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Really? Is this it? Is this the guy? Monsieur Moneybags? This is the guy who financially props up AIPAC? AIPAC’s sugar daddy? Is he why US political candidates say what they do? The reason why US policy is so is because of slot machines? So Las Vegas’s Sands casino is why a foreign leader gets [...]

Suicide bombers in Syria?!!! Are you fcking kidding me?!! To Westerners this might seem ‘normal’ for Arabs/Muslims. But it is about as normal as Shia-Sunni internecine slaughter was in Iraq! Iraq is a tribal society, with one’s clan being far more important. AFAIK, intermarriage was widespread across the various sects and religions. (Let’s not forget [...]

“When you close your eyes, you see unheard pain.” And untold horror. Loss that tears into me, and leaves me empty. The unbearable pain that does not kill. There are creatures which live on our eyelids, and demons which live beneath; every night, they crawl out. We go on, with a full view of each [...]

Years ago, I read the book “The decision to use the atomic bomb and the architecture of an American myth”, by Gar Alperovitz, (Knopf,  1995). Basically, what I was looking for was found right in the Intro– that the massacre of Hiroshima’s people had nothing to do with a supposedly intransigent Imperial Japan, let alone Nagasaki’s. [...]

This ought not be a surprise: Iran tricked the stealth drone’s navigation systems into safely landing within Iran. Just what the hell are US and Israel thinking! Computer systems are, almost by definition, hard to secure. And it takes very little to develop expertese in them. You just need brains and some basic computing resources; [...]

An informative interview with the prime minister of Somalia. But left unanswered is the question of funding for Al Shabab. As always, one has to follow the money; and, in the case of Wahabis/Salafists, one typically ends up in Saudi Arabia. You have to hand it to the Zionists: they’re always up-front about what they [...]

Occupy The Status Quo

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“So we struggle, in our own humble way, to destroy the United States!” (See 1:20 to 1:50 of the documentary Making Sense of the Sixties:) I try not to cut people down for trying, but I can’t help but observe that Occupy Wall St’s 99% do not want fundamental change; they want only the status [...]

Near the end of this interview, Daniel Ellsberg says that he expects that US military bases are there to stay, regardless of what Obama claims. In this, he echoes the permanent occupation of Iraq hinted at by Karen Kwiatkowski, three years ago.

A reminder of the history of the recent American wars and sanctions against Iraq.

Iraq’s war wounded, in a Jordanian hospital.