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World Food and Population Growth
Steven Earl Salmony
Icebergs are breaking away from Antarctica. Greenland's ice sheet is melting. Global sea levels are rising and temperatures are getting hotter worldwide. Arctic ice is thinning. The ocean's surface layer is warming. Methane gas releases from permafrost and fracking as well as CO2 emissions are polluting the air. Mammals and other species are becoming extinct at an accelerating rate. All this environmental change is occurring now on our watch.
Nature itself, it appears, will likely "force our hand" to make necessary behavioral changes toward sustainability. At least one question remains open: At that future moment in space-time will global ecological circumstances have been so profoundly degraded and dissipated by patently unsustainable human activities that coordinated human action on a global scale, conceived by a seemingly sudden transformation of collective human consciousness of our global predicament, leave us without so much as a chance of establishing sustainable lifestyles and right-sized corporate enterprises on the planet? I have not abandoned hope that somehow my generation can still be a force for making necessary changes rather than the first generation that will not even be remembered. Now my generation of elders is flailing around, "jousting at windmills" and related climate destabilization issues. We abjectly refuse to recognize that deleterious global warming is caused primarily by the human overpopulation of Earth. If we continue to ignore this primal cause of abrupt climate change, how on Earth can anyone expect us to enable solutions to the visible threats to future human well being and environmental health with which we are confronted?
Evaluate Hillary Clinton by her Results, Not her Words
Eric Zuesse
Hillary Clinton’s major result was produced while she was the U.S. Secretary of State, her refusing at that time to call the coup in Honduras on 28 June 2009, a “coup.” By her refusing to call it a coup, the U.S. Government, under Barack Obama, was enabled to continue financial aid to the Honduran Government, and this financial aid, in turn, enabled the coup-installed regime to become stabilized and to remain in place, despite the rest of the world’s government’s having condemned it.
Here is one recent result of her action regarding Honduras: https://theintercept.com/2016/03/11/drugs-dams-and-power-the-murder-of-honduran-activist-berta-caceres/
This is how she did it — how she (with follow-through by the U.S. President) produced it: http://www.globalresearch.ca/hillary-clintons-six-foreign-policy-catastrophes/5509543?print=1
And this is what she says about it, in retrospect: http://www.salon.com/2016/04/15/hillary_clinton_is_lying_about_the_criminal_u_s_backed_coup_in_honduras_it_should_be_as_scandalous_as_libya/
In other words: She’s not apologetic about what she did and what its disastrous consequences were — she ignores them.
Incoming NATO Commander Militantly Anti-Russian
Stephen Lendman
NATO is a global killing machine, a US dominated imperial tool, its mission polar opposite its claim about being a “political and military alliance for peace and security.”
Washington wants worldwide members and partners on all continents, prioritizes endless wars of aggression, wants all independent states replaced by pro-Western vassal ones.
Its agenda threatens world peace and security. Current NATO commander US General Philip Breedlove will step down as soon as General Curtis Scaparrotti’s nomination is approved to replace him.
In Thursday testimony before Senate Armed Services Committee members, he disgracefully called Russia America’s greatest threat - repeating Defense Secretary Ashton Carter’s Big Lie, saying military leaders “should keep everything” on the table, including use of force against nonexistent “Russian aggression.”
He ludicrously accused Putin of “deliberately trying to break up NATO,” saying if US European troops are put in harm’s way, he won’t hesitate to respond forcefully.
Is Hillary Clinton the Democrats’ Richard Nixon?
Eric Zuesse
Richard Nixon’s similarities to Hillary Clinton are remarkable:
1: Both were highly successful politicians who had exceptionally negative net-approval ratings from the U.S. public, but were viewed highly favorably by the voters within their own Party.
2: Both were unsuccessful in their first run for the Presidency, but managed to come back and ran considerably more successful campaigns the second time around.
3: Both were highly distrusted, except by the voters within their own Party.
Russia Foiled US Imperial Plans for Syria
Stephen Lendman
Syria is Obama’s war, naked aggression using imported death squads, orchestrated by Hillary Clinton as secretary of state, following a similar strategy she devised to topple Gaddafi and rape Libya.
Russia’s intervention in Syria last September dramatically changed the dynamic on the ground. “(S)upport given…to the legitimate government of Syria helped prevent the disintegration of the Syrian state, its statehood, preserved power structures and prevented mass victims among the civilian population,” Putin explained.
With Russian aerial support, Syrian forces “liberated more than 400 villages and towns (and) eliminated thousands of terrorists.”Yet endless war continues because Washington and its rogue allies reject peaceful conflict resolution. They want Syria entirely ravaged and destroyed, transformed into a pro-Western puppet state, isolating Iran, next in line for regime change.
