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jess, Wednesday, Feb 13 2019, 10:09am
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 The USA Drops Out of Top 20 LEAST Corrupt Countries in the World
Clark Mindock via gary, Sunday, Feb 10 2019, 8:49pm
The masses sometimes fail to understand the full implications of Corruption. If the media constantly distorts and lies to the masses that is a symptom of insidious corruption; if large corporations pay no tax and the burden is placed on the shoulders of the struggling, underpaid, exploited people, that of course is Corruption of government for favouring Corporate elites. Of course the list goes on and on in ALL western 'democracies' and I'm sure the average reader is able to add numerous other corrupt instances to the list -- put simply the game is rigged by those that have the resources (MONEY) to corrupt and influence outcomes, which group is easy to identify, the 'privileged,' rotten Corporates who benefit most from corrupting the American and other governments throughout the WORLD. (story and 1 image)
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Truth Suppression Across the Western Mass Media
Eric Zuesse via jane, Sunday, Feb 10 2019, 8:13pm
This news-report is being submitted to all US and allied news-media, and is being published by all honest ones, in order to inform you of crucial facts that the others — the dishonest ones, who hide such crucial facts — are hiding about Venezuela. These are facts that have received coverage only in one single British newspaper: the Independent, which published a summary account of them on January 26th. That newspaper’s account will be excerpted here at the end, but first will be highlights from its topic, the official report to the UN General Assembly in August of last year, which has been covered-up ever since. This is why that report’s author has now gone to the Independent, desperate to get the story out, finally, to the public.
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State War -- the Likelihood
lex, Saturday, Feb 9 2019, 9:00pm
It seems the global ‘war on terror,’ has served its purpose, that is, the ruse that allowed the USA to illegally and preemptively invade any resource rich weaker nation and steal its resources, notwithstanding that numerous invaded nations posed NO THREAT whatsoever, to the USA.
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Democratic Rule -- A Refresher
claire, Saturday, Feb 9 2019, 7:11pm
By definition democracy is rule by the people, MAJORITY; however, CLEARLY today the PEOPLE are ‘missing in action,’ literally.
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Washington Smirks at the Prospect of Chinese and Russian Support for Venezuela
gus, Friday, Feb 8 2019, 7:57pm
Washington neocons once laughed openly at the prospect of Russia interfering with its wars of oil domination falsely labelled the ‘war on terror,’ the exact comment was, “what could Russia do?” [to interfere.] Well, at that time Washington was correct.
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Corporate Plutocracy Must be Eliminated if Global Freedom is the Goal
Eric Zuesse via claire, Friday, Feb 8 2019, 6:12pm
On Monday, February 5th, Canadian Foreign Minister Chrystia Freeland announced that the 14 countries of the Lima Group — who had actually formed themselves under her direction into this new group on 8 August 2017 in order to overthrow and replace Venezuela’s current President Nicholas Maduro — have now been joined (though she didn’t say to what extent) by the EU, and by 8 other individual countries. She stated: (story and 1 image)
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The Critical Time Factor in All Coups
cyd, Thursday, Feb 7 2019, 8:31pm
A successful coup d'état once initiated is critically time dependent, if it fails to achieve its objective in 24 hours, one week at the absolute outside, then it is likely to fail. History is replete with successful fast snatches of power and drawn out failures in this respect. External or internal forces that foment coups are well aware of the critical time factor, a successful coup is a SHOCK tactic and shock must by nature be hard and fast. So in view of historical success and failures the already drawn out coup attempt in Venezuela is headed for failure, so Washington’s plan B, which the mass media ignores in its full implications, has been queued. (story and 1 image)
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Venezuela and Possible US Military intervention -- A Total No-Win Situation
darcy, Wednesday, Feb 6 2019, 8:41pm
It takes resurrected neocon psychopaths like John Bolton to threaten war in Venezuela and that after withdrawing from two major failed wars in Syria and Afghanistan. However, clearly Washington foreign policy neocons have not thought it through as the vast majority of Venezuelans (85%) passionately refuse and would fight against any foreign intervention, particularly from blood-drenched, interfering American hands. That 'minor' factor is ignored (by the western mass media) though it portends a HUGE RESISTANCE, which implications Bolton and his neocon ilk have not properly considered, notwithstanding Chinese and Russian support for the elected sitting president, Maduro.
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Why Nothing Changes
jane, Tuesday, Feb 5 2019, 8:17pm
All western governments are owned by mega-wealthy, tax avoiding, corporate interests pure and simple. Politicians are puppets and those that have a semblance of independent thought and attempt to represent the people are soon eliminated leaving a group of non-representative elite-serving sycophants in government whose only job is to do the bidding of the corporate-banker elites that own the western world.
