Tuesday, November 20, 2018
Tuesday, November 06, 2018
The Unreal World of US Elections – Fake As A Pro Wrestling Match by Caitlin Johnstone
The Unreal World of US Elections – Fake As A Pro Wrestling Match: No matter who wins, the wars are guaranteed to continue, the oligarchs are guaranteed to keep siphoning more and more money out of the pockets of ordinary Americans.
"... I haven’t been writing about the US midterms much, because I don’t care about that nonsense anymore. The whole thing’s a fake pro wrestling performance staged every couple of years to give a heavily armed populace the illusory sense that they have some degree of control over the things their government does.
By this I do not mean that the votes aren’t real or that the outcomes are predetermined, I simply mean that both mainstream parties are controlled by plutocrats who benefit from the status quo and are only interested in their own power and profit.
No matter who wins on Tuesday, the wars are guaranteed to continue, the oligarchs are guaranteed to keep siphoning more and more money out of the pockets of ordinary Americans, opaque and unaccountable intelligence agencies are guaranteed to continue expanding intrusive surveillance practices and narrative control psyops in collaboration with powerful Silicon Valley corporations, and we’re guaranteed to keep hurtling toward climate catastrophe on the back of an economic system which requires infinite growth on a finite planet..."
"... I haven’t been writing about the US midterms much, because I don’t care about that nonsense anymore. The whole thing’s a fake pro wrestling performance staged every couple of years to give a heavily armed populace the illusory sense that they have some degree of control over the things their government does.
By this I do not mean that the votes aren’t real or that the outcomes are predetermined, I simply mean that both mainstream parties are controlled by plutocrats who benefit from the status quo and are only interested in their own power and profit.
No matter who wins on Tuesday, the wars are guaranteed to continue, the oligarchs are guaranteed to keep siphoning more and more money out of the pockets of ordinary Americans, opaque and unaccountable intelligence agencies are guaranteed to continue expanding intrusive surveillance practices and narrative control psyops in collaboration with powerful Silicon Valley corporations, and we’re guaranteed to keep hurtling toward climate catastrophe on the back of an economic system which requires infinite growth on a finite planet..."
What This Election Is About by paul craig Roberts
What This Election Is About: America has no independent media. It has a collection of whores known as NPR, Washington Post, New York Times, CNN, MSCBS, Fox News, etc.
"...What should this election be about? If America had an independent media, the election would be about the dangerous situation created by Washington that has caused two militarily powerful countries to prepare for war with the US. This is the most serious development of my lifetime. Everything President Reagan worked for has been overthrown for the material interests of the power and profit of the military/security complex.
If America had an independent media, the election would be about the American police state that, based on the 9/11 lie, the weapons of mass destruction lie, the use of chemical weapons lie, the Iranian nukes lie, the Russian invasion of Ukraine lie, was accepted by the insouciant Americans. Those responsible for these lies, which have caused massive war crimes, for which US administrations should be indicted, are feted and rich. The rest of us have experienced the loss of civil liberty and privacy. Any individual in the way of the police state is mowed down.
If America had an independent media, the election would be about the de-industrialization of the United States. Today, as this article makes clear—https://thesaker.is/the-pentagon-realised-what-it-has-done-the-chinese-put-the-us-army-on-its-knees/ —the offshoring of American manufacturing and industry has reduced the US military to dependence on Chinese suppliers.
And the Trump administration starts trouble with China!
If America had an independent media, the election would be about the 20 years of US and NATO/EU war crimes against Serbia, Afghanistan, Iraq, Somalia, Libya, Pakistan, Syria, and Yemen, and US and NATO support for Israel’s war crimes against the remnants of the Palestinian people, and US and NATO/EU support for the neo-nazi regime established by the Obama regime in Ukraine to commit war crimes against the breakaway Russian provinces, the populations of which refuse to become victims of Washington’s overthrow of the democratic elected Ukrainian government and installation by “America’s first black president” of a neo-nazi regime.
If America had an independent media, the election would be about the orchastrated demonization of Iran. The completely stupid dope that Trump appointed Secretary of State just declared (the utter fool should not be permitted to open his mouth) that Washington was going to drive Iran into the ground unless the government agreed to behave like a normal state.
What does Pompeo mean by a “normal state.” He means a state that takes its marching orders from Washington. Iran has not invaded any country. The government in power is the continuation of the government that overthrew the Shah, a dictator imposed on Iran by Washington when Washington and London overthrew the democratically elected government of Iran.
