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(3 comments) SHARE Monday, January 30, 2012 An Ominous Foreboding, Israel vs Iran
According to Ronen Bergman an analyst for the Israeli newspaper Yedioth Ahronoth, writing yesterday in the NY Times magazine, says Israel will attack Iran in 2012. Former head of Israel's Mossad intelligence service Meir Dagan says the Iranian threat is not imminent and a military strike catastrophic for Israel. If Bergman's analysis is correct the Israeli leadership will decide to strike Iran anyway.
SHARE Friday, January 28, 2011 The Evolving Populist Political Rebellion in the Arab World
What we are witnessing in the Arab world began w/ the self immolation of a fruit seller in Tunisia has inspired a populist political rebellion well beyond Tunisia, connected w/ and touched a nerve in many Arab peoples. Egypt is calling for Mubarak to step down. Yesterday in Yemen 1000's marched calling for Pres. Saleh to step down. The rebellions have been spontaneous swellings of ordinary people wanting to overthrow tyrants.
(2 comments) SHARE Tuesday, March 18, 2014 A Nuclear War Would Be Insane
Let’s get to the point; a nuclear war would be insane. Nuclear weapons today are infinitely more powerful than the bombs dropped on Japan in 1945. Both the U.S & Russia possess MIRV’d missiles carrying multiple warheads & no ABM’s are capable of intercepting them. The cold wars mutually assured destruction-MAD- still applies. It would be the hgt. of insanity for a nuclear war to break out over the Ukraine crisis.
(5 comments) SHARE Wednesday, October 13, 2010 The Rich Get Richer, the Poor Get Poorer, While the Middle Class Gets Decimated
The rich get richer; the poor get poorer, the theme that best describes this great recession. Now the middle classes are being decimated expanding the ranks of the poor. Where are the giant gov't projects of roads, bridges, schools, railroads? Is it just nostalgia for FDR and the WPA's and CCC's of his time? There should have been a middle class rebellion demanding the enactment of programs to get people back to work.
(6 comments) SHARE Saturday, February 7, 2015 CIA in the Crosshairs
Forget the Brian Williams saga that's gone viral. It's just a distraction because the much larger issue is this: distortion, misinformation & lies are reported daily by the entire MSM in the US & Europe. That's the real story. It has been revealed by Dr. Udo Ulfkotte, the former editor of a leading German newspaper who wrote a book, "Bought Journalists" which he says "characterizes the CIA control of the western media".
(5 comments) SHARE Friday, October 5, 2012 Iran Offers 9 Point Plan to end Nuclear Crisis, U.S. "No thanks".
Iran has proposed a 9 step plan to end the crisis over its nuclear development. It requires an immediate cessation of all sanctions. From Sec'y of State Clinton, "The U.S. has no intentions of relaxing sanctions". So much for the latest offer from Iran. It has been portrayed as an existential threat, yet it is the U.S. that refuses to engage Iran diplomatically w/out preconditions & not wanting a normalization of relations.
(23 comments) SHARE Sunday, August 15, 2010 The Danger of an Israeli Attack on Iran
Since the 1967 war Israel has become the preeminent power in the Middle East. It is unchallenged yet its recent actions reveal a siege mentality despite its military superiority. Feeding this siege mentality most prominently is Iran and its nuclear ambitions. The worry is Israel will act unilaterally and bomb Iranian nuclear facilities with disastrous consequences. Only Barack Obama can avert this disaster from happening.
(24 comments) SHARE Tuesday, October 18, 2011 Why the Occupy Movement is Critical for America
The occupy movement is critical for America. Our current path is disastrous; endless wars, torture, unemployment, jobs lost, wide disparity of income between the !% and the 99%,as well as the corrupted political theatre in Washington incapable of real problem solving. There are times in history movements emerge when conditions are such that the complete overhaul of the existing system is necessary. This is one of those times.
(9 comments) SHARE Wednesday, May 25, 2016 The US has become for all practical purposes a criminal enterprise
The US has become for all practical purposes a criminal enterprise. Unhinged & unrestrained from any accountability, conducting endless wars, initiating coups, color revolutions, false flag ops, NGO infiltration to undermine legitimate gov'ts, that is criminal activity. Now w/ NATO on Russia's doorstep, US naval ships exercising old time gun boat diplomacy in the S. China Sea there's ominous foreboding cold war could turn hot.
(61 comments) SHARE Saturday, December 17, 2016 Premeditated domestic crisis instigated by the CIA
We may be heading for a presidential crisis of major proportions if Monday's electoral college vote is not finalized that day. Some 56 electors-all Dems except one-have requested a briefing on allegations Russia interfered w/ the election. One thing seems clear, the CIA precipitated a pre-meditated crisis w/ allegations of Russian meddling in the election; no proof given. We'll see if that crisis becomes a CIA domestic coup.
(2 comments) SHARE Thursday, December 6, 2012 The Insidious National Security State in Operation
We're fast becoming the United States of Surveillance. Besides TSA screening, surveillance cameras are popping up everywhere on roads & intersections. Cell phone use monitored, internet snooping, credit card transactions tracked, warrantless wiretapping & now NDAA authorization for the military to hold anyone w/o charges & due process. Its the insidious nat'l security state in operation & its about to become more invasive.
(5 comments) SHARE Wednesday, February 19, 2014 The Racism May Be Submerged, But We're Still a Racist Society
In light of the mistrial verdict in a Florida 1st degree murder trial where Michael Dunn a white man shot & killed 17yr. old Jordan Davis over his playing of loud music or George Zimmerman’s acquittal in his killing Trayvon Martin where stand your ground law exists, these cases reveal we’re still a racist society. The racism may be submerged but still too ingrained to believe we’re anywhere near a color blind society.
SHARE Monday, May 16, 2011 Erik Prince, The "Prince of Darkness"
According to yesterday's N.Y. Times, Erik Prince, former owner of Blackwater is about to ply his trade in the United Arab Emirates. Prince has secured a $529 million contract w/ the UAE to build a private mercenary force in the desert kingdom opposite Iran. The mission: conduct special ops. inside and outside the country. It's illegal and Iran will not take kindly to this unnecessary provocation. Prince needs to be reined in.
(63 comments) SHARE Wednesday, April 5, 2017 Something may be amiss immediately blaming Syrian government for Sarin gas attack
As we know a sarin gas attack occurred in Khan Shaykhun, Syria on Monday killing some 58 people. Western leaders including Pres. Trump immediately blamed Syrian Pres. Assad. However the area around Khan Shaykhun is held by al Qaeda militants. The UN Mission Report of the sarin attack in 2013 confirmed "opposition" rebels used chemical weapons. Could this be another false chemical attack allegation against the Syrian gov't?
(4 comments) SHARE Wednesday, August 24, 2016 Preventing potential Hillary conspired "regime change" in Syria
If Hillary Clinton becomes president she could escalate the war in Syria. The Pentagon has chimed in w/ telltale warnings of its intentions in Syria ready "to down Syrian & Russian planes" threatening US military advisers. Former CIA acting Dir. Mike Morell said the Iranians & the Russians should "pay a price", kill them "covertly" but make sure they know it in Moscow & Tehran." Regime change in Syria can & must be prevented.
(7 comments) SHARE Wednesday, July 1, 2015 Putin, Always One Step Ahead of the US
Since the US inspired coup in Kiev in Feb.2014 it's been nonstop bashing of Russian Pres. Vladimir Putin in the west. The purpose, get Putin to take the bait & invade Ukraine. Only Putin isn't biting. He wants no wider war in Ukraine. He's interested in economic development w/ China & lately working behind the scene to develop a Gazprom Nord Stream gas pipeline from Russia under the Baltic Sea directly into Germany.
(1 comments) SHARE Wednesday, April 22, 2015 Russia, Full Speed Ahead to Deter Pentagon's Nuclear 1st Strike Capability
So... is there reason for optimism in the world to avoid a nuclear conflagration albeit NOT a nuclear war by accident? While the US is developing a "Full spectrum dominance" capability Russia is fast developing an S-500 ABM system that according to reporter Pepe Escobar can intercept ANY American missile system. He puts it operational in 2017. Could this be the key to prevent the Pentagon contemplating a nuclear 1st strike?
(2 comments) SHARE Thursday, February 2, 2012 Political Campaign Theatre Masquerading as Real Difference
President Obama is in full campaign mode. His latest plan is $5 to 10 billion to go to some homeowners but can't refinance because their homes are worth less than what they owe. It sounds good, but it's political theatre. The Repubs. won't back it so it has no chance of being enacted. The bottom line is if Obama really cared about homeowners in distress he'd have pushed for helping ALL early in his presidency. He didn't.
(4 comments) SHARE Tuesday, September 27, 2016 Military "incidents" in Syria, precursors for a wider war between US and Russia?
Could it be military "incidents" in Syria since late August are the pre-cursors for a wider war between the US & Russia? One would never know it from the presidential "debate" last night. Yet several "incidents" have occurred in Syria that could very well be ominous signs the Syrian conflict could explode into a direct conflict between Russia & the US. "Incidents", real or false flag have been precursors to larger wars.
(6 comments) SHARE Tuesday, November 9, 2010 "Amerika, Inc."
There remains little doubt that we in America have now the complete corporate takeover of our country. They reign supreme. Our media, mass entertainment, the unnecessary wars we fight only serve their interests. We are their pawns, docile passive slaves to this malevolent giant corporate octopus whose tentacles are omnipresent. There's a name for it and it's called, "Amerika, Inc."
(2 comments) SHARE Tuesday, December 13, 2011 New U.S. Adventurism in the South China Sea
A month ago in a speech to the Australian Parliament, President Obama put forth a major policy shift w/ emphasis on a greater naval military presence in Asia and particularly in the South China Sea. Billed as a necessary protection for all nations' interests and as a means to keep the sea lanes open, it has all the makings of a new containment policy aimed directly at China and the start of a new cold war.
SHARE Wednesday, December 16, 2015 A possible light at the end of the tunnel in Syria?
There appears a possible light @ the end of the tunnel in Syria, this after a 3 1/2 hr meeting in Moscow yesterday between Sec'y of St. Kerry & Russian Pres. Putin. After the meeting it was announced an int'l conference will be held in NY on Friday. Afterward Kerry made clear the Assad must go mantra was a non starting position & the US stands ready to work w/ Russia. This could be the diplomatic opening to ending the crisis.
(10 comments) SHARE Monday, May 22, 2017 Trump's speech in Saudi Arabia, stunning in its flight from reality
Pres. Trump's speech in Saudi Arabia yesterday was absolutely stunning in its flight from reality condemning Iran while it's been "official" Washington as the primary perpetrator-along w/ his host Saudi Arabia is responsible for what Trump said, "fueling the sectarian conflict & terror in the world". He said, "Above all, America seeks peace-not war". Not true. America seeks war, not peace, something Trump couldn't acknowledge.
(14 comments) SHARE Tuesday, September 19, 2017 Burns, Novick, PBS documentary found misleading the American public
The Ken Burns, Lynn Novick PBS documentary on the Vietnam war misleads the American public. It justifies US escalation of the Vietnam war in retaliation against North Vietnam over the Gulf of Tonkin Incident". In actuality the "Incident" ,which never occurred, was a false flag operation perpetrated by the US. The escalation of the war was unjustified US aggression.
(1 comments) SHARE Tuesday, July 22, 2014 Israeli's "Cheer, Whoop and Whistle" as Bombs Rain Down on Palestinian's in Gaza
In an article originally published in the Guardian titled "Israeli's Gather on Hillsides to Watch and Cheer as Military Drops Bombs on Gaza" by Harriet Sherwood, she relates "groups of Israeli's gather each evening on hilltops close to the Gaza border to cheer, whoop & whistle as bombs rain down on" Palestinian's while some Israeli's take in the "festivities" & cheer. It's unconscionable.
(19 comments) SHARE Wednesday, March 29, 2017 A US war with nuclear armed Russia just got more ominous
Perhaps it was inevitable US war w/Russia ominously about to come to pass in Syria. W/ Mad Dog Mattis as Defense Sec'y & HR McMaster as Nat'l Security advisor, both anti-Moscow hardliners the risk of a clash w/ Moscow just increased. As Mike Whitney sees it, "Either Russia ceases its operations in E. Syria or the US agrees to w/draw its US backed forces...there's going to be a collision between two nuclear armed adversaries."
(1 comments) SHARE Tuesday, May 20, 2014 Putin and China Reach Tentative Oil and Gas Deal Worth a Trillion Dollars
Earlier today Russia & China reached a tentative trillion dollar gas &oil deal in Shanghai w/only the asking price left to be finalized. The NY Times portrayed it as a failure to reach agreement but this needs to be seen as only the beginning of what is sure to be increased trade & development ties between the two countries. It remains to be seen the response taken by the US to Russia & China drawing ever closer together.
(1 comments) SHARE Wednesday, April 13, 2016 There are times the gauntlet must be thrown down. This is one of those times.
Endless war befouls America as others see us as the greatest threat to world peace. America's decision makers don't want peace just hegemony over the world. Most Americans see this as part of the corruption that pervades our political system though most people believe they are powerless to do anything about it. But something is being done. "Democracy Spring" & it's happening right now in DC. The gauntlet has been thrown down.
(9 comments) SHARE Monday, November 7, 2011 Nationwide General Strike Called for November, 28
"Citizens for Legitimate Government" is calling for a nationwide gen'l strike on Nov.28. The rationale is the Congressional super committee is due to call for deep cuts in Medicare, Medicaid and Soc. Sec. as part of an austerity package . We will be forced to pay for the failures of the capitalist class which the two political parties are simply two levers by which the capitalist class controls the political process in the U.S
(3 comments) SHARE Friday, June 28, 2013 Retired General James Cartwright Named by Justice Department as "Person of Interest"
Obama's Justice Dep't just named retired General James Cartwright the former Joint Chiefs Vice Chairman & former part of Obama's inner circle as a person of interest for allegedly leaking info about Stuxnet the secret cyberwarfare virus that attacked Iran's computers controlling the enrichment of uranium. Look @ Stuxnet for what it truly was; an act of war on another country. Cartwright knew it & why he may have leaked it.
(30 comments) SHARE Friday, February 26, 2010 Could the Far Right Be Incited to Go From Raucousness to Violence?
Ever since last summers town hall "meetings" descended into rowdy "shout downs" by aggrieved and often incoherent right "wing nuts", there persists a nagging uneasiness that their verbal diatribe (vituperation?) could be incited and turn into physical violence.
(2 comments) SHARE Friday, September 30, 2011 Ah, Who Won The Cold War?
Vladimir Putin will again seek the presidency of Russia. No big surprise. He has no opposition and remains popular w/ the people. W/ his stature he even speaks openly of social inequality, violence, corruption, feelings of injustice and vulnerability that Russian people feel. Empathetic words the people in the U.S. should be hearing from their reps w/ action to work on their peoples plight. Who was it that won the cold war?
