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 Reality is an Orphan: The 'Dream'world Challenge for Americans posted by Paul Street via nancy, 2018-06-14 21:51:23
It’s no wonder that most Americans are clueless about why “their” country is feared and hated the world over. It remains unthinkable to this day, for example, that any respectable “mainstream” U.S. media outlet would tell the truth about why the United States atom-bombed the civilian populations of Hiroshima and Nagasaki. As Gar Alperovitz and other historians have shown, Washington knew that Japan was defeated and ready to surrender at the end of World War II. The ghastly civilian killing atomic attacks were meant to send a signal to Soviet Russia about the post-WWII world: “We run the world. What we say goes.” (full story)
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Putin and Xi top the G7 posted by Pepe Escobar via jan, 2018-06-14 03:04:16
East vs. West: the contrast between the “dueling summits” this weekend was something for the history books. (full story)
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120 Countries at UN Condemn Israel Over Gaza Violence posted by The News via gerry, 2018-06-14 02:46:59
The UN General Assembly on Wednesday adopted by a strong majority of 120 countries an Arab-backed resolution condemning Israel for Palestinian deaths in Gaza and rejected a US bid to put the blame on Hamas. (full story)
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  SUMMIT: Trump, "way out of his depth" -- because he lacks Depth/knowledge posted by Cody Fenwick via gayle, 2018-06-13 01:48:07
As President Donald Trump portrays his meeting with North Korean leader Kim Jong-un as a major success, actual experts in foreign policy and diplomacy have a very different perspective.
"I don't think he knows much about, quite frankly, anything when it comes to foreign affairs, national security, even a thing like the war games," said former CIA Director John Brennan of Trump on MSNBC's "Deadline: White House" on Tuesday. (full story)
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A Tale of Two Summits posted by Finian Cunningham via dulcimer, 2018-06-13 01:14:05
It’s almost a surreal spectacle to see the world order shifting before our very eyes. The sight of the Western G7 summit collapsing in acrimony at the weekend was in stark contrast to a positive, resplendent Shanghai Cooperation Organization conference hosted at the same time in China. (full story)
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 Summit: 'NORTH KOREA CAME OUT ON TOP' posted by jack, 2018-06-12 23:56:35
The following is an excerpt from the Oz mass media but it should never be forgotten that Trump's pathological need for recognition is greater than all other factors combined; so the ruling Washington neocons and the Pentagon have a problem on their hands. If Trump refuses to see reason then anything could happen to HIM! (full story)
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R.I.P Net Neutrality -- But Battle to Restore It Continues posted by Stephen Lendman via sue, 2018-06-12 07:53:01
The battle for digital democracy, the last frontier of press freedom crucial to preserve, continues on a day that will live infamy.
On June 11, the FCC’s Orwellian-named 'Restoring Internet Freedom Order' took effect, giving predatory telecom and cable giants control over a vital public resource. (full story)
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North Korea-U.S. Singapore Summit -- some progress posted by Jake Johnson via jon, 2018-06-12 06:57:14
Some perspective is required. Consider how important the prospect of success/PEACE on the peninsular would be to an ego like Trump's. Instead of going down in history as one of the world's most inept and ignorant political leaders, he could instead go down in history as achieving Peace with North Korea, something no president before him imagined was possible. Indeed, it would be an outstanding achievement if Trump succeeded. However, his handlers are not yet ready to retreat from their impossible unacceptable demands for any leader, complete de-nuclearisation with constant monitoring/verification -- and after that is confirmed goodbye Kim and his hierarchy, similar to Gaddafi and Saddam Hussein -- America has PROVEN it CAN'T be TRUSTED and Kim is fully aware. (full story)
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Oz Military Elite Atrocities in Afghanistan posted by Binoy Kampmark via steve, 2018-06-12 06:25:21
“Further into the Afghanistan mission, after multiple deployments, soldiers began to refer to members going ‘up the Congo’.” — Chris Masters, The Sydney Morning Herald, Jun 9, 2018 (full story)
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The Assassination of Truth in the West posted by Paul Craig Roberts via gayle, 2018-06-12 05:33:37
Nowhere in the Western world is truth respected. Even universities are imposing censorship and speech control. Governments are shutting down, and will eventually criminalize, all explanations that differ from official ones. The Western world no longer has a print and TV media. In its place there is a propaganda ministry for the ruling elite. (full story)
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There's a special place in hell for those that Defy our Moron president! posted by staff report via kate, 2018-06-10 23:55:38
After President Donald Trump drove the U.S. into an all-out trade war with Canada on Saturday with his Twitter outburst threatening to hit America's northern neighbor with even more punitive tariffs, Trump's top trade adviser Peter Navarro placed blame for soaring tensions entirely on Canadian Prime Minister Justin Trudeau in an interview on Sunday and warned "there's a special place in hell" for those who cross the president. (full story)
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 Trump Dressed Down by World Leaders at G7 leaving Kim Jong Un Smiling posted by gerry, 2018-06-10 23:23:12
When a political and social ignoramus is sent to a meeting with other world leaders that know their stuff, the outcome is assured, the ignoramus, armed only with the social/political awareness of a gnat, would have no intelligent answers to provide in defence of his regressive policies and that is exactly what occurred at the G7, which embarrassing occurrence forced Trump to return home with his tail between his legs after the Canadian prime minister delivered the brutal final blow. Though of course the privately owned partial mass media attributed the early exit to preparation for the summit with Kim Jong Un in Singapore, but as we all should know by now, clueless Trump is told what to do and say by his handlers, foremost among them, John Bolton, arch-neoconservative from the Bush era, which makes sense as it is the neoconservatives that determine foreign policy in Washington. (full story)
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 IGNORE Trump posted by Dr. Steve, 2018-06-09 23:12:23
Sufferers of Narcissistic Personality Disorder (NPD) crave attention and they will do ANYTHING to get it like the spoiled infants they are, and we should have all witnessed the seeding pathology of spoiled infants, which in adults manifests as psychopathology and sociopathology.
It is no secret that the world's most infamous sufferer of NPD is Donald Trump whose antics and infantile behaviour are classic textbook examples of NPD. (full story)
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Appeasement is neither an Economic or Political Solution posted by Prof. James Petras via gayle, 2018-06-09 22:22:49
The world is riven with class conflicts in Latin America, political conflicts between the Anglo-Americans and Russians, and economic conflicts between Washington against Europe and Asia. (full story)
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 Cooperation and Mutual Aid and I’m not Directly Referring to Kropotkin posted by jill, 2018-06-09 00:50:51
Though I must explain. Peter Kropotkin was a Russian naturalist and anarchist, his anarchist philosophy largely resulting from his observations of socal species in nature and how they cooperate for the common good/survival of all. (full story)
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