(24.02.2024)
No political faction I have ever interacted with is as immoral and dishonest, or so frequently says things that are so jaw-droppingly disgusting I am sure I must be misinterpreting it at first. I’ve never tangled with a more odious group of people.
– The initial arrests sparked a movement on college campuses across the country, including at the University of Texas at Austin, the University of North Carolina Chapel Hill, and the University of California, Los Angeles.
– More than 2,100 protesters have been arrested at colleges and universities in recent weeks, including students, faculty, and outside agitators.
Pro-Israeli lobbies have hijacked most western liberal democracies.
The whole world is now privy to the shameless pimping of western politicians previously documented in Congressman Paul Findley‘s 1985 book They Dare to Speak Out and reinforced by the 2007 book The Israel Lobby and US Foreign Policy, by political scientists John Mearsheimer and Stephen Walt.
As an anonymous commentator wrote: “People think Gaza is occupied, but in reality, Gaza is free but the whole world is occupied.”
We can be sure of one thing. History is going to be a much harsher judge of those political leaders who justified and tolerated the ethnic cleansing now going on in Gaza.
Biden and Starmer’s refusal to call for a ceasefire and their refusal to back the ruling of the International Court of Justice (ICJ) that Israel should take steps to comply with the Genocide Convention, will produce an indelible stain on their careers.
Neither man sees the danger they are in over Gaza. But then neither did Bush or Blair when they invaded Iraq.
(20.01.2024)
Mit der CDU-Führung liegt Maaßen seit geraumer Zeit im Dauerkonflikt – seit vergangenem Jahr läuft ein Parteiausschlussverfahren gegen den ehemaligen Spitzenbeamten und derzeitigem Chef der Werteunion, einem Verein, in dem auch besonders konservative Mitglieder von CDU und CSU vertreten sind.
Bei einer Mitgliederversammlung am Samstag in Erfurt soll ein erster wichtiger Schritt in Richtung Parteigründung gegangen werden:
Im September werden in Sachsen, Thüringen und Brandenburg die Landtage neu gewählt.
Erst am Wochenende hatte Nordrhein-Westfalens Ministerpräsident Hendrik Wüst (CDU) die Union vor verfrühten Debatten über die Kanzlerkandidatur gewarnt – und ein Bekenntnis zu Merz vermieden.
Not everything the United States government did in the name of waging war on the terrorists or destroying the perpetrators of those attacks turned out to be wise, justified, or even moral. To the contrary: so many actions undertaken by the U.S. government in the months and years following the 9/11 attack were self-destructive and shameful. That is the reason that the neocons who dominated the Bush-Cheney administration and George Bush and Dick Cheney themselves ended up discredited and in disgrace, at least until they magically rehabilitated themselves by denouncing Donald Trump, which absolves all sins. But the reason they were discredited and in disgrace is not because people reconsidered whether the 9/11 attack was morally unjustified. Americans still overwhelmingly believe that it was. The shame and horror from that era are, instead, due to the fact that so much of what the US did in the name of „fighting terror“ had the opposite effect: either by inflaming it, turning the world against the U.S. and engaging in actions that destroyed the moral credibility of our government.
Scalise won a closed-door secret ballot vote to be the House GOP’s new candidate for speaker on Wednesday afternoon. However, it quickly became clear that he did not have the 217 votes needed to win a House-wide vote.
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Representative Jim Jordan, the chair of the House Judiciary Committee and an ally of former President Donald Trump, was nominated by some Republican rebels to be the speaker during the election to the seat in January. He received 20 votes during one round of voting. (…)
Representative Patrick McHenry was named to step in as speaker pro tempore following McCarthy‘s ouster. Chair of the House Financial Services Committee, McHenry is a McCarthy ally who spoke in support of McCarthy prior to the vote.
Next steps are highly uncertain with no obvious successor to lead the House Republican majority. Action is halted in the House until next week, when Republicans try to elect a new speaker.
The mutiny, led by Rep. Matt Gaetz (R-Fla.), came days after McCarthy averted a government shutdown by putting a stopgap measure on the floor that garnered Democratic support — a move that infuriated hardline Republicans. In the final 216-210 vote, seven Republicans joined Gaetz to unseat McCarthy.
