The Post-Partisan Emporium

  The US Empire is Retrenching, Bringing Imperialism Home Karen Kwiatkowski The US-Iran Memorandum of Understanding may be signed already. If it is, 60 days of retrenchment, rejuvenation and rest may be on tap. Donald Trump certainly needs it , and so does the world. The latest US war – for Israel, as admitted by Trump, Rubio and Hegseth – has truly changed the Middle East, but not in the way Israel intended, nor the United States. The national security states in both the US and Israel no doubt had different expectations. For Israel, accelerating its ongoing genocide in Gaza, further fracturing the West Bank, and expand the northern “border” to the Litani River, seizing a fifth of Lebanon’s territory and permanently displacing a quarter of the Lebanese population, were among them. For the United States, perhaps the fundamental objective was nothing more than please let this be the last time we have to fight a war for Israel. On the surface, this latest episode of Bomb Iran! serve...

  Israel Collected And Deleted Footage From October 7th- Likely To Cover Up The 'Mass Hannibal'. An Israeli Report Reveals That Israel Collected All Footage From October 7th and Deleted Much Of It, Likely To Cover Up The 'Mass Hannibal'. The Dissident Israel Hayom, an Israeli outlet,  reported that the Israeli IDF  collected all footage from near the Gaza border on October 7th and deleted much of it. According to the report, IDF officers belonging “to a classified unit operating under the Ground Forces Command”, “composed of reserve soldiers who are veterans of elite special forces, primarily Sayeret Matkal (the IDF’s elite General Staff Reconnaissance Unit), Shaldag (an IAF special operations unit), Shayetet 13 (the IDF’s naval commando unit), and Duvdevan (a special forces unit specializing in undercover urban warfare)”, “were dispatched to the Gaza border region, which was still under active fighting, and amid ongoing combat” to carry out, “an intensive collection of...