Earlier this week, David Ignatius at the Washington Post published an interesting column ruing the decline of U.S. “influence” in the Middle East. His central theme is that U.S. “disengagement” from the region is allowing local actors to chart their own courses, and that many of them are now making bad decisions. In his view, the prospects for positive change in the region are receding and that we will all be worse off as a result.

Picture from Gus' collection of useless things...

Above is a 30/4/2017 loose advert for The Australian, a Murdoch media newspaper... In this advert, opinions are touted instead of facts because opinions are loaded rather than representing the truth.

In Kanbra, that dismal town

Where politicians go to shit-pledge

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In 2013 Tom Engelhardt wrote, referring to the United States presence in Afghanistan, Iraq and Yemen, where at eight United States air strikes had killed almost 300 wedding guests: “we have become a nation of wedding crashers, the uninvited guests who arrived under false pretenses, tore up the place, offered nary and apology, and refused to go home.”

“There's been a lot of talk this week about whose side people are on in this building.

The Trump administration’s sanctions on Venezuela have not just weakened the country’s economy but have deprived millions of viewpoints questioning the US policies, as Abby Martin’s show on TeleSUR shut down citing financial woes.

Why bother voting when the system's a con
When leaders are milked for charisma, then gone
replaced by a power hungry lackey who grins?
It's always the sneakiest bastard who wins,

(Sung to the Dylan song) 

Trouble double triple poodle muddle oodle noodle — god was a fantasist...

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What this brochure does not tell you is that 90 per cent of these refugees have been created by the intervention of the USA in the affairs of a sovereign country. Bombs and gunfire have been the responsibility of the USA supporting "moderate" rebels, who at best were terrorists of Al Qaeda and at worst were terrorists of ISIS...