(2024-07-23). How drone footage became a potent tool in Middle East warfare. newarab.com Hezbollah in Lebanon and the On 9 July, Hezbollah released drone footage it had taken of military and intelligence sites in northern Israel and the occupied Golan Heights less than a month after
(2024-07-23). Engineering a Crisis: How Political Theater Helps the Deep State Stay in Power. dissidentvoice.org A failed assassination attempt on a presidential candidate. An incumbent president withdrawing his re-election bid at the 11th hour. A politicized judiciary that fails to hold the powers-that-be accountable to the rule of law. A world at war. A nation in turmoil. This is what controlled chaos looks like. This year's election-year referendum on which …
(2024-07-23). Netanyahu Pays Declining President a Visit. scheerpost.com By Ray McGovern and Robert Scheer / Original to ScheerPost In this week's episode of "Playing President," Ray McGovern, 27-year CIA veteran and briefer of five presidents, continues to make sense of the world to "President" Scheer, who prepared for this role through his decades as a journalist, including in-depth interviews with five presidents from …
(2024-07-23). NATO Expansion: the Road to Cold War and War Itself. counterpunch.org In the mid-1990s, I was a professor of international relations at the National War College and a member of the Brookings Institution's Russian Study Group that held regular off-the-record discussions of key issues. This was an important time when the leading subject for the study group was the question of expanding the North Atlantic Treaty Organization (NATO). The group had rather high level membership from the National Security Council, the Departments of State and Defense, and the intelligence community, particularly CIA and INR, the intelligence arm of State. These individuals were for the most part supporter…
(2024-07-23). WikiLeaks founder Julian Assange enjoys life as free man after release. geo.tv WikiLeaks founder Julian Assange poses with wife, Stella, and their two children Gabriel and Max on a beach in Australia. — Instagram/@stellaassangeWikiLeaks founder Julian Assange seems to be enjoying his "free" life after being released from a British prison nearly a month ago and…
(2024-07-23). Monday 7/22: Protest the US Supreme Court Ruling Making it a Crime to be Homeless. indybay.org 525 Water Street, Santa Cruz…
(2024-07-23). South Korea's Supreme Court Affirms Rights of Same-Sex Partners. hrw.org Click to expand Image | So Seong-wook, left, and Kim Yong Min leave the Supreme Court building in Seoul, South Korea, July 18, 2024. | © 2024 Suh Dae-yeon/Yonhap via AP Photo | On July 18, South Korea's Supreme Court issued a landmark ruling affirming that the country's National Health Insurance Service (NHIS) must extend dependent benefits to same-sex partners.The plaintiff in the case, So Sung-uk, had registered his partner, Kim Young-min, as a dependent to obtain employer health insurance benefits. The NHIS initially accepted Kim as a dependent, but later revoked that status when its decision to recogn…
(2024-07-23). The deep state bet the farm on taking Trump out, now what? strategic-culture.su Getting rid of Donald Trump using a set-up lone assassin on July 13 would have tipped the presidential race in favor of Joe Biden. But it didn't work out. | ‚ùóÔ∏èJoin us on , , and…