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(3 comments) SHARE Thursday, May 25, 2017 Rosenstein and Mueller: the Regime Change Tag-Team
Rod Rosenstein is a skunk, there's no two-ways about it.
[Mueller] did not live up to his oath of office to protect and defend the Constitution against foreign and domestic threats. So, he clearly has a selective view of how you apply the Constitution,"
(18 comments) SHARE Monday, April 17, 2017 The Problem is Washington, Not North Korea
Washington has never made any effort to conceal its contempt for North Korea. In the 64 years since the war ended, the US has done everything in its power to punish, humiliate and inflict pain on the Communist country. Washington has subjected the DPRK to starvation, prevented its government from accessing foreign capital and markets, strangled its economy with crippling economic sanctions...
(2 comments) SHARE Tuesday, March 28, 2017 Ending Syria's Nightmare will Take Pressure From Below
Washington is using the fight against ISIS as a pretext for capturing and holding territory in a critical, energy-rich area of the world. The plan to seize parts of East Syria for military bases and pipeline corridors fits neatly within this same basic strategy. But it also throws a wrench in Moscow's plan to restore the country's borders and put an end to the six year-long conflict.
(8 comments) SHARE Thursday, March 23, 2017 Will Washington Risk WW3 to Block an Emerging EU-Russia Superstate
A new global empire is gradually emerging in Central Asia, and while the transformative impact of economic integration has not yet been realized, US efforts to block the embryonic alliance are getting weaker and more desperate all the time. The hyperbolic propaganda about the alleged "Russia hacking" of the presidential election is just one example of this, while the arming of Nazi militants in Kiev is another.
SHARE Friday, March 17, 2017 Yellen's Effed up Attack on Working People, Sad
The idea that the Fed is an impartial referee that serves the public by setting interest rates and regulating the financial system, is the nuttiest of all the conspiracy theories. The Fed is not only a creature of the banks, it is also the most destructive institution in the country today. Isn't it true that Donald Trump wouldn't be president today if it wasn't for the Fed? Think about it.
(4 comments) SHARE Wednesday, March 15, 2017 Trump's Infrastructure Boondoggle
The objective is to allow wealthy corporations to buy public assets at fire-sale prices so they can turn them into profit-generating enterprises. Trump is signaling to his pirate friends in Corporate America that he'll use his power as executive to find new outlets for profitable investment so they have some place to stick their mountain of money.
(1 comments) SHARE Saturday, March 11, 2017 Stronger Economic Growth? Over My Dead Body, Says Janet Yellen
The Fed would rather prick the massive asset-price bubble it has created and risk sending the financial system into a headlong plunge off a cliff, than allow perennially-strapped workers to garner even a farthing more for their daily drudgery. Class hatred remains the animating force that fuels all Central Bank policy decisions.
(4 comments) SHARE Wednesday, March 8, 2017 The Trump Investigation: Essential Criminal Probe or Politically-Motivated Witch Hunt?
If Trump is found guilty of illegal behavior in his connections with Russia, then he should be prosecuted to the full extent of the law. But if Obama or the DOJ abused their authority by using the Intelligence agencies and the media to conduct a politically-motivated witch hunt aimed at crushing a political rival and reversing the results of the election, then they should be held accountable.
(14 comments) SHARE Friday, March 3, 2017 Trump Flip-Flops on Bubblemaking
when Trump was running for office, stocks were headed for another thundering crash. But now that he's president, Happy Days Are Here Again. The question is: Which Trump do we believe? Are stocks in a bubble or not? Stocks aren't just in a bubble, they've completely detached from reality.
(3 comments) SHARE Friday, February 24, 2017 McMaster Takes Charge: Trump Relinquishes Control of Foreign Policy
Why has Trump put a Moscow-hating hawk like H.R. McMaster in a position where he'll be able to intensify the pressure on Russia, increase the provocations and, very likely, trigger a conflagration between the two nuclear-armed superpowers? Trump is signaling to his adversaries that he will cooperate in carrying out their strategic agenda provided they allow him to finish his term.
