"Wars & Rumors of Wars": White House Travel Plans Change
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Glenn Greenwald's Political Consistency Is Why The "Left" and "Right" Oscillate Between Praising Him and Attacking Him.
I'm not the biggest fan of libertarians generally, but there are very, very few instances of Greenwald changing his views to fit a narrative or some politician he may like. The same cannot be said for Democrats or Republicans who believe that they are arbiters of the "Left v Right" debate in America: Also, this "Ben Shapiro fast-talking" debate style is grating.
Intelligence And Ideology Are Like Oil & Water
As Dialogue Works' guest explains, intelligence must be as objective as possible to get the most honest assessment. If your data-gathers and analyzers can't separate their biases from their work, the findings will always be skewed (comments start around 10-minute mark):
How The West Has Failed The Public Regarding Palestine.
Now that a year has passed since Hamas attacked Israel for hostages to, in part, negotiate the release of Palestinian hostages and the Israeli government responded by killing Hamas, Palestinians, and even potential Israeli hostages, we can look at ways the West has, at best, downplayed the actions of the Israeli government while amplifying the actions of Hamas (aka Palestinians), Hezbollah (aka, Lebanon), the Houthis (aka Yemen), and Iran to fit a simplistic "Good Guys vs Bad Guys" dynamic. "Success" in war/battle is determined by civilian casualties/destruction of non-military property : Iran's recent (retaliatory) strike on Israeli military targets was called ineffective by many outlets . Meanwhile, Israeli victory has been defined by death and destruction ("[the IDF has] reduced large swaths of Gaza to rubble, made nearly two million Gazans internal refugees, and killed more than 40,000 Palestinians - about a third of them Hamas militants, according ...
