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Independence Day Hypocrisy, Not Democracy
Post Date: 2016-07-03 08:37:37 by Stephen Lendman
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Independence Day Hypocrisy, Not Democracy by Stephen Lendman On July 4, 1776, America gained independence from Britain. Everything changed but stayed the same under new management - the way the framers planned it. Today we'd call them a Wall Street crowd - a deplorable bunch, including bankers, merchants, planters, ship owners, lawyers, politicians, judges, slave owners and traders, speculators, smugglers, privateers, and other type wheeler-dealers. “We the people,” meant them, not us. They created a government of men, not laws. Property owners alone had rights. Ordinary people didn't matter, entirely left out. America’s first chief Supreme Court Justice John Jay ...
Anti-Brexiteers Hit London Streets
Post Date: 2016-07-03 08:12:49 by Stephen Lendman
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Anti-Brexiteers Hit London Streets by Stephen Lendman On June 23, referendum results showed most Brits for Brexit, an anti-neoliberal/pro independence rebellion wanting change. Union beholden to Brussels sacrifices political sovereignty to a higher offshore authority. Independence may not change much but at least would let Brits chart their own way. Sovereign independence is sacrosanct, inviolable - the inalienable right of all nations. Union destroys it. On July 2, thousands protested against Brexit in London, mostly youths, largely pro-union nationwide. A statement issued by organizers and speakers said “(t)oday we joined thousands of people backing “March for Europe” ...
Pro-EU NYT Promotes What Demands Dissolution
Post Date: 2016-07-03 07:55:09 by Stephen Lendman
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Pro-EU NYT Promotes What Demands Dissolution by Stephen Lendman The EU is fundamentally undemocratic, a flawed system too corrupted to fix, the enemy of peace and stability, eroding fundamental freedoms ahead of eliminating them altogether - a goal perilously close to achieving. Most EU nations are US-dominated NATO members, waging endless wars of aggression, threatening humanity’s survival. Before it’s creation, the CIA pushed hard for a united Europe, a single entity easier to control than 28 separate nations, a core element of America’s imperial policy. Europe remains a US colony. Breaking free should be top priority, sovereign independence too important to be handed ...
Trump Benefitting from Democrats for Sanders Rejecting Clinton
Post Date: 2016-07-02 13:06:49 by Stephen Lendman
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Trump Benefitting from Democrats for Sanders Rejecting Clinton by Stephen Lendman Most polls show her favored to succeed Obama. Election-rigging may assure it. Don’t count it out. Sordid US history is notoriously corrupt, electoral fraud rife, democracy pure fantasy. Wall Street, war-profiteers and other powerful interests likely chose her to become America’s 45th president, perhaps before campaigning began - given deplorable Republican choices. Trump emerging as her challenger surprised most observers - a demagogic, racist billionaire con man, coming across to many as anti-establishment because of his unorthodox style, still the underdog. What powerful interests want they ...
Sen. Tim Scott blasts "unethical" Lynch-Clinton meeting
Post Date: 2016-07-02 09:31:35 by HAPPY2BME-4UM
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Published on Jul 1, 2016 South Carolina Senator Tim Scott says the elitist attitude displayed by Attorney General Loretta Lynch's private meeting with former President Bill Clinton is pushing voters to Donald Trump.
Huckabee: Hillary's going to 'light Bill up' over AG meeting
Post Date: 2016-07-02 09:28:21 by HAPPY2BME-4UM
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Non-Recusal Attorney General Recusal
Post Date: 2016-07-02 08:05:25 by Stephen Lendman
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Non-Recusal Attorney General Recusal by Stephen Lendman Having things both ways is longstanding US policy, giving hypocrisy new meaning. A previous article suggested Attorney General Loretta Lynch’s private meeting with Bill Clinton likely constituted obstruction of justice. Claiming it was social defies credibility. It was well-planned in advance, what was supposed to be a secret Phoenix, AZ airport meeting. Journalists were prevented from doing their job. FBI agents prohibited video and other photographic evidence. No cell phones were allowed. Lynch’s Justice Department is investigating Hillary Clinton’s wrongdoing - her email scandal and evidence proving the Clinton ...
