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By now, you’ve probably heard that the disgraced former president, Donald Trump, seems to be something of a criminal. No, I’m not talking about his racist landlord violations from the 1970s. No, not his dubious interactions with contractors throughout...
by Walter Einenkel
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on Fri Sep 02, 2022 at 02:43 PM PDT
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Listen to the Russian lies in the UN security council today, I remembered this article in the Atlantic.
Vladimir Putin, Russian Neocon
Ever since Vladimir Putin invaded Crimea, American pundits ...
by LaFeminista
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on Fri Mar 11, 2022 at 10:56 AM PST
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On Friday night, Republican Lt. Gov. Janice McGeachin of Idaho decided to speak at the America First Political Action Conference (AFPAC) organized by white nationalist asshat Nick Fuentes. This is the same event that prompted GOP leadership to make...
by Walter Einenkel
49 comments
on Tue Mar 01, 2022 at 05:01 PM PST
with 72 Recommends
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We are watching a foreign policy situation unfold in real time. While the United States is trying to send signals to Russian oligarch Vladimir Putin regarding his aggressive attempts at expansion into Ukraine, what this means for the world remains to...
by Walter Einenkel
36 comments
on Thu Feb 24, 2022 at 01:38 PM PST
with 87 Recommends
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They say time heals all wounds, or maybe it’s just Alzheimer’s. Somehow, these Ayn Randian pre-emptive warmongers have become the moderates on the right. Some say we should be nice to them because they will get other “moderates” to vote for our...
by LaFeminista
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on Tue Aug 24, 2021 at 10:46 AM PDT
with 9 Recommends
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Trump seems determined to start a regional war in the Persian Gulf on his way out the door. Scoop: Israeli military prepares for possibility Trump will strike Iran By Barak Ravid The Israel Defense Forces have in recent weeks been...
by Lefty Coaster
67 comments
on Wed Nov 25, 2020 at 10:29 AM PST
with 34 Recommends
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We're on the eve of war with Iran, and if the rhetoric all sounds familiar, it is because many of the same characters are back on our screens, telling the same tales and making the same promises. One of this nation's more fundamental modern problems,...
by Hunter
37 comments
on Tue Jan 07, 2020 at 12:20 PM PST
with 110 Recommends
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In a diary I posted recently asking just how exactly did Trump decide to assassinate a high Iranian military leader and risk war with Iran, one of the poll choices mentioned it would make Putin smile. A commenter asked what’s in it for Putin? Putin...
by xaxnar
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on Sun Jan 05, 2020 at 08:02 AM PST
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Short entry here—but basically I hope our side isn’t increasingly sympathetic to neocons or to warmonger types. I”m not ONLY talking about the current alarming tragic situation in Turkey, but the general foreign policy stance and language. We don’t...
by superseiyan
39 comments
on Sun Oct 13, 2019 at 12:12 PM PDT
with 3 Recommends
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A couple of days ago,I posted a story wherein I explained how I had left the GOP because they had, in my estimation, gone completely insane. Several of the people who read the story balked at my assertion, arguing that the GOP had always been corrupt...
by expr
12 comments
on Thu Dec 20, 2018 at 04:43 PM PST
with 15 Recommends
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Current social conservatives. You are a dieing breed. Your kind are either literally passing away, or changing their minds. The world is, ultimately, moving forward, whether you like it or not. There will come a time when people will look back at your...
by HayesyEights
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on Mon Jun 04, 2018 at 12:04 AM PDT
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Last Tuesday, Donald Trump announced that the United States intended to violate the treaty surrounding Iran’s development of nuclear weapons. Despite the lack of evidence that Iran had violated the agreement, despite the urging of other signatories to...
by Mark Sumner
197 comments
on Mon May 14, 2018 at 01:23 PM PDT
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If you didn’t pay as much attention to the reasons to not have another Middle East war, you should probably read this Peter Beinart article. It ‘s now even more important as the WH tries to apply similar incentives to denuclearize North Korea as the...
by annieli
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on Sun May 13, 2018 at 03:13 AM PDT
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“TO IGNORE HISTORY IS TO IGNORE THE WOLF AT THE DOOR.”
― John le Carré, A Most Wanted Man
I can compel myself to forgive people for not knowing history, or forgetting events that happened 50 or 70 or 100 years ago. But to forget what happened 16...
by Hadida
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on Sat May 12, 2018 at 07:17 PM PDT
with 29 Recommends
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POLITIFORMERS: More than meets the pie!
[ Part I - II - III - IV - V - VI ]
Little did you know, but many of our most prominent politicians are actually super-powerful robots, hiding in our midst. This series profiles the Politiformers in the first...
by Simplify
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on Tue Jun 06, 2017 at 06:25 PM PDT
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This article originally appeared at TomDispatch.com. To receive TomDispatch in your inbox three times a week, click here.
The members of what TomDispatch regular Andrew Bacevich, author of America’s War for the Greater Middle East, calls “the Church...
by TomDispatch
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on Thu Feb 23, 2017 at 08:43 AM PST
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It looks like John Bolton accidentally outed himself as Alex Jones’ number 1 fan.
Former UN Ambassador John Bolton suggested Sunday that the hacking of the Democratic National Committee may have been a "false flag" operation by the Obama...
by Florida Democrat
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on Sun Dec 11, 2016 at 07:17 PM PST
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You wouldn’t know it around this leading neoliberal “Progressive” political blog, where stories—from Daily Kos’ front page on down—have been loudly applauding Craig Timberg’s fabricated, McCarthyesque, Washington Post excuse for "fake news about fake...
by bobswern
440 comments
on Mon Nov 28, 2016 at 03:42 PM PST
with 189 Recommends
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You would think for all the “change” the Republican voters supposedly desired they wouldn’t keep repeating history.
Memories must be short with Republicans, since it only requires them to revisit the last Republican elected to the Presidency...
by gimmeshelter
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on Thu Nov 17, 2016 at 10:44 PM PST
with 4 Recommends
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In the Democratic primary debates against Bernie Sanders, Hillary Clinton once called herself a true progressive. This is grossly contradicted not only by her foreign policy views but by the fact that a sizable number of neocons and war hawks are...
by David Starr
106 comments
on Thu Sep 15, 2016 at 11:17 AM PDT
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