The United State of War

Trump's despicable war might be coming to a close for now (as Israel continues to pummel Lebanon). One can hope. But take a look back at US military involvement in the Middle East and the constant war-mongering by the US for many decades. Biden/Harris stood watch over the leveling of Gaza. Harris was ready and willing to do what Trump just did.

Obama was a most unusual "Peace President."

It disgusts me that this comes strongly from both political parties. Americans have no option to vote for no war. Nor do we have any option to vote for candidates who are not controlled by the AIPAC and the government of Israel. Our "leaders" keep us in the dark and do the opposite of what we vote for. Our government system is rotted to the core. It pains me to write these words.

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The Secret Government of the United States

I'm 100% in agreement with Bret Weinstein here. I'm 100% in agreement with Bret Weinstein here.

Not only do things not add up. What's is truly bizarre is to watch so many people of power and influence do 180 degree flips on dozens of prominent issues over the past six years without feeling any need to justify their change of opinion. No new facts are being offered on issues that affect millions or tens of millions of us and, further, the corporate media pretends that nothing interesting is happening. Weinstein:

I think we Americans have to have a conversation with ourself about not only how broken our system is and what it is resulting in us doing, but how does it actually work? What is it that is actually driving us to do what we do? And you know, we can see parts of it. We can see lobbying. It's the loophole in our system where the system is pay-for-play, that is used day in and day out by corporations to get us to do things that are bad for our health, bad for our long term financial well-being bad in every regard. But obviously our adversaries abroad will have noticed that we have a pay-for-play system, and if they aren't taking advantage of it, that would be surprising. I would like to know why they would have missed the opportunity.

So presumably they are, and that also applies to our allies. Unfortunately, that is to say, anytime somebody has an interest that is in conflict with the interest that we Americans actually have, they are in a position to nudge us in their direction, and we are undoubtedly being nudged. On the other hand, I don't think that can be the sum total of it. And I will tell you, I don't like saying any of this. I don't want to be doing this. The the reason that the Epstein phenomenon, whatever it was, is so important, is that it suggests a hidden power structure that was there for leverage. It is unfortunate that in the edit that we have been shown, we don't have conclusive evidence of who what they were after, or even how the leverage worked. All we can see is strong evidence that there was something logically it is implied that it was connected to intelligence services. Ours, likely Israel's, who knows who else? But the when you see your government, your president, functioning in ways that do not add up, it's like watching a planet behave oddly because of the gravity of some object you haven't found yet, right? There's the implication that there's something with power in this system that is undeclared. As far as we know, it's unnamed. And the central question is, what is it? How does it work? And how much effect is it having on what we do.

 

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No Anti-War Option on the Last Presidential Ballot. No Option for Restraining Israel

I wonder why?

And remember that Joe Biden and Kamala Harris eagerly participated in regarding Gaza.

Transcription of Kamala Harris's statement in the video (from her July 25, 2024 remarks after meeting with Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu):

From when I was a young girl, collecting funds to plant trees for Israel, to my time in the United States Senate and now at the White House, I’ve had an unwavering commitment to the existence of the state of Israel, to its security and to the people of Israel.

And why do so few of our politicians speak out against the US-Israel war against Iran? For that matter, why aren't we hearing the US corporate media excoriating the bi-partisan effort to blow through tax dollars we don't have to engage in war? What is the top priority of most of our politicians? They will tell you in their own words:

AIPAC (= Israeli) control over our politicians (federal and state) is strong

 

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“No Kings” and Lack of Democracy

The "No Kings" people are out again, none of them protesting that Kamala Harris was appointed (not elected) to head the presidential ticket. Nor are there any signs protesting what the DNC did to Bernie (who deserves no tears in light of how he folded in countless ways ever since). I once canvassed for Bernie. I will get out and protest when they hold a "No Heroes Day."

