The US has been rushing weapons shipments to Israel since the end of July, Haaretz reported on Thursday, citing open-sourced aviation data.
The report said that the spike in arms shipments made August the second busiest month at Israel’s Nevatim Airbase for US deliveries since Israel’s genocidal war in Gaza began back in October 2023 following the Hamas attack on southern Israel.
Dozens of US military transport flights, as well as Israeli civilian and military and cargo planes, have landed at the base, mainly traveling from Qatar and the Dover Air Force Base in Delaware.
The Haaretz report appeared to attribute the rush in arms shipments to US preparations for a potential Iranian attack. The US has deployed additional fighter jets and warships to the region and is vowing to defend Israel from Iran’s response to the Israeli assassination of Hamas’s political chief, Ismail Haniyeh, on Iranian territory. Following a major exchange of fire between Israel and Hezbollah on Sunday, the US is still expecting a reprisal attack from Iran.
Besides helping Israel prepare for a potential attack from Iran, the US weapons shipments also help fuel the slaughter in Gaza and Israel’s operations in the West Bank, which significantly escalated on Wednesday. Israeli forces launched their largest attack on the Israeli-occupied West Bank since the Second Intifada in the early 2000s.
The rush in arms shipments also shows strong support for Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu, who has been working to prevent a ceasefire deal with Hamas, and shows President Biden and Vice President Harris are not serious about ending the slaughter in Gaza.
The Israeli Defense Ministry said on Monday that the US had delivered over 50,000 tons of weapons and other military equipment since October 7. The ministry said the US support was “crucial for sustaining the IDF’s operational capabilities during the ongoing war.”
Good for the USA. The USA knows who started the war in Gaza, who is still holding hostages and incredibility holding bodies. How sick is holding on to death bodies? Describing the war as genocide or a slaughter does not change the above facts. Hamas is willing to continue to trade Palestinians lives to keep killing Israelis.
oh right, the "40 beheaded babies" … they just refuse to give up their land in order to keep beheading babies … how sick?
"How sick is holding on to death bodies?" That's an interesting question. What culture/society are you a member of that prefers the bodies of their loved ones be bulldozed anonymously into a mass burial pit rather than allowed their traditional ceremonies and rituals to honor their deceased together with friends and family? Both Judaism and Islam have rituals in treating the dead (and their bodies) with respect and comfort to mourners.
I think Major Burns invests in funeral homes and is therefore VEHEMENTLY opposed to cryogenics.
Holding onto bodies for ransom is sick. The rest of your statement has nothing to do with this fact. Yes during war there will be sometimes people get buried in mass graves. That is not the same as holding onto a dead person body hoping to trade the body for something. What culture/society do you belong to that would think that is OK? Are you a terrorists or a terrorists supporter. They are OK with it.
"Yes during war there will be sometimes people get buried in mass graves."
With bulldozers? And some of them, according to a previous article from 972+ quoting ISRAELI soldiers, weren't even dead yet.
What culture/society do you belong to that would think it was ok? Are you a terrorists or a terrorists supporter.
Now that is funny. In a sick fucking way. Do you want a list that makes what Hamas has done look quaint compared to the real terrorists? I'll ask you the same question you asked (without the s's): Are you a terrorist or a terrorist supporter?
It's like you make these comment's as though you're trying to get people to tell you what a fucking disgusting piece of shit you are. So, I won't do that. Although I will point out your third-grade grammar skills.
Once again you displayed your lack of education by using the F work. Tis, tis. You are just upset the USA supports Israel. Are you mad that I like the fact the USA supports Israel. Or are you upset that I called Hamas sickos for holding bodies? Or both.
And once again you countered with a comment that is loaded with poor grammar and/or misspellings while calling me uneducated. I'm not mad. I'm sickened by your total lack of empathy for the brutal slaughter of human beings. So, you don't make me mad; you disgust me. And I'm going to follow you around like stink on shit (oh no, another bad word) letting you know about it.
200 k dead and u talk about dead bodies of israelis killed by ur bombs. Keep at it zionist. The US is on decline and when it all comes crushing down they will look for someone to blame and we r doing our best to make sure they know who to blame. The Germans brought in an austiran painter. I wonder how would the Americans react after the fall. U can't even run to Israel this time as without the US ur supremist state has no future. Ur 90 nukes won't protect u
To steal a line from the movie "My Cousin Vinny": "Are you on drugs?:
🤣 keep it up. ur reckoning is coming. Imagine a guy with tinfoil hat saying that and have a hearty laugh.
Good for the US?
Go fq yourself, you genocidal piece of shit.
Better yet do the world a favor and off yourself!
