Bulletin N° 880
Blood & Oil
(52:30min)
2008
A documentary by Jeremy Earp
The notion that oil motivates
America's military engagements in the Middle East is often disregarded as
nonsense or mere conspiracy theory. In Blood and Oil, bestselling author and
Nation magazine defense correspondent Michael T. Klare challenges this
conventional wisdom and corrects the historical record. The film unearths
declassified documents and highlights forgotten passages in prominent
presidential doctrines to show how concerns about oil have been at the core of
American foreign policy for more than 60 years -- rendering our contemporary
energy and military policies virtually indistinguishable. In the end, Blood and
Oil calls for a radical re-thinking of US energy policy, warning that unless we
change direction, we stand to be drawn into one oil war after another as the
global hunt for diminishing world petroleum supplies accelerates.
Subject : The World Through the Eyes of a Frog: the
spectacle of a historic nervous breakdown.
February
9, 2020
Grenoble,
France
Dear
Colleagues and Friends of CEIMSA,
In
a telling insight into innovative methods for analyzing history in 1949, Fernand
Braudel acknowledged in the final section of his
book, The
Mediterranean and the Mediterranean world of Philip II (1949 &
1995), the inescapable importance of “structural history” and “secular trends”.
In short, even in the investigation of
short-term crises, we are often obliged to look to structural history for an
answer. This is the sea-level by which we must measure everything else, the
achievement of progressive cities for example (in 1949 I was perhaps
over-impressed by them – civilization can be a blinding spectacle) but also the
short-term historical phenomena which we sometimes tend to explain away too
promptly, as if their shallow eddies were responsible for the deeper currents
of history instead of the other way about. The fact is that economic history
has to be rethought step by step, starting from these slow, sometimes
motionless currents. Still waters run deep and we should not be misled by
surface flurries.
. . .
The division of history
into the slow- and fast-moving levels, structure and conjuncture, remains at
the center of a still unresolved debate. We have to classify these
movements in relation to each other, without knowing before we start whether
one type has governed the other or vice versa. Identification, classification
and comparison must be our first concern then. Unfortunately, it is not yet
possible to trace the general fluctuations of ‘national incomes’ in the
sixteenth and seventeenth centuries and this is a grave drawback. But we are at
least in a position now to study the changing fortunes of the cities . . . .
The complex economic life of the cities provides us with an indicator of
economic change at least as reliable as the familiar wage and price curves.
Finally we have the problem of reconciling
contradictory chronologies. How for instance did short-term changes in the
economic climate affect states or whole civilizations, prominent actors on the
historical stage with a will of their own? It appears from our study of the
states that difficult times tended to favour their relative expansion. Was the
same true of civilizations? Their brightest flowerings often seem to thrive
under lowering skies. It was during the autumn of the city state or even (in
Venice and Bologna) its winter, that there flourished the last blossoms of an
Italian Renaissance. And it was in the waning years of the great maritime
empires, whether of Istanbul, Rome or Madrid, that the mighty imperial
civilizations set out on their conquering path. As the sixteenth century ended
and the seventeenth began, these brilliant shadows floated where great bodies
politic had stood fifty years before.
Alongside such problems, the role of the
individual and the event necessarily dwindles; it is a mere matter of
perspective – but are we right to take so Olympian a
view? ‘Under the formal pageant of events which we have dignified by our
interest, the land changes very little, and the structure of the basic self of
man hardly at all,’ to quote a twentieth-century novelist Durrell, who is, like
me, passionately attracted to the Mediterranean. Well
yes, but the question is frequently put to me, both by historians and
philosophers, if we view history from such a distance, what becomes of man, his
role in history, his freedom of action? And indeed, as
the philosopher François Bastide once objected to me, since history is always a
matter of development, of progression, could we not say that a secular trend is
an ‘event’ too? I grant the point, but my definition of the ‘event’ is closer to
that of Paul Lacombe and François Simiand; the pieces of flotsam I have combed
from the historical ocean and chosen to call ‘events’ are those essentially ephemeral
yet moving occurrences, the ‘headlines’ of the past.
That is not to say that this brilliant
surface is of no value to the historian, nor that historical reconstruction
cannot perfectly well take this micro-history as its starting-point.
Micro-sociology, which it calls to mind (wrongly, I believe), is after al not
generally frowned upon in the world of scholarship. Micro-sociology, it is
true, consists of constant repetition, while the micro-history of events
consists of the unusual, the outstanding, and atypical; a series in fact of
‘socio-dramas’. But Benedetto Croce has argued, not without reason, that any
single event – let us say the assassination of Henry IV in 1610, or to take an
example outside our period the arrival in power in 1883 of the Jules Ferry
government – contains in embryo the entire history of mankind. To put it
another way, history is the keyboard on which these individual notes are
sounded.(pp.1241-1243)
Today,
it is beyond doubt that an understanding of history is an essential part of the
process of liberating ourselves from the past. Contrary to the ahistorical positivist aims of the mental-health-pharmaceutical industrial complex,
community organizers teach us that the best (in fact, the only) successful
remedy for those of us who are suffering alienation and anomie is the dialectics of direct action, the aims of which are to use historical knowledge to dissolve that state of helpless
acceptance in the face of our own destruction. The arts of communication and
building alliances - which are based, among other things, on historical
understanding and class consciousness - is systematically undermined by
entrenched powers that seek to preserve the status quo. The dominant neoliberal
ideology that is expressed in the hegemonic corporate media and is promoted by
most capitalist institutions everywhere would entrap our minds and bodies and
limit our thinking to accommodate the accumulation of private profits and
political decision-making in the hands of a few. The routines and conditioned
reflexes that govern our collective behavior would rapidly dissolve should we
begin to acquire “a life of our own” and to respect the principles of self-determination for all (with the
obvious social constraints which that implies).
