Sunday, March 9, 2014
Rick Perry shaken up by Obama’s disturbing threat to governors in meeting
Rick Perry shaken up by Obama’s disturbing threat to governors in meeting
March 9, 2014 by 1 Comment
Texas Gov. Rick Perry revealed a disturbing threat coming from the White House directed at several governors — Republican and Democrat alike.
“I was a bit troubled today by the tone of the president,” he began, speaking at the Republican Governors Association Feb. 24.
Perry was describing a meeting at the White House earlier that day between several governors and President Obama.
“When you have governors, and we all compete against each other — we are the laboratories of innovation — and for the President of the United States to look Democrat and Republican governors in the eye and say, ‘I do not trust you to make decisions in your state about issues of education, about transportation infrastructure,’ — and that is really troubling,” he said.
Perry expressed his own fears regarding Environmental Protection Agency restrictions choking off America’s energy production and a possible reduction in his state’s national guard.
“As a matter of fact, he [Obama] said at that meeting, he said, ‘If I hear any of you pushing back, making statements about Washington spends too much money, you’ll hear from me,” he said, adding, “I’m highly offended by that.”
Watch Perry’s chilling revelation below.
Texas Gov. Rick Perry: The Tone From This President Is Troubling: http://youtu.be/Sce0Xu0hJhE via @YouTube
“I was a bit troubled today by the tone of the president,” he began, speaking at the Republican Governors Association Feb. 24.
Perry was describing a meeting at the White House earlier that day between several governors and President Obama.
“When you have governors, and we all compete against each other — we are the laboratories of innovation — and for the President of the United States to look Democrat and Republican governors in the eye and say, ‘I do not trust you to make decisions in your state about issues of education, about transportation infrastructure,’ — and that is really troubling,” he said.
Perry expressed his own fears regarding Environmental Protection Agency restrictions choking off America’s energy production and a possible reduction in his state’s national guard.
“As a matter of fact, he [Obama] said at that meeting, he said, ‘If I hear any of you pushing back, making statements about Washington spends too much money, you’ll hear from me,” he said, adding, “I’m highly offended by that.”
Watch Perry’s chilling revelation below.
Texas Gov. Rick Perry: The Tone From This President Is Troubling: http://youtu.be/Sce0Xu0hJhE via @YouTubeUkraine United States Strives For World Domination
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United States Strives For World Domination
By William Blum
March 08, 2014 "Information Clearing House - When it gets complicated and confusing, when you’re overwhelmed with too much information, changing daily; too many explanations, some contradictory … try putting it into some kind of context by stepping back and looking at the larger, long-term picture.
The United States strives for world domination, hegemony wherever possible, their main occupation for over a century, it’s what they do for a living. The United States, NATO and the European Union form The Holy Triumvirate. The Holy Triumvirate has subsidiaries, chiefly The International Monetary Fund, World Bank, World Trade Organization, International Criminal Court … all help to keep in line those governments lacking the Holy Triumvirate Seal Of Approval: the IMF, WB, and WTO impose market fundamentalism, while foreign leaders who act too independent are threatened with being handed over to the ICC for heavy punishment, as the United States imposes sanctions on governments and their leaders as only the King of Sanctions can, lacking any sense of hypocrisy or irony.
And who threatens United States domination? Who can challenge The Holy Triumvirate’s hegemony? Only Russia and China, if they were as imperialistic as the Western powers. (No, the Soviet Union wasn’t imperialistic; that was self-defense; Eastern Europe was a highway twice used by the West to invade; tens of millions of Russians killed or wounded.)
Since the end of the Cold War the United States has been surrounding Russia, building one base after another, ceaselessly looking for new ones, including in Ukraine; one missile site after another, with Moscow in range; NATO has grabbed one former Soviet Republic after another. The White House, and the unquestioning American mainstream media, have assured us that such operations have nothing to do with Russia. And Russia has been told the same, much to Moscow’s continuous skepticism. “Look,” said Russian president Vladimir Putin about NATO some years ago, “is this is a military organization? Yes, it’s military. … Is it moving towards our border? It’s moving towards our border. Why?” (1)
The Holy Triumvirate would love to rip Ukraine from the Moscow bosom, evict the Russian Black Sea Fleet, and establish a US military and/or NATO presence on Russia’s border. (In case you were wondering what prompted the Russian military action.) Kiev’s membership in the EU would then not be far off; after which the country could embrace the joys of neo-conservatism, receiving the benefits of the standard privatization-deregulation-austerity package and join Portugal, Ireland, Greece, and Spain as an impoverished orphan of the family; but no price is too great to pay to for being part of glorious Europe and the West!
The Ukrainian insurgents and their Western-power supporters didn’t care who their Ukrainian allies were in carrying out their coup against President Viktor Yanukovych last month … thugs who set policemen on fire head to toe … all manner of extreme right-wingers, including Chechnyan Islamic militants … (2) a deputy of the ultra-right Svoboda Party, part of the new government, who threatens to rebuild Ukraine’s nukes in three to six months. … (3) the snipers firing on the protestors who apparently were not what they appeared to be – A bugged phone conversation between Urmas Paet, the Estonian foreign minister, and EU foreign policy chief Catherine Ashton, reveals Paet saying: “There is now stronger and stronger understanding that behind the snipers it was not Yanukovych, but it was somebody from the new coalition.” … (4) neo-Nazi protestors in Kiev who have openly denounced Jews, hoisting a banner honoring Stepan Bandera, the infamous Ukrainian nationalist who collaborated with the German Nazis during World War II and whose militias participated in atrocities against Jews and Poles.
The Israeli newspaper Haaretz reported on February 24 that Ukrainian Rabbi Moshe Reuven Azman advised “Kiev’s Jews to leave the city and even the country.” Edward Dolinsky, head of an umbrella organization of Ukrainian Jews, described the situation for Ukrainian Jews as “dire” and requested Israel’s help.
All in all a questionable gang of allies for a dubious cause; reminiscent of the Kosovo Liberation Army thugs Washington put into power for an earlier regime change, and has kept in power since 1999.
The now-famous recorded phone conversation between top US State Department official Victoria Nuland and the US ambassador to the Ukraine, wherein they discuss which Ukrainians would be to Washington’s liking in a new government, and which not, is an example of this regime-change mentality. Nuland’s choice, Arseniy Yatseniuk, emerged as interim prime minister.
