War and Foreign Policy
Teaching Torture: The Death and Legacy of Dan Mitrione: Brett Wilkins from Counterpunch
In the pre-dawn darkness of Monday, August 10, 1970, Dan Mitrione's bullet-ridden body was discovered in the back seat of a stolen Buick convertible in a quiet residential neighborhood of Montevideo, the Uruguayan capital. He had just turned 50, and he had recently started a new dream job, although it was thousands of miles from his home in Richmond, Indiana. Who was Dan Mitrione, and what work was he doing in Uruguay that led him to such an early and violent end? . . . Although Dan Mitrione has been dead for half a century, his legacy lives on in the words and deeds of a new generation of US torturers. Many of the psychological and "no-touch" tortures he pioneered and practiced led to the "enhanced interrogation techniques" of the US war on terrorism, Guantánamo Bay and CIA "black sites." Mitrione's methodical approach to torture — "a premature death means failure by the technician" — echoes in the words of unrepentant Bush-era torturers and their apologists like John Yoo, Bruce Jessen, James Mitchell, Gina Haspel and CIA counterterrorism lawyer Jonathan Fredman, who with Mitrionesque coldness instructed the military that "if the detainee dies, you're doing it wrong."
The Anger Campaign Against China: Larry Romanoff from the Unz Review
8800 word essay packed with information. It shouldn't be a secret, though it still seems to be, that neither of the two World Wars were started (or desired) by Germany, but were the creation of a group of European Zionist Jews with the stated intent of the total destruction of Germany. However, that thesis is not the purpose of this essay and I will not expand on it here, but the content should prove to the average reader that World War I certainly fits this description. The main purpose of this essay is to demonstrate not only that 'history repeats itself' but that the history being repeated today is a mass grooming of the Western world's people (but most especially Americans) in preparation for World War III – which I believe is now imminent.
The Tehran Times Talks to Mark Dankof on JCPOA, Trump, Bolton, and Empire: The Tehran Times from Mark Dankof's America
Tehran Times: The UN Security Council has rejected the US proposal to extend the Iran arms embargo. In this regard Senator Chris Murphy (D-CT) has said that "It wasn't a defeat. It was a rout." Is that such a catastrophic result for the U.S.? Mark Dankof: It was a deserved rout and an absolute embarrassment and foreign policy catastrophe for the United States. I am among those on the American Right who supported, and still support JCPOA. Pat Buchanan and David Stockman are two other examples, Stockman having written an outstanding defense of the treaty in several places. He has also rightly attacked Trump for the Soleimani Assassination.
US knocked over the head by allies as it tries to snap back Iran sanctions: From Press TV
The United States' most prominent Western allies refuse to fall into step with its push to snap back the United Nations sanctions against Iran. On Thursday, the United Kingdom, France, and Germany said they could not support the US move, describing the action as incompatible with efforts to support the Iran nuclear deal, Reuters reported. The trio announced their position in a statement in response to an illegal US push to invoke the mechanism in the nuclear deal that would restore all of the UN sanctions against the Islamic Republic, whose related resolutions was annulled after the agreement was concluded. The nuclear accord was made between the Islamic Republic and the P5+1 group of states -- the US, the UK, France, Russia, and China plus Germany -- in Vienna in July 2015. The US left the accord, which is officially known as the Joint Comprehensive Plan of Action (JCPOA), in May 2018. The move, by extension, violated UN Security Council Resolution 2231 that endorses the JCPOA.

Demographics
His Name Is Cannon Hinnant: Five-Year Old White Boy Shot and Murdered Execution-Style by Black Neighbor... for Riding His Bike in His Lawn: Paul Kersey from the Unz Review
With what happened to Cannon Hinnant though, we might be seeing the early stages of a profound shift in thinking, where the story of a five-year-old white child murdered execution-style by his black neighbor and the complete silence from the corporate media (that just spent nearly three months canonizing a black man who once put a gun to the belly of a pregnant woman he was robbing in a home invasion and then died of fentanyl overdose while resisting arrest in Minneapolis) provides the much-needed realization to a lot of people that to our elite, white lives don't matter.
Man shot by police Sunday charged with attempted murder of officers; COPA asking for footage: WGN-9 Chicago
How dare the police shoot back at an armed criminal.
BLM Chicago Says Sunday night was a 'slave revolt' and we can't expect rioters to play by the rules: Wirepoints
It's all so tiresome.
Minneapolis police regulations allow for neck restraint when suspect actively resists arrest: Evidence in the George Floyd murder case
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Election and Politics
Kamala Harris Botches Wheel of Fortune Appearance : Mark Dankof from Twitter
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Why Has Ed Butt Not Received a Prime Time TV Slot for the Democratic National Convention?: From Twitter
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Mark Dankof's Twitter Refresher Course on George Floyd: From Twitter
The Links Clinch the Case.
