

War

Israel cuts water supplies into Palestinian territory. This is another problem with socialist water.

General lies to Congress about African missions.

Foreign Policy

Ten ways Israel and Saudi Arabia are the same.

The IMF exacerbates and increases conflict.

Politics

Most Americans believe Palestinians occupy Israeli territory, not vice-versa.

War

That Saudi-led wargame is really an invasion of Syria from Turkey.

"But it was Turkey’s dramatic moves on Saturday that led us to wonder whether the first shots of World War III had been fired. As often happens in world-changing events, the Turkish artillery attack on Syria juggles around alliances and partnerships in a dizzying fashion. On Saturday the Turks began shelling Kurdish People’s Protection Units (YPG) forces inside Syria at a military base the Kurds had just liberated from ISIS occupation."

Let's hope this breaks up NATO. The ceasefire plan only came along because Washington woke up to the potential of all-out war.

Gulf allies are concerned a truce might keep Assad in power, so breaking up Syria may happen.

Obama's moderate Syrian rebel deception.

Nuclear material stolen from US firm in Iraq. There's the WMD.

War

US back into Libya.

"The result today in Libya is utter disarray. But at the time, former Secretary of State Hillary Clinton – a leading advocate of the bombing who justifies the deed to this day – was ecstatic when told the news of Qaddafi’s death while she was appearing on a TV talk show. Laughingly she shouted to the cameras, "We came, we saw, he died!"
No one is laughing in Washington now. President Obama came, saw and created the very opposite of what he sought, a hardly unusual outcome for the Obama and Bush Administrations in the Middle East. Instead of a pliable dependent government willing to do the bidding of Washington and its NATO foreign legion, there has been an explosion of civil war and Sunni jihadism."

Lovely.

Ban Ki-Moon dared claim both Israeli and Palestinian rulers undermine the peace process. Of course they do. Perpetual war is in their interests.

North Korea tested another nuke.

List of 58 confirmed false flag attacks.

Police State

UK to jail tech company ministers if they inform users they're being spied on.

Windows, OS X, and iOS top list of software with most vulnerabilities, making it easy for NSA to hack and spy on their users.

Most Americans support warrantless surveillance and the rest of the police state agenda, ignoring Franklin's warning.

Ruling cheerleaders for NSA spying become indignant when they are spied on.

Usually Israel is caught spying on America's rulers.

Beheadings soar in Saudi Arabia.

War

Turkey and Israel are most duplicitous against ISIS in Syria.

The war on terror will only lead to the US colonizing the Middle East like Israel colonized Palestine if rulers have the money to pay for it. They don't. They don't have enough people either.

War

Taliban kill six American soldiers in Afghanistan.

Seymour Hersh claims Pentagon and US agents shared intelligence with Russia and Syria through allies to undermine Obama's support for ISIS against Assad.

"The military’s resistance dates back to the summer of 2013, when a highly classified assessment, put together by the Defense Intelligence Agency (DIA) and the Joint Chiefs of Staff, then led by General Martin Dempsey, forecast that the fall of the Assad regime would lead to chaos and, potentially, to Syria’s takeover by jihadi extremists, much as was then happening in Libya. A former senior adviser to the Joint Chiefs told me that the document was an ‘all-source’ appraisal, drawing on information from signals, satellite and human intelligence, and took a dim view of the Obama administration’s insistence on continuing to finance and arm the so-called moderate rebel groups. By then, the CIA had been conspiring for more than a year with allies in the UK, Saudi Arabia and Qatar to ship guns and goods – to be used for the overthrow of Assad – from Libya, via Turkey, into Syria." 

More confirmation.

"Once the flow of US intelligence began, Germany, Israel and Russia started passing on information about the whereabouts and intent of radical jihadist groups to the Syrian army; in return, Syria provided information about its own capabilities and intentions. There was no direct contact between the US and the Syrian military; instead, the adviser said, ‘we provided the information – including long-range analyses on Syria’s future put together by contractors or one of our war colleges – and these countries could do with it what they chose, including sharing it with Assad."

Thank goodness there's a few good people.

War

$700 million drone can't find mines.

391 killed in Iraq, mostly ISIS fighters in Anbar.

Who will fight ISIS?

Israeli commandos rescue of jihadists in Syria caught on video.

Turkey shot down Russian plane to derail an agreement that kept Assad in power.

War profiteers promise more profits from growing wars.

War

French blamed for bombing school in Mosul, killing twelve schoolchildren.

It's NATO and Israel on the side of jihadists against Syria and Russia in Syria.

Government lies about its war against ISIS.

Did Turkey shoot down the Russian fighter because US was considering allying with Russia after the Paris attacks?

Turkey funds ISIS, and the Russians know the attack was premeditated. More.

Unjustifiable panic caused by Paris attacks.

Politics

The Palestinians are fed up with their rulers too, yet those rulers continue to rule, the same as everywhere else.

"When Palestinians were polled by the Jerusalem Media and Communications Center (JMCC) in August, just prior to the current Intifada, only 3 percent approved of his leadership – compared with the still meager approval rating of 16 percent of his boss, Palestinian Authority President, Mahmoud Abbas. Even those who are often cast as alternative leaders – Fatah leader, Marwan Barghouti, and former Gaza-based Hamas Government Prime Minister, Ismail Haniyeh – were nowhere near popular, achieving 10.5 and 9.8 percent of the vote respectively.
It was as if Palestinians were telling us and their traditional leaderships, in particular, that they are fed up with the old rhetoric, the constant letdowns, the unabashed corruption and the very culture of defeat that has permeated the Palestinian political elite for an entire generation."

Yep.

Netanyahu blames a Palestinian for the holocaust.

Foreign Policy

The Israeli Atomic Energy Commission endorse the Iranian nuclear deal.

War

US intervention in the Middle East always makes things worse.

In a bizarre bout of honesty, Tony Blair admits the Iraq war produced ISIS and says he's sorry. Bush will not.

Politics

Of course Hillary Clinton is above the law. Rules are routinely above the law unless they turn on other rulers.

The common theme between Trump and Sanders is both opposed the Iraq war.

The rise of nationalism and racism in Israel. It seems to be everywhere.

Boys should say no to consent classes.

Trump realizes the Fed is protecting Obama from a recession just like it did with Clinton. The Fed plays politics.