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...

  The Truth Unvarnished Peeling away centuries of patina Radio Far Side The American Society of Theatrical Religious Spectacle (ASTRS Inc.) has for decades been well paid to promote an absurdity commonly called “Israel,” with the official name of Zion Inc. Banking on the profound ignorance of the general population and their lack of motivation to actually study history, Zion Inc. has convinced millions that it has exclusive rights to a strip of desert formally known since AD137 as Palestine. The greatest of the myriad absurdities is the idea that YHWH is the Christian god. A quick reading of John 8:44 should put that to rest, but ASTRS Inc. assiduously avoids focusing on inconvenient passages in their sacred texts, in order to sell a fairy tale of critical military and geopolitical importance. The second greatest absurdity peddled by Zion Inc. is the idea that “Israel” is the homeland of the “Jews”. Again, actually reading the four canonical Gospels should dispel that illusion, but...