The 22 + items below are articles and essays covering contemporary events
which will continue to produce a field of propaganda and psychological warfare,
aimed at disarming the forces of progress and social reform. The facts and
interpretations offered below should be useful to those of us seeking personal
emancipation and positive social changes in the political economy and the
environment.
Francis
Feeley
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Professeur honoraire de l'Université
Grenoble-Alpes
Ancien Directeur de
Researches
Université de Paris-Nanterre
Director of The Center for the Advanced Study
of American Institutions and Social Movements
(CEIMSA-in-Exile)
The University of California-San Diego
a.
Hommage to Howard Zinn
(1922-2010)
Ten Years After Howard Zinn’s Death —
Lessons from the People’s Historian
by
Bill Bigelow
&
Remembering My
Hero, Howard Zinn
https://www.truthdig.com/articles/remembering-my-hero-howard-zinn/
by
Daniel Ellsberg
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WATCH RECORDED LIVE
February 7, 2020
Nermeen Shaikh
Moderates Rising Majority Conversation with The Squad
https://www.democracynow.org/live/watch_nermeen_shaikh_moderates_rising_majority
(2:54:35)
with Reps.
Rashida Tlaib, Ayanna Pressley, Ilhan Omar and
Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez at Howard University at an
event hosted by Rising Majority
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b.
Anti-Capitalist Chronicles:
“Totality and Capital”
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=L-LHV5dn7fU
(26:37)
with David Harvey
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Risk of Nuclear War Rises as U.S. Deploys a New
Nuclear Weapon for the First Time Since the Cold War
https://www.democracynow.org/2020/2/7/us_new_low_yield_nuclear_weapons
with
William Arkin
Gas Wars in the Mediterranean
http://www.informationclearinghouse.info/52960.htm
by Mike Whitney
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c.
Big
Swinging Brains and fashy trolls: how the world fell into
a clickbait death spiral
by Andrew Marantz
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“Pete Buttigieg
is the Juan Guaido
of America”
https://www.rt.com/usa/480083-camp-sanders-buttigieg-democrats-rigging/
(11:57)
with Lee Camp
There is new evidence the Iowa Caucuses were intentionally turned into chaos in order to slow the tide of the Bernie Sanders victory.
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ACLU:
“Voter Suppression in 2020”
by Leila Rafei
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How
Establishment Propaganda Gaslights Us Into Submission
https://consortiumnews.com/2018/02/12/how-establishment-propaganda-gaslights-us-into-submission/
by Caitlin Johnstone
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The Disaster of Utopian
Engineering
https://www.truthdig.com/articles/the-disaster-of-utopian-engineering/
by Chris Hedges
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d.
Global
health
Wuhan Coronavirus Looks Increasingly Like a Pandemic, Experts Say
by
Donald G. McNeil Jr.
(updated 5 February 2020)
Rapidly rising
caseloads alarm researchers, who fear the virus may make its way across the
globe. But scientists cannot yet predict how many deaths may result.
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The 1918 Flu
Pandemic
http://origins.osu.edu/milestones/pandemic-flu-spanish-flu-1918-H1N1-WW1-vaccine
by
Jim Harris
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Remember the 2009 H1N1 Swine Flu
Pandemic: Manipulating the Data to Justify a Worldwide Public Health Emergency
by Michel Chossudovsky
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China's Coronavirus:
A Global Health Emergency is Launched. What are the
Facts?
https://www.globalresearch.ca/china-coronavirus-update/5702420
by Larry Romanoff
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Coronavirus Contains HIV
Insertions, Stoking Fears Over Artificially Created Bioweapon
-by Tyler Durden
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From:
Mark Crispin Miller
Sent: Monday, January 27, 2020
Subject: [MCM] More on the
Gates/Johns Hopkins/WEF "simulation" of a "fictional" coronavirus outbreak
January 27, 2020
Did Bill Gates & World Economic Forum Predict Coronavus Outbreak? Will There be
an Internet Blackout to Control Information?
See: https://vaccineimpact.com/2020/dr-brownstein-corona-virus-is-nothing-new-heres-what-to-do/
Comments
by Brian Shilhavy
Editor, Health Impact News
https://vaccineimpact.com/2020/did-bill-gates-world-economic-forum-predict-coronavirus-outbreak-will-there-be-an-internet-blackout-to-control-information/
The Coronavirus
outbreak in China now dominates worldwide news media outlets.
Spiro Skouras released a video yesterday
(Jan. 25, 2020) reporting on a 5 hour simulation that was conducted in October
of 2019: Event 201.
It was hosted by the Johns Hopkins
Center for Health Security in partnership with the World Economic Forum and the
Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation.
The simulation is eerily similar to what
is happening right now with the Coronavirus outbreak.
Will world health authorities now take action as is predicted in this
simulation, and try to control the narrative of the outbreak by cutting off
access to the Internet, or forcing social media companies to only allow the
information they want the public to receive?
Health Impact News is part of the independent
alternative media, and sites like ours may soon be blocked from reporting on
this emerging worldwide health crisis if this simulation is accurately
predicting just how these events are about to unfold.
The mainstream media watch-dogs have
labeled Health Impact News as “Fake” news, even when we report
on vaccine injuries and deaths using the government’s own data.
See:
Self-Appointed Internet Police Declare MedicalKidnap.com and DOJ
Vaccine Court Reports Fake News
Facebook Censors Trending Vitamin D Story
to Protect Flu Vaccines Using Former CNN Reporter
Did Bill Gates & World Economic
Forum Predict Coronavirus Outbreak? An Inside Look
May Shock You!
by Spiro Skouras
In this report we take an inside look at
Event 201, which took place in NYC on October 18 2019. Event 201 is a
high-level pandemic exercise hosted by the Johns Hopkins Center for Health
Security in partnership with the World Economic Forum and the Bill and Melinda
Gates Foundation.