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US Threats of War for Oil against Venezuela
Eric London via stella, Tuesday, Feb 5 2019, 6:57pm
John Bolton, who helped author the playbook that was used to launch the 2003 invasion of Iraq, issued a blunt threat Friday that the US would kill or jail and torture Venezuelan President Nicolas Maduro if he did not resign. Comparing Maduro to Nicolae Ceaușescu and Benito Mussolini—both of whom were killed—Bolton told right-wing radio host Hugh Hewitt: “The sooner he takes advantage of that [i.e., resignation], the sooner he’s likely to have a nice quiet retirement on a pretty beach rather than being in some other beach area like Guantanamo.” (story and 1 image)
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Goodbye to the Dollar
Chris Hedges via james, Monday, Feb 4 2019, 6:42pm
The inept and corrupt presidency of Donald Trump has unwittingly triggered the fatal blow to the American empire—the abandonment of the dollar as the world’s principal reserve currency. Nations around the globe, especially in Europe, have lost confidence in the United States to act rationally, much less lead, in issues of international finance, trade, diplomacy and war. These nations are quietly dismantling the seven-decade-old alliance with the United States and building alternative systems of bilateral trade. (story and 1 image)
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The Right Stuff and the Lack Thereof
luke, Sunday, Feb 3 2019, 8:19pm
The right stuff, how else did a bunch of rag-tag Taliban fighters in Afghanistan defeat the world’s most powerful military nation? They were/are outgunned, facing modern technological warfare against drones, missiles, modern fighter jets, bunker bombs etc, YET they prevailed and clearly it wasn’t the result of watching propaganda and fictions on TV. Afghanistan has once again proven it is the graveyard of empires. (story and 2 images)
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The LAW is a BAD Joke, not an Ass
jed, Saturday, Feb 2 2019, 11:35pm
We live in an era of lawlessness, we need only consider that not one American has ever been charged before the ICC for war and other crimes against HUMANITY. Henry Kissinger was proud of the fact that he implemented indiscriminate “carpet bombing” during the Indo-Chinese war -- millions of innocent peasants were killed as a result. America is proud that it illegally attacked and invaded Iraq based on a raft of exposed LIES, though millions of innocent civilians were killed in the grab for Iraq’s oil and prior to that illegal invasion millions were killed by US sanctions on Iraq which forbade the import of medical supplies which resulted in over 500,000 child deaths, which the then Sec. of State, when questioned in the media, considered those deaths, “worth it.” So what is an American politician's life worth today, Madam Albright?
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Sanctions of Mass Destruction: America’s [Failing] War on Venezuela
Garikai Chengu via jane, Saturday, Feb 2 2019, 10:16pm
American economic sanctions have been the leading crime against humanity since World War Two. America’s economic sanctions have killed more innocent people than all of the nuclear, biological and chemical weapons ever used in the history of mankind.
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Washington Neocons are Subverting U.S. Dollar Hegemony
Michael Hudson via gayle, Saturday, Feb 2 2019, 9:14pm
The extreme right and extreme left of politics shake hands together in totalitarian autocracy. This (ideological impositionist) outcome led to the economic collapse of the USSR and is now leading to the collapse of the USA via the only factor holding up America's capability -- the petro-dollar as reserve world currency. It is not without ample irony that extreme right wing factions in Washington (neocons) have not only taken over Trump's foreign policy but are, in their Blind, desperate attempts to preserve America's former status, actually shooting themselves in the head. Leading macro economist Prof. Michael Hudson spells out this rapid (internal) decline and the forces driving it below:
[For any individual, nation/state or otherwise, to allow itself to depend on only one survival factor becomes the ultimate in stupidity and folly, but this is the situation for tattered and fragile US power. And so, targeting the dollar, intentionally or unintentionally, from within or without, brings down the entire house of cards. The paper dollar is therefore the Achilles heel of American imperialism, and we all know what happened to Achilles!] (story and 1 image)
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Profit -- Naturalised Exploitation
lynx, Friday, Feb 1 2019, 7:23pm
The difference between the cost of production and the revenue gained from selling the produced item is profit; sounds ‘natural’ enough as presented by economists and capitalists, BUT if fair wages are paid to workers and consumers are not overcharged for produced items then profit would not exist, hence profit must be EXPLOITATION -- its real meaning.
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US Superpower Roundly DEFEATED by Rag-Tag Taliban Fighters in Afghanistan
Finian Cunningham via gus, Thursday, Jan 31 2019, 9:06pm
The title is the truth, not that American defeat would be portrayed that way in the lying American mass media. Indeed, determined nationals would always defeat a foreign invader as has happened throughout history but who learns? No-one it would seem so America is pulling out of its longest LOST war, though the writing was on the wall from the start, talk about thick and the PROFITS of contractors and arms manufacturers. And therein lies the tale of defeat. Afghans were/are fighting for their FREEDOM, a real cause, Americans were fighting for corporate profits -- the least passionate reason to fight. And so it was INEVITABLE, though America is attempting to save face as I write, but the truth as always stands immutable, D-E-F-E-A-T!
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Blowing Desolation
zed, Thursday, Jan 31 2019, 7:13am
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Future World
Chris Hedges via pru, Wednesday, Jan 30 2019, 7:18pm
The massive social failures we witness today are the direct result of OUR collective failures. First, the failure to rein in the criminals that set the course for permanent illegal wars beginning with Yugoslavia/Iraq; then the failure to prosecute and jail those responsible for the 2008 global economic collapse from which we are yet to recover -- temporary life support equates with QE, a (temporary) measure which has become permanent, though it must inevitably collapse, as the global economy CANNOT be sustained on paper money printed from 'air' not based on production. (story and 1 image)
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