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Columnist and Neoconservative Marc Thiessen Wants the U.S. to Support Dictatorships Worldwide   By David Starr   The right-wing seems to be getting more, bold about supporting insane policies.  Washington Post  columnist and  FOX  contributor Marc Thiessen is one of these insane individuals. Thiessen is a neoconservative and was a speech writer for the George W. Bush Jr. regime. He can be called several other things: ultranationalist, imperialist, right-winger, fascistic, etc.   In early July, Thiessen made outrageous, and typical, statements  in an interview  that was shown on  Fox “News.”   (Originating from an edition of  The Story .)  Michael Luciano, wiring in  Mediaite ,  quoted  Thiessen on U.S. support for Saudi Arabia and also supporting other U.S.-backed dictatorships:    “The hardest that we have to do in the U.S. foreign policy–broadly–is balance U.S. interests and our concern...

  Picking a Criminal: Joe Biden Nominates Elliott Abrams to an Advisory Position By David Starr   In a  shocking move , Joe Biden nominated a neoconservative to serve on the United States Advisory Commission on Public Diplomacy in early July. The neoconservative is Elliott Abrams, who has a history of criminal behavior as a public servant, and can accurately be called a fascist.    Why? Abrams supported and kept hidden the atrocities committed by militaries, death squads and tyrants in Central America. Abrams served under the Reagan regime in the 1980s, a decade when Central America was a hot-button issue. He was named Assistant Secretary of State for Human Rights and Humanitarian Affairs and went on, in Jeet Heer’s words,  writing  in  The Nation , to perform his ‘main job’ which was “whitewashing war crimes by American allies.”    Given this terrible decision by Biden, one could wonder whether the president is really up for the job he ...

  Hardcore Supporters of Israel Ignore its Apartheid Policies Against Palestinians By David Starr Israel celebrated its 75 th   year of “independence” in April 2023 with a too-good-too-be-true praising of its existence. But, obviously, hardcore Israeli supporters are in denial when it comes to Israel’s treatment of the Palestinians.     Miko Peled is an activist who was born and raised in Jerusalem. He came from a family of Zionists and thus was exposed to all the propaganda that is used to describe Israel: the sacred homeland of the Jews, its religious totalitarianism giving it the “right” to take more Palestinian land, and harboring the supremacy myth of the “Chosen People.” (What about other people and their respective civilizations?)   Peled is now an Israeli-American and has been vocal about Israel and its role in reference to Palestinians. Not mincing words, he condemns Israel’s oppression of Palestinians with its apartheid policies.    Peled’s f...