This is extremely fascinating because
this pandemic simulation exercise of coronavirus took
place about 6 weeks before the first illness from the coronavirus
was actually reported in Wuhan China!
That is one hell of a coincidence if you
believe in that sort of thing. Another fascinating connection, is the fact that
not only did the Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation participate in and help set
up the pandemic simulation of a coronavirus outbreak,
but they just so happen to fund the group who owns the patent to the deadly coronavirus and are already working on a vaccine to solve
the current crisis. Again an incredible coincidence…
In this report you will see footage from
inside the event as the members of the emergency epidemic board in this
simulation, which consists of representatives from major banks, the UN, the
Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation, Johnson and Johnson, logistical powerhouses,
the media as well as officials from China and America’s CDC just to name a few.
This simulation also includes news
reports that were fabricated just for this exercise, please keep that in mind
because they are eerily similar to reports we are currently seeing regarding
this real world coronavirus outbreak.
To
view this discussion on the web visit https://groups.google.com/d/msgid/newsfromunderground/CAGxB6W8Gz0uJOkGvPRMAQU5rKWECvkHOdHOv3earhHB%3DuQZTxQ%40mail.gmail.com.
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ZeroHedge banned from Twitter after BuzzFeed accuses it of coronavirus
conspiracy and ‘doxxing’ a Chinese scientist
https://www.rt.com/usa/479824-zerohedge-twitter-suspended-coronavirus/
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Novel Coronavirus
Defies Conspiracy Theories As Data Shows Its Coming Decline
http://www.informationclearinghouse.info/52938.htm
by Moon of Alabama
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World Can’t Let
Racist Attitudes Impact Handling of Coronavirus
Outbreak
https://www.democracynow.org/2020/2/7/laurie_garrett_china_coronavirus_response
with Laurie Garrett
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e.
The Game is Rigged
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XlhFMa4t28A
(1:48:26)
with
Richard Wolff
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Enemies
of Democracy: Neoliberalism and Authoritarian Finance
by
T.J. Coles
+
Is the Fed Preparing
to Topple the US Dollar?
https://www.globalresearch.ca/is-fed-preparing-topple-us-dollar/5687786
by F. William Engdahl
+
The
"Repo" Fiasco; the Fed's Cash Injections Send Stocks Soaring
http://www.informationclearinghouse.info/52933.htm
by Mike Whitney
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Recession ahead. Feds to try
desperate measure
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=h3NSL3Y4joc&feature=youtu.be
(28:07)
with
Rick Sanchez
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Fed Has Doubled Money Supply Since 2008
– Ticking Time Bomb for Bitcoin to Solve?
https://beincrypto.com/fed-has-doubled-money-supply-since-2008-ticking-time-bomb-bitcoin-solve/
by Julian Thomas
+
"Richard
Wolff on Military Spending"
(1:58)
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Economic Update: Military Spending and Debt
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uQXxrBxYjw4&feature=youtu.be
(29:45)
with Richard Wolff and award-winning investigative
journalist Robert Hennelly
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f.
France's Anti-Neoliberal
Protesters Get Their Second Wind
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=oFCHgWAGCyc
(14:08)
with Renaud Lambert
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Macron’s party faces uphill battle in upcoming
mayoral races
https://www.france24.com/en/20200130-macron-s-party-faces-uphill-battle-in-upcoming-mayoral-races
(5:26)
with
Philip Turle
+
France might have been 'too quick' to move
bureaucracy online, says minister
+
Rubbish
on Paris streets as treatment centres strike
+
France protests: Doctors and lawyers march against
Macron pension reforms
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“Likely
France banned grenades because they ran out of stock”
(9:31)
with
George Galloway
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g.
Fascism in the
Age of Trump
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BMYjroVIDLA&t=1343s
(1:14:22)
with
Chris Hedges
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Brutal Same As
It Ever Was: Israel's War On Justice
https://www.commondreams.org/further/2020/01/27/brutal-same-it-ever-was-israels-war-justice
by Abby Zimet
+
What’s wrong with the IHRA “working
definition” of Anti-Semitism?
https://www.blackagendareport.com/whats-wrong-ihra-working-definition-anti-semitism
by Tim Anderson
+
Top 3 Ways America Has Been Deeply
Wounded By Supporting Israel Lobbyists Like Jared
Kushner
by Juan Cole
+
Trump Israel deal will fell peace process house of
cards
http://www.informationclearinghouse.info/52907.htm
by Omar Karmi
+
Facts All US Citizens
Need to Know About Israel and Palestine
https://www.globalresearch.ca/facts-all-us-citizens-need-to-know-about-israel-and-palestine/5391043
by
Robert Barsocchini
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American
Pravda: Mossad Assassinations
http://www.informationclearinghouse.info/52949.htm
by
Ron Unz
The
January 2nd American assassination of Gen. Qassem Soleimani of Iran was an event of enormous moment.
Gen. Soleimani
had been the highest-ranking military figure in his nation of 80 million, and
with a storied career of 30 years, one of the most universally popular and
highly regarded. Most analysts ranked him second in influence only to Ayatollah
Ali Khamenei, Iran’s elderly Supreme Leader, and
there were widespread reports that he was being urged to run for the presidency
in the 2021 elections.
The circumstances of his
peacetime death were also quite remarkable. His vehicle was incinerated by the
missile of an American Reaper drone near Iraq’s Baghdad international airport
just after he had arrived there on a regular commercial flight for peace
negotiations originally suggested by the American government.
