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(UPDATED): Mueller role confirmed in subpoena battle with mystery firm - POLITICO

Submitted by Amanda Matthews on Sat, 02/02/2019 - 1:00am

Something’s up. Turns out it’s Booby protesting the release of info, not the company that’s standing up to his blackmail, bullying , and bluster. Whoever that company may be.

Mueller role confirmed in subpoena battle with mystery firm

Attorneys from Special Counsel Robert Mueller’s office are the prosecutors locked in a mysterious grand jury subpoena fight that a state-owned foreign company has taken all the way to the Supreme Court, court records now confirm.

Monotheism and Its Discontents (with apologies to Sigmund Freud)

Submitted by arendt on Fri, 02/01/2019 - 4:11pm

I have Mitchner-itis. That is, I must begin every story at the beginning of time. This essay (actually, this is the first of five essays) is about Israel. It begins at the beginning of monotheism. I think laying out such a broad and deep context is necessary to avoid the accusations of anti-Semitism that are inevitable in internet discussions on this topic. [On a less enlightened note, it may give you something to distract you from Super Bowl Mania this weekend.

The highly contingent emergence of a Zionist state in Palestine - Part 2 (3rd of 3 essays re:Israel)

Submitted by arendt on Fri, 02/01/2019 - 4:02pm

Part one of the essay:
1. The rise of nationalism after the Dual Revolutions
2. The creation of Zionism as a nationalist movement
3. The anti-immigration law of Great Britain (1905)

Part two of the essay: (this part)
4. The Christian Zionist movement in Great Britain

The highly contingent emergence of a Zionist state in Palestine - Part 1 (3rd of 3 essays re:Israel)

Submitted by arendt on Fri, 02/01/2019 - 3:55pm

3. THE HIGHLY CONTINGENT EMERGENCE OF A ZIONIST STATE IN PALESTINE

This essay discusses the history leading up to the founding of the modern nation state of Israel. This really shouldn't be controversial. This history took place in the high modern period, after 1880 or so. There were telegraphs, newspapers, photography. There are countless libraries, foundations, and university collections full of historical documents.

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