The National Endowment for Democracy, an agency created by the Reagan administration in 1983 to promote political action and psychological warfare against states not in love with US foreign policy, is Washington’s foremost non-military tool for effecting regime change. The NED website lists 65 projects that it has supported financially in recent years in Ukraine. (5) The descriptions NED gives to the projects don’t reveal the fact that generally their programs impart the basic philosophy that working people and other citizens are best served under a system of free enterprise, class cooperation, collective bargaining, minimal government intervention in the economy, and opposition to socialism in any shape or form. A free-market economy is equated with democracy, reform, and growth; and the merits of foreign investment in their economy are emphasized.
The idea was that the NED would do somewhat overtly what the CIA had been doing covertly for decades, and thus, hopefully, eliminate the stigma associated with CIA covert activities. Allen Weinstein, who helped draft the legislation establishing NED, declared in 1991: “A lot of what we do today was done covertly 25 years ago by the CIA.” (6)
NED, receives virtually all its financing from the US government ($5 billion in total since 1991 ), (7) but it likes to refer to itself as an NGO (Non-governmental organization) because this helps to maintain a certain credibility abroad that an official US government agency might not have. But NGO is the wrong category. NED is a GO. Its long-time intervention in Ukraine is as supra-legal as the Russian military deployment there. Journalist Robert Parry has observed:
For NED and American neocons, Yanukovych’s electoral legitimacy lasted only as long as he accepted European demands for new “trade agreements” and stern economic “reforms” required by the International Monetary Fund. When Yanukovych was negotiating those pacts, he won praise, but when he judged the price too high for Ukraine and opted for a more generous deal from Russia, he immediately became a target for “regime change.”
Thus, we have to ask, as Mr. Putin asked – “Why?” Why has NED been funding 65 projects in one foreign country? Why were Washington officials grooming a replacement for President Yanukovych, legally and democratically elected in 2010, who, in the face of protests, moved elections up so he could have been voted out of office – not thrown out by a mob? Yanukovych made repeated important concessions, including amnesty for those arrested and offering, on January 25, to make two of his adversaries prime minister and deputy prime minister; all to no avail; key elements of the protestors, and those behind them, wanted their putsch.
Carl Gershman, president of NED, wrote last September that “Ukraine is the biggest prize”. (8) The man knows whereof he speaks. He has presided over NED since its beginning, overseeing the Rose Revolution in Georgia (2003), the Orange Revolution in Ukraine (2004), the Cedar Revolution in Lebanon (2005), the Tulip Revolution in Kyrgyzstan (2005), the Green Revolution in Iran (2009), and now Ukraine once again. It’s as if the Cold War never ended.
The current unbridled animosity of the American media toward Putin also reflects an old practice. The United States is so accustomed to world leaders holding their tongue and not voicing criticism of Washington’s policies appropriate to the criminality of those policies, that when a Vladimir Putin comes along and expresses even a relatively mild condemnation he is labeled Public Enemy Number One and his words are accordingly ridiculed or ignored.
On March 2 US Secretary of State John Kerry condemned Russia’s “incredible act of aggression” in Ukraine (Crimea) and threatened economic sanctions. “You just don’t in the 21st century behave in 19th century fashion by invading another country on completely trumped up pre-text.” (9)
Iraq was in the 21st century. Senator John Kerry voted for it. Hypocrisy of this magnitude has to be respected.
POSTSCRIPT: Ukraine’s interim prime minister announced March 7 that he has invited the NATO Council to hold a meeting in Kiev over the recent developments in the country. “I invited the North Atlantic Council to visit Kiev and hold a meeting there,” Arseny Yatsenyuk said during a visit to Brussels, where he met with NATO Secretary General Anders Fogh Rasmussen and EU officials. “We believe that it will strengthen our cooperation.”
Love among nations
by Viktor Dedaj, Paris, France
Washington’s response, or lack of it, has confirmed the authenticity of a YouTube clip of a leaked telephone conversation between US Assistant Secretary of State Victoria Nuland and US Ambassador to Ukraine Geoffrey Pyatt that emerged February 6. In the call, posted by an anonymous Russian source, Nuland and Pyatt discuss installing a new, pro-US government that will incorporate the fascistic opposition which had been leading street protests against Ukrainian President Viktor Yanukovych. Even though Washington’s campaign for regime-change had been coordinated with the European Union, in the phone conversation with Pyatt, Nuland attacks the EU for being insufficiently aggressive, saying at one point, “Fuck the EU.” The same source has provided us with the text of a subsequent conversation between the EU and the US.
EU: But you said you loved me!
US: (sigh) There you go again.
EU: I left everything behind for you. Democracy, market regulations, state-owned companies, social welfare, an independent foreign policy.
US: (lighting a cigarette): pffff… Nobody forced you.
EU: I could have been an international star, you know?
US: Yeah, yeah, blah, blah …
EU: The whole world had hope in me! Now it’s that slut, Latin America, who’s showing off with her crummy progressive policies.
US: Oh that one … She was a hotty. I must admit it was fun at the time. But it’s over (for the time being). Now, you’re my bitch.
EU: (sniffing): Seriously? You’re not joking?
US: You are, you’re my little bitch. Come here.
EU: Are you going to hit me?
US: What? Of course not! What’s wrong with you?
EU: Latin America … She says you’re arrogant, and violent. She says that you have no friends, only interests.
US: She’s crazy. Forget her. C’mon, come here my little bitch.
EU: Oh Sam … Sam …
A Question re: Syria
There have been numerous news stories about Syrian government bombing of its civilian areas, with reports of many dead, and photos and videos of heavily damaged buildings. The source of the stories I’ve come across, when it’s mentioned at all, is almost always some element of the “rebels”; i.e., those opposing the Syrian government.
In all these stories – Have you ever seen a photo or a video of a plane dropping bombs? Or of the bombs in the air? I’m not saying that the bombings have not taken place. I’m just wondering why there is no graphic evidence of them.
Dialogue with readers
Last month’s report evoked an unusually large number of critical responses, concerning two basic issues:
1) My questioning the widely-held belief that if John F. Kennedy had not been assassinated he would have ended US military involvement in Vietnam. Those who wrote to me are convinced that in a second term as president, without the need to worry about re-election, the genuine liberal and man of peace residing inside JFK would have been free to blossom, and he would quickly have put an end to a war that he supposedly abhorred.
