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Former CIA officer John Kiriakou pled guilty to repeatedly and unlawfully leaking the identities and classified operational roles of covert CIA officers to journalists. The leaked identities reached the defense teams of terrorist detainees at Guantanamo Bay, who used them to secretly photograph a covert CIA officer and show those photographs to high-value terrorist detainees. Seized emails later revealed he had disclosed information on dozens of CIA officers — far beyond what he was formally charged with. He was sentenced to 30 months in federal prison. Following his release, Kiriakou worked for Radio Sputnik and contributed to RT, both of which are part of the Russian state media apparatus. None of this matters to @MarioNawfal, of course, because it would interfere with his agenda of platforming anti-Israel and anti-American propaganda.

Sorry Jonah. I actually sat in the room for the first half of the movie. For 24 polite years, Presidents Clinton, Bush and Obama diplomatically asked NATO members to increase defense spending. For 24 years, it was one excuse after another, all focused in Western Europe on how they wish they could spend more, but their social welfare spending priorities wouldn’t let them. In other words, you the US will spend on defense and protect us. Along comes rude Donald Trump. Finally, someone made clear that if Europe kept freeloading the US was done. It took a bill in the China shop to move Europe. Diplomacy failed. Trump prevailed. That’s reality whether you or I like it. NATO self-withered after 75 years. If Spain, England, Italy and France won’t spend what’s necessary to have a real military, it’s time for something new.

Was Iran acting with restraint when it sent death squads to Syria to help Bashar al-Assad murder 500,000+ people? Was Iran acting with restraint when it threw its back into propping up Hezbollah and terrorizing Lebanon? Houthis in Yemen? Terror militias in Iraq?

“The U.S. military campaign created leverage that no previous administration achieved. The question is whether the settlement will be worthy of it, or whether Washington will let Zarif’s narrative, rather than the strategic reality, set the terms.” foreignpolicy.com/2026/04/03/ira…

@redredington22 @TheoVon We have never fought a war for Israel and we make/save money by partnering with them. The return is greater than what we put out.

That's a lie. It's not what happened. It's not how it ever could have happened. The nuclear deal was structured so that when it expired Iran would be able to build a nuclear weapons arsenal while being immune from American pressure. Trump's absolute minimum for a deal has always been that Iran can never have a nuclear weapons capability. The gap was unbridgeable. That's easy to see even at the broadest level. At that level, the Iran debate is divided into two issues: sanctions and nuclear. In the JCPOA, that meant - 1. Sanctions relief. The JCPOA required the US to lock up our most powerful sanctions, including and especially oil sanctions, which had been built against the full range of Iran's malign activities. Iran would get to reap hundreds of billions of dollars annually to build up its navy, missile arsenal, and terrorist proxies, in exchange for concessions just on nuclear issues. 2. Nuclear sunsets. Even those concessions were just temporary. The deal legalized Iran's nuclear program, eventually allowing it to enrich uranium in unlimited amounts to unlimited levels. According to Obama, after a decade under the deal, Iran's nuclear breakout time would shrink to almost zero. In Trump 45, US negotiators spent a year trying to get the Europeans to agree to a "Fix" that would have abolished sunsets and addressed Iran's malign activities. The Europeans said, correctly, that the sunsets were the whole point of the deal, and talks stalled. In Trump 47, US negotiators repeatedly offered the Iranians deals in which Iran's nuclear capabilities would be permanently curtailed. Each time, the Iranians came back with counteroffers that were only temporary, and so here we are.

Hey @CraigMurrayOrg, Have anything to say about “false accusations” now? 🤡 🤡

Jewish-owned restaurant in Toronto shot at 14 times on the 2nd night of Passover. Their other location was shot at last month. ctvnews.ca/toronto/video/…

Somebody share this with Joe Rogan.  A little education can go a long way. washingtonexaminer.com/opinion/451342…

Hasan: "What do you call Crimea? I call it a part of Russian territory, bitch. That's what I call Crimea. I call it cry me a river. A Russian river."

BREAKING: The House Armed Services Committee has been notified that the status of the second service member is not known and may now be missing following the downing of an F-15. - AP

Airdrop a couple million DNA test kits in Turkey and it will do more damage to the country than a nuclear bomb ever could

@bigalchi @FaytuksNetwork What’s the difference?

@FaytuksNetwork Pave Hawks not Black Hawks

USAF incidents today: 1. F-15E shot down over Iran, one crew member rescued, search for the second ongoing 2. A-10 Warthog crashed in the Persian Gulf after taking fire, pilot rescued 3. Two Black Hawk helicopters hit during a search and rescue mission, crews safe

Maybe Rob Malley shouldn’t have been the lead US negotiator in the Iran nuclear deal?