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U.S. posture in the Middle-East:
preparing for disaster
http://www.informationclearinghouse.info/52931.htm
by The Saker
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Israel has played a key in the US
aggression against Iran
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Kg5D6sqvfpA
with Gareth Porter
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Dutch
court grants immunity for Israeli war crimes
https://electronicintifada.net/blogs/adri-nieuwhof/dutch-court-grants-immunity-israeli-war-crimes
by Adri Nieuwhof
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From: Ariel Gold, CODEPINK [mailto:info@codepink.org]
Sent: Wednesday, January 29, 2020
Subject: Peace plan? More like a peace sham
|
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|
Dear fancis, The release of President Donald Trump’s long-delayed
Israeli-Palestinian “peace plan” took place yesterday during a joint
Trump-Netanyahu press conference. All the Israeli apartheid deniers, from
Sheldon Adelson to Jared Kusher
to mayors of the West Bank settlements, were in the room as Trump and
Netanyahu gleefully announced a plan for even deeper repression of
Palestinian rights. It has blown open the door for Israel to complete its
theft of the West Bank. Congress must act immediately. Overseas supporters can sign our letter here. Trump’s reference to his plan as feasible is absurd and
insulting. Palestinians had no say in the process. They rejected the plan in
advance and have made clear that their rights, dignity, and lands are not for
sale. Even though the plan is dead on arrival, it is extremely
dangerous. It calls for:
As Rep. Mark Pocan said on Twitter: “A
peace plan without Palestinian voices is no plan at all. It's a unilateral
attempt to continue on a path towards instability in the Middle East, led by
@realDonaldTrump and @netanyahu.
Any plan must center freedom for both Palestinians & Israelis. Anything
less is injustice.” Trump said the Palestinians will be forced to accept the deal
whether they like it or not, and Netanyahu has pledged to move forward with
immediate annexation of the West Bank settlements and the Jordan Valley.
Netanyahu’s cabinet could meet as soon as next Sunday to begin this. We must
act now. Contact
Congress and tell them they must reject Trump and Netanyahu’s peace sham. Overseas supporters can sign our letter here. Towards freedom, justice, and equality for Palestinians, |
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Trump’s
Bantustan Lite Palestine Plan Shows the “Two State”
Solution Was Always a Lie
http://www.informationclearinghouse.info/52939.htm
by Craig
Murray
I have read through the entire 181 pages of Trump’s “peace deal” for Israel, and it
is breathtaking. It is not just that the “solution” it proposes is ludicrously
one-sided, it is the entire analysis of the problem to
be solved which reads as pure, unadulterated zionist
propaganda.
For example, the word “violence” is used repeatedly. But it
only ever refers to violence by Arabs. There is not one single mention of
violence by Israel against the Palestinians, even though the ratio of killing
between Israelis and Palestinians over the last ten years is approximately 80:1 . The only mention of violence against Palestinians at
all relates to Kuwaiti expulsion of Palestinian refugees after the first Gulf
war.
The analysis of the refugee issue is the same. Nowhere can
the paper bring itself to note the key historic fact, that the Palestinian
refugees were expelled from Israel. The paper treats Palestinian refugees as if
they had simply materialised as an inconvenient
phenomenon, like a plague of locusts. This “othering”
of Palestinian refugees permeates the entire paper:
It must be stressed that many Palestinian refugees in the
Middle East come from war torn countries, such as Syria and Lebanon that are
extremely hostile toward the State of Israel
No. Palestinian refugees were driven by violence from the
land that is now Israel. Families who lived there two generations ago have been
displaced in favour of families who claim the land
because their ancestors lived there eighty generations ago. That is a matter of
indisputable fact.
You can claim that displacement of the Palestinians from
Israel was justifiable because of the urgent need for a state for Jewish people
after the Holocaust. You can claim that the displacement of Palestinians from
Israel is justifiable because it is divinely ordained. You can claim the
displacement of Palestinians from Israel is regrettable but irreversible. Make
what argument you wish, but to refuse to acknowledge the basic fact that the
Palestinian refugees were driven from Israel is a pathetic act of cowardice
that underlines the sheer intellectual shoddiness of the paper.
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Les États-Unis et Israël piétinent les Palestiniens et la Palestine
par Sylvain Cypel
La scène est
symbolique : le président américain Donald Trump dévoilant
son « plan du siècle » en présence du seul premier ministre israélien Benyamin Nétanyahou et en l’absence des principaux intéressés, les
Palestiniens. Il est vrai que le plan bafoue leurs droits les plus
élémentaires, pourtant internationalement reconnus.
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Trump's
‘Deal of the Century’ is an ‘offer they can't refuse’, and that's why it will
likely work
by
Scott Ritter
President
Donald Trump has done what no other has been able to accomplish — get Israel to
agree to a two-state solution with Palestine. With the fail-safe ultimatum he's
concocted, the Palestinians may yet end up getting on board.
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Trump’s Bantustan Lite
Palestine Plan Shows the “Two State” Solution Was Always a Lie
http://www.informationclearinghouse.info/52939.htm
by Craig Murray
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‘Jerusalem is
not for sale, your conspiracy deal will not pass’ – Abbas
reacts to Trump's Middle East peace deal
Palestinian
President Mahmoud Abbas has
slammed US President Donald Trump’s Middle East peace plan, declaring
“Jerusalem is not for sale” and warning that the “conspiracy deal will not
pass.”
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From: Résister
Aujourd'hui [mailto:resister@resisteraujourdhui.com]
Sent: Wednesday, February
05, 2020
Subject: Rassemblement devant le consulat
des USA
Le samedi 8 février 2020 de 11h à 13h
un rassemblement symbolique aura lieu devant
le Consulat Général des USA pour signifier notre attachement au droit
international et notre refus de voir effacer la Palestine !
Les premiers signataires sont mentionnées, merci aux structures membres du collectif de se
signaler si elles appellent à la manifestation
Merci de faire circuler largement
l'information parmi vos réseaux
NON AUX Bantoustan !
NON A L'apartheid Israélien
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h.
