Trump's nominee for Director of National Intelligence has a twisted history of dissent from the elite D.C. foreign policy consensus and neocon-style “war on terror” rhetoric.
The foreign policy of America is at best bankrupt, and at worse criminal and genocidal. Anyone with eyes wide open can see (should) it for themselves. Those in public life are required to take a stand on issues, and if that stand goes against the aforementioned foreign policy orthodoxy they have “earned” a target to be place upon their back. In America there is no longer any space for honest discussion and difference of opinion, so all we get is mudslinging, labeling and name calling. Most Americans do not pay enough attention to sort it out for themselves. It’s all just bread and circus… and in the meantime global climate catastrophe is coming for us all. We’re f—ked; we just don’t (refuse to) see it.
Current US foreign policy reflects the warning Dwight Eisenhower stated about the military-industrial complex. Spreading “democracy” around the world is no more than a cover story for selling weapons around the globe. There is big money to be made by doing so, and the capitalist system is the funnel through which that money passes. And it is the political systems of those capitalist economies that makes it all happen. And the slaughter of tens and hundreds of thousands (really millions) of human beings are simply lubrication for the flow. Bottom line: it’s the greed for money and power that guides the behavior of the human species – as it has ever been; as it will always be… until the self-inflicted wound of global climate catastrophe brings it to an end. Coming soon, I think.
She has confusing positions. She blows in the direction of the wind. A shape shifting politician. Occasional humanistic quotes dispersed her and there.
Navigating the establishment lies, where the media and intelligence agencies work together requires changing positions as you learn who you’re fighting. She has beaten the machine and I am rooting for her.
I think she is thinking strategically. To gain any influence on foreign policy, she knows Trump's admin is the only one open to giving her a job. Of course, to do this, you need to abandon a bunch of your positions, specially those critical of Trump. This article makes that clear. Another interesting take is Michael Tracey's. He works with Glenn Greenwald and it appears they have different opinions on Gabbard. Hopefully they can work it out and have both points on view on Greenwald's YouTube show. To me she is just going to be a Trump loyalist, if not, shes fired. She might be able to fight off some of the foreign policy machine, which would be a good thing, and at the same time continue it, like on Gaza.
Navigating the swamp of the DNC is tricky. It’s also hard to know what positions to take when our intelligence agencies play both sides and lie to the American people and lie to our leaders.
I believe she is principled. You didn’t mention that she resigned from the DNC cochair in support of Bernie Sanders. Trying to find a political home when the establishment of both parties are corrupt is nearly impossible. Trump is the closest thing to an anti establishment candidate we have who is winning.
I don’t agree with Tulsi on Israel and their influence on our government but she is a great start.
Also she has a security clearance from the FBI just like I did as an Army Officer. She likely had one as a member of congress. If there was remote chance of improper behavior with a foreign government she would be removed pending an investigation.
That has not happened. So that story line is a straight lie and Americans can see through it.
I will take Tulsi over any intelligence insider 10 out of 10 times. She is a hero in my eyes.
"Intelligence officials are suggesting they will resign." Um, like those 51 "professional" liars calling the Hunter Biden laptop Russian "disinformation?" Please, threaten me with a smile that don't quit. :)
There's no doubt Tulsi's been all over the map of foreign policy and politics the last decade, but Dems are now the beloved of the torture program / destroy-Iraq-for-a-WMD-lie criminals. Evolving politics does not make her some Lone Ranger, especially when the Dem Party's own changes scream assimilation by the Borgish pro-genocide-collective. I personally hope she's confirmed as DNI, ends drone terrorism, and then doesn't force me to write rude comments about her like I do other natsec directors.
In a big ol' piss on all things surveillance state I wrote in Edward Joseph Snowden for president. One of these lame-ass presidents should pardon Ed, just to steal thunder from the other. ;)
In 2015, Haines, then deputy director of the CIA and now DNI, was tasked with determining whether CIA personnel should be disciplined for hacking computers of Senate staffers authoring the Senate Intelligence Committee report on CIA torture. Haines chose not to discipline them, overruling the CIA Inspector General. Tulsi will do better.
You would think her standing up for Bernie in 2016 would have given her more credibility with the left. She actually demonstrated the principles many people who wanted Bernie appreciated and she was just abandoned by the left for swamp creatures who call a lieutenant colonel with an FBI security clearance a Russian asset.
"Ancient boundaries are meaningless, except for political purposes; old divisions of clan and tribe are sentimental remnants of the pre-atomic age; neither creed nor color nor place of origin is relevant to the realities of modern power to utterly seek and destroy.” Sydney J. Harris
Tulsi Gabbard has been giving us whiplash for years via her contradictory statements and positions. I quit listening to anything she says.
