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BREAKING: 🇺🇸 House Passes GOP Antisemitism Bill Many who voted against the bill said it infringes on free speech.

It requires the Department of Education to use the International Holocaust Remembrance Alliance working definition of antisemitism when enforcing federal anti-discrimination laws. The working definition says antisemitism is in-part ‘a certain perception of Jews, which may be expressed as hatred toward Jews.’ The definition includes denying Jewish people their right to self-determination by claiming that the State of Israel is a racist state and drawing comparisons of contemporary Israeli policy to that of the Nazis.

LINK: https://abcnews.go.com/Politics/house-vote-gop-antisemitism-bill-amid-college-unrest/story?id=109830325

🇸🇦🇺🇸 The U.S. and Saudi Arabia are close to a “Defense Pact”: — U.S. will military commit to Riyadh’s security — US will provide access to previously off limit weapons — Saudis will limit Chinese tech in the kingdom — A US-led civilian nuclear program will be started — Saudis will recognise Israel if Netanyahu stops the war, and commits a to Palestinian state @MyLordBebo | Boost us! | X

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Shades of 1968: The New York police assault on Columbia University demonstrators By Gilbert Doctorow Yesterday’s NYPD storming of Hamilton Hall on the Columbia University campus which had been occupied by student demonstrators protesting Israeli genocide in Gaza has brought the clash between America’s non-academic, pro-Washington narrative university administrators and its more idealistic students to the attention of global media. After taking the building, the police arrested the demonstrators and, before television cameras, paraded them off, wrists bound, to waiting buses for dispatch to jail. From following developments on campus ever since from the weekly program announcements of the Harriman, it is crystal clear that the situation with respect to freedom of speech and thought on the subject of Russia has only gotten worse. Moreover, in the past two years of the Moscow’s Special Military Operation the whole discipline of Russian studies at Columbia has been pulled up by the roots and been replaced by Ukrainian studies and studies of the supposedly colonized nationalities of the former Russian Empire. The process is being called ‘de-colonization.’ Until and unless I see a sobering up of our universities from their intoxication with Russophobia, I will not believe that freedom of speech on campus has been restored, whatever the outcome of the present confrontations over Israeli genocide. But who knows? Perhaps someone among the present day rebels will move beyond outrage over 34,000 murdered Palestinians and consider the possibility of hundreds of millions of dead civilians globally including in the good old U.S. of A. should the present clash in Ukraine be allowed to escalate to WWIII.

Russia and the West Finally Decoded - Fascinating Stuff! Ivor Cummins with Alex Krainer Superb short explanation of everything related to the Russian/Putin/Western Problem - Alex Krainer in Dubai has indeed cracked it!

What 10 Years of U.S. Meddling in Ukraine Have Wrought (Spoiler Alert: Not Democracy) By Aaron Maté, RealClearInvestigations Above, a map of Ukraine in green, with territory occupied or annexed by Russia in light green to the right -- i.e., the eastern Donbas and the Crimean peninsula in the southeast. President Biden vows a fight for democracy, but recent history calls that into question.

Aaron Maté : Ten Years of US in Ukraine Judge Napolitano - Judging Freedom

Why the GOP Betrayed Its Own Voters on Ukraine With Ryan McMaken and Zachary Yost Washington Post conservative George Will trots out every tired slogan and bromide in the book to claim that Putin is Hitler and the Ukraine war is a fight for civilization.

How Biden Showed the World the US & NATO Are Paper Tigers By Ian DeMartino On April 13, Iran responded to an Israeli attack on its embassy in Syria by striking Israel with more than 300 drones and missiles. While most were shot down by Israeli and US air defenses, hypersonic missiles fired by Iran hit their targets, showcasing the limits of Western defenses.

Troops on the Ground: Biden’s Plan for Ukraine by Ted Snider Despite billions of dollars of military aid, equipment maintenance, training, intelligence, and planning from the United States and its partners in the political West, the war in Ukraine is going very badly. The Commander-in-Chief of the Armed Forces of Ukraine, Oleksandr Syrskyi, says “the situation at the front has escalated.” He says that Russia has “concentrated major efforts in several sectors, creating a significant advantage in forces and means. They attack actively along the entire front line. In some sectors,” he admits, “they achieved tactical gains.” If the up to sixty additional personnel the United States is considering sending to Ukraine to “support logistics and oversight” as well as “maintenance” of “complex equipment donated by the U.S.” are being sent to assist with long-range missiles that can target Crimea, then this decision is fraught with risk. Russia has shown restraint with the incrementally growing Western involvement in the war, but if they perceive direct involvement with the logistics and oversight of long-range missiles to be active involvement in firing on what they perceive to be Russian territory, that could conceivably cross the escalatory red line. As the West decides what to do in the face of a deteriorating Ukrainian battlefield, increasingly dangerous decisions will have to be made, including whether they should send long-range missiles and, more provocatively, the personnel to help operate them.