Every Democrat in the chamber also voted to boot McCarthy, refusing to help protect him from his unruly conference. McCarthy said he would give Democrats nothing if they were to vote to help him.
Das US-Repräsentantenhaus hat in einer historisch einmaligen Abstimmung seinen Vorsitzenden Kevin McCarthy abgesetzt. Nach einer Rebellion in den Reihen der Republikaner votierte am Dienstag eine knappe Mehrheit in der Kongresskammer dafür, McCarthy von seinem Posten zu entfernen.
(September 08, 2023)
The way this typically works is that groups claim to employ “disinformation experts” – a brand new and fake expertise they created overnight – and then produce studies that purport to document who is either circulating harmful disinformation or who is permitting it to be heard. This latter accusation, permitting dangerous disinformation to be heard, always means that one social media company or another is failing to censor in accordance with the demands of the group and its funders. They then get corporate media outlets who crave censorship to melodramatically trumpet their accusatory studies using flamboyant headlines that claim a disobedient technology platform has the blood on their hands, knowing that it will spread virally, but very few people actually read the study to determine if the accusations have any validity.
Just last week, Dick Cheney took to social media to condemn Donald Trump as a threat „to our republic.“ This video echoes a similar condemnation from George W. Bush in 2021.
In a more reasonable world, people like Cheney, Rice, Bolton, et al, would all be forgotten, shamed, disgraced politicians. They all would have been forced into retirement and shunned years ago after overseeing multiple disastrous wars abroad and the creation of a surveillance state at home. Many of them would just now be emerging from prison for their crimes against both international law and the US Constitution.
Unfortunately, we don‘t live in a more reasonable world.
President Biden’s nomination of Elliott Abrams to The U.S. Advisory Commission on Public Diplomacy is appalling and should be condemned by any one who believes in diplomacy and democracy.
Beherrschtheit, Disziplin, Vorsicht – das sind herausstechende Merkmale des 47 Jahre alten Münsterländers, der in seinen früheren, bisweilen ungestümen Jahren als rauflustiger Generalsekretär der NRW-CDU gezeigt hat, dass er auch anders kann. Als er sich aber vor gut anderthalb Jahren anschickte, die Nachfolge von Armin Laschet anzutreten, schaltete Wüst in den Kontrollmodus. Jeder Satz ist seitdem überlegt, sprachliche Ausflüge in unwegsames Gelände meidet er wie der Teufel das Weihwasser.
Wüst ist Merkelianer durch und durch. Er ist bekannt für seine Aussage, die CDU sei nicht konservativ. Und er zeigte wie sein Idol in Corona-Zeiten totalitäre Züge. Zitat: „Es geht darum, den Geimpften zu zeigen: Wir lassen das nicht länger zu, dass Menschen ihre individuelle Freiheit über die Freiheit der gesamten Gesellschaft stellen. Jetzt kümmern wir uns um die Nichtgeimpften und führen eine Impfpflicht ein.“ (Januar 2022 bei Anne Will).
Laumann, Chef des Arbeitnehmerflügels in der CDU, konnte mit Wüsts raubeinigen Auftreten in der Zeit als Generalsekretär von Jürgen Rüttgers (regierte zwischen 2005 und 2010) wenig anfangen. Wüst kam vom anderen Pol der NRW-CDU. Gemeinsam mit einer Gruppe um den damaligen CSU-General Markus Söder hatte er ein von den Medien viel beachtetes Thesenpapier für einen „modernen Konservatismus“ vorgelegt. Die Gruppe nannte sich selbst scherzhaft „Schwarze Jedi-Ritter“.
(April 20, 2023)
(04.04.2023)
China has displaced the American Empire by deftly projecting, instead, economic power. Over the past decade, our country has spent trillions bombing roads, ports, bridges, and airports. China spent the equivalent building the same across the developing world. The Ukraine war is the final collapse of the Neocon‘s short-lived “American Century.” The Neocon projects in Iraq and Ukraine have cost $8.1 trillion, hollowed out our middle class, made a laughingstock of U.S. military power and moral authority, pushed China and Russia into an invincible alliance, destroyed the dollar as the global currency, cost millions of lives and done nothing to advance democracy or win friendships or influence.