SHARE Sunday, August 8, 2010 Hysteria and Intolerance in America
The protest sign read, "Mosques Are Monuments to Terrorism." It was displayed at a proposed site for a new mosque in Temecula, CA. led by a "Tea Party" group. One woman said, "I learned that in 20 years"we will be overtaken by Islam, and their goal is to get the Congress and the Supreme Court to see Shariah implemented.It's a political gov't and 100% against the Constitution." So much for religious tolerance by these Americans
(13 comments) SHARE Tuesday, October 4, 2016 "We are on the brink of war with Russia"
Madness reigns. How else to put it considering the vitriol coming from the west & specifically from the US demonizing Russian Pres Putin & nuclear armed Russia. This is simply insane. Last week Joint Chiefs Chairman Marine Gen'l Joe Dunford said, "We are on the brink of war with Russia" in Syria. A war w/ Russia in Syria could escalate into a nuclear conflagration. This is a most dangerous time.
(14 comments) SHARE Wednesday, October 12, 2011 Occupy Movement About to Erupt in Solidarity on College Campuses
Tom'w some 90 plus colleges nationwide will hold solidarity protests in support of Occupy Wall Street. What began Sept.17 in Zuccotti Park in N.Y. is fast spreading across America and now college campuses to join & rebel against the collusion of the political and corporate oligarchs that have transformed our representative democracy into a plutocracy that serves their interests to the detriment of the 99% of the people.
SHARE Friday, May 14, 2010 Minerals Management Services Gave Permission for BP to Drill Without Getting Required Permits
"The federal Minerals Management Service gave permission to BP and dozens of other oil companies to drill in the Gulf of Mexico without getting the required permits"" they routinely overruled its staff biologists and engineers who raised concerns about safety and environmental impact of certain drilling proposals in the gulf"and those scientists said they were regularly pressured by agency officials to change their findings.
(5 comments) SHARE Friday, June 24, 2016 Russia and China aren't the threat; we are.
The US since the end of WWII thru its actions in the world has become the most sinister entity in the world. It's not put that way by our politicos or the corp. MSM who have indoctrinated, propagandized & insulated the people from the horror the US state commits beyond our borders. So most support our wars, drone strikes & aren't affected by our killing innocents, collateral damage. Russia & China aren't the threat; we are.
(3 comments) SHARE Monday, March 11, 2019 US culpability in cyber attack of Venezuela's electrical power grid?
Has there been a cyber attack on Venezuela's electrical power grid occurring since Thursday all over the country? There's no proof of US culpability but it has conducted cyber warfare & did so w/a computer virus on Iran in 2010. Considering US sanctions, rejecting Maduro as the legitimately elected president & supporting the un-elected Juan Guaido as president, the US has been interfering in the internal affairs of Venezuela.
(42 comments) SHARE Thursday, January 24, 2019 Just another US-fomented coup this time in Venezuela
Yesterday Trump recognized Venezuelan opposition leader Juan Guaido as the countries interim President. In response the legitimately elected gov't of Nicolas Maduro broke all diplomatic relations with the US giving all diplomats 72 hrs. to leave the country. Last night Sec'y of State Mike Pompeo said the US stands w/ Guaido & does not recognize the Maduro regime as the gov't of Venezuela. It's just another US fomented coup.
(2 comments) SHARE Friday, April 22, 2016 Putin is serving notice, Russia will defend itself against US and NATO aggression
The headline in the NY Times read, "Russia Bolsters Its Submarine Fleet & Tensions W/ the US Rise". It all but accused Putin's Russia of "prowling" off the coasts of Scandinavia, Scotland, the Mediterranean & the North Atlantic. The only problem Putin's prowling is just a response to the US &NATO prowling to the edge of Russia's borders. Putin is serving notice Russia will act to defend itself against US & NATO aggression.
(1 comments) SHARE Monday, November 4, 2013 Sports in America, Playing is supposed to be Fun
Sports may or may not be a religion in America but one would be hard put to deny its significance for many people. It's a mania from rec. sports to top level college & the pros. W/ that mania come the parents & coaches & their affect on the players. Some parents & coaches are overly critical & demeaning. They've forgotten playing sports are supposed to be fun, not drudgery.
(5 comments) SHARE Monday, July 15, 2013 U.S. Bullying Latin American Countries Offering Asylum to Snowden with "Lasting Consequences" that "Won't Go Away"
Hardly unexpected, the U.S. is putting on a full court press on countries in Latin America that have offered asylum to Edward Snowden pressuring them not to grant it. According to a State Dep't official letting Snowden into Latin America would have "lasting consequences". What they would be weren't made specific yet it seems clear reprisals would be forthcoming if any gov't defied the U.S. in granting asylum to Snowden.
(1 comments) SHARE Monday, August 12, 2019 The ruling elite and its control of America
There is a deep undercurrent roiling this country splintered & disconnected. There is no mutual respect between right & left. Too busy squabbling. A perfect illustration of divide & conquer tactics by the ruling elite. One thing right & left can agree on. Our electoral system is completely corrupt & controlled by the ruling elite. They are the beneficiaries. As long as that system remains in place nothing will change.
(9 comments) SHARE Sunday, July 18, 2010 Senate Republicans: "Unemployment Benefits a Disincentive to Find Work", What It Says About Them and Us
Senate Republicans are concerned over the rising deficit and believe continued unemployment benefits for the long term unemployed are a disincentive to find work. These congressional Grinch's are willing to let people who are in desperate straits fall into the abyss of destitution. This callousness says we have lost something in America. Too many have lost our selves, become hollow and impassive to the reality in our midst.
(1 comments) SHARE Saturday, August 14, 2010 Secretary of Defense Gates Defense Savings Just a Bait and Switch
Defense Sec'y Gates says he wants to save $10 billion in the next four years by reducing spending on civilian contractors and put the savings into weapons systems rather than reducing the federal deficit. Au contraire, the entire bloated Defense Dep't budget needs to be pared to the bone, is completely unnecessary and out of sync relative to the terrorism threats we face.
(4 comments) SHARE Monday, May 20, 2013 Nearly 600,000 Wounded Vets Claims for Disability Suffered in Iraq and Afghanistan Wars "backlogged" for Months
There's a big controversy concerning the Dep't of Veterans Affairs where nearly 600,000 wounded vets of the Iraq & Afghanistan wars are having their claims for disability compensation "backlogged" for over 125 days. These wounded vets don't want to hear about the antiquated system now overwhelmed by their claims. They expect their claims be acted on swiftly & w/o red tape. They are right.
(3 comments) SHARE Wednesday, July 16, 2014 Benjamin Netanyahu, the Dick Cheney of Israel
According to an Israeli reporter, Israeli PM Benjamin Netanyahu knew w/in 24 hrs. the 3 Israeli boys kidnapped in the West Bank were dead but to the public "maintained the fiction it hoped to find them alive as a pretext to dismantle Hamas' West Bank operations. It was, simply put, a lie". The episode brought back memories of VP Dick Chaney knowingly lying to the public using the media to spread his falsehoods.
(1 comments) SHARE Wednesday, February 19, 2020 What's happening in Idlib Province Syria could explode into a major war
A pledge of NATO is coming to the defense of a member if they are attacked. NATO member Turkey borders Idlib, Syria where terrorists remain. Of late 12 Turkish troops were killed by Syrian army forces advancing in Idlib. Turkish Pres. Erdogan retaliated downing 2 Syrian army helicopters. Erdogan says he'll attack Syrian & Russian planes unless the Syrian army halts its advance into Idlib. This could escalate into a major war.
(4 comments) SHARE Thursday, February 21, 2019 The US doesn't "care two hoots about what the world thinks".
When it comes to US machinations in the world how horrendous can they get? Quoting Michael Walton's "The Deep Hurt: Lessons From American Coups", "There is little pretence that the US is engaging in bully politics of 'might is right'. They don't care two hoots about what the world thinks. They do not give a damn about self-determination of all countries & peoples". How horrendous before the world stands up to the bully?
SHARE Sunday, April 10, 2011 The Hypocrisy of U.S. Military Withdrawal From Iraq
On Friday Sec'y of Defense Gates suggested troops could remain in Iraq for years. The U.S. had no intention of completely w/drawing. Gates' suggestion confirms our real intentions. Iraq was a contrived hoax perpetrated on the American people, successfully marketed like beer and car ads to those gullible enough to believe such propaganda. That marketing success seems proven considering most Americans seem to tolerate our wars.
(2 comments) SHARE Wednesday, April 10, 2013 North Korea Does Not Pose a Nuclear Threat to the U.S.
N.Korea's newest leader Kim Jong Un has been making "threatening" comments this past month about sending missiles that could hit the U.S. mainland & the U.S. has reacted with predictable alarm. But Un like his predecessors is all bluster & bravado. The idea that N. Korea would preemptively launch a nuclear strike aimed @ the U.S. knowing his country would be incinerated in retaliation makes the idea absurd. It won't happen.
(4 comments) SHARE Monday, July 23, 2012 "Justice" for Bradley Manning?
Bradley Manning is to go on trial for "aiding the enemy" allegedly for supplying WikiLeaks documents the web site subsequently leaked. Under the law it must be shown the defendant had the intent of harming the U.S. The defense will show Manning had no such intent. If there is to be justice for Bradley Manning it is clear he never had intent to harm the U.S. Manning's conviction would be a supreme injustice.
(5 comments) SHARE Thursday, December 10, 2015 Syria upping the ante reportedly ready to deploy S-300 surface to air missiles to defend its air space
It's been reported Syria is ready to deploy the S-300 air defense system, a surface to air missile supplied by Russia giving Syria control of its territory w/ the capability to shoot down any intrusive warplane or missile w/out warning. That sure ups the ante. But Syria is a sovereign state & under int'l law it's been attacked illegally. Does it not have the right to further defend against any hostile force attacking it?
(9 comments) SHARE Wednesday, December 20, 2017 What's coming from the Trump crowd regarding North Korea is simply madness
War w/ N. Korea could be imminent. From reports the US conducted joint training exercises w/ S. Korean forces to practice removing nuclear weapons from N. Korea. From Trumps Nat'l Security Advisor H.R. McMaster, referring to N. Korea, "We're out of time w/this problem". "The US is ready to compel the denuclearization of N. Korea" & "w/out the cooperation of that regime". What's coming from the Trump crowd is simply madness.
(4 comments) SHARE Wednesday, October 21, 2015 Putin's actions in Syria, Do you really want to mess with us?
Vladimir Putin's move into Syria "startled" the US w/ him saying w/ his actions-no words necessary-"Don't mess w/ us" or better, "Do you really want to mess w/us?" With his brilliantly conceived military moves in Syria he's changed the equation forcing reality onto the US that its notions of regime change is unacceptable & will be countered.
(24 comments) SHARE Saturday, May 16, 2015 What to make of Kerry meeting with Putin in Sochi, Russia?
There may have been a positive development this past week between the US & Russia w/ Sec'y of State Kerry traveling to Sochi, Russia & meeting w/ Pres. Putin. A telling remark by Kerry, "The Minsk 2 agreement was the only way forward & that he would strongly caution Poroshenko against the idea of renewing military operations" in Ukraine. Could this be the beginning of an era of cooperation dampening new cold war fervor?
(4 comments) SHARE Tuesday, January 14, 2020 US mischief in Iranian region contributed to Ukraine airliner being downed byIran missile
The latest on the Ukraine airliner downed by an Iranian missile was caused by "human error", this from Iran Pres. Rouhani. "The Iranian Republic of Iran regrets this disastrous mistake." He's called for a special probe & a special court to try the case. This AM arrests were made. Though the US is not directly culpable in the incident its complicity is its mischief in the region forcing the Iran military to be on high alert.
(20 comments) SHARE Saturday, September 4, 2010 There is a Crisis in this Country
There is a crisis in this country. The crisis is how our democracy functions, how it is influenced and dominated by big moneyed and special interests. Its continued existence is why we are at a crisis stage. Only citizen funded and publicly financed elections will make our legislators beholden to the people. It is THE one reform that can save us from ourselves for our current system is unredeemable.
(11 comments) SHARE Sunday, July 24, 2016 Putin,"The world is being pulled in an irreversible direction"
Washington continues to provoke Russia w/ recent NATO troop exercises in Poland & the Baltic states & in May placing ABM missiles in Romania. Russian President Vladimir Putin explains such ABM missiles can become offensive missiles aimed directly @ Russia "done simply by switching the software" further saying "the world is being pulled in an irreversible direction", meaning nuclear war.
(1 comments) SHARE Tuesday, November 13, 2012 Republican Party of Ideologues Remain in Complete Denial after Election
It's been a week since the presidential election & the backbiting recriminations among the Repubs. have been going on nonstop ever since. Reality doesn't seem to enter the equation w/ these people. They're a party of old white men, a dying demographic, anti immigration, anti Hispanic, anti gay, anti women, anti gov't, anti taxation & climate change deniers w/ the changing demographic of today's America lost on them.
(14 comments) SHARE Monday, September 4, 2017 The Trump crowd can't see the forest for the trees
Why has negotiation become the plague to the Trump administration when it comes to N. Korea? There is no other way short of war, even nuclear war to deal w/ the North. Trump tweets threats, "locked & loaded" & "fire & fury" don't phase N.Korean leader Kim Song-Un. Former Chief White House strategist Steve Bannon said it right, "There's no military solution here, they got us". The Trump crowd can't see the forest for the trees.
(14 comments) SHARE Thursday, January 15, 2015 Why are so many veterans of our wars committing suicide?
Why are so many veterans of our wars committing suicide? Maybe some can't reengage w/ the superficial, indifferent disconnected world they've been thrust back into returning home compared w/ the shared life & death ordeal they faced each day relying on the men next to them just to survive in war. Maybe it was PTSD, joblessness, divorce, feeling discarded after serving. Maybe they believed it was all for nothing?
(4 comments) SHARE Friday, February 5, 2010 The "Madness" of Drone Warfare
There is a certain "madness" that now reigns with our use of drones in conducting our war with terrorists. President Obama has dramatically escalated the use of drones in Pakistan, a country we are not at war. These attacks have killed and maimed countless innocents. This escalation into Pakistan elicits hardly a murmur by our media and the American people. Something is terribly wrong in America.
(9 comments) SHARE Thursday, January 11, 2018 Climate change deniers, who are these people?
Climate change deniers. Who are these people? Seemingly anti-intellectual, distrust scientific evidence, reject evolution, creationists who believe the Earth is 10,000 yrs. old. Many are fundamentalist Christians, take the bible literally, interpret the Book of Revelation w/ the end days, Armageddon & the 2nd coming of Christ. For them why worry about climate change when there's the 2nd coming of Christ & they'll all be saved.
(17 comments) SHARE Wednesday, June 8, 2011 We Can No Longer Remain Passive and Indifferent, It is Time for Collective Action
Where is the collective unity of purpose in this country? Millions suffer from the excesses committed by the financial industry. There are pockets of resistance and collective action notably in Wisconsin. It needs to happen across the country, yet passivity and indifference remains the norm. Too many fail to realize these corporate plutocratic forces if left unchecked will engulf them in the eddy they seem oblivious to.
(27 comments) SHARE Wednesday, April 26, 2017 What's it mean to be a good American today?
What's it mean to be a good American today? Be conservative, liberal, belief in God, a flag waving "patriot", extol our military? How about individuals & alternative web sites refusing to accept the conventional wisdom or jump on the bandwagon & reject the "official" versions of events? Are they good Americans? The US provokes country's refusing US hegemony. What about those who oppose such policies. Are they good Americans?
