The Israel Defense Forces (IDF) claimed that a long-range SA-5 surface-to-air missile was launched from the direction of Syria toward Israeli fighter jets that were reportedly carrying out airstrikes in the Syrian Golan. The missile exploded in a village just a few miles from Dimona, the Negev desert town where …
Read More »One last failed bid to end the Forever War: Pentagon adviser dishes details of Trump’s final failure to end Afghanistan quagmire
Former US president Donald Trump made one last effort to prove he was sincere about prying the US military loose from its two-decade engagement in Afghanistan when he signed an executive order demanding all remaining troops be pulled from the country before the year’s end – just days after November’s …
Read More »Ten years on, the US still promotes failed regime-change policy in Syria
Back in 2001, former General Wesley Clark described a memorandum issued by then-Secretary of Defense Donald Rumsfeld which outlined a plan, as General Clark described it, on “how we’re going to take out seven countries in five years, starting with Iraq, and then Syria, Lebanon, Libya, Somalia, Sudan and, finishing …
Read More »Neera Tanden’s failed nomination shows who’s really holding the power in the Democratic Party… and it’s not Biden
US President Joe Biden buckled under pressure on Tuesday night, pulling Neera Tanden as his nominee to head the Office of Management and Budget. This is not unique, because every president since Bill Clinton has had at least one cabinet nominee shot down. But there are a few things that …
Read More »US sanctions on Venezuela have failed to achieve anything but needless death and misery. Against all reason, they are set to stay
Alena Douhan, the UN Special Rapporteur on unilateral coercive measures and human rights – a new position created by the UN Human Rights Council in March of 2020 – issued a stinging preliminary report last week condemning US and EU sanctions against Venezuela. Ms. Douhan has urged the US, EU …
Read More »Gordon Brown is wrong… Britain is already a failed state and should split, not soldier on in this unhappy & antiquated marriage
No one really identifies as ‘British’, it’s basically just a type of passport. That used to be a simple quirk but it’s become something else of late, as evidenced by Gordon Brown’s strong comments on the United Kingdom: "I believe the choice is now between a reformed state and a …
Read More »The parallels between the broken, failed & divided state of 1990s Russia and today’s America are fascinating
In the aftermath of the catastrophe on Capitol Hill, an opinion piece in the New York Times took the seemingly curious step of comparing the situation in the United States to post-Soviet Russia. The author noted that the parallels between those who had attempted to ransack Congress and those who …
Read More »Now that the US election is over, Twitter reverts retweet policy admitting it failed at ‘more thoughtful amplification’
As of Wednesday, Twitter has re-enabled the “standard retweet behavior” and removed the quote default imposed on October 21. “We hoped this change would encourage thoughtful amplification and also increase the likelihood that people would add their own thoughts, reactions and perspectives to the conversation,” the company said in a …
Read More »The Supreme Court had one last chance to keep the American Republic together. It failed.
On Friday, the highest court in the land decided that Texas “lacked standing” to challenge the conduct of elections in Georgia, Michigan, Pennsylvania and Wisconsin under Article 3 of the US Constitution. Yet the article in question explicitly states that the SCOTUS will be the original jurisdiction in “Controversies between …
Read More »Trump failed to fight and expose the establishment’s Covid narrative – and now it may cost him re-election
When US President Donald Trump was diagnosed with Covid-19 himself just weeks ago, and was admitted to Walter Reed military hospital for treatment and observation, he reportedly had told sources that he wanted to rip open a shirt to reveal a Superman logo when he left the hospital. And Trump …
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