What the despicable Pompeo is really saying is that Iran has to go, because Iran, like Syria, is in the way of Israel’s expansion into southern Lebanon, because Iran and Syria supply the Hezbollah militia, which has twice defeated Israeli invasions of southern Lebanon. The vaunted Israeli army is only good for murdering women and children in the disarmed Gaza ghetto.
If America had an independent media, someone would ask Pompeo precisely what Iran is doing that warrants Washington unilaterally, in the face of opposition of the European, Russian, and Chinese signatures to the Iran Nuclear Agreement, pulling out of the agreement and imposing sanctions that no other country on the planet, except Israel, supports?
But, of course, America has no independent media. It has a collection of whores known as NPR, Washington Post, New York Times, CNN, MSCBS, Fox News, etc..."
"...What should this election be about? If America had an independent media, the election would be about the dangerous situation created by Washington that has caused two militarily powerful countries to prepare for war with the US. This is the most serious development of my lifetime. Everything President Reagan worked for has been overthrown for the material interests of the power and profit of the military/security complex.
If America had an independent media, the election would be about the American police state that, based on the 9/11 lie, the weapons of mass destruction lie, the use of chemical weapons lie, the Iranian nukes lie, the Russian invasion of Ukraine lie, was accepted by the insouciant Americans. Those responsible for these lies, which have caused massive war crimes, for which US administrations should be indicted, are feted and rich. The rest of us have experienced the loss of civil liberty and privacy. Any individual in the way of the police state is mowed down.
If America had an independent media, the election would be about the de-industrialization of the United States. Today, as this article makes clear—https://thesaker.is/the-pentagon-realised-what-it-has-done-the-chinese-put-the-us-army-on-its-knees/ —the offshoring of American manufacturing and industry has reduced the US military to dependence on Chinese suppliers.
And the Trump administration starts trouble with China!
If America had an independent media, the election would be about the 20 years of US and NATO/EU war crimes against Serbia, Afghanistan, Iraq, Somalia, Libya, Pakistan, Syria, and Yemen, and US and NATO support for Israel’s war crimes against the remnants of the Palestinian people, and US and NATO/EU support for the neo-nazi regime established by the Obama regime in Ukraine to commit war crimes against the breakaway Russian provinces, the populations of which refuse to become victims of Washington’s overthrow of the democratic elected Ukrainian government and installation by “America’s first black president” of a neo-nazi regime.
If America had an independent media, the election would be about the orchastrated demonization of Iran. The completely stupid dope that Trump appointed Secretary of State just declared (the utter fool should not be permitted to open his mouth) that Washington was going to drive Iran into the ground unless the government agreed to behave like a normal state.
What does Pompeo mean by a “normal state.” He means a state that takes its marching orders from Washington. Iran has not invaded any country. The government in power is the continuation of the government that overthrew the Shah, a dictator imposed on Iran by Washington when Washington and London overthrew the democratically elected government of Iran.
What the despicable Pompeo is really saying is that Iran has to go, because Iran, like Syria, is in the way of Israel’s expansion into southern Lebanon, because Iran and Syria supply the Hezbollah militia, which has twice defeated Israeli invasions of southern Lebanon. The vaunted Israeli army is only good for murdering women and children in the disarmed Gaza ghetto.
If America had an independent media, someone would ask Pompeo precisely what Iran is doing that warrants Washington unilaterally, in the face of opposition of the European, Russian, and Chinese signatures to the Iran Nuclear Agreement, pulling out of the agreement and imposing sanctions that no other country on the planet, except Israel, supports?
But, of course, America has no independent media. It has a collection of whores known as NPR, Washington Post, New York Times, CNN, MSCBS, Fox News, etc..."
Saturday, October 20, 2018
Wednesday, October 03, 2018
Friday, August 10, 2018
Hillary Clinton and the Assassination Of Berta Caceres in Honduras
How Hillary Clinton and President Obama help to make Honduras one of the most violent nations in Latin America with their support of the Military Coup in Honduras.
Berta Caceres who was assassinated by corporate and govt hit squad called out Hillary Clinton for her role in ousting Zelaya and supporting the crack down on activists and feminists in Honduras.
Here's video from Democracy Now on this issue in 2016 :
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The violence in Honduras continues and both Hillary and Obama are unapologetic since the coup favored their NeoLiberal pro Capitalist ideology .
Both of them favor Wall Street , Big Corporations, Fracking , pipelines etc over the rights and needs of the people.
