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For decades, prominent Jewish voices have wrestled privately with an uncomfortable question. Does aggressive Israeli government conduct expose diaspora Jewish communities to backlash they did not invite? In early March, Ezra Klein brought that question back into public view. Speaking with former Obama senior adviser Ben Rhodes on a podcast episode titled “The Great Lie of War”, the New York Times columnist warned that Israel’s central role in the joint U.S. assault on Iran could fuel a new wave of antisemitism. The two men spent most of the interview discussing the strategic recklessness of the Iran operation where the United States and Israel launched an assault that killed Supreme Leader Ali Khamenei and much of his senior command. They examined the lack of co...

Posted by: John Phoenix Trump’s Iran War has turned into a frozen fiasco. American motorists face steadily rising costs of fuel. Many retail prices are also rising as the now closed Persian Gulf causes commodity prices to mount. The Jeffery Epstein scandal, which lies at the heart of the Persian Gulf war, is beginning to break out into the open. The Trump administration just spent $20 billion to try to distract attention from it. What does Trump do? He blames Germany for being soft on what he calls terrorism. This from the man who authorized his Israeli ally to kill over 79,000 West Bank Arabs and killed thousands of Iranians in recent weeks. Germany, thunders Trump, is ‘soft’ on military matters and only interested in playing footsie with wicked Muslims. The US, says Trump, is ...

Caitlin Johnstone  https://www.youtube.com/embed/1ee2Vq0XT7E?feature=oembed Video Link One of the more asinine liberal Zionist talking points is conceding that you are technically allowed to criticize Israel while insisting that it veers into antisemitism if you place more emphasis on Israel’s abuses than on abuses in other countries. If you believe Israel is worthy of disproportionately high levels of support, then you must necessarily also concede that it is worthy of disproportionately high levels of criticism. You cannot simultaneously claim that it is appropriate and normal for the United States to be gifting billions of dollars in weaponry to Israel, AND that Americans should pay no more attention to Israel’s humanitarian abuses than those seen in places like Su...

Posted by: John Phoenix Most of us are getting our information and analysis about the Iran War from podcasts. The mainstream news is useless, and to my personal regret, the days of blogging are mostly over. Alternative voices prefer podcasts. Judge Napolitano, Glenn Diesen, Danny Davis, that Uzbek guy, they are all running the same commentators in a loop, creating enough content to listen to every waking hour. (Given that this is all allowed on YouTube, and becoming very popular, one has to wonder if there is something more nefarious at work, though most of the people appear to me honest, so if it is a psyop, most of them are not in on it.) Tucker Carlson, the podcast beast, has a bigger variety of guests, and also gives his own commentary. Representing the Chinese per...

Posted by: John Phoenix Another day of waning global hegemony, another regime-change war launched by the west. Every day provides fresh evidence of Lenin’s famous dictum that ‘Imperialism seeks domination, not democracy.’ Workers must learn to see through the hysterical onslaught of war propaganda to the real forces beneath. We must understand whose interests western governments really serve. And having seen the truth, we must work to oppose, obstruct and defeat the imperialist war machine at home. https://w.soundcloud.com/player/?url=https%3A//api.soundcloud.com/tracks/2135025261&color=%23ff5500&inverse=false&auto_play=false&show_user=true The following speech was given by Joti Brar on behalf of the CPGB-ML at the international conference co-hosted by ...