The Post-Partisan Emporium

  Another Week of Aiding Israel and Assorted Corruption Is it really a government or some kind of ponzi scheme? Philip Giraldi   One’s morning ritual has become something unpleasant over the past year. Opening up the computer homepage after breakfast invariably brings up the image of the Orangeman who unfortunately is otherwise known as the president of the United States of America. The person in question, who goes by the name Donald J Trump, is invariably scowling, radiating hatred, and raising his tiny fist to express his willingness to pummel anyone who has offended him in thought, word or deed. The accompanying article usually describes how he is ready to fire someone in the government or punish a journalist for failure to bow and scrape when they are dealing with the imperial presence of the self-described “Man of Peace.” Occasionally, when on a roll, Trump threatens to kill either an “enemy” or even an entire group or nation full of people if they offend him. He justifie...

  PATRICK LAWRENCE: AIPAC’s Anxieties The Israel lobbies’ grip on U.S. politics has slipped beyond restoration since Oct. 7, 2023 due to the Zionist army’s own savagery in Gaza.   Charlie Kirk speaking at the 2018 Conservative Political Action Conference (CPAC). (Gage Skidmore/ Flickr/ CC BY-SA 2.0) By  Patrick Lawrence I f Charlies Kirk’s well-documented defection from the Zionist cause confirmed one thing above all others, it is that the Israeli lobbies’ grip on American politics has slipped—measurably, and I would say beyond any kind of restoration—since the events of Oct. 7, 2023. It would take more hasbara than the Israelis could ever produce to persuade me Kirk did not pay for his abandonment of the Christian– Zionist orthodoxy when he was assassinated before a crowd of conservative youth last Sept. 10. Andrew Cockburn  has an excellent piece on this question  in the current edition of  Harper’s , published under the headline “Turning Point.” And...

  Israeli Narrative Debunked- Bondi Terrorists Were Tied To ISIS. Israel Tried To Blame Iran and Palestine For The Attack, When In Reality It Was ISIS. The Dissident Israel’s narrative it has pushed, namely that critics of Israel and Iran were responsible for the terrorist attack on Jewish Australians at Bondi,has been debunked by the fact that the terrorists in reality held allegiance to ISIS. Australia’s ABC news  reported that , “Australia’s domestic intelligence agency, ASIO, examined one of the Bondi Beach gunmen six years ago over his close ties to a Sydney-based Islamic State (IS) terrorism cell” adding that, “the ABC understands investigators from the Joint Counter Terrorism Team (JCTT), a unit comprised of state and federal agencies, believe the gunmen had pledged allegiance to the IS terrorist group” and “Two IS flags were found in their car at Bondi Beach, according to senior officials speaking on condition of anonymity. One flag could be seen in footage from the sc...