Another hater upset with the USA supporting Israel. Just can't stand that fact can you. Well Israel hater the USA will protect that country and you are not going to like it.
Yep! Wash. will protect Israel right down to the last tax dollar and last drop of American blood to continue their atrocities and genocide to ensure the creation of 'greater Israel.'
Support for Israel among the US populace is at an all time low and very fossilized.
Young people in the US oppose Israel by large margins
Israel controls US policy through blackmail-Epstein was Mossad – and bribery. Israel is one of the major threats to representative government in the West, Zionist oligarchs fund and run major campaigns against free speech, press and assembly in the West.
At the moment hating Israel looks like virtue of the highest order!
Just say NO to genocide!
Just say NO to Zionist corruption of US politics, elections and government!
Israel is responsible for the massive war crimes and civilian death toll in Gaza, not Hamas.
You really are quite the Zionist monster.
Yea right. Hamas attacks Israel and it is all Israel fault.
First, I think it was an inside job. Hamas had help.
Even if that’s not true, it’s clear that many of the civilian were killed by the IDF, who were applying the Hannibal Doctrine to civilians as well as military, IOW killing Israelis so that Hamas would have less hostages.
Hamas was there to take hostages, and was fairly successful.
So maybe a few hundred Israeli civilians were killed by Hamas on 10/7.
In the ten years prior to 10/7 Israel killed thousands of civilians in Gaza and has killed tens of thousands since.
It’s pretty clear who is committing far more evil deeds.
So yes, Israel is responsible for the tens of thousands of civilians killed in Gaza.
Psychopath!
Israel routinely holds Palestinian corpses, you lying, filthy psychopath.
Death to Israel!
And your chant proves once again your hated for Israel. I never read Israel trading terrorists bodies in a negotiation. Showing me some proof that Israel holds bodies. Your hate is not a substitute for facts.
Holding bodies has been going on for a long time. Here's all the links. Both sides do it. https://duckduckgo.com/?t=lm&q=israel+holds+bodies&ia=web
https://www.npr.org/2024/02/22/1230604077/israel-hamas-war-hostages-prisoners-dead
I don’t try to hide my hatred of Israel.
Moral people hate mass murderers.
I hate that Israel has bled the US taxpayers of tens of billions in aid, much of it used to commit war crimes.
I hate that Zionists are conducting a coordinated assault on the free speech, press and assembly rights in the West.
I hate that AIPAC has a stranglehold on US policy towards Israel.
Are you ignorant? Lazy? Deceitful? All of the above?
Here you go sport. I got lots more if you want another!
After Israeli forces shot and killed thirty-nine-year-old Fadi Samara in May of 2020, his mourning family dug him a grave in his village of Abu Qash, located in the occupied West Bank district of Ramallah.
But nearly four years later, his grave remains empty.
“I take the children to their father’s grave a few times a month even though we still have not received his body,” says Saja Muhammad, Samara’s thirty-one-year-old widow and mother to his five children, ages nine to three.
“It gives the children some comfort,” she continues, sitting on the couch at her family’s home in the city of Biddya in the northern Salfit district, where she returned following Samara’s killing. “We live with the hope that one day his body will be returned to us. And when that day comes his grave is ready to receive him.”
Samara’s body is one of hundreds currently held by Israel, part of a decades-long policy that researchers and rights groups describe as an attempt to control and punish Palestinian families by withholding the corpses of their slain loved ones. Some are buried in nameless graves and others are frozen in refrigerators.
Israeli officials claim this controversial practice is necessary to avoid incitement during funerals of Palestinians killed by Israelis. Israel also withholds the remains of slain Palestinians who are suspected of having carried out attacks against Israelis, using their corpses as bargaining chips for future negotiations with Palestinian leaders.
However, Palestinians, some of whom have waited for months, years, and in some cases decades for the return of their slain loved ones’ bodies, argue that this policy aims to punish them, condemning their lives to perpetual mourning.
Israel is the only country in the world that has a policy of confiscating and withholding human remains, which is a violation of international humanitarian and human rights.
https://jacobin.com/2023/11/israel-palestine-gaza-corpse-politics-human-rights-mourning
We all have much to consider and we have spent too much time on Tiny Tim, who, at this point, is nothing more than a distraction from our goals here…
And once more with Hamas holding bodies as if it is even remotely comparable to Israel's ongoing genocidal slaughter of the Palestinians in Gaza. God you're a fucking moron.
Edit: I made that comment before I read TLK's link. So, so much for Israel not holding dead bodies for bargaining chips.
Nah, we are peace people! Come on now! I get angry and frustrated as well! But never do I wish “death” to anyone….
Israel needs to know Christ!
