You have to have a commitment towards the future. That is what politics is about. Politics is always a commitment to the future. The only time it’s not is when it’s the politics of revenge, and that is fascism.

On Aaron Good’s American Exception podcast, they gave a different account of the NordStream pipeline bombing than many people have heard in the mainstream press.

Contrary to earlier accounts that 700 kg of explosives were used in each blast site, My experts told me that only 10 to 50 kilograms of explosives were used at each blast site.

Later in the podcast, the discussion turned to the prominent role that women and the most nightmarish power couples that you could possibly imagine play in imperial leadership.

One could also use CiteIt to cite the transcript saying Susan Rice is married to Jerry Rice but the contextual popup would show this to be misconstrued.

In chapter 4, Alice said: after such a fall as this, I shall think nothing of tumbling down stairs! How brave they’ll all think me at home!

The only way ultimately to defeat it is by a regime change and the imposition of a Western style puppet government into Tehran because they believe that they cannot kill the technical knowledge or the will to move ahead with enrichment. I think there are two triggers that we should watch.

So that if it’s no longer appropriate because the world has moved on and life is different or because of a changed circumstances then a jurist, it has to be a jurist, it’s not a political decision but a qualified jurist, Hujjat al-Islam or [inaudible] can actually change the law and a new fatwa can be issued very easily. It doesn’t need parliamentary or a pew but there is a majority in Iran now of people who argued that it was a mistake never to go down this route

They’re saying actually this whole proliferation process that the West had is actually back to front because actually it’s pushing people ultimately towards a weapon, not preventing them because this process of going around and just threatening states we’re going to bomb you to the stone age if you don’t do what we tell you actually has ended and that’s what happened of course with North Korea.

I mean they’d agreed a process of giving it up but then more requirements and more requirements were imposed. I mean it was all agreed and there was going to be money put in and a new process and then the extra demands that Washington imposed on top of the original agreement prompted the North Koreans to say, hang it, it’s not worth it, I mean it’s much better that we should go for a bomb.

So actually rather than stopping proliferation, acting to stop proliferation as the West says it’s doing, it is actually encouraging proliferation. That’s the Russian view. [Dmitry] Medvedev said that, the Vice President said that quite recently.

they figure it’s a comedy club owner, you know, and you know, how how bad could it be?

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In the New Republic, Omer Bartov writes:

The charter of the Hamas movement, issued in 1988 as the fundamental document of this Palestinian branch of the Muslim Brotherhood, must be read to be believed. It contains, among its fundamentalist Islamic preachings, the most blatant anti-Semitic statements made in a publicly available document since Hitler’s own pronouncements.