Submitted by Charles Hugh-Smith of OfTwoMinds blog,
Once the Oligarchy is above the law, the Republic is already dead.
To paraphrase Ernest Hemingway: How did you lose your Republic? Two ways, gradually and then suddenly. The Romans experienced this when their Republic was extinguished by Empire.
Following the death of a US Marine in northern Iraq in an ISIS rocket attack on Saturday, the Pentagon has announced that they are in the process of deploying an undisclosed number of additional Marines to Iraq. The troops will be a detachment from the 26th Marine Expeditionary Unit and will be sent support Iraqi forces and international ground operations, according to the Pentagon.
British Special Forces and the Metropolitan Police have reportedly been put on standby and are prepared to deal with up to 10 simultaneous terror attacks on the streets of London. The Army is also on standby outside the capital to aid the police and SAS in the event of multiple terror attacks. Security chiefs fear (or want the public to fear) Paris-style attacks by terrorists returning from Syria. A minister familiar with the proposals told the Sunday Times: “We used to plan for three simultaneous attacks but Paris has shown that you need to be ready for more than that.
Over the weekend, we witnessed what was perhaps the most surreal incident to occur at a Trump rally yet when a protester, dressed in an American flag shirt and donning a KKK hood was punched and then repeatedly kicked by a black Trump supporter who apparently did not appreciate the implication that some folks in the African American community were inadvertently cheering for a fascist bigot.
Billionaire philanthropist and media tycoon Haim Saban has said that a United States led by Hillary Clinton would be “great” for Israel. American – Israeli Saban who is also one of Clinton’s top donors, made his remarks during an exclusive interview with The Jerusalem Post. They write: Saban declined to provide specifics on Clinton’s diplomatic policy for the region but said, “We have yet to see all of Hillary’s detailed positions, and I will not give anything away.