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Media Bias Just as Threatening as President Trump
Joel S. Hirschhorn
Liberals, progressive and Democrats should think critically about the negative impacts of widespread media bias on American democracy. There simply is no doubt that virtually all mainstream media regularly show their strong bias against president Trump and his administration. These media have convinced themselves that they are working to save American democracy from an incompetent, corrupt and dangerous president. And those on the left eat up the negative coverage, which means more money for the anti-Trump networks, newspapers and magazines. Never mind that he was elected fairly and legally.
It seems that the leftist media would only be happy if Trump was driven out of office by any means. Such a victory would confirm the undemocratic power of a free press that replaces a military coup with a media one..Here is my point: More Americans should seriously consider the larger question of whether such a perversion of freedom of the press undermines our democracy. Why? Because instead of fairly presenting genuine news the opinion loaded negative coverage has the goal of bringing down Trump and overturning the election result. The press establishment overwhelmingly filled with liberals and progressives wanted Hillary Clinton and refuse to accept defeat. After all, despite a mighty effort, the media failed to elect Clinton. It continues to seek retribution by bashing Trump and ignoring the many failings of the Clinton campaign.
French President Macron’s Short-Lived Honeymoon
Stephen Lendman
The former Rothschild banker, economy minister’s honeymoon began by defeating Marine Le Pen decisively on May 7.
Two weeks later, opinion polls showed 62% of respondents viewed him favorably.
His fall from grace was swift, an early August YouGov poll, showing his approval rating plunged to 36% - the lowest ever for a French president this early in his tenure.
He’s accused of ignoring his core supporters. WikiLeaks published thousands of embarrassing emails relating to his campaign and earlier. Italian psychiatrist Dr. Adriano Segator called him a “dangerous psychopath,” saying “we have a case of full-blown narcissism.”
North Korea Won’t Negotiate with a Hostile US
Stephen Lendman
America needs enemies to advance its imperium - North Korea its favorite East Asian punching bag for nearly 70 years.
Truman’s war never ended. Pyongyang fears America for good reason. It sees its nuclear and ballistic missile deterrents as its best defense against another US imperial war. It won’t relinquish them as long as Washington remains hostile.
According to a transcript AP News obtained of a Tuesday conversation between its deputy UN ambassador Kim In Ryong and Secretary-General Antonio Guterres, the DPRK won’t negotiate away its key deterrent as long as Trump administration belligerence remains a significant risk.
The Saudi-Israeli Alliance
Eric Zuesse,
Two of the U.S. government’s supposed allies are supposedly not allies of each other but enemies of each other, but, away from the glare of the ‘news’media, they actually work together with each other to control, by means of their secret actual alliance with one-another, a substantial, if not the major, part of U.S. foreign policies — especially regarding Iran, Russia, Syria, Israel, Palestinians, Iraq, Afghanistan, Pakistan, Saudi Arabia, UAE, Kuwait, Bahrain, Qatar, and Turkey, but much else besides. These two secret allies of each other, who largely determine U.S. foreign policies, are the Saud family, and the government of Israel.
Saudi Arabia is a fundamentalist-Sunni dictatorship in which the royal Saud family actually own the country including its oil company, which is the world’s largest, and in which country the nation’s center of its Shia population is bombed to smithereens if and when that ruling family’s appointed king gets the whim to do so, which he recently did — but the U.S. press didn’t even report it, because ‘Saudi Arabia is an ally of the United States.’
Provoking North Korea
Stephen Lendman
America has been hostile toward North Korea since the Korean peninsula was divided post-WW II, artificially creating two nations from one.
An uneasy armistice persists post Truman’s Korean War, North Korea victimized by US viciousness from then to now.
America’s rage for war, its hostility toward sovereign independent countries it doesn’t control, and its diabolical aim to colonize planet earth, pillage its resources and exploit its people threatens possible nuclear confrontation on the Korean peninsula and elsewhere.
The DPRK threatens no other country. It never preemptively attacked one throughout its history. On Thursday, Defense Secretary Mattis provocatively threatened “strong military consequences if (North Korea) initiates hostilities” - knowing it would only respond if attacked, its legitimate right under international law.
