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Epilogue: Argentina The End of Post Neoliberalism and the Rise of the Hard Right
James Petras
Introduction
The class struggle from above found its most intense , comprehensive and retrograde expression in Argentina, with the election of Mauricio Macri (December 2015). During the first two months in office, through the arbitrary assumption of emergency powers, he reversed, by decree, a multitude of progressive socio-economic policies passed over the previous decade and sought to purge public institutions of independent voices.
Facing a hostile majority in Congress, he seized legislative powers and proceeded to name two Supreme Court judges in violation of the Constitution.
President Macri purged all the Ministries and agencies of perceived critics and appointees of the previous government and replaced those officials with loyalist neo-liberal functionaries. Popular movement leaders were jailed, and former Cabinet members were prosecuted.
Americans Mindless About the Grave Dangers They Face
Stephen Lendman
Never before in history has the danger of possible humanity destroying nuclear war been greater. Fundamental rights Americans think they have don’t exist.
They’re deplorably out-of-touch, the most over-entertained, uninformed people anywhere, controlled by neocon infested bipartisan governance, lunatics threatening their welfare, security and world peace.
Public ignorance is shocking, why America gets away with high crimes at home and abroad. Lawless interventionism is longstanding policy. .Endless US wars on humanity rage. Human and civil rights are fast eroding en route toward disappearing altogether. Police state injustice rules, tyranny by any standard, heading toward becoming full-blown.
Anyone considered a threat to regime authority risks arrest, imprisonment or death. Thousands of political prisoners languish in America’s homeland gulag, the world’s largest, one of its most brutal - supplemented by global torture prisons, Guantanamo the tip of the iceberg, what media scoundrels never report.
Hillary v. Bernie: Their Two Opposite Views of the Presidency
Eric Zuesse
Whereas Bernie Sanders claims to represent the bottom 99%, Hillary Clinton claims to represent a coalition of groups who are victimized by bigots (racists, sexists, etc.: she aims at women, homosexuals, Blacks, etc.). Whereas Bernie seeks to mobilize the bottom economic 99% against the top 1% who have scooped up almost all of the economic benefits that Americans have gained since 1993, Hillary seeks to mobilize all bigotry-victims against all of the many types of bigots. These pitches are fundamentally different from one-another. In fact, they’re diametrically opposite diagnoses of the biggest ailment threatening the U.S. future: our perilous economy.
Longtime Political Prisoner Albert Woodfox Free at Last
Stephen Lendman
Woodfox was one of the so-called “Angola Three,” Robert King freed in 2001. Herman Wallace died two days after spending 41 years in solitary confinement.
He and Woodfox were wrongfully charged, prosecuted and convicted for killing white prison guard Brent Miller - based solely on another inmate bribed to lie in return for special treatment.
No forensic crime scene evidence connected either man to the killing. Another inmate later confessed. King was blamed but never charged.
After 43 years of solitary confinement in a six-by-nine-foot cell, brutalizing torture by any standard, Woodfox was released from Louisiana State Penitentiary (LSP) - one of America’s most brutal, racist prisons. He and Wallace were judged guilty by accusation - targeted solely for their activism.
They founded the Black Panther Party Angola chapter, organized other inmates to improve prison conditions through nonviolent hunger and work stoppages.
The Louisiana ACLU earlier called LSP America’s “most abhorrent in terms of violence and horrible living conditions.”
Syria’s President Assad Amnesties Syria’s Draft-Evaders
Eric Zuesse
Syria’s President, Bashar al-Assad, issued on February 17th, a decree "granting a general amnesty for military deserters inside and outside the country and the crimes included in the Military Service Law committed before 17th February 2016.”
This is being done in order to remove one reason why some Syrians are now refugees in foreign countries: their refusal (for whatever reason) to serve in the military.
