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The Biden administration has a deep-seated interest in a stable Middle East. The Netanyahu government, however, seems to be “willing to set the region ablaze,” as one Israeli columnist recently observed.
The Russiagate myth persists. It is useful in so many ways for those in the U.S. who still want to ratchet up even more tension with Russia and for a political party to perhaps again explain away an election loss if it happens in November.
Pay close attention to the political conventions for presidential candidates, and it becomes immediately evident that Americans have allowed themselves to be brainwashed into worshiping a political idol manufactured by the Deep State.
Whole of society is a totalizing form of politics. As the name implies, it discards the traditional separation of powers and demands political participation from corporations, civic groups, and other nonstate actors.
The modern world entails a “compulsion to authenticity;” the bringing of the self under the reign of the market-economic worldview such that we must produce identities much as we produce anything else.
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