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A little more context about U.S. policy and Saudi Arabia.

By: Caitlin Johnstone The Rogue Journalist

"Oceania was at war with Eastasia: Oceania had always been at war with Eastasia." -George Orwell, Nineteen Eightyfour

Could the mainstream media be more irrelevant than it is today? Bob Woodward's new book is an exemplar of fake news.

Much has been made of the absence of President Donald Trump from John McCain's funeral, to which the sitting POTUS was not invited, as well as the absence of Former Alaska Governor Sarah Palin, even though she was McCain's vice presidential candidate in 2008. But no one has seemed to notice the absence of former POTUS Jimmy Carter from the highly attended event for the upper crust elite of United States politics. Maybe it's for speaking the truth – which is never welcome or helpful to politicians.

"McCain graduated from the United States Naval Academy in 1958 and was commissioned into the United States Navy. He became a naval aviator and flew ground-attack aircraft from aircraft carriers. During the Vietnam War, he was almost killed in the 1967 USS Forrestal fire. While on a bombing mission during Operation Rolling Thunder over Hanoi in October 1967, he was shot down, seriously injured, and captured by the North Vietnamese. He was a prisoner of war until 1973. He experienced episodes of torture and refused an out-of-sequence early repatriation offer. The wounds that he sustained during the war left him with lifelong physical disabilities. He retired from the Navy as a captain in 1981 and moved to Arizona, where he entered politics. In 1982, he was elected to the United States House of Representatives, where he served two terms. He entered the U.S. Senate in 1987 and easily won reelection five times, the final time in 2016." - Wikipedia I. He certainly must ha...

And why has the rest of America never come to terms with the defining crimes of our age? By Matt Taibbi McCain was not, generally speaking, a man of strong beliefs. One of the most honest things he ever said was that he didn’t run for president to enact reforms or out of some “grand sense of patriotism,” but simply because “ it had become my ambition to be president .” If anything, he often seemed bored by domestic issues, and was even famous after a fashion for “reaching across the aisle” on matters like campaign finance . But he did have one unshakeable conviction: Wherever America had a foreign policy problem, the solution was always to bomb the fuck out of someone. Long before he became a symbol of anti-Trumpism (despite having contributed significantly to the Trump phenomenon by unleashing Sarah Palin on national politics in 2008), McCain defied the mainstream GOP to support Bill Clinton’s air strikes in Kosovo. McCain wanted to go even further to a ground invasi...

I'm amazed, but not surprised at the American people's entirely misplaced sense of decorum at this hour. When Charles Manson died no one had a word to say against any one who celebrated as they pointed out the obvious about him– that he was a menace to the world, who ordered people under his spell to carry out murders in cold blood. The only difference between Charles Manson and John McCain is the sheer scale of the mayhem and murder orchestrated by the U.S. Senator from Arizona, who just like Manson, ordered people under his spell to carry out murders in cold blood. The unambiguous agenda of the United States is perpetual violent conflict and war, with a staggering human cost. And John McCain has made a career out of being one of its most extreme advocates for that agenda, at the vanguard of the most extreme militant wing of an extremely militant regime. In the West we have a superstition against speaking ill of the dead– De mortuis nihil nisi bonum – Of the dead sa...

John McCain's final words of advice to America. Alex Jones: "Sometimes I want to get on YouTube and just let loose..." Gary Johnson: "If it were up to me, these lobbyists would stop coming up to me..." Cody Wilson: "A visionary vision is scary..."

Not only is the United States backing the Saudi monarchy with intelligence and logistical support as it prosecutes a violent proxy war via relentless airstrikes in one of the world's most destitute and war torn countries, stoking and perpetuating the violence there by providing substantial military support to the embattled corrupt Hadi regime as it seemed on its last leg after a very successful Arab Spring uprising of Houthi revolutionaries... The U.S. is also incidentally fighting alongside terrorist groups, including Al Qaeda and ISIS, who also oppose the Houthi movement's ascension to power in an uprising that enjoys the popular support of a broad segment of Yemeni society. It sounds impossible, so strange and unlikely that it couldn't possibly be true, like a bizarre conspiracy theory fluidly spun in a surreal impromptu rant by someone like Alex Jones, who is fluent in making utterances that are so fantastic that they often make for great unintentional(?), dark, ...

The U.S. military industrial complex is all too enthusiastically helping the government of Saudi Arabia massacre civilians and children in one of the world's poorest countries, Yemen. As multiple Silicon Valley tech giants coordinated a blanket ban of Alex Jones across their social media platforms for "glorifying violence," the Saudi government, a client state of the Western military industrial complex with firm backing from the U.S. federal government, actually did violence to a crowded market full of innocent civilians going about their business. In fact, the airstrike deliberately targeted a school bus (via memeorandum ) in a public marketplace carrying children home from summer school, resulting in 43 dead, 63 wounded. This is a blatant act of terrorism and a crime against humanity, brazenly committed by a coalition of the world's governments. Reuters will shows you some very sad pictures in its report linked to above, like this following picture of a b...