Don DeBar's Blog

There is no question that the US is partnered with Nazis in Ukraine today, and has been so paired with various types of fascists in the Middle East, Latin America, Europe, Africa and Asia since fascism was first observed in the early 20th century. The only question remaining is whether these have been marriages of love, or of convenience - or both. Variously pictured: Anastasio Somoza, Francisco Franco, Fulgencio Batista, Ian Smith, Augusto Pinochet, PW Botha, Syngman Rhee, Salman bin Abdulaziz Al Saud, Shah Mohammad Reza Pahlavi and Suharto.

From UN OHCHR website, as of March 26, 2022: Total of 1,104 civilians killed in Ukraine from February 24 to March 26. From IraqBodyCount.org website, as of March 26, 2022: Total of 6,735 civilians killed in Iraq between March 20 ("Shock and Awe") and April 9, 2003. Total of 120,107 civilians killed in Iraq from March 20, 2003 to December 31, 2011. Additional killed from December 31, 2011 to March 26, 2022 - 66,000 to 89,242 (est.). Iraq's population as of 2002 was about 24 million. Ukraine's is about 41 million. The US killed Iraqis at about TEN TIMES THE DAILY RATE that the Russians and Ukrainians have killed in Ukraine. "Shock and Awe" and the subsequent occupation (19 years and counting) followed a period of US sanctions that killed by State Department's own admission some HALF MILLION CHILDREN in Iraq. Not counted here: Libya, Syria, Yemen, Gaza, Somalia, Sudan, Cote D'Ivoire, Mail, DR Congo, etc.

These were Nixon's approval numbers the day he resigned (L - August 8, 1974): These were Biden's numbers this past Tuesday (R - March 22, 2022): And we are inches from World War III.

Seven reasons why this vetting of a proposed Supreme Court Justice, like all of the previous ones going back quite a ways, is an absolute shitshow, put on for people who have no idea what the role of the Supreme Court is, and what power there is lying within it for enforcing the Constitution and international law upon the President and Congress. Questions you will not hear: 1. How would you rule in the event of a facial violation by the President of the Constitutional powers of Congress to be the sole decider of making war? 2. How exactly would you rule on cases brought against the President for violating the War Powers Act? 3. How will you treat the issue of standing in these cases? 4. How will you treat actions against the President and/or Congress for making and/or declaring war in violation of various treaties that the US is a party to, including the UN Charter? 5. How would you rule in cases that required the details of each and every Pentagon budget and the budgets of us intellig...

I've wondered from time to time whether Code Pink's Medea Benjamin was working with the CIA, etc., ever since she tried to frame the US invasion of Afghanistan as being helpful to women in Afghanistan back in 2001. I don't wonder anymore. Appearing on an RT program this weekend, she called for "consistency" among those who marched against the US invasion of Iraq, etc., saying we must also be against this "illegal Russian aggression" like the "thousands of brave Russians who have demonstrated against the war, saying 'not in our name'". I don't give a good goddamn how it's framed. Calling for Russia to withdraw from Ukraine allies you with the CIA and with the past 100 years of imperialism's various plans to take Russia apart that have been on the agenda of the US since at least 1917.