John Mearsheimer, professor of Political Science at the University of Chicago, provides the first systematic analysis of lying as a tool of statecraft. He identifies the varieties, the reasons, and the potential costs and benefits, arguing that leaders often lie for good strategic reasons, while distinguishing between lying to another state and lying to one's own people.
The Israel Lobby by John J. Mearsheimer and Stephen M. Walt | Book | Article (PDF)
“Since the October War in 1973, Washington has provided Israel with a level of support dwarfing the amounts provided to any other state. It has been the largest annual recipient of direct U.S. economic and military assistance since 1976 and the largest total recipient since World War ll. Total direct U.S. aid to Israel amounts to well over $140 billion in 2003 dollars. Israel receives over $3 billion in direct foreign assistance each year, which is roughly one-fifth of America's entire foreign aid budget.”
Alison Weir: Findings from her book 'Against Our Better Judgment'
Presentation at the National Summit to Reassess the U.S.-Israel "Special Relationship" on March 7, 2014 at the National Press Club in Washington D.C. Her book on the history of US-Israel relations was published in March 2014. It has been praised by experts on the issue and is an Amazon best seller. It is available at https://iakn.us/AOBJ-book
Ms Weir is president of the Council for the National Interest, created by ambassadors and former Congressmen in 1989, and executive director of If Americans Knew, a nonprofit organization she founded following an independent investigation as a freelance journalist to the West Bank and Gaza in early 2001. She writes and speaks widely on Israel-Palestine, and is considered the foremost analyst on media coverage of the region.
The New York Times reported of her presentation in Greenwich, Connecticut: "When the speech ended, Ms. Weir was met with thunderous applause, and across the room there was a widespread sense of satisfaction that someone was saying what needed to be said."
Former US Senator Tom Campbell stated of her talk in San Jose, California: "Ms. Weir presents a powerful, well documented view of the Middle East today. She is intelligent, careful, and critical. American policy makers would benefit greatly from hearing her first-hand observations and attempting to answer the questions she poses."
In 2004 she was inducted into honorary membership of Phi Alpha Literary Society at Illinois College. The award cited her as a: "Courageous journalist-lecturer on behalf of human rights. She is the first woman in history to receive an honorary membership in Phi Alpha."
Her articles have appeared in Censored 2005, The Encyclopedia of Palestine-Israel, The Washington Report on Middle East Affairs, CounterPunch, Editor & Publisher, The Link, and other books and publications.
She has given talks in England, Wales, Qatar, Iraq, Iran, Ramallah, Bethlehem, Asia Media Summits in Kuala Lumpur and Beijing, and on Capitol Hill.
Ray McGovern served as a CIA analyst for 27 years, from the administration of John F. Kennedy to that of George H. W. Bush. Ray’s duties included chairing National Intelligence Estimates and preparing the President’s Daily Brief, which he briefed one-on-one to President Ronald Reagan’s five most senior national security advisers from 1981 to 1985. He received the Intelligence Commendation Medal at his retirement.
If anyone needed an example of the stark difference between reality and propaganda as represented by corporate media news coverage in the US, one would have a hard time finding a better one than how they spin the Israel/Palestine issue. I was abruptly reminded of this watching Hillary Clinton’s endless spewing of propaganda myths this evening in the NY debate. It makes me wonder if inside that beltway bubble they have ever heard of social media. I suspect this might backfire on Hillary.
The credibility of the establishment narrative took a big hit with Israel’s last invasion of Gaza. While they were broadcasting the standard BS, social media was awash with pictures of the horror that was going down as it was happening. But even though I have been following this issue for a long time, and consider myself to be better informed than most, Jeff Halper somehow always manages to change the entire paradigm.
As you watch this, I suspect this might happen to you. This was a long talk and it took many hours to edit down to the 58 min. broadcast window. But I have posted the long version here so that you can see all of it.
A leading figure in the Israeli peace movement, co-founder of the Israeli Committee Against House Demolitions (ICAHD), noted scholar, educator and prolific author, Halper, starts off by posing the question: “How does Israel get away with it?” He says the standard assumptions- the Israeli lobby, etc. “didn’t do it for him”. What he found exposes a hidden world of military/security relationships. Technology and systems of surveillance and population control that Israel peddles to global ruling elites for their militaries, corporations, security agencies, and police forces in order to make itself essential to the global capitalist security state system as everyday life becomes evermore militarized.
Israel is a world leader in high tech systems of repression for global pacification and they have millions of people to test these weapons on. Far from a burden or a threat, he says Israeli elites view the occupation and their periodic wars as an opportunity - a laboratory. What’s worse, Israeli militarism and its horrors cannot be seen in isolation. As Halper demonstrates, systems like weaponized nanotechnology, database tracking, automated targeting, and unmanned drones don’t just threaten the lives and civil liberties of Palestinians. You might find that some of this technology is already being used on you.
Thanks to the Rachel Corrie Foundation for Peace and Justice and Jewish Voice for Peace - Tacoma. Recorded 2/24/2016
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Source: Secretary of Commerce Henry A. Wallace letter to President Harry S. Truman, July 23, 1946, in Papers of Harry S. Truman, President’s Secretary’s Files, Harry S. Truman Library, Independence, Missouri, USA.
The Secretary of Commerce Washington 25
July 23, 1946
The President The White House
My Dear Mr. President:
I hope you will excuse this long letter. Personally I hate to write long letters, and I hate to receive them.
My only excuse is that this subject is a very important one — probably the most important in the world today. I checked with you about this last Thursday and you suggested after Cabinet meeting on Friday that you would like to have my views.
