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US Supreme Court Pushes Towards “Legalized Corruption”
Andre Damon
The United States Supreme Court ruled 5-4 Wednesday to remove the cap on the total amount of money individuals can contribute to political campaigns, eliminating yet another constraint on the direct domination of the financial oligarchy over political life.
The ruling in the case of McCutcheon v. Federal Election Commission overturns a 1976 Supreme Court decision that upheld the limit, currently at $123,000 on total campaign contributions during each two-year election cycle. While the ruling leaves in place the limit on contributions to individual candidates, currently set at $2,600 per candidate per election, it is only a matter of time before this too is struck on the basis of the same logic.
Seymour Hersh Does It Again! Killing in the name of …
Michael Collins
Who were the culprits for the chemical weapons attack in Syria?
What was really going on in Benghazi when Libyan terrorists killed Ambassador Stevens and others? (Image)
Why is the United States covering up and collaborating with a moral leper, Turkish Prime Minister Recep Tayyip Erdogan?
Seymour Hersh answers these questions in his April 6 article The Red Line and the Rat Line - Seymour M. Hersh on Obama, Erdogan and the Syrian rebels April 6, London Review of Books
Afghans Vote
by Stephen Lendman
Afghan elections are more farcical than fair. Fraud substitutes for a free and open process. Voters have no say.
In December 2001, Washington installed Hamid Karzai as president. He's a convenient stooge. He's a CIA asset.
Formerly he was Chevron Oil subsidiary Unocal's chief consultant. He's stepping down this year. Supposedly because of constitutional ineligibility for another term.
Changing it could keep him president longer. Earlier he vowed no third term.
On April 5, Afghans voted to replace him. Choices excluded hope and change. Or democracy. Militarized occupation assures illegitimacy. So do Washington rules.
Supreme Court Rules for Big Money
by Stephen Lendman
It didn't surprise. It's supremely pro-business. It's always been this way. It's more than ever now.
It supports Big Monied interests. It does so over democratic governance. It's on the wrong side of most issues mattering most.
On April 2, it repeated a familiar pattern. Its McCutcheon v. Federal Election Commission decision ruled one dollar = one vote. It struck down federal campaign contribution limits. It did so disgracefully.
The Role of Fascism and the Oligarchs in Ukraine
Transcript of Interview with Sergey Kirichuk of Ukraine's Borotba Party
The following is a transcript of a globalresearch.ca interview with Sergey Kirichuk of the Borotba Party, a left-wing, antifascist Ukrainian political party fighting for the solidarity of Ukrainians. We discuss the oligarchic forces and right-wing groups operating in Kyiv such as Svoboda, Euromaidan, and Right Sector, go over the players and pawns of the current Ukrainian Parliament (Rada), and discuss the possible outcomes of the crisis. You can listen to the full interview here. By Haneul Na’avi and Michael Bielawski, borotba.org Transcript
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HANEUL: Sergey, can go ahead and tell us a little about yourself, what you do with your organization, and please further elaborate?
SERGEY: Yeah, the Borotba movement is a young political movement. We have been operating for three years in Ukraine and we started our activities from the unifying of many left-wing groups and common people in Ukraine that are fighting against capitalism and oligarchy. Ukraine is a country totally controlled by a few rich families that we used to call oligarchs, and they are doing whatever they want—changing political parties and regimes, and when we have some kind of election here, we have everything under the control of a few families. So, fighting this system is one of our aims and we are trying to do our best to change the political situation in Ukraine. Actually, we are just a left-wing political movement.
Mideast Peace Negotiators Meet
by Stephen Lendman
A previous article said talks through last Thursday floundered. They're close to collapse.
Breathing life into failure won't work. It hasn't for decades. It won't now. Multiple rounds of futility defined past efforts.
Israel alone benefitted. Palestinians got nothing. Same old, same old persists this time. Einstein once called insanity "doing the same thing over and over again, but expecting different results."
Kiev Sniper Shootings: Lies v. Truth
by Stephen Lendman
Ukraine putschist authorities are illegitimate. Arsen Avakov is interim interior minister. On Thursday he lied. He pointed fingers the wrong way.
He outrageously accused Ukraine's legitimate President Viktor Yanokovych, his interior minister Vitali Zakharchenko, and Russian security elements of direct involvement in Kiev sniper shootings.
"The former government of the country gave criminal orders and a huge number of people suffered in the 'mincer'," he said.
Israeli/Palestinian Peace Talks Flounder
by Stephen Lendman
Last July, sham talks began. They were dead on arrival. They continue. They'll do so through an agreed on April 29 cutoff.
Perhaps they'll go on weeks or months longer. Futility defines them. It bears repeating what earlier articles stressed.
Israel and Washington don't negotiate. They demand. They're all take and no give. They want unconditional Palestinian surrender.
Duplicitous Mideast Peace Talks
by Stephen Lendman
Peace isn't in Israel's or Washington's vocabulary. Talks with Palestinians date from the mid-1970s. Multiple rounds were dead on arrival. Hypocrisy defined them.
They're the most outrageous scam in modern diplomatic history. This time is no different. Washington is hardline. It negotiates one-way. Longstanding Israeli policy is unchanged.
It claims an unassailable right to settle anywhere in the land of the Bible. Peace talks are a useful fiction.
Reckless Russia Bashing Persists
by Stephen Lendman
Discredited correspondent Judith Miller
It's relentless. It persists daily. Big Lies drown out truth. Containing Russia is longstanding policy. Doing so reflects US hegemonic ambitions.
Eliminating a major rival is prioritized. Marginalizing, weakening, isolating, and co-opting it is planned. Escalated tensions risk belligerent East/West confrontation.
Whenever Washington wages war or plans one, media scoundrels march in lockstep. They regurgitate official propaganda ad nauseam. Doing so substitutes lies for truth.
New York Times editors, contributors and correspondents are some of the worst. Russia bashing persists daily.
It's in front page feature stories. It's malicious. It's irresponsible. It's longstanding against America's enemies. Times editorial policy long ago fell from grace.
Discredited correspondent Judith Miller perhaps is Exhibit A. She lied for power. She did it daily for months. She did it disgracefully.
She served up regular anti-Iraq propaganda. She used disreputable sources. They represented a Noah's Ark of scam artists.
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