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ALERT MEMORANDUM FOR: The President
FROM: Veteran Intelligence Professionals for Sanity (VIPS)
SUBJECT: Throwing Good Money After Bad: Decisions in an Intelligence Vacuum

Dear President Biden:

We noted in our January 26, 2023 Memorandum to you that National Intelligence Director Avril Haines had expressed skepticism that Russian forces would be sufficiently prepared for Ukraine’s coming offensive. She said Russia was using up ammunition “extraordinarily quickly” and could not indigenously produce what it was expending.

You had just approved sending Abrams tanks to Ukraine. We wrote:

“None of the newly promised weaponry will stop Russia from defeating what’s left of the Ukrainian army. If you have been told otherwise, replace your intelligence and military advisers with competent professionals – the sooner the better.”

Continue reading “To Biden: Avoiding a Third World War”

From Twin Cities Healthcare Workers 4 Palestine:

MINNEAPOLIS, MN — We, healthcare professionals and students from across the Twin Cities metro area, have formed a local chapter of the national Healthcare Workers for Palestine collective. Twin Cities Healthcare Workers for Palestine’s inaugural event will be a vigil honoring the hundreds of healthcare workers killed in Israel’s genocidal bombardment of Gaza.

According to the United Nations, the Israeli Occupation Forces (IOF) have killed at least 337 healthcare workers in Gaza since October 7, 2023. Only 15 of Gaza’s 36 hospitals remain even partially functional. Patients in Gaza suffer from lack of access to lifesaving specialized care such as cancer treatment as well as basic medical supplies, clean water, food, and sanitation. The IOF continues to target healthcare workers, patients, hospitals, and ambulances, and continues to hold medical personnel hostage, including the doctors and nurses arrested at Al Shifa Hospital in November. Meanwhile, the World Health Organization warns that disease could kill more people in Gaza than Israel’s bombings themselves.

Continue reading “Twin Cities Healthcare Workers for Palestine Host Vigil Honoring Healthcare Workers Killed in Gaza”

Undaunted after spending nearly a month behind bars for his conscientious objection to Israel’s war on Gaza, 18-year-old refusenik Tal Mitnick on Tuesday reported for an additional 30 days of military detention.

As Common Dreams reported last month, Mitnick entered the Tel Hashomer enlistment center on December 27 with other members of the Mesarvot Network – a group of young conscientious objectors – and announced his refusal to enlist in the Israel Defense Forces (IDF), citing the war on Gaza and Israel’s illegal occupation of Palestine.

Continue reading “In ‘Solidarity With the Innocent in Gaza,’ Israeli Refusenik Gets 30 More Days in Prison”

Dave DeCamp joins Kyle Anzalone to discuss Biden’s support for Israel.

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Last October, President Biden requested Congress spend another $106 billion to fund his endless war in Ukraine and his enabling genocide in Gaza. As a sop to normal humanitarian folks, he earmarked a measly $9 billion for humanitarian relief spread worldwide. To gain GOP support, $14 billion goes to beef up the southern border.

But just this week Biden is seeking billions more to replace the weapons he’s using in his third war in three years, this one against the pathetically weak country of Yemen. The Houthis governing most of Yemen are disrupting international shipping in the Red Sea in their quest to end Israeli genocide in Gaza.

Continue reading “Another Hundred Billion for War Weapons; Buy Defense Stocks Now”

The U.S. and Britain continue to wage war on Yemen while pretending that they aren’t at war:

The U.S. and U.K. launched strikes against eight Houthi targets Monday, the two countries said, in a continuing bid to stop the Yemeni rebel group’s attacks on ships transiting the Red Sea.

Continue reading “Biden’s ‘Sustained Campaign’ in Yemen Is Illegal and Pointless”