I have been increasingly disturbed about the trend of international affairs since the end of the war, and I am even more troubled by the apparently growing feeling among the American people that another war is coming and the only way that we can head it off is to arm ourselves to the teeth. Yet all of past history indicates that an armaments race does not lead to peace but to war. The months just ahead may well be the crucial period which will decide whether the civilized world will go down in destruction after the five or ten years needed for several nations to arm themselves with atomic bombs. Therefore, I want to give you my views on how the present trend toward conflict might be averted. . . .
How do American actions since V-J Day appear to other nations? I mean by actions the concrete things like $13 billion for the War and Navy Departments, the Bikini tests of the atomic bomb and continued production of bombs, the plan to arm Latin America with our weapons, production of B-29s and planned production of B-36s, and the effort to secure air bases spread over half the globe from which the other half of the globe can be bombed. I cannot but feel that these actions must make it look to the rest of the world as if we were only paying lip service to peace at the conference table.
These facts rather make it appear either (1) that we are preparing ourselves to win the war which we regard as inevitable or (2) that we are trying to build up a predominance of force to intimidate the rest of mankind. How would it look to us if Russia had the atomic bomb and we did not, if Russia had 10,000-mile bombers and air bases within a thousand miles of our coastlines, and we did not?
Some of the military men and self-styled “realists” are saying: “What’s wrong with trying to build up a predominance of force? The only way to preserve peace is for this country to be so well armed that no one will dare attack us. We know that America will never start a war.”
The flaw in this policy is simply that it will not work. In a world of atomic bombs and other revolutionary new weapons, such as radioactive poison gases and biological warfare, a peace maintained by a predominance of force is no longer possible.
Why is this so? The reasons are clear:
FIRST. Atomic warfare is cheap and easy compared with old-fashioned war. Within a very few years several countries can have atomic bombs and other atomic weapons. Compared with the cost of large armies and the manufacture of old-fashioned weapons, atomic bombs cost very little and require only a relatively small part of a nation’s production plant and labor force.
SECOND. So far as winning a war is concerned, having more bombs — even many more bombs — than the other fellow is no longer a decisive advantage. If another nation had enough bombs to eliminate all of our principal cities and our heavy industry, it wouldn’t help us very much if we had ten times as many bombs as we needed to do the same to them.
THIRD. And most important, the very fact that several nations have atomic bombs will inevitably result in a neurotic, fear-ridden, itching-trigger psychology in all the peoples of the world, and because of our wealth and vulnerability we would be among the most seriously affected. Atomic war will not require vast and time-consuming preparations, the mobilization of large armies, the conversion of a large proportion of a country’s industrial plants to the manufacture of weapons. In a world armed with atomic weapons, some incident will lead to the use of those weapons.
There is a school of military thinking which recognizes these facts, recognizes that when several nations have atomic bombs, a war which will destroy modern civilization will result and that no nation or combination of nations can win such a war. This school of thought therefore advocates a “preventive war,” an attack on Russia now before Russia has atomic bombs.
This scheme is not only immoral, but stupid. If we should attempt to destroy all the principal Russian cities and her heavy industry, we might well succeed. But the immediate countermeasure which such an attack would call forth is the prompt occupation of all Continental Europe by the Red Army. Would we be prepared to destroy the cities of all Europe in trying to finish what we had started? This idea is so contrary to all the basic instincts and principles of the American people that any such action would be possible only under a dictatorship at home. . . .
In general there are two overall points of view which can be taken in approaching the problem of the United States-Russian relations. The first is that it is not possible to get along with the Russians and therefore war is inevitable. The second is that war with Russia would bring catastrophe to all mankind, and therefore we must find a way of living in peace. It is clear that our own welfare as well as that of the entire world requires that we maintain the latter point of view. I am sure that this is also your opinion, and the radio address of the Secretary of State on July 15 clearly indicates that he is prepared to negotiate as long as may be necessary to work out a solution on this basis.
We should try to get an honest answer to the question of what the factors are which cause Russia to distrust us, in addition to the question of what factors lead us to distrust Russia. I am not sure that we have as a nation or an Administration found an adequate answer to either question, although we have recognized that both questions are of critical importance.
FACTORS IN AMERICAN DISTRUST OF RUSSIA
Our basic distrust of the Russians, which has been greatly intensified in recent months by the playing up of conflict in the press, stems from differences in political and economic organization. For the first time in our history defeatists among us have raised the fear of another system as a successful rival to democracy and free enterprise in other countries and perhaps even our own. I am convinced that we can meet that challenge as we have in the past by demonstrating that economic abundance can be achieved without sacrificing personal, political and religious liberties. We cannot meet it as Hitler tried to by an anti-Comintern alliance.
It is perhaps too easy to forget that despite the deep-seated differences in our cultures and intensive anti-Russian propaganda of some twenty-five years standing, the American people reversed their attitudes during the crisis of war. Today, under the pressure of seemingly insoluble international problems and continuing deadlocks, the tide of American public opinion is again turning against Russia. In this reaction lies one of the dangers to which this letter is addressed.
FACTORS IN RUSSIAN DISTRUST OF THE WESTERN WORLD
I should list the factors which make for Russian distrust of the United States and of the Western world as follows: The first is Russian history, which we must take into account because it is the setting in which Russians see all actions and policies of the rest of the world. Russian history for over a thousand years has been a succession of attempts, often unsuccessful, to resist invasion and conquest — by the Mongols, the Turks, the Swedes, the Germans and the Poles. The scant thirty years of the existence of the Soviet Government has in Russian eyes been a continuation of their historical struggle for national existence. The first four years of the new regime, from 1917 through 1921, were spent in resisting attempts at destruction by the Japanese, British and French, with some American assistance, and by the several White Russian armies encouraged and financed by the Western powers. Then, in 1941, the Soviet State was almost conquered by the Germans after a period during which the Western European powers had apparently acquiesced in the rearming of Germany in the belief that the Nazis would seek to expand eastward rather than westward. The Russians, therefore, obviously see themselves as fighting for their existence in a hostile world.
