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  The Second Round of Retaliation Between Israel and Iran Has Just Begun Joe Biden is caught in a trap caused by his own weakness PHILIP GIRALDI   Given the lying and fact twisting that have routinely been part and parcel of accounts of what is occurring in the Middle East, the past several weeks have nevertheless been shocking in terms of how an abysmally low standard of truth can be reduced even farther. Looking at developments objectively, one comes up with a series of facts. First of all, Israel was not at war with either Syria or Iran during the first weeks in April. Iran had never attacked Israel prior to that point and Syria last fought Israel in 1973, over fifty years ago. Israel, however, has regularly been assassinating Iranian officials and scientists and it has been frequently been bombing Syria since 2017, increasing the pace to weekly and sometimes even daily attacks over the past six months paralleling the Gaza fighting. A particularly devastating attack took place on Ma

  War and Peace in an Ocean of Lies Does anyone in Washington care about Israel’s crimes? PHILIP GIRALDI   One expects that anyone involved in politics will lie whenever they think they can get away with it to burnish one’s own image and while also distorting reality to promote policies that are being favored. Nevertheless, the record of high crimes committed by a series of presidents and their top aides since the so-called “war on terror” began has established a new low for government veracity. One would have thought that the fake intelligence fabricated by a group of Zionists in the Pentagon and White House to launch the misadventures in Afghanistan and Iraq would be as bad as it could possibly get, but the Joe Biden team has outdone even those unfortunately unindicted criminals by allowing itself to be maneuvered by friends in NATO and by Israel into situations that are one step short of nuclear war. Listening to John Kirby, Lloyd Austin, and Linda Thomas-Greenfield speak suggests t

  GOD IS UNDERWRITING ISRAEL’S GENOCIDE BOND, SO THE US SECURITIES & EXCHANGE COMMISSION & GOLDMAN SACHS AGREE GENOCIDE IS NO SECTION 17(A) FRAUD ON BOND INVESTORS   int This Post by John Helmer, Moscow     @ bears_with Last week it happened that God and the United States Treasury managed to underwrite a record issue of Israel Government bonds to continue the war against the Arabs in Gaza, West Bank,  Lebanon, Syria, Iraq – and Iran if necessary.   The war financing comprised $2 billion of five-year bonds, and $3 billion each of 10 and 30-year bonds. The US Treasury guarantees bond holders that if Israel defaults on repayment of its obligations,  the US will pay instead. Notwithstanding this, the Israelis were obliged to offer an extra 1.35%, 1.45%, and 1.75% more in interest over the going rate for US Treasury bonds for the same length of term. The Reuters news agency headline on March 6  celebrated  “Israel sells record $8 billion in bonds despite Oct 7 attacks, downgrade”.