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Democratic Majority for Israel Facebook post congratulating “Senator-elect Jon Ossoff on your victory in Georgia! DMFI PAC was proud to support your candidacy, and we’re thrilled that the first Millennial in the Senate will be a strong pro-Israel Democrat.”

The Role of the Israel Lobby in Jon Ossoff’s Ascendance

Alison Weir • January 10, 2021

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The new US Senator from Georgia, a 33-year-old who received the most campaign donations for a Senate candidate in US history, began his political career in 2006 helping to defeat Georgia’s first Black woman to be elected to Congress. She had been targeted for removal by the Israel lobby… Jon Ossoff, the 33-year-old Democrat who... Read More

How the Left Is Being Manipulated Into Colluding in Its Own Character Assassination

Jonathan Cook • January 8, 2021

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There was a fascinating online panel discussion on Wednesday night on the Julian Assange case that I recommend everyone watch. The video is at the bottom of the page. But from all the outstanding contributions, I want to highlight a very important point made by Yanis Varoufakis that has significance for understanding current events well... 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

The US and UK May Not Will Assange’s Death, But Everything They Are Doing Makes It More Likely

Jonathan Cook • January 7, 2021

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There was a hope in some quarters after Judge Vanessa Baraitser ruled on Monday against an application to extradite Julian Assange to the US, where he faced being locked away for the rest of his life, that she might finally be changing tack. Washington has wanted Assange permanently silenced and made an example of –... Read More

The Assange Saga: Practicing Real Journalism Is Criminally Insane

Pepe Escobar • January 7, 2021

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Synchronicity is definitely fond of mirror wonderwalls. The Julian Assange saga seemed to have entered a new chapter as he was, in thesis, on his way to – conditional - freedom this past Monday, only one day after the first anniversary of the start of the Raging Twenties: the assassination of Maj Gen Qassem Soleimani.... Read More

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Containment Is Futile: Europe and China Seal Investment Deal as U.S. Grumbles

Guillaume Durocher • January 6, 2021

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The European Union and China have agreed “in principle” to a deal on investment after seven long years of negotiation, pointedly ignoring the concerns of the incoming Biden administration. The economic consequences of the so-called Comprehensive Agreement on Investment (CAI) remain unclear, but the political signals are telling: the EU is following an essentially German... Read More

What Julian Assange’s Win Today Really Means for the World

Patrick Cockburn • January 5, 2021

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The 10-year campaign by the US government to criminalise reporting critical of its actions has failed in rather peculiar circumstances, with the unexpected decision by the court in London to reject the US demand for Julian Assange's extradition. Judge Vanessa Baraitser gave as the reason for her decision Assange’s mental health and possible suicide risk,... 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

Assange Wins. the Cost: Press Freedom Is Crushed, and Dissent Labelled Mental Illness

Jonathan Cook • January 4, 2021

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The unexpected decision by Judge Vanessa Baraitser to deny a US demand to extradite Julian Assange, foiling efforts to send him to a US super-max jail for the rest of his life, is a welcome legal victory, but one swamped by larger lessons that should disturb us deeply. Those who campaigned so vigorously to keep... Read More

Soleimani Geopolitics, One Year On

Pepe Escobar • January 4, 2021

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One year ago, the Raging Twenties started with a murder. The assassination of Maj Gen Qassem Soleimani, commander of the Quds Force of the Islamic Revolutionary Guards Corps (IRGC), alongside Abu Mahdi al-Muhandis, the deputy commander of Iraq’s Hashd al-Sha’abi militia, by laser-guided Hellfire missiles launched from two MQ-9 Reaper drones, was an act of... Read More

National Justice Investigates: American Tax Payers Spend At Least $23 Billion On Israel Every Year

Eric Striker • January 1, 2021

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Last September, Donald Trump accidentally upended an entire generation of myths invented by the left and right that purport to explain America's costly and unpopular military adventures in the Middle East: As Mondoweiss pointed out at the time, the explosive admission went completely unmentioned in the mainstream media, which traditionally hangs on every one of... Read More