Second, it follows that to the Russians all of the defense and security measures of the Western powers seem to have an aggressive intent. Our actions to expand our military security system — such steps as extending the Monroe Doctrine to include the arming of the Western Hemisphere nations, our present monopoly of the atomic bomb, our interest in outlying bases and our general support of the British Empire — appear to them as going far beyond the requirements of defense. I think we might feel the same if the United States were the only capitalistic country in the world, and the principal socialistic countries were creating a level of armed strength far exceeding anything in their previous history. From the Russian point of view, also, the granting of a loan to Britain and the lack of tangible results on their request to borrow for rehabilitation purposes may be regarded as another evidence of strengthening of an anti-Soviet bloc.
Finally, our resistance to her attempts to obtain warmwater ports and her own security system in the form of “friendly” neighboring states seems, from the Russian point of view, to clinch the case. After twenty-five years of isolation and after having achieved the status of a major power, Russia believes that she is entitled to recognition of her new status. Our interest in establishing democracy in Eastern Europe, where democracy by and large has never existed, seems to her an attempt to reestablish the encirclement of unfriendly neighbors which was created after the last war and which might serve as a springboard of still another effort to destroy her.
WHAT WE SHOULD DO
If this analysis is correct, and there is ample evidence to support it, the action to improve the situation is clearly indicated. The fundamental objective of such action should be to allay any reasonable Russian grounds for fear, suspicion and distrust. We must recognize that the world has changed and that today there can be no “one world” unless the United States and Russia can find some way of living together. For example, most of us are firmly convinced of the soundness of our position when we suggest the internationalization and defortification of the Danube or of the Dardanelles, but we would be horrified and angered by any Russian counter-proposal that would involve also the internationalizing and disarming of Suez or Panama. We must recognize that to the Russians these seem to be identical situations.
We should ascertain from a fresh point of view what Russia believes to be essential to her own security as a prerequisite to the writing of the peace and to cooperation in the construction of a world order. We should be prepared to judge her requirements against the background of what we ourselves and the British have insisted upon as essential to our respective security. We should be prepared, even at the expense of risking epithets of appeasement, to agree to reasonable Russian guarantees of security. . . .
We should be prepared to negotiate a treaty which will establish a definite sequence of events for the establishment of international control and development of atomic energy. This, I believe, is the most important single question, and the one on which the present trend is definitely toward deadlock rather than ultimate agreement.
We should make an effort to counteract the irrational fear of Russia which is being systematically built up in the American people by certain individuals and publications. The slogan that communism and capitalism, regimentation and democracy, cannot continue to exist in the same world is, from a historical point of view, pure propaganda. Several religious doctrines, all claiming to be the only true gospel and salvation, have existed side by side with a reasonable degree of tolerance for centuries. This country was for the first half of its national life a democratic island in a world dominated by absolutist governments.
We should not act as if we too felt that we were threatened in today’s world. We are by far the most powerful nation in the world, the only Allied nation which came out of the war without devastation and much stronger than before the war. Any talk on our part about the need for strengthening our defenses further is bound to appear hypocritical to other nations.
SUMMARY
This proposal admittedly calls for a shift in some of our thinking about international matters. It is imperative that we make this shift. We have little time to lose. Our postwar actions have not yet been adjusted to the lessons to be gained from experience of Allied cooperation during the war and the facts of the atomic age.
It is certainly desirable that, as far as possible, we achieve unity on the home front with respect to our international relations; but unity on the basis of building up conflict abroad would prove to be not only unsound but disastrous. I think there is some reason to fear that in our earnest efforts to achieve bi-partisan unity in this country we may have given way too much to isolationism masquerading as tough realism in international affairs.
The real test lies in the achievement of international unity. It will be fruitless to continue to seek solutions for the many specific problems that face us in the making of the peace and in the establishment of an enduring international order without first achieving an atmosphere of mutual trust and confidence. The task admittedly is not an easy one. There is no question, as the Secretary of State has indicated, that negotiations with the Russians are difficult because of cultural differences, their traditional isolationism, and their insistence on a visible quid pro quo in all agreements. But the task is not an insuperable one if we take into account that to other nations our foreign policy consists not only of the principles that we advocate but of the actions we take. Fundamentally, this comes down to the point discussed earlier in this letter, that even our own security, in the sense that we have known it in the past, cannot be preserved by military means in a world armed with atomic weapons. The only type of security which can be maintained by our own military force is the type described by a military man before the Senate Atomic Energy Commission — a security against invasion after all our cities and perhaps 40 million of our city population have been destroyed by atomic weapons. That is the best that “security” on the basis of armaments has to offer us. It is not the kind of security that our people and the people of the other United Nations are striving for.
I think that progressive leadership along the lines suggested above would represent and best serve the interests of the large majority of our people, would reassert the forward looking position of the Democratic Party in international affairs, and, finally, would arrest the new trend towards isolationism and a disastrous atomic world war.
Respectfully,
H. A. Wallace
Source: Secretary of Commerce Henry A. Wallace letter to President Harry S. Truman, July 23, 1946, in Papers of Harry S. Truman, President’s Secretary’s Files, Harry S. Truman Library, Independence, Missouri, USA.
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“It is difficult for me, even in the so-called 'year of the spy,' to conceive of a greater harm to national security than that caused by the defendant in view of the breadth, the critical importance to the U.S., and the high sensitivity of the information he sold to Israel. That information was intentionally reserved by the United States for its own use, because to disclose it, to anyone or any nation, would cause the greatest harm to our national security.”
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Recognition of Jerusalem as the capital of Israel
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“It is difficult for me, even in the so-called 'year of the spy,' to conceive of a greater harm to national security than that caused by the defendant in view of the breadth, the critical importance to the U.S., and the high sensitivity of the information he sold to Israel. That information was intentionally reserved by the United States for its own use, because to disclose it, to anyone or any nation, would cause the greatest harm to our national security.”
