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Neocons for Hillary
Stephen Lendman
Her con game is pretending to be progressive. Her populist-sounding rhetoric is willful deception.
It’s rubbish like husband Bill substituting neoliberal harshness for social justice, like the Sanders revolution that never was, proclaimed solely for vote-getting - to be arrogantly tossed aside once ensconced in office, with no apologies, no looking back.
Progressivism and war-making are mortal enemies. Hillary represents the most hawkish side of longstanding US interventionist policy - insatiably inventing enemies to pursue conflicts, mindless of the cost in human lives and misery. If successful in succeeding Obama which seems likely, given how things seem rigged in her favor, she’ll stack her administration with neocons like herself, raging to rape and plunder more countries with bipartisan support.
The Odd Couple: Russia and Turkey Allied?
Stephen Lendman
Russia under leading world peacemaker Putin and Turkey ruled by iron-fisted war-maker Erdogan hardly seem like allies for a common geopolitical cause.
Hold the cheers. Don’t bet on it. Throughout Obama’s war on Syria, Erdogan has been a loyal imperial ally - supporting ISIS and other terrorist groups, not combating them as he frequently claims.
Political pronouncements are one thing, followthrough another. Rogue states like Turkey, America, their key NATO allies and regional ones like Israel and Saudi Arabia can’t be trusted. They’re on the wrong side of all geopolitical issues mattering most. Erdogan turning a new leaf contradicting years of ruthless policy is unlikely unless proved otherwise.
Turkish Foreign Minister Melvut Cavusolgu, saying Ankara “will again, in an active manner, with its planes take part in operations” against ISIS targets contradicts what it never did before so what does “again” mean now?
Three Damning New Reports on Hillary Clinton
Stephen Lendman
So much scandalous stuff about her is known, it’s just a matter of time before the next shoe drops.
Instead of exposing her as unfit to serve, media scoundrels express one-sided support, focusing instead on bashing Trump, the most irresponsible denunciation of a presidential aspirant in US history.
Judicial Watch (JW) is a conservative watchdog organization, “promot(ing) transparency, accountability and integrity in government, politics and the law.”
On August 9 and 10, it released three new damning reports on Hillary Clinton. One involved 296 pages of State Department records - including “44 email exchanges…not previously” disclosed to the department, raising the number to 171 - besides tens of thousands of others deleted to avoid disclosure.
Why Many Bernie Supporters Will Soon be Abandoning the Democratic Party (And Why Their Super-Delegates Will Some Day Regret Sabotaging His Candidacy)
Gary G. Kohls, MD
"I would warn Orlando that you're right in the way of some serious hurricanes, and I don't think I'd be waving those (rainbow) flags in God's face if I were you. …this will bring about the destruction of your nation. It'll bring about terrorist bombs; it'll bring earthquakes, tornadoes and possibly a meteor." --- Rev Pat Robertson, Christian Fundamentalist tele-evangelist, predicting - and perhaps inciting - violence against the LGBT community in Orlando, Florida. The homophobic Robertson was critical of LGBT organizers who were putting up rainbow flags around the city in celebration of the city’s stance on diversity issues. (Quote from The Washington Post, 06-10-98)
The 2016 Democratic primaries have been frustrating for many progressives who have had their political juices awakened and energized by the nonviolent political revolution of Bernie Sanders, his New Deal/Fair Deal politics, his democratic socialist candidacy and his support of oppressed and discriminated-against minorities (including Latinos, African-Americans, Native Americans, Palestinians, Muslims and the LGBT community, among others).
Trump-Bashing Democracy Now and Nation Magazine
Stephen Lendman
It’s simple finding reliable sources of news and information, minimal effort alone needed. Yet most people rely on corporate and likeminded media, pretending to be fair and unbiased - drowning out authentic, dependable, trustworthy sources everyone should rely on exclusively and ignore the rest.
Two among other great pretenders to avoid are Democracy Now and Nation magazine. Their funding sources give them away.
Former CIA official/CNN Crossfire co-host Tom Braden (1917 - 2009) once said “research…based on the work of the late Sherman Skolnick and others” shows CIA-connected so-called liberal foundations fund duplicitous alternative media like Democracy Now and Nation magazine.