Our Government Is Making Same Errors as Other Nationalist Movements

Patrick Cockburn • January 1, 2021

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The view from the top of the Western Heights, the great fortified hill overlooking Dover, has the advantage of taking in many of the key features shaping life in Britain in the age of Brexit and Covid-19. The most important of these is the proximity of the French coast, glittering on the horizon 22 miles... Read More

An Unexpected Gift

An Interview with Professor Stephen F. Cohen

Yvonne Lorenzo • January 1, 2021

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I recently had the unexpected pleasure of seeing an interview conducted by Aaron Maté with Stephen F. Cohen, which for various reasons was not aired. As readers may know, Professor Cohen died this year, and this interview was conducted approximately a year before his death. In it, he discusses passionately the “democratization” of Russia, and... Read More

DECEMBER DIARY [10 ITEMS]: Cruz Kills Hong Kong Influx Bill; Picking Chinese Nits with AMREN's Jared Taylor; James Flynn RIP; Philocaption

John Derbyshire • January 1, 2021

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Footnote to that: I've known that quote for as long as I can remember, but without recalling why I know it. I've never read William Cobbett, so it must have been somewhere else I saw it. The mystery was solved as an indirect result of my posting, in last month's diary, a few words of... Read More

How West, Central and South Asia Are Interconnecting

Pepe Escobar • December 31, 2020

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It’s one of those quintessential journeys that make people dream: Istanbul-Tehran-Islamabad by train. Let’s call it ITI. Soon, in early 2021, ITI will become a reality. But, initially, just as a freight train. The deal was recently sealed at the 10th meeting of the transport and communication ministers of ECO (Economic Cooperation Organization) in Istanbul.... 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

Where Did Covid Come from?

Paul Craig Roberts • December 30, 2020

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The focus of the worldwide public’s attention on masks, lockdowns, infection rates, and vaccines serves to prevent any investigation of Covid’s origin. Did a disease of bats or some other creature mutate so that humans became susceptible? If so, why was research on how to make pathogens more infectious going on at the University of... Read More

Russia vs the Biden Administration

The Saker • December 29, 2020

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It sure looks like Biden will take over the White House one way or another, and while Trump and his supporters might still try a few things, the political correlation of forces inside the US ruling classes is clearly against Trump. As for the “deplorables” - they have been neutralized by stealing the election. Which... Read More

China: Ten Predictions for 2021

You’ve Come a Long Way, Baby

Godfree Roberts • December 29, 2020

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2021, the centennial of Mao’s founding of the Communist Party, was long planned to be a breakout year. When the Party took power in 1949, China was the poorest country on earth, which makes these achievements the more remarkable: GDP will expand by 10%. Western experts predict 8% and, since their predictions are always low,... 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

2020: Accelerating Towards the European Superstate

Will Hungary and Poland be bribed into submission?

Guillaume Durocher • December 27, 2020

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The year 2020 has seen signification changes and further centralization of power in the European Union. There appear to be three major causes for this: British withdrawal from the EU which occurred on February 1, 2020. The coronavirus crisis, whose lockdowns have inflicted tremendous damage on the European economy, particularly in southern Europe, annihilating in... Read More

We Are Paying for the Mistakes of Boris Johnson and His Government

Patrick Cockburn • December 27, 2020

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Fear is at a high point in Britain at the moment and with very good reason. There is much to be frightened of as it turns out that Covid-19 has been quicker to learn from experience than bumbling Boris Johnson and his third-eleven team during a calamitous year in which they have zig-zagged between panic... Read More

Merry Christmas and a Happy New Year! A Year of a Good Old Enemy!