82 activists killed /murdered by Corporations and their Govt Sponsors in 2017
Did Hillary and Obama sign off on the murder of activists esp in Latin American countries such as Honduras, El Slavador , Guatemala , Brazil etc. ???
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Hydro Electric Firm, Honduran Military Planned Berta Caceres Murder
"DESA high-level directors, state agents and criminal elements” formed a criminal network to “assassinate Berta Caceres," said a lawyer with GAIPE.
A hydroelectric company that environmental activist Berta Caceres had fought plotted with Honduran military and security forces to kill the Indigenous leader in March 2016, an independent commission has found.
The GAIPE found that high-level executives of Energy Development SA and government officials began planning the assassination of Caceres at least four months before they carried it out.The investigation was carried out by the International Group of Advisors and Expert Persons, which is comprised of several lawyers from Guatemala, Colombia, Holland and the United States and was based on dozens of interviews, court records and partial access to evidence provided by government investigators.
Roxana Althozt, a lawyer with GAIPE said, "DESA high-level directors, [Honduran] state agents and criminal elements” formed a criminal network to “assassinate Berta Caceres."
Honduran authorities have arrested eight people for the murder, however, the GAIPE investigation points to other suspects.
Caceres was an important and vocal activist within the Civic Council of Popular Organizations and Honduran Indigenous. For over two decades she worked to protect the lands of the Lenca Indigenous of Honduras, and successfully fought DESA’s construction of the hydroelectric dam, Agua Zarca on the White River despite continual death threats and militarization of the area by Honduran forces.
A year before Caceres was gunned down in her home in northeastern Honduras, she was the awarded the Goldman Environmental Award for her continued environmental activism against DESA and the hydroelectric dam, located close to Lenca tribe sacred space..."
and further:
Massacre by USA /DEA and Honduran military took place while Obama was President and Hillary was Secretary of State.
(I have argued bewfore that Hillary may have been involved due to her being influenced and advised by War Criminal Henry Kissinger who had a history of supporting brutal authoritarian regimes throughout Latin America???
The violence in Honduras against activists and dissidents increased dramatically after the US govt helped to oust reformer and populist President Zelaya
Video Shows Horrific Details of DEA-led Massacre in Honduras
Newly-released video shows the massacre in Honduras' Mosquito Coast that claimed the lives of two pregnant women, a man and a child in 2012.
The U.S. Drug Enforcement Agency's five-year attempts to defend a deadly raid alongside Honduran forces resulted in a major scandal in May of this year following an investigation that revealed officials took part in a systematic cover-up meant to conceal their role in the deaths of four civilians along Honduras' Mosquito Coast.
"...While the DEA asserts that the Honduran agents opened fire in self-defense after being fired upon, the video shows only one flash of light originating from the civilian vessel. According to Koenig, the flash may have been a result of a bullet striking the boat's engine, which was found to have been pierced by a bullet.
A group of four bipartisan senators has accused the DEA and State Department of “repeatedly and knowingly misleading members of Congress and congressional staff.”The Department of Justice didn't fail to note the inconsistencies in the DEA agents' recounting of the event, yet the DEA hasn't yet retracted its view that the massacre took place after the agents were fired upon.
“The DEA convinced themselves of a false version of events due to arrogance, false assumptions, and ignorance,” Tim Rieser, an aide to Senator Patrick J. Leahy who spent years investigating the case, told ProPublica and the New York Times.
“They rushed to judgment and then stuck to their story.”
Speaking to reporters, survivor and boat operator Hilda Lezama said that she remains stricken with chronic “extreme pain” from the wounds she suffered during the events of the night.
“I can’t afford to support my daughters,” she said. “We still don’t know why this happened.”
The video is damning evidence of the U.S. role in the drug war which has concentrated largely on iron-fisted military measures while showing little regard for the costs borne by civilians..."
Wednesday, August 08, 2018
Wednesday, July 25, 2018
Saturday, July 21, 2018
Thursday, July 19, 2018
It’s All Fake: Reality TV That Masquerades as American Politics
It’s All Fake: Reality TV That Masquerades as American Politics: This not only explains how a candidate like Donald Trump could get elected, but it also says a lot about how a politician like Barack Obama—whose tenure in the White House was characterized by drone killing and an expansion of the police state—could be hailed as “one of the greatest presidents of all times.”
as the author John Whitehead concludes the article :
"...The bottom line is simply this: Americans should beware of letting others—whether they be television news hosts, political commentators or media corporations—do their thinking for them.
as the author John Whitehead concludes the article :
"...The bottom line is simply this: Americans should beware of letting others—whether they be television news hosts, political commentators or media corporations—do their thinking for them.
