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The Magic of Israel

Now you see it, now you don’t

Philip Giraldi • April 13, 2021

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The popular narrative of plucky little Israel prevailing over hordes of bloodthirsty Arabs has captured the Western imagination even though it is manifestly false in almost every detail. But Israel’s greatest accomplishment might well be something else, it’s ability to make things disappear. It plausibly all began in June 1967 when Israel attacked the USS... Read More

The Yankees Are Coming Home: the Taliban Won. Get Over It

Philip Giraldi • April 8, 2021

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American soldiers can still win wars, but it has to be a real war where there is something genuine at stake, like protecting one’s home and family. It hardly made the evening news, but the New York Times reported last week that after twenty years of fighting the Taliban are confident that they will fully... Read More

Would Israel Blackmail a US Congressman?

Should there be any doubt?

Philip Giraldi • April 6, 2021

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Israel has been involved in several stories currently making their way through the US media. The most fascinating tale concerns Republican Party Congressman from Florida Matt Gaetz. Gaetz is a Donald Trump loyalist who has up until recently been touted as the party’s future. Young, photogenic and a “firebrand” defender of GOP priorities, he has... Read More

The Endless War: Afghanistan Goes On and On

Philip Giraldi • April 2, 2021

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All indications are that the Pentagon will be able to maneuver more effectively in Washington than on the battlefield. Given the present atmosphere in Washington in which there is no lie so outrageous as to keep it out of the mainstream media, a great deal of policy making takes place without even key players in... Read More

Christians Are White Supremacist Extremists

But don’t mention the Palestinians

Philip Giraldi • March 30, 2021

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The California State Board of Education has finally passed its Ethnic Studies curriculum including discussion of Jews, emphasizing their victimhood and contributions to the United States, without including any other “white” ethnicities, several of which are far more numerous than are Jewish Americans. Or perhaps the Jewish “advisers” who collaborated on creating an “acceptable” final... Read More

America Against the World: Everyone Is a Frenemy

Anyone who expected a change in tone in foreign policy due to the transition from Trump to Biden has to be disappointed.

Philip Giraldi • March 25, 2021

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There are certainly a number of reasons why the United States government is now only viewed favorably by the Israelis, but totally tone deaf foreign and economic policies have to be right up there in how the world sees Washington. Rather than conform to how other nations are expected to behave, the U.S. has elevated... Read More

Is Joe Biden Enabling Russiagate 2?

His national security team provides the script

Philip Giraldi • March 23, 2021

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The old expression that “lightning never strikes the same place twice” is frequently used in the aftermath of a truly awful experience, meaning that the odds are that something exactly like that will never occur again. Unfortunately, however, we Americans will now have to endure lightning striking twice due to the emergence of President Joe... Read More

The Puppet Masters: Is There Really a Deep State?

The danger posed by the Deep State is that it wields immense power but is unelected and unaccountable

Philip Giraldi • March 18, 2021

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As a former intelligence officer, I find it amusing to read articles in the mainstream media that blithely report how the latest international outrages are undoubtedly the work of CIA and the rest of the U.S. government’s national security alphabet soup. The recurring claim that the CIA is somehow running the world by virtue of... Read More

The Intellectually Superior Perpetual Victim Again on Display

Bret Stephens tells us all about it

Philip Giraldi • March 16, 2021

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Those who have followed developments in the Middle East would likely agree that Israel covers up its war crimes and other human rights violations by regularly invoking its own victimhood. Whether the subject is U.S. aid to the Jewish state or media coverage of the illegal expansion of Israel into the West Bank, one will... Read More

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Domestic Terrorism Goes Transnational: the War on Dissidents Picks Up Momentum

Philip Giraldi • March 11, 2021

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The Biden Administration is now preparing to go after the people that it objects to and will create new laws as necessary to do so. The claim is often made that President George W. Bush’s war on terror, which produced legislation that was employed to attack Iraq in 2003, eventually morphed into the worst foreign... Read More

Wherefore Art Thou Ghislaine Maxwell?

