The Post-Partisan Emporium

  The Shattered Legacy of the Founding Fathers Consent, independence, and fireworks. Donald Jeffries We’re one year away from the 250th anniversary of the signing of the Declaration of Independence. It remains one of the most impactful and revolutionary documents ever written. While our horrific leaders still pay infrequent lip service to it, they obviously don’t remotely believe in the sentiments expressed by Thomas Jefferson. The delineation of God-given rights, as opposed to any granted by a government, was a literary nuclear bomb. This resonated with the American colonists, who almost all believed strongly in God. Now, of course, since probably half of present day Americans at least doubt the existence of God, it becomes a much harder proposition to sell. God-given rights mean nothing to those who don’t believe in God. Life, liberty, and the pursuit of happiness would eventually translate into the Bill of Rights, which made the Constitution palatable to anti-statists like Jeffe...

  IRAN: Everything You Need to Know But Were Too Afraid of the Israel Lobby to Ask Ilana Mercer   Israel's bombing on IRGC facilities in Tehran. Credit: Wikimedia Commons There exists in Israel a condition that is as much a part of the nation’s collective ‘soul,’ as it is the ‘souls’ of individual Israelis. The mindset is Jewish supremacy; the shared endeavor emanating from it is regional, military supremacy. IT’S ABOUT PALESTINE. Of all the known facts about Israel’s war of aggression against Iran, now nominally suspended by Trump, this is the most important. Incisively  put by Craig Mokhiber , “Iran is the last, independent, frontline state that refuses to submit, to normalize the crimes against the Palestinian people.” Quite simply, “ Iran was being punished for its support for the Palestinians .” If you are free of the prefrontal lobotomy that comes with subscriptions to the Murdoch or  Adelson Media ; you will grasp this. Israel’s unprovoked, illegal war against...