The Post-Partisan Emporium

  American Pravda: Propaganda-Hoaxes vs. Chinese Reality  Ron Unz   Last week I published an article discussing former Ambassador Chas Freeman, one of America’s most highly-regarded professional diplomats of the last half-century. Very early in his career, Freeman had been the personal interpreter for President Richard Nixon during his historic 1972 trip to China and meetings with Mao, and that country remained one of his areas of special expertise. During subsequent decades, Freeman served as our ambassador to Saudi Arabia at the time of the Gulf War and was afterward appointed as an assistant secretary of defense. Then in early 2009, the Obama Administration nominated him as chairman of our National Intelligence Council, responsible for assessing and aggregating the findings of our 17 different intelligence agencies, and then providing the final report to our president and other top leaders. But the Israel Lobby regarded Freeman as insufficiently loyal to the foreign na...

  Syria: will it prove to be the empire's final quagmire? The West's long descent from the 1993 Wolfowitz Doctrine, one Pyrrhic victory after another. Alex Krainer On Sunday morning we woke up to the most surreal news: the regime of  Bashar al-Assad  in Syria is no more. From the day the new-and-improved Jabhat al-Nusra, now renamed Hayat Tahrir al-Sham (HTS), launched their attack on Syria (Wednesday, 27 November at 7:50 AM) to Sunday, 8 December 2024, only 11 days' time. In those 11 days, Damascus fell and president Assad fled to Russia. The Syrian Arab Army (SAA) offered next to no resistance and HTS drove straight through Syria almost unopposed. West’s moderate head choppers in action All of a sudden and seemingly out of nowhere, the already strategically defeated Western empire suddenly scored a brilliant victory and everything changed. The media and social networks are chock-full of stories about how this happened and explanations of why it happened this way. Suppos...

  NJ Drone 'Invasion' Just In Time For Congress To Reauthorize Orwellian Law by Tyler Durden A series of  drone sightings  over New Jersey that began in mid-November has left residents and lawmakers spooked about the possibility of foreign adversaries breaching US airspace with drone swarms. While officials have attempted to reassure the public, some  lawmakers have stoked fear , leading to widespread panic on social media, with people interpreting anything moving in the night sky as a potential drone (even commercial jets and stars).  Source: Fox News Days ago, the FBI and the US Homeland Security Department released a  statement  indicating, "We have no evidence at this time that the reported drone sightings pose a national security or public safety threat or have a foreign nexus."  "Historically, we have experienced cases of mistaken identity, where reported drones are, in fact, manned aircraft," the federal agenci...