Secretary of State Tillerson said pressure will continue against the DPRK “to end its illegal nuclear and ballistic missile program” - no more “illegal” than America’s programs, Israel’s and other nations with these capabilities.
US Wants North Korea Defenseless and Isolated
Stephen Lendman (stephenlendman.org (Home - Stephen Lendman)
It’s unclear if the Trump administration intends war on North Korea or not - madness if initiated.
It’s very clear Washington wants the DPRK stripped of its best way to prevent hostilities - by having a formidable defense. That’s what its nuclear and ballistic missile programs are all about, not as weapons for attacking any nation.
North Korea wants regional peace, not war. It wants its sovereign independence respected. It opposes other countries interfering in its internal affairs. It has international law on its side on this issue.
Pyongyang genuinely fears possible US aggression. It was mercilessly attacked earlier, raping the country, killing millions.
Russiagate’ — The Most Trustworthy Current Information
Eric Zuesse
This summary is up-to-date as of August 6th, but it will start with a leak from a phone-conversation on August 1st, in which Seymour Hersh reveals “what I know” about the Russiagate matter, the matter that dominates today’s U.S. international news. Hersh, of course, is the investigative journalist who broke the My Lai massacre, was among the first reporters to disclose Obama’s support of Al Qaeda in Syria, and broke many other controversial news-reports exposing government-lies — none of which Hersh-articles has been disproven, despite the controversiality of his disclosures. And his record for sheer honesty is vastly better than that of any of his many detractors, and it’s a record that stands out especially because such sincerity is the rarest commodity in journalism regarding international relations (which has been Hersh’s specialty throughout his long career).
Blood Profiteering
Stephen Lendman (stephenlendman.org (Home - Stephen Lendman)
Blood is a river of life, providing nutrients to every cell in our bodies while carrying away waste products.
Its composed of cells and plasma, the latter its liquid component, comprising most bodily blood volume. It contains other substances vital to life.
Other than physicians, especially hematologists and surgeons, few people think about blood unless they bleed, have blood tests, need transfusions or discover they have a blood disorder.
Otherwise, the river of life is ignored. Not to pharmaceutical companies and other blood profiteers. For them, blood is a commodity to be sold for profit.
It’s big business, netting billion dollars in profits annually. In America, facilities mostly in poor communities pay donors for their blood, a practice European countries forbid.
For impoverished Americans, it’s a source of income, along with a health risk for repeated donations, even when not in the best of health.
Discounting North Korea’s ICBM Capability
Stephen Lendman (stephenlendman.org (Home - Stephen Lendman)
Based on its ballistic missile tests so far, including its most recent ones last month, Russia believes the DPRK hasn’t yet achieved ICBM capability.
Noted ballistic missile/rocket expert Theodore Postol partly agrees, along with German rocket experts Markus Schiller and Robert Schmucker.
In an analysis for the Bulletin of the Atomic Scientists, they called Pyongyang’s Hwasong-14 ballistic missile, tested twice in July “a ‘sub-level’ ICBM that will not be able to deliver nuclear warheads to the continental United States.”
“Our analysis shows that the current variant of the Hwasong-14 may not even be capable of delivering a first-generation nuclear warhead to Anchorage, Alaska, although such a possibility cannot be categorically ruled out.”
Neocon Pence Calls Democratic Venezuela a Hemispheric and US Threat
Stephen Lendman (stephenlendman.org (Home - Stephen Lendman)
In Colombia visiting narco-terrorist/Nobel Peace Prize winning President Juan Manuel Santos, Pence threatened Venezuela, saying:
“President Trump has made it very clear that we will not stand by while Venezuela collapses into dictatorship.”
“A failed state in Venezuela threatens the security and prosperity of our entire hemisphere and the people of the United States of America.”
Washington intends doing whatever it takes to change things, he blustered - wanting the country’s model democracy replaced by fascist tyranny imperial America controls, he failed to explain.
