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[ad_1] Cover photo for the book The Arab Bureau: The Story of Britain’s Most Ingenious Intelligence Unit by Eamonn Gearon Many years ago, Eamonn Gearon returned from an epic camel journey across North Africa. He nearly died along the way, surviving in isolation until finally rescued by a radio crew. Having known solitude in difficult places myself, I understood the psychological weight of such experience. A few years later, I shared a long hike with Gearon outside London, just the two of us, not far from where Graham Greene spent part of his childhood—a fitting landscape, perhaps, in which to…

[ad_1] It’s a demon-haunted world out there… In UFO files, some Christians see vexing questions – and demons. (Archived page link) Related: The Vice President of the United States believes UFOs are demons. Tucker Carlson discovers Nephilim theory, claims elites are demon hybrids. Meet Hilma af Klint, the occultist who believed otherworldly spirits told her what to paint. Now, she’s considered one of history’s first abstract artists. UK military looks at allowing lethal strikes without human approval. It’s ‘highly plausible’ that aliens on Europa are Earthlings’ descendants, study says. Researchers confirm the oldest cave art in Britain – a century…

[ad_1] Image by Sunguk Kim. Donald Trump did not suddenly become a dove. He did not wake up one morning converted to the wisdom of Quincy Adams, George Kennan, or the old conservative suspicion of crusading wars. When he paused another planned attack on Iran, the public explanation was diplomatic: Qatar, Saudi Arabia, and the United Arab Emirates had urged restraint; Pakistan had carried a proposal; talks had become serious enough to justify delay. That explanation is true as far as it goes. It is not enough. The deeper story is that Washington’s military calculus has changed. The old assumption—that…

[ad_1] The Zionist regime is accelerating its long war against international law and justice and the institutions upholding them. What remains of a common human culture will only be kept alive by those willing to fight for it. The “Non-Violence” or “Knotted Gun” sculpture by Carl Fredrik Reuterswärd with a layer of snow at U.N. headquarters in New York, January 2022. (U.N, Photo/Mark Garten) By Patrick LawrenceSpecial to Consortium News Do we witness the death of international law and international justice? Have these breathed their last and must now be counted things of the past? Have we entered an era defined…

[ad_1] Police Chief Earl Mayo of New Chicago, Indiana, is facing criminal charges after investigators say he sold a handgun to a pawn shop that had been stored as evidence in a criminal case. When authorities discovered the gun was missing, prosecutors say Mayo tried to have another officer buy it back. Mayo also allegedly asked two officers go to go his home, one to retrieve weapons and the other to retrieve his steroids, before federal investigators could find them. Mayo is charged with theft, official misconduct, obstruction, and unlawful possession of anabolic steroids. The post Brickbat: Pawned Off appeared first…

[ad_1] Image Source: משטרת ישראל-לשכת גיוס – CC BY-SA 4.0 The treatment of the flotilla activists by Israel’s National Security Minister Itamar Ben Gvir was shocking only to those who continue to clothe colonial violence in the soft language of security. There is now a mountain of evidence before humanity: Gaza has become not merely a place under siege but a geography of calculated despair, where starvation and bombardment have been converted into instruments of political management. The activists aboard the flotilla were not armed combatants, nor were they soldiers threatening invasion. They were international volunteers, human rights advocates, doctors,…

[ad_1] In Santa Monica, California, last week, a Jewish couple was attacked by a man with a vicious dog and a baseball bat. Several weeks ago, synagogues and homes were vandalized with swastikas in New York City, and then a mob hostile to the Jewish state of Israel clashed with Jews outside a synagogue in Brooklyn. As disturbing as those incidents were, they paled in comparison to the fiery attack on a Michigan synagogue in April, the murder of two Israeli embassy staffers last May, and other violent crimes. You are reading The Rattler from J.D. Tuccille and Reason. Get…

[ad_1] The forgotten Indaya neighborhood of Santiago. Photo: Danny Shaw. One Month Inside the Trump Administration’s Siege on the Cuban People All eyes are on Cuba as the corporate press is now reporting that U.S. troops are in place to invade any day. The highly-public announcement of the indictment of Raul Castro in U.S. courts on May 23rd on the flimsiest of grounds and the stationing of the USS Nimitz Carrier Strike Group near Cuba seem to indicate that the blockaded island will have its own January 3rd, the day Venezuelan president Nicolas Maduro was kidnapped. As the latest imperial…

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[ad_1] It was a Tuesday, January 29, 1850, and Sen. Henry Clay had set himself the none-too-modest goal of solving the seemingly intractable problem of American slavery once and for all. By the Kentucky Whig’s own none-too-modest reckoning, he had nearly done that very thing once before. Thirty years earlier, while serving as speaker of the House of Representatives, Clay had been the driving force behind the landmark legislation that came to be known as the Missouri Compromise. That storied law had admitted Missouri to the Union as a slave state while simultaneously admitting Maine to the Union as a…