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Recognition of Jerusalem as the capital of Israel
Moved the U.S. Embassy from Tel Aviv to Jerusalem
Closed the U.S. Consulate in Jerusalem, which functioned as a de facto embassy to the Palestinians
Recognition of Israeli sovereignty of the township in the Golan Heights area, named as the Trump Heights
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Michael Wolff:So, just tell me about his intelligence.
Jeffrey-Epstein:With respect to real estate deals, he's brilliant. He's a salesman. He knows real estate, really well. Anything else but that? He knows nothing. No history... no strategy... He certainly can't read a balance sheet. Which is funny. He has no idea.
Michael Wolff:Marla Maples got you know, before they were married, got pregnant, and according to Epstein, they spent, he and Trump, spent a lot of time about how to deal with this, which Trump clearly did not want to have the child, and what were his options, what were his recourses, and how could he convince Marla Maples not to have the child, which he seems not to have succeeded in doing. . . . Michael Wolff:So he's having this conversation with me, and as I say, I'm writing Fire and Fury, I'm trying to figure out Donald Trump as confounding to me, of course, as it was to everybody, who was this guy? How did this happen? But having this conversation, Epstein on more than one occasion, would bring out these photographs that he had of Trump, and there were about a half a dozen photographs, and they were from the late nineties. They were Trump at Epstein's Palm Beach house, sitting around the pool with these young girls, and the young girls are topless, and in some of the pictures they're sitting in his lap. And then there's one I especially remember where there's a stain, a telltale stain on the front of Trump's pants, and the girls are pointing at him and laughing.
Jeffrey Epstein:Horrible human being... he does nasty things to his best friends' wives... he first tries to gain your trust, and then uses it... . . . Michael Wolff:But the interesting thing here is I ask Epstein how he knows all this stuff, and he kind of responds with some incredulity and says, well, I was Trump's closest friend for 10 years, and I think that's the point here. Michael Wolff:So, how do you know this?
Jeffrey Epstein:I was his closest friend for 10 years. Jeffrey Epstein:You probably know he's got scalp reduction. He had the same male pattern baldness that we all have. . . . James Truman:And of course the other immediate impact on Friday was the Congressman Steve Cohen brought up in Congress about the evidence that the FBI retrieved from Epstein's safe and asked that an inquiry be open to find out what happened to the photographs. Can you just remind us what the photographs were all?
Michael Wolff:The photographs of Epstein on several occasions would take out these photographs of Donald Trump and the set of girls that were at Epstein's house in Palm Beach, and in the pictures, and there were possibly a half a dozen of them, and Epstein used to kind of flick them around like playing cards. There were girls around the swimming pool. They were all topless. One specifically, I remember a girl sitting on Trump's lap, and in another Trump has a stain on the front of his pants, which the girls three or four are pointing at and laughing. Epstein used to go to his safe, take these pictures out, and then return them to the safe... that was the safe in New York, in the house on 71st Street.
According to The Telegraph: On July 6-7, 2019, during an initial search of Jeffrey Epstein's Manhattan home after his arrest on sex assault charges, FBI officers broke open a locked safe with a saw, finding photographs, CDs, jewellery, computer hard drives, loose diamonds, passports and large amounts of US currency. The FBI photographed the evidence.
The House Select Committee to Investigate the January 6th Attack on the United States Capitol released their final report on December 22, 2022. This page provides access to the report as well as additional supporting materials provided by the committee, including videos, transcripts, and other documents on file. January 6th Committee Full Hearings - Day 12345678910 The Final Report
Department of Justice: The Office was prepared to present the evidence of Mr. Trump's alleged crimes in a public adversarial trial and to accept any verdicts rendered by a jury of his peers. As explained below, the Office commenced prosecution of Mr. Trump in the Election Case under both the original and superseding indictments because it concluded that the admissible evidence would be sufficient to obtain and sustain a conviction. See Justice Manual § 9-27 .220 and infra at Section III. 20250107 - DOJ Report of Special Counsel Jack Smith - Volume 1 - Election | DOJ
"Old Man Trump" is a song written by American folk singer-songwriter Woody Guthrie in 1954. In December 1950, Woody Guthrie signed a lease at the Beach Haven apartment complex owned and operated by Fred Trump in Gravesend, Brooklyn. The song describes what Guthrie felt were the racist housing practices and discriminatory rental policies of his landlord, Fred Trump, father of former president Donald Trump.
United States Constitution (September 17, 1787) The Preamble We the People of the United States, in Order to form a more perfect Union, establish Justice, insure domestic Tranquility, provide for the common defence, promote the general Welfare, and secure the Blessings of Liberty to ourselves and our Posterity, do ordain and establish this Constitution for the United States of America.
Unfit (2020, 84 minutes) | Donald Trump Documentary | Full Movie | Malcolm Nance | George Conway
Description: Is Donald Trump fit to hold the office of President of the United States? An eye-opening analysis of Trump by leading US mental health professionals and Republican strategists, on the record for the record. Science. Truth. Duty to Warn.