US Navy to Discipline Officers and Crew for Obeying Higher Command Orders to Sail Illegally into Iranian Waters
Post Date: 2016-07-01 10:33:59 by Stephen Lendman
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US Navy to Discipline Officers and Crew for Obeying Higher Command Orders to Sail Illegally into Iranian Waters by Stephen Lendman Last January 12, Iranian forces seized two small US naval vessels, operating illegally in Iranian waters - detaining 10 crew members at the time. Washington spies intensively on Iran, both vessels likely involved in surveillance, caught red- handed. GPS devices taken from crew members confirmed their illegal presence in Iranian waters. They were detained for 16 hours, humanely treated in custody, Iran’s Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps (IRGC) saying at the time it released the US servicemen and their vessels after determining no harm was done - blaming ...
Bill Clinton/Attorney General Meeting Constitutes Likely Obstruction of Justice
Post Date: 2016-07-01 09:12:52 by Stephen Lendman
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Bill Clinton/Attorney General Meeting Constitutes Likely Obstruction of Justice by Stephen Lendman Presumptive Democrat party nominee Hillary Clinton is unfit to serve - a widely reviled, scandal- ridden, war criminal/racketeer, unindicted and unlikely to be charged despite high crimes too grave to ignore. The FBI has indictable evidence, proving the Clinton Foundation (involving Hillary and husband Bill) is a money laundering, influencing peddling racket, posing as a charitable NGO. Tens of millions of dollars donated by foreign governments, organizations and individuals went largely for self-enrichment, wealth stashed in tax havens. The FBI only investigates. It doesn’t indict, ...
Three Amigos Summit Promotes Dirty Business As Usual
Post Date: 2016-06-30 09:15:03 by Stephen Lendman
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Three Amigos Summit Promotes Dirty Business As Usual by Stephen Lendman Meeting in Ottawa, Obama, Canadian Prime Minister Justin Trudeau and Mexican President Enrique Pena Nieto promoted NAFTA and the Trans-Pacific Partnership (TPP) - anti-consumer trade legislation, benefitting corporate interests exclusively at the expense of fundamental freedoms and social justice. “The integration of national economies into a global economy - that’s here. That’s done,” said Obama. “We’re going to do more to speak with one united North American voice on the world stage” - promoting greater “integration” at the expense of fundamental human and civil rights. ...
Anti-Democratic Democrat Party Platform
Post Date: 2016-06-29 12:32:14 by Stephen Lendman
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Anti-Democratic Democrat Party Platform by Stephen Lendman Republican and Democrat party policies consistently represent privileged Americans at the expense of most everyone else - notably since Bill and Hillary Clinton’s deplorable 1990s co- presidency. Campaigning ahead of the 1992 election, Bill promoted the idea, using the phrase “two for the price of one.” The prospect of repeating the same mistake this November should scare everyone. Meeting in St. Louis last weekend, Democrats drafted a largely business as usual platform, lofty mumbo jumbo rhetoric pretending otherwise - final approval coming when the full platform committee meets in Orlando, FL on July 8 and 9, ...
‘We the Prisoners’: The Demise of the Fourth Amendment
Post Date: 2016-06-29 07:14:07 by Ada
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“Our carceral state banishes American citizens to a gray wasteland far beyond the promises and protections the government grants its other citizens… When the doors finally close and one finds oneself facing banishment to the carceral state—the years, the walls, the rules, the guards, the inmates—reactions vary. Some experience an intense sickening feeling. Others, a strong desire to sleep. Visions of suicide. A deep shame. A rage directed toward guards and other inmates. Utter disbelief. The incarcerated attempt to hold on to family and old social ties through phone calls and visitations. At first, friends and family do their best to keep up. But phone calls to prison ...
Erdogan's Hollow Apology to Putin
Post Date: 2016-06-28 08:01:23 by Stephen Lendman
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Erdogan’s Hollow Apology to Putin by Stephen Lendman Last November, Turkey willfully and without provocation downed a Russian Su-24 warplane flying over Syria, falsely claiming it entered Turkish airspace. At the time, Erdogan defiantly said “(i)f another violation of our aerial border happens, we(‘ll) respond in the same way.” Clear Russian evidence proved its aircraft didn’t enter Turkish airspace. No warnings were given as Ankara claimed. Putin justifiably called the incident a treacherous “stab in the back.” He accused Erdogan of being an “accomplice of terrorists.” Ground fire killed Russian pilot Sergey Rumyantsev after ejecting from ...