Onward and upward!
Never let hatred cloud your way! Because you are very wise, my friend!…..
“Death to Israel” is not calling for homicide.
It’s demanding an end to the murderous apartheid state known as Israel.
“Israel needs to know Christ!”
Enough with the religious bigotry!
Hi Tim,
One of the reasons antiwar is here is to help us all see and understand what is going on. It is good that you are here and can continue to learn and observe what the possibilities of peace are all about because this war, as are all wars, is pointless and inhumane.
Well Donna, he obviously hasn't leaned a damn thing except to goad people into telling him how disgusting his comments are.
Maybe starved for attention?
And what has a known terrorists supporter like you learn?
I learned that you can't write a sentence without making multiple mistakes. I also learned that Israel has no peers when it comes to terrorism and there are some sick demented people here who cheerlead a genocidal slaughter of innocents.
Tim Burns
The Israelis rip open the graves of Palestinians, thousands are berried under rubble and can't get a burial and you cry over a few dead bodies. Get real.
Oh, the suffering of the poor Israelis. You know something, I don't care about the Israelis, they don't care when snipers kill babies, causing lifetime disabilities shooting even children in the knees. Stop your whining, it is really sickening.
Yeah – imagine storming a compound in a foreign country, murdering an old guy with kidney disease, taking the DNA samples you need, THEN not only (unnecessarily) holding on to the dead body long enough to dump it out of your egress helicopter over the mountains, BUT claiming you held onto the dead body EVEN LONGER until you claim you gave it a burial at sea.
WHO'D DO THAT ?!?
Not the first five SEAL Teams, I'll tell you THAT !
LOL. You are upset that the USA killed the leader of a group that was responsible for the death of 4000 Americans? You got to be kidding.
Your comprehension skills are equal to your grammar/spelling skills.
All your bullsh-t about Hamas trading lives is tyypical Zionst projection.
Israel is killing in Gazans, not Hamas.
Israel applied Hannibal policy to civilians on 10/7. Israel traded the lives of its civilians on 10/7, for less hostages and a better negotiating position.
Racist Jewish supremist POS.
And BTW Tim, you lying fq, I am not anti-Jewish and I don't hate Jews.
It's unfortunate that the Jewish people have become so closely associated with the last gasp of European settler colonialism, and all the genocide involved in that.
Biden is taking naps on the beach in weeks long vacation(s) and Harris is spreading the joy of the most lethal military, while avoiding interviews.
Which other moron is actually running the country and foreign policy?
The Pentagon of course.
BB
They're more than One Moron…! That's why the US is going backwards…!
I’d argue it is moving forward into the abyss.
Nietzsche's abyss is staring back at us right now.
She did do an interview. And she was as horrible as we all expected.
BASH: OK. Let’s talk about some foreign policy issues that would be on your plate if you become commander in chief. President Biden has tried unsuccessfully to end the war between Israel and Hamas in Gaza. He’s been doing it for months and months, along with you. Would you do anything differently? For example, would you withhold some US weapons shipments to Israel? That’s what a lot of people on the progressive left want you to do.
HARRIS:Let me be very clear. I’m unequivocal and — and unwavering in my commitment to Israel’s defense and its ability to defend itself. And that’s not gonna change. But let’s take a step back. October 7, 1,200 people are massacred, many young people who are simply attending a musical festival. Women were horribly raped. As I said then, I say today, Israel had a right — has a right to defend itself. We would. And how it does so matters. Far too many innocent Palestinians have been killed. And we have got to get a deal done. We — we were in Doha. We have to get a deal done. This war must end—
Can I use the "C" word?
Yes, but that doesn’t even do it justice. Is there a word that can more aptly describe her?
I think women would be inclined to say the "C" word is the ultimate insult.
Not in the UK. 😉
Indaeed. In Scotlend aets a noun, pronoun, AND a wae tae gret yaer mate.
Too bad. Feminism in the US is sh-t.
There's more than one type of feminism in the US. Read some Camille Paglia–she's totally awesome.
True dat.
The dominant form is bourgeoisie sh-t.
Princess Twilight Sparkle https://uploads.disquscdn.com/images/7d429c2f92618ccfb634bc4c958753ded5c63fa10034f5f2e6bce99e41e444ff.jpg
Too damn good for her.
LOL.
But I like it.
It’s twilght time.
Raise that flag
Raise it high and wide
Summer time’s done
Come & gone
My oh my
-US Blues, Hunter/Garcia
https://youtu.be/RcAOlseo8OY
Twilight Sparkle 4 President 2024
Genocide “Joy” for pres!
Notice, still the passive voice of “Palestinians being killed”. By who? And with whose money?!?