Russia is the Enemy Number One

Israel Shamir • December 26, 2020

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St Petersburg, the Tsars’ seat and still the most civilised city, the culture capital of Russia, enjoys its wonderful Yuletide. Fluffy snow had covered the streets, decorated hills and seashore, softened the air, and turned this fascinating city into a fairy winter tale. Christmas trees adorn the city squares and private dwellings. The magnificent imperial... Read More

Turkey Pivots to the Center of the New Great Game

Pepe Escobar • December 24, 2020

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When it comes to sowing – and profiting – from division, Erdogan’s Turkey is quite the superstar. Under the delightfully named Countering America’s Adversaries Through Sanctions Act (CAATSA), the Trump administration duly slapped sanctions on Ankara for daring to buy Russian S-400 surface-to-air missile defence systems. The sanctions focused on Turkey’s defence procurement agency, the... 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

Christmas Charity Seeks Donations for Persecuted Serbian Children In Kosovo

Eric Striker • December 23, 2020

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American political dissident Robert Rundo is teaming up with Serbian solidarity group Fondacija Junak (Heroes Foundation) for a relief effort to bring gifts to hundreds of Serbian children living as persecuted minorities in Kosovo. Kosovo, the historic heartland of the Serbian people, was taken over by an Albanian criminal organization, the Kosovo Liberation Army (KLA),... Read More

Don’t Blame the Soviets for the War in Nagorno-Karabakh

Max Parry • December 22, 2020

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In the final week of September, an Azerbaijani offensive renewed hostilities in the perennial armed conflict and territorial dispute in the South Caucasus between Armenia and its neighbor over the Nagorno-Karabakh (“Mountainous Karabakh”) region. By October, the clashes had escalated past the state border between Azerbaijan and the internationally-unrecognized Republic of Artsakh which suffered heavy... Read More

The Political Theology of White Guilt: Trump as a Threat to the EU’s Post-WWII Narrative

Tom Sunic • December 17, 2020

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The presidential postelection period unfolding now in the US is having a big impact on the political class in Europe. Historically speaking this is nothing new. Every politician in Europe knows that any major political change in the US is bound to have, the day after, an effect on his own decision-making policy and likely... 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

Romania Strikes GOLD: Nationalists Break Through with 9% of Vote in Parliamentary Elections

Guillaume Durocher • December 17, 2020

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Over a century after Marx, a specter is indeed haunting Europe: the specter of nationalism. For the latest proof, we turn to Romania where a new nationalist party has burst into parliament with 9% of the vote. Romanian liberals, who very much form a minority sensibility in the country, are in shock at the nationalists’... Read More

Has America's Suez Moment Come?

Pat Buchanan • December 15, 2020

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2020 will surely qualify as an "annus horribilis" in the history of the Republic. By New Year's, one in every 1,000 Americans, 330,000, will be dead from the worst pandemic in 100 years. The U.S. economy will have sustained a blow to rival the worst year of the Great Depression. And by the end of... 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

Congress Again Proves That the Business of Washington Is War

Ron Paul • December 14, 2020

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Libertarian educator Tom Woods famously quipped that “no matter who you vote for you end up with John McCain.” Unfortunately Woods was proven right for about the thousandth time this past week, as Washington again showed us that it is all about war. First, we learned that if Joe Biden ends up in the White... Read More

Belarus on the Edge: Biden’s First Move?

Carl Boggs • December 14, 2020

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The ascent of Joe Biden and his neocon “promoters of democracy” to the White House likely means renewed attention to the idea of Color Revolutions once thought to bring liberation to nations under the heel of dictators. First in line for this latest geopolitical blessing could be Belarus, already site of protracted street protests in... Read More

An Expert Military Analysis of War with China

Actually, None is Necessary

Fred Reed • December 13, 2020

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The Correlation of Armed Forces: U.S. goods and services trade with China totaled an estimated $634.8 billion in 2019. Exports were $163.0 billion; imports were $471.8 billion. The U.S. goods and services trade deficit with China was $308.8 billion in 2019. Trade in services with China (exports and imports) totaled an estimated $76.7 billion in... Read More

Defiance Towards Brussels Hides the Reality – English Power Is Ebbing

Patrick Cockburn • December 12, 2020

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I met pleased and gloomy people in the first half of last year when I travelled around the UK writing about the potential impact of Brexit. But by far the happiest of those I interviewed were veteran Irish republicans in Belfast, mostly present or past members of Sinn Fein, who had devoted their lives to... Read More

Antisemitism Claims Mask a Reign of Political and Cultural Terror Across Europe

Jonathan Cook • December 11, 2020

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The Israeli newspaper Haaretz has run a fascinating long report this week offering a disturbing snapshot of the political climate rapidly emerging across Europe on the issue of antisemitism. The article documents a kind of cultural, political and intellectual reign of terror in Germany since the parliament passed a resolution last year equating support for... Read More

NATO and the EU Are Sending a “message” to Russia. Again.

