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'Disaster Capitalism: Outsourcing Violence and Exploitation'
Robert J. Burrowes
In his just-released book, 'Disaster Capitalism: Making a Killing out of Catastrophe www.versobooks.com/
books/1985-disaster-capitalism Antony Loewenstein offers us a superb description of the diminishing power of national governments and international organisations to exercise power in the modern world as multinational corporations consolidate their control over the political and economic life of the planet.
While ostensibly a book about how national governments increasingly abrogate their duty to provide 'public' services to their domestic constituencies by paying corporations to provide a privatized version of the same service – which is invariably inferior and exploitative, and often explicitly violent as well – the book's subtext is easy to read: in order to maximize corporate profits, major corporations are engaged in a struggle to wrest all power from ordinary people and those institutions that supposedly represent them. And the cost to ordinary people (including their own corporate employees) and the environment is irrelevant, from the corporate perspective.
Boehner Resignation: Ousted by Republican Infighting
by Stephen Lendman
Politics isn’t for sissies. The rough and tumble takes its toll. Harry Truman once said if you want a friend in Washington, get a dog.
A day after basking in the glow of Pope Francis’ Washington visit and address to a joint congressional session he arranged, Speaker John Boehner said he’s leaving Congress, effective October 30. Did he resign, or was he pushed? It appears a palace coup ousted him.
A Boehner aide’s twitter statement said “Speaker Boehner believes that the first job of any Speaker is to protect this institution and, as we saw yesterday with the Holy Father, it is the one thing that unites and inspires us all.”
“The Speaker’s plan was to serve only through the end of last year. Leader Cantor’s loss in his primary change that calculation. The Speaker believes putting members through prolonged leadership turmoil would do irreparable damage to the institution.”
Washington Rules Don’t Bend
by Stephen Lendman
New World Order Washington rules tolerate no outliers, no sovereign independence permitted, no unwillingness to bend to America’s will.
The price for disobedience is regime change - by color revolution or war. A criminal class in America runs things. One-party rule with two wings is enforced. No deviations allowed - no alternate choices, no giving voters say on anything, a democracy in name only, mocking the real thing.
America’s hegemonic aims are unprecedented, worse than ever under Obama - a war criminal, serial liar, and moral coward, recklessly threatening Russia and China, demanding they go along with US policies no matter how damaging to their own interests. Longstanding plans call for regime change. Both countries are America’s top two targets.
Guantanamo: One of Many US Black Sites
by Stephen Lendman
Guantanamo is the tip of America’s global torture prison network, operating covertly in dozens of countries, subjecting victims to brutalized treatment.
They include Shaker Aamer, one of 52 Guantanamo prisoners cleared for transfer to countries willing to accept them.
Aamer is the last British detainee, approved for release by the Bush administration in 2007. Obama officials refused to send him home to his wife and four children, despite repeated UK requests - until today, September 25. Word came. He’s going home. More on his case below.
Straightaway in office, Obama promised closure. An Executive Order authorized it. Guantanamo remains open - a blight on the national conscience.
Big Lies About Russia’s Involvement in Syria
by Stephen Lendman
Western media wage systematic war on truth. They’re a lying machine for wealth, power and privilege, supporting what demands condemnation, featuring daily vicious anti-Russian propaganda, notably now related to Syria.
Allegations of Russian troops and warplanes aiding Assad are baseless. Pentagon spokesman Captain Jeff Davis suggested Moscow may have in mind an air base near Latakia.
“No such plans” exist said First Deputy Chief of General Staff, Nikolay Bogdanovsky. Syrian ambassador to Russia, Riad Haddad, called accusations of Moscow’s military involvement “lies…spread by Western countries, (mainly) the United States.”