I had written in the report: “It appears that we’ll never know with any kind of certainty what would have happened if JFK had not been assassinated, but I still go by his Cold War record in concluding that US foreign policy would have continued along its imperial, anti-communist path.”
As I read letter after letter challenging this assertion, the thought occurred to me: This is just what we heard for four years concerning Barack Obama – In his second term the genuine liberal and man of peace would emerge; the Nobel Peace Laureate would show why he deserved the prize. Well, do I need to go into the awful details of the man’s second term, from drone assassinations to relentless persecution of whistleblowers who question his foreign policy?
2) I suggested a possible solution to the international problem of suicide bombers: Go to the very source. Flood selected Islamic societies with this message: “There is no heavenly reward for dying a martyr. There are no 72 beautiful virgins waiting to reward you for giving your life for jihad. No virgins at all. No sex at all.”
I was informed by reader after reader that the whole thing about virgins is a myth. That may very well be the case, but as I pointed out to them, I was using the story metaphorically, to describe killing and dying for a religious cause, then counterposing US military men killing and dying for a “religious” cause called patriotism, nationalism or American exceptionalism. Both “causes”, Islamic and American, need to be unlearned. That was my point. There’s no excuse for setting off a powerful bomb in a crowded restaurant nor for dropping a powerful bomb in a residential area.
In the land where happiness is guaranteed in the Declaration of Independence
President Obama and many other political and media figures have once again made discussion about the minimum wage a heated subject. Time for me to repeat something I wrote in 2007:
“Think raising the minimum wage is a good idea?”
“Think again.”
That was the message of a full-page advertisement that appeared in major newspapers in January. It was accompanied by statements of approval from the usual eminent suspects:
“The reason I object to the minimum wage is I think it destroys jobs, and I think the evidence on that, in my judgment, is overwhelming.” Alan Greenspan, former Federal Reserve Chairman
“The high rate of unemployment among teenagers, and especially black teenagers, is both a scandal and a serious source of social unrest. Yet it is largely a result of minimum wage laws.” Milton Friedman, Nobel Prize-winning economist
Well, if raising the minimum wage can produce such negative consequences, then surely it is clear what we as an enlightened and humane people must do. We must lower the minimum wage. And thus enjoy less unemployment, less social unrest. Indeed, if we lower the minimum wage to zero, particularly for poor blacks … think of it! … No unemployment at all! Hardly any social unrest! In fact – dare I say it? – What if we did away with wages altogether?
“The modern conservative is engaged in one of man’s oldest exercises in moral philosophy: that is, the search for a superior moral justification for selfishness.” – John Kenneth Galbraith
William Blum is an author, historian, and renowned critic of U.S. foreign policy. He is the author of Killing Hope: U.S. Military and CIA Interventions Since World War II and Rogue State: A Guide to the World’s Only Superpower, among others.
United States Strives For World Domination
By William Blum
March 08, 2014 "Information Clearing House - When it gets complicated and confusing, when you’re overwhelmed with too much information, changing daily; too many explanations, some contradictory … try putting it into some kind of context by stepping back and looking at the larger, long-term picture.
The United States strives for world domination, hegemony wherever possible, their main occupation for over a century, it’s what they do for a living. The United States, NATO and the European Union form The Holy Triumvirate. The Holy Triumvirate has subsidiaries, chiefly The International Monetary Fund, World Bank, World Trade Organization, International Criminal Court … all help to keep in line those governments lacking the Holy Triumvirate Seal Of Approval: the IMF, WB, and WTO impose market fundamentalism, while foreign leaders who act too independent are threatened with being handed over to the ICC for heavy punishment, as the United States imposes sanctions on governments and their leaders as only the King of Sanctions can, lacking any sense of hypocrisy or irony.
And who threatens United States domination? Who can challenge The Holy Triumvirate’s hegemony? Only Russia and China, if they were as imperialistic as the Western powers. (No, the Soviet Union wasn’t imperialistic; that was self-defense; Eastern Europe was a highway twice used by the West to invade; tens of millions of Russians killed or wounded.)
Since the end of the Cold War the United States has been surrounding Russia, building one base after another, ceaselessly looking for new ones, including in Ukraine; one missile site after another, with Moscow in range; NATO has grabbed one former Soviet Republic after another. The White House, and the unquestioning American mainstream media, have assured us that such operations have nothing to do with Russia. And Russia has been told the same, much to Moscow’s continuous skepticism. “Look,” said Russian president Vladimir Putin about NATO some years ago, “is this is a military organization? Yes, it’s military. … Is it moving towards our border? It’s moving towards our border. Why?” (1)
The Holy Triumvirate would love to rip Ukraine from the Moscow bosom, evict the Russian Black Sea Fleet, and establish a US military and/or NATO presence on Russia’s border. (In case you were wondering what prompted the Russian military action.) Kiev’s membership in the EU would then not be far off; after which the country could embrace the joys of neo-conservatism, receiving the benefits of the standard privatization-deregulation-austerity package and join Portugal, Ireland, Greece, and Spain as an impoverished orphan of the family; but no price is too great to pay to for being part of glorious Europe and the West!
The Ukrainian insurgents and their Western-power supporters didn’t care who their Ukrainian allies were in carrying out their coup against President Viktor Yanukovych last month … thugs who set policemen on fire head to toe … all manner of extreme right-wingers, including Chechnyan Islamic militants … (2) a deputy of the ultra-right Svoboda Party, part of the new government, who threatens to rebuild Ukraine’s nukes in three to six months. … (3) the snipers firing on the protestors who apparently were not what they appeared to be – A bugged phone conversation between Urmas Paet, the Estonian foreign minister, and EU foreign policy chief Catherine Ashton, reveals Paet saying: “There is now stronger and stronger understanding that behind the snipers it was not Yanukovych, but it was somebody from the new coalition.” … (4) neo-Nazi protestors in Kiev who have openly denounced Jews, hoisting a banner honoring Stepan Bandera, the infamous Ukrainian nationalist who collaborated with the German Nazis during World War II and whose militias participated in atrocities against Jews and Poles.
The Israeli newspaper Haaretz reported on February 24 that Ukrainian Rabbi Moshe Reuven Azman advised “Kiev’s Jews to leave the city and even the country.” Edward Dolinsky, head of an umbrella organization of Ukrainian Jews, described the situation for Ukrainian Jews as “dire” and requested Israel’s help.
All in all a questionable gang of allies for a dubious cause; reminiscent of the Kosovo Liberation Army thugs Washington put into power for an earlier regime change, and has kept in power since 1999.
