A great new video inspired by the latest Sy Hersh revelations

Okay, this video is mostly an audio affair. So convert it to mp3 and listen to it on your mp3 player.

It looks like the new Sy Hersh piece (which I discuss in the post below) could have a major impact. Maybe we can shame Bernie Sanders into becoming the Democratic Party's anti-neocon candidate; if he does, his numbers will surely rise.

The movement is gaining steam, folks, on both the right and the left: We are converging on the center.

Andrew Cockburn has an amazing article up about the renewed US/Al Qaeda partnership.

Addressing the dominance of extremists in the Syrian opposition, Leon Panetta, a former CIA director, has blamed our earlier failure to arm those elusive moderates. The catastrophic consequences of this very approach in Libya are seldom mentioned. “If we had intervened more swiftly in Syria,” Gartenstein-Ross says, “the best-case scenario probably would have been another Libya. Meaning that we would still be dealing with a collapsed state and spillover into other Middle Eastern states and Europe.”

Even as we have continued our desultory bombing campaign against the Islamic State, Ahrar al-Sham and Nusra are creeping closer and closer to international respectability. A month after the London Eleven meeting, a group of scholars from the Brookings Institution published an op-ed making the case for Ahrar al-Sham: “Designating [the] group as a terrorist organization might backfire by pushing it completely into Al Qaeda’s camp.” (The think tank’s recent receipt of a multiyear, $15 million grant from Qatar was doubtless coincidental.)

Over the past year, other distinguished figures have voiced support for a closer relationship with Al Qaeda’s rebranded extensions. David Petraeus, another former head of the CIA, has argued for arming at least the “more moderate” parts of Nusra. Robert Ford, a former ambassador to Syria and a vociferous supporter of the rebel cause, called on America to “open channels for dialogue” with Ahrar al-Sham, even if its members had on occasion slaughtered some Alawites and desecrated Christian sites. Even Foreign Affairs, an Establishment sounding board, has echoed these notions, suggesting that it was time for the United States to “rethink its policy toward al-Qaeda, particularly its targeting of Zawahiri.”

Ahrar al-Sham is the group that Obama and Kerry are promoting now as an "ISIS lite" alternative -- only these guys are not so lite. For one thing, they kill Christians -- a fact which the NYT continues to mis-report.

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