The Post-Partisan Emporium

  Will China Retaliate Against Donald Trump's Oil Blockade and Force an American Surrender?  Ron Unz   Prof. John Mearsheimer of the University of Chicago As might have been expected, the peace talks in Islamabad between America and Iran  quickly ended in complete failure , breaking up in less than 24 hours. President Donald Trump had originally proposed peace negotiations based upon Iran’s 10-point proposal, but all of that was totally ignored when the talks actually began. According to media accounts, the American team led by Vice President JD Vance and New York City real estate developers Jared Kushner and Steve Witkoff instead issued unacceptable demands to the Iranians. These included that the Iranians must abandon all the nuclear enrichment activities to which they were legally entitled and also relinquish their control of the Strait of Hormuz. Perhaps Vance and the others surprisingly expected to win at the negotiating table what their American military had co...

  Tel Aviv Terrorists Running the World The Unchosen are in charge Donald Jeffries There is now no doubt about it. The “power behind the scenes” that Disraeli and so many others have referenced throughout history, is centered in an ever widening part of the Middle East. There’s still probably an Illuminati-like group above it all, but as far as what we can see and hear, the ones in charge are the troublemakers in Tel Aviv. I’ve run out of analogies to describe our relationship with Israel. A spoiled, trust fund baby running amuck. A perpetually cheating spouse that mocks our fidelity. Just during this nonsensical conflict with Iran, Israel has launched bombs while diplomatic talks were ongoing. I’m not sure any country has ever done that. And now, after a controversial “ceasefire” which may or may not have been legitimate, Israel simply ignored it, and just started bombing Lebanon with impunity. Why Lebanon? What did  they  do? Are they perhaps the “second largest sponsor...