Appearances
of Impropriety
Questions of
Sobriety
Justice
& Democracy Disrespected
DNC/DEM/NEOCON
Coup Suspected
Aligning The Malignant Mentality
The Nothing Burger
vs. The Something Burger
“The neocons, who have
influenced U.S. foreign policy since the 1980s, inflicting grave damage on U.S.
interests and the world, are reinventing themselves as soldiers in the
anti-Trump #Resistance…”
Forgetting the ‘Dirty
Dossier’ on Trump
“...The New York Times
long ago cast aside any journalistic professionalism to become charter members
of the #Resistance against Donald Trump. But the latest frenzy over a meeting
between Donald Trump Jr. and a Russian lawyer who was dangling the possibility
of information about the Democrats receiving money from Russians represents one
of the more remarkable moments of the entire Russia-gate hysteria.”
Ten Problems with
Anti-Russian Obsession
“Is this effort to indict Russia and condemn
Trump based on facts or political opportunism? Does it help or hurt the
progressive cause of peace with justice? Following are major problems with the
“anti-Russia” theme, starting with the lack of clear evidence”.
Hiding US Lies About
Libyan Invasion
“In 2016, when a
British parliamentary report demolished the excuse for the U.S. and its allies
invading Libya in 2011, it should have been big news, but the U.S. mainstream
media looked the other way…”
MSM, Still Living in
Propaganda-ville
“As much as the U.S. mainstream
media wants people to believe that it is the Guardian of Truth, it is actually
lost in a wilderness of propaganda and falsehoods, a dangerous land of delusion
that is putting the future of humankind at risk as tension escalate with
nuclear-armed Russia.”
The Democrats’
Russia-gate Obsession
“Some leading
Democrats in Congress are eager to turn the summit meeting between Donald Trump
and Vladimir Putin away from avenues for improvements in U.S.-Russian
relations, even if that means deflecting it toward World War III.”
The Price of America’s
Endless Wars
“Official Washington
likes to think of its wars as “humanitarian,” supposedly bringing “democracy”
to faraway lands, but the wars really bring death, destruction and despair…”
The Democratic
Party’s Deadly Dead-End
“By playing for
centrist and neoconservative votes, national Democrats have left the party
floundering with no coherent political message and creating a daunting
challenge for democracy”
Playing Chicken with
Nuclear Annihilation
“Much of Official
Washington wants to escalate the confrontation with nuclear-armed Russia,
ignoring the terrifying reality that this game of chicken could end life on the
planet…”
Foisting Blame for
Cyber-hacking on Russia
“Cyber-criminal
efforts to hack into U.S. government databases are epidemic, but this ugly
reality is now being exploited to foist blame on Russia and fuel the New Cold
War hysteria…”
NYT Finally Retracts
Russia-gate Canard
“A founding
Russia-gate myth is that all 17 U.S. intelligence agencies agreed that Russia
hacked into and distributed Democratic emails, a falsehood that The New York
Times has belatedly retracted, reports Robert Parry.
The New York Times has
finally admitted that one of the favorite Russia-gate canards – that all 17
U.S. intelligence agencies concurred on the assessment of Russian hacking of
Democratic emails – is false.
On Thursday, the Times
appended a correction to a June 25 article that had repeated the false claim,
which has been used by Democrats and the mainstream media for months to brush
aside any doubts about the foundation of the Russia-gate scandal and portray
President Trump as delusional for doubting what all 17 intelligence agencies
supposedly knew to be true.”
Democrats Face
Failing Russia-gate Scheme
“The plan for
Democrats to run against Russia may be falling apart.
After squandering much
of the last six months on faulting Russians for the horrific presidency of
Donald Trump… After blaming America’s dire shortfalls of democracy on
plutocrats in Russia more than on plutocrats in America… After largely marketing
the brand of their own party as more anti-Russian than pro-working-people…
After stampeding many Democratic Party-aligned organizations, pundits and
activists into fixating more on Russia than on the thousand chronic cuts to
democracy here at home… After soaking up countless hours of TV airtime and vast
quantities of ink and zillions of pixels to denounce Russia in place of
offering progressive remedies to the deep economic worries of American voters…
Now, Democrats in
Congress and other party leaders are starting to face an emerging reality: The
“winning issue” of Russia is a losing issue.”
Intel Behind Trump’s
Syria Attack Questioned
“The mainstream media is
so hostile to challenges to its groupthinks that famed journalist Seymour Hersh
had to take his take-down of President Trump’s April 6 attack on Syria to
Germany, says ex-CIA analyst Ray McGovern.
Legendary
investigative reporter Seymour Hersh is challenging the Trump administration’s
version of events surrounding the April 4 “chemical weapons attack” on the
northern Syrian town of Khan Sheikhoun – though Hersh had to find a publisher
in Germany to get his information out.