News organizations
misspell Trump’s Middle East Piece Plan
http://newindicator.org/?p=1682&fbclid=IwAR16SX38O_xm8nMioEXN6m9KMG34en0ND69R0aZ72JOnTPX4s7Z8fWgt9Xc
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WorldClique:
The BioSphere; Natural History, Geo-Politics, Science, & Ancient Technology
https://www.scoop.it/topic/natural-history
Empire War on Oppositional
Journalism Escalates
https://consortiumnews.com/2020/01/23/empire-war-on-oppositional-journalism-escalates/
by Caitlin Johnstone
+
Assange Extradition Hearings Scheduled as Assault on Press
Freedom Spreads
by Nozomi Hayase
+
German TV Exposes the Lies That Entrapped Julian Assange
by Ray McGovern
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Whistle-Blower Snowden Seeks Extension Of Russian Residence Permit, Says Lawyer
https://www.rferl.org/a/snowden-extension-russian-residence-permit-whistle-blower-lawyer/30422639.html
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Brazilian judge dismisses hacking charges against journalist Glenn Greenwald
https://www.engadget.com/2020/02/06/brazilian-judge-dismisses-hacking-charges-against-journalist-gle/
by Richard Lawler
+
From: Tihi Hayslett,
DemandProgress.org [mailto:info@demandprogress.org]
Sent: Monday, February 03, 2020
Subject: Chelsea Manning is being tortured
|
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Julian Assange, Chelsea
Manning and Edward Snowden nominated for the 2020 Nobel Peace Prize - Defend WikiLeaks Defend WikiLeaks
by Żaklin Nastić (MdB)
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The United
States of America’s Doll House: A Vast Tapestry of Lies and Illusions
https://www.globalresearch.ca/united-states-america-vast-tapestry-lies-illusions/5702611
by
Edward Curtin
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i.
Impeachment Alone Won’t Stop
Trump From Inflicting Lasting Damage on Ukraine
by Robert Mackey
+
Rights Groups
Demand Israel Stop Arming neo-Nazis in Ukraine
by
John Brown
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Israel Is Arming
Ukraine’s Blatantly Neo-Nazi Militia, the Azov Battalion
https://imemc.org/article/israel-is-arming-ukraines-blatantly-neo-nazi-militia-the-azov-battalion/
(13:14)
with
Max Blumenthal
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j.
SECRET WARS, FORGOTTEN BETRAYALS, GLOBAL
TYRANNY. WHO IS REALLY IN CHARGE OF THE U.S.
MILITARY?
by Cynthia
Chung, Strategic-culture.org
January 29, 2020
| EDUCATE!
Above
Photo: Pacific Kilroy/Flickr
“There is a kind
of character in thy life, That to the observer doth
thy history, fully unfold.”
– William
Shakespeare
Once
again we find ourselves in a situation of crisis, where the entire world holds its
breath all at once and can only wait to see whether this volatile black cloud
floating amongst us will breakout into a thunderstorm of nuclear war or harmlessly
pass us by. The majority in the world seem to have the impression that this
destructive fate totters back and forth at the whim of one man. It is only
normal then, that during such times of crisis, we find ourselves trying to analyze
and predict the thoughts and motives of just this one person. The assassination
of Maj. Gen. Qasem Soleimani,
a true hero for his fellow countrymen and undeniably an essential key figure in
combating terrorism in Southwest Asia, was a terrible crime, an abhorrently repugnant
provocation. It was meant to cause an apoplectic fervour,
it was meant to make us who desire peace, lose our minds
in indignation. And therefore, that is exactly what we should not do.
In order
to assess such situations, we cannot lose sight of the whole picture, and righteous
indignation unfortunately causes the opposite to occur. Our focus becomes
narrower and narrower to the point where we can only see or react moment to
moment with what is right in front of our face. We are reduced to an obsession
of twitter feeds, news blips and the doublespeak of ‘official government
statements’.
Thus,
before we may find firm ground to stand on regarding the situation of today, we
must first have an understanding as to what caused the United States to enter into
an endless campaign of regime-change warfare after WWII, or as former Chief of
Special Operations for the Joint Chiefs of Staff Col. Prouty
stated, three decades of the Indochina war.
An Internal Shifting of
Chess Pieces in the Shadows
It
is interesting timing that on Sept 2, 1945, the very day that WWII ended, Ho Chi
Minh would announce the independence of Indochina. That on the very day that
one of the most destructive wars to ever occur in history ended, another long
war was declared at its doorstep. Churchill would announce his “Iron Curtain”
against communism on March 5th, 1946, and there was no turning back at that
point. The world had a mere 6 months to recover before it would be embroiled in
another terrible war, except for the French, who would go to war against the Viet
Minh opponents in French Indochina only days after WWII was over.
In
a previous paper I wrote titled “On Churchill’s
Sinews of Peace”, I went over a major re-organisation
of the American government and its foreign intelligence bureau on the onset of
Truman’s de facto presidency. Recall that there was an attempted military coup
d’état, which was exposed
by General Butler in a public address in 1933, against the
Presidency of FDR who was only inaugurated that year. One could say that there
was a very marked disapproval from shadowy corners for how Roosevelt would organise the government.
One
key element to this reorganisation under Truman was the
dismantling of the previously existing foreign intelligence bureau that was formed
by FDR, the Office of Strategic Services (OSS) on Sept 20, 1945 only two weeks
after WWII was officially declared over. The OSS would be replaced by the CIA
officially on Sept 18, 1947, with two years of an American intelligence purge
and the internal shifting of chess pieces in the shadows. In addition, de-facto
President Truman would also found the United States National Security Council
on Sept 18, 1947, the same day he founded the CIA. The NSC was a council whose
intended function was to serve as the President’s principal arm for
coordinating national security, foreign policies and policies among various government
agencies.