The average American today lives better than John D. Rockefeller did in 1926. That is not an exaggeration. It is a fact. Rockefeller could not fly across the country in five hours. You can for $200. He could not video call his family from another continent. You do it for free. He had no antibiotics, no MRI, no air conditioning in July. He could not carry every book ever written in his pocket. You are reading this on a device that does all of that and more. Americans throw away 30-40% of their food. Not because they are wasteful, but because food is so abundant that waste is affordable. Your car has climate control, navigation, and safety systems that did not exist at any price a century ago. Your home has heating, cooling, refrigeration, and entertainment that emperors could not have imagined. None of this was voted into existence. None of it was redistributed from the rich. It was created by free minds operating in what remains of a free market. Every comfort you enjoy today is the product of a man who thought, invented, produced, and traded voluntarily. This is what the remnants of capitalism still deliver, even while it is being dismantled. Imagine what a fully free society could build.

Arabs, whose presence in the Holy Land began in the 7th century Muslim invasion, decided to call themselves “Palestinians” after the 1967 Six-Day-War, partially as a result of Soviet propaganda. Before that, the word "Palestinian" was generally used to refer to the Jews in pre-state Israel. Even the Jerusalem Post, founded by a Jew named Gershon Agron, was called “The Palestine Post” before 1950. Similarly, the Israel Philharmonic Orchestra was called the Palestine Symphony Orchestra before 1948, when all of its musicians were Jews. It was the Romans who decided to call that land “Palestine” to wipe out the Jewish connection to Judea. “Palestinian” is not an ethnicity. And many Arabs of Gaza and the “West Bank” are originally from Egypt, Syria, the Arabian peninsula, and even lands as far away as Southeast Asia, Sudan, and Bosnia. The reason “Palestinian” is falsely used as an ethnic identity is to falsely portray Arabs as indigenous to the land, which is something that they are not.

This is largely nonsense, and Warren, who is supposed to be an expert on economics, should be embarrassed to make such a claim. Red Lobster is a giant chain that has always been owned by corporate conglomerates, and has been struggling for decades. Red Lobster was owned by General Mills through the 80s and became part of the Darden Restaurant group when Darden, which also owns Olive Garden, was spun off of General Mills in 1995. After Darden acquired Longhorn Steakhouse and Capital Grille in 2007, activist investors pressured the company to get rid of underperforming Red Lobster in order to focus on successful brands. Darden sold Red Lobster to the private equity fund Golden Gate Capital in 2014 for $2.1 billion and used the proceeds to pay down debt and do share repurchases. Darden saw significantly improved margins after the sale. Golden Gate partially financed the acquisition of Red Lobster with leverage adding debt to the company, and liquidated the company's real-estate holdings in sale-leaseback deals, turning the restaurants into tenants in locations the chain had previously owned. Golden Gate sold the chain to Asian seafood conglomerate Thai Union in 2020, and while the deal terms were not fully public, Golden Gate is believed to have made about $500 million restructuring, turning around and selling Red Lobster. Thai Union, which acquired the chain right as the Covid pandemic began hammering restaurants, tried aggressive cost-cutting, impacting the quality of the food. The restaurant's reputation suffered as a result and it became perceived as downscale. The all-you-can-eat shrimp promotion was a response to declining store traffic, but was a debacle for the chain. The promotion was a huge money-loser and it functioned as anti-marketing, as viral videos of crude and rowdy patrons misbehaving in restaurants they were visiting to exploit the "endless shrimp" became closely associated with the brand's reputation. After Thai Union -- which, again, is a foreign seafood conglomerate, not a private equity firm -- ran it completely into the ground, Red Lobster went bankrupt. It is currently attempting a turnaround under the ownership of an investor group led by the private equity firm Fortress Capital Management. But Red Lobster has been struggling for decades, and it's obtuse and disingenuous to blame the chain's problems on the 2014-2020 period when it was owned by Golden Gate -- the only owner who managed to make money on Red Lobster in 30 years.

Israeli-Arab journalist Lucy Aharish in response to a question about why she won’t vote for the Joint List: “people who aren’t capable of saying that they’re Israeli aren’t able to represent me.” But, that’s not all. She continues: “And I have to tell you, after October 7th Arab-Israelis got the ‘Israeli’ smacked into their face. When Hamas terrorists infiltrated they didn’t bother to clarify, they didn’t say ‘hold on let me see who is Arab and who isn’t.’ Yes, their goal was to murder Jews, but when they recognized Arabs they still gave them a bullet to the head.”

“I oppose Israel because it’s an ‘ethnostate’ but I want to see it replaced with an Arab ethnostate. From the river to the sea.”

@Ashique82263474 Why are you leaving out all the Palestinian mass terror like October 7?