The now-famous recorded phone conversation between top US State Department official Victoria Nuland and the US ambassador to the Ukraine, wherein they discuss which Ukrainians would be to Washington’s liking in a new government, and which not, is an example of this regime-change mentality. Nuland’s choice, Arseniy Yatseniuk, emerged as interim prime minister.
The National Endowment for Democracy, an agency created by the Reagan administration in 1983 to promote political action and psychological warfare against states not in love with US foreign policy, is Washington’s foremost non-military tool for effecting regime change. The NED website lists 65 projects that it has supported financially in recent years in Ukraine. (5) The descriptions NED gives to the projects don’t reveal the fact that generally their programs impart the basic philosophy that working people and other citizens are best served under a system of free enterprise, class cooperation, collective bargaining, minimal government intervention in the economy, and opposition to socialism in any shape or form. A free-market economy is equated with democracy, reform, and growth; and the merits of foreign investment in their economy are emphasized.
The idea was that the NED would do somewhat overtly what the CIA had been doing covertly for decades, and thus, hopefully, eliminate the stigma associated with CIA covert activities. Allen Weinstein, who helped draft the legislation establishing NED, declared in 1991: “A lot of what we do today was done covertly 25 years ago by the CIA.” (6)
NED, receives virtually all its financing from the US government ($5 billion in total since 1991 ), (7) but it likes to refer to itself as an NGO (Non-governmental organization) because this helps to maintain a certain credibility abroad that an official US government agency might not have. But NGO is the wrong category. NED is a GO. Its long-time intervention in Ukraine is as supra-legal as the Russian military deployment there. Journalist Robert Parry has observed:
For NED and American neocons, Yanukovych’s electoral legitimacy lasted only as long as he accepted European demands for new “trade agreements” and stern economic “reforms” required by the International Monetary Fund. When Yanukovych was negotiating those pacts, he won praise, but when he judged the price too high for Ukraine and opted for a more generous deal from Russia, he immediately became a target for “regime change.”
Thus, we have to ask, as Mr. Putin asked – “Why?” Why has NED been funding 65 projects in one foreign country? Why were Washington officials grooming a replacement for President Yanukovych, legally and democratically elected in 2010, who, in the face of protests, moved elections up so he could have been voted out of office – not thrown out by a mob? Yanukovych made repeated important concessions, including amnesty for those arrested and offering, on January 25, to make two of his adversaries prime minister and deputy prime minister; all to no avail; key elements of the protestors, and those behind them, wanted their putsch.
Carl Gershman, president of NED, wrote last September that “Ukraine is the biggest prize”. (8) The man knows whereof he speaks. He has presided over NED since its beginning, overseeing the Rose Revolution in Georgia (2003), the Orange Revolution in Ukraine (2004), the Cedar Revolution in Lebanon (2005), the Tulip Revolution in Kyrgyzstan (2005), the Green Revolution in Iran (2009), and now Ukraine once again. It’s as if the Cold War never ended.
The current unbridled animosity of the American media toward Putin also reflects an old practice. The United States is so accustomed to world leaders holding their tongue and not voicing criticism of Washington’s policies appropriate to the criminality of those policies, that when a Vladimir Putin comes along and expresses even a relatively mild condemnation he is labeled Public Enemy Number One and his words are accordingly ridiculed or ignored.
On March 2 US Secretary of State John Kerry condemned Russia’s “incredible act of aggression” in Ukraine (Crimea) and threatened economic sanctions. “You just don’t in the 21st century behave in 19th century fashion by invading another country on completely trumped up pre-text.” (9)
Iraq was in the 21st century. Senator John Kerry voted for it. Hypocrisy of this magnitude has to be respected.
POSTSCRIPT: Ukraine’s interim prime minister announced March 7 that he has invited the NATO Council to hold a meeting in Kiev over the recent developments in the country. “I invited the North Atlantic Council to visit Kiev and hold a meeting there,” Arseny Yatsenyuk said during a visit to Brussels, where he met with NATO Secretary General Anders Fogh Rasmussen and EU officials. “We believe that it will strengthen our cooperation.”
Love among nations
by Viktor Dedaj, Paris, France
Washington’s response, or lack of it, has confirmed the authenticity of a YouTube clip of a leaked telephone conversation between US Assistant Secretary of State Victoria Nuland and US Ambassador to Ukraine Geoffrey Pyatt that emerged February 6. In the call, posted by an anonymous Russian source, Nuland and Pyatt discuss installing a new, pro-US government that will incorporate the fascistic opposition which had been leading street protests against Ukrainian President Viktor Yanukovych. Even though Washington’s campaign for regime-change had been coordinated with the European Union, in the phone conversation with Pyatt, Nuland attacks the EU for being insufficiently aggressive, saying at one point, “Fuck the EU.” The same source has provided us with the text of a subsequent conversation between the EU and the US.
EU: But you said you loved me!
US: (sigh) There you go again.
EU: I left everything behind for you. Democracy, market regulations, state-owned companies, social welfare, an independent foreign policy.
US: (lighting a cigarette): pffff… Nobody forced you.
EU: I could have been an international star, you know?
US: Yeah, yeah, blah, blah …
EU: The whole world had hope in me! Now it’s that slut, Latin America, who’s showing off with her crummy progressive policies.
US: Oh that one … She was a hotty. I must admit it was fun at the time. But it’s over (for the time being). Now, you’re my bitch.
EU: (sniffing): Seriously? You’re not joking?
US: You are, you’re my little bitch. Come here.
EU: Are you going to hit me?
US: What? Of course not! What’s wrong with you?
EU: Latin America … She says you’re arrogant, and violent. She says that you have no friends, only interests.
US: She’s crazy. Forget her. C’mon, come here my little bitch.
EU: Oh Sam … Sam …
A Question re: Syria
There have been numerous news stories about Syrian government bombing of its civilian areas, with reports of many dead, and photos and videos of heavily damaged buildings. The source of the stories I’ve come across, when it’s mentioned at all, is almost always some element of the “rebels”; i.e., those opposing the Syrian government.
In all these stories – Have you ever seen a photo or a video of a plane dropping bombs? Or of the bombs in the air? I’m not saying that the bombings have not taken place. I’m just wondering why there is no graphic evidence of them.
