Stephen Lendman

Israel is a rogue terror state. It has no enemies. It invents them and pretends.

Israel threatens world peace and security. It's a global menace. The International Jewish Anti-Zionist Network (IJAZN) is unequivocal. Its new pamphlet headlined "Israel's Worldwide Role in Repression." It discusses...

"...the role of Israel’s government, its military, and related corporations and organizations in a global industry of violence and repression." "The states most involved with this industry profit from perpetual war and occupation across the globe while maintaining vastly unequal societies of their own." "Maintaining and expanding" Israeli colonization of Palestine requires regional ethnic cleansing, military repression, and "accompanying atrocities." Israel "developed great expertise." It exports it "on an industrial scale. Doing so is crucial to its economic and political power."

It partners with Washington's crimes. It collaborates with the worst of regional despots. It's waging war on Palestine, other world communities, and popular movements.

Allied with America and other Western states, it seeks regional dominance and resource control. It wants its share of what Franklin Roosevelt's State Department called a "stupendous source of strategic power, and one of the greatest material prizes in world history." It referred to Saudi oil. Regional control is now sought.

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Naomi Spencer

"[A large amount of] ammunition has been solicited by the DHS. Within the next 4 years, they expect to acquire 200,000 million rounds of .223 rifle bullets. For training snipers, DHS have ordered two types of .308 caliber rounds – blanks and 168 grain hollow point boat tail ammunition. This new purchase adds to the 1.8 billion rounds of ammunition they have solicited for months in preparation for...something." (Susanne Posel)

Flanked by schoolchildren to evoke the December 14 Newtown, Connecticut school shooting, President Barack Obama announced a raft of gun control proposals Wednesday. In addition to legislative proposals for Congress, Obama signed 23 executive orders during a news conference at the White House.

The plan, drawn up by a task force headed by Vice President Joseph Biden, includes the expansion of FBI databases to include background checks on all individuals seeking to purchase a gun and a ban on military-style assault weapons.

Since the tragic tragic mass shooting by 20-year old Adam Lanza, including the killing of 20 children, nothing has been said in the political establishment and mass media about the underlying causes of such actions: social dislocation, inequality and above all the militarization of American society.

On the contrary, the new gun control measures are primarily aimed at expanding the powers of the state over an increasingly polarized and unstable society.

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Jon Rappoport

Weapons are being fired all the time on television, but that happens on cop shows. Network programmers know the public will obsessively watch guns going off and bodies falling. On the news, however, the issue of gun ownership is adjudicated independently of the glee that accompanies watching fictional people kill each other. When it’s fantasy, the audience wants violence. When it’s real, the audience wants no violence. Dealing with this schizoid condition would be a problem for the networks, were it not for the fact that there is a bridge between the two states of mind: “The good guys win.”

They win in every episode of every cop show. They always have. Decades of this operant conditioning lead the audience to expect it will happen in real life, where crime and guns and cops are involved. So in the wake of Sandy Hook, for the public, the resolution must belong to the cops. The idea that it might somehow belong to private citizens doesn’t sit right. The cops win by controlling the guns. For the television-watching public, that fits. It makes sense.

In every crime series, the guns of the cops turn out to be superior to those of the criminals…so to speak. And in real life, it translates into: take the guns from private citizens. Make the good guys win.

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