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Back in September 2017 I wrote an article for the Unz Review site entitled “America’s Jews Are Driving America’s Wars” with the subtitle “Shouldn’t they recuse themselves when dealing with the Middle East?” The article focused on the fact that most of the individuals and groups in the US that were agitating for war with Iran in particular were Jewish and most did not hide their loyalty to Israel, headed then as now by Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu. I argued that it was a mistake to have Jews managing America’s relationships in the Middle East in particular as some of them certainly would experience a conflict of interest that would inevitably not be beneficial to the United States. And, one might add, that in spite of that tie that binds with a foreign government, no pro-Israel group has ever been compelled to register under the Foreign Agents Registration Act of 1938 which would provide some transparency on finances and concerning direct contacts with the Israeli government or its Embassy in Washington.

BANGKOK, Thailand -- China let loose their robot dogs of war -- shooting machine guns mounted on their backs -- during Beijing's biggest military exercise in Cambodia May 16-30, amid a smoldering rivalry along the Gulf of Thailand used by China's Navy and the U.S. 7th Fleet's nuclear-powered aircraft carrier.

The 15-day Golden Dragon 2024 exercises were led by China's People's Liberation Army (PLA) Southern Theater Command guiding Beijing's closest ally in Southeast Asia, the Royal Cambodian Armed Forces.

The U.S. and China are taking turns wooing Cambodia's West Point-educated prime minister with guns, money and friendship, but the Chinese are scoring most of the rewards.

Just as Beijing's biggest military exercise in Cambodia ended, U.S. Defense Secretary Lloyd Austin arrived in Phnom Penh to offer military assistance and mend the often rough diplomatic relations between the two former wartime enemies.

Mr. Austin met Cambodia's Prime Minister Hun Manet and Defense Minister Tea Seiha during his one-day stop on June 4, after attending a Singapore defense forum where he met his Chinese counterpart Adm. Dong Jun.

Dear friends (read, disseminate, and act)

It is hard to sleep these days especially in besieged bloodied
Palestine...the scenes of horrors in the Gaza Strip (and increasingly
spreading in the West Bank) are far too graphic, too disturbing. Friends of
ours are mistreated in jails of colonizers, the few released look
physically wasted (skeletons tramatized physicaly and psychologically). I
cannot take their images out of my head (e.g. Basem Tamimi from Nebi
Saleh).  Others like Issa Amro are beaten by colonial thugs. We living
under the boots of the Zionazi regime try to be active and productive as
best as possible within our capacities and "wiggle room".  The people of
the Gaza strip are in dire non-survival mode: seeing their families wiped
out, finding no medical care for injured or sick, starving and having no
drinkable water, and knowing that hundreds of millions of people around the
world are apathetic and that politicians are bought or blackmailed by the
evil doers. Is 76 years of colonization and ethnic cleansing enough? Eight
million Palestinian made refugees or displaced people. Is that enough?

Our government is planning a big draft, conscripting millions of young Americans for an even bigger war!

I call to your attention a Democratic amendment to the National Defense Authorization Act (NDAA), which was slipped into the almost trillion-dollar Pentagon war spending bill, by voice vote, in the House Armed Services committee.

The Democratic Amendment to H.R. 8070, the National Defense Authorization (NDAA) reads:  

Section 531. Selective Service System:  Automatic Registration.  SEC. 3. (a)(1) “Except as otherwise provided in this title, every male citizen of the United States, and every other male person residing in the United States, between the ages of eighteen and twenty-six, shall be automatically registered under this Act by the Director of the Selective Service System.” 

This amendment is in the NDAA legislation and there is no pending amendment to strip it from the bill.  So, when the NDAA passes, as early as this week, Congress will have taken steps to make automatic conscription the law of the land.

We ask everyone who can take the time to write the parole board and whoever else can make a difference to go to https://freeleonard-peltier.com and/or https://FREELEONARDPELTIERNOW.ORG and make your power felt to release this great Indigenous hero who MUST be united with his family ASAP.

RHONDA ROFF and MYLA RESON remind us that the fabulous film “San Onofre Syndome” about a great No Nukes triumph is available through NIRS.org; don’t miss it!!

US REPRESENTATIVE PRAMILA JAYAPAL is introduced by MIKE HERSH to give us the inside lowdown on Universal Health Care / Medicare for all.

DR. NANCY NIPARKO, PAUL NEWMAN, HEDY TRIPP,  RAY MCCLENDON join in with the Congreswoman and her life-and-death campaign for our species’ health.

WENDI LEDERMAN reminds us of the key role played by south Florida’s Cuban community and of protecting our poll workers in the coming election.

ALEX WILLIAMS seconds the motion on Medicare for All.

MYLA RESON and ROBERT HANSEN continue the dialog.

OK, the big question: Should our country – USA! USA! – return to a place of godliness?

Suddenly the nation’s stewpot of controversy started boiling over, thanks to Supreme Court Justice Samuel Alito being secretly recorded agreeing with a fake conservative at the Supreme Court Historical Society dinner last week.

The fake conservative – progressive filmmaker Lauren Windsor – managed to snag (and record) a conversation with Alito at the event, in which she lamented she could see no way a conservative Christian could make peace with liberals and their focus ought to be on “winning the moral argument.” They had to “keep fighting” and, ka-wham, “return our country to a place of godliness.”

On June 6, Spain joined South Africa’s case at the United Nations top Court, accusing Israel of genocide.