(6 comments) SHARE Tuesday, October 24, 2017 The dollar as the world's reserve currency being challenged with more countries trade by-passing the dollar
The dollar as the world's reserve currency is being challenged. More &more countries are by-passing the dollar & trading in their own currencies. Such de-dollarization could have a major divestment impact on the dollar remaining as the world's reserve currency as China, Russia, Iran, Venezuela are all by-passing the dollar & trading in their own currencies.
(21 comments) SHARE Monday, August 13, 2012 Obama/Biden or Romney/Ryan, Does it really matter?
So Romney picked Ryan as his #2 in November. The harsh reality is the candidates & running mates of either major party make no difference. The ultimate policy decisions of endless war, unnecessary defense spending, secret Justice Dep't memos giving legal cover to whatever the Pres. does, corp. influence over the electoral process &political agenda favoring those interests doesn't change regardless of which major party gets in.
(4 comments) SHARE Tuesday, March 3, 2015 Germany, the Linchpin to prevent a new war in Europe
Germany & France oppose the US sending lethal weapons to the Ukraine gov't. Germany's Merkel & France's Hollande met in Moscow w/ Pres. Putin desperately seeking an end to the Ukraine crisis. A new ceasefire was brokered in Minsk but may not hold. New weapons to Kiev could be the red line Putin will not accept. Germany must follow its own nat'l interests, defy US as they are the linchpin to prevent a new war in Europe.
(2 comments) SHARE Tuesday, December 1, 2015 We need to take our country back
We need to take our country back. It's been systematically hijacked, usurped by the massive financial, military/industrial & energy behemoths that completely controls the political process, writes the laws, regulations, oversight & enforcement to the benefit of those interests. They underwrite the campaigns of politicos in a system of legalized bribery. Only w/ meaningful campaign finance reform can this corruption be ended.
(2 comments) SHARE Tuesday, September 13, 2011 A Corporate "Culture of Fraud"
Yesterday Maxim Healthcare Services guilty of fraud in submitting $61M in false claims for services to the fed'l govt's Medicaid program from 1998 to 2009 settled for $150 M. Maxim had rec'd $2 billion in reimbursements during that time. Investigators found mgrs. and workers repeatedly modified time sheets and documents to cover up the fraud that became common practice creating a "culture of fraud". That is what's troubling.
(8 comments) SHARE Friday, July 8, 2016 Who would be more dangerous, Hillary or the "Donald"?
If these times were "normal", which obviously they are not, Donald Trump would be seen as a self important, egotistical buffoon, ridiculed as such & long gone from the scene. Hillary Clinton would easily be seen as war monger who could never be trusted with her finger on the nuclear button. Yet these are the major presumptive nominees for POTUS. In the final analysis who would be more dangerous, Hillary or the "Donald"?
(6 comments) SHARE Tuesday, April 7, 2015 So how should we "really" refer to these United States of America?
So how should we refer to these United States of America? A banana republic? An oligarchic plutocracy? Both fit quite admirably w/ what we've become. Truth & honesty is what we're indoctrinated w/ yet we're a country imbued w/ dishonesty & lying. From the pronouncements of "official" Washington to our so called "independent" MSM & how it's all dispensed to the people, it's all the same BS.
(2 comments) SHARE Tuesday, May 1, 2018 The use of "bunker buster" bombs is an escalation in the Syrian conflict
Last night "bunker buster" bombs hit a Syrian Army base north of the city of Homs killing some 20 Syrian Arab Army soldiers & Iranian troops among them. No country claimed responsibility for the attack but Israel & the US have those weapons. Make no mistake, if confirmed, the use of bunker busters by the Israeli's coordinating w/the US is an escalation in the Syrian conflict. It could lead to a hot war w/ Russia.
(3 comments) SHARE Tuesday, October 5, 2010 We Need to Break Up the Mega Corporations
What are the big corporations good for? Other than lining their pockets and keeping investors happy it is hard to see their societal benefit. We are in a new "gilded age" w/ monopoly's preventing competition or taking over competitors. The original idea of a corp. in the U.S. was to benefit the public and cause no public harm. The corp. titans are not benefitting the public and are causing public harm.They need to be broken up
(10 comments) SHARE Saturday, August 3, 2013 Cacophony from U.S. Politicos over Russia Granting Asylum to Snowden Nothing but Bluster
The cacophony from the White House & two Senators the past few days over Russia granting asylum to Snowden is all bluster. Press Sec'y Carney intoned the summit between Obama & Putin could be cancelled. From Sen. Shumer, "Each day Snowden is allowed to roam free is another twist of the knife. Sen.McCain said it was a slap in the face to all Americans. Nice try boys but Putin's holding all the cards & he isn't intimidated.
(1 comments) SHARE Monday, March 3, 2014 Ultimately, The Breakup and Partition Of Ukraine May Be the Only Viable Solution to Ending the Crisis
The mornings headline read, “Obama under pressure to rein in Russia. On Friday he said there would be costs if Russia entered Ukraine militarily. On Saturday Russian troops took complete control of the Crimea peninsula. Ultimately there is nothing the U.S. can effectively do short of doing the unthinkable & initiating a war against another nuclear power. A breakup & partition of Ukraine may be the only viable solution.
(3 comments) SHARE Tuesday, March 24, 2015 American MSM Journalism's Descent into Orwellian Dystopia
Sadly, American MSM journalism has descended into Orwellian dystopia, yet remains the primary source of "news" and "information" seen and read by the American people. So it can't be dismissed and ignored as irrelevant. It must continually be exposed as the fraud that it is.
(2 comments) SHARE Friday, October 10, 2014 The New War in Iraq and Syria, American "Boots on the Ground" soon?
When it comes to conflicts in much of the world, official Washington tends to destabilize those conflicts; the latest being the American air war in Iraq & now Syria against the Islamic State. "Dear Leader" Obama assured us it won't include American "boots on the ground". But if history of US military engagement since the end of WWII is any guide, we'll see American escalation & American boots on the ground in Syria & Iraq.
(2 comments) SHARE Tuesday, September 10, 2013 World's Oldest Constitutional Democracy Saved from Committing Self Inflected Wound on Itself by Ex KGB Head Putin
Last week @ the G20 economic conference in St Petersburg, Russia, Pres. Vladimir Putin in a private discussion w/ Pres. Obama suggested a plan to diffuse the crisis in Syria. He'd have Syrian Pres. Assad turn over his chemical weapons stock to the U.N. Yesterday Obama bought into Putin's idea thus saving Obama & the U.S. from committing a self inflected wound on itself by forestalling an attack on Syria.
(30 comments) SHARE Saturday, December 17, 2011 So What Exactly Are We Supposed To Do?
Next November Americans face a dilemma. Focusing on the presidency will there be a real choice to make? Do we consider any of the woebegone Republicans or consider reelecting Barack Obama who has betrayed those who elected him in 2008? Or do we choose some 3rd party candidate? Or lastly will an overwhelming majority of the people just sit on the sidelines? So what exactly are we supposed to do?
(3 comments) SHARE Wednesday, August 2, 2017 Germany and EU blast latest sanctions against Russia, vow "countermeasures"
This morning Pres. Trump signed into law new sanctions approved by Congress against Russia. German & EU officials blasted the sanctions as against international law, interfering in strictly European business affairs & called for "countermeasures." W/ sanctions just signed into law today we'll have to wait to see what actually happens in the coming days & weeks.
(3 comments) SHARE Monday, May 20, 2019 Israel is an apartheid state, nothing to do with anti-Semitism, denying the Holocaust or being anti-Jewish
Gaza Palestinian's have been protesting each Friday @ its border fence w/ Israel since March 2018. Israeli snipers have killed hundreds & wounded thousands of unarmed protesters often indiscriminately. In the West Bank the mostly Orthodox Jewish settlers see Palestinian's as squatters confiscating their land w/impunity. The Jewish settlements then protected by the IDF. Such practices reveal Israel is an apartheid state.
(11 comments) SHARE Wednesday, July 28, 2010 Yesterday Was a Sad Day For This Country
Yesterday was a sad day for this country. The House had the opportunity to stop the war in Afghanistan in its tracks. Instead it voted to continue to fund the war approving the $58.8 billion war funding bill. So this unnecessary war escalated by Obama will drone on literally and figuratively. And make no mistake; this is Obama's war, just like Viet Nam was Lyndon Johnson's war. It is Viet Nam Redux.
(3 comments) SHARE Friday, February 9, 2018 Most Americans don't know war
A week ago the Pentagon released its Nuclear Posture Review primarily against Russia. Eerily there doesn't seem to be any alarm from the American public on the imminent peril this "Review" puts them in. Maybe people in America have become nonchalant, unconcerned @ the prospect of nuclear war. Why? Most Americans don't know war first-hand. They have no direct connection to war. So it doesn't elicit cause for alarm.
(1 comments) SHARE Tuesday, November 20, 2018 End the provocations against Russia and China which could lead to war, a war the US cannot win
The US has a multitude of problems & issues from the demise of domestic manufacturing & loss of working class, middle class income jobs to climate change & endless war. The one issue that takes precedence since it could preclude all life on Earth is a US war w/ nuclear superpowers Russia & China. The US cannot win such a war w/ Russia & China. Only the people can prevent such a war demanding US leaders come to their senses.
(3 comments) SHARE Tuesday, May 30, 2017 Americans escape from reality
It's a reoccurring nightmarish observation seeing "official" Washington's mindset operating under the illusion of its own exceptionalism acting against its "enemy" adversaries Russia, China, Iran & N. Korea. Country's rejecting US hegemony are portrayed as enemies & its leaders demonized & a new cold war started to justify the $trillion a year in defense spending. Yet most Americans escape from this dangerous state of affairs.
(4 comments) SHARE Wednesday, October 8, 2014 A New Russian ICBM Development?
According to Paul Craig Roberts' article, "Washington Is Destroying The World", OPEDNEWS, Oct.7, 2014, "Russia has developed supersonic ICBMs that can rapidly change trajectory & can not be shot down by any defense system." Will this development revive MAD, mutually assured destruction, the nuclear standoff in the cold war avoiding a nuclear conflagration or will Washington continue to pursue a 1st strike nuclear capability?
(2 comments) SHARE Tuesday, November 21, 2017 Trump and North Korea, as precarious as it gets
Is the Trump administration planning a military first strike on N. Korea? Apparently some in the administration are in favor while others are opposed. It would be an insane exercise. N. Korea would retaliate. Even w/ conventional weapons hundreds of thousands would die in N. Korea, Seoul but Japan as well. It's impossible to know what the unpredictable Trump will do. This is how precarious things have gotten in the world.
(1 comments) SHARE Friday, November 8, 2013 FAA Sets Plan for Allowing Domestic Drones by 2015
The FAA just published a 74 page plan whereby law enforcement agencies, businesses, universities & hobbyists can begin flying drones in the U.S. by 2015. Has the public been considered, polled & a dialogue initiated between the gov't & the people before drones become operational in the U.S.? No. Do we still believe we're not living in a surveillance state? Think again.
(7 comments) SHARE Tuesday, December 17, 2019 Americans, indifferent, detached from what their government is doing in the world
What characterizes many (most?) Americans is their indifference, detachment from what their gov't is doing in the world. Our wars & the atrocities we commit are hidden from public view. All done against "enemies" we must remain vigilant against to protect & defend ourselves. To challenge any of this "messaging" is denounced as fake news, conspiracy theory or Russian interference.
(4 comments) SHARE Friday, December 30, 2016 Absolute madness has gripped "official" Washington
The nonstop demonizing of Russian Pres. Putin & nuclear armed Russia is absolute insanity. Madness has gripped official Washington w/ their arrogant exceptionalism believing Russia will eventually accept US hegemony or crumble under neo-con regime change. Trump is coming to power in 3 weeks. He says he wants to work w/ Putin but neo cons want no detente reset w/ Russia. The question is can Trump prevail over them?
(3 comments) SHARE Wednesday, June 13, 2012 Supreme Court to Discuss "Citizens United" Tomorrow in Light of Montana Supreme Court Challenge
The Supreme Court will meet behind closed doors on Thursday because the Montana Supreme Court earlier this year refused to strike down a 100 year old state ruling banning corporate money in state elections. The Montana ruling was appealed in light of SCOTUS ruling in "Citizens United" v/s FEC" in 2010. SCOTUS could write a summary opinion justifying Citizens was correct or meet in the fall & reconsider their 2010 ruling.
(4 comments) SHARE Monday, September 10, 2012 The Presidential Debates, Why 3rd Party Candidates Can't Get In
The 2 major party conventions are now history. Next up are the 3 presidential debates. They draw some 60 million viewers. They are run by the Commission on Pres. Debates & solely controlled by the Democratic & Republican parties. A 3rd party to debates must get at least 15% support across major polls which prevents their participation & guaranteeing a duopoly of a 2 party system precluding a serious 3rd party challenge.
(20 comments) SHARE Tuesday, August 11, 2015 Is there any doubt we are complicit in the wrongful path our country has taken?
Is there any doubt we are complicit in the wrongful path our country has taken? Are we not indifferent to our wars, occupations, torture, indefinite detention, a $trillion in defense spending, a financial industry run amok whose machinations created the 2008 great recession, an electoral system completely taken over by billionaires that has Repubs & Dems beholden to them. So are we complicit? Right up to our eyeballs.
(10 comments) SHARE Monday, October 30, 2017 Too much evidence points against the government's claim
The recently released secret government papers on the assassination of President Kennedy just reiterates the government's theory of Lee Harvey Oswald as the lone gunman. Too much evidence points against the government's claim, particularly the evidence of multiple shots fired heard by multiple witnesses plus the bullet hole in the windshield of the president's vehicle...
(14 comments) SHARE Tuesday, July 9, 2019 Why Americans remain in denial over what their country is doing in the world
Why do many/most Americans seemingly remain in denial or oblivious to what their country has done or is doing in the world? Possibly to avoid cognitive dissonance, a psychological term indicating a "mental discomfort experienced by a person...triggered by a situation in which a person's belief clashes w/ new evidence perceived by the person". So they avoid the new evidence that could turn their world upside down.
(6 comments) SHARE Tuesday, April 13, 2010 We are in a Massive Unemployment Crisis in this Country
There is a desperate need for 1930's type stimulus programs; WPA, CCC, worker cooperatives, employee owned and operated factories et al. Our unemployment level is really closer to 20%. Initially, short term deficit spending will be needed for large scale job creation. Long term, cutting the defense budget is crucial to providing the resources for full employment.
SHARE Thursday, December 15, 2011 Obama Extols Virtues of Arab Spring while Pentagon Trains Security Forces to Crush It
As President Obama has extolled the virtues of the people's uprisings in the Arab Spring he has also continued to authorize the Pentagon to train the security forces w/in these autocracies to crush the protest demonstrations. This reeks of sheer hypocrisy particularly coming from the lips of Mr. "change you can believe in".
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(3 comments) SHARE Sunday, December 15, 2013 Another Provocation by the U.S. in the South China Sea?
There was another incident off the China coast where an American cruiser had to avoid a Chinese ship that came w/in 200 yds forcing the cruiser to take evasive action.The Chinese ship was accompanying China's only aircraft carrier in the S. China Sea.American officials called the Chinese action particularly aggressive.China responded peering into Chinese waters is a practice treating China as an enemy.Which country is correct?
