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What about violence from the Clinton campaign?
By Michael Collins
We came, we saw, he died. Hillary Clinton on the rape-murder of
Muamar Gadaffi. CBS News 10/29/2010 (Screen shot)
using at a Democratic Party convention in Nevada over the weekend shocked party leaders and the mainstream media. The official custodians of propriety demand that Sanders control his followers and denounce their actions. The double standard on this issue is simply appalling since the Clinton campaign represents failed policies that got 350,000 killed and future plans (the “no fly zone” for Syria) that will cost even more lives. (Image)
To be specific, Hillary Clinton’s policies, as secretary of state, helped launch the Libyan regime change operation. To date, 100,000 Libyans are dead due to that foreign policy fiasco. Clinton was the tip of the spear for the “Assad must go” movement resulting in major support for extremist jihadist fighters attacking the sovereign state of Syria. Why? Because Assad didn’t just amble off when then Secretary of State Clinton commanded him to he leave his office and nation. The death toll in Syria is 250,000.
In sum, Hillary Clinton’s past policies and efforts resulted in 350,000 dead people. She is the only remaining presidential candidate with a major death toll.
Union, not Brexit, Threatens Peace and Stability
Stephen Lendman
Britain’s David Cameron has it backwards, warning Brexit threatens continental peace - calling support for the move “reckless and irresponsible,” risking Britain’s economic stability, leaving it “permanently poorer.”
Former London Mayor Boris Johnson hit back, saying Britain’s economy is independent of EU membership. The union doesn’t preserve peace, and supporting Brexit isn’t anti-European.
Napoleon, Hitler and others sought a European super-state with disastrous results. “(N)o underlying loyalty to (a united) Europe exists.”National sovereignty is sacred. Sacrificing it to an external authority risks a bad ending. From inception, Eurozone monetary union was an idea doomed to fail.
Peace Candidate Obama’s Deplorable Legacy
Stephen Lendman
On November 4, 2008, I wrote the following: The age of George Bush ended, and a new one under Barack Obama began - with high hopes for responsible change.
Celebratory echoes quickly faded. Dirty business as usual continued - exceeding the worst of his predecessors. His tenure has eight months to go. Expect nothing positive in his remaining time in office.
He’ll be remembered for permanent wars, looting the nation’s wealth, wrecking the economy, thirdworldizing it, and making poverty a growth industry.
He’s served war profiteers, Wall Street, drug industry bandits and other corporate favorites exclusively, not Main Street.
One-fourth of working-age Americans have no jobs on his watch, countless millions more underemployed in rotten service jobs with few or no benefits - one lost paycheck away from homelessness.
Provocative US-Led War Games
Stephen Lendman
US war games increasingly take place near Russian and Chinese borders - reckless provocations risking direct confrontations.
The latest ones are ongoing in Romania, days after Washington activated its offensive missile system in the country targeting Russia.
In a May 12 ceremony, US-installed NATO Secretary General Jens Stoltenberg ludicrously said the Alliance “is committed to Romania’s security” - despite it facing no threats. Stoltenberg claiming “missile threats from outside the Euro-Atlantic area” recklessly perverts truth, a phony pretext for acting aggressively against Russia.
Gallup: Americans Want Socialized Healthcare
Eric Zuesse
Most Americans want Obamacare to be replaced by what Presidential candidate Bernie Sanders proposes and what both Hillary Clinton and Donald Trump oppose: "Replacing the ACA [Affordable Care Act — Obamacare] with a federally funded healthcare program providing insurance for all Americans.” That’s 58% of Americans in the survey. Only 37% were opposed. 5% had “No opinion.”
Clinton proposes to build upon Obama’s ACA, but 51% in this Gallup survey say they want it repealed; only 45% want it to continue in any form (other than, presumably, socialized medicine, which, as was just noted, 58% of Americans want). Consequently, one of the, if not the, main, reason(s), why Americans want ACA repealed, is in order to obtain socialized healthcare (a possibility that candidate Obama had promised as a possibility in his ‘public option’, which he never even tried to include in his actual healthcare law, the ACA).
Donald Trump proposes to repeal ACA and simply go back to the old system, but in a form which enables all insurers to provide plans in all states
Jesus [Christ], Dorner and Bin Laden: Patsy, Terrorist, or Savior
By Robert Singer
[Originally published on 03/21/13 but Re-Moved from the Internet.]
