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Kent, a former political candidate with connections to #FarRight #extremists, was confirmed to his post last July on a 52-44 vote.
As head of the National Counterterrorism Center, Kent was in charge of an agency tasked with analyzing & detecting terrorist threats.
#TrumpsWar #US #Iran #Israel #war #ForeverWars #Trump #Netanyahu #WarCrimes #RegimeChange #RulesOfWar #law #Congress #WarPowers #geopolitics #MiddleEast #inflation #economy #affordability #CostOfLiving #oil #energy #EnergyCrisis
"Last year, I warned about the possibility that Israel might drag the United States into a regional conflict. What’s happening now is worse than I could have ever imagined. …
The fears I expressed 20 months ago now seem almost quaint, in the face of what Trump and Netanyahu have unleashed."
~ Annelle Sheline
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"and delivered a war so catastrophic and so convenient that it is impossible to explain as an accident. ...
The Hunter Biden story was mostly made up. Kushner’s corruption is so thorough and vast that America hasn’t even begun to reckon with what a disaster it is for everything this country once aimed to stand for."
#JaredKushner #Trump #Putin #Netanyahu #Iran #war #AffinityPartners
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"Jared Kushner, arched with the swagger of the world’s most confident mediocre man, walked into the most sensitive nuclear negotiation of the decade on behalf of the United States — representing governments that had paid him $157 million — carrying a pager given to him by the intelligence service of the country that wanted the war most, without a single technical expert,"
~ Jason Sattler
#JaredKushner #Trump #Putin #Netanyahu #Iran #war #AffinityPartners
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thecause.substack.com/p/jared-…
Jared Kushner’s Corruption Is a National Security Disaster
The president’s son-in-law dragged America into a war because he only serves his conflicted interestsL O L G O P (The Cause)
"[Kushner] has spoken with potential investors in recent weeks about raising $5 billion or more for Affinity Partners, his investment firm.... Affinity’s representatives have already met with Saudi Arabia’s Public Investment Fund" nytimes.com/2026/03/13/busines…
~ Roger Sollenberger
#JaredKushner #Trump #Putin #Netanyahu #Iran #war #AffinityPartners
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"Kushner is seeking billions in additional funding from the Saudi government as he serves as one of Trump’s top negotiators with Iran."
#JaredKushner #Trump #Putin #Netanyahu #Iran #war #AffinityPartners
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"PIF, Kushner’s biggest client, invested $2 billion with Affinity Partners in 2021. According to the report, Kushner is also seeking additional funds from Qatar and the UAE.
Kushner reportedly tried to drum up new investments while at the World Economic Forum in Davos as part of the official Trump administration delegation."
#JaredKushner #Trump #Putin #Netanyahu #Iran #war #AffinityPartners
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"Kushner’s claim that he would not raise additional money during Trump’s presidency to avoid conflicts turned out to be a lie.
On Friday, the New York Times reported that Kushner 'has spoken with potential investors in recent weeks about raising $5 billion or more for Affinity Partners.' Kushner’s team has 'already met with Saudi Arabia’s Public Investment Fund [PIF].'”
~ Judd Legum
#JaredKushner #Trump #Putin #Netanyahu #Iran #war #AffinityPartners
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Kushner breaks pledge, seeks $5 billion more from foreign governments
After Donald Trump won the presidency in 2024, Jared Kushner, his son-in-law, dismissed concerns that his private equity firm would be a vehicle to buy foreign influence.Judd Legum (Popular Information)
“I assure everyone that we will not refrain from avenging the blood of your martyrs. The retaliation we have in mind is not limited only to the martyrdom of the great leader of the Revolution; rather, every member of the nation who is martyred by the enemy constitutes a separate case in the file of revenge,” #MojtabaKhamenei said.
#TrumpsWar #US #Iran #Israel #war #ForeverWars #Trump #Netanyahu #WarCrimes #RegimeChange #RulesOfWar #law #Congress #WarPowers #geopolitics #MiddleEast
#Israel has long been accused of failing to hold its #soldiers accountable for #crimes committed against #Palestinians. The allegations have intensified during the #war in #Gaza. Israel says its forces act within military & #InternationalLaw & says it thoroughly investigates any alleged abuses. [BS this brutal attack was caught on video]
#law #SexualViolence #rape #torture #WarCrimes #Netanyahu #SdeTeiman #Palestinians #Gaza
It happened at #SdeTeiman, a facility holding #Palestinians rounded up in #Gaza during Israel’s #war against #Hamas. The leaked video was aired by Israel’s Channel 12 & bitterly divided #Israel.
Hard-line ultranationalists were furious that the soldiers were arrested. Members of #Netanyahu’s govt were in uproar, leading to the resignation of the military’s top legal official, who had filed the #indictment & authorized the leak.
So messed up
#Israel drops case against #soldiers accused of #SexualAbuse of #Palestinian detainee
The Israeli military is dropping charges against 5 soldiers who were accused of sexually abusing a Palestinian detainee in an attack partially caught on camera. The army announced the decision as much of Israel’s attention is focused on the war with Iran.
