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...

  A Christian Beauty Queen Challenges Zionist Power Israel, Christian Zionism, and the Fate of the Holy Land Ron Unz The Political Courage of Carrie Prejean Boller All of us have our personal biases, and I’m hardly free of that failing. In my case I’ve casually assumed that most beauty queens should hardly be taken seriously. So although they’re certainly very easy on the eyes, anything that they said or did could safely be disregarded. President Donald Trump seems to have given such individuals some important roles in his administration and as  I explained late last year , their performance often tended to reinforce my view: No sooner had Trump come into office than he demanded his subordinates prosecute former FBI Director James Comey on the rather doubtful charges of giving misleading testimony to Congress. When the experienced prosecutor whom Trump had appointed balked, arguing that the case was too weak to proceed, he was immediately fired and replaced by Trump’s own pers...