And who are your friends?

Philip Giraldi • March 9, 2021

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It is now going on a year and a half since “financier” and pedophile Jeffrey Epstein died, allegedly by hanging himself in a New York City prison. Since that time it has surfaced that there were a number of “administrative” errors in the jail, meaning that Epstein was not being observed or on suicide watch... Read More

Some Doggie Stories: Even Companion Animals Are Being Politicized

Philip Giraldi • March 4, 2021

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Why are people spending their time and money rescuing dogs who are the victims of abandonment or abuse being labeled “white supremacists?” In most countries, dogs are regarded either as “working” or as companions and they rarely venture into the realm of politics apart from occasionally serving as props to demonstrate that their owners are... Read More

More Suggestions for Dealing with Israel

Recusal and banning dual nationality good places to start

Philip Giraldi • March 2, 2021

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My article last week that made some suggestions about what ordinary Americans can do to put pressure on Israel and on the lopsided bilateral relationship with Washington that has done so much damage to the United States proved to be quite popular. It also resulted in some comments by readers who saw other issues that... Read More

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Biden’s Journey: Change Is Imperceptible

Philip Giraldi • February 25, 2021

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Biden has been a major disappointment for those who hoped that he’d change course regarding America’s pathological involvement in overseas conflicts. The new White House Team has been in place for more than a month and it is perhaps time to consider where it is going with America’s fractured foreign policy. To be sure, when... Read More

What to Do About Israel?

Here are some suggestions

Philip Giraldi • February 23, 2021

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Critics of U.S. policy with and about Israel like myself have been relatively successful in describing the considerable downside in the bilateral status quo. We have demonstrated that the lopsided relationship supports absolutely no U.S. interest and that, on the contrary, considerable damage is done to the American people, to include involvement in armed conflict... Read More

The Decline of the West: American Education Surrenders to "Equity"

Philip Giraldi • February 18, 2021

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It will be difficult or even impossible to go back to a system where learning is actually a discipline that requires hard work and dedication. Public education in the United States, if measured by results, has been producing graduates that are less competent in language skills and dramatically less well taught in the sciences and... Read More

ICC to Investigate Israeli War Crimes

United States will punish ICC

Philip Giraldi • February 16, 2021

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Well, as usual, there is good news and bad news. The good news is that the International Criminal Court (ICC) in The Hague has finally received authorization to proceed with the investigation of possible war crimes and crimes against humanity in Israel-Palestine, to include both the Israel Defense Force (IDF) and also Hamas in Gaza.... Read More

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Biden Doubles Down on Some Bad Policies and Appointments

Philip Giraldi • February 11, 2021

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The prize for the truly awful story of the week goes to the appointment of AIPAC monster to head Pentagon planning for the Middle East. The extension of the nuclear arms agreement between Russia and the United States and the decision to stop directly supporting the war on Yemen may have been the only good... Read More

Another Zionist Joins the Biden Team

Neuberger will make our cyber secure?

Philip Giraldi • February 9, 2021

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It does not require any particularly perspicacity to realize that the President Joe Biden Administration has been loaded with Zionists who not only believe in their own vision for Greater Israel but also in some cases have strong and enduring ties to the Israeli government itself. The new Secretary of State Tony Blinken comes from... Read More

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Why Always Israel? Only One Country Matters to Congress and the Media

Philip Giraldi • February 4, 2021

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Pandering to Israel as part of the political process in the United States has become part of the DNA of both major parties. The job of U.S. Ambassador to the United Nations must have some kind of curse on it as it seems to attract a type of woman who seeks to prove her suitability... Read More

Israel Cracks the Whip

Netanyahu tells Biden how to deal with Iran

Philip Giraldi • February 2, 2021

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Anyone who persists in believing that the United States is not Israel’s poodle should pay attention to the comedy that is playing out right now. Joe Biden was president for less than a week when the Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu government announced that he would soon be receiving a possibly unwelcome visitor in the form... Read More

A Domestic Terrorism Law? War on Dissent Will Proceed Full Speed Ahead

What makes the current state of war against “terrorism” so dangerous is that the national security apparatus has...