Yes. I got that from a Daniel Larison article, and he pointed out the same thing. Good catch.
I noticed it and commented on it about her convention speech. I haven’t read any Larison article but will seek it out.
https://daniellarison.substack.com/p/harris-terrible-answer-on-gaza
Thanks!
Passive voice is that one octave below "Well, y'know, all humans die at some point, and it is believed that many Palestinians are human, so, well, y'know-" followed by one of those nebulous half-handwaves as the speaker's voice trails off.
Also notice the overused notion of Israel right to defend itself while the Palestinians denied such rights, the use of the unproven number of 1200 while avoiding to state the numerous of Palestinians genocide by the Israeli government.
That is the double standard or, in other words, Nazism.
Wars, did you see my comment where Chris Hedges’ video was taken down for “hate speech”? He called her vapid. How TF is it hate speech to criticize someone currently in power, seeking more power?
Harris is vapid, just a sparkle pony.
Who took down Hedges?
Tiktok
You can see his video in this interview
https://rumble.com/v5ctp19-chris-hedges-censored-by-tiktok-over-kamala-video.html?e9s=src_v1_ucp
She didn't have to bring the rape accusations yet she did exactly that all the while knowing that all of the accusations afaik have turned out to be lies. She would continue what the senile warpig keeps doing.
Note the "horribly" adjective only there to stir emotional reaction. Because I guess regular-rape is just so-so and only the HORRIBLE ones elevate to "giving a s**t" territory.
Get your head outta your ass, Harris – the Left needs you in November.
Her head will stay planted deep.
Hi Uncle S.,
Is there a left, left?…. 😉
I am leftist.
If there is, Harris surely isn't one of them.
Harris is a lie from start to finish.
Trump is an insane fascist.
US politics is a cesspool.
Do you think it is possible to improve the situation? If it is, how it could be done?
The first step is campaign finance reform. The US has raced backwards on that issue.
Breaking the duopoly is the next step, But I don’t really know how that can be achieved within the current US electoral system.
Only a strong party with a socialist agenda can change the current political system. Unfortunately, it looks, Americans even don't know what the socialist party means. In American vocabulary, the left are those who are working for the oligarchy. Normally, it should be called far-right. Those who Americans call far-right, in reality, are neither right no left; they are only trying to prevent further sliding of the country to a catastrophe.
There is still a left, but it's not the Democratic party, which is centrist and pro-corporate America.
As for the far-right, there is clearly a self-defined, outspoken fascist movement in America today, whether it's "neo"-Nazis, White supremacists, Christian nationalists, militia groups, or other similar groups.
Some of these individuals and groups support Russia, which supports a national religion and is opposed to individual freedoms, whether for the press, the vote, or lifestyle choices, which Putin and these far-right groups feel is "decadent Western values".
American far-right and neo-Nazis are supporting European and Ukrainian neo-Nazis. They are against individual freedoms, such as the right to decide how to bring up your own children and what Church to attend. What concerns the freedom of mass media, the most important problem is the private (oligarchy) ownership of so called corporate media and promotion of only one pro-oligarchy viewpoint on all issues. Everything else is suppressed. That's what we are observing in The West.
Trump supporters are more likely to support Russia than Ukraine; even in the US Congress, the US had a hard time getting weapons approved. The whole point of "America First" is just that – American First, and the right (and Republicans in general) are returning to an isolationist perspective, as they had before WWII – where things like the war in Ukraine are a "European problem".
As for mass media, it has always been under the control of the wealthy, and people like William Randolph Hearst. Companies do not exist for working people.
The US doesn't have an oligarchy, as in Russia, because a few wealthy people do not control everything under a dictator; it is more chaotic, with factions fighting each other. But there is a ruling class, which control both parties.
"US doesn't have an oligarchy" – the small group of the superrich who own Federal Reserve System, they also own the most important mass media and Congress. They are the oligarchy. Also there is CIA which is acting in coordination with them and financed by them. Those are the people who can do whatever they wish and get away with any kind of crimes.
Russia finished with oligarchs 20 years ago. Russian oligarchy in 1990th wasn't such an powerful as American one. The real boss in Russia from 1991 was always Russian president. Only Yeltsin, because of his incompetence, couldn't get the superrich under state's control and depended upon them financially. Putin finished with them, kicked them out from politics and made them to pay taxes. Those who refused, either run away to London, Israel and U.S. or were destroyed financially. The most important one (Khodorkovsky) got in prison.
“Those who Americans call far-right, in reality, are neither right no left; they are only trying to prevent further sliding of the country to a catastrophe.”
To whom are you referring?