#law #SexualViolence #rape #torture #WarCrimes #Netanyahu #SdeTeiman #Palestinians #Gaza
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"Major media aren’t paying enough attention to how Israel’s Bibi Netanyahu manipulated Trump into the war. Early on, WaPo had a strong story about Netanyahu’s prodding, and the NYT has addressed the risks of the U.S.-Israel war alliance. But more must be written."
~ Mark Jacob
#Trump #Hegseth #Netanyahu #Bibi #Iran #war #stupidity #media
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Trump can’t handle the truth about the war
So far, major media’s coverage is a departure from past failuresMark Jacob (Stop the Presses)
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@gailwaldby #iran #netanyahu
"The very organizations which were created to protect Jewish people and to combat antisemitism—the ADL, the AJC—are instead doubling and tripling down on essentializing Jewish identity and linking it to a violent ethnonationalist regime and its list of horrors."
#Jews #zionism #Netanyahu #Bibi #Gaza #Iran #antisemitism #ADL #AJC
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"and they are told that this is done in the name of Jewish identity, because any objection to Israel policy is supposedly antisemitic.
Now Jewish orgs are insisting, through bogus polls, that Jewish identity legitimizes the war—blind or indifferent to the ways in which this will, instead, delegitimize Jewish identity itself."
"Israel and Zionist orgs in the US have effectively been releasing huge amounts of antisemitic propaganda, linking Jews to the action of a violent nation state and its policies of sweeping censorship, apartheid, genocide, and war. When people protest a genocide, they are beaten, arrested, and threatened with deportation—" (continued in /3)
"Netanyahu’s cynical deployment of diaspora Jews as a human shield for Israel’s bad actions is neither new nor surprising. Zionists have for decades claimed that Israel is the core of Jewish identity, and that, therefore, criticism or resistance to Israel national policy is equivalent to antisemitism."
~ Noah Berlatsky
#Jews #zionism #Netanyahu #Bibi #Gaza #Iran #antisemitism
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Zionist Institutions Spread Antisemitic Propaganda
Linking Jewish identity to war and atrocity harms Jewish peopleNoah Berlatsky (Everything Is Horrible)
"a war that will likely bankrupt the country; a war that will cause a global recession and worldwide suffering; a war that most Americans do not support; a war that began with U.S. planes killing scores of girls at a school; a war in which we have ceded the moral high ground to the fucking Ayatollah. ...
In this New World Order, the United States is no longer #1."
"We are just two weeks and a day into the Iran war—a war that has no discernible purpose; a war undertaken at the behest of a genocidal war criminal who as I type this is either dead, infirm, or in hiding like a coward; a war that seems intended to distract from the Epstein Files and forestall the release of proof of our president’s singular depravity;
~ Greg Olear
#Trump #Netanyahu #Epstein #Iran #war
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gregolear.substack.com/p/sunda…
Sunday Pages: "It's Up To You"
A musical collage by Steinski and Mass MediaGreg Olear (PREVAIL by Greg Olear)
"Some of the winners are obvious: Russia and oil producers everywhere except in the Persian Gulf. The losers may come as a surprise: American consumers are being hit hard even though the US produces more oil and natural gas than it consumes, while China, despite its dependence on imported hydrocarbons, is relatively insulated from this shock."
~ Paul Krugman
#Trump #Netanyahu #Bibi #Putin #Iran #Israel #Russia #war
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paulkrugman.substack.com/p/cos…
Costs and Benefits from the New Energy Crisis
There are many losers, but also some winnersPaul Krugman
"I was talking to a few friends yesterday. We were talking about how every president, you know, for 46 years, ever since the Islamic Revolution, Democrats and Republicans have not really liked the Velayat-e faqih, the Islamic leaders, but none of them were dumb enough to actually be dog walked by Netanyahu and white Christian nationalists and attack Iran."
~ Wajahat Ali
#Trump #Netanyahu #Bibi #Iran #war
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How The United States Loses the Iran War and Our National Security...with Trita Parsi
Donald Trump and the warmonger class have no exit strategy from this disastrous war and severely underestimated Iran's resolve. The longer this chaos lasts, the more America loses.THE LEFT HOOK with Wajahat Ali (The Left Hook with Wajahat Ali)
"By 2024 and 2025, he was already under immense domestic pressure over his corruption trial, his extremist coalition partners, and his handling of the Gaza war. Commentators and analysts have increasingly argued that he has incentives to keep the region in perpetual crisis, framing himself as the indispensable wartime leader and delaying the electoral reckoning that would likely end his career."
"Netanyahu for years now has sold Israelis the same rubbish. Every crisis can be solved by bombing and strafing. Now that immoral 'strategy' is being manifested again, in Lebanon. ...
What makes this even more indefensible is how entwined this northern brinkmanship is with Netanyahu’s personal political survival."