(17 comments) SHARE Thursday, July 2, 2020 A system devious in its deception, ingenious in a nefarious way
In the US the people have the right to vote but the electoral system has become so corrupt the peoples vote is irrelevant. Big money interests select who runs for office, underwrite their campaigns & once elected enact legislation, regulations, oversight & enforcement to benefit those interests. The American people need to demand an electoral system un-corrupted by moneyed interests so the peoples agenda could be implemented.
(14 comments) SHARE Saturday, September 10, 2016 The "Tyranny of 9/11" and the challenge to "The "official" Story"
Tom'w marks the 15th anniversary of 9/11. Many terrible consequences have been brought about since that fateful day. John W. Whitehead's, "The Tyranny of 9/11, The Building Blocks of the American Police State A-Z" & Paul Craig Roberts, "The Tide is Turning, The Official Story is Now Conspiracy Theory" do much to challenge the "official" story of that day but also what has happened to our so called "democracy" ever since.
(2 comments) SHARE Saturday, November 28, 2015 "Things" heating up over Turkey's downing Russian jet fighter in Syria
"Things" are heating up over Turkey's downing a Russian jet fighter last Tuesday in Syria. One "thing" seems clear, the attack was a pre-planned attack carried out by Turkey. Another "thing" it's hard to imagine Turkey acted w/out US foreknowledge. One other "thing" seems certain; Russia will take direct action against Turkey. Pres. Putin won't announce his action beforehand but Turkey's provocation won't go unpunished.
(3 comments) SHARE Tuesday, May 26, 2015 Memorial Day, celebrating America's orgy of war
America's celebratory orgy of war otherwise known as Memorial day has come & gone. Of course they're only "good" wars fought by the indispensable country. Funny though it's not looked @ in the same way by others who see us mostly as aggressors. Keeping the world unstable is the modus operandi of the US all done to perpetuate & preserve the $trillion in defense spending each yr that goes to the benefit of the rich & powerful.
(21 comments) SHARE Friday, November 16, 2012 "Let's be very clear where the onus lies".
"Let's be very clear where the onus lies." That's from the State Dep'ts Mark Toner accusing Hamas of instigating Israels air assault on Gaza that is ongoing. As usual in all matters relating to the Palestinians & Israel, the U.S. always places the onus on the Palestinians who provoke Israel. But it is Israel that continues its oppression over the besieged & occupied Palestinians w/ U.S. support. That's where the true onus lies
(5 comments) SHARE Thursday, December 4, 2014 Absolute Insanity
It's absolute insanity for the US to provoke war with Russia. Yet this morning the US House passed a resolution, H.Res 758 which former congressman Dennis Kucinich describes as a "Green Light" to war w/ Russia. The rational mind wouldn't contemplate a potential nuclear war w/ Russia. But apparently to the irrational mind threatening & provoking a nuclear armed Russia is on the table; never mind that it's absolute insanity.
(3 comments) SHARE Thursday, January 25, 2018 China's BRI, Belt and Road Initiative, US not included. Why?
Many people in the US have become aware of China's BRI, Belt & Road Initiative--An ambitious plan of high-speed rail networks from China westward all the way to Portugal. It also includes maritime routes thru Malaysia & Indonesia. It's a massive infrastructure investment by China & most pointedly does not include the US. That's because the US is a war economy. It has no interest in massive domestic infrastructure development.
(3 comments) SHARE Monday, May 16, 2016 It's hard to reconcile being an American and what America is perpetrating on the rest of the world
It's hard to reconcile being an American & what America is perpetrating on the world. Only fools accept the propaganda notion of our doing "good in the world" as if all the coups, assassinations, wars, occupations, renditions, detentions, torture & killing of innocents is "done to keep us safe." The endless war on terror was concocted as the new enemy replacing Communism all to justify outrageous unnecessary defense spending.
(4 comments) SHARE Thursday, August 6, 2015 Is Rebellion Possible in this Country?
Is rebellion possible in this country? Certainly there have been protests by African Americans against police who often get exonerated after committing murders, growing resistance to fracking operations, the Keystone XL pipeline, labeling of GMO foods, environmental protests et al. Then there was the great recession of 2008 created by the malevolence of the financial industry. Rebellion was justified; it didn't happen.
(3 comments) SHARE Thursday, March 17, 2011 The Rebellion We Need in America
One can identify w/ the people in Tunisia and Egypt who have thrown off their shackles and successfully rebelled against and removed their dictators. Rebellion has a way of renewing the spirit. We in America are in need of our own rebellion and renewal of our spirit. The rebellion begun in Wisconsin needs to broaden nationally for us to regain our dignity against the powerful forces that dictate in America.
(1 comments) SHARE Friday, October 31, 2014 According to Northrop Grumman, "When the world calls for commitment it stands with our warfighters to defend America"
A recent ad poster had the word "Commitment" & next to it the name "Northrop Grumman,when the world calls for commitment, Northrop Grumman stands w/ our warfighters to defend America". What "world calls for US commitment"? Surely not Iraq & Syria. It's only official Washington that goes to war unnecessarily against "enemies" it conjures up but since there's no real imminent threats to America no need to use our "warfighters".
(5 comments) SHARE Wednesday, February 22, 2017 "The Deep State is the big story of our time"
Since the firing of Michael Flynn as Trump's Nat'l Security Advisor the Deep State's been in the news. Mike Lofgren 3 yrs ago on Bill Moyers & Co author of Anatomy of the Deep State said, There is another gov't concealed behind the one visible @ either end of PA. Ave, a hybrid entity, the American Deep State, relentlessly entrenched that allows them to escape the consequences of their ineptitude. Prescient words 3 yrs later.
(2 comments) SHARE Tuesday, August 27, 2019 Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu knows he can act with impunity
In 3 weeks Israel holds new elections. Last April's elections produced no majority. No new gov't could be formed but Benjamin Netanyahu remained the PM till next month's election. He's become more belligerent since April, annexing the Golan Hgt's, sent missiles into Syria, drone strikes into Lebanon & air strikes into Iraq. It's an old tactic riling up the public's natl'ism. Let's hope teh tactic fails & a new PM gets elected.
SHARE Monday, September 21, 2015 Twisting the Facts
Friday's headline in the NY Times read, "US Begins Military talks w/ Russia on Syria". Reporter Michael Gordon put it, "the Obama administration reached out to Moscow" giving the distinct impression the White House initiated the idea when in fact it was Russian Foreign Minister Lavrov who made the proposal to US Sec'y of State John Kerry over the phone on Tuesday. It's a twisting of the facts making it appear it was a US idea.
(1 comments) SHARE Monday, September 23, 2019 There has never been a time clear headed diplomacy is necssary yet so lacking in "official" Washington
Yemen's Houthi's recently sent drone missiles targeting Saudi Arabia's oil pipelines & refineries. W/out evidence the US blames Iran & threatens military action against them. Iran rejects the accusations but warns any military violation of Iranian airspace will result in a retaliatory strike. Clear headed diplomacy is necessary. Yet there has never been a time such a lack of this capacity is @ hand in Official Washington.
(5 comments) SHARE Tuesday, August 26, 2014 The Seeming "Disconnect" of the American People
There seems to be an astounding "disconnect" with the American people. Oh they're connected alright w/ their cell phones, IPODS & whatever new electronic gadgetry that emerges from the tech industry. But the question is connected to what beyond friends, family, music, games? They seem to be disengaged from what's happening around them; much less what's happening in America & the world.
(18 comments) SHARE Friday, January 18, 2013 Dennis Kucinich Joining Fox News as a "Contributor", Some Thoughts
As we now know former Congressman Dennis Kucinich has joined FOX NEWS as a regular "contributor". This is an outfit that spews propaganda lies and disinformation with total disregard for the truth. What was Kucinich thinking in throwing his hat in with this lot?
(4 comments) SHARE Friday, January 13, 2017 Trump's latest "art of the deal", capitulation to the deep state
It was probably inevitable. The idea Trump had the moral courage to w/stand the onslaught of the deep state was expecting too much. As Finian Cunningham relates Trump conceded Russia probably hacked the election & "That seeming turnaround by Trump signals the 'Donald' is being tamed to toe the 'official' Washington line." Does it matter who is Pres of the US, Repub or Dem ? Both are under the hegemony of the deep state.
(4 comments) SHARE Monday, November 13, 2017 Crazies "running the asylum" in Saudi Arabia, Israel and the US
Ominous developments have occurred in Saudi Arabia. Mohammad bin Salman, heir to the Saudi throne, purged his rivals in the Saudi hierarchy, consolidating his power. This occurred after Houthi rebels in Yemen fired a missile north of Riyadh blaming Iran for supplying the weapon, calling it an act of war. Lebanese PM Saad Hariri visiting Riyadh resigns, announcing it on Saudi radio blaming Hezbollah causing a rise in tensions.
(2 comments) SHARE Wednesday, April 19, 2017 US military confrontation with North Korea averted for the present, carrier task force now headed for the Indian Ocean
According to "Defense News" a carrier the Trump administration announced as heading for the Korean peninsula in response to N.Korea's ballistic missile tests is heading for the Indian Ocean 3500 miles away from N.Korea. Considering all the bombast we heard lately about a show of force to confront Korean leader Kim Song un maybe sanity occurred in the Trump crowd & a potential military confrontation is averted for the present.
(2 comments) SHARE Monday, March 30, 2015 Failure to Honor "Negotiated" Agreements, an "Official" Washington Specialty
Negotiations w/ Iran over its nuclear program are supposed to be concluded tom'w. It's unlikely to happen. Even if an agreement is reached w/ Obama it probably won't be worth the paper it's written on. Any diplomatic pact w/Iran has to be app'd by a 2/3 vote in the Senate. W/ 47 of these yahoos writing a letter to Iranian leader Ayatollah Kamenei saying they'd reject any deal w/Iran any agreement is likely dead in the water.
SHARE Thursday, March 24, 2011 Huge Job Discrimination Lawsuit Against Wal-Mart to be Heard Tuesday by Supreme Court
On Tuesday the Supreme Court is to hear a class action job discrimination lawsuit against Wal-Mart representing 2 million women. The merits of the case seem obvious, but is no slam dunk. Wal-Mart deserves a comeuppance for its practices but the Court's right ward drift is not encouraging for the plaintiffs. Maybe we'll be surprised, but don't bet the farm considering the current makeup of this Court.
(4 comments) SHARE Tuesday, September 14, 2010 It Is Time for a Moratorium on Foreclosures
Of all the measures recommended to ameliorate the ravages of this recession one that is most urgent and doable is for this president and Congress is to implement an immediate moratorium on foreclosures by banks. The continuing spectacle of millions losing their homes for no fault of their own is itself UN American. A foreclosure moratorium is the right thing to do.
(10 comments) SHARE Tuesday, January 22, 2013 Will Harry Reid and the Senate Democrats Reform the Filibuster Today?
Obstructionism & arcane procedural rules have long characterized the U.S. Senate. In particular it's the filibuster rules where it takes 60 votes to end a filibuster or worse just the threat of waging one is all it takes for any member to obstruct & halt proceedings. Today Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid & the Democrats can do the right thing & vote to reform this subversion of democracy.
(1 comments) SHARE Wednesday, September 12, 2018 A catastrophe may be about to happen in Syria that could bring a wider war
A catastrophe in Syria could happen. Russia's been warning about terrorists in Idlib initiating a chemical attack then blame it on the gov't of Pres. Bashar Assad. The US, Britain, France, say they'll launch a missile strike against Syrian gov't installations if chemical weapons are used. If Iranian & Russian military are killed & Russia has satellite images of US ships launching those strikes it could retaliate. Then what?
(4 comments) SHARE Friday, August 11, 2017 Trump "locked and loaded" to what end?
There's been 3 days of nonstop hyperventilating by Trump, his administration & the MSM over the "Donald's" war of words w/ N. Korea. This morning Trump tweeted we're "locked & loaded". On Tuesday it was "fire & fury" should N. Korea act unwisely. N. Korea leader Kim Jong-Un responded he'd place an "enveloping fire around Guam & Trump let out a "lode of nonsense" about fire & fury. So it goes. What's the end game?
(8 comments) SHARE Tuesday, August 6, 2019 Any connection between "official" Washington's hatred's and violence with the hatred of those committing mass shootings?
With the mass shootings in El Paso & Dayton it might be appropriate to consider a source behind them; namely hatred. Hatred of immigrants, minorities, blacks, browns, Muslims, a boss on the job, a teacher. What about official Washington's hatred of its enemies & the violence it commits against them? Could there be a connection between Washington's hatred's & violence & the hatred's of those committing these mass shootings?
(2 comments) SHARE Tuesday, July 12, 2016 Today Bernie betrayed his supporters trust
Today Bernie Sanders formally endorsed Hillary Clinton for president saying he'll "do everything I can to make certain that she will be the next president of the US". In April he called Clinton "unqualified" to be president. What changed that now makes her qualified? Is this not a betrayal of Bernie's supporters? I guess it was all campaign rhetoric. This is a sellout of the 1st order. Bernie betrayed his supporters trust.
(2 comments) SHARE Wednesday, October 23, 2019 Putin and Erdogan sign agreement ending Turkish invasion of Syria against the Kurds
Yesterday's agreement signed by Russian Pres. Putin & Turkey Pres. Erdogan should be considered a game changer, a major turning point in the Syrian war. Erdogan agreed to end Turkey's invasion into NE Syria against the Kurdish militia's he sees as terrorists. Those militia's will move from the border area deeper into Syria. The agreement solidified Russia as a key player diplomatically as well as militarily in Syria.
(5 comments) SHARE Tuesday, June 6, 2017 An earth shaking election with worldwide implications
On Thursday Britain's vote for a new prime minister. The current PM is Conservative Party head Teresa May whose party may win but not get the 326 seat majority threshold for her to continue as PM. In such case a new coalition gov't would have to be formed w/other minority parties. Labour's Jeremy Corbyn if he comes in a close 2nd could step in the breach, unite w/ other minority party members & make a run for the PM himself.
(3 comments) SHARE Sunday, April 25, 2010 China's Naval Buildup, a Threat?
The American military has "concerns" over China's naval buildup. China has become the worlds leading exporter. Its interests have expanded w/ its economic clout. It is only natural that it seeks a naval fleet that protects those interests. The world's oceans are no longer a "private pond" exclusively for American naval power. Yet one gets no sense that China is presenting a belligerent threat to the U.S. or its navy.
(10 comments) SHARE Friday, July 6, 2018 Are the American people incurious?
Are the American people generally incurious over what its gov't does in its name in foreign affairs? Whether its initiating unnecessary wars to killing innocents in drone attacks or initiating coups in foreign countries it appears the American people do remain generally incurious to this reality? And if Americans are incurious of what it's gov't is doing in its name...that is deadly.
SHARE Friday, February 27, 2015 Israeli Prime Minister Netanyahu One of the Most Dangerous Men in the World Today
Israeli PM Benjamin Netanyahu has to be considered one of the most dangerous men in the world today. In defiance of Pres. Obama, he'll speak before a joint session of Congress next week as well as the AIPAC convention where he intends to drum up support for an Israeli attack on Iran's nuclear facilities. And he knows he can attack w/ impunity because he'll still have the support of Congress which makes him so dangerous.