Those Americans who are supporting Trump, or, at least, majority of them. What they expect Trump to do, is to stop the illegal immigration and revive American industry.
So what do you make of Trump ordering his MAGA minions to downvote Biden’s immigration bill, which adopted most of the GOP’s ideas on the subject?
Biden has made some progress re-shoring industry, particularly high tech and battery production. If the economy does not crash and avoids another round of inflation through November, Harris will win.
The abortion issue plays heavily in her favor in swing states as well.
Trump will lose the popular vote and probably “contest” a close electoral college win by Harris; so 2025 could start with a real bang! Insurrection,secession, civil war.
I think Intel & the deep state control the military and the Democrats and a good slice of the GOP leadership.
Trump will be shouting from the outside this time.
Your picture looks pessimistic. Honestly, I also don't see any light at the end of this tunnel.
I like to think there is, but it’s fragmented to the point where the Right’s crisis with the Tea Party (remember those low-grade MAGA ancestors ?) seems quaint by comparison.
The really unfortunate thing is that the Left “owns” the Political Correctness / “woke” s**t that only enforces the broad divide between Authoritarian Left and Libertarian Left. This creates a further subdivision of the Left into “Left-wing” and “not-Right-wing” … and it seems the majority of lockstep “my Harris, right or wrong” Democrats fall into the latter.
The political spectrum has always shown niche pockets in its quadrants (Log Cabin Republicans being an amusing example; atheist Conservatives another) and while I loathe to ape the No True Scotsman fallacy, it does seem the {Left, Libertarian} faction is a half-acre out in the Left-wing hinterlands.
Harris is one big lie.
US politics is a bloody cesspool.
Both candidates will continue the current policy since both sides are financed by AIPAC and the MIC; a three-way marriage made in Hell.
The current policy isn't due to AIPAC secretly controlling the US; it is based on US self-interest and geopolitical calculations. Also, Israel provides a lot of advanced military and computer technology. The US would rather it goes to the US than Russia or China.
Further, Israel is, by law, a "major non-NATO ally", which means that the US is committed to defending Israel. Israel was not only attacked by Hamas – an organization dedicated to the destruction of Israel and its people – which killed 1,200 of its people in a few hours, but it is under attack from Iran, Lebanon, and Yemen. Iran sent 170 drones, 30 cruise missiles, and 120 ballistic missiles to attack Israel in one event, so arming Israel to defend is what you do for an ally during a war on multiple fronts. That isn't due to AIPAC.
Really takes some guts to write what you did. Israel is not an ally of the American People i.e. The USS Liberty, Pollards, bogus intelligence on Iraq, need I go on?? Israel is a menace to world peace, along with Wash. which is also not an ally of the American People; both parties included.
Actually, Israel is, by law, a “major non-NATO ally”.
The USS Liberty occurred 56 years ago, during a war. How is that relevant to today?
Israel just wants to live in peace, as shown by the fact that it is not at war with anyone that doesn’t attack them, including Jordan and Egypt. Even Syria is staying out of it.
And you don’t support “world peace” by letting countries shoot missiles at you and doing nothing. Show me where that has ever worked in human history.
If Hamas wanted peace, they could have it. They could have had a peaceful existence after Israel left Gaza in 2006. They chose war instead. Over and over. They could simply choose peace now by surrendering and releasing all hostages, and agreeing to end all hostilities. Why don’t they, and why don’t you demand that they do? Explain your “logic”.
Israel has been stealing land, destroying farms, chopping down olive trees, killing Palestinians by both the State and Israeli settlers for a long, long, time. So don’t give me the ‘they want peace’ BS. Please, see things as they are, because it is the STATE where all the trouble comes from, and the US STATE is the enabler for all these atrocities.
The whole world is watching and it’s watching genocide by Israel and the genocide funded by Wash.
Nonsense. Those are bumper stickers, not meaningful observations. “The world” understands that if you shoot missiles at your neighbor, you provoke a response.
What would your country do if missiles rained down on your cities? Write a letter to the NY Times? Or file a complaint with the UN?
Plus, the world knows that Hezbollah isn’t a real military, it’s a proxy army for Iran, which is too chicken to fight its own wars.
And the best way to avoid wars is to not start them.
Wash. is guilty of stealing Indian lands and committing other atrocities against the indigenous peoples here, and if the Indians had machine guns and missiles, US history would be very different. Zionism is way out of gas and is now displayed to the world for what it is, a genocidal, apartheid regime bent on ruling over mankind as per the Rabbinical writings now exposed through the net.
At least she didn't go with the baked babies bullshit. unlike SloJo
Being better than a senile old fart isn’t a great accomplishment imo🙂
Her opponent is a senile old fart.
