by DrJohn | Jul 15, 2022 | Daily Distraction, Foreign Policy, Israel, Joe Biden, Politics, Saudi Arabia, WtF?
After the 2018 killing of Washington Post journalist Jamal Khashoggi Joe Biden promised in 2019 to make Saudi “the pariah that they are.” At the time, Mike Pompeo called that “an enormous mistake.” But that was before the US needed to replace the...
by DrJohn | May 16, 2018 | Global Regions, Israel, Israel/Palestine, MSM Bias, Uncategorized, WtF?
Yazan Tubasi was one of the Palestinians killed in the newest Gaza rioting. His father is happy that his son is a martyr. That, in a nutshell, is what’s wrong with Palestinians. Numerous media outlets have referred to what happened in Gaza as a...
by Wordsmith | Oct 12, 2016 | 9/11, American Exceptionalism, Anti-Americanism, Anti-military, CIA interrogation program, Fanatical Islam, Global Regions, Guantanamo, Hearts & Minds, Homegrown Jihadi, Israel, Media, Middle East, Military, MSM Bias, Photo of the Day, propaganda bureau, Support the Troops, The Iraqi War, War On Terror
The Intercept: A SECRET FBI STUDY found that anger over U.S. military operations abroad was the most commonly cited motivation for individuals involved in cases of “homegrown” terrorism. The report also identified no coherent pattern to “radicalization,”...
by Wordsmith | Dec 25, 2015 | American Exceptionalism, History, Holidays, Israel, Military, military history, True Heroes
In the sense of: First they came for the Socialists, and I did not speak out— Because I was not a Socialist. Then they came for the Trade Unionists, and I did not speak out— Because I was not a Trade Unionist. Then they came for the Jews, and I did not speak out—...
by Wordsmith | Aug 29, 2015 | Fauxtography, Israel, Israel/Palestine, Photo of the Day
Who do you think media and world opinion sympathies will favor? Yup. Photos of an Israeli soldier attempting to detain a 12 year-old Palestinian boy with a broken arm went viral Friday: BETHLEHEM (Ma’an) — Images of two Palestinian women and a young girl...
by James Raider | Sep 12, 2014 | American Exceptionalism, China, Europe, Foreign Policy, Israel, Media, Middle East, Politics, Russia, Uncategorized
Fifty years ago the brilliant and always challenging philosopher of communication theory, Marshall McLuhan, wrote Understanding Media, in which he exclaimed, “In a culture like ours, long accustomed to splitting and dividing all things as a means of control, it...
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