The Post-Partisan Emporium

  EU Ewwww! Talk about stepping in it Radio Far Side It’s been a week of astonishing irony. Rob Reiner, a long-time and very vocal proponent of banning guns was stabbed to death. While an interesting side show, it pales in comparison to one of the great suicides in all of human history, overshadowing even Cleopatra’s asp — and history tells us she had a fine asp at that. I’m talking, of course, of the EU’s incredibly senseless and wildly reckless flying double-gainer on its own sword. Among baffling and disastrous political blunders, this one dwarfs the competition. In fact, but for Athens launching the Sicilian Expedition in 415 BC, or the USSR invading Afghanistan in 1979, it’s difficult to come up with anything more self-destructive than the EU confiscating Russia’s money. And the reason makes it all the more unhinged. This event will go down in history as one of the most monumentally stupid things any political entity has ever done. It’s going to have profound repercussions thr...

  Zionist Israel as the Assassination Nation Ron Unz   Audio Player Ten days ago  a sudden surprise Israeli attack  inflicted a terrible, decapitating blow upon the leadership of the Islamic Republic of Iran, successfully assassinating the country’s top military commanders, its chief nuclear weapons negotiator, and nearly all of its most prominent nuclear scientists. Many of these victims were killed in their own homes together with their family members by explosive drones or missile strikes that sometimes destroyed entire apartment buildings, causing many collateral civilian deaths. No such sudden massive wave of public assassinations against the top leadership of a major nation had ever previously happened, and the resulting war with its salvos of retaliatory Iranian missiles against Israel has now also brought America into the conflict. Among other things, these events conclusively demonstrated the near-total control that Israel and its political partisans have ac...