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Xandra Kashkashian's avatar

Brilliant. On the mark. I do hope many people stay thru this till the end. This has fully fed information, I didn’t realize I lacked. I am 77. I am looking to the young people of this country to push and change the shit that has become this country. A filthy and corrupt country that is full of decent, bright, informed young people. Thank the Gods for them.

docmcstiffens's avatar

Hell yes, we have to fight the fight we’re in…we can’t bring a strongly worded letter to a bunker fight (if I were a bettin’ man, I’d say they’ve planned as far as having their own cyanide treaties in case the Resistance busts in)…as a class of 2000, medical school through fellowship in the Obama years, this is surreal to us and we are paralyzed by our old passive allegiance to Israel (loving our Jewish friends and sold that Israel is just a democratic ally)…but there can be no democracy without an educated electorate. This American experiment was supposed to be fluid, it depends on change to survive. Preach.

Jakob Cambria's avatar

Among the alphabet soup of US intelligence agencies, the consensus is that Iran, despite ravages of the American-Israel air war, will well bear up destruction and death for a long period of time. Philip Caputo, wrote a blistering Vietnam War Memoir, 'A Rumor of War', about his service as a Marine Corps infantry officer and published in 1977, relentlessly detailed 'the things men do in war and the things war does to them'. A palimpsest of what will come out of the Iran war. But we do have a towering monument of what these agencies can and did do: 'The Pentagon Papers', officially titled 'Report of the Office of the Secretary of Defense Vietnam Task Force', a US Department of Defense history of the USs' political and military involvement in Vietnam from 1945 to 1968. Leaked by Daniel Ellsberg, who had worked on the study, it was made public on the front page of The New York Times in 1971. A 1996 article in the 'New York Times' said that the 'Pentagon Papers' had demonstrated, among other things, that Lyndon B. Johnson's administration had 'systematic lied to Congress'. Secretary of Defense Robert McNamara came to regret the war he escalated also lied, not only to the public but also to Congress'. As a result of his crisis of conscience, he ordered the voluminous report known as the 'Pentagon Papers'. The researchers had access to confidential information as well as the Library of Congress and agencies data, thus guaranteeing an in-depth study. And it had the effect of an. atomic bomb ultimately leading to the Church Committee [formally the United States Senate Select Committee to Study Governmental Operations with Respect to Intelligence Activities] a US Senate select committee in 1975 that investigated abuses by the Central Intelligence Agency [CIA], National Security Agency [NSA], Federal Bureau of Investigation [FBI], and the Internal Revenue Service [IRS]. Chaired by Idaho senator Frank Church (D-ID), the committee was part of a series of investigations into intelligence abuses in 1975, dubbed the 'Year of Intelligence', [including its House counterpart, the Pike Committee, and the presidential Rockefeller Commission]. The committee's efforts led to the establishment of the permanent US Senate Select Committee on Intelligence. Alas over time, the imperial presidency and a compliant Congress weakened its thrust, but not emasculated. Will we eventually see a similar study result from the Trump and Zionist Iran war in an age of bending the knee to government of the press? [Never underestimate of citizen reporters and newspapers,]

Jakob Cambria's avatar

The DPRK [Democratic People Republic of Korea] or North Korea has officially declared its independence from any potential union with South Korea. This significant policy shift was announced by Kim Jong Un, who stated that unification is no longer a viable objective for North Korea. This marks a departure from previous discussions about reconciliation and cooperation between the two Koreas. Thus tolls the death of the a notational strategy of reviving a 'true national unification' achieved centuries before by 'Goryeo' or 'Koryeo', incorporating the northern clans with those of the south. According to Korean historians, it was during the Goryeo period that the individual identities of Goguryeo, Baekje and Silla were successfully merged into a single entity that became the basis of the modern-day Korean identity and the country name 'Korea'. North Korea has removed references to reunification from its official thinking, indicating a more hostile approach towards South Korea. The Blue House in South Korea [ROK or Republic of Korea] responded by emphasizing its commitment to peaceful coexistence and mutual prosperity, implying a potential end to the provisional special relationships that have characterized inter-Korean ties since the end of the Korean war [1950-53]. Analysts suggest that this shift may lead to increased tensions on the Korean Peninsula, as North Korea designates South Korea as its 'most hostile state'. The US has had a hate love affair with the DPRK. It conducts regularly joint military operations wit the ROK, enraging the DPRK. Nevertheless, Washington and Seoul tone down their martial ardor by the fact Pyongyang is a nuclear power which the US refuses to officially recognize. Oddly, if you think about it politically or militarily, there is a parallel with president Trump's failing posture in a war of choice with Iran. Will the US restock again nuclear missiles in South Korea [which GHW Bush withdrew as a goodwill gesture towards the North]? We should recall the unexpected trip of Jimmy Carter to Pyongyang to meet Kim Il Sung to take out the heat of president Clinton's hot temper of warlike threats to the DPRK over Pyongyang's nuclear policy. Again another reminder of Trump's scraping of president Obama's and four European allies of a protocol on peaceful nuclear research. Much water has flown under the bridge since Trump and Kim Jong un exchanged 'love letters', yet the same undesirable weaknesses of US policy or lack of critical thinking as it obtains for North Korea and Iran are strikingly similar.