Dialogue with readers
Last month’s report evoked an unusually large number of critical responses, concerning two basic issues:
1) My questioning the widely-held belief that if John F. Kennedy had not been assassinated he would have ended US military involvement in Vietnam. Those who wrote to me are convinced that in a second term as president, without the need to worry about re-election, the genuine liberal and man of peace residing inside JFK would have been free to blossom, and he would quickly have put an end to a war that he supposedly abhorred.
I had written in the report: “It appears that we’ll never know with any kind of certainty what would have happened if JFK had not been assassinated, but I still go by his Cold War record in concluding that US foreign policy would have continued along its imperial, anti-communist path.”
As I read letter after letter challenging this assertion, the thought occurred to me: This is just what we heard for four years concerning Barack Obama – In his second term the genuine liberal and man of peace would emerge; the Nobel Peace Laureate would show why he deserved the prize. Well, do I need to go into the awful details of the man’s second term, from drone assassinations to relentless persecution of whistleblowers who question his foreign policy?
2) I suggested a possible solution to the international problem of suicide bombers: Go to the very source. Flood selected Islamic societies with this message: “There is no heavenly reward for dying a martyr. There are no 72 beautiful virgins waiting to reward you for giving your life for jihad. No virgins at all. No sex at all.”
I was informed by reader after reader that the whole thing about virgins is a myth. That may very well be the case, but as I pointed out to them, I was using the story metaphorically, to describe killing and dying for a religious cause, then counterposing US military men killing and dying for a “religious” cause called patriotism, nationalism or American exceptionalism. Both “causes”, Islamic and American, need to be unlearned. That was my point. There’s no excuse for setting off a powerful bomb in a crowded restaurant nor for dropping a powerful bomb in a residential area.
In the land where happiness is guaranteed in the Declaration of Independence
President Obama and many other political and media figures have once again made discussion about the minimum wage a heated subject. Time for me to repeat something I wrote in 2007:
“Think raising the minimum wage is a good idea?”
“Think again.”
That was the message of a full-page advertisement that appeared in major newspapers in January. It was accompanied by statements of approval from the usual eminent suspects:
“The reason I object to the minimum wage is I think it destroys jobs, and I think the evidence on that, in my judgment, is overwhelming.” Alan Greenspan, former Federal Reserve Chairman
“The high rate of unemployment among teenagers, and especially black teenagers, is both a scandal and a serious source of social unrest. Yet it is largely a result of minimum wage laws.” Milton Friedman, Nobel Prize-winning economist
Well, if raising the minimum wage can produce such negative consequences, then surely it is clear what we as an enlightened and humane people must do. We must lower the minimum wage. And thus enjoy less unemployment, less social unrest. Indeed, if we lower the minimum wage to zero, particularly for poor blacks … think of it! … No unemployment at all! Hardly any social unrest! In fact – dare I say it? – What if we did away with wages altogether?
“The modern conservative is engaged in one of man’s oldest exercises in moral philosophy: that is, the search for a superior moral justification for selfishness.” – John Kenneth Galbraith
William Blum is an author, historian, and renowned critic of U.S. foreign policy. He is the author of Killing Hope: U.S. Military and CIA Interventions Since World War II and Rogue State: A Guide to the World’s Only Superpower, among others.
Notes
- Guardian Weekly (London), June 27, 2001
- RT television (RT.com, Moscow/Washington, DC), March 1, 2014
- Deputy Mikhail Golovko, RT, March 1, 2014
- RT, March 5, 2014, “The EU’s Ukraine policy and moral bankruptcy”; the phone conversation is believed to have taken place February 26.
- NED 2012 Annual Report
- Washington Post, September 22, 1991
- Victoria Nuland, speaking at the National Press Club, Washington, DC, December 13, 2013
- Washington Post, September 26, 2013
- “Face the Nation”, CBS, March 2, 2014
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Can Obama really be this stupid?
Can Obama really be this stupid?
On Thursday, at 1:05 PM. the present occupant of the White House issued the following statement to the press:“This morning I signed an executive order that authorizes sanctions on individuals and entities responsible for violating the sovereignty and territorial integrity of Ukraine, or for stealing the assets of the Ukrainian people.
According to my guidance, the State Department has also put in place restrictions on the travel of certain individuals and officials. These decisions continue our efforts to impose a cost on Russia and those responsible for the situation in Crimea. And they also give us the flexibility to adjust our response going forward based on Russia’s actions.”
Now read the fine print. He has declared a national emergency, something he has been foaming at the mouth to do. Watch out citizens, wait for that other proverbial shoe to drop.
Rev JC
'What's the chance of two ex-Navy SEALs turning up dead in the same room?' Family and friends demand U.S. investigation into mystery 'hookers and heroin' deaths on ship made famous by Captain Philips
'What's the chance of two ex-Navy SEALs turning up dead in the same room?' Family and friends demand U.S. investigation into mystery 'hookers and heroin' deaths on ship made famous by Captain Philips
- Mark Kennedy, 44, a married father, from Baton Rouge, Louisiana, was found dead with syringe in arm in room on ship he was guarding in Seychelles on February 18
- The body of fellow former Navy SEAL Jeffrey Reynolds, 43, was found next to him
- Local police say the pair went to a casino, met up with two prostitutes, bought drugs and died
- Ship was a center of real-life pirate drama behind Captain Philips movie
- But their movements are unaccounted for for three hours that night
- Kennedy's father has called for an investigation and friends of 'Captain America' Kennedy say he would never have abused his body with drugs
By Paul Thompson In Baton Rouge, Louisiana
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Disbelieving family and friends of an ex-Navy SEAL who died of an apparent drugs overdose on the ship made famous in the movie Captain Phillips are convinced of a 'cover-up' and have called for a US investigation into his death, MailOnline can reveal today.
The body of Mark Kennedy, a super fit, highly-decorated member of the elite fighting force, was found inside a cabin on the cargo ship Maersk Alabama - the vessel involved in a 2009 hijacking that ended with Somali pirates shot dead by SEALs.
Another former SEAL, Jeffrey Reynolds, was found alongside him, also dead from a suspected drug overdose. The men were seen partying with two women believed to be prostitutes the previous evening.