Aaron Mate:

To explain: the DNC rigged the 2016 primary against Bernie in favor of Hillary. Leaked DNC emails, released by Wikileaks, proved that. Hillary's campaign invented a conspiracy theory blaming Russia for the DNC leak and accusing Trump of colluding with Moscow.

Rather than call out Hillary's Russiagate scam and seize the Democratic party from the wreckage of her failed neocon/neoliberalism, Bernie decided to prop it up. He event introduced a measure to "Protect American Democracy from Russian Meddling." (see video below)

In 2020, Bernie was rewarded for his obedience by having the Russiagate playbook weaponized against him. The same anonymous intel officials who helped give us Russiagate declared that Putin was trying to help Bernie win. That helped sink his primary chances. Two consecutive primaries rigged against him, this time with his acquiescence.

In 2022, when Russia invaded Ukraine -- partly a result of years of Russiagate mania, which promoted conflict and criminalized diplomacy -- Bernie again deferred to the Democratic establishment. Abandoning his longstanding warnings about NATO expansion, militarism, and weapons spending, he voted repeatedly to authorize tens of billions of dollars for Biden's proxy war.

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Jeffrey Sach: Trump Lies that the US Needs to Wage War Against Iran

Once again, Jeffrey Sachs is spot on:

Trump's entire framework is completely phony and it's completely phony because Iran did not want nuclear weapons. They signed an agreement that there would not be nuclear weapons and then Trump ripped it up. Now, why did he rip it up in 2018 and why was there a standing ovation in Congress? Because this is Israel's policy, because Congress and the White House are owned by radical, militant, crazy Zionists in Israel, Bibi, Netanyahu, Smotrich, Ben Gvir, who want a war with Iran, and Trump is a puppet here. He does not have an independent capacity. Maybe he's not bright enough. Maybe he's blackmailed. We don't understand entirely, but the standing ovation reflects the Zionist lobby in the United States. This is Israel's war, and like so many of America's wars, they're trying to bring us into their fight, which is not our fight, when I say so many of our wars, the United States has been drawn by Israel into the wars in Iraq, in Libya, in Syria, across the Middle East. These are not wars for American security. They're not even wars for Israel's security. They're wars for Israel's hegemony in the region. They're wars by Israel to take out any opponent in the region or any counterweight in the region. So the United States tasked the CIA to overthrow the Syrian government. That was Obama that started that one. Trump continued it. Trump even said, I put the current leader of Syria into power. Yeah, that's a CIA operation. It was Israel that got the United States to go to war with Libya in 2011 leading to the next 15 years of chaos in that country. It is Israel that got the United States into the Iraq war in 2003. This is all so thoroughly documented at this point that that was not a war under mistaken pretenses of weapons of mass destruction. That was a PR campaign to justify Bibi's war.

And the reason why it's most likely that Trump will attack is the following: The American people don't want it. The Iranians have said they don't want nuclear weapons. The regional leaders have said, Don't go to war. Other leaders around the world, President Putin, President Xi and others have told the United States that is a terrible idea. The Joint Chiefs of Staff have told Trump this is a terrible idea. Trump's political advisers have told Trump this is disastrous because the American people don't want this. But that's all on one side. The other side is Bibi, is Israel, is Miriam Adelson, who else? We don't know exactly why, but this is the point. Trump is being overwhelmingly advised by everybody, by his military, by leaders in the region, by his political advisors, and not the least by the American people: don't do this. But it's so strange and discouraging. There isn't an honest word that comes out of Washington because of this Zionist lobby right now. And there is was no coverage whatsoever, by the way that when Rubio said a couple of weeks ago, look, we need a broad-based negotiation, and the Iranians said two days later in a speech in Doha by the foreign minister, yes, here's a path to peace, The two state solution, a state of Palestine, Israel, mutual respect, peace. That wasn't even picked up in our newspapers. [We] are subject to mass propaganda. And Trump lied every word that we just watched, and the Congress stood up and applauded him. But that's for a reason. That is the chokehold on American politics that this Zionist lobby has right now. And we need to break that chokehold for our own security.

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