A coincidental look into the lives of the 3 most wanted terrorists in history.
terrorists plural of ter·ror·ist, Noun
A terrorist is a person who uses terrorism in the pursuit of political aims.
There is neither an academic nor an international legal consensus regarding the definition of the term “terrorism.” Various legal systems and government agencies use different definitions of “terrorism.” These difficulties arise from the fact that the term “terrorism” is politically and emotionally charged. [From Wikipedia]
- Christopher Jordan Dorner [Why do so many assassins/terrorists have 3 names?] a violent domestic terrorist and author of numerous versions of a “manifesto,” in 2013 stars in the recent episode of rampage killing TV, at age 33. News Services Fake Dorner Manifesto, Quick-Shooting Police Mistake Little Women for a Big Man
Quoted in the LA Times: “I don’t want to hurt you, I just want to clear my name.” Does this sound like something a violent domestic terrorist would say?
[Note the details in the wanted poster above. Build: Thin, Remarks: “He is left-handed and walks with a cane." Footnote [1] explains why the CIA would knowingly release a confession video with an overweight, fat nosed actor writing with his right hand.]
Criminal Injustice in America
Stephen Lendman
America has the world’s largest prison system, larger than China’s with four times its population.
Thousands are incarcerated for political reasons. They committed no crimes. Most prisoners were convicted of nonviolent offenses.
In 2012, “A Living Death” ACLU report indicated 3,278 prisoners in federal facilities and nine states providing data, serving life without parole (LWOP), mostly for nonviolent drug offenses.
Over 83% of LWOP sentences were mandatory, judges unable to offer leniency. A living death describes the fate of victims. Most never should have been imprisoned in the first place.
According to the ACLU, thousands in America got LWOP sentences for “possessing a bottle cap smeared with heroin residue,” shoplifting three belts, breaking into a parked car, or stealing a lunch bag - minor offenses and others like them warranting no more than misdemeanor punishment.
The Imperial Empire: The Sun Never Sets but the Mote remains in the Emperor’s Eye
James Petras
Post-colonial empires are complex organizations. They are organized on a multi-tiered basis, ranging from relative autonomous national and regional allies to subservient vassal states, with variations in between.
In the contemporary period, the idea of empire does not operate as a stable global structure, though it may aspire and strive for such. While the US is the major imperial power, it does not dominate some leading global political-economic and military powers, like Russia and China.
Imperial powers, like the US, have well-established regional satellites but have also suffered setbacks and retreats from independent local economic and political challengers.
Empire is not a fixed structure rigidly embedded in military or economic institutions. It contains sets of competing forces and relations, which can change over time and circumstances. Moreover, imperial allies and clients do not operate through fixed patterns of submission. While there is submission to general agreements on ideology, military doctrine and economic policy identified with imperial rulers, there are cases of vassal states pursuing their own links with non-imperial markets, investors and exporters.
Who Is the More Vicious Liar: Trump, or Obama?
Eric Zuesse
There was a drastic refocus by U.S. President Barack Obama away from being anti-jihadist and toward being anti-Russian, after his first Presidential term ended and as soon as his second Presidential term began; but the signs that Obama presented during his re-election campaign in 2012 were in exactly the opposite direction — that he was going to reduce, not increase, American armaments against Russia.
The Pernicious Myth of Perpetual Economic Growth Nothing grows forever. The myth the economy can is destroying the biosphere.
Dr. Glen Barry
Economic growth is destroying the biosphere The present human condition is predicated on one of the biggest lies ever – that the economy can grow indefinitely. In a self-serving logical contortion, economists in service to the oligarchy measure the well-being of a society by how fast the economy grows, with little regard to the state of natural capital, human inequity, the welfare of ecosystems and other species, or the extent to which people and society are happy. Natural capital is defined as Earth’s stocks of natural assets including ecosystem services which make all life possible, which is unmeasured and thus undervalued by indices of economic growth. Measures such as Gross Domestic Product utterly fail to tie increases in economic output to human and natural well-being. Spending on militaristic drone attacks and the rich’s conspicuous over-consumption are equated with social expenditures to meet basic human needs.
Clearcutting old-growth forests for toilet paper is of equal worth as providing homes and food for the poor. Ravaging Earth’s last natural ecosystems for every last drop of oil is deemed economically beneficial (despite being terribly inefficient as externalities remain unpriced), while we are told restoring natural ecosystems is unprofitable because of large discounting of future benefits.
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