In the Sunday edition
of Die Welt, Hersh reports that his national security sources offered a
distinctly different account, revealing President Trump rashly deciding to
launch 59 Tomahawk missiles against a Syrian airbase on April 6 despite the
absence of intelligence supporting his conclusion that the Syrian military was
guilty.”
A Baseless
Justification for War in Syria
“For almost 16 years,
the U.S. government has stretched the military force authorization against Al
Qaeda to justify a wide-ranging “war on terror” but now has gone further,
attacking the Syrian military inside Syria…”
“U.S. government officials, including Chairman
of the Joint Chiefs of Staff, Gen. Joseph F. Dunford Jr., claim the current
U.S. authority to mount military operations in Iraq and Syria is legally based
on the Authorization for the Use of Military Force [AUMF] declaration to go
after Al Qaeda and related terror groups after the 9/11 attacks in 2001. But
how does that cover the recent U.S. attacks on Syrian government forces that
have been battling both Al Qaeda and its spinoff, Islamic State?”
Policing ‘Truth’ to
Restore ‘Trust’
The U.S. mainstream media
insists it just wants “truth” algorithms to purge “fake news” from the
Internet, but the real goal seems to be restoring public “trust” by limiting
what the people get to see
Behind the
‘Scapegoating’ of Russia
“The media/political
hysteria over Russia-gate is leading the world to possible nuclear annihilation
with few serious questions asked. But a new book, The Plot to Scapegoat Russia,
tries to supply some context”
Deep History of
America’s Deep State
Everybody seems to be
talking about the Deep State these days. Although the term appears to have
entered the lexicon in the late 1990s, for years it referred only to shady
foreign governments, certainly not to our own “indispensable nation.”
“Does the sudden
presence of an American Deep State – loosely defined as an unelected elite that
manipulates the elected government to serve its own interests – pose a novel,
even existential, threat to democracy?”
How America Armed
Terrorists in Syria
Rep. Tulsi Gabbard’s
“Stop Arming Terrorists Act” to curb weapons going to Al Qaeda-linked jihadists
in Syria, has attracted only 14 co-sponsors pointing to hypocrisy in the “war
on terror,” as Gareth Porter explained at The American Conservative.
Three-term
Congresswoman Tulsi Gabbard of Hawaii, a member of both the Armed Services and
Foreign Affairs committees, has proposed legislation that would prohibit any
U.S. assistance to terrorist organizations in Syria as well as to any
organization working directly with them. Equally important, it would prohibit
U.S. military sales and other forms of military cooperation with other
countries that provide arms or financing to those terrorists and their collaborators.
Gabbard’s “Stop Arming
Terrorists Act” challenges for the first time in Congress a U.S. policy toward
the conflict in the Syrian civil war that should have set off alarm bells long
ago: in 2012-13 the Obama administration helped its Sunni allies Turkey, Saudi
Arabia, and Qatar provide arms to Syrian and non-Syrian armed groups to force
President Bashar al-Assad out of power. And in 2013 the administration began to
provide arms to what the CIA judged to be “relatively moderate” anti-Assad
groups — meaning they incorporated various degrees of Islamic extremism
Russia-gate Flops as
Democrats’ Golden Ticket
“The national Democrats saw Russia-gate and the drive to
impeach President Trump as their golden ticket back to power, but so far the
ticket seems to be made of fool’s gold, writes Robert Parry.
The national Democratic Party and many liberals have bet
heavily on the Russia-gate investigation as a way to oust President Trump from
office and to catapult Democrats to victories this year and in 2018, but the
gamble appears not to be paying off.
The Democrats’ disappointing loss in a special election to
fill a congressional seat in an affluent Atlanta suburb is just the latest
indication that the strategy of demonizing Trump and blaming Russia for Hillary
Clinton’s 2016 defeat may not be the golden ticket that some Democrats had
hoped.”
Ed Schultz stands up
to Obama big time over TPP. Bernie Sanders is also in the video.
DNC Fraud Lawsuit
Update: DNC's Lawyers Stoop to New Low
“Upon the announcement of the DNC fraud lawsuit, the DNC
immediately filed a motion to dismiss the suit altogether, and this request
went before a judge in the first hearing this week. Throughout the course of
the hearing, the DNC's attorney's stooped to a new low in their legal defense
of the DNC, alleging big wigs with cigars can unilaterally select the Party's
nominee behind closed doors without any input from voters. So in an effort to
avoid this lawsuit, the DNC's attorneys are admitting—on the record—that the
Party doesn't have to be democratic.”
DNC/DEMS/NEOCON/Warmonger
Regime Change Wars:
Never Forget:
Obama Becomes First Nobel Peace Prize Winner
To Bomb 7 Countries
Never Forget: DNC/DEMs/HRC