(5 comments) SHARE Monday, June 17, 2019 The F-35, Design flaws mean plane might suddenly tumble out of control and crash
It shouldn't come as a surprise Lockheed Martin's F-35 stealth fighter continues to have problems. The latest revelation. If a new F-35 "has to climb @a steep angle to dodge an enemy attack, design flaws mean the plane might suddenly tumble out of control & crash". Yet "Pentagon officials plan to declare an end to the testing phase of the F-35's development sometime in late 2019 & clear the fighter for mass production."
SHARE Tuesday, November 19, 2019 Pompeo, Israeli settlements no longer "inconsistent" with international law
Yesterday Sec'y of State Mike Pompeo declared US policy toward settlements in the Israeli occupied West Bank are no longer "inconsistent" w/ international law. The West Bank is Israeli occupied territory. It is unambiguous. Under international law it is illegal for an occupying power to build anything in occupied territory. Therefore under international law it is illegal for Israel to build settlements in the West Bank.
(3 comments) SHARE Monday, April 9, 2018 The worst may be yet to come
Over the weekend there's been horrific pictures & videos circulating the MSM forwarded by the white helmets the supposed humanitarian aid workers in Syria depicting a chemical attack on civilians in E. Ghouda suburb of Damascus blaming the Syrian gov't of Pres. Bashar Assad. Only the white helmets are not humanitarian aid workers but embedded only in areas the terrorists control who stage manage atrocities & then blame Assad.
(6 comments) SHARE Wednesday, May 7, 2014 To All People in Ukraine, The US Regime Cares Not a Wit About You
The new cold war the US gov't has declared on Russia & Vladimir Putin is unnecessary mischievousness cooked up by Washington claiming Putin is attempting to reconstitute the old Soviet Union. It's a pretext built on neo-con fantasy which is in control in Washington. As for the people in Ukraine they need to realize the imperialist US gov't cares not a wit about them. They're just pawns in the US scheme w/Putin in its sights.
(4 comments) SHARE Wednesday, May 13, 2015 When people come to a point where they have nothing to lose, they will lash out at their oppressor
It becomes apparent when people come to a point where they have nothing to lose they will lash out, become violent & destructive toward their oppressor or anything they associate w/ that oppressor. This occurred in the unrest in Baltimore. The slogan by protesters in the streets, "No justice, no peace" needs to be heeded by all authorities lest there be a summer of violence. This is a national crisis, not just a local one.
(7 comments) SHARE Tuesday, March 17, 2015 Netanyahu, No Establishment of a Palestinian State
Israeli PM Benjamin Netanyahu is desperate to retain power. Appealing to the extreme Israeli right before today's elections he uttered publically what no PM in Israel's history ever said publically namely there will be no establishment of a Palestinian state. The truth is out in the open, Israel has never entertained such an idea. And it doesn't matter who "wins" these elections, the Palestinian's will continue to lose.
(6 comments) SHARE Friday, October 4, 2013 The Ultimate Game Plan of the National Security State, Endless War
Endless war is the ultimate end game plan of the U.S. Nat'l Security state. Better to have war, drone strikes, JSOC raids, proxy wars by mercenaries & private Pentagon contractors & the endless war on terror rather than to pursue peace which is the last thing it wants. Peace means no justification for the unnecessary trillion in defense spending. It's also better to keep the people in fear wanting security @ any cost.
(13 comments) SHARE Friday, November 1, 2019 What if Dems impeachment vendetta against Trump backfires and gets him re-elected. Who will they blame for that?
The Dems have thrown down the gauntlet, using Trump's phone call to Ukraine Pres. Zelenskyy in July as the basis for his impeachment. Trump is horrible, a self important narcissist who conducts policy by tweets which often contradict what he tweeted previously. The Dems have been apoplectic since Trump was elected. But what if their impeachment vendetta backfires & Trump gets re-elected. Then who will they blame for that?
(10 comments) SHARE Saturday, June 18, 2011 The Syrian Peoples Rebellion, They Are On Their Own
You have to feel for the Syrian people up against the relentless brutality of Bashar Assad. They continue to resist and refuse to back down against Assad's crack down that has killed hundreds, perhaps thousands. It is impossible to predict the political outcome in Syria, but at this point the reluctant conclusion from here is the people are on their own. That's the unfortunate reality.
(3 comments) SHARE Friday, October 21, 2011 The Essence Of The Occupy Movement, "redress Of Grievances"
Regarding the occupy movement, things are beginning to coalesce. The 1st amendment of the Constitution states the "right of the people to peaceably assemble and petition the government for a redress of grievances". So the rebellion in the streets is just that. Next to come is the "petition for a redress of grievances". That's where it all seems headed.
(6 comments) SHARE Friday, October 26, 2012 No End to U.S. Military's Global Misadventures
Despite all the military's failures (Viet Nam), stalemates (Korea), debacles (Iraq) & wheel spinning in Afghanistan it's now hailed as the finest fighting force in the history of the world. That is @ odds w/ reality. Now w/ special ops deployed &/or training foreign proxy fighters seemingly everywhere there seems no end to the U.S. military's global misadventures.
(7 comments) SHARE Monday, August 27, 2018 The visceral hatred of Trump, it's become surreal
We know Trump. He's a self important narcissist & reactionary tweeting blowhard. His policies, sanctions, trade wars are counter-productive & hurt the American people. Much of it knee jerk reactions rather well thought out decisions. But the visceral hatred of Trump is total among liberals & Dems. Even when he's the statesman meeting N.Korea's Kim Jong-Un or meeting w/Russia's Pres. Putin he's denigrated. It's become surreal.
(10 comments) SHARE Sunday, July 30, 2017 Fissures in the western alliance
New US sanctions to be imposed on Russia voted on by the House, next by the Senate & most assuredly signed into law by Pres. Trump are being balked @ by Germany & France. They recognize such sanctions impact them directly in their trade & energy sectors w/ Russia. In June German Chancellor Merkel put it this way, "We Europeans must take our destiny in our own hands". Clearly there's fissures in the western alliance.
(2 comments) SHARE Tuesday, February 25, 2020 A US war with China or Russia, insanity on steroids
A hot war with China or Russia? Is that in our future? It may be if US Sec'y of Defense mark Esper is to be believed. At the recent Munich Security Conference Esper citing Dep't of Defense Nat'l Defense Strategy said, "We are now in an era of Great Power Competition with our principal challengers being China, then Russia, and that we must move away from low intensity conflict and prepare once again for high intensity warfare".
(1 comments) SHARE Wednesday, June 16, 2010 The Mineral Find in Afghanistan, Justification to Remain Indefinitely!?
According to American officials, Afghanistan has been found to have "nearly $1 trillion in untapped mineral deposits including iron, copper, cobalt, gold and lithium. To this observer there are alarm bells ringing that this mother lode "find" justifies our continued presence to remaining indefinitely, just there to help the Afghan people. If I were an Afghan I would beware of this "friend" selling potential riches for me.
(9 comments) SHARE Saturday, July 15, 2017 "Innocence is complicity"
"Innocence is complicity" a quote from a old Chris Hedges column writing about Americans. We're a nation of many who see themselves as innocent, never mind complicit. That would require reflection. After the Snowden revelations came out revealing the NSA's electronic surveillance of Americans it didn't matter if it was illegal & un-Constitutional. To many Americans it was, "I haven't done anything wrong so why should I worry."
SHARE Tuesday, March 10, 2015 A not so Veiled Threat to Iran
Ah the chutzpah of the Repubs believing they have a mandate after last yrs. elections giving them control of both houses of Congress. The latest ploy is 47 Senate Repubs writing an open letter the Iranian's saying any deal Obama makes w/o legislative approval could be revoked by the next prez w/ "the stroke of a pen". But it's a not so veiled threat to Iran for committing the unforgivable sin of not succumbing to US hegemony.
(5 comments) SHARE Wednesday, June 29, 2016 Perpetuating endless war is America's growth industry
Perpetuating endless war is America's growth industry. Produce endless war against endless enemies. Not to win. That would be the last thing we want. That would mean peace, no more enemies & no more war. Now Russia & China are depicted as enemies but they pose no real threat to America. They'd prefer cooperation & peaceful economic development w/ America & the world but won't buckle under US hegemony. So what's it to be?
(2 comments) SHARE Monday, November 14, 2011 It's Only Just Begun
The occupy movement is less than 2 months old. The ideas, problems and issues that have arisen from it have spread across the country and connected w/ so many who can easily identify w/ the underlying ills that spawned it. The movement is challenging the plutocracy of oligarchs, the gilded age it represents and its reign of impunity. The revolution demanding that be overcome has just begun.
SHARE Monday, April 13, 2015 Iran, All Sanctions Lifted on 1st Day of Nuclear Deal, US, Six Months to Lift Sanctions
As to the recent nuclear talks w/ Iran & the P5&1,Iran's president Hassan Rouhani on Thursday put it succinctly, "We will not sign any agreement, unless all economic sanctions are totally lifted on the first day of the implementation of the deal". In response US Energy Sec'y Ernest Moniz, himself in on the talks, gave a "ballpark" figure of 6 months to lift the sanctions. Not exactly how the Iranian pres. put it. Stay tuned.
(8 comments) SHARE Saturday, October 30, 2010 The True Meaning of the Latest Foiled Terrorist Plot
The latest terrorist plot was foiled by keen intelligence and cooperative efforts between countries, in essence good police work. So let's applaud all the responsible civil authorities for a job well done. Terrorist plots can often be foiled w/ good police work. But our wars in Muslim countries only compound and increase the radical Muslim terrorist plots against us, not lessen them. That's the absurdity that needs to end.
(4 comments) SHARE Wednesday, March 4, 2015 Netanyahu speaking before his adoring fawning minions in Congress
Last night said it all; congress giving a thundering ovation to Benjamin Netanyahu, the PM of the US, ah Israel. It was as if a conquering hero returned & gloated in the presence of his adoring minions. Yet it was a glaring reminder how political theatre is what congress is all about. As for last night w/ Israeli elections 2 wks. away it was a nothing more than a stump speech hoping to play well w/ the Israeli electorate.
(8 comments) SHARE Tuesday, March 10, 2020 The Coronavirus, panic and hysteria already starting to take place in America
As to the coronavirus it appears there's panic and hysteria already taking place in America. It's just the beginning.The sense is it's only going to get worse. So what to do? Stay home, avoid others, don't leave the house, wear a mask (apparently won't help). How about this idea. For now live your life, wait and see and go from there.
(6 comments) SHARE Wednesday, November 17, 2010 We "Good" Americans of Today, Like the "Good" Germans of the 1930's and 40's
Most Germans after W.W.II pleaded ignorance to the atrocities committed by the Nazis. What of us Americans today and our acknowledgement of our gov'ts engaging in atrocities? Do we not give our tacit approval by our silence in the face of this abuse of the rule of law? We should be condemning of our leaders and what this country is doing here and around the world. Our silence, passivity and timidity are morally reprehensible.
(3 comments) SHARE Friday, July 29, 2016 Charlatans all
The political conventions are over w/ each party's charlatan now formally in place. Clinton & Trump will spend the next 3 months in character assassination saying he, she is unfit to be the next president. No one w/ integrity has a chance of being elected much less nominated in our 2 party duopoly, beyond redemption & incapable of reform. Only a 3rd party rejecting corp. control could transform the current corrupt system.
(3 comments) SHARE Sunday, October 24, 2010 The Indelible American Stain in Iraq Revealed by "Wikileaks"
Iraq has been pretty much out of the news in recent months. However the latest Wikileaks disclosure of 300.000 classified documents relating to the extent of so many indiscriminate killings committed by private contractors done w/ impunity and no fear of accountability is quite revealing. These latest revelations have the Pentagon blasting the whistle blower but their every utterance just makes them look more perverse.
(5 comments) SHARE Wednesday, September 13, 2017 Cannon fodder to the "deep state"
To the deep state in America winning conflicts-most of which it initiated-isn't necessary. It doesn't care about winning & losing, the expansion of terrorism, hundreds of thousands of refugees fleeing their war torn countries or even US military killed in futile battles. They are but cannon fodder to the sociopaths that put them in harm's way. Are we too not cannon fodder to that deep state, propagandized to support our wars?
(22 comments) SHARE Wednesday, March 14, 2018 Putin changed the equation, changed the balance of power in the world. Is the US listening?
Something significant occurred on March 1 that hasn't received the attention it deserves in the US. Russian Pres. Putin gave an address to the Russian Fed'l assembly. In it Putin changed the equation, changed the balance of power in the world revealing new weapons systems neutralizing the US attempt of full spectrum dominance of the world. He said they exist & work really well & no plans to attack anybody. Is the US listening?
(2 comments) SHARE Wednesday, December 1, 2021 "JFK Revisited: Through the Looking Glass", a synopsis
Oliver Stone's latest documentary, "JFK Revisited: Through the Looking Glass" is now available on Showtime. Most significant was Stone sequencing the events before & after the assassination of JFK. It reveals the "official" Warren Commission Report version doesn't hold water. Too many eye witness accounts, the Zapruder film contradict the Commissions assertion Lee Harvey Oswald was the lone assassin.
(4 comments) SHARE Wednesday, April 15, 2015 A Nuclear Deal with Iran was probably scuttled yesterday
A final nuclear deal w/ Iran was probably scuttled yesterday as Senate Repubs & some Dems forced Obama to relent giving Congress an unprecedented role voting on an int'l diplomatic accord BEFORE it is reached. Iran demands all sanctions be lifted the day a deal is signed, a position pretty definitive & non negotiable. Washington seems oblivious all too ready to issue its own ultimatums well before the June 30 deadline.
(9 comments) SHARE Wednesday, April 1, 2020 We've had virus epidemics before, none were used to shut down the country as is done now
Even with the coronavirus if we in America are supposed to be living in a free society then why are we being dictated to and made fearful by our federal and state governments as if we live in an authoritarian regime? The fact is we've had other virus epidemics before. They've never been used as a reason to shut down the country as is done now.
(4 comments) SHARE Sunday, April 5, 2020 With the coronavirus so pronounced, there is information overload. Question-what to believe
W/Covid-19 the primary focus now everywhere in the world & particularly the US where the disease has become so pronounced there is a question; what to believe? It's information overload. Those infected, recovered, tested, treatments, remedies, vaccines. What's the truth? Are there exaggerations? Some scientists are questioning the coronavirus panic contradicting the official narrative of the MSM & the need for a lockdown.
(1 comments) SHARE Wednesday, August 12, 2020 Russian Military: Any Missile Launched at Russian Territory Will Be Met With Nuclear Retaliation
The Russian military issued a warning. Any incoming ballistic missile launched at Russian territory will be met with a nuclear retaliation because there is no way of knowing whether the missile is a conventional or nuclear warhead. To put it bluntly, a missile attack on Russian soil will bring a nuclear retaliatory strike on the aggressor as Russian orbiting satellites will detect precisely where a missile attack was launched.
(2 comments) SHARE Friday, October 18, 2019 Dems pushing for Trump's impeachment reeks with hypocrisy
The political saga of Dems pushing for Trump's impeachment reeks w/ hypocrisy. Sure the "Donald" is corrupt but so are those gunning for him. We know the majority of Dems & Repubs are in the pocket of the big corps, special-interest groups, Israeli Lobby that underwrite the politicos electoral campaigns. So let's spare us the Dems' uproar over Trump's phone call to Ukraine Pres. Zelensky.
