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Bashing Trump Makes Him Stronger
Stephen Lendman
He’s a duopoly power anomaly, a billionaire, demagogic business as usual aspirant, coming across to supporters as populist.
Yet nothing in his campaign suggests it, other than his anti-establishment rhetoric.
A previous article said he appeals to voters against bipartisan politics they deplore, business as usual campaigning and governance, promising change, delivering betrayal, ignoring popular needs in office.
He seems impregnable despite expressing outlandish views, including wanting a wall built on America’s southern border, calling Mexicans “rapists,” wanting Muslims banned from entering the country, saying he’ll close mosques, and surviving a flap with Pope Francis unscathed.
More U.S. troops killed by Halliburton than by Iraqis
David Swanson
The U.S. government, from Dick Cheney to Hillary Clinton, told blatant lies about the Iraqi government creating chemical, biological, and nuclear weapons in 2002, despite having been informed of the fact that Iraq was doing no such thing. U.S. leaders lied about ties between Iraq and terrorists that they also knew did not exist.
Then the U.S. military attacked and invaded Iraq, in the process heavily bombing old sites of Iraqi chemical weapons from the 1980s, many of those weapons having been provided by the United States. In large part because of the U.S. origin of the old Iraqi chemical weapons, the U.S. kept quiet about them during the new war. Another reason for the official silence was that, during the 2003 U.S. destruction of Iraq, many of those old weapons were seized by fledgling terrorist groups. The war had done exactly what it had been justified as being needed to prevent; it had given WMDs to terrorists.
Gallup Poll Shows Americans Prefer Terrorist Nations Over Iran. Why?
Eric Zuesse
A February 17th Gallup Poll showed that Americans prefer the chief nation that sponsors international terrorism, when given a choice between that terrorist-sponsoring nation and Iran. The disapproval shown of Iran is 79%; the approval is 14%. Back in 2014, the disapproval/approval were 84%/12%. At that time, Saudi Arabia had figures of 57%/35%. Iran was seen by Americans as being even more hostile toward Americans than is Saudi Arabia.
Americans are profoundly misinformed about international relations — and there’s a reason for this: the deep corruption within the American Establishment (the people who shape American political opinions).
Here are the facts: 92% of Saudi Arabians approve of ISIS. That country’s leadership — both the Saud family who own the country, and their clerics — teach them this way. In fact: on youtube you can see the “Former Imam of the Grand Mosque in Mecca, Adel Kalbani: Daesh ISIS have the same beliefs as we do,” and he has high religious authority in Saudi Arabia. And, so, how can the Saudi public be blamed for believing what they hear in their churches — the mosques — such as that ISIS are devout believers, like they themselves are? Those clerics keep the ideology, and keep the royal family in power. That’s why the Saud family fund their clergy.
More Evidence of Israeli State Terror
Stephen Lendman
Israel is more Balfour Declaration created monster than legitimate nation-state, a Zionist global scourge, run by Arab-hating fascists.
Daily evidence exposes their viciousness, what media scoundrels systematically suppress, supporting Israeli high crimes demanding accountability - not as long as the world community turns a blind eye.
Israeli soldiers and police rampage out-of-control, murdering and brutalizing defenseless Palestinians with impunity, holding 1.8 million Gazans hostage under siege, collectively punishing an entire population.
A joint B’Tselem/Hamoked report revealed systematic torture and abuse at Israel’s Shikma interrogation facility - Palestinians (including young children and women guilty of no crimes) horrifically brutalized, standard practice in all Israeli detention facilities.
Longstanding Hillary Clinton Ties to Monsanto
Stephen Lendman
Her presidency would be nightmarish for world peace, popular interests and what remains of fundamental freedoms, a disaster risking full-blown tyranny and global war - vital to go all-out to oppose.
Her biotech/agribusiness ties began during the 1980s as a Rose Law firm lawyer. Monsanto and Tyson Foods were clients.
During her years as first lady in the 1990s, she supported harmful to health genetically modified foods and ingredients - while banning them from White House menus.
The Clinton and Bush II families ate organic foods, free from genetic manipulation and toxic pesticides.
As Obama’s secretary of state, she heavily pressured other countries to use and import GMOs. US taxpayer money continues promoting them worldwide, ignoring food safety.