(38 comments) SHARE Wednesday, February 22, 2017 Liberals Beware: Lie Down With Dogs, Get Up With Fleas
Leftists should avoid the temptation of aligning themselves with groups and agencies that might help them achieve their short-term goal of removing Trump, but ultimately move them closer to a de facto 1984 lock-down police state. Misplaced support for the deep state Russophobes will only strengthen the national security state's stranglehold on power. That's not a path to victory, it's a path to annihilation.
(81 comments) SHARE Friday, February 17, 2017 Blood in the Water: the Trump Revolution Ends in a Whimper
The inexperienced Trump -- who naively believed that the president sets his own foreign policy -- has now learned that that's not the case. The Flynn slap-down, followed by blistering attacks in the media and threats of impeachment, have left Trump shaken to the core.
(3 comments) SHARE Tuesday, February 14, 2017 Worst Joke Ever? U.S. Spy Chief Gives Saudi Prince Highest Award for "Fighting Terrorism"
The evidence against Saudi Arabia is overwhelming and damning, and that's what makes Pompeo's performance in Riyadh so confusing. Why is the head of the CIA bestowing an award on a man who could undoubtedly identify some of the world's biggest terrorist donors, unless, of course, the CIA derives some benefit from the arrangement?
(5 comments) SHARE Saturday, February 11, 2017 Trump's Deregulation Boondoggle; "One Shitty Deal"
According to Trump, the benefits of ditching the rules far exceed the risks which, of course, will be shouldered exclusively by the blue collar working stiffs who naively supported Trump's bid for president thinking he had their best interests at heart. Hopefully, these people will realize that President Silverspoon has allied himself with the same thieving scoundrels who precipitated the 2008 financial crash.
SHARE Wednesday, February 8, 2017 Trump Plays Cat and Mouse with Iran
Washington abhors any country that conducts its own independent foreign policy or resists US attempts to install its own puppet government. With Iran, the problems run even deeper since Iran sits on a vast ocean of oil and natural gas to which the western oil giants feel they are entitled.
(7 comments) SHARE Saturday, February 4, 2017 The Berkeley Incident
The masked rioters actually did Trump a favor. They created a justification for presidential intervention backed by the prospect of direct involvement. One can only wonder how many similar experiments will transpire before Trump puts his foot down and bans demonstrations altogether? Of course, that may very well be the objective.
(19 comments) SHARE Thursday, February 2, 2017 How We the People Were Screwed by Obama's Bogus "Recovery"
Neither Yellen nor McConnell can allow Trump to kick-start the economy, because stronger growth puts upward pressure on wages which lifts inflation and pushes up interest rates. Higher rates are the death knell for cheap money which is the secret ingredient that keeps the nation's wealth flowing upwards to the glorious 1 percent.
(57 comments) SHARE Saturday, January 28, 2017 Game Over for Democrats?
Ever since the election, the Dems have made no effort at course correction, no effort to reconnect with the millions of working people in the red states who used to vote Democrat but switched because they wanted change. No. The Democratic party doesn't have to be a place where progressive ideas go to die. But they'd better get it together fast or it's going to be Game over.
(20 comments) SHARE Thursday, January 26, 2017 Double Standards: Where Were the Liberal Protesters During Obama's Wars?
The United States has been at war for eight straight years under Obama, and during that time, there hasn't been one sizable antiwar march, demonstration or protest. Nothing. No one seems to care when an articulate bi-racial mandarin kills mostly people of color, but when a brash and outspoken real estate magnate takes over the reigns of power, then "watch out" because here come the protesters, all three million of them!
(18 comments) SHARE Thursday, January 19, 2017 The Trump Speech That No One Heard
Washington's plan for Russia is no different than its plan for Syria. Both countries will be chopped up into smaller bite-size enclaves eliminating the possibility of a strong nationalist government rising up and resisting Washington's relentless exploitation and repression. It's divide and conquer writ large.