DSA Delegation Meets with President Maduro—Uproar Already in US

DSA Delegation Meets with President Maduro—Uproar Already in US

Wonder why they were really there?! 🤔

U.S. Representative for New York’s 14th congressional district, Alexandria Ocasio Cortez, said Wednesday she would follow the Democratic Party’s leadership in regards to Venezuela, declining to answer a question on whether she sees President Nicolas Maduro as the legitimate President of the Bolivarian Republic.

AOC Says She Follows Democratic Leadership on Issue of US Intervention in Venezuela

Change in the Middle East?

New Israeli government controls the agenda BY PHILIP GIRALDI • UNZ REVIEW • JUNE 22, 2021

The media focus on the Summit meeting between Presidents Joe Biden and Vladimir Putin has to a certain extent crowded out news about the new government in Israel, headed by hardline nationalist Naftali Bennett. In those media outlets that are actually discussing the change there is an odd sort of perception that Israel’s new government will have to adjust to the new regime in Washington. That would imply that the Israelis will have to mitigate some of their more outrageous behavior to accommodate themselves to Biden’s intention to take actions that will be disapproved of in Jerusalem, to include a possible rapprochement with Iran over its nuclear program and a White House reengagement with the Joint Comprehensive Plan of Action (JCPOA) of 2015.

Change in the Middle East?

NYT: The ‘Unshakable’ Bonds of Friendship With Israel Are Shaking

Surprising opinion piece, from a New York Times columnist, although the author pretty much demonizes Syria and Iran. He also refuses to call what Israel is doing war crimes, instead they’re “possible war crimes.”

If you oppose war crimes only by your enemies, it’s not clear that you actually oppose war crimes.

The ‘Unshakable’ Bonds of Friendship With Israel Are Shaking