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"...it's the neocons and their salaried brain dead puppets, all a pack of lying scumbags responsible for the deaths of millions." Love the fierce intensity of your language. If more people would call out these traitorous rat-b@stards -- The Neoconservatives: Agents of Zionism -- using language like yours, language proportionate to the supreme international criminality of these death-worshipping monsters, and naming them, and naming the Zionist evil that spawns their savage predations, maybe the world would at last rise up and hold them accountable and terminate their insane agenda -- Full Spectrum Dominance: the Wolfowitz Doctrine: the Zionist-owned US jackboot on the throat of every human being on the planet. [Too harsh? Too "anti-Semitic" -- bleeeeck! -- for Anti-War.com (the moderators et al)? How much truth is too much truth?] Full disclosure, as always: I'm an American and a Jew. But I will not condone the Zionist criminal project. Founded as it...

Response to Mazzel Stof's comments to the article: New CIA Chief Was Excited About Attacking Syria’s Assad https://www.antiwar.com/blog/2016/11/18/new-cia-chief-was-excited-about-attacking-syrias-assad/ Your screen name "Mazzel Stof" is clearly a modification of "mazzeltof". Thus I conclude you are Jewish. Consequently, it is almost certain -- and your comments indicate as much -- that you are biased by the Zionist Kool-Aid. There is no doubt that Syria is a majority Muslim country, and that Muslim values predominate. This, in much the same way that the US is a predominately Christian country where Christian values predominate. That's not in dispute. But just as the US governmental tradition maintains a separation of church and state -- a secularism at the government level -- Baathism does the same. The dominant religious values of a nation inevitably "leak into" and influence the behaviors of government, composed as it is of humans who ...

An aspect not yet mentioned -- have any of you seen or heard a peep? -- Presidential pardon. There must be whole bunches of folks thinking hard about this, but no one is talking. Please, start the conversation. I want to hear from youse guys, what do you think? If Hillary loses, Obama pardons her in a heartbeat. If she wins, ditto (or not?), but with ***unprecedented*** political consequences, which would take the US political system into truly uncharted territory. And then... what about a pardon in the next few days, before the election? Boom! A frikkin' political nuke,.. in an electoral season where the spectacle leaps by the minute to a new, ever more spectacularly outrageous level. So far, deafening silence. Mum's the word. How is that possible? I mean shouldn't the Trump side at least, be going to town, preemptively shouting their condemnation of the planned, expected, predictable, and thoroughly corrupt nature of a looming -- yeah, speculative and semi-fictiona...

The entire establishment is scared shitless of Trump. His bid for the presidency is nothing less than a revolution in American politics -- a challenge to their "ownership" of the country -- -- and they are going all out to prevent his election. This will no doubt have some limited success  Without question, it is the conventional, proven technique for manipulating public opinion. But the world is changing. The internet as an alternative source of info has broken the MSM monopoloy on "narrative" construction, so there is mounting cognitive dissonance created by the conflicting narratives. And that dissonance actually **forces** people to think, forces people to **learn to think**. It has often been said, in frustration and disgust, that the American people are stupid. I understand the situation, but I just don't think it's as bad as one might think. People who are intentionally manipulated, misled, maleducated, and propagandized, may speak about th...

Gina Ferrara, responding to my comment to: WikiLeaks Cancels Major Clinton Revelation Amid ‘Security Concerns’ http://dailycaller.com/2016/10/02/wikileaks-cancels-major-clinton-revelation-amid-security-concerns/ writes: You best get used to saying Madame President:) To which I respond: Gina my dear, I am thoroughly enjoying the spectacle of this political season. The last few days of Trump-trashing have made Trump supporters glum -- booey hooey! -- but for me that's just the back and forth of the political battle. Like watching a football game, sometimes your team is in the lead, sometimes behind. High drama, yum! And there's still 3+ weeks of drama left, and regardless of the outcome the entertainment value promises to be delightful. Yes, I have a pleasant emotional investment in the Trumpinator -- it's more fun that way -- but it's limited and I try to suppress it, because in the end it's just Kabuki, with no perceptable effect on me **personally**...

Gina Ferrara, responding to my comment to: WikiLeaks Cancels Major Clinton Revelation Amid ‘Security Concerns’ http://dailycaller.com/2016/10/02/wikileaks-cancels-major-clinton-revelation-amid-security-concerns/ writes: You best get used to saying Madame President:) To which I respond: Gina my dear, I am thoroughly enjoying the spectacle of this political season. The last few days of Trump-trashing have made Trump supporters glum -- booey hooey! -- but for me that's just the back and forth of the political battle. Like watching a football game, sometimes your team is in the lead, sometimes behind. High drama, yum! And there's still 3+ weeks of drama left, and regardless of the outcome the entertainment value promises to be delightful. Yes, I have a pleasant emotional investment in the Trumpinator -- it's more fun that way -- but it's limited and I try to suppress it, because in the end it's just Kabuki, with no perceptable effect on me **personally**...

On the Unz Review, in the comments section to Nuclear Poker by Israel Shamir http://www.unz.com/ishamir/nuclear-poker/#comment-1602591 Phillip Owen writes: "Also, the Syrian government did commit massacres of Sunnis over the decades." The US massacred: Native Americans, enslaved Africans, Filipinos, Vietnamese, Guatemalans, Nicaraguans, Salvadorans, US Confederate rebels, and many many others; beyond direct mass murder, the US abetted oppression, coups de etat, slaughter, and torture in countries across the planet:  Brazil, Chile, Indonesia, Angola, South Africa, Somalia, Afghanistan, Iraq, Libya, Ukraine, now Syria, Palestine of course, Egypt, now Yemen, Panama, Grenada, and others, many many others. This BS about Assad being a bad guy is total Kool-Aid.  When the Confederate South revolted against the North a slaughter ensued.  Surprise! surprise! Revolt leads to civil war which, being war, involves "massacres".  That's what war is, one giant massacre...