Tragedy: The body of Mark Kennedy, 44, (pictured
with his wife Julia) was found alongside that of another former Navy
SEAL, Jeffrey Reynolds, in the Sychelles on February 18
Investigation: Family and friends can't believe
the super-fit Kennedy, nicknamed Captain America because of his
clean-cut image could have died from a heroin overdose and they are
demanding a US inquiry
Squalid: Local police say the pair were seen
with two known prostitutes. The women claim they went with the men to
buy heroin after they were asked to leave a casino at 3am. Kennedy is
pictured here in front of the boat they were found dead on. Police want
to know what happened in the missing hours between 3am and 6am
Heroin and a syringe were found by the bodies but friends who knew Kennedy, 44, a powerfully-built man who prided himself on staying fit, have questioned that he would turn to drugs.
Close friend Jeremy White, a former Navy reservist, said Kennedy had such chiseled features and was so clean cut that he called him 'Captain America.'
'I do not believe Mark took drugs,' White told MailOnline. 'That is not the Mark I knew. There is much more to this than is not being told right now.'
Mark's father Danny, 72, was so upset he could barely speak when approached by MailOnline at his remote home in the town of Baker, in East Baton Rouge County.
His eyes red-rimmed from weeping, he struggled to speak coherently when asked about his only son Mark. But he said: 'There has to be an investigation.'
Friends who grew up with Kennedy and trained alongside him at a local Cross Fit gym ridiculed suggestions that he had become a heroin user or hung out with hookers.
They said he was devoted to his wife, Julia, and 10-year-old son Mason and his final hours alive are in stark contrast to his healthy, clean-living lifestyle.
Kennedy was known to not smoke and as a combat medic was all too aware of the dangers of drugs, having served in Afghanistan where heroin use and its consequences were all around him.
Photographs posted on his Facebook page, where he used the alias Leroy Jenkins, show him bare chested and showing off his physique.
'Mark served his country with pride and now they should repay that by carrying out an investigation'
'Mark took great pride in keeping fit
and working out,' said a friend from the Geuax Cross Fit gym in Baton
Rouge where he would regularly work out.'It is rubbish to say he was suddenly taking heroin. He did not even smoke so why is someone who as a SEAL has been taught to look after their body become a junkie. It does not add up and something is wrong.
'Mark served his country with pride and now they should repay that by carrying out an investigation.'
Mark's death on February 18 in the Seychelles has left his family and friends stunned. His wife Julia is believed to have returned to her parents home in Germany.
Neighbours in the small community about ten miles from Baton Rouge said Danny and his wife Nanda were shattered by their son's death and the squalid reports of his demise.
'He was their hero and they were so proud of him serving his country overseas,' said neighbour James Carpenter. 'They are shattered by Mark's death.It is going to take a lot for them to get over this.'
Notoriety: The ship they were guarding, the
Maersk Alabama, was made famous by the Oscar-nominated movie Captain
Philips - the true story of the hijacking of the ship at the hands of
Somali pirates three years ago
Official: Seychelles police said Kennedy, left,
and Reynolds, 43, right, died of respiratory failure. They are still
awaiting toxicology results on their bodies
Kennedy and his colleague Reynolds, 44, from Fallbrook, California, were working as armed guards employed by a Virginia-based maritime private security company called the Trident Group.
The two former special forces soldiers had been assigned to protect the Maersk Alabama on its run from Salalah, Oman with a port of call at Port of Victoria in the Seychelles.
Guards are now carried on almost all cargo ships sailing close to the African coast to thwart hijackers.
Three years ago the giant Maersk Alabama taken over by four pirates from Somalia.
The ship's Captain, Richard Phillips, was taken hostage by the gunmen and spent several days in a tense standoff that only ended when Navy SEALs snipers killed three of the hijackers by firing simultaneous shots into the lifeboat where Phillips was being held captive.
A fourth hijacker was taken into custody and is serving a life sentence in a US prison.
'There
has been a cover up somewhere. He took care of
his body. I know he had retired from active duty, but you do not suddenly
start shooting up heroin'
The 2009 incident was made into the film Captain Phillips starring Tom Hanks as the ship's captain.It received six Oscar nominations including Best Picture and Best Supporting actor for Barkhad Abdi as the lead hijacker.
Kennedy was obviously proud of being associated with the Alabama posting photos of himself standing at the stern of the 500ft cargo vessel while docked in a foreign port.
Police in the Seychelles remain convinced, so far, that the unexpected death of both men was related to the use of drugs. The exact cause of death was given as respiratory failure and possible heart attacks.
Results of toxicology tests will not be known for three weeks.
Kennedy was found lying face up with a syringe in his hand while Reynolds was slumped on the bed. Investigators found a brown powder, believed to be heroin, in their room.
Police on the Indian Ocean island said the pair were captured on CCTV cameras accompanied by two prostitutes after leaving a casino at 3am on February 18.
The women, who were identified by police from the CCTV footage, claim they went with the men when they bought heroin.
Local police have said possible charges could be brought against the alleged suppliers as they continue their investigation.
Prior to meeting the women Kennedy and Reynolds had been drinking vodka and tequila shots with a group of sailors from New Zealand in a bar called Le Rendez Vous.
Father's hero: Kennedy was a SEAL for more than a decade and saw action in Kosovo, Iraq and Afghanistan
Stash: Kennedy was found lying face up with a
syringe in his hand while Reynolds was slumped on the bed. Investigators
found a brown powder, believed to be heroin, in their room
They later moved on to the Victoria International casino where staff remember the pair playing blackjack.
Kennedy, distinctive by his muscled physique and bald head, was said to be flirting with female croupiers and bar servers. After four hours in the casino they were asked to leave at 3am when it was time to close.
CCTV footage from nearby restaurants caught them wandering off down an alleyway with the two women.
The men were logged back on the ship at 6am with police now trying to find out where they went for the three hours before their return.
It is not uncommon for former soldiers turned contractors to indulge in the shady temptations on offer in some of the most dangerous places abroad - away from the support and love of their families.
But to those who knew Kennedy, he didn't fit this cliche.
'I have known Mark for 30 years and never once in that time did I suspect he was involved in drugs,' said friend David Carlton, 44. 'Mark was as straight as an arrow. He was a Navy SEAL and they have to be in top condition.
'Why would he mess with drugs. We went to the same high school. He was a great football player back then and very fit. Drugs were never part of his life. There is something very odd about his death and the US Government should investigate it.'
Neighbours of Mark and his second wife Julia also expressed shocked that he would take drugs. The family posted a notice on the front door of their home requesting privacy.
Two cars bearing 'Navy veteran' license plates stood in the driveway while unopened packages piled up in the doorstep.
Another neighbour, who said he had known Mark for 30 years, was incredulous his death was down to drugs.
