Gaza: including how Israel made war for Lebensraum in 1967 and then thumbed its nose at unanimous UNSC resolution #242 to withdraw. China & Russia each hosting Palestinians. US students defend 1st amendment; some little-known history on how it came to be.
Lloyd Austin has distinguished record of “fixing” intelligence. In 2015, over 50 military analysts in formal complaint to Pentagon IG accused him of changing their intel to fit US claims of progress against ISIS. Biden tin-eared warning of this on Ukraine:
https://original.antiwar.com/Veteran-Intelligence-Professionals-for-Sanity2/2022/09/05/veteran-intelligence-professionals-ukraine-decision-time-for-biden/
As US & Russia near open war in Ukraine, recall that on Apr. 25, 1945 US & Soviet allied troops finally met on the Elbe River just before final WWII victory. Happy VE Day! SPIRIT OF THE ELBE, AND OF STUDEBAKER. How did Allies become Enemies? (6 min video).
Washington Post’s “Fact Checker” Glenn Kessler (of chequered reputation) cannot leave RFK Jr’s stating true facts on Ukraine unchallenged. Well versed in adducing ‘alternative facts’ Kessler now outdoes himself – no doubt with ‘research support’ from CIA. washingtonpost.com/politics/2024/
AP Photo (Jose Luis Magana)
COURAGEOUS DEMOS MAKE BIDEN LISTEN! Beat up enough students and professors and you get this: “US has suspended shipment of weapons to Israel,” Lloyd Austin, just told the Senate. “We are currently examining the short-term security support in the context of the events in Rafah.”
Unrepentant Michael Isikoff, co-author of Russian Roulette fairytale, is still claiming RUSSIA HACKED THE DNC ( https://www.spytalk.co/p/dmitri-alperovitch-on-the-new-cold?r=2hta ) 8 and a half yrs after sworn testimony disproving that charge ( https://web.archive.org/web/20200507215144/https:/intelligence.house.gov/UploadedFiles/SH21.pdf ) and, oddly, on the 6th anniversary of the release of that testimony.
https://www.spytalk.co/p/dmitri-alperovitch-on-the-new-cold?r=2hta
TACTICAL NUKES: In rare move Moscow announces preparation for air and naval exercise of tactical missile formations” to ensure “combat readiness of non-strategic nuclear forces”. Specifically, reaction to “threats of Western officials” like Macron, Cameron
The President’s Daily Brief briefing to ‘President Scheer’ May 3 found him thoroughly frustrated; kept pleading for some good news on Gaza, Ukraine, campus ferment. I tried to expose some of the lies he’s been told; unable to promise better news next week.