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 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

  This Is America: The Bikini Yoga Whore Hustle BEN BARTEE “This Is America” explores the undercurrents pulling Western civilization into the abyss. I made the mistake a few months back of YouTubing yoga poses for my amateur morning yoga routine in the yard. I’m actually pretty good at it, relatively speaking, despite little formal training aside from some free classes in a hi-so Bangkok studio I went to back in the day. (It was always a dystopian and jarring juxtaposition to leave the well-perfumed sanctuary of a Silom yoga studio into the urban hellscape that is the Central Business District.) But there’s always room to acquire new and improved techniques. In return for wanting to learn something valuable to improve my life, YouTube saw fit to put me onto what can only be described as the Bikini Yoga Whore algorithm, a close cousin to the Guitar Whore algorithm we have explored previously.               Related :  T...

  Happy Hanukkah? Thanks, but no thanks. My original article 'Happy Hanukkah? Thanks, but not for me', was published on Mondoweiss, 12th December 2012 AVIGAIL ABARBANEL This is the original image that Mondoweiss used when they published my article. For some reason the link is now broken. (The Israeli media and the military show images of female soldiers at every opportunity. It is a deliberate effort to portray a ’soft’ image of the Israeli military to the world). I have decided to re-post another old article of mine, which was  originally published on Mondoweiss .  Mondoweiss  chose the image above to accompany my article, so I am using it here. For some reason, the link to the image on  Mondoweiss  is broken. Before you read the original article, please read my up-to-date commentary from this morning: It is this time of year again, and I am more than fed up with all the  Hanukkah  recipes that appear on my news feed. I have never seen so many in...