'There has been a cover up somewhere. Mark did not do drugs. He took care of his body. I know he had retired from active duty, but you do not suddenly start shooting up heroin.'
Another close friend, who did not want to be named, went further and suggested others could have been involved in their deaths.
'What are the chances of two ex-SEALs dying at the same time in the same room?' said the friend. 'Isn't it the smallest bit suspicious that they both take the heroin and die. Yes, it could be a contaminated batch, but I just don't buy it.
Double life? Friends said Kennedy was a devoted
father to their young son and husband to Julia - who has returned to
Germany to be with her family since his death
Clean cut: Friends told MailOnline that Kennedy
would never have abused his body with drugs. And those that worked out
at the gym with him said they never saw any track marks. One said: 'He
never even smoked'
'The
Mark Kennedy I knew would not go near drugs. He was all about keeping
fit, and if you take drugs the last thing you do is want to look after
your body.'
A club member at Beaux CrossFit gym where Kennedy would work out, said: 'Mark
hardly ever wore a shirt when working out. If he was doing drugs we'd
see the track marks. It does not make any sense.'Friends also said Mark adored his second wife Julia. Photos on his Facebook page show the couple in loving embraces and trips to Europe.
Kennedy had kept his involvement with the Navy SEALs a secret from many of his neighbours.
Many knew he was in the military, but not a member of the elite fighting unit that was responsible for killing Osama bin Laden.
'What are the chances of two ex-SEALs dying at the same time in the same room? Isn't it the smallest bit suspicious that they both take heroin and die? It could be a contaminated batch, but I just don't buy it'
The obituary said Mark served as a Navy SEAL for more than 13 years.
It read: 'Mark was assigned to SEAL Team 8, SEAL Team 2, and the Naval Special Operations Medical Institute. In support of Operation Enduring Freedom (OEF) and Operation Iraqi Freedom (OIF), Mark deployed on multiple combat tours to Iraq and Afghanistan. Mark was a highly decorated Navy SEAL; his two most notable decorations being the Meritorious Service Medal (MSM) and the Navy and Marine Corps Commendation Medal with "V" device for valour.'
On a more personal note, the obituary said : 'Mark was a great patriot, a loving husband, father, and son. He had many loyal friends and teammates' and added that he 'loved adventure' and 'enjoyed vacationing with his wife Julia.'
Mark saw combat duty in Kosovo, Iraq and Afghanistan. Photographs posted on social media sites show him in full camouflage uniform and also in his dress uniform with medal ribbons on his chest.
Kennedy was also a trained medic with the Louisiana National Guard and joined the Trident Group after leaving the SEALs in 2010.
Questions: Kennedy's high school friend, David
Carlton, 44, said Mark was 'straight as an arrow', adding: 'There is
something very odd about his death and the US Government should
investigate it
Shock: Many other friends who live in Baton
Rouge near Kennedy's home, above, chose not to comment saying they were
waiting to hear the final results of the toxicology tests
Many other friends chose not to comment about Mark saying they were waiting to hear the final results of the toxicology tests. Other SEAL colleagues contacted by Mail Online also chose to stay silent - staying true to the vow of secrecy when they join the unit.
Drug use is forbidden on the ships and guards with the Trident Maritime Security Group are subjected to mandatory alcohol and drugs tests. The shipping giant Maersk, which hired the Trident Group to guard its ships, said last week that Trident would be conducting random drug tests of its employees.
'Based on our experience with the contractor, this is an isolated incident,' Maersk said.
But it said new drug tests would start immediately and the company's shore leave policy was under review. Police in the Seychelles said their investigation is still continuing and arrests could be made at a later date.
The island is popular with vacationers, particularly honeymooners drawn by the white, sandy beaches and azure blue sea. Prince William and his wife Kate have been among the many visitors.
But there is a dark side to the island, which has a population of just 91,000. According to the United Nations World Drug report it has one of the highest rates of injectable drug use, about 2.3 per cent of the population.
Drug enforcement agents have said heroin is increasingly becoming hard to get hold off leading to dealers to 'cut' their supplies to make it go further.
One possibility is that the heroin found in Kennedy's cabin could have been mixed with fertiliser or another chemical. The exact make-up of the brown powder found in the cabin will not be know for at least three weeks.
A private memorial service was due to be held at the Rabenhorst Funeral Home in Baton Rouge on Saturday.
Mourners were asked not to bring flowers but make a donation to the Navy SEALS fund. A funeral is to be held at a later date.
Exposed: Obama Family Part of Secret Muslim Terror Operation
Exposed: Obama Family Part of Secret Muslim Terror Operation
The Obama family’s legacy – although most today would not even consider saying it – will one day be etched in history books under the heading, “How a family of terrorists fooled America”. They have promoted Wahhabist interests in Saudi Arabia and were the greatest supporters of the Muslim Brotherhood in Egypt.
And now more damning evidence reveals the Hamas financing connections of President Obama’s brother, Malik Obama, adding further to what we previously disclosed. The Islamic Dawa Organization (IDO) Malik Obama helps lead as Executive Director, is a member organization of “The Union of Good” (UG), which the U.S. Treasury designated as “Terrorist”.
The official website for UG still shows the IDO of Malik and his boss Suar al-Dhahab as being an official member organization in the coalition. UG is an umbrella organization that represents over 50 Islamic fundraising groups worldwide and was designated by the U.S. Department of Treasury as a terrorist entity under Executive Order 13224:
NAME OF ENTITY ADDED ON 11-12-08
UNION OF GOOD (a.k.a. 101 DAYS CAMPAIGN; a.k.a. CHARITY COALITION; a.k.a. COALITION OF GOOD; a.k.a. ETELAF AL-KHAIR; a.k.a. ETILAFU EL-KHAIR; a.k.a. I’TILAF AL-KHAIR; a.k.a. I’TILAF AL-KHAYR), P.O. Box 136301, Jeddah 21313, Saudi Arabia
This authorizes the U.S. government to block the assets of organizations and individuals that provide financial support to terrorist organizations. According to the U.S. Department of Treasury, Hamas leadership founded the UG in 2000 shortly after the inception of the second Intifada with the purpose of facilitating the transfer of funds to Hamas.
But how could this happen if his brother is U.S. President?
Now for the damning evidence. According to the UG website’s home page, the two main photos of its two greatest leaders are #1 president of its organization Yusuf al-Qaradawi (the unwavering supporter for Hezbollah, Hamas and Palestinian Islamic Jihad) and the #2 man is none other than Suar al-Dhahab, Malik Obama’s direct boss.