"The decree grants amnesty on the full penalty for those who have deserted outside the country who are included in Article No. 101 of the military Penalties Law issued by Legislative Decree No. 61 for 1950 and its amendments. This decree does not include fugitives from justice unless they turn themselves in within 30 days for those inside the country and 60 for those outside the country.”
US-Supported ISIS Uses Young Children as Suicide Bombers
Stephen Lendman
CIA operatives teach ISIS recruits the fine art of committing atrocities, including beheadings, use of chemical and other banned weapons, along with an array of other lawless terror tactics.
According to a Combating Terrorism Center at West Point report, ISIS “is mobilizing children and youths at an increasing and unprecedented rate (to become) martyrs,” - failing to explain full US responsibility, not wanting to blow Washington’s cover.
The monster it created and supports operates with foreign funding, arming, training and direction.
Young children are brainwashed to become suicide bombers, throwing their lives away for nothing, too young to understand the folly of their actions.
Dozens of children suicide bombers were recruited in 2015 alone, imported into Syria, Iraq and elsewhere from numerous countries with US-led foreign help.
Rule of Law No Deterrent to America’s Rage for World Dominance
Stephen Lendman
We’re doomed if the international community and world populations don’t awaken to the growing threat and act against America’s aim to rule the world by brute force.
Humanity’s survival is up for grabs. Yet detached world leaders and ordinary people are mindless about the enormous risk of possible catastrophic nuclear war able to end life on earth if launched.
America is permanently at war on humanity at home and abroad, violating core international law. No nation may attack another except in self-defense, and only if authorized by Security Council members.
All US post-WW II wars were and remain illegal. Congress and presidents have no legal right to act without SC authorization. According to the Constitution’s Supremacy Clause (Article VI, Clause 2), treaties and international laws automatically become inviolable US law.
Assad’s Remarks to Syria’s Bar Association and Affiliated Councils
Stephen Lendman
On Monday, he addressed their participating members. His remarks are always candid and straightforward, polar opposite Obama’s demagoguery.
He stressed the important role these organizations play in Syrian society, notably at a time of war, when it’s vital them to be involved in defending its sovereignty against US-sponsored aggression.
Fundamental rights according to law protect “the safety of society,” he noted. He explained the latest developments related to Syria’s crisis, the power of Western and regional rogue state propaganda facilitating it.
Libyans Have No Reason to Celebrate
Stephen Lendman
Five years ago today, February 17, US-led NATO began raping and destroying North Africa’s most developed country.
Gaddafi enjoyed widespread support for good reason, providing extraordinary social and other benefits for all Libyans - ones Americans can’t imagine.
The naked aggression Obama and Hillary Clinton as secretary of state orchestrated transformed Libya into a dystopian wasteland - devastated by endless violence, instability and chaos.
Its people suffer intolerably, exacerbated by Washington helping ISIS gain a foothold in Sirte, aiming to control Libya’s oil wealth. Its infestation risks greater devastation than already.
US-led Western propaganda about an anti-Gaddafi uprising was a spurious Big Lie - a pretext for long-planned US-led NATO naked aggression.
Obama is a notorious serial liar. In October 2011 with much of Libya in ruins, he outrageously “congratulated” its people, saying:
“After four decades of (nonexistent) brutal dictatorship and eight months of deadly conflict (he instigated, knowing in advance the destabilizing consequences), the Libyan people can now celebrate their freedom and the beginning of a new era of promise."
Why Terrorists Aren’t Hitting the U.S. Now
Eric Zuesse
On 30 December 2009, U.S. Secretary of State Hillary Clinton sent a cable (subsequently released to the public by wikileaks) to America’s Ambassadors in Saudi Arabia, Qatar, UAE, Kuwait, and Pakistan, headlined, “Terrorist Finance: Action Request for Senior Level Engagement on Terrorism Finance.”
She told those Ambassadors to make clear to the given nation’s aristocrats that, under the new U.S. President, Barack Obama, there would no longer be any allowance for continuation of their donations to Al Qaeda and other jihadist groups that attack the United States.
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