Telling the truth has become a revolutionary act, so let us salute those who disclose the necessary facts.
ALTERNATIVE NEWS
22 Feb 2017
Karen Straughan With The Team Behind "Young Voices"
MSNBC Anchor Admits "Our Job" Is To "Control Exactly What People Think"
By Tyler Durden: During a lively discussion centered on fears that President Trump is "trying to undermine the media," MSNBC's Mike Brzezinski let slip the awesome unspoken truth that the media's "job" is to "actually control exactly what people think."
Watch Me Commit A Heinous Thoughtcrime!
Trump’s Anti-Iran Coalition
The US seeks to use the ‘Iranian threat’ to milk the Gulf states’ coffers and get them to normalize with Israel
By Abdel Bari Atwan: Donald Trump’s new US administration has adopted the idea of forming a new Arab-Israeli axis to fight Iran. The objective is not actually to declare war on the Islamic Republic, but to exploit the notion of a growing Iranian threat to get the ‘Sunni’ Arabs to fully normalize with the Israeli occupation, and to milk the Gulf states’ depleting coffers to fund American infrastructure projects as promised during Trump’s election campaign.
The Obama administration also exploited the Iranian threat for the same purpose, selling $130 billion worth of sophisticated aircraft and weaponry to the Gulf states, even while planning to contain Iran by political means and engage it in secret negotiations.The right-wing Wall Street Journal reported on Wednesday that the Trump administration is in talks with Arab allies about having them form a military alliance that would share intelligence with Israel to help counter Iran. It would be based in Egypt, and would include that country along with Saudi Arabia, the UAE and Jordan. Neither the formation of such a coalition nor the inclusion of Israel as a security/intelligence partner comes as any surprise. Israeli Prime Minister Binyamin Netanyahu has said openly and on-the-record that his country’s ties with Saudi Arabia and other Gulf states do not need developing as they are already developed.
Creeping Her Out - MGTOW
Elor Azaria Verdict: ‘No Justice For Palestinians’
By Jonathan Cook: Human rights groups and Palestinian leaders have condemned what they called
the “extremely lenient” punishment of Elor Azaria, the Israeli army medic who
was filmed executing a severely wounded Palestinian in Hebron last year.
On Tuesday, a military tribunal sentenced
the soldier to 18 months in jail and a demotion, nearly a year after he shot a
bullet from close range into the head of 21-year-old Abdel al-Fattah al-Sharif.
There has rarely been a trial in Israel
where the judges have been under such relentless – and mostly hostile –
scrutiny. That appeared to be reflected in their sentencing, more than a month
after they found Azaria guilty of manslaughter.
The sentence was much lower than the three
to five years demanded by the prosecution, and far below the maximum tariff of
20 years. One of the three judges dissented, recommending two and a half to
five years.
Israel Interferes In Our Politics All The Time And It’s Never A Scandal
By Philip Weiss: I completely believe that Donald Trump was in bed with the Russians before the election and the campaign may well have intrigued with Vladimir Putin with respect to Wikileaks and that helped defeat Hillary Clinton. I believe that because that’s how the world works; because a lot of very smart people in the liberal establishment believe it; and because the New York Times and Washington Post are documenting some of it, with the fervor of Watergate.
Maybe it will bring the liar in chief down some day and end this short national nightmare. I certainly hope so.
But there are two large exceptions to the Russian conspiracy. The first is that it is good policy for the United States to be talking to Russia. If Clinton were president today, there might be dogfights over Damascus. Her gang was all for regime change in Syria, and for confrontation over the Ukraine. That’s bad policy. I’m glad they’re not running the show– though they are certainly running this story.
21 Feb 2017
The Misuse Of American Military Power And The Middle East In Chaos
By
Danny Sjursen: The United States has already lost -- its
war for the Middle East, that is. Having taken my own crack at combat
soldiering in both Iraq and Afghanistan, that couldn’t be clearer to me.
Unfortunately, it’s evidently still not clear in Washington. Bush’s
neo-imperial triumphalism failed. Obama’s quiet shift
to drones, Special Forces, and clandestine executive actions didn’t turn the
tide either. For all President Trump’s bluster, boasting, and threats, rest
assured that, at best, he’ll barely move the needle and, at worst… but why even
go there?
At this point, it’s at least reasonable to
look back and ask yet again: Why the failure? Explanations abound, of course.
Perhaps Americans were simply never tough enough and still need to take off the
kid gloves. Maybe there just weren’t ever enough troops. (Bring back the
draft!) Maybe all those hundreds of
thousands of bombs and missiles just came up short. (So how about
lots more of them, maybe even a nuke?)
Lead from the front. Lead from
behind. Surge
yet again… The list goes on -- and on and on.
Ingredients For A New Global Crisis
The Privileged Lives Of Men (According To A Trans-Man)
The Greatness And Goodness Of Men
Most UK MPs Are Petrified Of Resisting Feminists - Not Me
By Philip Davies MP: It has taken me until the fifth week on the Women and Equalities Select Committee to make a serious effort to try to change its name.Every select committee is named directly after the Government department it is set up to scrutinise.
I also serve on the Justice Select Committee which tracks the work of the Ministry of Justice. The Treasury Select Committee watches over the work of the Treasury and so on.
There is just one exception to this. The work of the Government Equalities Office is, for some reason, shadowed by the Women and Equalities Select Committee.
Anyone can see that the name should be the Equalities Committee, and so I put this to the Leader of the House and asked whether he would amend the name.
I also asked him to confirm that matters concerning women would still be able to be considered by the select committee if the name were to be changed.
The Deputy Leader of the House, answering the question, rather dodged the issue (perhaps he also found the current situation indefensible) and said that he had received no other requests to change the name and that I should ask the Procedure Committee to look into this. I will be doing this, so watch this space.
The recurring theme is the number of MPs in different parties who tell me, privately and in a whisper, “Of course you are absolutely right about this, it is all ridiculous” but – with very few but notable exceptions – will not dare to say so publicly.
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