~ Mark Mansour
#Trump #Netanyahu #Bibi #Iran #Lebanon #war
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Benjamin Netanyahu Is Marching Lebanon And The Entire Middle East Toward The Abyss
all for his own self-preservationMark Mansour (America’s Fractured Politics)
"Putin, meanwhile, is watching the Hormuz chokehold deliver the oil price shock that relieves the central strain on his war machine, while American support for Ukraine quietly dries up, and Putin will soon be cashing oil checks from the US again.
Both men got what they needed by feeding one man’s need for a headline that gave him the love his parents never could."
"The reporting from journalist Neri Zilber on March 9 is instructive: they’re now on phase three, systematically working down a target list — air defenses, missile systems, the Iranian Navy, and now essentially all regime infrastructure. Whether there’s a fourth phase, and whether anyone has actually thought through what regime change looks like on the other side — that’s an open question. Netanyahu’s silence on that question is all the answer we need."
"Trump’s narcissism is a Trojan Horse. The men inside it have clearer agendas, fewer domestic constraints, and thirty years more patience. Netanyahu handed Trump a war Israel has wanted since at least 2007, one Netanyahu needed personally to stay out of court and in power — and Netanyahu is a tactical 'genius' who never underestimates what a fourth phase could be worth."
~ Jason Sattler
#Trump #Netanyahu #Bibi #Iran #war
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Man Who Spat on Allies For a Year Demands the World Clean Up His Catastrophe
From Liberation Day to the Escalation Trap to Interdependence Day: How narcissistic delusion became the biggest unforced error of the decade (so far).L O L G O P (The Cause)
"Meanwhile, the American military is now telling the New York Times that, far from collapsing, the Iranian regime is adapting to the Israeli–American onslaught and finding our weaknesses."
#Trump #Hegseth #JaredKushner #SteveWitkoff #Netanyahu #Iran #war
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"Iran has so far achieved its two most important strategic objectives. The regime has passed its first continuity test, transferring power from one supreme leader to the next. And it has closed the strait, setting in motion a cascade of economic consequences which will sap America’s political will to continue fighting."
#Trump #Hegseth #JaredKushner #SteveWitkoff #Netanyahu #Iran #war
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"It should not surprise you that the same team which invited a reporter into a Signal chat about war plans a few months ago have been blindsided by the Iranian regime’s resilience.
After less than two weeks, regime change is off the table and even the Israeli military understands that the Islamic Republic isn’t going away anytime soon."
~ Jonathan V. Last
#Trump #Hegseth #JaredKushner #SteveWitkoff #Netanyahu #Iran #war
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Dire Straits: The Iran War Is Run by Idiots
Also: Americans don't care about process. So they will get corruption.Jonathan V. Last (The Bulwark)
"By bombing Iran, America has 'recovered its position as leader of the free world' while Israel 'has rediscovered its biblical warrior identity and has become the regional superpower in the Middle East.'
In support of this new order, messianic Orthodox and secular nationalist Israeli ideologies meet with Christian nationalist views. ...
There is one party that will benefit from the war: Russia."
#Trump #Hegseth #Netanyahu #Iran #Israel #war #HolyWar #ChristianNationalism #zionism #Putin
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"In the fantasy of the far right, the United States and Israel are making history and saving civilization. British commentator Melanie Phillips sees the war as 'the likely birth of a new world order pivoted around that alliance between America and Israel.'”
~ Ruth Ben-Ghiat
#Trump #Hegseth #Netanyahu #Iran #Israel #war #HolyWar #ChristianNationalism #zionism
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lucid.substack.com/p/who-benef…
Who Benefits from the U.S.-Israel War on Iran?
The war will eventually backfire on Trump and Netanyahu, while Putin profitsRuth Ben-Ghiat (Lucid)
"Gaza really more than anything … feels like a preview to what we're seeing now in Iran. And it demonstrated the preference by that government, that regime under Bibi Netanyahu, for just cruelty, the preference for cruelty over restraint in the way that it wages war in order to demoralize the population that they're fighting and demoralize them into being too devastated and too morally devastated to fight back."
~ Joy-Ann Reid
#Trump #Netanyahu #Iran #Gaza
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Regime Lies On Epstein, Iran, Come Home To Roost | The Joy Reid Show LIVE!
A recording from The Joy Reid Show's live videoThe Joy Reid Show (Welcome to Joy's House!)
"While most combat operations have been undertaken by the US military, at considerable risk to US service members and costs borne by American taxpayers, the war was born, planned, and insisted upon by Israel, and its long-serving Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu."
"One prominent rationale for the Israeli-American attack on Iran is to bomb the country into friendliness to the US and Israel. ...
The real goals of Trump’s war cannot be found in his strategic vision, which is overshadowed, if it even exists, by a pinwheeling embrace of postures that serve his vanity and his short-term political interests."
~ Eli Clifton and Ian S. Lustick
#Trump #Netanyahu #Iran #Israel #war
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thenation.com/article/world/tr…
How the Israeli Tail Wags the American Dog | The Nation
The US attack on Iran may be less about American security than about the priorities of Israel’s government.Ricky D'Ambrose (The Nation)