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A new poll from Bloomberg Politics contains a finding that, if you really think about it, is quite remarkable:
 

  What matters is that the US, while it is a declining world power, is still militarily powerful, dangerous and destructive, even as its empire building is weakening and its forces are in retreat.  As Mahatma Gandhi once stated about the declining British Empire, ‘It’s the aging tiger that becomes the man eater’.

James Petras

Introduction

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Hillary’s mass of deceptions and terrible associations and rotten personality really do not matter because America’s real government, its ongoing unelected one, allows no President to depart much from the established script. The last one who made a serious try had half his head blasted into the streets of Dallas.

What’s left of Yarmouk Palestinian neighborhood in Damascus will soon duplicate the mounds of rubble and smell of death in Homs, the old city of Aleppo, Idlib, East Damascus, Deraa. Some Lebanese refugee camp residents and political analysts predict a similar fate for Ein el Helweh.

 
 

Is Lebanon’s Ein el Helweh Next?
 

Image: TripAdvisor promotes Ahava cosmetics factory as a tourist destination but makes no mention that it is in an illegal Israeli settlement.

The Untold Story of the Zionist intent to turn Palestine into a Jewish State
 
William A. Cook
May 11, 2010

Obviously the real “concerns and interests” of the United States in the Middle East have noticeably diverged from those of Israel. As a consequence Israel is now loudly complaining that Washington has abandoned it. Well, Washington might do well to play the same game – to loudly complain about Israel’s traitorous behavior.

Yaron Kaplan. Photo by Ilan Assayag
 
 
(MEMO) – The Israeli army uses Palestinians as targets for their training, Haaretz reported a former soldier as saying.

Students displayed a mock wall on Pitzer College’s campus on Tuesday, defying administrative restrictions. (Photo from Pitzer SJP Facebook) Courtesy The Electronic Intifada

Members of Students for Justice in Palestine (SJP) had constructed a mock Israeli wall on campus on Tuesday as part of their actions marking Israeli Apartheid Week 

 
 

View of the entrance of Yarmouk Palestinian refugee camp, on the edge of Damascus (Photo: Carole Alfarah Agence France-Presse)

if Hamas and Fatah were to put aside their political differences, even just long enough to help their fellow refugees in Lebanon achieve dignity and elementary civil rights this mutual reconciliation effort would likely soon lead to wider Hamas-Fatah unity and intensify solidarity among the Palestinian refugee community and accelerate return to their homeland, Palestine.