Canberra’s failure to detect live-firing by Chinese warships has exposed weaknesses in Australia’s defence, which in just a couple of weeks has changed for the worse, writes Peter Cronau.
The real anti-Semitism problem in society is the way ruling institutions keep lumping all Jews in with the abuses of a genocidal apartheid state and the Western empire which supports it.
“Watching their territories being devoured” — Jordan, Egypt and other Arab countries could find themselves facing the same predicament as Syria today, warns Ramzy Baroud.
Ralph Nader says that when you shut out the civic community, you shut down democracy. He places responsibility for that happening, first and foremost, on the mass media.
The F.B.I. met a court-ordered deadline to provide an index of files on slain DNC-staffer Seth Rich’s two computers, but more than 300 pages of redactions shed no light on an alleged connection to WikiLeaks, reports Joe Lauria.
DNI Tulsi Gabbard’s action to strip the security clearances is a clear warning that her boss told her to shut down the deep-state cottage industry of former spies able and willing to interfere in U.S. elections.
“Ceasefire Israeli-style” — the act of collective punishment comes as negotiators are meeting in Qatar over the terms of the second phase of the ceasefire deal.