Brexit Another Excuse for Putin Bashing
Post Date: 2016-06-27 12:54:49 by Stephen Lendman
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Brexit Another Excuse for Putin Bashing by Stephen Lendman He’s falsely blamed for favoring Brexit, orchestrating Euro 2016 hooliganism, nonexistent aggression in Ukraine, menacing Baltic states and other Eastern European countries, along with being America’s top existential threat. Now, according to right-wing Daily Beast columnist Josh Rogin, writing in the neocon Washington Post, “Russian intelligence and security services have been waging a campaign of harassment and intimidation against US diplomats, embassy staff and their families in Moscow and several other European capitals…” No evidence suggests it. Similar accusations surfaced earlier. In October 20 ...
False Prophets Hype Brexit Disaster
Post Date: 2016-06-27 09:17:01 by Stephen Lendman
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False Prophets Hype Brexit Disaster by Stephen Lendman Public sentiment in Britain, across Europe, in America and elsewhere is being manipulated to believe Brexit assures economic and financial chaos. New world order con man/billionaire speculator George Soros, known for profiting from color revolutions, imperial wars and neoliberal harshness warned of disaster from Brexit, saying: “Now the catastrophic scenario that many feared has materialized…the disintegration of the EU (is) practically irreversible," “Britain eventually may or may not be relatively better off than other countries by leaving the EU, but its economy and people stand to suffer significantly in the ...
Second UK Referendum Petition Rife with Fraud
Post Date: 2016-06-27 08:44:34 by Stephen Lendman
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Second UK Referendum Petition Rife with Fraud by Stephen Lendman Borrowing a line from librettist WS Gilbert: “Things aren’t always as they seem. Skim milk masquerades as cream.” Venezuelan extremists wanting democratically elected President Nicolas Maduro ousted stacked their recall petition with hundreds of thousands of fraudulent signatures - some fake names, others deceased, as well as minors too young to vote, discrediting the legitimacy of their campaign. Britain is following suit. Anti-Brexit proponents petitioning parliament for a second referendum so far collected around 3.5 million signatures since Friday - a red flag. This many this fast suggests something ...
Sanders Supports Clinton
Post Date: 2016-06-27 08:14:36 by Stephen Lendman
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Sanders Supports Clinton by Stephen Lendman Holding back on officially endorsing her, the presumptive Democrat party standard bearer, belies his earlier saying “if (she’s) the nominee, I will certainly support her.” Support = endorsement, so why stop short of admitting it. Sanders’ reasons ring hollow. So does his empty threat about waging a convention floor fight over Democrat platform policies. He’s part of the dirty system, supporting what he claims to oppose, more hypocrite than populist, turning truth on its head, claiming “the Democratic (sic) party stands with the middle class, stands with working families, and is prepared to take on Wall Street and ...
The Supreme Court’s Affirmative Action Confusion
Post Date: 2016-06-27 07:15:30 by Ada
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A new decision doubles down on decades’ worth of dubious precedent. In a 4-3 decision, the Supreme Court has upheld the use of race in admissions at the University of Texas-Austin. Swing justice Anthony Kennedy unexpectedly joined the liberals and wrote the majority opinion in the case, Fisher v. University of Texas; with Antonin Scalia’s death and Elena Kagan’s recusal, there were only seven votes. The majority opinion is incoherent, to the point of being downright comical in places. But it is weirdly of a piece with the Supreme Court’s previous decisions on this topic—and a good opportunity to look back at the road that got us here. The case revolves around ...
Kerry in Brussels and London
Post Date: 2016-06-26 13:25:59 by Stephen Lendman
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Kerry in Brussels and London by Stephen Lendman Ahead of his Sunday visit, Kerry’s upside down assessment of things stressed “the important role the UK plays in promoting peace and stability in the world.” Both countries partnered with Israel represent pure evil, humanity’s greatest threat - Kerry’s visit an imperial mission, asserting US authority, letting UK and European officials know what Washington expects going forward. Kerry saying “(i)n a democracy, when the voters speak, it is the job of leaders to listen and then to make sure that they are moving in a way that is responsible to address the concerns” is polar opposite the way America and its ...
