The AIPAC to Congress Pipeline
How much influence does AIPAC have over members of Congress? AIPAC explains:
Uniparty Defense Spending and Middle East Foreign Policy
It was entirely predictable with Trump, just as it was entire predictable with Biden, Obama, and so forth. Welcome to the US Uniparty re Defense Spending and Middle East Foreign Policy. It doesn't matter who we elect. It's always the same thing.
NYT Decides to Pull Back the Curtain on the Ukraine Debacle
The Biden administration needlessly risked my life and yours and the lives of everyone on the planet over who would govern a handful of provinces in eastern Ukraine. They claimed that risking nuclear war was no big deal. They orchestrated the killing of hundreds of thousands of Ukrainian and Russian soldiers. They refused to explore ways to stop the killings of soldiers. They showed no mercy for the families of those soldiers. The Biden administration lied about almost everything. Truly almost everything. They showed no respect for human life. I am disgusted by what the NYT has now decided to reveal (as analyzed by Matt Taibbi). And keep in mind that this evil charade would have continued on had Harris been elected, which would have kept Biden's neocons (including Anthony Blinken and Victoria Nuland) in power.
Excerpt from Matt Taibbi's article: Biden Lied About Everything, Including Nuclear Risk, During Ukraine Operation Sourced to tone-deaf "U.S. officials," a massive New York Times exposé reveals an unprecedented betrayal of American voters, but also Ukraine. Excerpt from Taibbi's article:
When Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky visited the White House nearly a month ago, the New York Times packed its pages with stories denouncing Donald Trump and J.D. Vance for abandoning Ukraine, and the impolitic “dressing down” of a friendly foreign leader. The Times like most Western news outlets for years suggested that anything short of a full-throated expression of support for war was a betrayal of the “democratic world order” that would lead to instant battlefield deaths.
Now that the war appears lost, and newspapers abroad (conspicuously, not here) are full of news about an apparent bombing of Vladimir Putin’s motorcade, and the future of NATO hangs by a thread, the Times has run a 13,000-word “Secret History” that shows the same U.S. officials who denounced Trump and American voters for saying it out loud long ago concluded that they, too, should probably “walk away.”
The piece is also an extraordinarily comprehensive betrayal of Zelensky and Ukraine, exponentially worse than the “dressing down” by Trump. Authored by longtime veteran of controversial intel pieces Adam Entous, it’s sourced to 300 American and European officials who seem to be responding to their apparent sidelining via a shameless tantrum, exhibiting behavior that in the field would get military men shot.
Waiting for the Dust to Settle After the New Release of JFK Documents
It is all something to behold this morning on X (Twitter). Numerous people, many assisted by AI are trying to make sense of the JFK assassination documents released at the direction of Donald Trump. I'd already seen credible accounts that suggest many CIA connections to JFK's assassination.
An excellent place to start is The Devil's Chessboard, by David Talbot. Glenn Greenwald comments:
Reading Talbot's book is like getting a kick in the stomach. I'm partway through the book and I am convinced more and more that JFK's assassination was a CIA coup. And I am more and more convinced that most of our presidential elections have been orchestrated by the CIA through the use of powerful tools of propaganda and censorship that heavily influence (if not outright control) legacy "news" outlets.
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History Didn’t Begin in 2024: A Short History of the U.S. Military-Industrial Complex
Legacy media fails in SOOO many ways these days. They refuse to offer links to primary sources relating to their stories, for instance. Matt Taibbi explains that this is not an accident. They also refuse to give historical context for the "stories" they report. So often, we only hear of the crisis de jour. That's how it is with the Ukraine War. RFK, Jr. did offer this short history of the American Military Industrial Complex. It's real and it is responsible for much of the worldwide dysfunction we read about, including the War in Ukraine. Kennedy:
“We are the military-industrial complex.”
“Washington ... is like a Kabuki theatre of democracy.”
It’s about ending the trauma that the US military-industrial complex has put the world through since 1963.
RFK Jr: JFK’s 1,000 days in office were a “constant fistfight with the military-industrial complex to keep the country out of war.”
“Three days before [JFK] took office, President Eisenhower gave what I think we should today regard as the most important speech in American history.”
“He warned Americans against the domination of this emerging military-industrial complex that would turn us into an imperium abroad and a security state at home.”
“[JFK] takes office three days later.”
“They tried to get him to go into Laos, he refused.”
“They tried to get him to go into Cuba in ‘61 and again in ‘62 during the missile crisis, and he wouldn’t.”
“They tried to get him to go into Berlin in ‘62, and he wouldn’t.”
“They tried to get him to go into Vietnam … and he said it can’t be our fight.”
“In October 1963 … [JFK] signed National Security Order 263 ordering all military personnel out of Vietnam.”
“Thirty days after he signed that order, he was murdered. And a week after that, President Johnson remanded the order and then sent 250,000 troops in.” “My father ran against the war in ‘68. He wins the California primary, meaning he’s on his way to the White House, and he’s shot that night.”