NYT Insinuates Trump Wants Hillary Assassinated
Stephen Lendman
Times anti-Trump presstitution reached a new low with an August 9 article, editorial and commentary - stuff Joseph Goebbels would have been proud to affix his name to.
Its propaganda turned truth on its head, suggesting Trump wants “gun rights supporters…tak(ing) matters into their own hands” by assassinating Clinton if she prevails in November.
What prompted such outrageous rubbish? At an August 9 North Carolina rally, he said “Hillary wants to abolish the Second Amendment…If she gets to pick her judges, nothing you can do folks.”Later on Fox News, he called gun owner rights “a strong powerful movement, the Second Amendment.”
“Hillary wants to take your guns away. She wants to leave you unprotected in your home. This is a tremendous political movement. The NRA, as you know, endorsed me.”
Raging Anti-Trumpism
Stephen Lendman
It seems like the whole universe opposes him with an unprecedented daily blizzard of anti-Trump articles, commentaries and editorials in US print media and what passes in America for television news - stuff no respectable independent news director would allow on air.
Make no mistake. He’s not above reproach, not by a long shot. He didn’t get to be a billionaire by being a good guy. He’s unaccountable for lots of unsavory baggage, what it takes to become a corporate tycoon. Maybe he’s not all bad. His anti-establishment sounding rhetoric rattles bipartisan power brokers, especially Wall Street, war-profiteers and other corporate interests wanting no changes from current policies - not even around the edges, the most to be hoped for from a Trump presidency if elected.
The Bernie Bribe for Endorsing Hillary?
Stephen Lendman
Sanders faked progressive politics throughout his deplorable public career - more opportunist than populist since elected Burlington, VT mayor in 1981.
Endorsing war goddess, she-devil racketeer Hillary representing everything he campaigned against is proof positive - beyond a shadow of a doubt, as they say.
Here’s more suggesting his dark side. Seven Days calls itself “Vermont’s Independent Voice. On August 8, it headlined “Bernie Sanders Buys a Summer Home in North Hero,” saying:
“(L)ast week (he) plopped down nearly $600,000” for a lakefront property “with 500 feet of Lake Champlain beachfront.” He has a separate Burlington home and Capitol Hill row house.
Russia Foils Terrorist Attacks by US-Supported Ukraine Putschists
Stephen Lendman
On August 10, Tass said Russia’s Federal Security Service (FSB) foiled “terrorist attacks in Crimea (initiated) by the Ukrainian Defense Ministry’s main intelligence directorate.”
An FSB statement said the plot “target(ed) critically important infrastructure…to destabilize the socio-political situation in the region as preparations for (parliamentary) elections of federal and regional authorities are underway” - scheduled nationwide on September 18, including in the Republic of Crimea and federal city of Sevastopol.On August 7, Ukrainian saboteurs were spotted and interdicted, their plot foiled. “An FSB officer was killed in a skirmish when terrorists were being detained,” the agency said.
Improvised explosive devices, the equivalent of over 40 kg of TNT, along with fuses, antipersonnel and magnetic bombs, grenades and Ukrainian weapons were seized.
The Psychology of Ideology and Religion
Robert J. Burrowes
Two of the drivers of world affairs that manifest in the daily decisions that affect our lives are ideology and religion.
Ideology is the term widely used to describe the underlying set of values, myths, ideas, attitudes, beliefs and doctrine that shape the behavioral approach to political, economic, social, cultural and/or ecological activities of an individual or organization. This organization might be a political party, government, multinational corporation, terrorist group, non-government organization, community or activist group.
Religion usually describes the belief in a superhuman controlling power involving a God or gods; it entails a system of faith and worship as well as, like ideology, an underlying set of values, myths, ideas, attitudes, beliefs and doctrine that shape the behavioral approach to political, economic, social, cultural and/or ecological activities of an individual or organization.
At the macro level, there are worldwide or regional ideologies such as capitalism, fascism, conservatism, communism, socialism, feminism, pacifism and environmentalism as well as religions including Buddhism, Christianity, Hinduism, Islam and Judaism. There are also variations of these major ideologies and religions. But even at the micro level, the local service club, neighborhood charity and sporting club operates in accordance with an ideology or religion that is shared by its members too.
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