"That’s what a lot of people on the progressive left want you to do."
I can only hope KFC Big Bash leaned into Harris's face, stared her intently in the eyes, nodded slowly and distinctly, and stepped firmly on her foot – all to telegraph how CRITICALLY IMPORTANT THIS POINT IS to her campaign and her chances to commit Undecideds & 700k+ Democrats she can't assume she owns as the extant Vice-not-Trump.
She would be lying.
Only if you apply the "D" word to Trump.
Yes… you can use the "C" word as well as the "B" word…!
History started on October 7, 2024?
U.S. support is crucial for sustaining the genocide.
I thought Israel has the greatest army on earth, yet they keep begging for more arms, why? Israel and the USA, seem to be preparing for a major war in the region, but against who? Which side will Egypt, Jordan be on and we all know what will happen if they side with Israel. Biden/Harris want this ME War for some reason, it seems the USA always needs to kill Muslims/Arabs, fearing they are getting to powerful. Soon, only Israel will be using the dollar, while most ME/African Nations join Brics and aligning themselves with Russia and China. The USA/Israel is great at one thing, making enemies, creating chaos and death.
They are high powered but very very brittle. Need huge $$$ and matériel to sustain them, only available from one source …
They, Russia, China, Iran, and N.Korea pose an existential threat to the unilateral hegemony of the USA. It is not about Ukrainian NATO membership or Gaza, just a pile of rubble for decades to come or the WB. The neocons want to rule the world.
Okay, folks. I finally figured it out. Thank you, Netanyahu. No need to read any more Antiwar articles. No matter who we support for "Freedom and Democracy" and no matter who we say is a hero, IT'S ALWAYS THE OPPOSITE.
I am very concerned about the amount of weapons and the seeming urgency…. Something big is going to go down.
The possibility of peace gets further away, every day……….
When we cheer for having “the most lethal military in the world,” PEACE DIES. We killed it with JOY.
You don’t realize how very profound your comment is.
Thanks, Dread!
Joy most lethal.
At some point US would be out of weapons to defend itself effectively… And that vulnerability would cost them…!
That is what the factories are for. The USA always a large amount weapons for itself.
Come to think of it, these weapons are being used to fight an existential threat to the US unilateral hegemony with proxies and combat zones far away from the US homeland.
I'd call it US multilateral hegemony since EU is helping US maintains it while they're being crushed by US…!
That is so true and why the EU is losing public support, they hate the hegemon. They hate Ursula von der Leyen.
Aha ! I was wondering, "What's the rush ?", but apparently the guise is, "Iran is about to attack.
Clever; in the way the US government won't officially transfer money or weapons to a client state through Congressionally approved channels but "Presidential drawdown authority" is that loophole that billions and kilotons can fit through without needing to fold in the side-mirrors.
And he will never have to face the people in a real press conference either and Kamala can continue in the same way, she is at least as competent than the demented old man or the old conman.
Israel and the US/NATO are guilty of genocide.
This is the beginning of the end for Western Imperialism. The final bloody gasp.
The Ukrainians and Palestinians are fighting and dying in an
existential war for Western Imperialism and US hegemony.
The US's stated goal is to destroy Russia. That they have said. That is what it is about, not Gaza and the WB or Ukrainian NATO membership. It is about control of the whole ME, that is where Iran and the Ukraine come in. PNAC is not dead. Dear Kamala has no problem to go on and continue to play president. They knowingly sold us a demented Biden in 2020 now they are selling us a DEI president.
The Palestinians are dying for the West? Did you read what you wrote before posting?
Yes, I know what I posted and I stand with it.
What do you think they are dying for? Bush started the NATO membership issue of the Ukraine, Obama/Biden funded the bloody regime change 2014 in Kiev. Biden blocked peace negotiations with Russia more than one time. And unarmed Palestinians including women and children are being massacred by undisciplined IDF criminal thugs to make room for the Israeli hegemon to be surrogate in the ME for the US hegemon.
The goal of NATO membership issue of Ukraine was to escalate the hostility between NATO and Russia to the point where any serious economic cooperation between EU and Russia would be impossible. U.S. leadership achieved that. The result of it should be the weakening Russian economy and Russian state to such a level where the regime change would be possible. Then Russia could be divided in several smaller states under control of U.S. oligarchy, and Russian natural resources could be robbed by western corporations. In 1990th U.S. top politicians talked quite openly about necessity of dividing Russian Federation in several smaller states. At the time they also promoted an idea that it is unfair that huge Siberian natural resources are owned by Russia. So NATO serves to a pure imperialistic neocolonial project.