David Cameron Performs The Pre TSD
Gilad Atzmon
Within the condition of the Pre-Traumatic Stress Disorder (Pre TSD) , the stress is the outcome of a phantasmic event, an imaginary episode set in the future; an event that has never taken place. Unlike the PTSD (Post Traumatic Stress Disorder) in which stress comes as the direct reaction to an event that (may) have taken place in the past, within the state of Pre-TSD, the stress is clearly the outcome of a potential event. Within the Pre-TSD, an illusion pre-empts reality and the condition in which the fantasy of terror is focussed is itself becoming grave reality. If it is taken to extremes, even an agenda of total war against the rest of the world is not an unthinkable reaction.
Defending National Sovereignty from the NWO
SARTRE
In a world that is virtually unrecognizable from the universal principles that underpinned Western Civilization, the fundamental concept of national sovereignty is being attacked as a relic of a former age. The New World Order is designed to eliminate the self-government of sovereign nations. While individuals live under the domain of established states, the fact that specific regimes operate within and often under the auspices of international hegemony that routinely violates the independence of specific countries is undeniable. The “world community” is not a voluntary association of collaborating governments; it is a euphemism of a top down despotic authoritarian system for global control and punishment for uncooperative governments.
When the United Nations was established after World War II, the true objective of destroying the axis of competing Neo Global Totalitarianism exposed its real path and agenda for worldwide domination. The New World Order emerged with the full blessing of the United States. An uninterrupted march towards imposing the will of global elites upon individual countries has been the results from setting into motion the forces of internationalism.
Syria’s Future: Another One-Sided NYT Debate
by Stephen Lendman
Russia and Iran are the only countries committed to resolving Obama’s war on Syria diplomatically and restoring peace.
Instead of explaining it forthrightly, Times editors focused solely on Russia, ignored Obama’s full responsibility for merciless war, disingenuously asking “Can Russia Really Be a Partner to Bring Peace to Syria?” Six one-sided views were presented, independent ones excluded.
The Times introduction lied claiming Putin “seiz(ed)” Crimea and continues “aggressive action against Ukraine” - long ago discredited rubbish.
Denigrating Russia is disgraceful NYT policy - willfully substituting misinformation and Big Lies for cold hard truths. Six anti-Russian views were presented, debate nowhere in sight.
Focus on Manhattan This Week, As Obama Factor Threatens World War
LaRouchePac
Sept. 23 (EIRNS)-The center of gravity of world affairs is in Manhattan this week and next, as world leaders arrive for the United Nations General Assembly, and President Obama intends to use the occasion to push for war. On Monday, Sept. 28, Obama, Russian President Putin, Chinese President Xi Jinping, French President Hollande, and Iranian President Rouhani will all be addressing the UN General Assembly. Unlike most recent UNGA sessions, this year's events will be historic, as issues of war and peace will be on the table.
Russian President Putin has presented Obama with a fait accompli, with the intense Russian military deployments to Syria. The Russian deployment has preempted Obama's plans to ally with Turkey and Saudi Arabia in establishing a nofly zone for jihadists in northern Syria, aimed at the overthrow of the Assadgovernment and the creation of a Salafist haven on the eastern shore of the Mediterranean. That is now off the table, as the result of Putin's bold and timely actions. In addition to the deployment of at least two squadrons of Russian MiG fighters to the Latakia area, Russian engineers have now arrived at the naval port of intelligence sources report that Russian surveillance drones are already operating over Syrian territory where the U.S. has also been active. Some limited degree of "deconfliction" contact has already been established at the ground level, and some sane U.S. military circles are pushing for Russian-American intelligence sharing and eventual coordinated operations against the Islamic State and other jihadists.
Security Council Veto Power
by Stephen Lendman
Article 27 of the UN Charter states:
“1. Each member of the Security
Council shall have one vote.
2. Decisions of the Security Council on procedural matters shall be made by an affirmative vote of nine members.
3. Decisions of the Security Council on all other matters shall be made by an affirmative vote of nine members including the concurring votes of the permanent members; provided that, in decisions under Chapter VI, and under paragraph 3 of Article 52, a party to a dispute shall abstain from voting.”
Five countries were granted special status: America, Britain, China, France and the former Soviet Union - now the Russian Federation. They’re permanent Security Council members with special voting power known as the “right to veto” SC measures.
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