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 The Doomed Middle Class posted by Steve Donoghue via claire, 2018-06-29 23:34:12
The following essay applies to all western nations to a greater or lesser extent. A new feudalism has been emerging over the past few decades characterised by a new mega-wealthy elite aristocracy and everyone else reduced to indentured (debt) serfs by elite design. (full story)
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Train Wreck USA posted by rod, 2018-06-29 13:49:56
That is the reality for America with 'engineer' Trump at the controls. (full story)
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Two Views of the Putin/Trump Summit posted by Paul Craig Roberts via cyd, 2018-06-29 01:39:20
The meeting that the Deep State strived to make impossible with fabricated “Russiagate” assertions and an orchestrated “investigation” by Mueller has now been set in place by no less than Deep State neocon operative John Bolton. Patrick Lang explains how this came about: (full story)
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America's Failure to Oust Assad and the Dismal Prospects for its Proxy Jihadi Fighters posted by Robert Fisk via stella, 2018-06-29 01:29:10
When Washington ‘understands the difficult conditions’ its militia allies are facing and says it ‘advises’ the Russians and Syrians not to violate a ceasefire – which was Moscow’s idea in the first place – you know that the Americans are pulling the carpet from beneath another set of extremist 'allies.' (full story)
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  Trump’s Idiotic Victimisation of Mexicans and Latinos posted by skye, 2018-06-28 23:20:07
Not so long ago (2006) dubya Bush threatened to deport all illegal immigrants from America, the response was immediate and stunning. Almost overnight 500,000 Latinos hit the streets of LA and clogged the freeways in a show of force, demonstrating how quickly and easily a united front could wreak havoc if provoked. Well, needless to say, Bush and his fascist administration backflipped on the policy immediately and calm prevailed. (full story)
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Justice for all in America: A Meaningless Figure of Speech posted by Stephen Lendman via ned, 2018-06-27 21:47:57
Injustice in America is deep-seated. It’s politicized – the poor, people of color, Muslims and others disadvantaged and marginalized are denied constitutionally guaranteed due process and equal justice under law with disturbing regularity.
The world’s largest gulag prison system by far is testimony to a nation serving privileged interests over others. America is disdainful of the nation’s least advantaged, thousands are incarcerated for misdemeanors and political reasons. (full story)
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FBI Quashes Assange Deal to Eliminate Russia as Perpetrator of DNC 'Hack' posted by Ray McGovern via jenny, 2018-06-27 21:05:30
The U.S. was in talks for a deal with Julian Assange but then FBI Director James Comey ordered an end to negotiations after Assange offered to prove Russia was not involved in the DNC leak. (full story)
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'Seismic Political Upset': Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez Overwhelms Wall Street Favorite Joe Crowley posted by staff report via vikki, 2018-06-26 23:37:16
In a major, stunning upset, New York progressive Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez won a shocking landslide victory over 10-term Democratic Congressman Joe Crowley, chair of the House Democratic caucus, in the Congressional primary election on Tuesday in New York's 14th Congressional District covering the Bronx and Queens. (full story)
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 All Empires Require an Emperor Figurehead posted by Bruce Fein via jack, 2018-06-26 22:18:43
The United States has adorned its president with extravagance that makes Roman emperors appear frugal by comparison. And such visible signs of the deification of presidents are supported today by absurd 'legal' doctrines that echo Richard Nixon’s once discredited claim to David Frost: “When the president does it, that means it is not illegal.” Though of course we know that Nixon was disgraced and forced to resign, as the then democratic population would have none of it, i.e, a semi-divine, exceptional, Napoleon/Caesar complex. (full story)
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Totalitarian America and the Culture of Fake News/Propaganda posted by Finian Cunningham via liz, 2018-06-26 21:51:29
American citizens have a problem telling the difference between facts and opinion. That’s the finding of a recent survey carried out by the respected Pew organization. Put another way it means that at best, most Americans have a tenuous grip on reality. (full story)
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 A tragedy in the making as the US confronts China posted by David P. Goldman via anton, 2018-06-26 10:17:43
Chinese officials are warning that they are prepared not only for trade war, but for financial, diplomatic and limited military confrontation with the United States, in response to American demands for fundamental changes in Chinese economic policy. (full story)
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 The Political Status Quo is a Dead Man Falling to the Ground posted by reg, 2018-06-26 08:20:01
It’s true, world populations are rejecting the thoroughly corrupt political status quo, that is, to be specific, voting for one of two major parties that serve the same minority interests, which is equivalent to a two horse one stable race, the stable owner always wins. (full story)
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The Corporate/Banker Run State of America -- Democracy Died Decades Past posted by Jake Johnson via cyd, 2018-06-25 20:46:31
Mega-Corporations and big banks run America, governments are a facade, window dressing, pure and simple, so it shouldn't surprise anyone that these entities work hand-in-glove in their self-interest. AT&T is but one of numerous large companies that work in the interests of minority elites to the great cost of the people and nation. (full story)
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 Banksy needles France on migrants with Paris mural blitz posted by AFP staff report via lilly, 2018-06-25 08:14:12
The mysterious British street artist Banksy appears to have taken aim at the French government’s crackdown on migrants in a series of new murals in Paris. (full story)
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A World of Free Movement Would Be $78 Trillion Richer posted by staff report via claire, 2018-06-24 09:29:21
Consider a tiny spec of a planet in a far off solar system where its inhabitants are all divided and compete/fight with each other though if they worked together the planet would be a paradise not a hell hole. Indeed, that planet is OUR earth.
The following radical proposal is well worth a read and deep consideration, as continuing division and conflict is not only counter-productive but self-destructive. (full story)
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