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 ‘Indispensable Nation’ No More posted by Andrew J. Bacevich via claire, 2019-02-22 23:01:57
“Only those of us who were born under Queen Victoria,” wrote Ronald Knox, “know what it feels like to assume, without questioning, that England is permanently top nation, that foreigners do not matter, and that if worst comes to the worst, Lord Salisbury will send a gunboat.” Knox offered this trenchant observation, redolent with irony and perhaps tinged with regret, not as a policymaker or strategic thinker, but from the vantage point of a clergyman. From the 1920s through the 1950s, Monsignor Knox was the most famous and influential Catholic priest in all of Great Britain. As such, he entertained a distinct perspective on what actually qualifies as permanent and what merely offers the appearance. (full story)
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The [Sick] US Admin Doesn't Care Two Hoots What the World Thinks posted by Dave Lefcourt via stella, 2019-02-21 23:50:19
When it comes to US machinations in the world how horrendous can they get? Is that the operative word, something worse? Horrific, unspeakable-although unspeakable is usually reserved for the holocaust perpetrated by Hitler's Nazi Germany against the Jews. (full story)
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America, The Pathology of Unilateralism posted by jake, 2019-02-21 22:43:32
The national pathology infecting America outwardly and unmistakably manifests itself as the false belief that only America is the “exceptional, indispensable” nation, total fantasy without need to qualify as no nation is indispensable, in fact if America were dispensed with, the world would be free of all its criminal, mass murdering wars of theft, appropriation and exploitation, which it wages for its corporate masters, make no mistake, America is a Corporatocracy, not a Democracy. (full story)
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  Putin Threatens US Soil If U.S. Missiles Deployed in Europe Target Russia posted by teleSUR via cyd, 2019-02-20 20:19:50
Russian President Vladimir Putin, during his annual presidential address to the legislature Wednesday, criticized the United States for ignoring the Intermediate-Range Nuclear Forces (INF) treaty by deploying missile launchers in Romania and Poland. (full story)
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 Understanding Rogue Cultures posted by claire, 2019-02-19 21:42:23
In my early university years, when a humanities degree had worth, I undertook a few units in cultural analysis incorporated in two related majors, sociology and media/textual studies. It proved a wonderful choice as no culture falls out of the sky, everything can be known about any existing and historical culture by studying and analysing the cultural artefacts it produces and in this respect young cultures like the American, are comic book simple. I should add that this discipline is easily able to determine the future behaviours of any culture. (full story)
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The Image is the Medium/Reality posted by Chris Hedges via gus, 2019-02-19 11:58:59
Donald Trump, like much of the American public, is entranced by electronic images. He interprets reality through the distortions of digital media. His decisions, opinions, political positions, prejudices and sense of self are reflected back to him on screens. He views himself and the world around him as a vast television show with himself as the star. His primary concerns as president are his ratings, his popularity and his image. He is a creature—maybe the poster child—of the modern, post-literate culture, a culture that critics such as Marshall McLuhan, Daniel Boorstin, James W. Carey and Neil Postman warned us about. (full story)
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 UK Lawmakers Accuse Facebook Execs as 'Digital Gangsters,' As New Zealand Moves to Tax Tech Giant posted by Jessica Corbett via stacey, 2019-02-19 11:29:55
As U.K. lawmakers called for strict regulations "to curb the worst excesses of surveillance capitalism" following the release a damning report that details an investigation of Facebook, New Zealand's Labour Party announced Monday it is pursuing tax reforms to require multinational tech giants "to pay their fair share." (full story)
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 Facebook Favors Propaganda Blocks Video Outlets Critical of US Foreign Policy and Corporate Media posted by Jessica Corbett via shirl, 2019-02-19 11:13:55
Journalists and advocates of press freedoms are once more directing outrage and criticism at Facebook for selectively censoring pages on its platform and refusing to explain the reason behind a decision that appears to many as a clear double standard applied to outlets critical of U.S. foreign policy and corporate interests. (full story)
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War Crimes Complicity -- Raytheon Nabs $1.6 Billion Arms Deal With UAE posted by Andrea Germanos via gayle, 2019-02-19 10:58:51
The United Arab Emirates (UAE) just inked billions in deals to secure new weapons from top Pentagon contractor Raytheon a week after an Amnesty International investigation further implicated the Gulf nation in war crimes for transferring Western weapons to unaccountable militia groups, thereby deepening the humanitarian crisis and fueling carnage in war-ravaged Yemen. (full story)
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 War: The USA Prepares for a ‘Limited’ Nuclear War posted by stacey, 2019-02-18 19:15:26
Do you think it meaningless that America is withdrawing from nuclear arms treaties which maintained nuclear peace for decades and has proceeded to develop tactical mini-nukes, though nukes they are? These two simultaneous occurrences indicate that America, now losing economically against China and in weapons development against Russia, are critically important and frightening realities. Indeed, these are the desperate measures of a failing world power, which refuses to accept the new reality of the 21st century, a multi-polar world. (full story)
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Hate Fest in Warsaw posted by Eric Margolis via claire, 2019-02-16 21:58:52
Warsaw, Poland is not a fun place to visit in darkest February, but that is where the US just staged an anti-Iranian jamboree of 60 client states that brought derision and scorn from Europeans and much of the Mideast. (full story)
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American Democracy is a LIE -- Proof of Deep State Rule posted by Robert W. Merry via jake, 2019-02-16 21:47:49
The revelation that top Justice officials considered unseating Trump should answer that question for good. (full story)
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“She’ll be right Mate!” posted by jane, 2019-02-15 19:59:35
Australia has the dubious distinction of being the most apathetic, slavish nation on earth, the title is a cultural oft stated colloquialism. But is it true? Clearly not, it won’t be ‘right’ without rectification and active remedial measures as is clear and obvious. (full story)
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 Europe puts American Big Tech on Leash posted by Matthew Karnitschnig vial gayle, 2019-02-14 23:46:14
BERLIN — It's official: Silicon Valley's most important regulator is Europe. (full story)
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 Netanyahu threatens war with Iran posted by David M. Herszenhorn via sal, 2019-02-13 23:07:09
Bibi tweets that countries are ‘sitting down together with Israel in order to advance the common interest of war with Iran.’ (full story)
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