In
Col. Prouty’s book he
states, “In 1955, I was designated to establish an office
of special operations in compliance with National Security Council (NSC) Directive
#5412 of March 15, 1954. This NSC Directive
for the first time in the history of the United States defined covert operations
and assigned that role to the Central Intelligence Agency to perform such missions,
provided they had been directed to do so by the NSC, and further ordered active-duty
Armed Forces personnel to avoid such operations. At the same time, the Armed
Forces were directed to “provide the military support of the clandestine
operations of the CIA” as an official
function.”
What
this meant, was that there was to be an intermarriage of the foreign intelligence
bureau with the military, and that the foreign intelligence bureau would act as
top dog in the relationship, only taking orders from the NSC. Though the NSC
includes the President, as we will see, the President is very far from being in
the position of determining the NSC’s policies.
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Democracy in meltdown: In almost every country,
people’s faith in democratic systems is at rock-bottom levels
https://www.rt.com/news/479505-democracy-faith-level-drop/
by Peter Andrews
+
Obama Russia Adviser on Cold War
Liberals
https://consortiumnews.com/2020/02/04/interview-obama-russia-adviser-on-cold-war-liberals/
by Natylie Baldwin
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Embassy Protectors: An Epic Act of Resistance &
Trial of Our Times
https://www.blackagendareport.com/embassy-protectors-epic-act-resistance-trial-our-times
by Lauren Smith
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White Supremacy = Capitalism
https://www.globalresearch.ca/white-supremacy-capitalism/5699313
by Cheikh Amma
Diop
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“Coded
Bias”: New Film Looks at Fight Against Racial Bias in
Facial Recognition & AI Technology
https://www.democracynow.org/2020/1/30/coded_bias_shalini_kantayya_joy_buolamwini
with Joy Buolamwini, researcher at the MIT Media Lab and founder
of the Algorithmic Justice League & Shalini Kantayya, director of
the documentary Coded Bias.
+
Abolishing Capitalism
with Abby Martin & Peter Joseph
+
“The Economy
is NOT Growing!”
(12:12)
with
Richard Wolff
+
“Who is Ed
Griffin?”
https://thedailyknell.wordpress.com/2012/01/18/who-is-ed-griffin/
by
Anthony Migchels
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From: Mark Crispin Miller
Sent: Monday, January 27, 2020
Subject: [MCM] How Bernie may well "lose" California on Super
Tuesday
...
through the absolute corruption of the voting system
there.
MCM
From
Brad Friedman (whom I asked for some useful links):
I
would review these three fairly brief pieces in order to best understand the
story up through Friday's "conditional certification" of this godawful, 100% unverifiable voting system…
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Trump’s ‘deal of the century’ is about
ignoring Palestinian rights & legitimizing Israel’s occupation – Turkish
President Erdogan
https://www.rt.com/news/479472-erdogan-blasts-trump-deal/
(29:45)
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Israel
lobby prompts federal investigations over Palestine events
by Nora Barrows-Friedman
The US Department of Education has
opened two separate investigations into the University of
California at Los Angeles because of events that discussed advocacy
for Palestinian rights.
The investigations have been prompted by complaints
filed by Israel lobby groups, which allege that Palestine-related education or
advocacy on campus is inherently anti-Semitic and discriminates against Jewish
students.
They follow US President Donald Trump’s executive
order, signed in December, which allows mere accusations of anti-Semitism
against campus critics of Israel to result in lengthy inquisitions by the
government.
Israel lobby groups recently filed similar complaints
against Columbia
University and Georgia
Tech.
In November, before the executive order, the
Department of Education’s Office for Civil Rights opened
an investigation into New York University, after an Israel-aligned student
claimed that the presence of Students for Justice in Palestine created a
“hostile atmosphere.”
The Middle East Studies Association’s committee on
academic freedom has called
on NYU’s president to reject “all efforts to weaponize
allegations of anti-Semitism in order to advance a political agenda.”
An investigation that was previously closed by the US
government against Rutgers
University in 2014 was re-opened
in 2018 by the Office for Civil Rights.
+
Imperialism and Liberation Strategies in
the Middle East
http://www.informationclearinghouse.info/52930.htm
by Pål Steigan
+
The painful truth for Saudi Arabia: it
needs the Iranian regime to survive | Saudi Arabia
https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2020/jan/29/saudi-arabia-iran-regime-survive-us-standoff
by Kim Ghattas
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Nobody Sets Out To Become A War
Propagandist. It Just Sort Of Happens
by
Caitlin Johnstone
+
The FBI Has Been Lying About
Seth Rich
https://consortiumnews.com/2020/01/29/the-fbi-has-been-lying-about-seth-rich/
by Craig Murray
+
EXCLUSIVE: OPCW cover up & possible sarin execution by west backed 'moderate rebels'
(43:22)
+
Belmarsh Inmates Prove More Ethical Than Entire
Western Empire
by Caitlin Johnstone
+
OPCW investigator testifies at UN that
no chemical attack took place in Douma, Syria
by Ben Norton
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Erasing
History: The National Archives is Destroying Records About
Victims of Trump’s ICE Policies
https://www.democracynow.org/2020/2/6/national_archives_record_retention_matthew_connelly
(7:30)
with Matthew Connelly
+
From: Jim
O'Brien via H-PAD
Sent: Thursday, January 30, 2020
Subject: [H-PAD] H-PAD Notes
1/30/20: Links to recent articles of interest
Links to Recent Articles of Interest
"Grading the
Pentagon's Joint Vision 2020 -- 20 Years Later"
By Andrew J. Bacevich,
The American Conservative, posted January 30
"Naive,
short-sighted, and self-indulgent, this blueprint turned out to be a joke, one the
military played on itself." The author is a professor emeritus of history
and international relations at Boston University.