Presidential Elections 2016: The Revolt of the Masses
James Petras
Introduction
The presidential elections of 2016 have several unique characteristics that defy common wisdom about political practices in 21st century America.
Clearly the established political machinery – party elites and their corporate backers -have (in part) lost control of the nomination process and confront ‘unwanted’ candidates who are campaigning with programs and pronouncements that polarize the electorate.
But there are other more specific factors, which have energized the electorate and speak to recent US history. These portend and reflect a realignment of US politics.
In this essay, we will outline these changes and their larger consequences for the future of American politics.
Hillary Clinton’s Global-Burning Record
Eric Zuesse
On 17 July 2015, Paul Blumenthal and Kate Sheppard at Huffington Post bannered, “Hillary Clinton's Biggest Campaign Bundlers Are Fossil Fuel Lobbyists” and the sub-head was "Clinton's top campaign financiers are linked to Big Oil, natural gas and the Keystone pipeline.” This description of her fits for a politician who does the lobbyists’ bidding while she provides liberal rhetoric that denies she will, and so who burns-up not only the planet but the trust of the liberals who have voted for her in the mistaken belief that because her label is “Democrat” and because she makes her appeals to women, Blacks, Hispanics, and other disenfranchised groups, she’s not actually representing (just like the Republicans do) their common-enemies, which go beyond such ethnic or other groups and constitute the top-0.0001%-economic-class that’s exploiting almost the entire public — including women, Blacks, Hispanics, etc.
Bashing Russia’s Forthright Syrian Conflict Resolution Efforts
Stephen Lendman
Washington expects negotiated cessation of hostilities in Syria failure - blaming Russia before implementation.
On February 23, the Wall Street Journal headlined “Pentagon, CIA Chiefs Don’t Think Russia Will Abide by Syria Cease-Fire” - maintaining unrelenting Russia bashing, proving again Putin has no geopolitical partner in Washington.
According to the Journal, hawkish Defense Secretary Ashton Carter, Joint Chiefs chairman General Joseph (“fighting Joe”) Dunford and rogue CIA head John Brennan “voiced increasingly tough views in White House meetings, calling for new measures to ‘inflict real pain on the Russians.’ ”
The Journal cited an unnamed senior administration official. Putin and Assad justifiably consider all anti-government forces terrorist groups, intending continued just cause war to eliminate them, the only hope for eventual Syrian liberation.
Et tu Barack? The End of Turkey’s Little Erdogan
By Michael Collins
If Erdogan and his advisors seriously believe that they can publicly blackmail a superpower like the USA then their days are numbered. The Saker, Feb 20
Apparently, Turkish President Erdogan and his cronies failed to get the memo from The Saker. They continue to insist that the United States label as terrorists the Kurdish fighters of northern Syria known as the YPG. The YPG and the Syrian Arab Army are the only two ground forces fighting ISIS. The Kurdish YPG fighters are mopping the floor with the barbarians and control nearly the entire border region between Turkey and Syria. Even so, the Turkish government insists that the U.S. is either for Turkey by labeling the YPG as terrorists or against Turkey by supporting YPG’s efforts against ISIS. Image: WikimediaCommons
Why is the current Turkish government obsessed with the YPG? There are several reasons, none of them related to terrorism and all of them about the survival of the amazingly corrupt and repellant Erdogan, his family, and cronies in the AKP party.
What do Erdogan and company have to fear?
Scalia's Black Beemer
Greg Palast
It was one of our team’s weirder investigative discoveries: The recently departed Justice Antonin Scalia – aleha hashalom – in 2011, was ticketed for recklessly driving his black BMW.
To his family, I offer condolences. To my readers, I offer the facts. A man's soul must be laid to rest, but history must not be buried as well, especially now that the Justice's passing has become grounds for stories that border on historical obscenity, cf. the New York Times "Liberal Love for Antonin Scalia".
Love?? Well, if you want a Valentine, this ain't it.
There's been a lot of gleeful chuckling, for example, about Scalia's courtroom bench "humor." But behind his jokey comments lay a cruelty aimed at the poor, the injured, the Beemer-less class that turns to the Court as the last hope for protection against corporate and state violence.
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