It's Not Happening: the Mainstream Media Is the Enabler of American Dysfunction: Philip Giraldi from the Unz Review
Has anyone seen anywhere in the mainstream media a serious discussion of Israel's possible role in the Beirut bombing? I am not suggested an evidence-free indictment of Israel but rather just a review of Israel's possible motive and a consideration of its capability to carry out such an attack without having to directly do it itself with one of its bombs or missiles. Given the Jewish state's unrelenting hostility towards Hezbollah and its repeated violations of Lebanese territory and airspace, it would seem to me that it would at least merit a sentence or two in the New York Times or Washington Post. Or how about the Jeffrey Epstein case, another one involving Israel? There is considerable evidence to suggest that Epstein just might have been using underage girls as sex bait for powerful men so they could be blackmailed into cooperating with Mossad. It might have meant having a Bill Clinton as a presidential spouse if voting had gone the other way in 2016 and Bill would have had to be answerable to Benjamin Netanyahu. I haven't seen anything about that in the newspapers of record or on FOX, MSNBC, CBS or CNN. Or to look at another manifestation of mainstream media mendacity, how about the reporting on the disturbances that have been taking place all around the United States? Recent major riots in Portland and Chicago were frequently ignored in the mainstream media or were described as "peaceful protests" in support of "racial justice," contradicting what one could see with one's own eyes where video was available. The looting, burning, beatings and vandalizing in Oregon over more than eighty days continues nearly nightly with police now withdrawing from Portland after the local district attorney declared that he would avoid prosecuting rioters. In Chicago the looting that centered on the high-end Miracle Mile Michigan Avenue shopping area was so bad that that part of the city had to be closed off by raising the city's bridges. Twelve policemen were injured and more than a hundred looters were arrested. U-Haul trucks were even brought in by the rioters and stolen cars were used to smash open shop windows. It was the second major trashing of the area in the past three months.

Other
Pope Francis praises nun for opening 'trans home' for men claiming to be women, calls them 'girls': Doug Mainwaring from LifeSiteNews
NEUQUÉN, Argentina, August 18, 2020 (LifeSiteNews) – After a controversial nun opened in Argentina a residence for 'trans women' — men who choose to identify as women — Pope Francis praised her work, referring to the men as "girls." Sister Mónica Astorga Cremona, 53, known locally in Argentina as the "Nun of the Trans," cut the ribbon on the new complex of twelve small apartments dedicated solely to housing men claiming to be women and their partners. Upon hearing the news the Pope responded in a communication, according to the nun, "Dear Monica, God who did not go to the seminary or study theology will repay you abundantly. I pray for you and your girls." The Supreme Pontiff, according to the nun, referred to the males, reported to be between 40 and 70 years old, as "girls."
Managing the Narrative: Corporations and government use internet to control information: Philip Giraldi from the Unz Review
Some Americans continue to believe that when they go to the internet they will get a free flow of useful information that will guide them in making decisions or coming to conclusions about the state of the world. That conceit might have been true to an extent twenty years ago, but the growth and consolidation of corporate information management firms has instead limited access to material that it does not approve of, thereby successfully shaping the political and economic environment to conform with their own interests. Facebook, Google and other news and social networking sites now all have advisory panels that are authorized to ban content and limit access by members. This de facto censorship is particularly evident when using the internet information "search" sites themselves, a "service" that is dominated by Google. Ron Unz has observed how when the CEO of Google Sundar Pichai faced congressional scrutiny on July 29th together with other high-tech executives, the questioning was hardly rigorous and no one even asked how the sites are regulated to promote certain information that is approved of while suppressing views or sources that are considered to be undesirable.
Cuties: Rod Dreher from The American Conservative
Rod Dreher: So I'm thinking: the world is crazy. And then I see the child porn that the filthy, disgusting Netflix is bringing us in September, and I think yeah, burn the whole damn thing down. Here is the official synopsis (of Cuties): Eleven-year-old Amy lives with her mom, Mariam, and younger brother, awaiting her father to rejoin the family from Senegal. Amy is fascinated by disobedient neighbor Angelica's free-spirited dance clique, a group that stands in sharp contrast to stoic Mariam's deeply held traditional values. Undeterred by the girls' initial brutal dismissal and eager to escape her family's simmering dysfunction, Amy, through an ignited awareness of her burgeoning femininity, propels the group to enthusiastically embrace an increasingly sensual dance routine, sparking the girls' hope to twerk their way to stardom at a local dance contest. Eleven. Years. Old. Here's the trailer:
NYC is the Abortion Capital of the United States : Human Coalition from Twitter
New York is the abortion capital of the United States, with more than 75,000 preborn children killed by abortion statewide in 2017, according to @HealthNYGov. In the same year, less than 1,300 born children under the age of 10 died from ANY cause. Source: hmnco.link/3jUcpn8
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