The foreign policy of America is at best bankrupt, and at worse criminal and genocidal. Anyone with eyes wide open can see (should) it for themselves. Those in public life are required to take a stand on issues, and if that stand goes against the aforementioned foreign policy orthodoxy they have “earned” a target to be place upon their back. In America there is no longer any space for honest discussion and difference of opinion, so all we get is mudslinging, labeling and name calling. Most Americans do not pay enough attention to sort it out for themselves. It’s all just bread and circus… and in the meantime global climate catastrophe is coming for us all. We’re f—ked; we just don’t (refuse to) see it.
Current US foreign policy reflects the warning Dwight Eisenhower stated about the military-industrial complex. Spreading “democracy” around the world is no more than a cover story for selling weapons around the globe. There is big money to be made by doing so, and the capitalist system is the funnel through which that money passes. And it is the political systems of those capitalist economies that makes it all happen. And the slaughter of tens and hundreds of thousands (really millions) of human beings are simply lubrication for the flow. Bottom line: it’s the greed for money and power that guides the behavior of the human species – as it has ever been; as it will always be… until the self-inflicted wound of global climate catastrophe brings it to an end. Coming soon, I think.
She has confusing positions. She blows in the direction of the wind. A shape shifting politician. Occasional humanistic quotes dispersed her and there.
Navigating the establishment lies, where the media and intelligence agencies work together requires changing positions as you learn who you’re fighting. She has beaten the machine and I am rooting for her.
I will agree 100% when she sees the real truth about what is happening to the Palestinians
I agree with that also. I hope she gets clear about Israel.
Shameful of you to not mention her allegiance to her cult.
I think she is thinking strategically. To gain any influence on foreign policy, she knows Trump's admin is the only one open to giving her a job. Of course, to do this, you need to abandon a bunch of your positions, specially those critical of Trump. This article makes that clear. Another interesting take is Michael Tracey's. He works with Glenn Greenwald and it appears they have different opinions on Gabbard. Hopefully they can work it out and have both points on view on Greenwald's YouTube show. To me she is just going to be a Trump loyalist, if not, shes fired. She might be able to fight off some of the foreign policy machine, which would be a good thing, and at the same time continue it, like on Gaza.
Navigating the swamp of the DNC is tricky. It’s also hard to know what positions to take when our intelligence agencies play both sides and lie to the American people and lie to our leaders.
I believe she is principled. You didn’t mention that she resigned from the DNC cochair in support of Bernie Sanders. Trying to find a political home when the establishment of both parties are corrupt is nearly impossible. Trump is the closest thing to an anti establishment candidate we have who is winning.
I don’t agree with Tulsi on Israel and their influence on our government but she is a great start.
Also she has a security clearance from the FBI just like I did as an Army Officer. She likely had one as a member of congress. If there was remote chance of improper behavior with a foreign government she would be removed pending an investigation.
That has not happened. So that story line is a straight lie and Americans can see through it.
I will take Tulsi over any intelligence insider 10 out of 10 times. She is a hero in my eyes.
"Intelligence officials are suggesting they will resign." Um, like those 51 "professional" liars calling the Hunter Biden laptop Russian "disinformation?" Please, threaten me with a smile that don't quit. :)
There's no doubt Tulsi's been all over the map of foreign policy and politics the last decade, but Dems are now the beloved of the torture program / destroy-Iraq-for-a-WMD-lie criminals. Evolving politics does not make her some Lone Ranger, especially when the Dem Party's own changes scream assimilation by the Borgish pro-genocide-collective. I personally hope she's confirmed as DNI, ends drone terrorism, and then doesn't force me to write rude comments about her like I do other natsec directors.
In a big ol' piss on all things surveillance state I wrote in Edward Joseph Snowden for president. One of these lame-ass presidents should pardon Ed, just to steal thunder from the other. ;)
I know this is off topic but why are these maga people so ugly
Thank you, great coverage....another chameleon in the making....just what America needs....one slouching' towards Bethlehem to be born'.....
I prefer her to the consistent people who consistently vote for the swamp and corruption.
In 2015, Haines, then deputy director of the CIA and now DNI, was tasked with determining whether CIA personnel should be disciplined for hacking computers of Senate staffers authoring the Senate Intelligence Committee report on CIA torture. Haines chose not to discipline them, overruling the CIA Inspector General. Tulsi will do better.
You would think her standing up for Bernie in 2016 would have given her more credibility with the left. She actually demonstrated the principles many people who wanted Bernie appreciated and she was just abandoned by the left for swamp creatures who call a lieutenant colonel with an FBI security clearance a Russian asset.
She stuck up for Bernie, called out the war machine, and risen to power through an onslaught of lies.
Good for her.
"Ancient boundaries are meaningless, except for political purposes; old divisions of clan and tribe are sentimental remnants of the pre-atomic age; neither creed nor color nor place of origin is relevant to the realities of modern power to utterly seek and destroy.” Sydney J. Harris