American Manifesto

POLICE  MILITARIZATION / BRUTALITY

Report: St. Louis Cop Shot Unarmed Teen After Alleged Gun Struggle 

Militarizing the Police: Liz Wahl and Max Blumenthal

 Max Blumenthal: How Israeli Occupation Forces, Bahraini Monarchy Guards Trained U.S. Police For Coordinated Crackdown On “Occupy” Protests

Former Cops Speak Out About Police Militarization

War Comes Home: The Excessive Militarization of American Policing 

4 shocking examples of police militarization in America’s small towns

Police Brutality and the Failure of Liberal Democrats   

How to Punish Police for Brutality/Murder 

Report: Israeli model underlies militarization of U.S. police

Bill Maher Slams Militarized Police Culture In America

UKRAINE

NYT Discovers Ukraine’s Neo-Nazis at War 

The Silence of American Hawks About Kiev’s Atrocities

The regime has repeatedly carried out artillery and air attacks on city centers, creating a humanitarian catastrophe—which is all but ignored by the US political-media establishment.

Why Is Washington Risking War With Russia? | The Nation

Flight 17 Shoot-Down Scenario Shifts

 

Was Putin Targeted for Mid – Air Assassination?

 

IRAQ

 

White House Wants Maliki Out as Iraq PM Urges Other Parties to Form Coalition Without Maliki

 

Maliki Moves Against ‘Coup,’ US Backs Ouster

 

‘Thank God for the Saudis’: ISIS, Iraq, and the Lessons of Blowback

U.S lawmakers encouraged officials in Riyadh to arm Syrian rebels. Now that strategy may have created a monster in the Middle East.

Guess What? USA Funded ISIS From the Start (Can we PLEASE GTFO now?) – Democratic Underground

 

Hillary Clinton Criticizes Obama’s Foreign Policy in Syria and Iraq

Clinton, who gave the interview before Obama authorized airstrikes on ISIS in Iraq, said the president’s “failure” to intervene in Syria allowed jihadists to come to power in the region.

 

Why Neocons Love Hillary

Robert Kagan: “I feel comfortable with her on foreign policy,” Kagan told The New York Times. “If she pursues a policy which we think she will pursue,” he added, “it’s something that might have been called neocon, but clearly her supporters are not going to call it that; they are going to call it something else.”


Iraqi PM Maliki says Saudi, Qatar openly funding violence in Anbar

 

Iran army chief accuses Israel of creating ISIS

The Redirection – The New Yorker

 

ISIS in Iraq Stinks of CIA/NATO ‘Dirty War’ Op

Iraq Crisis: Created by Bush & Blair and Bankrolled by Saudi Arabia

Bush and Blair said Iraq was a war on Islamic fascism. They lost
by Robert Fisk

 

Washington Opened The Gates Of Hell In Iraq: Now Come The Furies

By David Stockman

“the furies have come. Ironically, the bloodthirsty ISIS is comprised of fighters who were first enabled by the misbegotten Bush maneuver known as the “surge”; then armed and trained by the CIA for the campaign against Assad;  and now brandish the best weapons that any ramshackle jihadist group ever had.”

 

POLITICS

Are Elites Always Going To Be Above The Law?

No Labels-Wolves In Sheep’s Clothing   

Blue Dogma: Deconstructing ConservaDem Myths