Yusuf al-Qaradawi and Suar al-Dahab on Union of Good Homepage.
“AKAs: Charity Coalition , Coalition of Good I’tilaf Al-Khair I’tilaf Al-Khayr 101 Days Campaign, Etelaf Al-Khair” (see Dept of Treasury)
On the Trustees list, Yusuf al-Qaradawi is also listed as #1 President and Suar al-Dhahab is #2 as vice-president (if you use Google translate here, you’re likely to see al-Dahab’s name translated into English as ‘gold bracelet’ due to Arabic names having specific meanings).
Qaradawi and al-Dahab: #1 and #2 on UG Trustees list.
On UG’s Contributing Institutions page, one of the partners listed is Malik Obama’s IDO:
Malik Obama’s IDO listed as UG Contributor.
Islamic Dawa Organization (aka Islamic Dawa Association)*
*Note: The U.S., Wikileaks and Israel err by calling it “Association” when it should be “organization” (Munazamat). The Arabic is correct (Munazzamatal-Da’waal-Islamiia) from the U.S. but the Arabic is incorrect from Israel (Munazzamat Al-Dawa Al Islamic). It should read “Munazamat Al-Dawa Al Islamia”.
The website even provides the method to donate that includes all the affiliated organizations, even Malik’s IDO, with contact information to send the contributions for Hamas:
While IDO funded Hamas throughout the years, it still does and is still part of the coalition of the UG (Union of Good). Again, the U.S. Treasury Department has designated the Union of Good – a worldwide collection of charities headed by global Muslim Brotherhood leader Yusuf al-Qaradawi – as a terrorist entity as a result of its fund-raising activities on behalf of Hamas. This designation is also in Israel. (see #19 and also here)
The IRS granted a terror funding outfit the ability to operate under a 501(c)(3) and the worst part is we’re talking about the brother of the U.S. President. Everything we reported adds up; the Obama family, to include Grandmother Mama Sarah, Uncle Sayid Obama, Cousin Musa Ismail Obama and now Malik Obama, is part of a clandestine team that funds terrorism. Some questioned the links we provided, complaining that we only provided limited websites of Malik’s IDO. The fact is, there is a plethora of forums and religious websites (some very prominent). There are also universities and even sports clubs raising funds for Hamas and asking donors to send the money to the Sudan’s IDO. To show the volume of websites, we included but a few below.
Lois Lerner: Signature at bottom of Malik Obama’s tax-exempt approval letter.
I rest my case regarding this wretched family.
Source: Freedom Outpost
Escalating Crisis in Ukraine: Obama Comes Out Against Self-Determination for Crimea
Escalating Crisis in Ukraine: Obama Comes Out Against Self-Determination for Crimea
The
White House Fool has repeatedly declared erroneously that it is
“against international law” for Crimea to exercise self-determination.
Self-determination, as
used by Washington, is a propaganda term that serves Washington’s
empire but is not permissible for real people to exercise. On March 6 Obama telephoned Putin to tell the Russian President again that only Washington has the right to interfere in Ukraine and to insist against all logic that only the “government” in Kiev installed by the Washington-organized coup is “legitimate” and “democratic.”
In
other words, the elected government in Crimea pushed by the people in
Crimea to give them a vote on their future is “undemocratic” and
“illegitimate,” but a non-elected government in Kiev imposed by
Washington is the voice of self-determination and legitimacy.
Washington
is so arrogant that it never occurs to the hubris-infected fools what
the world thinks of Washington’s blatant hypocrisy.
Since
the Clinton regime, Washington has done nothing but violate
international law–Serbia, Kosovo, Afghanistan, Iraq, Libya, Syria, Iran,
Pakistan, Yemen, Somalia, Honduras, Venezuela, Ecuador, Bolivia.
Does Russia have an Africa Command? No, but Washington does.
Is
Russia surrounding the US with military bases? No, but Washington has
used the NATO organization, whose purpose disappeared 23 years ago, to
organize western, eastern, and southern Europe into an empire army with
forward bases on Russia’s borders. Washington is determined to extend
the boundaries of a North Atlantic Treaty Organization to Georgia in
central Asia and to Ukraine on the Black Sea. Both Georgia and Ukraine
are former constituent parts of both Russia and the Soviet Union.
Washington
is doing the same thing to China and Iran. Washington is working to
establish new air and naval bases in Philippines, South Korea, Vietnam,
Thailand, Australia, with which to block the flow of oil and other
resources into China. Iran
is surrounded by some 40 US military bases and has US fleets standing off its coastline.
is surrounded by some 40 US military bases and has US fleets standing off its coastline.
In Washington’s propaganda, this rank militarism is presented as “defending democracy.”
The
Russian government continues to act as though Washington’s thrusts at
Russia’s independence and strategic interests can be defused with good
sense and good will.
But Washington has neither.
But Washington has neither.
Since
the Clinton regime, Washington has been in the hands of a collection of
ideologues who are convinced that the US is “the exceptional
indispensable country” with the right to world hegemony. Everything that
Washington has done in the 21st century is in pursuit of this goal.
Washington
intends to break up the Russian Federation itself. Washington funnels
huge sums of money into NGOs inside Russia that serve as Washington
Fifth Columns and work hand-in-hand with Washington to discredit Russian
free elections, to demonize Putin and the Russian government, to spread
anti-Russian propaganda and agitation. It is amazing how many Russians
actually believe the Western propaganda.
Washington
is also working to isolate China with the Trans-Pacific-Partnership,
but at this time is primarily focused on destabilizing and isolating
Russia. Washington is desperate to break up the BRICS, the emerging
organization of Brazil, Russia, India, China, and South Africa. With the
largest countries and half of the world’s population, the BRICS
organization is emerging as a political and economic power, especially
with the organization’s plan to cease using the US dollar as reserve
currency. Ringing Russia with US missile bases on Russia’s borders
impairs Russian sovereignty and independence and, thus, weakens the
BRICS as a countervailing power to Washington.
Many have been deceived by Washington’s propaganda. The world is slowly waking up, but is it in time?
The
US media and much of Europe’s speak with one voice parroting
Washington’s propaganda, demonizing Washington’s targets, and preparing
insouciant Western populations for more war. The Western media, like
Western governments, is devoid of integrity.
Liars rule.
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