Syrian and Russian freedom fighters are true heroes, combating US-led pure evil. Senior Russian Lieutenant Alexander Prokhorenko stands out.
He was posthumously awarded the title of Hero of the Russian Federation for exceptional courage and heroism. On March 17, he was killed in the line of duty, involving guiding Russian airstrikes in Homs governorate.
Why Obama Opposes Brexit
Stephen Lendman
During his UK visit, Obama’s London Telegraph op-ed was duplicitous like all his remarks. The headline alone gave it away this time, saying “(a)s your friend, let me say that the EU makes Britain even greater.”
Neoliberal Europe reveals otherwise, benefitting monied interests exclusively, harming most others, devastating least advantaged households throughout the EU.
Obama’s op-ed meddled unjustifiably in the affairs of another country. It made painful reading, ignoring issues mattering most to ordinary Brits, ones affecting their economic, financial and social welfare, suffering under force-fed neoliberal austerity.
Obama Requests Support for Possible War Against Russia
Eric Zuesse
According to Deutsche Wirtschafts Nachrichten (German Economic News), on April 23rd, U.S. President Barack Obama is “demanding the active deployment of the Bundeswehr [Germany’s armed forces, including their Army, Navy, and Air Force] to NATO’s eastern borders” at Poland and the Baltic republics, to join the quadrupling of America’s forces there, on and near those borders of Russia. (This is an extreme violation of what Russian leader Mikhail Gorbachev agreed to when he ended the Soviet Union and its NATO-mirror organization the Warsaw Pact, but it’s actually culminating a process that began shortly after he agreed to America’s terms, which included that NATO “not move one inch to the east.”)
Why Anyone Who Votes for Hillary Is Ignorant, Stupid, and/or Psychopathic
Eric Zuesse
This is the result of her action: https://theintercept.com/2016/03/11/drugs-dams-and-power-the-murder-of-honduran-activist-berta-caceres/
This is how she did it: http://www.globalresearch.ca/hillary-clintons-six-foreign-policy-catastrophes/5509543?print=1
And this is what she says about it, in retrospect: http://www.salon.com/2016/04/15/hillary_clinton_is_lying_about_the_criminal_u_s_backed_coup_in_honduras_it_should_be_as_scandalous_as_libya/
If the Democratic Party, for which I have voted throughout my life, nominates Hillary Clinton for President, then I (being neither ignorant, nor stupid, nor psychopathic) will consider the Democratic Party, and the people who vote for it, as being now run by psychopaths, and as relying upon votes from individuals who are ignoramuses and/or idiots — I’ll never again support the national Democratic Party. I haven’t been, and will not be, a Republican (and anyone who is, after Bush’s 2003 invasion of Iraq, is beneath even basic decency), but if Hillary becomes the Party’s nominee, then the Democratic Party is just as rotten, from its top on down, as the Republican Party is — and, with Hillary as its Presidential nominee, anyone who would be denying the fact of its rottenness, under such a circumstance, would necessarily be either ignorant, stupid, or psychopathic. That’s an undeniable scientific fact about the Party, if it runs a person such as that, as its Presidential nominee.
Merkel’s Syria Safe Zone Partition Scheme
Stephen Lendman
Longstanding US/Israeli plans call for redrawing the Middle East map - including partitioning Iraq and Syria, installing pro-Western/Zionist puppet regimes.
Turkey wants a Syria buffer zone to annex border areas between both countries. Weeks earlier, Russian Foreign Minister Sergey Lavrov blasted the idea, saying creating one would “violate every principle of international law and will lead to a substantial, qualitative escalation” of tensions.
In February, John Kerry told Senate Foreign Relations Committee members that establishing a buffer or safe zone in Syria would require up to 30,000 troops to enforce it, according to Pentagon estimates.
Last November, Trump endorsed the idea, saying “(b)uild a big, beautiful safe zone, and you have whatever it is so people can live, and they’ll be happier.”
Police State Germany
Stephen Lendman
Free expression in all forms is the most important democratic right, no matter how offensive to some people. Without it, all other freedoms are jeopardized.
Articles 1 through 19 of Germany’s constitution affirm basic rights afforded all Germans.
They include equality for all citizens, freedom of speech, assembly, the media, and religion. Discrimination based on race, ethnicity, gender, religion, or political beliefs is prohibited.
Conscientious objection to compulsory military service is allowed. Article 18 states:
“Whoever abuses freedom of expression of opinion, in particular freedom of the press, freedom of teaching, freedom of assembly, freedom of association, privacy of posts and telecommunications, property, or the right of asylum in order to combat the free democratic basic order, shall forfeit these basic rights.”
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