(1 comments) SHARE Wednesday, August 18, 2010 The Rise of America's "Shadow Army"
Hamid Karsai wants all private security contractors out in four months. They have been implicated in the killing of innocent civilians. Karsai didn't mention the "shadow army" of private contractor mercenaries fighting a proxy war in Afghanistan and responsible for killing many innocents. They are the Pentagons de facto army. Sadly, this is a background story most Americans are unaware of.
SHARE Friday, June 23, 2017 "Interesting bromides" that entered the "American political lexicon"
What may have we become as a people? Have we changed using what writer Jacob Hornberger says are "interesting bromides" as when we say to American soldiers, "Thank you for your service", "defending & protecting our country"? Because it's neither defending & protecting our country. Iraq & Afghanistan didn't invade our country. It should be "Thank you for your killing." The real service we do is killing people. Lots of people.
(6 comments) SHARE Sunday, August 7, 2016 Fascism masquerading as a democracy
Fascism is usually connected historically w/ Italy's Benito Mussolini, Spain's Francisco Franco & Germany's Adolph Hitler. Though unique all were right wing dictatorships, interconnected w/ the country's business interests, exercised absolute control over the media, backed by the military, prolific use of the flag & organized religion was complicit or kept silent. Today one country fits that criteria, the good ole US of A.
(11 comments) SHARE Monday, January 7, 2019 "Official" Washington, madness prevails
Consider the latest shenanigans in "official" Washington. It's not hard to conclude the goings on show madness prevails. How else to describe the Fed'l gov't shutdown. Trump blames the Dems. They blame him. On the int'l front Trump's back & forth on the troop w/drawal in Syria. Then his tariff war w/ China along w/ freedom of navigation provocations in the S. China Sea. Call it the new normal. What could possibly go wrong?
(7 comments) SHARE Saturday, October 4, 2014 America's "Gestapo" like State
Here's a quote by historian Sheila Fitzpatrick describing the Nazi Gestapo, "The mission of the Gestapo expanded steadily from 1933 onward, 'political criminality' was given a much broader definition & most forms of dissent & criticism were gradually criminalized. The result was that more laws & law like measures were put on the books". Substitute 1933 w/ 9/11/01 & she could be describing what's happened in America.
(1 comments) SHARE Tuesday, January 7, 2020 FUBAR writ large in the Pentagon
Yesterday Marine Gen'l Will Seely wrote on DOD letterhead, In deference to Iraq sovereignty the US will be repositioning forces to "ensure the movement out of Iraq". W/in hrs of letter sent to Iraqi Defense ministry Sec'y of Defense Esper said, "There's no decision to leave Iraq. Period." Joint Chief Chairman Mark Milley said, letter Seely sent was only a draft. Releasing it was a "mistake". How's that for snafu writ large.
(4 comments) SHARE Friday, April 25, 2014 Are The Neo-Con Crazies In Charge In Washington?
Are the neocon crazies in charge in Washington? W/Ukraine in the news there's the drumbeat by the US media whipping up hysteria demonizing Russian Pres. Putin for creating the instability in Ukraine. Are the neocons & the corporate media preparing the nation for a war w/Russia using Ukraine as the pretext? A sane person would say "No way go to war w/Russia". But neocons don't represent sanity & they seem to be in charge.
(2 comments) SHARE Tuesday, January 2, 2018 Nader: "As long as the contented classes are not upset the system is in lock, like connecting gears"
Ralph Nader was recently interviewed by Chris Hedges. Here's a few excerpts. Nader "feared that the population was so effectively anesthetized by mass culture that it might not rise up against the elites. The US has developed a society...living in virtual reality...wallowing in text messages". He worries "as long as 10 to 15% of the American people are well off" and the contented classes aren't upset, the system is in lock."
(21 comments) SHARE Wednesday, June 3, 2015 The Mirage of the USA Freedom Act Protecting American's 4th Amendment Constitutional Rights
President Obama just signed into law the USA Freedom Act essentially prohibiting the NSA from bulk collection of phone records whose storage now shifts to the phone companies. But it's just tweaking the NSA's more blatant excesses giving the "appearance" it is being brought under control by our politicos & making it "appear" they're doing something to protect American's 4th amendment constitutional rights. It's all a mirage.
(4 comments) SHARE Tuesday, February 27, 2018 Keeping the world unstable
Former CIA official John Stockwell put it, "It is the function of the CIA to keep the world unstable & to propagandize and teach the American people to hate, so we will let the establishment spend any am't of money on arms." Considering the nuclear posture review & the $1.2 trillion modernization of nuclear weapons to keeping the world unstable against N.Korea, 17 yr. war in Afghanistan, coup in Kiev, Stockwell's right on poin
SHARE Monday, March 14, 2011 The Real "Dracula" within Our Midst
The political craziness heard lately w/ a possible gov't shutdown, the debt, deficit crisis are pure hokum. The crisis exists because of our defense budget and wars. It is all unnecessary w/ no credible threats imminent or otherwise to justify these expenditures. It is a system run amok, devoid of reality, corrupt and rigged. It is our real "Dracula" that needs to be stabbed in the heart.
(10 comments) SHARE Thursday, April 5, 2012 Two Chameleon's in the Offing
Now that the chameleon Mitt Romney has all but secured the Repub. nomination the real presidential electoral season is about to begin. But after seeing what policy's Obama adopted in office as opposed to what he articulated in his 2008 campaign one wonders if there are 2 chameleons running? We desperately need a 3rd party alternative to the two party duopoly because a Dem or a Repub in the White House is essentially the same.
SHARE Tuesday, April 28, 2015 Baltimore violence, "I don't agree with what's happening, but I can understand it"
Baltimore turned violent yesterday after the funeral of Freddie Gray who died in police custody last week. That incident sparked protests thru-out the week then escalated w/ 100's of black HS age students clashing w/ police, rock throwing, police cars set afire, rampaging, looting then setting many fires last nite. It's a blind lashing out for the abuses they suffer @ the hands of police that began last summer in Ferguson, MO.
SHARE Thursday, November 14, 2019 Have we lost sight of what's important?
What to make of some things lately in the MSM, internet & social apps i.e. This thing over sexuality. That designating a men's & women's room discriminate against transsexuals use of the rest room of their preference. Now there shouldn't be discrimination against anyone however they want to depict themselves. But is choice of a potty a critical issue? There are real problems facing this country. Potty use isn't one of them.
SHARE Wednesday, October 26, 2011 The Forces of Repression Attempting to Suppress Occupy Movement
The forces of repression are attempting to suppress the occupy movement. Yesterday police lobbed tear gas at Occupy Oakland protesters. Their repressive tactics will only harden the resolve of the protesters and gain more sympathizers appalled at police attacking innocent people. They are protesting against fundamental wrongs, injustices and basic unfairness which most people identify with. This movement is not going away.
(2 comments) SHARE Tuesday, August 20, 2019 Democrats focus on Trump won't sway his base. It might even broaden it and get him reeleted next year
On Sunday Rep. Illan Omar tweeted, "Could we take back our democracy if 1.7 million Americans marched for it?" The target & marching for it against Trump by connecting w/ Hong Kong protests. What Omar & Dems don't point out the original protests were over a bill allowing the extradition of criminal suspects to mainland China has been suspended. The protests are now to incite violence & get China to shut down the protests.
(5 comments) SHARE Monday, May 2, 2011 Osama bin Laden is Dead, Now What?
So Osama bin laden is dead; now what? Does it mean the war on terror is over? We can pack up and leave Afghanistan, Pakistan, Yemen? End indefinite detention and torture? Now embark on peaceful pursuits, rebuild our economy w/ the peace dividend and stop our endless and wars and occupations? Regrettably, bin Laden's death will change nothing. There are no real threats out there. That's an illusion foisted upon us since 9/11.
SHARE Wednesday, October 2, 2019 Bolton hasn't faded into the sunset, the MSM just embraced him as a new found friend
Somehow one knew Trump's former NS Adviser John Bolton wouldn't just fade into the sunset. He was @ the Center for Strategic & Int'l Studies blasting Trump seeking a middle ground in N. Korea saying Kim Jong-un couldn't be trusted & a war was necessary. Incredibly the MSM lapped it up embracing Bolton as a new found friend. Embracing the war monger Bolton? The best way to put it, "The enemy of my enemy is now my friend".
(6 comments) SHARE Sunday, June 16, 2013 Snowden's Whistleblowing of NSA Creating "worldwide debate" according to Glenn Greenwald
Ed Snowden, the systems administrator who we now know worked for private contractor Booz Allen Hamilton on a secret NSA surveillance project is so computer competent his whistleblowing of the NSA's secret data mining surveillance operations are posing an existential threat to the whole NSA type surveillance edifice. It's causing worldwide debate & not a minute too soon.
(1 comments) SHARE Wednesday, September 5, 2018 Liberation of Syrian people in Idlib may have begun
Yesterday the Russian air strikes struck al Qaeda positions in Idlib Syria. This could be the 1st phase liberating Syrians held hostage by US backed proxy jihadists. Friday the presidents of Russia & Turkey meet w/ the Iranians in Tehran presumably over the final assault on Idlib. Washington is none too pleased w/ Trump advisor Bolton saying if chemical weapons are used we will respond strongly. This is precarious as it gets.
(5 comments) SHARE Monday, May 4, 2020 Was the US lockdown and shutdown of the country over Covid-19 justified?
As we enter the almost two month lockdown over Covid-19 in the US, the millions initially projected to die from the virus has been drastically revised downward to some 250,000 worldwide & up to 100,000 in the US. A question arises were the measures undertaken by gov'ts, the lockdown, businesses required to close, schools closed. Throughout history there's never been a lockdown over a virus epidemic. Was it all justified?
(2 comments) SHARE Tuesday, August 15, 2017 Upcoming Russian military exercises a prelude to invading a NATO country? Simply absurd
In less than a month Russia & Belarus will conduct defensive military exercises routinely scheduled every 4 yrs. & w/in their own territory. In the West they're depicted as an exercise in intimidation, destabilizing, a cover for skullduggery. Russia's Foreign Minister Lavrov says, "accusations these exercises are anything more than defensive preparations are nonsense". As a prelude to invasion of a NATO country? Simply absurd.
(3 comments) SHARE Wednesday, December 18, 2013 Federal District Judge Richard Leon's Ruling Opposing the NSA's Intelligence Gathering Practices
Yesterday Fed'l District Court Judge Richard J. Leon's ruling questioned the NSA's intel gathering practices whether they were illegal & violated the Constitution putting the onus on the Obama administration to show why the agencies surveillance program is justified. Judge Leon gives one hope sanity, conscience, integrity & respect for the rule of law still exists in @ least one high gov't official.
SHARE Wednesday, January 8, 2020 What Trump didn't address in speech this morning after Iranian missile strikes in Iraq early yesterday
Pres. Trump delivered a speech this AM after Iran sent missiles attacking 2 separate American base facilities in Iraq early yesterday. He announced no retaliatory strikes except new sanctions on Iran. What Trump didn't address. The missile strikes were accurate. They intended to hit American base facilities yet avoid casualties. Iran showed restraint, compassion in delivering the strikes yet saw no benefit in killing anyone
(4 comments) SHARE Wednesday, November 29, 2017 North Korea fires ICBM higher and longer than previous launches
Yesterday N. Korea fired an ICBM that flew higher & longer than previous such launches landing in the Sea of Japan. It was the North's first missile test in over 2 months. In the interim the US has sent 3 carrier task forces off the Korean Peninsula, flown B-1 bombers over S. Korea & conducted joint military exercises w/ S. Korea & Japan. It feels like a tinder box waiting to explode.
(12 comments) SHARE Saturday, May 2, 2015 Six police charged in death of Freddie Gray, from Baltimore Fraternal Order of Police, "They have done nothing wrong".
The death of Freddie Gray while in the custody of police has gripped the country. We now know the 6 officers in the police van w/ Gray have been charged by Baltimore States Att'ny Marilyn Mosby w/ crimes ranging from murder to manslaughter. The key element for her to act was the medical examiners report Gray's death was a homicide. Her action brought cheers thruout the city. The people have to believe justice is being served.
SHARE Thursday, November 7, 2019 It's time for European nations break free of the US yoke around their necks since the end of WWII
France, the UK & Germany need to uphold the 2015 nuclear agreement w/Iran despite the US w/drawal from the deal last yr. Iran has begun enriching uranium beyond what it agreed in the 2015 deal. Iran has said it would return to the deals limits if the Europeans uphold their end of the deal. They are independent sovereign nations. It's time they acted like it & break free of the US yoke around their necks since the end of WW II.
SHARE Friday, September 14, 2012 Anti American protests in Muslim World Provoked by Egyptian born American Coptic Christian
This weeks protests continue in the Muslim world over a video made by an Egyptian born American citizen & Coptic Christian named Nakoula that was derisive of the Prophet Muhammad. These protests have nothing to do w/ the Arab Spring. They were intentionally provoked w/ the hope of tainting all Muslims as radical jihadists & terrorists. This was the work of a hateful anti Muslim American crackpot.
(10 comments) SHARE Thursday, April 25, 2013 A Possible Motive Behind the Boston Marathon Bombings
Ever since the Boston Marathon bombings the motives of the 2 brothers allegedly committing this crime has been baffling. Yesterday, the younger brother wrote during interrogation the older brother was upset by the U.S. wars in Iraq & Afghanistan & his anger was the motivation to plant 2 homemade bombs along the race route. So is the killing of Muslim innocents in U.S. wars the motive behind the bombing of innocents in Boston?
SHARE Wednesday, January 29, 2020 To the Palestinian's accepting Trump's "Deal of the Century" would be accepting Israel's boot on their neck forever
Yesterday Trump unveiled his "Deal of the Century" proposal for a Palestinian state in the West Bank, Gaza & two areas in the Negev Desert to be ceded by Israel as part of the "Deal". The Palestinian's rejected it out of hand w/ protests in Gaza & the West Bank. To the Palestinian's it appears accepting it would be tantamount to accepting Israel's boot on their neck forever.
(2 comments) SHARE Thursday, February 15, 2018 Is nuclear war in our future?1
How do the American people deal w/ those in charge who are criminally insane in "official" Washington? The latest madness is the Nuclear Posture Review a blueprint for nuclear war thou it purports to lowering the threshold for a nuclear conflagration. It's a call for the development of low yield nuclear warheads & such weapons be deployed in action. That could also lower the threshold to strategic weapons of mass destruction.
(1 comments) SHARE Friday, March 27, 2020 Anti-malarial drug Chloroquine in studies in China effective in treating Covid-19 patients
According to French microbiologist Raoult citing 2 different studies from China revealed the anti-malarial drug chloroquine was effective in treating Covid-19 patients. In clinical trials of the drug w/over a 100 patients shows it prevents worsening pneumonia, improves results of radiological exams leading to the elimination of the virus & shorter duration of the disease. No side effects observed. And it's readily available.
(6 comments) SHARE Tuesday, March 15, 2011 President Obama Countenances the Torture of Bradley Manning, That Says All We Need to Know About This President
Some positions taken by presidents show who they truly are. W/ regard to Bradley Manning Obama knows Manning has been held for 9 months, in solitary for 23 Hrs. a day, forced to remove his clothes every nite, forced to stand naked at attention each morning. Forced nudity is a form of torture. The president has countenanced torture w/ regard to Manning. That's all we need to know about the character of the man in the W.H.