Philip Giraldi • January 28, 2021

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President Joe Biden has already made it clear that legislation that will be used to combat what he refers to as “domestic terrorism” will be a top priority. That means that his inaugural speech pledge to be the president for “all Americans” appears to apply except for those who don’t agree with him. Former Barack... Read More

Trump's Unpardonable Pardons

Another disgraceful performance from “Israel’s president”

Philip Giraldi • January 26, 2021

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One keeps hearing that former President Donald Trump will be judged well by the history books because he was the only American head of state in recent memory who did not start any new wars. Well, the claim is itself questionable as Jimmy Carter, for all his faults, managed to avoid entering into any new... Read More

Pompeo’s Last Stand

Philip Giraldi • January 21, 2021

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Goodbye Sheldon Adelson

The malignant toad is dead

Philip Giraldi • January 19, 2021

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Casino magnate and Israeli patriot multi-billionaire Sheldon Adelson, one of the world’s richest men, died in Las Vegas on January 11th at age 87. He had been suffering from cancer and has been buried at the Mount of Olives Cemetery in Israel. When his body arrived in Israel it was met by Prime Minister Benjamin... Read More

No One Is Listening: A Country Divided Against Itself

Philip Giraldi • January 14, 2021

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The U.S. may morph into two nations with the increasingly impoverished helot “deplorables” under the heel of the empowered social justice warriors. In a recent article Catholic University professor Claes G. Ryn wrote “Few people are really open to persuasion in any case—not just on political subjects but on any subject about which they care... Read More

In Search of Enemies

Interventionists dominate Biden national security team

Philip Giraldi • January 12, 2021

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What occurred at the United States Capitol last week was surely reprehensible, but to my mind the real enduring damage that was done to our form of government took place in a basement in Wilmington Delaware where president-designate Joe Biden was putting together some of the final pieces of his foreign policy and national security... Read More

More War by Other Means: Sanctioning the Wife of Syria’s President Makes No Sense to Anyone

Philip Giraldi • January 7, 2021

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More sanctions, by all means. More grief and suffering and more people around the world wondering what exactly the United States is doing. I am a recipient of regular, usual weekly, emails from the Department of the Treasury providing an “Update to OFAC’s list of Specially Designated Nationals (SDN) and Blocked Persons.” OFAC is the... Read More

A New Year's Wish

Let's remove Israel from American politics

Philip Giraldi • January 5, 2021

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There has been one good thing about the COVID-19 virus – for the first time many among the general public are beginning to ask why a rich country like Israel should be getting billions of dollars from the United States taxpayer at a time when many Americans are struggling. Inevitably, of course, the press coverage... Read More

A New War in the New Year? Trump Again Takes Aim at Iran

Philip Giraldi • December 31, 2020

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One of the most perplexing narratives presented during the waning days of the administration of President Donald J. Trump is his apparent disengagement from dealing seriously or providing leadership regarding the surging Coronavirus while at the same time continuing an activist foreign policy that in no way benefits any American. Ironically, the new administration of... Read More

A Pardoning Time of Year

Will the president do the right thing?

Philip Giraldi • December 29, 2020

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The resistance to the apparent election of Joe Biden as President of the United States is continuing to play out. Current President Donald Trump is continuing to fight against the presumed results of the November national election with his final card appearing to be a vote in Congress when it reconvenes on January 6th to... Read More

Democracies Don’t Start Wars. But Democrats Do

Philip Giraldi • December 24, 2020

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It may have been President Bill Clinton who once justified his wrecking of the Balkans by observing that liberal interventionism to bring about regime change is a good thing because “Democracies don’t start wars with other democracies.” Or it might have been George W. Bush talking about Iraq or even Barack Obama justifying his destruction... Read More

The Revenge Agenda

Is it really a dish best served cold?

