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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.
Global Rivalries are Destroying the Humanity
Mahboob A Khawaja, PhD
Memorials for the mindless atomic bombing of Hiroshima and Nagasaki will not erase the paranoia of vengeful hatred and perversion and cruelty against the mankind. On August 6, 1945, it was the US to victimize the Japanese people who were willing to surrender even without the nuclear option. Strange as is, Nazi Germany was a formidable threat to Europe and America and human causalities were greater, yet, Western allied nations rejected the nuclear option against fellow Anglo-Sexan race.
Bombs and wars kill people – the living human beings, destroy humanity by enforcing barbarism and cruelty, practically denying all prospects of peace and co-existence. Traditional wars were aimed at annihilation of political and economic enemies but the 21st century conflicts are ready-made recipes not only to eliminate the mankind but also the environment in which human beings survive and the planet Earth that sustains life.
Those who perpetuate wars and victimize the mankind sooner or later will cease to exist. This is the Law of God that no worldly materialistic or political power can change or challenge it. Viewing a nation or a people most powerful on the visual screen is not a reality but a delusional imagery – falsification of truth carved out by the political propagandists and hired agents of influence.
The Trump Threat?
Stephen Lendman
A new Clinton ad explains much about why America’s war party fears Trump.
He calls NATO “obsolete” and may try normalizing ties with Russia for the first time since an alliance of necessity against Nazi Germany during WW II - a disaster for US warmongers like Clinton, needing adversarial relations to further their global hegemonic objectives.
Her ad says “(w)e don’t know why Trump praises Putin.” He calls him “a very strong leader for Russia.” Earlier he said he’s “a very outstanding man, unquestionably talented.” He favors a new role for NATO. He’s no peacenik, but unlikely to start WW III. Compared to Clinton, he’s the lesser of two dark forces. Give him credit for wanting rapprochement, not confrontation with Russia, provided he’d follow through if elected president.
Obama versus Trump, Putin and Erdogan: Can Coups Defeat Elected Governments?
James Petras
“Many of our interlocutors have been purged or arrested”.
James Clapper, US Director of Intelligence on Turkish Coup (Financial Times 8/3/16, p. 4)
Introduction
Washington has organized a systematic, global, no holds barred campaign to oust Republican Presidential candidate Donald Trump from the electoral process. The virulent anti-Trump animus, the methods, goals and mass media resemble authoritarian regimes preparing to overthrow political adversaries.
Comparable propaganda efforts led to political coups in Chile in 1973, Brazil 1964, ad Venezuela in 2002. The anti-Trump forces include both political parties, a Supreme Court judge, Wall Street bankers, journalists and editorialist of all the major media outlets and the leading military and intelligence spokespeople.
Washington’s forcible and illegal ouster of Trump is part and parcel of a world-wide campaign to overthrow leaders and regimes which raise questions about aspects of the imperial policies of the US and EU. We will proceed to analyze the politics of the anti-Trump elite, the points of confrontation and propaganda, as a prelude to the drive to oust opposition in Latin America, Europe, the Middle East and Asia.
The Anti-Trump Coup
Never in the history of the United States, has a President and Supreme Court Judge openly advocated the overthrow of a Presidential candidate. Never has the entire mass media engaged in a round-the-clock one-sided, propaganda war to discredit a Presidential candidate by systematically ignoring or distorting the central socio-economic issues of their opposition.
The call for the ouster of a freely elected candidate is nothing more or less than a coup d’état.
Media React to Trump’s Economic Proposal
Stephen Lendman
The Wall Street Journal’s deputy editorial page editor Dan Henninger loved it “on balance,” he said. More on his comments below.
The one-sidedly pro-Clinton/anti-Trump media resoundingly turned thumbs down - notably The New York Times and Washington Post.
According to Henninger, Trump addressed public angst over deplorable (Main Street) economic conditions, and the “60 - 70% of the American people think(ing) the country is on the wrong track.”
“I think this was the first important step in a big uphill comeback for Donald Trump,” he said. “The question now is whether he will stay on message, whether he can go around the country basically repeating this message, giving people some hope and some details of his economic plan... These are things that will appeal to families, to small businessmen and to corporate types.”
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