SHARE Tuesday, December 10, 2019 So where are "things" domestically and internationally three weeks from the new year?
So where are things domestically & internationally as we're 3 wks from the new yr? here we seem consumed w/ the House Dems impeachment of Trump. They know the Repub Senate won't convict him & they will reveal the Dems weren't on moral high ground when they went after Trump. Internationally endless wars will continue, regime change,, sanctions on countries that refuse US hegemony over them, provocations, a trade war w/ China.
(2 comments) SHARE Tuesday, July 25, 2017 Shenanigans in the Senate
So what's the latest political maneuverings over on Capitol Hill? Ah yes the Republican Senate considering the overhaul of Obama care. Some Republicans aren't going along w/the shenanigans. But rest assured regardless whether something does get passed the private health insurance companies will continue their stranglehold on health care in this country even though most people want a Medicare for all system.
(9 comments) SHARE Saturday, July 24, 2021 Taking on the ruling elite
Patrick Lawrence wrote, "Don't you know there's a war on?" saying "the extent to which most Americans are utterly oblivious to what goes on in the world around them is not short of astonishing". Too many Americans have succumbed to "official" Washington's propaganda we've all been subjected to. It's long past time we transcend those lies and begin to see the truth.
(1 comments) SHARE Saturday, August 16, 2014 More Orwellian Newspeak
Last week Pres. Obama stated repeatedly, "No ground forces will be sent" to Iraq. Now that "unequivocal" statement has morphed into he's "considering" a rescue operation using American troops. Forget considering it's all but a done deal. Just a little Orwellian "Newspeak", the usual double talk fed to the American people by their gov't.
(3 comments) SHARE Friday, April 15, 2016 Hypocrisy of Hillary's supporters
Since the Supreme Court's 5-4 decision in Citizens United Democrats have seen it as the root of political evil. But Clinton's Democratic supporters now defend Hillary raking in millions in corporate campaign cash & corporate speeches. This is simple hypocrisy revealing her supporters have no core beliefs.
(3 comments) SHARE Friday, August 19, 2016 Has the "Deep State" overplayed its hand?
What's it gonna take for the US people to get past the "Deep State" indoctrination they've been subjected to, recognize it as such & demand change? There is a realization from both left & right things are not so shiny from sea to shining sea. There's a fierce undercurrent of political consciousness w/ many Bernie supporters going w/ Green Party candidate Jill Stein; maybe the start of a political revolution in this country.
(12 comments) SHARE Monday, February 14, 2011 Where is Our Revolutionary Fervor?
18 days of revolution may be over in Egypt as the nuts and bolts of hammering out a real democracy have just begun. The army's Supreme Council has taken steps toward that end, disbanding parliament, suspending the constitution and calling for free and fair elections. Egypt's people's revolution was visceral, raw and passionate. Where is our revolutionary fervor? What would it take for us to rebel in America?
(20 comments) SHARE Monday, July 13, 2015 The Greek People, "We have nothing to lose", from Tsipras betrayal
The Greek people voted 61 to 39 rejecting austerity by the EU, ECB & IMF. PM Tsipras had urged them to do so. On Friday he betrayed the peoples vote, put forth a new austerity package of reduced pensions, higher taxes & reduced gov't spending which the Greek parliament app'd. The new austerity package was what the troika had been demanding & they app'd it this morning. Only the Greek people had nothing to lose. Not so Tsipras.
(5 comments) SHARE Tuesday, September 28, 2010 "Targeted' Assassination by the CIA, Where is the Legal Authority?
Earlier this year the Obama administration authorized the CIA to target and kill Anwar al- Awlaki an American born Muslim cleric, hiding in Yemen. Since the 1970's Congress officially banned the CIA from engaging in targeted assassinations and coups. Just where is the legal authority for the administration to authorize the CIA to engage in any type of targeted killing, much less the targeting of a U.S. citizen?
(1 comments) SHARE Wednesday, October 14, 2015 Putin's gamble succeeding in Syria?
It's been two weeks since Russian Pres. Putin seized the initiative in Syria sending in his jet fighters flying sorties & attacking terrorist enclaves in the war torn country. In response nothing but bloviating from US officials. "There will be consequences for Russia";"Obama should retaliate". Could it be Obama realizes the futility of his campaign to fight IS & Putin's move could begin to end the terrorist threat in Syria?
(1 comments) SHARE Thursday, April 9, 2020 The Covit-19 virus, Bernie capitulating and Biden the Democratic nominee this November against Trump
Yesterday Bernie Sanders quit his campaign for the Dems pres.nomination betraying his followers a 2nd time & supporting Joe Biden. One day the Covit-19 pandemic will end in the US as happened yesterday in Wuhan, China where it all began. Wuhan opened up spectacularly, people congregating, trains running, shops open. This will happen in the US & Trump, like it or not will be seen as the leader who beat the virus in the US.
(2 comments) SHARE Monday, April 17, 2017 The seeming disconnect of the American people of a nuclear conflagration and the US perpetrating the unthinkable
Pres. Trump has sent a carrier task force toward the Korean Peninsula over N.Korea's recent ballistic missile tests. Sec'y of St. Tillerson said "the policy of strategic patience has ended" w/ the "military option on the table". Such US provocations have brought the world to the present crisis. What is most unsettling is the seeming disconnect of the American people to the real possibility of the US committing the unthinkable.
(5 comments) SHARE Tuesday, November 15, 2011 Incredible, First Oakland Then Occupy Wall Street Shut Down
Early this AM police raided OWS & forcibly removed protesters sleeping in tents. Dozens of arrests were made. Earlier Monday police closed down the Occupy Oakland encampment arresting 33 there. What these authorities fail to understand is their actions will only galvanize protesters resolve to continue their protests which are based on ideas, problems and issues which can't be destroyed by dismantling their encampments.
(3 comments) SHARE Thursday, January 26, 2012 Fidel Castro on the Republican Candidates, "The greatest competition of idiocy and ignorance that has ever been"
Say what you will about Fidel Castro, but the ex Cuban leaders description of the Republican candidates running for the presidency was priceless and on target saying they represent, "The greatest competition of idiocy and ignorance that has ever been." He was right on the mark. It seems unimaginable that one of this cast of characters could actually be the next president.
(12 comments) SHARE Tuesday, August 19, 2014 Police "Protecting the Public"; Not
The murder of Michael Brown gunned down by police in Ferguson, MO. has drawn int'l attention. China, Iran, Russia among others gave the sanctimonious US a dish of its own medicine pointing out the hypocrisy of the US condemning others while its own house is in disorder. The murder of a black teenager is hardly an anomaly in post civil rights America & protests by the people reveal a justifiable anger @ official wrongdoing.
SHARE Thursday, June 6, 2013 New Secret Surveillance Order, Orwell's Fictional "1984" in Reality
A secret court order signed by a FISA judge requires Verizon w/ tens of millions customers "to provide the NSA w/ daily information on all telephone calls by its subscribers w/in the U.S." The Center for Constitutional Rights says it requires no level of suspicion & does not require a showing of probable cause. This secret order is just data mining w/o cause or suspicion & clearly unConstitutional.
(4 comments) SHARE Friday, January 6, 2017 War mongers extraordinaire
Senators John McCain & Lindsey Graham traveled to Ukraine during the holiday break & proclaimed, "2017 will be the year of offense" against Russian Pres. Vladimir Putin. They claim, "Our fight is not w/ the Russian people but w/ Putin". However, since over 80% of the Russian people support Putin any war against Putin is a war w/ Russia. And make no mistake these two war mongers are pushing for war w/ Russia.
(5 comments) SHARE Friday, May 20, 2011 Obama is Right on the Mark, "Israel Must Accept 1967 Borders"
In Obama's speech yesterday he said Israel must use the 1967 borders as the starting point of negotiations w/ the Palestinian's. He was right on the mark. Netanyahu and the Israeli's may object calling them "indefensible". But those borders are the only legitimate starting point. Only the U.S. is capable of bringing Israel to its senses. Obama set the tone. The question. Will he remain committed to take his words all the way?
(1 comments) SHARE Saturday, August 5, 2017 Is palace intrigue about to end with no nonsense John Kelly as Trump's Chief of Staff?
On Monday Trump named retired General John Kelly as his new Chief of Staff. Kelly is a no nonsense guy. He told people they'd have to go thru him to see the president. Previously anyone went into the Oval Office anytime they wanted. Obviously Kelly got Trump to agree such practices would end before taking the job. W/ all the palace intrigue in this White House an adult might bring some sanity where none existed before.
(2 comments) SHARE Thursday, September 25, 2014 Obama and his Nobel "Peace" Prize
"Code Pink", the group @the forefront of the antiwar, anti-drone movement will hold a candlelight vigil tonight outside the White House asking Pres. Obama to return the Nobel Peace prize he was awarded in 2009. W/ his new war in Iraq & Syria his retaining the Nobel Prize for peace is an insult & affront to what the prize is supposed to represent, more in tune w/ Orwell's "war is peace" illogic in his dystopian "1984" novel.
SHARE Friday, April 24, 2015 Obama's apology, genuine? Plus officials warped, cavalier response to America's Drone Wars
Yesterday Pres. Obama gave a "command performance" apologizing for the deaths of an American & an Italian killed by a CIA drone strike in Pakistan in January. Genuine? Why did it take 4 months? We're told & expected to believe he knew nothing until last week. Why did it take a week to go before the TV cameras? Why not go the day or night he heard about it? Did he need to "prep" for a week to make it appear he was "distraught"?
(3 comments) SHARE Tuesday, May 13, 2014 This American Empire, It Too Will Collapse
As with all empires this American one will eventually fall and most Americans will be taken by surprise. For all its hubris, American exceptionalism, the sense of entitlement and the idea of it being the "indispensible country" won't save it from the trash heap of all other empires long since gone. Such illusions may contribute, even hasten that inevitable collapse.
(1 comments) SHARE Saturday, July 20, 2019 The hope, Trump has a moment of lucidity and avoids war with Iran
Hardly a day goes by w/out an incident involving Iran. The latest had Iran intercepting two British tankers in the Strait of Hormuz detaining one then releasing the other. Other incidents have occurred. The US claimed it shot down an Iranian drone flying too close to a US Navy ship while the Iranian's denied any of its drones were missing. The worry is a miscalculation of the intent of an adversary unleashing a new hot war.
SHARE Friday, May 24, 2013 The President's Speech Yesterday, Will His Policies and Actions Conform with His Rhetoric?
Regarding the President's speech yesterday on counterterrorism at the National Defense University; will his rhetoric be of substance & conform to the actual policy and actions he takes? Otherwise it will be just empty hot air. Based on the history of actual policy and actions taken by this president extreme skepticism is in order whether his speech will be anything more than rhetoric.
(1 comments) SHARE Wednesday, September 22, 2021 What AUKUS, the Australia, UK, US deal is really about
AUKUS the acronym for Australia, United Kingdom, United States agreement for the US & UK to provide 8 nuclear powered submarines to Australia. This deal scraps the 2016 contract between France & Australia for 12 diesel driven subs to be built in Australia from a French design. What AUKUS is really about? Further containment of China w/ Aussie nuclear subs about to be prowling around the periphery of China & N. Korea.
SHARE Friday, April 30, 2021 US antagonism toward Russia and China is escalating, Is the US planning war with the world's other nuclear superpowerers
Where is the mutual respect by the US toward Russia & China, the world's two other nuclear superpowers? It seems there isn't any. Here's two countries capable of annihilating the US in a nuclear weapons retaliatory strike. Yet observing US antagonism toward these countries it appears the US has plans for war w/ Russia & China. Thus preventing the US initiating war w/them is priority #1, a war that could easily turn nuclear.
(4 comments) SHARE Tuesday, April 5, 2011 Resurrecting Military Commissions, A Flawed Idea and Disregard for the Rule of Law
Yesterday Attorney General Eric Holder announced Khalid Sheikh Mohammad the alleged master mind of 9/11 would be tried by a military commission rather than in civilian court. These commissions are a flawed idea. What about evidence obtained by torture? Will it now be permissible? The use of these commissions show how far down the road we have traveled in disrespect for the rule of law.
(1 comments) SHARE Tuesday, March 9, 2010 AIG, Goldman Sachs,the Fed and Treasury, Shenanigans, Skullduggery and Incestuous Ties?
Shenanigans, skullduggery; the incestuous ties between AIG, Goldman Sachs, the Treasury and the Fed reeks of insider type dealings require further scrutiny. The inner workings and relationships of these private and public officials is suspect making for a system easily gamed and manipulated by "insiders." New law needs to be enacted closing legal loopholes that allow these incestuous ties to remain legal.
(2 comments) SHARE Friday, May 17, 2019 Venezuelan Embassy raided by Washington DC police
Yesterday the doors of the Venezuelan Embassy in Washington were smashed by DC police barging in & arresting the four remaining peace activists who were invited by embassy personnel in early April after all diplomats were ordered out by Trump. The raid was a clear violation of the Vienna convention of 1961 making embassy's inviolable unless the host nation was invited to enter by the gov't of the embassy. That wasn't the case.
(1 comments) SHARE Friday, January 3, 2020 It's not a good time to be an American on foreign soil because of something their government perpetrated on Iran
Last night Pres. Trump ordered the drone assassination of Iran Major General Qassim Suleimani traveling in a convoy outside Iraq's Int'l airport. Iran's Supreme Leader Ayatollah Khamanei promised "Harsh revenge" warning revenge awaits the criminals who stained their hands in his blood". It's not a good time to be an American on foreign soil because of something their gov't perpetrated then blamed it all on Iran.
(2 comments) SHARE Wednesday, September 29, 2021 The Pentagon considering using Russian military bases
The Pentagon is considering using Russian military bases in Central Asia, Tajikistan, Kyrgyzstan & Kazakhstan. Pentagon Sec'y Austin speaking before the Senate said, "Pres. Putin offered to provide assistance" when Putin met w/ Pres. Biden in Geneva last June. The one task that makes sense is for the US military to help secure the "stans" border w/ Afghanistan helping to prevent ISIS, K terrorists infiltrating from there.
SHARE Monday, April 1, 2013 The Extortion and Blackmail of Egypt by the IMF
Egypt is in the news having a crisis on fuel and food. A fuel shortage has sent food prices soaring. Supposedly U.S. officials say Egypt must raise taxes and subsidy cuts before receiving a $4.8 billion loan from the IMF. Pres. Morsi has resisted the IMF deal. Maybe he realizes the "cure" of austerity measures on the backs of the people would only worsen their plight. What the IMF is doing is called extortion and blackmail.
(2 comments) SHARE Saturday, July 14, 2012 Barclays and LIBOR, Just the Tip of the Iceberg
The Barclay's Bank scandal over LIBOR that affect some $800 trillion in interest rates is just the tip of the iceberg of the financial fraud hitting the headlines. In fact its all the big banks gaming the system with their manipulations and tentacles reaching into every segment of society, not only in America, but the world.
(1 comments) SHARE Tuesday, February 22, 2022 Putin signs treaty recognizing Donetsk and Lugansk as sovereign states sends Russian troops there as part of treaty
Yesterday Russian Pres. Vladimir Putin signed a treaty w/the two leaders of the breakaway republics of Donetsk & Lugansk recognizing them as sovereign states. As part of the treaty he ordered Russian peacekeepers & Russian military into the two republics. Putin recognized the 2014 Minsk agreements had failed prompting him to take the
action he did. For sure the crisis in Ukraine is not over. The next chapter has just begun.
