Op-ed: Ground Troops Needed to Defeat Iran. U.S. Army 1M Short. Recruitment Drive Should Include Total Debt Forgiveness

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By R. Cort Kirkwood (The New American) As expected, boosters for the war against Iran now admit what everyone knew when President Trump scrapped the Constitution and attacked the country on behalf of Israel. An air campaign will not bring Iran to heel. That leaves one option: Ground troops — hundreds of thousands of soldiers and Marines on the ground, slugging it out in a country that Israel...

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Resistance to Flock’s Eye of Sauron Grows in Congress

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By R. Cort Kirkwood (The New American) Congressional resistance to law enforcement’s increasingly using Flock cameras to code and trace the activities of Americans without a warrant is growing rapidly. The concern: The cameras are a mass-surveillance tool that permits cops to skirt the Fourth Amendment to the federal Constitution. Last week, GOP U.S. Senator Josh Hawley of Missouri...

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IDF Volunteer Mast a Candidate for Army Secretary

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By R. Cort Kirkwood (The New American) Army Secretary Dan Driscoll’s resignation because of his squabbles with Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth has invited the usual speculation about his replacement. One candidate is a man who volunteered for the Israel Defense Forces, and once wore an IDF uniform in the halls of Congress: GOP Representative Brian Mast of Florida. The possibility has undoubtedly...

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War Games (Ratcliffe in Moscow)

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By Wayne Allensworth CIA Director John Ratcliffe’s “secret” visit to Moscow last week prompted a flurry of speculation about its purpose and what transpired at his meeting with Russian intelligence chiefs. Ratcliffe did not meet with Russian President Vladimir Putin, but with Russian Foreign Intelligence (SVR) chief Sergei Naryshkin and the head of the Federal Security Service (FSB), Aleksandr...

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What is “America”?

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By Wayne Allensworth It’s a good question, especially if one takes into account the world view of our ruling class, the Epstein Party, that has a very different view of America than many of us do. Elites have a mania for control. Their Will to Power guides them in all things. Your observer has tried to explain the forms that takes in the post-modern era in terms of a certain mode of...

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Journalist Levins: DHS Detained and Grilled Me About Social-media Post That Criticized Israeli Minister

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By R. Cort Kirkwood (The New American) An American independent journalist has alleged that the Department of Homeland Security (DHS) detained him at an airport on August 20 and interrogated him about a social-media post in which he criticized an Israeli politician. The journalist is Ethan Levins. The politician is Itamar Ben Gvir, Israeli minister of national security. Levins criticized Gvir on X...

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Is Israeli Gov’t Funneling Big Bucks to Cruz Through Radio Syndicate?

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By R. Cort Kirkwood (The New American) The Israeli government appears to be subsidizing GOP Senator Ted Cruz’s super Pac by purchasing ads on the Israel-First lawmaker’s podcast. The ad campaign is appropriately titled “I Am Israel.” While Responsible Statecraft explains that Israel is drumming up tourist revenue because Israel’s never ending wars have kept prudent tourists away from the country...

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 Trump Has No Immigration Strategy (The Big Bend Controversy)

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By Wayne Allensworth Donald Trump is a reality TV president. We have come to expect a lot of huffing and puffing and threats and empty boasts about a mythical “Golden Age” that exists only in the collective mind of MAGA and Trump’s narcissistic ego. We have also come to expect lots of big bucks for contractors, especially Trump donors and their allies. So, I take it seriously when I hear voices...

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Fox Talker Levin Again Slyly Suggests Using Atom Bomb on Iran. Proximity to Trump a Cause for Alarm?

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By R. Cort Kirkwood (The New American) Neoconservative podcaster Mark Levin, whom President Donald Trump has implicitly confessed plays a major role in his decision-making, has again slyly suggested that the United States must attack Iran with a nuclear weapon. Speaking on his Life, Liberty, and Levin Fox program, Levin again cited high casualties during World War II as the reason...

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CIA Assessment of Israeli Intel on Alleged Iranian Threat Against Trump: “Low Confidence”

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By R. Cort Kirkwood (The New American) Yet again, it appears that Israeli intelligence fed bogus intelligence to the United States, this time about the supposed Iranian threat to assassinate President Donald Trump by targeting Air Force One with a missile. The supposed threat led to an elaborate scheme to let Trump board the jet, then hustle him off in a catering truck to a waiting Air Force...

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