The Saker • December 10, 2020

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I lived most of my life in Europe and even though by the time I moved to the US (2002) Europe was already in a very bad shape, what I see happening there now never ceases to amaze me. In fact, it makes me wonder if the Europeans or, more accurately, the European leaders have... 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

Is Israel Racist? A Reply to An Anti-Semitic Writer (Part 2)

Ilana Mercer • December 10, 2020

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The Jewish State, by definition, rejects some and welcomes others into the fold. In “Is Israel Racist?”, a reply to an anti-Semitic interviewer (he bailed), the emphasis was on demonstrating why Israel’s particularism is an extension of the individual’s right as a sovereign, discerning human being, for the freedom to include or exclude is not... Read More

US Hits Search and Destroy Against the New Silk Roads

Pepe Escobar • December 9, 2020

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Seven years after being launched by President Xi Jinping, first in Astana and then in Jakarta, the New Silk Roads, or Belt and Road Initiative (BRI) increasingly drive the American plutocratic oligarchy completely nuts. The relentless paranoia about the Chinese “threat” has much to do with the exit ramp offered by Beijing to a Global... Read More

Mark Leibler: Powerbroker for Australia’s Jewish Plutocracy

Brenton Sanderson • December 8, 2020

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In writing about the pivotal Jewish role in Australia’s demographic revolution (triggered by the liberalization of immigration laws and institutionalization of multiculturalism), I have had regular occasion to mention the name “Leibler.” Among Jewish leaders in Australia in recent decades, none have enjoyed greater prominence than brothers Isi and Mark Leibler. I had long intended... Read More

Chinese Official: We Subvert America Through Wall Street Jews

Eric Striker • December 8, 2020

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A Tucker Carlson segment putting the spotlight on a November 28th, 2020 talk by Chinese Communist Party's (CCP) foreign relation's expert, Di Dongsheng, is being circulated throughout social media, including by Donald Trump. According to Carlson, the video reveals that Joe Biden and his supporters are agents of the Chinese government. What was dishonestly edited... 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

Ignoring the War Risks of Red Lines

Pat Buchanan • December 4, 2020

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In early August 1990, Iraqi dictator Saddam Hussein invaded and occupied Kuwait and declared it to be his nation's lost 19th province. Said George H. W. Bush, "This will not stand!" Translation: Get out of Kuwait, Saddam, or we will come over there and throw you out. Six months later, after a five-week air assault... Read More

State Sponsored Assassinations Are the New Norm – It Is Gangsterism

Patrick Cockburn • December 4, 2020

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I was in Israel on 4 November 1995 when a student named Yigal Amir assassinated the Israeli prime minister Yitzhak Rabin as he left a peace rally in Tel Aviv. A video shows Amir loitering by an exit to the square for 40 minutes before Rabin appears, when his killer takes out a pistol and... Read More

The pernicious punim of Priti Patel, high-T fem-pol

Hate-Filled Hindu: Priti Patel Is Sycophantic to Jews, Psychopathic to Whites

Tobias Langdon • December 3, 2020

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Shakespeare got it wrong. “There’s no art to find the mind’s construction in the face,” says King Duncan in Macbeth (c. 1606), meaning that psychology can’t be read from physiognomy. But Shakespeare never saw Priti Patel, the British-born Indian Hindu who currently serves as Home Secretary. When you look at Patel, do you see gentleness,... Read More

An Anti-Semite Asks & Is Answered: Is Israel Racist? (Part 1)

Ilana Mercer • December 3, 2020

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Some months ago, a gentleman who pens anti-Semitic tracts approached me for an interview. I agreed. Being a naïve methodological individualist, I never generalize about individuals. That my interlocutor writes crude anti-Semitic boilerplate did not mean I would not give him a chance to reveal himself as someone other than a crude anti-Semite. After I... 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

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