YouTube has the video Empire Files: How Palestine Became Colonized.

Previewing Abby Martin’s on-the-ground investigation in Palestine, The Empire Files looks at the long history of Zionist colonization, expansion and expulsion of Palestine’s indigenous inhabitants.

Giving critical historical context the occupation today, this timeline explores the creation of the state of Israel and how it came to cover so much land since. From the early settlements, to the Nakba, to it’s conquest of the West Bank, Abby Martin reveals the brutally honest root of what is behind the so-called “Israel-Palestine conflict.”

Previously I blogged about a book review The State of Israel ‘My Promised Land,’ by Ari Shavit.

Eventually, I did get to read the book on the suggestion of a former friend who thought I was being too harsh on Israel. When I read the book by an Israeli journalist and grandson of one of the founders of Zionism, I was introduced to more horrific facts about the founding of Israel than I had been aware of. From what I remember from the book, this video by Abby Martin is accurate. She is not spouting Palestinian propaganda.

TruthDig has the article Lee Camp: I Know Which Country the U.S. Will Invade Next.

Sorry, I can’t stand the suspense.

Well, last week, Iran finally did it: It switched from the dollar to the euro. And sure enough, this week, the U.S. military-industrial complex, the corporate media and Israel all got together to claim that Iran is lying about its nuclear weapons development.

I have been following the sequence that Lee Camp describes, but I must have been asleep at the switch last week. I did not notice what Iran did last week that Lee Camp mentions in this article.

Modern Money Theory (MMT) tells us that the USA that makes its own money and borrows exclusively in its own money has policy freedoms that the oligarchs and their politicians don’t want us to know. It is clear that if the oligarchs are willing to have the USA invade other countries if they threaten the position of the USA dollar, that the oligarchs fully understand the impact of losing the policy freedom that they pretend not to know about. (See my previous post Modern Money Theory: A Primer on Macroeconomics for Sovereign Monetary Systems.)