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Russia have successfully destroyed over 600 ISIS targets in Syria over the past 4 days, the Russian Defense Ministry have confirmed, amid a total media blackout by the West of their campaign.  “Over the past four days Russian aviation has conducted 157 combat missions hitting 579 terrorist targets in the Syrian provinces of Aleppo, Deir Ezzur, Homs, Hama, Raqqa and Lattakia,” the Russian Defense Ministry spokesman Maj. Gen. Igor Konashenkov told reporters.

An Oligarchy Has Subverted American Democracy

Guest Column by Mike Lofgren

http://www.informationclearinghouse.info/article43975.htm

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Martin Luther King

Paul Craig Roberts

Like all false flag attacks and assassinations, the 1968 murder of Martin Luther King was covered up. In the King case James Earl Ray was the framed-up patsy, just as Oswald was in the case of President John F. Kennedy and Sirhan Sirhan was in the case of Robert Kennedy.

There’s now a minor media buzz about John Kasich, the former Ohio governor who is now in clear second in New Hampshire—and rising. If he manages to vault even more clearly over Bush, Christie, and Rubio there, he’ll garner lots of national attention. Having attended two of his events, I could see him thriving under a greater spotlight. He’s smart, optimistic, has a compelling personal story, was a very successful governor of a swing state, has an attractive family (wife and three teenage daughters, traveling with him this week in the campaign).

Michael Gerson pleads for someone to stop Trump and Cruz:

For Republicans, the only good outcome of Trump vs. Cruz is for both to lose. The future of the party as the carrier of a humane, inclusive conservatism now depends on some viable choice beyond them.

I have already made my point about the absurdity of treating the modern GOP as “the carrier of a humane, inclusive conservatism,” so I’ll just say here that supporters of preventive war have no standing to lecture anyone else on what is immoral or obscene.