The Post-Partisan Emporium

  Farewell To FARA Mark Wauck What do you do with a law that’s in your way when you’re charged with enforcing it? Those charged with enforcing laws belong to the executive branch. They can’t repeal laws. However, at the higher levels—say at the Attorney General level—what they can do is rewrite regulations and, in particular, prosecutorial guidance to emasculate enforcement of the offending law. Many readers who are unfamiliar with FARA—the Foreign Agents Registration Act—will be inclined to simply say, Good Riddance! That inclination will be based upon the abuses of FARA during the Russia Hoax—abuses that had no connection to the intent of FARA, which is simply to require those who work for foreign powers in the United States to register as agents of those foreign powers. Can we agree that throwing the baby out with the bath water isn’t a solution to the problem of abuse of a law for political purposes? Requiring politicians and media figures to register as foreign agents when the...

  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...