Editor’s Note: The neocons’ insane foreign policy has now brought us closer to nuclear war (see Doomsday Clock) than we have been since the Cuban Missile Crisis in 1962, and IF WE DON’T TAKE THAT SERIOUSLY WE MAKE IT MORE LIKELY TO HAPPEN. The neocons will probably continue to run foreign policy under Trump or Harris, as Joe Lauria explains in the article below.  [Don]

The Madness of Antony Blinken

Two years after the Pentagon shot down his ploy for a no-fly zone against Russia in Ukraine, the U.S. “top diplomat” has been at it again pushing an even more insane idea, writes Joe Lauria.

“On March 7, 2022, two weeks after Moscow entered the civil war in Ukraine, U.S. Secretary of State Antony Blinken told CBS News from Moldova that the U.S. would give NATO-member Poland a “green light” to send Mig-29 fighter jets to Ukraine to enforce a no-fly zone against Russian aircraft. ”

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“Blinken’s recklessness emerged yet again last week when he peddled a story — eagerly picked up by The Guardian and The New York Times — that Biden would approve a British request to fire its Storm Shadow missiles deep into Russia.”

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“Biden has proven himself a supreme warmonger, his advocacy for the illegal invasion of Iraq and his complicity in the genocide in Gaza as the most egregious examples.

“Like the two presidents before him, Biden allowed neocons to worm themselves into positions of power in his administration. But the extent to which Biden himself is a neocon, as opposed to a traditional warmonger, is subject to question.

“As a creature of Washington of more than half a century, he seems to respect the military’s judgement about military matters and, on his good days, understands that even America has limits.

“Barack Obama let Hillary Clinton, the “Queen of Warmongers,” bring Neocon Queen Victoria Nuland into his administration. Donald Trump let neocons John Bolton and Mike Pompeo into his.  And Biden has Blinken (and for a time Nuland too.)

“Instead of banishing these people, they are allowed to linger and drag the U.S. into evermore perilous failures: Iraq, Afghanistan, Gaza and Ukraine, leaving behind a mountain of squandered dollars and an ocean of blood.”

READ FULL ARTICLE HERE:
THE MADNESS OF ANTONY BLINKEN

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EMAIL FROM JILL STEIN CAMPAIGN TODAY:

Excerpt:

“With nothing more than a swipe of a pen in a single sentence, The Supreme Court of the United States has allowed the Nevada Supreme Court to deny a real choice to millions of voters in Nevada.

“We submitted over 29,000 signatures in Nevada, almost three times the required threshold for ballot access. Hard working petitioners braved the sweltering heat to collect signatures of voters who want more democratic choices on the ballot. But after all this hard work, in swooped the anti-Democratic Party with one of their many lawsuits to kick us off the ballot.

“Some media outlets are simply saying “the Green Party used the wrong paperwork.” But here’s the real story: we submitted the correct petition form to the Nevada Secretary of State (a Democrat), they instructed us to use the wrong form, and then the Democrats sued us for using that form! As our legal brief to the Supreme Court said, this violates our constitutional rights by allowing “the government to tell someone to stand on a carpet and then pull that carpet out from under them.”