As I make clear in my book A Government of Wolves: The Emerging American Police State, a populace that cannot think for themselves is a populace with its backs to the walls: mute in the face of elected officials who refuse to represent us, helpless in the face of police brutality, powerless in the face of militarized tactics and technology that treat us like enemy combatants on a battlefield, and naked in the face of government surveillance that sees and hears all.
It’s time to change the channel, tune out the reality TV show, and push back against the real menace of the police state. If not, if we continue to sit back and lose ourselves in political programming, we will remain a captive audience to a farce that grows more absurd by the minute..."
Crooked Hillary Desperately Tries to Deflect After Putin Drops Bombshell ‘US Intel Helped Move $400,000 to Clinton Campaign’
Crooked Hillary Desperately Tries to Deflect After Putin Drops Bombshell ‘US Intel Helped Move $400,000 to Clinton Campaign’: Putin dropped a bomb and claimed US Intel helped American-born British financier, Bill Browder, move $400,000 to Hillary Clinton’s campaign
Saturday, July 14, 2018
Friday, July 13, 2018
Thursday, June 21, 2018
Hillary: Undocumented Children "Should Be SENT BACK!". w/Abby Martin
Jimmy Dore and Abby Martin point out that these harsh anti-immigrant policies were started before POTUS Trump and go back as far as President Clinton , Bush and President Obama.
But now Neoliberals and Faux Progressives such as Rachel Maddow are shedding Crocodile tears for these kids in cages.
Odd Maddow and MSNBC didn't care about Palestinian children being brutalized by the Israeli government and IDF or the children being blown to pieces by the Saudis in Yemen or the children being killed by US /Western backed ISIS and other terrorists in Syria , Libya, Iraq etc.
Rachel Maddow was also absent for any criticisms of President Obama's unprecedented use of Drones to bomb weddings, birthdays, births, funerals and even added the notorious Second Tap that Maddow and Hillary defend since the only good Arab, Palestinian , Afghan etc. is a dead one.
Racist Crazy President Trump is just following the anti-immigration policies of President Obama and President Clinton and the DNC going back to the Reagan era.
America has become anti-Immigrant since after Ronald Reagan which was followed by President Clinton's "Deterrence by Death" as Abby Martin characterizes it.
DNC and GOP both use immigrants as political hay and a distraction . POTUS Reagan was far more compassionate towards immigrants than was POTUS Clinton or POTUS Obama or Secretary of State Hillary Clinton ............................................................................................................................
Bye for now,
GORD.
But now Neoliberals and Faux Progressives such as Rachel Maddow are shedding Crocodile tears for these kids in cages.
Odd Maddow and MSNBC didn't care about Palestinian children being brutalized by the Israeli government and IDF or the children being blown to pieces by the Saudis in Yemen or the children being killed by US /Western backed ISIS and other terrorists in Syria , Libya, Iraq etc.
Rachel Maddow was also absent for any criticisms of President Obama's unprecedented use of Drones to bomb weddings, birthdays, births, funerals and even added the notorious Second Tap that Maddow and Hillary defend since the only good Arab, Palestinian , Afghan etc. is a dead one.
Racist Crazy President Trump is just following the anti-immigration policies of President Obama and President Clinton and the DNC going back to the Reagan era.
America has become anti-Immigrant since after Ronald Reagan which was followed by President Clinton's "Deterrence by Death" as Abby Martin characterizes it.
DNC and GOP both use immigrants as political hay and a distraction . POTUS Reagan was far more compassionate towards immigrants than was POTUS Clinton or POTUS Obama or Secretary of State Hillary Clinton ............................................................................................................................
Bye for now,
GORD.
Sunday, May 13, 2018
Thursday, May 03, 2018
Saturday, April 28, 2018
Friday, April 27, 2018
Saturday, April 21, 2018
Tuesday, April 10, 2018
Sunday, April 08, 2018
Saturday, April 07, 2018
Thursday, April 05, 2018
Wednesday, April 04, 2018
USA Supports Far Right Fascists In Ukraine
From BBC documentary on the Far Right in the Ukraine
'Restoring order' far-right style
Ukraine's National Militia says it "polices" the streets. So why does it also fight the police themselves?