The Grayzone‘s Anya Parampil joins Tucker Carlson Tonight to address the revival of Iraq war neocons and militarists by both the Biden campaign and Trump White House.
Max Blumenthal and Ben Norton speak with Aaron Maté about the virtual Democratic National Convention (DNC), and how the Democratic Party welcomes neoconservative war criminals and right-wing Republicans while attacking the left.
We also talk about Joe Biden choosing hawkish neoliberal „top cop“ Kamala Harris as his VP candidate. Then Aaron picks apart the new Senate Intelligence Committee report on Russia, and explains why the Russiagate conspiracy still won‘t go away, even after it has been debunked.
But Koch/Soros don‘t really want to end endless US interventions overseas. They want to fund the same old think tanks who are responsible for the disaster that is US foreign policy, re-brand interventionism as non-interventionism, and hope none of us rubes in flyover country notices.
Team Rising ponders why the ‚Never Trumpers‘ still think they matter in the Republican party
President Trump has indicated that he will fulfill one of his central campaign promises – to get the US out of the endless wars in the Middle East and elsewhere. He has directed US troops to begin withdrawing from parts of northeast Syria in advance of an expected Turkish incursion into the region. Neocons screech that this will mean a comeback for ISIS and that abandoning the Kurds is treachery. They want to continue the “successful” Obama policy of eight years.
At dawn, US-backed and self-proclaimed president of Venezuela, Juan Guaido, announced the „final phase“ of his coup against the Maduro government. While defections from the military are minor at this point, it is unknown whether the coup will reach critical mass. In the US, both Republicans and Democrats – who not long ago were furious over claims that the Russians have interfered in our elections – are cheering this US interference in Venezuelan elections. US neocons have joined the battle from the safety of their keyboards.
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(11.1.2019)
The mainstream press coverage of President Trump’s announcement that he would be removing US troops from Syria has been unanimously apocalyptic. Journos who until a few days ago couldn’t care less about the Kurds (certainly not when US president after US president has used them as a cat’s paw and then abandoned them to their fate), were all of a sudden up in arms warning about an impending slaughter with the blood dripping squarely onto Trump’s hands.
The Pentagon has finally completed its first ever audit and the results are as many of us expected. After spending nearly a billion dollars to find out what has happened to trillions in unaccounted-for spending, the long look through the books has concluded that only ten percent of all Pentagon agencies pass muster. I am surprised any of them did.
Das Pentagon hat endlich seine erste Revision hinter sich und die Ergebnisse sind so, wie viele von uns erwartet haben. Nachdem es fast eine Milliarde Dollar gekostet hat, um herauszufinden, was mit Billionen von nicht verrechneten Ausgaben geschehen ist, ist der lange Blick durch die Bücher zu dem Ergebnis gekommen, dass nur zehn Prozent aller Abteilungen des Pentagons die Prüfung bestehen. Ich bin überrascht, dass es auch nur eine von ihnen geschafft hat.
Jede Geschichte muss irgendwo beginnen und das ist der Trick der Neokonservativen. Du nimmst eine Situation, die du aus deiner eigenen Perspektive entworfen hast, und benutzt sie dann als Ausgangspunkt für die Entwicklung zusätzlicher Argumente, die die Aktion begünstigen, die du von vornherein durchführen wolltest. Im Falle eines Landes wie des Iran behauptest du, dass die Iraner überprüft werden müssen, weil sie (a) die Region destabilisieren, (b) eine schiitische Landbrücke zum Mittelmeer bauen, (c) den Terrorismus unterstützen, (d) heimlich eine Atomwaffe bauen und (e) ballistische Raketen entwickeln, die es ihnen ermöglichen, die Atomwaffen zu transportieren.
Every story has to begin somewhere and that is the neocon trick. You take a situation that you have framed from your own perspective and then use it as a starting point for developing additional arguments that favor the action you wanted to take in the first place. In the case of a country like Iran, you claim that the Iranians must be checked because (a) they are destabilizing the region (b) building a Shi’ite land bridge to the Mediterranean (c) supporting terrorism (d) secretly constructing a nuclear weapon and (e) developing ballistic missiles that will enable them to deliver the nuclear weapons. By establishing your premise of Iranian threat as the basis for the discussion, you completely avoid having to demonstrate that Iran is actually doing any of those things, which is a good thing because every single point is either palpably false or can be easily challenged.