Philip Giraldi • December 22, 2020

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The upcoming year should be interesting. The Establishment “Deep State” has won a major victory in the United States with the election of Joe Biden as president. What remains to be seen is whether or not there will be significant bloodletting as a consequence, revenge for the presumed misdeeds that constituted the core legacy of... Read More

A Return to Normalcy? Joe Biden’s Vision of Normal Raises Concerns

Philip Giraldi • December 17, 2020

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It has already been observed that Joe Biden’s incoming cabinet looks a bit like old wine in new bottles, drawing as it does on veterans from the Barack Obama and even the Bill Clinton administrations. That’s the bad news as it very much looks like business as usual as the Military-Industrial-Congressional-Wall Street kleptocracy is reasserting... Read More

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Liberal Except for Palestine

Jewish groups manipulate the message

Philip Giraldi • December 15, 2020

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It is remarkable how leading Jewish organizations manage to play both sides on so-called “humanitarian” and “human rights” issues. It is, of course, well established that Jewish voters lean heavily “liberal” or “progressive” and constitute perhaps the most solid of all Democratic Party constituencies, so it is almost instinctive on their part that they would... Read More

The Politics of COVID Vaccinations: Who Will Get Them and When?

Philip Giraldi • December 10, 2020

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The first thing to understand is that there will not be enough COVID-19 vaccine to go around for many months to come, so the process of who comes first will essentially be a political decision since governments at various levels will inevitably be managing the distribution process. And there will be considerable confusion when the... Read More

The Maxwells: Mossad’s First Family of Spies

Who was running whom in the Epstein espionage ring?

Philip Giraldi • December 8, 2020

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The story of the deceased pedophile and presumed Israeli spy Jeffrey Epstein continues to enthrall because so little of the truth regarding it has been revealed in spite of claims by the government that a thorough follow-up investigation has been initiated. The case is reportedly still open and it is to be presumed that Justice... Read More

A Killing in Iran: Who Gains from Yet Another Assassination?

Philip Giraldi • December 3, 2020

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It is not often that one can agree with the pronouncements made by former Central Intelligence Agency (CIA) Director John Brennan, but his tweeted comment on the killing of Iranian scientist Mohsen Fakhrizadeh suggesting that the incident “…was a criminal act & highly reckless. It risks lethal retaliation & a new round of regional conflict.... Read More

Tony Blinken Replaces Mike Pompeo

Israel’s friends will enjoy four more years in power

Philip Giraldi • December 1, 2020

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I for one am getting really excited by the staff that Honest Joe Biden is pulling together for the White House. When I first heard the name Tony Blinken during the Obama kleptocracy I assumed that he was one of those Ivy League lawyer types that proliferate in Washington, likely affiliated with the firm of... Read More

Coming Soon from Joe and Kamala: Hooray for the Revolution!

Philip Giraldi • November 26, 2020

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There is something quite scary about the way leading Democrats have persistently wrapped their attempts to control the American people in platitudes and self-righteous drivel. Joe Biden and Kamala Harris, who are currently pulling their team together, are no different than the Clintons and Obamas who preceded them and are already on course to establish... Read More

Trump Administration Displays Its Love for Israel

Netanyahu's every wish is granted

Philip Giraldi • November 24, 2020

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President Donald Trump’s gifts to Israel in the last few weeks of his administration are, quite frankly, incomprehensible based on any consideration that U.S. foreign policy should be reflective of American national and international interests. On the contrary, the nearly worldwide assessment of the United States as a completely rogue nation headed by someone who... Read More

War à la Mode: Will a Vindictive Trump Start a War with Iran or Will He Bring the Troops Home?