"Top 5 Ways Trump Plan for Palestinians
Is a Crime Against Humanity"
By Juan Cole, Informed Comment blog,
posted January 29
The
author teaches Middle East history at the University of Michigan.
"Trump's Middle
East Peace Plan Exposes the Ugly Truth"
By Nathan Thrall, New York Times, posted
January 29
"This
isn't a break with the status quo. It's the natural culmination of decades of
American policy." The author is the director of the Arab-Israeli Project
of the International Crisis Group.
"What the El Mozote Massacre Can Teach Us About
Trump's War on the Press"
By Jon Schwartz, The Intercept, posted
January 28
On
the Reagan administration's fierce attacks on New York Times reporter Raymond
Bonner when he made known the massacre by a US-trained battallion
of over 800 villagers in El Salvador in December 1980.
"Secretary Pompeo, Meet Vice President
Agnew"
By Charles J. Holden, Zach Messitte,
and Jerald Poldair, History News Network,
posted January 28
Charles
Holden and Jerald Poldair teach history at St. Mary's
College of Maryland and Lawrence University, respectively, and Zach Messitte is the president of Ripon College. The three are
co-authors of the book
Republican Populist: Spiro Agnew and the Origins of Donald Trump's America.
"The
U.S. Is Recycling Its Big
Lie About Iraq to Attack Iran"
By Nicolas J. S. Davies, CommonDreams.org,
posted January 28
Such
a war " would engulf the Middle East and the
world in even greater chaos than the one the CIA engineered
against Iraq." Nicolas Davies is the author of Blood on Our Hands: The American
Invasion and Destruction of Iraq.
Interview
of Cornell West by Mordecai Lyon, Boston Review, posted
January 26
A
freewheeling discussion with Cornell West, with a good friend of historian
Howard Zinn, marking the tenth anniversary of Zinn's
death in January 2010.
"Martin Indyk: An Important Neoliberal Defects from the Blob"
By Andrew J. Bacevich,
The American Conservative, posted January 22
Hails
the recent call by a longtime pillar of American Middle East policy for the US
to withdraw from the region. The author is a professor emeritus of history and international
relations at Boston University.
"The Injustice of
This Moment Is Not an 'Aberration'"
By Michelle Alexander, New York Times,
posted January 17
"From
mass incarceration to mass deportation, our nation remains in deep
denial." This lengthy essay is adapted from the 10th anniversary
edition of her book The
New Jim Crow.
________
Thanks to Rusti Eisenberg
and an anonymous reader for suggesting articles included in the above list.
Suggestions can be sent to jimobrien48@gmail.com.
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p.
Defense
Team Challenged Trump Prosecutors’ Attempts to Fix Outcome of Trial: Judge
Delays Key Decisions
by Ajamu Baraka and Bahman Azad
(Co-Chairs of the Embassy Protectors
Defense Committee)
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America’s Economic Pie: Talking to Americans about Wealth Inequlaity
https://mobile.twitter.com/robdelaney/status/1223577742618300417
(4:36)
with Rob
Delaney
+
"Inequality: What Is It and Why
Does It Matter? | Economics for People with Ha-Joon
Chang"
+
The Shame of Child Poverty in the Age of
Trump
http://www.informationclearinghouse.info/52941.htm
by Rajan Menon
+
Number of Homeless Students Rises to New
High, Report Says
https://www.nytimes.com/2020/02/03/us/Homeless-students-public-schools.html
by Mihir Zaveri
+
US suicide rate up 40% in 17 years,
blue-collar workers highest risk: CDC
by Hannah Miller
+
Cops and Spies Chase Blacks and Leftists
While Violent Whites Grow Bolder
+
Safe-States Strategy from Hell: Greens
Respond to Progressive Left Dems
https://www.blackagendareport.com/safe-states-strategy-hell-greens-respond-progressive-left-dems
by Ann Garrison
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“A Cure for Capitalism”
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ynbgMKclWWc&feature=youtu.be
(1:25:34)
with Richard Wolff
+
Algeria’s View of Libya’s Crisis
https://consortiumnews.com/2020/01/30/algerias-view-of-libyas-crisis/
by Giorgio Cafiero
+
Australia Offers a Preview of the World
to Come
https://www.truthdig.com/articles/australia-offers-a-preview-of-the-world-to-come/
by Tom Engelhardt
+
Culture of mistrust' still surrounds
Boeing – fmr NTSB official"
with Jamie Finch, former director of government, public and family affairs for the National Transportation Safety Board (NTSB)
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American
Burlesque
http://www.informationclearinghouse.info/52945.htm
by Paul Edwards
“They got a big theayter what they call the burleykew,
an’ fur fifty cents yuh can see a dandy show.” (Oklahoma! pace, Rogers and
Hammerstein.)
“Dandy” is pushing it in this case, but burlesque it surely has
been. The term comes from the Italian, burla, for
joke, which best describes this boundlessly stupid, futile, dishonest partisan
greased pig chase.
The era when Congress was thought to possess any collective
intelligence or integrity is gone, if there was one. Twain called it our
only native criminal class, an asylum of idiots, and this impeachment farce
bears him out.
To go to the root of the charade is to experience grievous embarrassment at the
sheer falsity, the willful dishonesty, the moral vacuity, of the entire
apparatus of our appalling government. By that I mean not only Congress: the
whole dirty, shameless, corrupted organism.
The House--bagboys for Capitalism, which for decades has done nothing for the
people and routinely abrogated or violated solemn, specified duties--with its
Democratic majority, brought charges so specious, vacuous, and exiguous in
content that the contrast between them and the scroll of blatant crimes Trump
has brazenly committed is stunning. The kicker, the reason for this cowardice,
is that Democrats enabled Trump’s flagrant criminality and they dare not accuse
him of all the perfidy in which they joined him.