Cast: Malcolm Nance, George Conway, Anthony Scaramucci, John Gartner, Lance Dodes, Justin Frank, Ruth Ben-Ghiat and Ramani Durvasula
Renowned investigative journalist, Greg Palast, and his investigations team bring focus to voter suppression by “Vigilante” challenges by self-appointed vote-fraud hunters, not government officials, who are targeting well over one million people to challenge and block the counting of their ballots. Most suspiciously, the vast majority of vigilante targets are young voters and minorities. Currently, the Trump-sponsored group True the Vote has gone from 88 vigilantes to over 40,000 “volunteers” in 43 states! 20250124 - Update: Trump Lost. Vote Suppression Won. | EAC | ETA Greg Palast:If all legal voters were allowed to vote, if all legal ballots were counted, Trump would have lost the states of Wisconsin, Michigan, Pennsylvania and Georgia, Harris would have won the Presidency with 286 electoral votes. Hartmann/Palast | Trump's Victory was Rigged through Voter Suppression 20250204 - Election Truth Alliance (ETA):Analysis of the 2024 U.S. Presidential Election and seeking to #VerifyTheVote in key counties.PDF | PPT
Freedom of Mind: In our journey to understand the dynamics of human influence, control, and freedom of mind, the Influence Continuum (PDF) serves as a crucial framework to empower individuals to navigate the complex spectrum of influence, from healthy persuasion and education to undue coercion and manipulation. Dr. Steven Hassan's books, such as Combating Cult Mind Control, Freedom of Mind, and The Cult of Trump, draw upon decades of research and personal experiences to support and expand upon this theory.
ProPublica | Documented | Inside Ziklag, the Secret Organization of Wealthy Christians Trying to Sway the Election and Change the Country
On the morning of January 20, 2021, the last day of his presidency, U.S. President Donald Trump pardoned Aviem Sella, the Israeli handler of American-born Jonathan Jay Pollard, a former intelligence analyst for the United States government. In 1987, as part of a plea agreement, Pollard pleaded guilty to spying for and providing top-secret U.S. classified information to Israel and was sentenced to life in prison for violations of the Espionage Act.
The U.S. intelligence community maintained that the damage to U.S. national security due to Pollard's espionage was far more severe, wide-ranging, and consequential than publicly acknowledged. At his sentencing hearing, U.S. Secretary of Defense Caspar Weinberger gave the court a memo that read:
“It is difficult for me, even in the so-called 'year of the spy,' to conceive of a greater harm to national security than that caused by the defendant in view of the breadth, the critical importance to the U.S., and the high sensitivity of the information he sold to Israel. That information was intentionally reserved by the United States for its own use, because to disclose it, to anyone or any nation, would cause the greatest harm to our national security.”
On November 20, 2020, during the Trump Administration, Jonathan Pollard's parole expired and all restrictions were removed. On December 30, 2020, Pollard and his second wife moved to Jerusalem, Israel. The Pollards flew to Israel from the US state of New Jersey on board a private jet owned by US billionaire Sheldon Adelson, a Republican supporter of the Trump Administration. Upon their arrival at the Ben Gurion Airport outside of Tel Aviv, they were greeted by Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu. Both knelt and kissed the ground before greeting him.
The Jewish/Israel Lobby actively works in the U.S. and U.K. to influence prospective government candidates and elected officials to move each country's foreign policy in a pro-Israel direction, oftentimes using antisemitism to restrict criticism and political activism.
Since the inception of Israel in 1948, there has been an international consensus that the future of Jerusalem must be the subject of negotiations between Israelis and the Palestinians, the indigenous people of Palestine. However, during the 2016 Trump Administration, President Donald Trump, the most litigious and pro-Israel president in American history, provided Israel's Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu with these unprecedented decisions:
Recognition of Jerusalem as the capital of Israel
Moved the U.S. Embassy from Tel Aviv to Jerusalem
Closed the U.S. Consulate in Jerusalem, which functioned as a de facto embassy to the Palestinians
Recognition of Israeli sovereignty of the township in the Golan Heights area, named as the Trump Heights
President Donald Trump effectively quashed the two-state solution in the Middle East with these dictatorial decisions, which have further emboldened Israel in its genocide of Gaza, Palestine.
On October 7, 2016, one month before the United States presidential election, The Washington Post published a video and article about then-presidential candidate Donald Trump and television host Billy Bush having a lewd conversation about women in September 2005.
PERIL: Not Just a Joke: Understanding & Preventing Gender- & Sexuality-Based Bigotry helps educate and equip adults across caregiving capacities with information and resources that will help them recognize vulnerabilities and intervene safely and effectively. As the third guide in a growing suite of resources developed by SPLC and American University’s Polarization & Extremism Research & Innovation Lab (PERIL), the guide delivers the support caregivers need to ensure all young people are safe, healthy and embraced by their communities.
Ivana Trump, Donald Trump's first wife, stated in a 1990 Vanity Fair profile that Donald kept a book of Adolf Hitler's collected speeches, titled "My New Order," in a cabinet by his bed and would read from it from time to time. Donald Trump denied reading the book and claimed a "Jewish friend" had given him a copy of Mein Kampf, though the friend, Marty Davis, later clarified he had given him "My New Order."
Michael Wolff:So, just tell me about his intelligence.
Jeffrey-Epstein:With respect to real estate deals, he's brilliant. He's a salesman. He knows real estate, really well. Anything else but that? He knows nothing. No history... no strategy... He certainly can't read a balance sheet. Which is funny. He has no idea.
Michael Wolff:Marla Maples got you know, before they were married, got pregnant, and according to Epstein, they spent, he and Trump, spent a lot of time about how to deal with this, which Trump clearly did not want to have the child, and what were his options, what were his recourses, and how could he convince Marla Maples not to have the child, which he seems not to have succeeded in doing. . . . Michael Wolff:So he's having this conversation with me, and as I say, I'm writing Fire and Fury, I'm trying to figure out Donald Trump as confounding to me, of course, as it was to everybody, who was this guy? How did this happen? But having this conversation, Epstein on more than one occasion, would bring out these photographs that he had of Trump, and there were about a half a dozen photographs, and they were from the late nineties. They were Trump at Epstein's Palm Beach house, sitting around the pool with these young girls, and the young girls are topless, and in some of the pictures they're sitting in his lap. And then there's one I especially remember where there's a stain, a telltale stain on the front of Trump's pants, and the girls are pointing at him and laughing.