The Anglo-Saxons always opposed Russian/German collaboration, it was at the roots of WWI. They opposed the Bismarck German Reich. The Czar and the Kaiser were cousins who liked each other, Katherine the Great was a German princess and Germans helped to settle and farm Ukraine.
And again Germany is on the block, it will take Germany and Europe a long time to recover this time again.
It’s about all those things.
I reject the DEI slur. It’s racist and vile.
Both candidates are awful.
It becomes a slur when the competence question is being ignored, to make it a point that VP Harris had some black ancestor way back for no other reason than more votes is the issue. Qualification is what counts for a job as important as the presidency. SC Justice Thurgood Marshall was an outstanding Justice and he was black just like Justice Thomas.
“Qualification is what counts for a job as important as the presidency”
It’s one of the things that counts. The candidates positions on the issues is another.
Spewing racist, right wing slurs is reprehensible.
Are you MAGA?
I am not MAGA, never was, that may be why I do not see racism involve by me, I see it by the people who even brought it up. I do not care about Kamala’s race, I look at the competence and qualification that has nothing at all to do with race. I voted for Obama. I liked Michelle because she worked on healthier school lunches, an important issue in my eyes, which was left to die on the vine after she was gone.
“I do not see racism involve by me, I see it by the people who even brought it up”
That’s in line with the rightist POV that is far more offended by accusations of racism than by racism itself.
If it is true, why bother to mention it, how many generations back lived her black ancestor? Frankly, I don’t care one way or the other. I look for character, integrity, knowledge and competence and leadership qualities, not skin color.
That claim to color blindness is belied by the DEI slur.
If her race is not important, why make the slur?
I spoke for myself. I do judge Kamala the person, the human being and I am not impressed. She had advantages in her life, she is intelligent and well educated, but she has no real substance, even as VP she did not grow more soul and humanity. Biden did not either after decades in government.
I agree.
But I still prefer her to another Trump Presidency.
I can understand it. I live in a deep red state, if I can I would write in Jill Stein, if I can’t I skip the election.
We have 2 months to go to election, who knows what happens. I agree with you, Trump was and is out for me too.
I’m in CA. All manner of other votes are always available and Harris will lose here when Vance where’s s dress…oh wait, that might have already happened. };-)>
I did not slur, that is what you read in to it. Competence is colorblind concerning skin color or gender.
It is politicians who made it a wedge issue to campaign on, that goes for many of Biden's appointments.
Did you not imply that Harris was the candidate solely due to her racial identity? Isn’t that what a “DEI candidate” means?
If you understand it that way, I can understand it, but it is not what I meant. I object the politicians for pulling out the race card making it a wedge issue for campaign purposes, deliberately stirring up racism.
I do not object to DEI (diversity, equity and inclusion).
I do object to ignoring and eliminating competence when all else is equal. That is what Biden did. Real leaders are looking for competence too.
There is Karine Jean-Pierre and Pete Buttigieg. But other presidents appoint according to political lobby connections too.
Competence and character should be top requirements.
” I object the politicians for pulling out the race card making it a wedge issue for campaign purposes, deliberately stirring up racism.”
I agree with that. “Liberal” 1% foundations tend to support organizations steeped confrontational and divisive rhetoric. To me, this is an attempt to promote division among the oppressed masses.
I think “competence” and “character” are terms often used to divert attention from the capitalist, militarist and imperialist interests served by all elected representatives in the US, IOW they’re more often a a dodge than not.
I don’t support competent imperialists and I don’t expect to find character in the ruling class tools that run the West.
You are right. The Democrats let their constituents down, they pushed good people out of the party like Al Franken and Kucinich and stood by when unions and socialist ideas like affordable health care were demonized, they supported cuts in SS benefits and the extra costs of the SSTF instead of supporting the working middle class. They sold out the working middle class and supported GOP policies. They were a front for big corporations and still are. And we still have a shrinking working middle class increased homeless numbers not even the minimum wage was raised by a dime. But Biden moved heaven and earth to fund war on two other continents thousands of miles away. And I voted for Biden.
The nations ruling elite is intellectually and morally totally bankrupt, that covers both parties. We need a parliamentary democracy and a restrictive funding to give small parties a chance to have a voice and we can vote for other parties to let the one bipartisan party know we don’t like what they do. The congress, the club of millionaires and billionaires are proxies and lobbyists for giant global corporations and labor is blocked to really unionize to be able to speak for working people. Labor should have seats on the boards of corporations.
IMO, the Empire is on its way out.
That usually ends in a crisis, often provides revolutionary opportunities but can lead to utterly barbaric reaction as well – See Germany 1918 and Spain in 20’s & 30’s.
