Peloni:  Highly recommended article.

By Kelleigh Nelson

Trump FDA nominee Dr. Marty Makary faces confirmation questions.  By Unknown author – Youtube, Public Domain

The field of U.S. cancer care is organized around a medical monopoly that ensures a continuous flow of money to the pharmaceutical companies, medical technology firms, research institutes, and government agencies such as the Food and Drug Administration (FDA) and the National Cancer Institute (NCI) and quasi-public organizations such as the American Cancer Society (ACS). John Diamond

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Peloni:  Trump is about to face the challenge of dealing with multiple big stakes scenarios, all of which are related and how he deals with each of them any significantly influence the others. April is going to be a pivotal moment when these challenges will addressed and the outcome of  which will set the agenda of success or failure of much of Trump’s foreign policy endeavors over the next four years.   And at the center of much of what will take place with these challenges will be the Qatari talking head, Steve Witkoff, acting as Trump’s point man.

The Trump administration faces challenges in Gaza, Iran, and Ukraine while conducting airstrikes on the Houthis and addressing tensions in Syria and Israel.

By SETH J. FRANTZMAN | MARCH 30, 2025

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The new US administration is continuing to fashion its policies in the Middle East and globally. US President Donald Trump hit the ground running with the hostage deal brokered just a day before his inauguration and then suggested that Gazans could be resettled elsewhere.

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What’s wrong and right with the world, heavy-sighing edition.

J.E. Dyer, a retired Naval Intelligence officer, blogs as The Optimistic Conservative, Mar 27, 2025

Update going to post.  As of Wednesday this is starting to settle out a little.  The entire text message chain has been released, and boy, is it a nothingburger.   At the end of the original article text, I’ve appended some comments from another forum on why it’s a nothingburger.  For those who want the short version, the updates at the top, and the concluding comments, may do the trick.  (For perspective, I do recommend not missing the ”Key takeaway” section titled with a break in bold letters.  And sorry about any redundancies.  It’s either get this up as-is, or not, at this point.)

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Peloni:  It would be a truly devastating loss to not see Poilievre break the antisemitic Leftist hold on power in Canada.

“I don’t trust them. I think they are liars. I think they will promise anything…”

Pierre Poilievre is taking a hard stance against the Islamic Republic of Iran. Listen-in . pic.twitter.com/hxIjlt9EcY

— Iconoclast (@ufosangelsgods) March 29, 2025

Scores of Jews remain in captivity, some dead, others in various stages of alive. Their fast began on October 7 and will not end tonight. Tomorrow they will hear the Eid celebrations overhead or outside somewhere. Their captors do not love them, and seek no love from them.

By J.B. Shurk | Am Thinker | Mar 27, 2025

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There is now a great MAGA siege of the fortified Deep State.  Based on the horrified reactions coming from the news media cartel, it would seem that President Trump has taken the whole rotten Establishment by surprise.

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Peloni:  Yishai Fleisher presents an important conversation here with Jake Bennett about the open conflict between Trump’s Middle East Envoy, Steve Witkoff, and Trump’s soon to be confirmed Ambassador to Israel, Mike Huckabee.  Witkoff’s punditry on behalf of both Biden’s Israel policy and Qatar’s lack of radicalism, contrasts with Huckabee’s perspective that Israel’s war with Hamas is one of an existential nature which is being fought on behalf of Western civilization against barbarism.  The distinction between these two voices is neither nuance nor commiserate, but are in fact diametrically opposed visions for Israel and the world.  I look forward to Huckabee being confirmed in his position, but also to Witkoff being fired from his position.  Both of these actions would provide significantly greater moral clarity to the Trump administration.

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Peloni:  Time for regime change operations in Iran to begin, while also either securing or destroying Iran’s nuclear capabilities.

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It is time for Americans to unite in defense of our country, reaffirm our commitment to its founding ideals, and resist the forces seeking to divide and destroy us.

By ADAM MILSTEIN | MARCH 29, 2025

What do a Yale scholar, a Columbia student, a Georgetown researcher, 60 colleges and universities under investigation for relentless antisemitic eruptions, and Hamas have in common? In traditional times, the answer should be absolutely nothing.

Institutions such as Yale, Harvard, the University of Pennsylvania, Georgetown, and Columbia were once guardians of liberal democratic values, committed to fighting hatred and violence. Yet, today, this is far from the case.

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Peloni:  US policy towards Turkey will come to be the defining aspect of the Trump administration in the Middle East.  There is a great need for US opposition to Turkey taking up the role first played by Iran in extending its own version of Jihadi domination in Syria.  Failing to fulfill this role will see a growing tension continue to rise between Israel and antisemitic leadership provided by Turkey.  As a NATO member state, this friction has the potential of having destablizing effects not just in the Middle East, but in Europe as well, with the notable appreciation of the growing influence of Europe’s growing Islamist minority.

By Jonathan Schanzer | Mar 28, 2025

Thousands of people rallied at Istanbul’s iconic Galata Bridge on New Year’s Day 2025 in support of the Palestinian cause and to protest Israel. Bilal Erdogan, President Recep Tayyip Erdogan’s son, was among its speakers. Bilal spoke of the “martyrs” of Palestine, including Yahya Sinwar, the architect of the October 7, 2023, slaughter of 1,200 Israelis. This is, by now, barely newsworthy given Ankara’s long track record of pro-Hamas rhetoric. But the son of Turkey’s strongman leader caught the attention of international observers when he stated, “we are here for … Al-Aqsa Mosque, for Jerusalem.”¹

A quarter century ago, such a rally would be unimaginable. Turkey viewed itself as a pillar of stability. It was largely democratic and sought to tie its future to Europe and the United States. Turkey and Israel cooperated to defeat terror groups. Much has since changed.

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Peloni:  The Kursk invasion was eerily similar to the failure of debacle of Operation Michael from WWI in many ways, a little over a century apart.  While not the only similarity between these failed operations, perhaps the most damaging aspect was the huge loss of military assets which both the Kaiser’s Germany and Zelensky’s Ukraine could ill afford to lose without having a significant benefit towards the aims of the respective wars.

By Joan Swirsky 

The word Politicide was first coined by Abba Eban—Israel’s foreign minister in 1967—to describe the attempted murder of the sovereign, independent State of Israel by enemies both within and outside of the fledgling state.

When Victor Sharpe first read the word, he told me how it resonated in “the deepest parts of my heart and soul.”

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By Paul E Vallely MG, US Army (Ret) & LTG Tom McInerney USAF (Ret) | March 28, 2025

What article and section of the Constitution defines treason?

U.S. law defines treason as a high crime that poses an extreme threat to the nation, a massive, dangerous betrayal. The Constitution of the United States. Article III, Section 3: Treason against the United States shall only be committed against them or in response to their Enemies, providing them with aid and comfort. Treason is the only crime defined in the United States Constitution. It was narrowly limited to avoid countless notorious past abuses perpetrated by governments. In debates during the creation of the Constitution, the main concern was not about drafting a law that would allow the government to prosecute traitors. It was to prevent “the numerous and dangerous excrescences (monstrosities)” that had been a feature of English and European laws of treason. The founding fathers wanted to ensure that political divisions within the country did not escalate into treason charges, with death as the ultimate penalty for the dissenters.

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