++I am off observing elections and celebration 40 years of involvement in African affairs. To accommodate for age, no laptops, no cellphones,only notebooks and pens.
++In Another Country will be off for a week. Undoubtedly, I will have my google problems getting back up when I return. BE PATIENT.
++While away ,keep focus through Sam Wang, Ed Kilgore at New York (where is Andrew Sullivan?), Josh Marshall at Talkingpointsmemo, and ,of course, Nate "The Great" Silver at FiveThirty Eight. In the upcoming primaries, Polls Only Probability will be more accurate.
++For my airplane reading,I am taking Dark Money by Jane Mayer, The Killing of Osama Bin Laden by Seymour Hersh, and the new magisterial history of the French Resistance published by Harvard University.
++And ,yes, the cover-up of the Saudi connection on 9/11 will continue to be a story now that President Obama can be faulted for non declassifying the 28 pages. The reason is that the conspiracy nuts like Alex Jones are right--9/11 is connected to Prince Bandar, then the ambassador of Saudi Arabia to the United States. His extensive ties with the CIA led to investigators being warned off looking too closely at him. Investigators where the 9/11 hijackers lived and even here in Fairfax Country were told Bandar had "diplomatic" immunity. When questioned about his financial support of two hijackers,Bandar invoked his support of the Contras.
++I haven't had time to write about the burning question" Is Donald Trump A Fascist?" Carl Bernstein explained at length months ago how he was a neo-fascist bringing a new style to the United States. Bernstein cited his authoritarianism, nativism and incitement of violence as indicators. Compared to George Wallace, Bernstein just scoffed "he was just a plain old racist".
++Robert Paxton, author of the Anatomy of Fascism, reminded Americans , "seas an affair of the gut, not brains.' He did say that Mussolini was better read than Trump. Paxton actually withheld final judgment on Trump citing Umberto Eco's observation that fascism "was a beehive of contradictions".
++If Hillary Clinton wrapped herself in the flag of Israel in New York, Joe Biden, whose record of support in the Senate for Israel was sterling, spoke to 9th Street and said Israel has made disastrous decisions which may threaten their survival. Biden said that abandoning a two-state solution only leads to a one state solution where Arabs outnumber Jews. Biden said the Obama Administration was extending the military and security pact with Israel but warned Tel Aviv about the continuous negative effect the expansion of settlements has on world public opinion.
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