China has a ship building capacity advantage over us orders of magnitude more than the U.S. did over Japan in WW2. To close the industrial/tech gap you’d have to go on a massive *hiring* spree within the fed gov. But this is la la land, everyone in charge just wants to steal The scary thing is these neoliberals are completely high on their own supply and very well might start a war with China which we’d lose and then take nuclear before we’d ever even consider reining in the rent seeking finance parasites who run and are destroying this country

Finally finished this. I haven’t seen a convincing refutation of its thesis. It seems clear since the end of the Cold War Israel no longer acts as the USA’s “attack dog” or a traditional client state but rather has a lobby powerful enough to shape U.S. policy to its own ends Mearsheimer and Walt list numerous examples. In 2006 Israel’s invasion of Lebanon undermined a U.S. friendly color revolution government that had just been installed. They turned the Lebanese population from having a positive view to being virulently against the U.S

War with Iran was seriously mooted during the second Bush term and Cheney was all for it. Israel wanted permission to bomb Iran before Obama was sworn in but got told no. The only reason there was no war is the Strait of Hormuz, through which 20-30% of the world’s oil passes In the event of war Iran will certainly shut down the strait which could be a doomsday scenario for global oil markets. This fact led to one of the stranger conspiracies, the Lockerbie bombing of 1988.

List of some of the suspicious deaths in the JFK assassination, starting with the most obvious one Bill Hunter was a reporter for the Long Beach Independent Press Telegram. With permission from Jack Ruby’s lawyer he searched Ruby’s apartment. In April 1964 he was shot dead by a policeman in the pressroom of a Long Beach police station who claimed his gun misfired.