The Post-Partisan Emporium

  Is Uncle Sam Being Duped Into Fighting Israel's War? MIKE WHITNEY   This week’s drone strike on senior Hamas leader Saleh al-Arouri in southern Beirut provides compelling evidence that Israel wants to expand the conflict beyond its borders.  In the last few weeks, Israel has assassinated a deputy political leader in Hamas ( al-Arouri),  a senior adviser in Iran’s Revolutionary Guards , ( Sayyed Razi Mousavi ) and “nearly a dozen senior Iranian military officials” ( Fox News ) at an airport in Damascus.  At the same time, Israel has launched multiple unprovoked airstrikes on Lebanon and Syria. All of these incitements suggest that Israel is exploring ways to expand the hostilities beyond Gaza in order to plunge the entire region into war. Israeli provocations across the Middle East are an attempt to draw the United States deeper into a region-wide conflict.  Israeli leaders know that their country will not become the dominant regional power unless its enemies –mainly Hezbollah and

  THE U.S. NAVY IS UNPREPARED FOR A PROLONGED WAR WITH YEMEN by  Larry Johnson   Aegis Missile Defense System It looks like the United States, along with 9 allies — Great Britain, Italy, Bahrain, Canada, France, the Netherlands, Norway, Seychelles and Spain — are on the verge of entangling itself in a new Middle East quagmire as an international armada assembles in the international waters around Yemen. The mission? Stop Yemen from threatening cargo and oil tankers headed to Israel. Tiny Yemen has surprised the West with its tenacity and ferocity in attacking ships trying to ferry containers and fuel to Israel. Yes, this is a violation of international law and the West is fully justified in trying to thwart Yemen. On paper it would appear that Yemen is outnumbered and seriously outgunned. A sure loser? Not so fast. The U.S. Navy, which constitutes the majority of the fleet sailing against Yemen, has some real vulnerabilities that will limit its actions. Before explaining the risks, you

 Thanks to manfred127 for recommending this video... Gaza CHANGES EVERYTHING as Russia, China Confront Neocon Agenda for Middle East PEPE ESCOBAR     Geopolitical analyst and journalist Pepe Escobar reacts to the conflict in Gaza and discusses how the neocons have a larger plan to destabilize West Asia as their influence wanes and failures mount. We break it all down in this video.   Pepe Escobar Pepe Escobar, a veteran Brazilian journalist, is the correspondent-at-large for Hong Kong-based Asia Times. His latest book is “2030.” Source: The AltWorld

The ‘Greater Israel’ Scheme And Its Global Power Play: A Delusional Recipe For Armageddon By Matthew Ehret In 1996, a nest of American-born imperialists revolving around Paul Wolfowitz, Dick Cheney, Donald Rumsfeld, and Richard Perle created a new think tank  called  “The Project for a New American Century.” While the principled aim of the think tank ultimately hinged on a new “Pearl Harbor moment” that would justify a new era of regime-change wars in the Middle East, a secondary but equally important part of the formula involved the dominance of “Greater Israel” Likud fanatics then taking power over the murdered body of Yitzhak Rabin. It was toward the start of the new regime of Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu that Richard Perle wrote the  report  “ Clean Break: A Strategy for Securing the  Realm,” which outlined a series of goals that would govern the strategic vision of Washington and Tel Aviv for the next two decades. It called for: Canceling the foundations for the Oslo Accords