Jeffrey Epstein:Horrible human being... he does nasty things to his best friends' wives... he first tries to gain your trust, and then uses it... . . . Michael Wolff:But the interesting thing here is I ask Epstein how he knows all this stuff, and he kind of responds with some incredulity and says, well, I was Trump's closest friend for 10 years, and I think that's the point here. Michael Wolff:So, how do you know this?
Jeffrey Epstein:I was his closest friend for 10 years. Jeffrey Epstein:You probably know he's got scalp reduction. He had the same male pattern baldness that we all have. . . . James Truman:And of course the other immediate impact on Friday was the Congressman Steve Cohen brought up in Congress about the evidence that the FBI retrieved from Epstein's safe and asked that an inquiry be open to find out what happened to the photographs. Can you just remind us what the photographs were all?
Michael Wolff:The photographs of Epstein on several occasions would take out these photographs of Donald Trump and the set of girls that were at Epstein's house in Palm Beach, and in the pictures, and there were possibly a half a dozen of them, and Epstein used to kind of flick them around like playing cards. There were girls around the swimming pool. They were all topless. One specifically, I remember a girl sitting on Trump's lap, and in another Trump has a stain on the front of his pants, which the girls three or four are pointing at and laughing. Epstein used to go to his safe, take these pictures out, and then return them to the safe... that was the safe in New York, in the house on 71st Street.
According to The Telegraph: On July 6-7, 2019, during an initial search of Jeffrey Epstein's Manhattan home after his arrest on sex assault charges, FBI officers broke open a locked safe with a saw, finding photographs, CDs, jewellery, computer hard drives, loose diamonds, passports and large amounts of US currency. The FBI photographed the evidence.
The House Select Committee to Investigate the January 6th Attack on the United States Capitol released their final report on December 22, 2022. This page provides access to the report as well as additional supporting materials provided by the committee, including videos, transcripts, and other documents on file. January 6th Committee Full Hearings - Day 12345678910 The Final Report
Department of Justice: The Office was prepared to present the evidence of Mr. Trump's alleged crimes in a public adversarial trial and to accept any verdicts rendered by a jury of his peers. As explained below, the Office commenced prosecution of Mr. Trump in the Election Case under both the original and superseding indictments because it concluded that the admissible evidence would be sufficient to obtain and sustain a conviction. See Justice Manual § 9-27 .220 and infra at Section III. 20250107 - DOJ Report of Special Counsel Jack Smith - Volume 1 - Election | DOJ
"Old Man Trump" is a song written by American folk singer-songwriter Woody Guthrie in 1954. In December 1950, Woody Guthrie signed a lease at the Beach Haven apartment complex owned and operated by Fred Trump in Gravesend, Brooklyn. The song describes what Guthrie felt were the racist housing practices and discriminatory rental policies of his landlord, Fred Trump, father of former president Donald Trump.
United States Constitution (September 17, 1787) The Preamble We the People of the United States, in Order to form a more perfect Union, establish Justice, insure domestic Tranquility, provide for the common defence, promote the general Welfare, and secure the Blessings of Liberty to ourselves and our Posterity, do ordain and establish this Constitution for the United States of America.
PBS | FRONTLINE | The Mueller Report (full documentary) by PBS | Frontline
The nearly two-year investigation of special counsel Robert Mueller into Russian interference in the 2016 presidential election has concluded, with Mueller's final report delivered to Attorney General William Barr for review. Now, a groundbreaking collaboration between PBS NewsHour and FRONTLINE illuminates the complex details behind the Mueller investigation and analyzes what's yet to come.
This journalism is made possible by viewers like you. Support your local PBS station here: https://www.pbs.org/donate
The House Select Committee to Investigate the January 6th Attack on the United States Capitol released their final report on December 22, 2022. This page provides access to the report as well as additional supporting materials provided by the committee, including videos, transcripts, and other documents on file. January 6th Committee Full Hearings - Day 12345678910 The Final Report
Department of Justice: The Office was prepared to present the evidence of Mr. Trump's alleged crimes in a public adversarial trial and to accept any verdicts rendered by a jury of his peers. As explained below, the Office commenced prosecution of Mr. Trump in the Election Case under both the original and superseding indictments because it concluded that the admissible evidence would be sufficient to obtain and sustain a conviction. See Justice Manual § 9-27 .220 and infra at Section III. 20250107 - DOJ Report of Special Counsel Jack Smith - Volume 1 - Election | DOJ
PBS | FRONTLINE | Plot to Overturn the Election (full documentary) by PBS | Frontline
How did false claims of election fraud make their way to the center of American politics? FRONTLINE and ProPublica investigate the plot to overturn the 2020 U.S. presidential election.
FRONTLINE and ProPublica uncover how a small group of people helped to create some of the core narratives of fraud that President Donald Trump and many others would go on to champion after the election — and how the legacy of their effort is impacting democracy and shaping elections to come.
“Plot to Overturn the Election” is a FRONTLINE production with Midnight Films, LLC in partnership with ProPublica. The correspondent is A.C. Thompson. The producer, writer and director is Samuel Black. The executive producer for FRONTLINE is Raney Aronson-Rath.
This journalism is made possible by viewers like you. Support your local PBS station here: https://www.pbs.org/donate
The House Select Committee to Investigate the January 6th Attack on the United States Capitol released their final report on December 22, 2022. This page provides access to the report as well as additional supporting materials provided by the committee, including videos, transcripts, and other documents on file. January 6th Committee Full Hearings - Day 12345678910 The Final Report
Department of Justice: The Office was prepared to present the evidence of Mr. Trump's alleged crimes in a public adversarial trial and to accept any verdicts rendered by a jury of his peers. As explained below, the Office commenced prosecution of Mr. Trump in the Election Case under both the original and superseding indictments because it concluded that the admissible evidence would be sufficient to obtain and sustain a conviction. See Justice Manual § 9-27 .220 and infra at Section III. 20250107 - DOJ Report of Special Counsel Jack Smith - Volume 1 - Election | DOJ
PBS | FRONTLINE | United States of Conspiracy (full documentary) by PBS | Frontline
How trafficking in conspiracy theories went from the fringes of U.S. politics into the White House. This is an update of the 2020 FRONTLINE documentary, “United States of Conspiracy.”
