#POTUS Joe Biden was leading #Michigan's Democratic presidential primary contest Tues, as expected, w/the #ProtestVote against him pulling about 7% of the tally.
Biden had 88% of the vote, followed by 7% #uncommitted, 2% for Minnesota US Rep Dean Phillips & 2.4% for self-help guru Marianne Williamson, with 3% of precincts reporting.
#Trump formally recognized #Jerusalem as the capital of #Israel, reversing ~7 decades of American #ForeignPolicy & setting in motion a plan to move the #UnitedStates Embassy from Tel Aviv to the fiercely contested Holy City.
Imperial Ambitions: Conversations on the Post-9/11 World with Noam Chomsky by David Barsamian
Timely, urgent, and powerfully elucidating, this important volume of previously unpublished interviews conducted by award-winning radio journalist David Barsamian features Noam Chomsky discussing America's policies in an increasingly unstable world.
After the Apocalypse America's Role in a World Transformed by Andrew Bacevich
A bold and urgent perspective on how American foreign policy must change in response to the shifting world order of the twenty-first century, from the New York Times bestselling author of The Limits of Power and The Age of Illusions.
Since announcing his 1st presidential campaign in 2015, #Russia has followed #Trump like an unshakable thunder cloud. TFG has repeatedly expressed a fascination w/Russia, lavished praise on #Putin & refused to stand up to the Russian president on a range of issues — from #ElectionInterference in 2016 to invading #Ukraine….
…His latest round of pro-Russian cheerleading (is) … now against a dramatically changed backdrop. The #Russia-Ukraine war is entering its 3rd year, w/no signs of abating. #Putin critics are calling the death of #Navalny — who had survived a previous Russian attempt to poison him — a #murder. & under #Trump’s leadership, the #Republican Party has drifted in a remarkably #isolationist direction on #ForeignPolicy, w/ #HouseRepublicans currently holding up much-needed #aid to #Ukraine.
I know North Korea isn't on much of anybody's mind right now but this article on their ability to leverage Russia's invasion of Ukraine to put themselves in a much stronger position vis-à-vis sanctions is worthy of consideration.
Sanctions and North Korea: The Good Old Days Are Gone for Good
By: Joseph DeThomas
February 22, 2024
Secy of State #Blinken announced a reversal of the #Trump admin’s position on #Israeli#settlements in the #WestBank on Fri, saying they are “inconsistent w/ #InternationalLaw.”
“Our administration maintains firm opposition to settlement #expansion,” Blinken told reporters at a news conference in Argentina. “In our judgment, this only weakens — it doesn’t strengthen — #Israel’s #security.”
Trump & top advisers have talked w/fmr Hawaii congresswoman #TulsiGabbard about #ForeignPolicy & how the #Defense Dept should be run in a 2nd Trump term…. The talks w/ #Gabbard — who has staked out a role as an outspoken critic of aid to #Ukraine & US military interventions overseas — are part of a broader conversation about how Trump would manage the #Pentagon differently if voters award him a 2nd term….
“Everything would have been 180° different if Beau had lived — there’s no question,” said one close associate of the family who like others spoke on the condition of anonymity to discuss private family matters. “I don’t think Hunter’s life goes off the rails. If Beau wasn’t president of the United States now, he’d be on his way to it. And Joe Biden would never have been president. He would be happily retired.”
…One of the most lucrative temptations was…the paid speech circuit, but #Biden’s circle knew it would risk a hit to his reputation, given the controversy that erupted over speeches HillaryClinton gave to GoldmanSachs & other WallSt groups.
Somehow he is still here, even though all his friends are in #Threads.
BOB! We can follow your Threads account, once Zuck and their tech lords grace us. They've promised (fingers crossed), that we Mastodon plebs can follow people at Threads, this year!
You can already follow a few people at threads like their tech head: @mosseri
P.S. Where is your #Yemen episode? I can't find it!
"In this conversation, Said addresses comparatively his years of experience during #ForeignPolicy briefings, notably on Palestine, at the #USStateDepartment and #WhiteHouse, with focus on the current war on #Gaza."
Did Putin encourage Hamas to start this war? Yes. And it's having Putin's desired effect.
However, this article is garbage. It's putrid, sickening filth.
"[Biden] is... relentlessly and blindly supporting Zionism and the indiscriminate killings in Palestine." Fck this goddamned lie, and fck the motherf*cking liar who told it. He and others like him are going to get a lot of innocent Palestinians killed.
"America’s quest for global dominance primarily serves the interests of giant corporations that suppress labor movements worldwide.
While US politicians from both parties cover it in euphemism, the proper role they see for the working class in foreign policy is as fodder for factories and battlefields, valorized in rhetoric to obscure their exploitation.
“We’re gonna get yelled at to stay in our lane, and focus on our jobs or whatever, but we’ve waited for the Democrats forever to become this great institution of working people and peace throughout the world, and they suck. We no longer can trust the Democrats,” Vicente said."
According to government data, the #CanadaBorderServicesAgency removed 7,232 people from the country in the first six months of this year, at a rate averaging 39 people a day.
"The United States is a heartbeat away from a world war that it could lose. There are serious conflicts requiring U.S. attention in two of the world’s three most strategically important regions. Should China decide to launch an attack on Taiwan, the situation could quickly escalate into a global war on three fronts"
Jack Mirkinson tonight, over at Discourse Blog: "Kissinger scholar Greg Grandin has calculated that Kissinger is partially responsible for the deaths of at least 3 to 4 million people and probably more. There is so much blood on his hands that people are still, nearly 50 years after he left office, uncovering the depths of the violence he let loose." #henrykissinger#warcrimes#genocide#foreignpolicy#evil