Wir wissen nun, warum der Neokonservative John Bolton das Treffen in Helsinki arrangiert hat. Es war eine Falle für Trump. Es bereitete ihn für die politische Exekution durch die Medien und den Kongress, beide vom Militär- und Sicherheitskomplex gesteuert, vor. Es gibt in den USA keinerlei Unabhängigkeit in den Print- und TV-Medien – mit Ausnahme Tucker Carlsons – und keinerlei Unabhängigkeit im Kongress. Dies sind gesteuerte Institutionen und auch Tucker Carlson wird nicht mehr lange toleriert werden.
(2.September 2009) Durch eine systematische Entrechtung der Bevölkerungen in den Staaten innerhalb der EU über ihr eigenes Schicksal selbst zu befinden, entschloss man sich 2007 in den Regierungen von Berlin, Brüssel und Paris mit Gewalt die Macht an sich zu reissen. Man entschloss sich, in einer bizarren, surrealen Überdehnung die gesamte europäische Idee in einem anvisierten Kriegsimperium nach dem Vorbild von George Orwells „Eurasien“ im wahrsten Sinne des Wortes zum Platzen zu bringen. Man entschloss sich durch Lüge, Betrug, maximale Heuchelei und Zynismus die Menschen zur Uterwerfung zu zwingen.
Jetzt wird man in den Regierungen der EU-Staaten den Preis dafür zahlen. Die EU hat verloren. Sie hat die Köpfe verloren, sie hat sie mittlerweile sogar gegen sich, sie hat die Herzen verloren, diese schlagen für Souveränität und Unabhängigkeit, sie wollte eine Art USA-Ersatz spielen und wird wie eine USA ohne Constitution enden, nämlich im Nichts. Ob und wie man noch versucht den Menschen einen „Vertrag“ drüber zu ziehen den sie nie beschlossen haben, ist ebenfalls irrelevant. Eine EU ohne Akzeptanz ist nichts als ein Schatten, der verschwindet sobald jemand das Licht anknipst.
Ein Nein der Iren wäre sogar für die EU selbst ein Glücksfall. Weg mit diesem Machwerk, weg mit der weltweiten Kriegführung, weg mit der Totalüberwachung der Menschen, weg mit dem Rumgemurkse in Kriegsgebieten, den globalistischen Ausdehnungsplänen, der explodierenden Plutokratie, der toten Konzernwüste mit Konsumsklaven und Ausbeutern, hin zum Gedanken „Was ist das eigentlich – `Europa`?“. Was soll die EU eigentlich, was für einen Sinn und Zweck hat sie, was ist das „Europäische Einigung“ und was unterscheidet sie von einer „Europäischen Unterwerfung“ unter Grössenwahnsinnige karolingischen Ausmasses?
Former US Congressman and political analyst Ron Paul says the claim that Syrian President Bashar al-Assad „is gassing his own people is a total nonsense,” adding that the American neoconservatives, who want a perpetual war in the Middle East, are probably behind the recent chemical weapons attack in Syria.
The American people are sick of our failed regime change wars. They are sick of paying the price for counterproductive wars that have taken the lives of our sons and daughters and taken resources away from our communities, while undermining our security and increasing the threat of terrorism.
The neocon Washington establishment continues to cozy up to Saudi Arabia despite their direct and indirect support of terrorist groups, and their continued global exportation of the extreme Wahhabi Salafi ideology that fuels terrorist groups like ISIS and al-Qaeda, directly undermining the safety and security of our country. Neocon warhawks Pompeo and Bolton will not only continue the status quo, they threaten to worsen the situation with more senseless wars.
We cannot allow that to happen.
(18.11.2017) Warum das Selbstverständnis einiger „moderner Linker“ dem Faschismus näher steht als sozialer Demokratie.
Rick Sterling: It’ll be a significant step. One thing that should be pointed out is that the US, through the CIA, or the Defense Department, the arming of extremist groups is illegal under international law. It has been a tremendous waste of money; between 2014 – 2015, $500 million of US taxpayer funds were spent to train a grand total of 54 so-called moderate rebels, most of whom immediately turned the weapons over and joined Al-Nusra or Al-Qaeda. That has been the real effect of it.