Britain managed the transition after WW1 by adopting a vast Fabian social welfare program and increased immigration from the Commonwealth. That social system was rolled back under the Iron Lady, and Britain is really a mess at the moment.
“One’s got a weasel and the others got a flag” -Beck
That’s what managed democracy in the West has become.
The Iron Lady was bad news for the EU, DE Gaulle was right, the British are not continental Europeans, she forced neoliberal ideas in the EU and was really a proxy for US interests.
Today in two elections in Germany the old parties were on the losing side, the Greens where wiped out in the two state parliaments that voted today. The conservative AfD was the big winner, a very normal conservative party, nothing extreme about them regardless how the old parties try to demonize the party. They act in the interest of Germany, not the US. But that is reason enough to accuse them of fascism. They would have investigated the pipeline sabotage, Scholz did not, that is the price he has to pay, he is really toast and so is the once great SPD and the conservative CDU the Adenauer party fell below the AfD too. And a new left party with Sarah Wagenknecht did very well too.
Sparkle Pony has a number of connotations.
There’s the My Pony toys, which sparkle with inanity. Superficiality and lack of substance is implied.
In Burning Man jargon, a Sparkle Pony is an unprepared camper, AKA a “blisstening” in Rainbow Family terms, oblivious and likely to cause problems for others and even the entire collective, through erroneous action or inaction based blissful ignorance.
Ignorance is bliss, covers pretty much all of it.
You dont really need to find out whats going on
You dont really want to know just how far its gone
Just leave well enough alone
Eat your dirty laundry
-Don Henley
What are her positions other than continue the Biden positions?
That’s a good point, unlike the DEI slur.
Harris is a sparkle pony, and a lie from start to finish.
I’ll still take her over the orange haired fascist, but it’s a close call. I live in CA,; so, I won’t be voting for her.
“I dreamed, I saw Joe Hill last night!….”
I think Harris will win.
America loves sparkle ponies.
Wave that flag, wave it high & wide.
Summer time’s done come & gone
My oh my.
Robert Hunter
Excellent reference!
🙂
This is so horrifying and obnoxious that it is painful to come here and read it again and again. I don't want to keep making the same comment.
Prosecute the criminals. US and Israeli.
And many more. There is no excuse for atrocities done on Palestinians over decades and all the so-called civilized democratic nations watched and protected it. When the Israelis bombed hospitals, ambulances, schools, churches and all civilian buildings and institutions they said nothing and made up excuses and justified the vile, viscous people. They covered up the massacres in refugee camps like Shatila and Sabra in 1982 killing about 3500 Palestinians mostly women and children. And then they come and cry about anti-Semtism and how they are being treated, they are the victims and had done nothing wrong.
Palestinians have no right to fight for their human rights, they have non because they are animals, so the Israelis say.
These shipments are all about spreading the genocide and atrocities to the West Bank. Greater Israel is the end game, which includes land taken from Lebanon, Syria, Iraq, Jordan and Turkey. See the proposed map here: https://www.globalresearch.ca/greater-israel-the-zionist-plan-for-the-middle-east/5324815
In corporate fascism speak, "the progressive left" means everyone in the world who is against genocide.
"shows President Biden and Vice President Harris are not serious about ending the slaughter in Gaza."
Finally a clear statement of actual truth. Can we make that the headline from now on – on ALL the articles? Use the subtitle to describe what makes an article different from the last one – since they all are useful only to prove the headline.
Here, I'll help you. I don't even need an AI to generate the headline:
"US Directly Supports Israel Genocide and Wants War With Iran"
I agree with the first part of your title…!
Wanting a war and actually going through it are two different things… It is Israel that wants a war with Iran…! Whether US would help Israel attack Iran remains to be seen…!
They must believe that the Ukrainians can at least eliminate a weakened Russia or spread the war to European continent using NATO to trap Russia. But as rabid as they are, no telling what they will do, they are out of their mind.
I assume that these orders for shipment handled by the finance committee of the "democratic" party campaign's PR staff as well as their "legislative" staff – of course!
Well, how much longer does the US, plan to continue on this path, without a plan?!
It is the height of hypocrisy and arrogance!
Both presidential candidates promise to continue with current policy, no change. Normal dogs learn, not true of rabid dogs, they never learn they die.
Anyone who supports the ongoing Israeli GENOCIDE, all "justified" by the lies of October 7, is a coward and a traitor to America! When all is said and done, let's hope Israel is held SOMEWHAT accountable for its war crimes.
American Zionist financial elite wouldn't agree with you. Even more: they can force you to pay for Zionist project in Palestine. If you refuse to obey, you'll go to prison for tax evasion.