CIA and Trump reinstall Israel's chief

Tina Nguyen (Vanity Fair); Seth Auberon, Sheldon S., Pfc. Sandoval (eds.), Wisdom Quarterly

What can be said of CIA crimes, like installing and keeping Operative Benyamin "Bibi" Netanyahu, who like his brother were trained and groomed in the US and sent to Israel to lead the US imperial arm in the geopolitical "Middle East," which is actually in Northern Africa, but don't tell anyone. Whoever helped Trump beat failed candidate Hillary Clinton sure is getting a lot of mileage out of him doing whatever he is told or being led to believe it's what he wants to do. Then all the pro-Israel voices in the US media go to work to support Israel's war crimes, crimes against humanity, and flagrant hypocrisy even as we are fed a steady, lifelong diet of pro-Israeli sympathy. Now it will create the Bantustan state it has always been planning, with annexed illegal settlements and much more, like worldwide weapons sales. One such "hot shot" voice is the virulent Ben Shapiro, the new vanguard of boosters for Western colonialism in the parts of the world the US military-industrial complex wants to control.

• Middle East in Focus  (KPFK.org)
• Jewish Voice for Peace
• Code Pink for Peace

"Let me make you famous": How Hollywood invented Ben Shapiro [young, hotshot, right-wing mouthpiece]

Bibi, we're going to indict you for corruption.

(Vanity Fair) The night of January 10, 2013, was a triumph for Ben Shapiro, his first big score—but Jeremy Boreing, the Hollywood producer who’s the architect of Shapiro’s [steep] rise, couldn’t get past the [dork] wardrobe.

Dressed in a dark junior-banker suit, with his College Republican flop dangling over his forehead, Shapiro, then the editor at large at [right wing] Breitbart News, had been booked on Piers Morgan Tonight to discuss his new book, Bullies: How the Left’s Culture of Fear and Intimidation Silences America, and to debate gun control.

Geopolitical "Middle East," North Africa

But Shapiro’s tactics revealed themselves shortly after the break, when he called out Morgan for “standing on the graves of the children of Sandy Hook” in order to criticize gun owners. “Honestly, Piers,” Shapiro said, “you’ve kind of been a bully on this issue.”

He continued, “You tend to demonize people who differ from you politically.” At one point, he handed Morgan a pocket Constitution to educate him on the Second Amendment.

Shapiro was both smart (he has a degree from Harvard Law) and obnoxious (he once described Palestinians as living in “open sewage”), snotty and fearless, and he displayed a preternatural talent for getting under the skin of gibbering libs. Fourteen minutes, and millions of views later, Shapiro had accomplished his goal: he’d gone viral. More