An investigation of the alliance among conspiracy theorist Alex Jones, longtime Trump associate Roger Stone and the president — and their role in the battle over truth and lies.
As the coronavirus pandemic continues, America reckons with racism and the 2020 election looms, “United States of Conspiracy” investigates how Jones and InfoWars, Stone, and Trump helped to lay the foundation for conspiracy theories to take center stage in America’s national conversation, how the idea of truth itself became part of America’s divide, and what it means for the future of our democracy.
This journalism is made possible by viewers like you. Support your local PBS station here: http://www.pbs.org/donate
The House Select Committee to Investigate the January 6th Attack on the United States Capitol released their final report on December 22, 2022. This page provides access to the report as well as additional supporting materials provided by the committee, including videos, transcripts, and other documents on file. January 6th Committee Full Hearings - Day 12345678910 The Final Report
Department of Justice: The Office was prepared to present the evidence of Mr. Trump's alleged crimes in a public adversarial trial and to accept any verdicts rendered by a jury of his peers. As explained below, the Office commenced prosecution of Mr. Trump in the Election Case under both the original and superseding indictments because it concluded that the admissible evidence would be sufficient to obtain and sustain a conviction. See Justice Manual § 9-27 .220 and infra at Section III. 20250107 - DOJ Report of Special Counsel Jack Smith - Volume 1 - Election | DOJ
A covert team of Israeli contractors who claim to have manipulated more than 30 elections around the world using hacking, sabotage and automated disinformation on social media have been exposed in a new Guardian investigation.
The unit is run by Tal Hanan, a former Israeli special forces operative who now works privately using the pseudonym “Jorge”. In more than six hours of secretly recorded meetings, Hanan and his team spoke of how they could gather intelligence on rivals, including by hacking Gmail and Telegram accounts.
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On the morning of January 20, 2021, the last day of his presidency, U.S. President Donald Trump pardoned Aviem Sella, the Israeli handler of American-born Jonathan Jay Pollard, a former intelligence analyst for the United States government. In 1987, as part of a plea agreement, Pollard pleaded guilty to spying for and providing top-secret U.S. classified information to Israel and was sentenced to life in prison for violations of the Espionage Act.
The U.S. intelligence community maintained that the damage to U.S. national security due to Pollard's espionage was far more severe, wide-ranging, and consequential than publicly acknowledged. At his sentencing hearing, U.S. Secretary of Defense Caspar Weinberger gave the court a memo that read:
“It is difficult for me, even in the so-called 'year of the spy,' to conceive of a greater harm to national security than that caused by the defendant in view of the breadth, the critical importance to the U.S., and the high sensitivity of the information he sold to Israel. That information was intentionally reserved by the United States for its own use, because to disclose it, to anyone or any nation, would cause the greatest harm to our national security.”
On November 20, 2020, during the Trump Administration, Jonathan Pollard's parole expired and all restrictions were removed. On December 30, 2020, Pollard and his second wife moved to Jerusalem, Israel. The Pollards flew to Israel from the US state of New Jersey on board a private jet owned by US billionaire Sheldon Adelson, a Republican supporter of the Trump Administration. Upon their arrival at the Ben Gurion Airport outside of Tel Aviv, they were greeted by Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu. Both knelt and kissed the ground before greeting him.
The Jewish/Israel Lobby actively works in the U.S. and U.K. to influence prospective government candidates and elected officials to move each country's foreign policy in a pro-Israel direction, oftentimes using antisemitism to restrict criticism and political activism.
Since the inception of Israel in 1948, there has been an international consensus that the future of Jerusalem must be the subject of negotiations between Israelis and the Palestinians, the indigenous people of Palestine. However, during the 2016 Trump Administration, President Donald Trump, the most litigious and pro-Israel president in American history, provided Israel's Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu with these unprecedented decisions:
Recognition of Jerusalem as the capital of Israel
Moved the U.S. Embassy from Tel Aviv to Jerusalem
Closed the U.S. Consulate in Jerusalem, which functioned as a de facto embassy to the Palestinians
Recognition of Israeli sovereignty of the township in the Golan Heights area, named as the Trump Heights
President Donald Trump effectively quashed the two-state solution in the Middle East with these dictatorial decisions, which have further emboldened Israel in its genocide of Gaza, Palestine.
The System: Who Rigged It, How We Fix It by Robert B. Reich (author) | Amazon | B&N | YouTube | Website
From the bestselling author of Saving Capitalism and The Common Good, comes an urgent analysis of how the "rigged" systems of American politics and power operate, how this status quo came to be, and how average citizens can enact change.
There is a mounting sense that our political-economic system is no longer working, but what is the core problem and how do we remedy it? With the characteristic clarity and passion that have made him a central civil voice, bestselling author of Saving Capitalism and The Common Good, Robert B. Reich shows how wealth and power have combined to install an oligarchy and undermine democracy. Reich exposes the myths of meritocracy, national competitiveness, corporate social responsibility, the “free market,” and the political “center,” all of which are used by those at the top to divert attention from their takeover of the system and to justify their accumulation of even more wealth and power. In demystifying the current system, Reich reveals where power actually lies and how it is wielded, and invites us to reclaim power and remake the system for all.
