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In an attack piece worthy of a sensational tabloid, the New York Times is training its fire on Tulsi Gabbard, president-elect Trump’s nominee to be Director of National Intelligence. Notably, the Times does not mention Gabbard’s support for Israel’s genocide in Gaza. Rather, the Times is apoplectic that Gabbard opposes the US proxy war in Ukraine and wants better relations with Russia. The Times recycles Hillary Clinton’s slander of Gabbard as a “Russian asset.”

As evidence, the Times quotes from Gabbard tweet in February 2022, as the war in Ukraine was beginning:

“This war and suffering could have easily been avoided if Biden Admin/NATO had simply acknowledged Russia’s legitimate security concerns regarding Ukraine’s becoming a member of NATO, which would mean US/NATO forces right on Russia’s border.”

Continue reading “The New York Times Attacks Tulsi Gabbard for the Wrong Reasons”

Reprinted from Bracing Views with the author’s permission.

What is the point of playing Russian roulette – with Russia?

As the Biden administration fades into oblivion, among its last decisions has been to allow Ukraine to strike deep into Russia with U.S.-made ATACMS, a missile with a range of 300 kilometers (190 miles). Ukraine’s recent use of these missiles brought a worrisome response from Russia: hypersonic intermediate-range missiles. If Ukraine persists in striking deeper into Russia with U.S., British, and French missiles, the Russian response will be proportionately greater, and possibly escalatory against NATO.

Here’s the thing: These missiles are too few in number to have a decisive impact on the course of the war. Ukraine isn’t going to “win” by launching ATACMS and similar tactical missiles. Yes, they can inflict more pain on Russia, hitting targets like ammunition dumps, military bases, and the like. But nobody is pretending these are war-winning weapons. All they promise is more dead bodies on both sides.

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I could not tell the easy, comforting lie.

“No”, I told the woman, her traumatised children clinging to her legs, “I can’t say you are safe here; not one of us is safe. The Israelis are genocidal. But in Lebanon so far, I don’t think they have bombed a school”.

I was with one of 67 families, with 215 children, living as refugees in a small school at Ain Rumaila in Southern Beirut. The area borders the evacuated suburb of Dahiya which the Israelis are systematically demolishing, and bombings rattle the windows of the school every day.

Continue reading “Craig Murray: The Effects of Israeli Barbarity”

On COI #715, Kyle Anzalone breaks down the White House policy on Ukraine and Israel.

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