So, a cowardly, deceitful gang of whoring pimps accuse a base, diseased,
ethical toad of behaving as the creature he is, when their vile complicity with
him to rape and rob the world, eviscerate their own country, sully and degrade
all nature and, with dazzling imbecilty, alienate the
vast community of nations, is provoking ecological Armaggedon
and a world war with states that can tear this floundering, lunatic Empire a haemorrhaging new one.
The greatest appeal of traditional burlesque was slow, lascivious exposure of
the nude female body. In this latter version, both Parties took the stage without
feathers, with their bare faces hanging out. The only tease that took place was
uncertainty whether those two clowns of bathos, Biden and Bolton, might have to
bare their ugly old-man asses to a disgusted public.
Now that the goofy, slow motion clogdance is
effectively over, what can be usefully said about the causes and effects of
presentation to the appalled world of a dunderhead pageant of such humiliating,
degrading inanity?
First, as to causes, our Bull Goose tried to persuade a foreign head of state
to take a shady action in return for money. Surely no President of ours had
ever done such a thing? Used dollar muscle on a foreign leader? Please!
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USA:
Land of Make-Believe
http://www.informationclearinghouse.info/52950.htm
by
Chris Hedges
If what happens in courtrooms across the
country to poor people of color is justice, what is happening in the Senate is
a trial. If the blood-drenched debacles and endless quagmires in the Middle
East are victories in the war on terror, our military is the greatest on earth.
If the wholesale government surveillance of the public, the revoking of due
process and having the world’s largest prison population are liberty, we are
the land of the free. If the president, an inept, vulgar and corrupt con
artist, is the leader of the free world, we are a beacon for democracy and our
enemies hate us for our values. If Jesus came to make us rich, bless the
annihilation of Muslims by our war machine and condemn homosexuality and
abortion, we are a Christian nation. If formalizing an apartheid
state in Israel is a peace plan, we are an honest international mediator.
If a meritocracy means that three American men have
more wealth than the bottom 50% of the U.S. population, we are the land of
opportunity. If the torture of kidnapped victims in black sites and the ripping
of children from their parents’ arms and their detention in fetid, overcrowded
warehouses, along with the gunning down of unarmed citizens by militarized
police in the streets of our urban communities, are the rule of law, we are an
exemplar of human rights.
The rhetoric we use to describe
ourselves is so disconnected from reality that it has induced collective
schizophrenia. America, as it is discussed in public forums by politicians,
academics and the media, is a fantasy, a Disneyfied
world of make-believe. The worse it gets, the more we retreat into illusions. The
longer we fail to name and confront our physical and moral decay, the more
demagogues who peddle illusions and fantasies become empowered. Those who
acknowledge the truth—beginning with the stark fact that we are no longer a
democracy—wander like ghosts around the edges of society, reviled as enemies of
hope. The mania for hope works as an anesthetic. The hope that Donald Trump
would moderate his extremism once he was in office, the hope that the “adults
in the room” would manage the White House, the hope that the Mueller report
would see Trump disgraced, impeached and removed from office, the hope that
Trump’s December 2019 impeachment would lead to his Senate conviction and
ouster, the hope that he will be defeated at the polls in November are psychological
exits from the crisis—the collapse of democratic institutions, including the
press, and the corporate corruption of laws, electoral politics and norms that
once made our imperfect democracy possible.
The embrace of collective self-delusion
marks the death spasms of all civilizations. We are in the terminal stage. We
no longer know who we are, what we have become or how those on the outside see
us. It is easier, in the short term, to retreat inward, to celebrate
nonexistent virtues and strengths and wallow in sentimentality and a false
optimism. But in the end, this retreat, peddled by the hope industry,
guarantees not only despotism but, given the climate emergency, extinction.
“The result of a consistent and total
substitution of lies for factual truth is not that the lie will now be accepted
as truth and truth be defamed as a lie, but that the sense by which we take our
bearings in the real world—and the category of truth versus falsehood is among
the mental means to this end—is being destroyed,” Hannah Arendt wrote of
totalitarianism.
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·
Episode 11: “Our Friends in Tehran” with
Shahrzad Khayatian and Foad Izadi.
·
Episode 10: “Crisis in Bolivia” with Medea Benjamin and Ivan Velasquez.
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2020 Is Going To Get Much Crazier. Prioritize Your
Mental Health
http://www.informationclearinghouse.info/52955.htm
by
Caitlin Johnstone
The outrage
over the Iowa
caucus scandal has continued to burn white hot as more and more
establishment manipulations against the Bernie Sanders campaign come into view.
At the beginning of a CNN town hall with Democratic
presidential candidate Pete Buttigieg last night,
immediately following the network’s town hall with Sanders, the event’s host Chris
Cuomo announced that 100 percent of the caucus results were now in and the
former South Bend mayor had narrowly won the contest. These results had been announced
by the Iowa Democratic Party moments before Buttigieg’s town hall appearance.
There is no reason for anyone, let alone a major
news outlet, to believe these results are legitimate. They are full of easily demonstrable
errors and discrepancies which have been highlighted by both the Sanders
campaign and The New York Times, and they have yet to be addressed.
Furthermore, Sanders has a perfectly
legitimate claim to the win given the undisputed fact that he received
thousands more votes. This is without even getting into all the other extremely shady
shenanigans with the now-infamous Shadow app whose crash has given
the media days to sing Buttigeig’s praise, which
has in turn given him a major polling
bump for New Hampshire.
But Chris Cuomo (who is the brother of a Democratic
New York governor and the son of another Democratic New York
governor) declared Buttigieg (who because of
his establishment
grooming and alt-centrist
ideology is beloved
by billionaires and spooks)
the winner anyway. In front of millions of people. While Buttigieg was standing right there
in the spotlight. Immediately after the “results” were released.
We’re watching a major US election being rigged in
real time, right in front of our eyes, and it’s intense. And it’s only just
getting started.