Brexit: Anti-Neoliberal Rebellion
Post Date: 2016-06-26 08:44:04 by Stephen Lendman
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Brexit: Anti-Neoliberal Rebellion by Stephen Lendman Adam Smith said governments are “instituted for the defense of the rich against the poor.” Predatory capitalism dominates most societies, wealth unequally distributed, privileged few benefitting at the expense of most others. Powerful interests use money to make more of it at the expense of beneficial social change. Dominance preserves capital’s divine right. Governments and business partner against the general welfare. Neoliberalism prioritizes dominance over democracy, profits over populism, and private interests over public ones - a zero-sum game benefitting monied interests over all others, societies made unfit to ...
Sanders in New York
Post Date: 2016-06-24 07:54:04 by Stephen Lendman
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Sanders in New York by Stephen Lendman His so-called “where we go from here speech” fell short, repeating warmed-over themes highlighted throughout his campaign - ones he largely failed to support during 30 years in public office. His record shows a deplorable habit of saying one thing, then doing another, destroying his credibility. His populist rhetoric rings hollow. Days earlier, he acknowledged Clinton becoming Democrat party presumptive standard bearer, saying “(i)t doesn’t appear that I’m going to be the nominee, so I’m not going to be determining the scope of the convention.” Endorsing her is virtually certain. He’ll choose the time and ...
None Dare Call It Reason
Post Date: 2016-06-24 07:05:35 by Ada
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Ok, so I see this big hoopla (deeply flavored with just a hint of rare hoo-ha) about this woman who saw her kid standing on the toilet and the kid tells her she learned it at school. No, it wasn’t some nifty new personal hygiene technique, it was a lesson in hiding from a mass shooting event. Because if you stand on the toilet, the shooter can’t look under the stall door and see your legs, right? Well, except now anyway, since the concerned mom has revealed this escape-and-evasion tactic for tots to the entire world. The mom is outraged because the politicians aren’t “doing” anything about it. The government has been “doing” things for quite some time ...
'No Fly, No Buy' Means No Freedom
Post Date: 2016-06-23 08:47:01 by Ada
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The people in the government who want to control our personal choices are the enemies of freedom. And the enemies of freedom can be very clever and seductive. Last week, these folks, manifesting their lust to keep us dependent upon the government by rejecting the natural right to self-defense, coined a clever phrase: “No fly, no buy.” It sounds rational, yet it rejects core American values. The phrase was pounded home to average Americans during a one-sided 15-hour televised marathon on the floor of the Senate orchestrated by the gun control crowd. The essence of the argument was that stricter laws regarding gun sales would have prevented the massacre at the Pulse nightclub in ...
Ad Hominem Campaigning
Post Date: 2016-06-23 08:01:35 by Stephen Lendman
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Ad Hominem Campaigning by Stephen Lendman Candidates attacking each other goes with the territory. Trump and Clinton appear heading for new mean-spirited lows. The race for the White House promises perhaps to be the nastiest in memory - back-and-forth ad hominem bashing in lieu of straight talk on issues mattering most. America is a hugely corrupted money-controlled one-party state with two wings, governance serving everyone equitably a nonstarter, democracy pure fantasy. Voters in November get to choose between the most widely ever reviled presidential aspirants in US history - unfit for any public office. However things turn out, America’s deplorable state will worsen. Pure ...
Stop using tragedies to justify unjust new laws
Post Date: 2016-06-23 07:03:16 by Ada
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In the wake of tragedy, calls to “do something” can be deafening. And since politicians never want a serious crisis to go to waste—if I can borrow the infamous phrasing of Rahm Emanuel—our government is always ready and willing to respond to these calls. Trouble is, there’s usually a reason these post-crisis policies were previously nonstarters: they’re not good ideas. Laws made in terror, anger, and despair appeal more to our emotions than our common sense. They tend to ride roughshod over individual rights and the limits of the Constitution. They are often unjust and ill-considered, which is (understandably) difficult to see through our tears. But once ...
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