To celebrate the millionth copy sold of Howard Zinn's A People's History of the United States, Zinn drew on the words of Americans - some famous, some little known - across the range of American history. These words were read by a remarkable cast at an event held at the 92nd Street Y in New York City that included James Earl Jones, Alice Walker, Kurt Vonnegut, Alfre Woodard, Marisa Tomei, Danny Glover, Harris Yulin, Andre Gregory, and others.
From that celebration, this audio was born. Collected here under one cover is a brief history of America told through dramatic readings applauding the enduring spirit of dissent.
Here in their own words, and interwoven with commentary by Zinn, are Columbus on the Arawaks; Plough Jogger, a farmer and participant in Shays' Rebellion; Harriet Hanson, a Lowell mill worker; Frederick Douglass; Mark Twain; Mother Jones; Emma Goldman; Helen Keller; Eugene V. Debs; Langston Hughes; Genova Johnson Dollinger on a sit-down strike at General Motors in Flint, Michigan; an interrogation from a 1953 HUAC hearing; Fannie Lou Hamer, a sharecropper and member of the Freedom Democratic Party; Malcolm X; and James Lawrence Harrington, a Gulf War resister, among others.
Historian Howard Zinn’s A People’s History of the United States chronicles American history from the bottom up, throwing out the official narrative taught in schools—with its emphasis on great men in high places—to focus on the street, the home, and the workplace.
Known for its lively, clear prose as well as its scholarly research, it is the only volume to tell America's story from the point of view of—and in the words of—America's women, factory workers, African-Americans, Native Americans, the working poor, and immigrant laborers. As Zinn shows, many of our country's greatest battles—the fights for a fair wage, an eight-hour workday, child-labor laws, health and safety standards, universal suffrage, women's rights, racial equality—were carried out at the grassroots level, against bloody resistance.
Covering Christopher Columbus's arrival through President Clinton's first term, A People's History of the United States features insightful analysis of the most important events in our history. This edition also includes an introduction by Anthony Arnove, who wrote, directed, and produced The People Speak with Zinn and who coauthored, with Zinn, Voices of a People’s History of the United States.
Requiem for the American Dream The 10 Principles of Concentration of Wealth & Power by Noam Chomsky (Author) | Amazon | Website Editors: Peter Hutchison, Kelly Nyks, Jared P. Scott
In his first major book on the subject of income inequality, Noam Chomsky skewers the fundamental tenets of neoliberalism and casts a clear, cold, patient eye on the economic facts of life. What are the ten principles of concentration of wealth and power at work in America today? They're simple enough: reduce democracy, shape ideology, redesign the economy, shift the burden onto the poor and middle classes, attack the solidarity of the people, let special interests run the regulators, engineer election results, use fear and the power of the state to keep the rabble in line, manufacture consent, marginalize the population. In Requiem for the American Dream, Chomsky devotes a chapter to each of these ten principles, and adds readings from some of the core texts that have influenced his thinking to bolster his argument.
To create Requiem for the American Dream, Chomsky and his editors, the filmmakers Peter Hutchison, Kelly Nyks, and Jared P. Scott, spent countless hours together over the course of five years, from 2011 to 2016. After the release of the film version, Chomsky and the editors returned to the many hours of tape and transcript and created a document that included three times as much text as was used in the film. The book that has resulted is nonetheless arguably the most succinct and tightly woven of Chomsky's long career, a beautiful vessel--including old-fashioned ligatures in the typeface--in which to carry Chomsky's bold and uncompromising vision, his perspective on the economic reality and its impact on our political and moral well-being as a nation.
Assyria
\ã-'sir-é-ä\ n (1998)
1: an ancient empire of Ashur
2: a democratic state in Bet-Nahren, Assyria (northern
Iraq, northwestern Iran, southeastern Turkey and eastern Syria.)
3:
a democratic state that fosters the social and political rights to all of
its inhabitants irrespective of their religion, race, or gender
4: a democratic state that believes in the freedom of
religion, conscience, language, education and culture in faithfulness to the
principles of the United Nations Charter —
Atour synonym
Ethnicity, Religion, Language
»
Israeli, Jewish, Hebrew
»
Assyrian, Christian, Aramaic
»
Saudi Arabian, Muslim, Arabic
Assyrian
\ã-'sir-é-an\ adj or n (1998)
1: descendants of the ancient empire of Ashur
2: the Assyrians, although representing but one single
nation as the direct heirs of the ancient Assyrian Empire, are now
doctrinally divided, inter sese, into five principle
ecclesiastically designated religious sects with their corresponding
hierarchies and distinct church governments, namely, Church of the
East, Chaldean, Maronite, Syriac Orthodox and Syriac Catholic.
These formal divisions had their origin in the 5th century of the
Christian Era. No one can coherently understand the Assyrians
as a whole until he can distinguish that which is religion or church
from that which is nation -- a matter which is particularly
difficult for the people from the western world to understand; for
in the East, by force of circumstances beyond their control,
religion has been made, from time immemorial, virtually into a
criterion of nationality.
3:
the Assyrians have been referred to as Aramaean, Aramaye, Ashuraya,
Ashureen, Ashuri, Ashuroyo, Assyrio-Chaldean, Aturaya, Chaldean,
Chaldo, ChaldoAssyrian, ChaldoAssyrio, Jacobite, Kaldany, Kaldu,
Kasdu, Malabar, Maronite, Maronaya, Nestorian, Nestornaye, Oromoye,
Suraya, Syriac, Syrian, Syriani, Suryoye, Suryoyo and Telkeffee. —
Assyrianism verb
Aramaic
\ar-é-'máik\
n (1998)
1: a Semitic language which became the lingua franca of
the Middle East during the ancient Assyrian empire.
2: has been referred to as Neo-Aramaic, Neo-Syriac, Classical
Syriac, Syriac, Suryoyo, Swadaya and Turoyo.
