disclaimer: putin is an authoritarian asshole.

Our 25 years of treating Russia like a drunken homeless bum are having consequences. It was a bad idea, carried forward by every administration since the collapse of the USSR.

Or so we're told by a few usefuls around here............

If Israel breaks the negotiations, do they have to buy it?

oh god please tell me you're joking

I have heard that there is a lot of money involved.

http://www.economist.com/blogs/graphicdetail/2014/03/daily-chart-13

who remembers that?

Or anybody elses.

Can you explain?

Kevin Johnson and Yamiche Alcindor 1:49 p.m. EST February 24, 2015

The Justice Department will not file charges against George Zimmerman in the shooting death of Florida teen Trayvon Martin, a Justice official told USA TODAY.

Justice officials planned to notify Trayvon's family before announcing the decision, according to the official who was not authorized to speak publicly.

Zimmerman shot Martin on Feb. 26, 2012 as he walked home after purchasing snacks at a convenience store in Sanford, Florida. Federal prosecutors found insufficient evidence to prove Zimmerman, part of a neighborhood watch group, intentionally violated Trayvon's civil rights.

more...

http://www.usatoday.com/story/news/2015/02/24/no-federals-charges-against-george-zimmerman/23942297/

So one case, a complicated legal decision, equals "US government does not give a shit about our rights."???

Could you clarify your POV on this issue, sir? You cite news from Hezbollah, http://sync.democraticunderground.com/10026171363
even while admitting it is propaganda from a terrorist organization http://www.democraticunderground.com/10141008638#post5
and of course Hezbollah is no friend of anyone's rights.
You have tended to support Putin TV (RT), and Putin's agenda is the opposite of a human rights agenda. And you support the statement ""US government does not give a shit about our rights."

The pieces don't add up to someone actually concerned about "our rights." No, the pieces add up to someone just against the USA, no matter what, from an adversarial position which is not democratic.

Correct me if I'm wrong. But please don't link to Hezbollah again to prove your point.

Hope you've learned a thing or two while on break.

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Why can't you just answer the question?

Zimmerman was a murderer for sure, and maybe a racist murderer, but the evidence did not support Federal hate crime charges in my opinion.

UNITED NATIONS: Russian Foreign Minister Sergei Lavrov on Monday (Feb 23) accused Western powers of trying to dominate and impose their ideology on the rest of world, while the United States and European delegations slammed Moscow for supporting rebels in eastern Ukraine.

Lavrov was speaking at a special meeting of the UN Security Council organised by China, which holds the rotating presidency of the 15-nation body this month, on the 70th anniversary of the founding of the United Nations.

Without accusing specific countries, Lavrov complained about what he said was rampant violation of key principles of the UN Charter, specifically the "independence and sovereign equality of states, the non-interference in their internal affairs." He cited Western interventions in Syria, Libya and Iraq.

"All of this is a result of attempts to dominate global affairs, to rule over all, everywhere," Lavrov said. "For those not wishing to play ball, there are various methods, including regime change, including the open support for the unconstitutional state coup in Ukraine a year ago," he said.

http://www.channelnewsasia.com/news/world/russia-accuses-west/1675888.html

It's hard for nation states to be too self-righteous, but then, we've specialized in that for a wrong time.

They're the ones arming the psychopaths in Assad's regime, who are every bit as savage as the ISIL forces.

Tie-breaker comes down to the fact that the US hasn't invaded its neighbors for the explicit purpose of seizing land by conquest.

By invading countries if we feel like it.

The one in Iraq that's now aligned with Iran?

But that has fuck all to do with the claim that we're installing "compliant regimes."

Too bad it didn't work out exactly as we planned.

We deposed the Taliban and set up a new government.

Too bad it didn't work out exactly as we planned.

We helped overthrow Ghaddafi and set up a new government.

Too bad it didn't work out exactly as we planned.

We've been trying to overthrow Assad in Syria.

I wonder if that will work out exactly as we planned.

The fact that we continuously fuck up our imperial adventures doesn't mean they're not imperial adventures.

As for the Iraqi government's alignment with Iran, I don't hear Washington complaining too much. Do you?

against ISIS.

When they have a paranoid schizophrenic neighbor threatening to attack them all the time.

And begging the rest of us to do it for them.

I'm not a big fan of either government, but they do have the right to negotiate deals such as this one and go through with it.

But given that Iran appears to be pursuing a nuclear weapon, and them GETTING such a weapon would further destabilize an unstable region, is it wise to arm them and trigger greater tensions, or worse, trigger an attack before such defenses could be activated?

As Netanyahu Tries to Stop U.S.-Iran Deal, Leaked Cables Show Israeli Spies Reject His Nuke Claims

Published on Feb 24, 2015
http://democracynow.org - In what has been described as the biggest intelligence leak since Edward Snowden, Al Jazeera has begun publishing a series of spy cables from world's top intelligence agencies. In one cable, the Israeli spy agency Mossad contradicts Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu's own dire warnings about Iran's ability to produce a nuclear bomb within one year. In a report to South African counterparts in October 2012, the Mossad concluded Iran was "not performing the activity necessary to produce weapons." The explosive disclosure comes just as the United States and Iran have reported progress toward reaching a nuclear deal, an outcome Netanyahu will try to undermine when he addresses the U.S. Congress next week. We go to Doha to speak with Clayton Swisher, the head of Al Jazeera's investigative unit, which broke the Iran story and several others in a series of articles called, "The Spy Cables."

This video is an excerpt from the 20-minute interview with Clayton Swisher. Watch the full segment here: http://www.democracynow.org/2015/2/24...

I'm not supporting Nut-and-yahoo. That dude is dangerous.