USA TODAY, January 27, 2022 Who screwed up COVID-19 testing? Blame Trump, Biden and our health care bureaucracy. Under Donald Trump, the CDC sent out poorly designed, contaminated tests that recorded false readings. Under Joe Biden, testing is still in shambles. James Bovard Opinion columnist On a bitter cold afternoon last Friday, lines of people […]
The US became increasingly Zionist subverted after Apartheid Israel gained nuclear weapons by 1967. Support for Apartheid Israel (and hence of Apartheid) is now a pillar of US politics, with anti-racist critics of Israeli Apartheid ferociously attacked, side-lined, and falsely defamed as anti-Semitic. However Zionist control and hubris are now blatant: 32 percent or about one third of President Joe[Read More...]
Western media and Western governments are all telling us one thing. But, suddenly, the actual players are all telling us another. Is it possible that Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky pushed an opportune situation too far and is now afraid of what he has unleashed? On September 1, 2021, Zelensky met with Biden at the White … Continue reading "What’s Actually Happening in Ukraine?"
In the rather prescient 1998 film The Siege, CIA agent Elise Craft (Annette Benning) – speaking about counter-terrorism – lectures her FBI colleague Anthony Hubbard (Denzel Washington) that: "In this game, the most committed wins." Well, that truism couldn’t apply better to the current situation in Ukraine, and the very real – if generally misunderstood – possibility … Continue reading "The US-Russia Commitment Gap: And Its Tragic Potential"
This is getting downright pathetic. If you want the smoking gun proof that ol’ Vlad Putin actually didn’t brandish over these past few weeks of Washington bellicosity about the sanctity of Ukraine’s borders, well, here it tis: Sleepy Joe’s plummeting approval ratings: That’s right. It has nothing to do with the annexation of Crimea, Russian … Continue reading "Sleepy Joe’s Wimpy Tail Wags the Dog of War"
What is it about Republican legislators that makes them so fond of wreaking death and destruction upon others? The late Sen. John McCain was famous for pushing American involvement in wars fought and unfought. Iraq was his greatest disaster, in which hundreds of thousands of Iraqi civilians were killed and millions were displaced, but he … Continue reading "Why Are Republican Legislators So in Favor of War?"
We’ve seen this before. The U.S. creates a situation, digs in its heels and makes ultimatums—and tens of thousands die. I resigned from the US government in 2003 in opposition to another war-President Bush’s war on Iraq in which followed that war playbook. We’ve seen it in Afghanistan and Iraq and now it may be … Continue reading "For God’s Sake Boys, Stop This War S**t!!!"
The war on Yemen has claimed dozens more innocent victims in the last week, and once again U.S.-made weapons were used to commit the atrocity. The death toll from a coalition airstrike on a detention facility filled with migrants in northern Yemen has risen to at least 87 people, and hundreds more were injured in … Continue reading "The Saudi Coalition War on Yemen Claims More Victims"
Then-Secretary of State Colin Powell is given credit for popularizing the “Pottery Barn” rule of foreign policy. Though he denies using that exact phrase, in arguing against what became the disastrous 2003 US attack on Iraq Powell made the point that, as in Pottery Barn, “if you break it, you own it.” Bush and his … Continue reading "Biden’s Ukrainian Albatross"
Seven people were killed, and four more were wounded.
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