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[ad_1] Allies and clients have frequently entangled their great power patrons in needless geopolitical crises and sometimes even bloody wars.  The tragic events leading to World War I in 1914 are a classic example.  Serbia helped drag Czarist Russia into that bloody maelstrom and Austria-Hungary did the same to Wilhelmine Germany.  Similar dangers exist today in the international system. Two of Washington’s current most odious and dangerous “loose cannon” allies are Israel and Turkey.  U.S. administrations have funded and armed both countries for decades and routinely excused outrageous acts that their clients have committed.  Even worse from the standpoint of…

[ad_1] Regular New York Times readers have long suspected that the paper’s oppressive bias comes not from actual reporters, but from doctrinaire editors, who assign the pieces, then insert those ridiculous second or third paragraphs that interrupt the flow of the piece, but hammer home the party line. The paper recently put one of these editors on display on our 250th birthday, by interviewing its former national editor, Jia Lynn Yang, about the country’s founding. She’s not as bad as we expected. She’s worse. The gist of Yang’s conception of our country is that everything swell about it is a…

[ad_1] The latest NATO summit is in the books. This year’s confab in Ankara, Turkey, featured less drama than some had expected. Yes, President Trump demanded Greenland and threatened to cut trade ties with Spain. But he confirmed that the United States would not leave the alliance, at least for now, and pronounced the summit “tremendously successful.” “The unity in that room was incredible,” he told reporters, “really a love, it was sort of pretty wild.” Together with the revelation that the White House recently nixed a plan to cut the U.S. troop presence in Europe by a third, this…

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[ad_1] With the passing of Sen. Lindsey Graham (R–S.C.), U.S. foreign policy may be poised for a big shift from the hawkish stance the longtime D.C. insider preferred to a more restrained one better aligned with President Donald Trump’s nationalist MAGA base. Once a Trump critic, Graham became a friend and confidant to the president during both his administrations and nudged him in an internationalist direction that (mostly) avoided the hard break that many world leaders feared. But his position was out of step with an American public increasingly skeptical of military adventures. You are reading The Rattler from J.D.…

[ad_1] Reprinted from Andy Worthington’s website. While the attention of the conscious world is, quite correctly, focused right now on Rakefet Prison, an underground detention facility inside Israel’s maximum-security Ramla Prison Complex, where the pediatrician Dr. Hussam Abu Safiya is held without charge or trial, brutalized and in fear of death, it’s important not to forget that, in the Gaza Strip, the surviving Palestinian population is still suffering from an acute and enduring humanitarian crisis. The crisis is engineered solely by the State of Israel, which has failed to abide by the requirement, in the ceasefire deal agreed last October,…

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[ad_1] In Merriott v. City of Bossier City, decided June 25 by Judge Irma Carrillo Ramirez and joined by Judges Edith Brown Clement and Dana Douglas struck down a City Council public comment policy that Any person making personal, impertinent or slanderous remarks or who shall become boisterous while addressing the Council shall be forthwith, by the President Pro-tem, barred from further audience before the Council unless permission to continue by [sic] granted by a majority vote of the Council. The opinion is long, but here’s an excerpt of the analysis that holds that the policy is overbroad: “Personal” is…

[ad_1] Health care workers helping treat and control the Ebola outbreak in the Democratic Republic of Congo are threatening to strike as the hemorrhagic disease continues to spread.  Yesterday, healthcare workers in Ituri issued a 24-hour notice of an impending strike. Those working on the Ebola frontlines said that the working conditions were too poor to continue. They reported unpaid benefits, low wages, and inadequate supplies since the outbreak officially began in May. The DRC Ministry of Health has now confirmed 1,561 cases in the outbreak, with the epicenter in Ituri province and significant transmission in North and South Kivu provinces, as well. Thirty-three…