4 April 2018
Ukraine: On patrol with the far-right National Militia
It's just over four years since the climax of the so-called Maidan revolution in Ukraine.
Months of street protests ended with a violent crackdown by the security forces, which lead to the then president, pro-Russian Viktor Yanukovych, fleeing the country into exile.
In the elections that followed, Ukrainian far right movements, which had been prominent in the protests - were expected to do well but failed to make much of an impact.
Now, with a new vote due in 2019, they're increasing their visibility again – and one controversial group in particular has caught the public eye: The National Militia.
Thursday, March 29, 2018
Wednesday, March 28, 2018
Tuesday, February 06, 2018
Monday, February 05, 2018
Infamous Nunes Memo Finally Released WHY IS TYT Defending FBI, Hillary Clinton and The DNC?
It is disturbing that even TYT has bought into the whole Russiagate conspiracy which was invented by John Podesta and the Hillary Clinton campaign, They created this conspiracy initially to cover up the fact that they deliberately cheated Bernie Sanders in the primary in 2015-2016. The Clinton campaign remember smeared Bernie Sanders and is still smearing Bernie's supporters and anyone who is not all in for Hillary including any progressives. This part of the issue and history TYT chooses to ignore and acts as if the RussiaGate conspiracy is not connected to the Hillary campaign and the Media that colluded with her campaign and continues to defend Hillary no matter what the facts.
The memo shows that the Dossier was based upon an opposition intel gathering financed by the Hillary campaign out of which the FISA court was then able to use to spy on Donald Trump but the evidence to begin with was tainted . If the FISA court knew more of the details they should have refused the FISA request. If the Democrats were so convinced that their servers had been hacked by the Russians they should have turned over the investigation and the servers to the FBI and not CrowdSource or whomever.
James Comey, Loretta Lynch 's meeting on the Tarmac now makes more sense because at that point the real fix was in that is to make sure Hillary was not indicted that there was to be a cover up of Hillary, Debbie Wasserman Schultz and DNC rigging the primary and to go after Donald Trump to undermine him to make sure Hillary would either win the election or if she didn't to have an ace up her sleeve that is the flimsy Russiagate conspiracy to bring his administration down in a type of soft-coup.
For more see The Real News Network and their discussion with Max Blumenthall and ex FBI agent : Max Blumenthal and Ex-FBI Agent Coleen Rowley on the Nunes Memo also check out Jamarl Thomas at the Progressive Soap Box and other sources that are not blinded by their disdain for Trump. I am not defending Trump except to say most or all of the Russiagate conspiracy is pretty flimsy .
The issue is that James Comey and the Clinton Campaign and the DNC concocted much or all of this nonsense and yet TYT takes it for granted that the only reason Hillary lost the election is due to Trump colluding with Putin. And so much for Justice Democrats and supporting Progressives instead TYT has decided to support the Hillary/Maddow crazy train of NeoMcCarthyism .
The memo shows that the Dossier was based upon an opposition intel gathering financed by the Hillary campaign out of which the FISA court was then able to use to spy on Donald Trump but the evidence to begin with was tainted . If the FISA court knew more of the details they should have refused the FISA request. If the Democrats were so convinced that their servers had been hacked by the Russians they should have turned over the investigation and the servers to the FBI and not CrowdSource or whomever.
James Comey, Loretta Lynch 's meeting on the Tarmac now makes more sense because at that point the real fix was in that is to make sure Hillary was not indicted that there was to be a cover up of Hillary, Debbie Wasserman Schultz and DNC rigging the primary and to go after Donald Trump to undermine him to make sure Hillary would either win the election or if she didn't to have an ace up her sleeve that is the flimsy Russiagate conspiracy to bring his administration down in a type of soft-coup.
For more see The Real News Network and their discussion with Max Blumenthall and ex FBI agent : Max Blumenthal and Ex-FBI Agent Coleen Rowley on the Nunes Memo also check out Jamarl Thomas at the Progressive Soap Box and other sources that are not blinded by their disdain for Trump. I am not defending Trump except to say most or all of the Russiagate conspiracy is pretty flimsy .
The issue is that James Comey and the Clinton Campaign and the DNC concocted much or all of this nonsense and yet TYT takes it for granted that the only reason Hillary lost the election is due to Trump colluding with Putin. And so much for Justice Democrats and supporting Progressives instead TYT has decided to support the Hillary/Maddow crazy train of NeoMcCarthyism .
Saturday, February 03, 2018
Tuesday, January 30, 2018
Monday, January 29, 2018
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