Philip Giraldi • November 19, 2020

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I have a crazy idea that I can’t get out of my head, that we Americans are heading for something like an Armageddon in the next several months no matter how the currently electoral imbroglio is resolved. My greatest concern is that I fear that Trump is going to attack Iran, either through some kind... Read More

Israel’s Power Is Unlimited

Democrats and Republicans bow to force majeure

Philip Giraldi • November 17, 2020

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Even though there was virtually no debate on foreign policy during the recent presidential campaign, there has been considerable discussion of what President Joe Biden’s national security team might look like. The general consensus is that the top levels of the government will be largely drawn from officials who previously served in the Obama administration... Read More

Neocons Poised to Join New Government

Philip Giraldi • November 12, 2020

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Donald Trump was much troubled during his 2016 and 2020 campaigns by so-called conservatives who rallied behind the #NeverTrump banner, presumably in opposition to his stated intention to end or at least diminish America’s role in wars in the Middle East and Asia. Those individuals are generally described as neoconservatives but the label is itself... Read More

The Strange Demise of The American Herald Tribune

Another independent news source is suppressed

Philip Giraldi • November 10, 2020

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Many observers would agree that the biggest loser in the recent U.S. presidential election was not Donald Trump, it was the media. The news that was presented to the American public amounted to a tsunami of negative reporting on Donald Trump buttressed by opinion polls that turned out to be poorly executed and wrong by... Read More

Imperial Overstretch Arrives: Americans Do Not Need the American Empire

Philip Giraldi • November 5, 2020

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This piece is being written as voters are going to the polls on election day in the United States. While it has been useful to consider how things might change, possibly for the worse, one must also recognize that much of what happens in the U.S. and in its far-flung empire operates by virtue of... Read More

Israel Wins U.S. Election

Congress and White House work together to reward the Jewish state

Philip Giraldi • November 3, 2020

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The U.S. election will end today, more or less, and we Americans will suffer another four years of putting up with serial nonsense out of a White House and Congress that could care less about us no matter who is elected. Whether the party where everything changes or the party where everything remains the same... Read More

The Disappearing America: Progressives Want a Revolution, Not Just Change

Philip Giraldi • October 29, 2020

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In any given news cycle it is sometimes the lesser articles that are more illuminating in terms of where everything in a country as vast as the United States is heading. This is particularly true in terms of what the U.S. has been experiencing in 2020: a pandemic, civil unrest, wars and continued turmoil overseas... Read More

The “Wokeness” Wars Coming to Your Town

America’s wealthiest county surrenders to Critical Race Theory twaddle

Philip Giraldi • October 27, 2020

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Kurt Vonnegut’s 1961 dystopian short story “Harrison Bergeron” describes a 2081 America in which the 211th, 212th, and 213th amendments to the Constitution of the United States have together mandated that all Americans must be made completely equal. No one is allowed to be more intelligent or handsome or more physically capable than anyone else.... Read More

Iran Seeks to Confuse the United States?

Philip Giraldi • October 23, 2020

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Those who have been waiting for the elusive October Surprise that will upset the apple cart on election day are admittedly running out of time. The media’s unwillingness to even consider that the antics of Hunter Biden just might constitute an embarrassment of major proportions or even something worse has done much to kill that... Read More

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About Philip Giraldi

Phil Giraldi is a former CIA Case Officer and Army Intelligence Officer who spent twenty years overseas in Europe and the Middle East working terrorism cases. He holds a BA with honors from the University of Chicago and an MA and PhD in Modern History from the University of London. In addition to TAC, where he has been a contributing editor for nine years, he writes regularly for Antiwar.com. He is currently Executive Director of the Council for the National Interest and resides with his wife of 32 years in Virginia horse country close to his daughters and grandchildren.

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America's Jews Are Driving America's Wars

Shouldn't they recuse themselves when dealing with the Middle East?

Philip Giraldi

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Americans Should be Ashamed

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How the Israel Lobby Works

Pressuring Candidates Even Before They Are Nominated

Philip Giraldi