SHARE Wednesday, October 4, 2017 Premise: Israel has never intended there be a separate Palestinian state
Premise: Israel since its inception in 1948 has never intended there be a separate Palestinian state. Facts on the ground show the reality. As more & more Palestinian lands are confiscated with Jewish settlements increasing in the West bank to over 400,000 settlers the idea of a separate Palestinian state being established becomes an almost far fetched proposition.
(1 comments) SHARE Sunday, November 7, 2010 Charles Ferguson's "Inside Job", Required Viewing by All Americans Left and Right
"Inside Job", the documentary film by Charles Ferguson on the 2008 financial meltdown should be required viewing by all Americans so there is no mistaking who the perpetrators were (and are) behind our current economic misery. What Ferguson presents is no mystery. It just shows the absolute need for the Justice Dep't to arraign the culprits and bring them to justice. Something that would be embraced on the left and the right.
(1 comments) SHARE Friday, March 20, 2015 Netanyahu on Tuesday, "There will be NO Palestinian State", on Thursday, "It just wasn't possible now"
It never ceases to amaze what will emerge from the dissembling "mouth that roared", the just reelected prime minister of Israel, Benjamin Netanyahu. After stating unequivocally on the eve of Tuesday's Israeli elections, "There will be no establishment of a Palestinian state" on his watch, two days later he's "clarifying" it w/, "It's just wasn't possible now". The man has no shame.
(1 comments) SHARE Monday, October 22, 2012 Obama Officials to New York Times, Iran/U/S. Agree to One-on-One Negotiations after Presidential Election
It was probably an election ploy but yesterday Obama administration officials leaked to the NY Times the administration had reached a mutual agreement in principle w/ Iran on direct one-on-one negotiations. Simply put, if the madness of war w/ Iran can be averted by one-on-one talks the world can be saved from another unnecessary atrocity from being committed.
(1 comments) SHARE Thursday, December 16, 2010 Today's Civil Resistance Action Outside The White House
A 1000 people braved the cold and the snow w/ some 200 making the decision to get arrested protesting the wars in Iraq/Afghanistan. They hoped their action today would be a catalyst for other civil resistance actions to take place across the country, that these actions mushroom and 1000's more Americans pick up the challenge initiated by veterans to stop the wars. They hoped today was just the beginning.
(2 comments) SHARE Tuesday, October 4, 2011 Occupy Wall Street Protests Spreading, There's a Need to Focus on the Core Issue, Money in Politics
Occupy Wall Street protests are spreading. The phenomenon has no end in sight. To have real impact the demands must be more focused. All the issues are interconnected and have one thing in common at their core; corporate and special interest money. It has usurped the electoral process controlling everything of consequence. The #1 necessity is removing money from politics and needs to be the focus of all the protests.
SHARE Tuesday, August 10, 2021 Insanity prevails in Oregon government
Oregon Governor Kate Brown late in July signed a bill suspending the requirement for high school seniors in the state to be proficient in reading, writing & math supposedly to aid "students of color". The Democrat legislature overwhelmingly supported the move. How do the parents of students of color feel about this? Were they consulted? It appears the gov & her Dem colleagues somehow became insane enacting such legislation.
(3 comments) SHARE Friday, June 2, 2017 Is Europe with France and Germany in the lead beginning to take an independent course away from "official" Washington?
Pres. Putin visit this week w/ new French Pres. Macron may have serious implications. Macron wants improved relations w/ Russia taking an independent course away from Washington. He said, "Nothing can be tackled w/out dialogue w/ Russia" over Syria & Ukraine. Germany's Merkel said, "We Europeans must take our destiny in our own hands". Is Europe w/ France & Germany in lead taking an independent course away from Washington?
(6 comments) SHARE Thursday, May 16, 2013 Police State Tactics of Obama's Justice Department
The Justice Department's seizure of Associated Press reporter's phone records reveals the Obama administrations true intent which is to intimidate & cow truth tellers from exposing secret gov't actions & wrongdoing to investigative reporters. These are police state tactics, not something unilaterally exercised by the Executive branch in a Constitutional democracy.
(14 comments) SHARE Wednesday, June 15, 2016 Trump vs Clinton, "Horror vs Horror"
It's become obvious there's no need to wait for the Repubs & Dems convention extravaganza's this July. It's the "Donald" & the "Hillerator", Trump v/s Clinton, the two most hated candidates to lead their party's ever. Trump is despised by his own party & Clinton though supported by a majority of women is despised by many (most?) others in America. It's "Horror v/s Horror" this November.
(4 comments) SHARE Tuesday, September 8, 2015 The current domestic "tranquility", the calm before the storm?
Chris Hedges writes, "The Real Enemy Is Within", that "Militarists & war profiteers are our greatest enemy...there will be no genuine democratic, social, economic or political reform until we destroy our permanent war machine". The question; is how the destruction of our permanent war machine is to be done? That's the conundrum. It isn't that people don't know the evils Hedges speaks of. Many do; it's how to destroy it.
(2 comments) SHARE Wednesday, December 13, 2017 America, plutocracy not a democracy
We don't have a democracy in the US. We have a plutocracy, gov't of, by, and for the rich & big corporate interests. There is no real difference between the Democrat & Republican parties. Both are beholden to the big moneyed interests. Is it any wonder the laws, regulations, oversight & enforcement benefit those interests? Our entire electoral system is irredeemable, beyond reform & needs to be scrapped.
(5 comments) SHARE Monday, September 11, 2017 It's 9/11 once again and questions abound 16 years later
It's 9/11 once again though 16 years later since that fateful day. Most Americans probably don't think about it having absorbed it osmosis like only to have it dredged up each anniversary. But like the Kennedy assassination 9/11 has been studied, analyzed & "official" findings produced. Yet like Kennedy subsequent "unofficial" findings elicit questions that challenge the "official" version of 9/11.
(1 comments) SHARE Sunday, June 23, 2019 Pilots sue Boeing over MAX 737, knowingly put profits ahead of safety
A published account by RT has Boeing being sued by 400 pilots "trained to fly the 4th generation 737 MAX aircraft". They accuse Boeing of hushing up known concerns about the glitch ridden equipment installed in the jets. The lawsuit says, "Boeing engaged in an unprecedented cover up of the known design flaws of the MAX 737, placing corporate profits ahead of the lives of pilots, crews & the general public.
SHARE Wednesday, June 17, 2020 Realistic police reform and accountability, not there yet
Much has occurred since George Floyd's murder by police in Minneapolis. In particular the public's perception of police accountability for the brutality they commit. They're often exonerated. Widespread protests has resulted. Yet police are needed to combat violent crime & community patrols aren't qualified to handle it. Police reform is possible if elected officials & community groups meet to form a realistic plan of action.
(1 comments) SHARE Wednesday, October 30, 2013 The NSA Bruised and Beleaguered Implicates its European "Partners"
The NSA battered from the latest disclosures of world wide snooping came out swinging yesterday w/ senior officials implicating their European intelligence partners saying they contributed "tens of millions telephone records in joint surveillance operations" w/ the Agency. It's a U.S. & Int'l house of cards where the immoral & unethical degeneracy of democratically elected gov'ts expose their true nature.
(7 comments) SHARE Saturday, February 13, 2016 Crime, Inc
The way the US acts in the world should be referred to as Crime, Inc. It's become the most sinister entity on earth. Most sinister because what it does is under the guise of bringing freedom & democracy to others using the Constitution & the rule of law as a fig leaf cover but betrays w/ impunity. From illegal wars, false flag ops, coups, assassinations, torture. The US has "earned" the ignominy it has wrought on the world.
(2 comments) SHARE Thursday, January 30, 2014 The "Real" Political Corruption
A recent article in the NY Times entitled, “IT Only Seems That Political Corruption Is Rampant” was misleading pointing to graft & fraud as the corruption the public sees as rampant. The real political corruption is the legalized bribery of the entire political process sanctified by SCOTUS in their 2010 Citizens United ruling granting Corporations 1st Amendment right to make unlimited expenditures in political campaigns.
(4 comments) SHARE Thursday, May 2, 2013 Indeed, "Why are we doing this?"
Guantanamo has been in the headlines lately as detainees have staged a hunger strike that began in February. It has caused the Pres. to say, "It's not sustainable. The notion that we're going to keep 100 individuals in no mans land in perpetuity made no sense. Why are we doing this?" Action on his part is what is needed. Close Guantanamo, charge & try detainees or release them. It would be the right thing to do.
(4 comments) SHARE Friday, November 5, 2010 A Few Final Words on the Political Demise of Feingold and Grayson
A few final words on the election and the political demise of Representative Alan Grayson and Senator Russ Feingold. That they were considered mavericks tells much about the mostly sycophantic others that roam the halls of Congress. They didn't compromise w/ wrongheadedness or bad policy and were men of principle and conscience, all qualities sadly lacking in most of their colleagues. They'll be missed.
(3 comments) SHARE Friday, October 12, 2012 Panetta, "U.S. Facing Possible Cyber-Pearl Harbor", No mention of U.S. Initiating Cyberwarfare
Defense Sec'y Panetta warned we're possibly facing a cyber Pearl Harbor from hackers in China, Russia & Iran that could disrupt the nations power grid, transportation & financial networks. What he didn't say was the U.S. initiated cyberwarfare on Iran's nuclear program w/ the Stuxnet worm damaging centrifuges enriching uranium. So now others are defending themselves? But it's hypocritical when the U.S. has been the aggressor.
(2 comments) SHARE Friday, August 1, 2014 The Gag-O-Meter Registered a Bit Higher With CIA Director Brennan "Apologizing" for Lying
The gag o meter registered a bit higher when reading about CIA Dir. John Brennan "apologizing" to Senate Intel Chair Dianne Feinstein for his boys hacking Senate computer files relating to its investigation into the CIA's conduct during the Bush era & its use of torture. If anything only a few underlings may get axed & prosecuted but for sure it won't include the likes of Brennan & other higher ups that authorized it all.
(3 comments) SHARE Monday, August 31, 2015 Ensconced in a cocoon, completely unaffected and oblivious
Chris Hedges article,The Great Unraveling focuses on the ravages of neo-liberalism & global capitalism in the US & the world, the vast inequality, wage stagflation, chronic poverty, factories closed, prisons overflowing are some of the depredations. What is stunning & disconcerting w/ the world crumbling are people w/ cell phones in hand, madly texting away seemingly ensconced in a cocoon, completely oblivious & unaffected.
(5 comments) SHARE Monday, August 6, 2012 Authoritarianism Masquerading Behind a Fig Leaf of Democracy
The Obama administration intentionally discloses secret kill lists while the Senate Intel committee wants prosecution of the leakers. It's still big brother tactics & broadening of the Nat'l Security state wrapped in deceptive packaging under the guise of defending against terrorists, a façade masquerading behind a fig leaf of democracy, the Constitution & the rule of law, all as they're being shredded.
SHARE Wednesday, September 11, 2019 Bolton finally gone from the scene
Geopolitically, good news is rarely heard these days. Yet yesterday qualifies as one of those days. Trump's nat'l security advisor John Bolton was finally gone from the scene. Since last April when Trump named him as nat'l security advisor there's hardly been a day where news of Bolton brought any sense of relief some new US misadventure advocated by him was about to happen. Now he'll just be a sour footnote in history.
(1 comments) SHARE Wednesday, October 28, 2015 A Geo-political Realignment in the World?
There may have begun a Geo-political realignment in the world when Russian Pres. Putin boldly sent his air force into Syria 4 weeks ago w/ his stated intent to destroy the Islamic state & al Qaeda terrorists in Syria. It's absolutely significant forcing the US to reconcile & come to terms it can't challenge the Russian's in the air in Syria w/out an incident that could lead to the unthinkable; war between two nuclear states.
(4 comments) SHARE Thursday, April 28, 2022 Is there free speech in America?
Is there free speech in America? The 1st amendment protects freedom of speech. Pres. Biden thru the Dep't of Homeland Security has deemed "disinformation" must be fought. What constitutes "disinformation" anyway? What the gov't says? A true democracy allows for the free flow of information. We're a democracy w/ the 1st amendment protecting freedom of speech or a fascist dictatorship restricting what is allowed to be said.
(1 comments) SHARE Wednesday, February 16, 2011 "Rome is Burning Folks, Didn't You Get the Memo?"
The revolts in the Arab world are all understandable. What underlies them is official tyranny and police state tactics against the people. The key has been the army. In Tunisia and Egypt the generals refused to fire on the protestors. Both regimes eventually fell. In America revolution isn't in the air. Oppression in the U.S. isn't widespread. Most people are comfortable. But "Rome is burning folks, didn't you get the memo?"
SHARE Thursday, October 14, 2021 Not exactly the knowledgeable approach of a supposed enlightened democracy
S.W. Airlines is in the news. 1800 flights were canceled over the weekend. SWA execs blamed it on bad weather in Fla. SWA competitors flying similar routes had only minor cancellations. So what's w/ SWA? After Biden said company's w/over 100 employees must issue a vaccine mandate, SWA set a Dec. 8 deadline. Get the jab or be fired. That diktat didn't go over well w/the pilots. Many called in sick. No pilots, flights canceled.
SHARE Tuesday, February 4, 2014 NSA's Bleating over Snowden Revelations Continue to Ring Hollow
Here’s some of the latest bleatings from the NSA. In a snit the agency is on the counterattack blaming Snowden for US banks, defense, telecom & other large institutions being vulnerable to foreign cyberattacks. But the NSA’s whining is falling on deaf ears. Everyone now knows the NSA is the INITIATOR of cyberwarfare w/ credibility next to zero. So the idea of the agency doing right by the people is rejected out of hand.
(1 comments) SHARE Thursday, November 5, 2015 America the (not so) beautiful
It's becoming clearer by the day, the US is the most dangerous political entity in the world today. It is the most insidious, hiding behind the veneer of democracy, the Constitution & the rule of law trumpeting those virtues while disregarding them w/impunity. Incredibly most in America have bought the charade still spouting, "We're the greatest". Meanwhile the rest of the world sees us as the greatest threat to world peace.
(7 comments) SHARE Monday, August 3, 2020 Why no skepticism of governments medical experts opinions on COVID-19?
Why is it people normally skeptical of what gov't & MSM experts say when it comes to COVID-19 they believe everything the gov'ts medical experts say? Was it fear @ the outset when told millions could die from the virus? Some 5 months later millions dying from the virus was a severely inflated number. To date some 157,000 have died in the US. The numbers were exaggerated. How about what else they may have exaggerated?
(2 comments) SHARE Friday, December 8, 2017 Insane thinking
It's a most precarious time w/ so many potentially calamitous events simultaneously happening in the world. A potential US war w/ N. Korea, Trump recognizing Jerusalem as Israel's capital & the resulting Muslim reaction w/ Hamas calling for a new Intifada against Israel, Trump rejecting the nuclear deal w/ Iran, calling it a state sponsor of terrorism & never before diplomacy so subordinated to military provocations.
(6 comments) SHARE Wednesday, July 5, 2017 Taking measures against an aggressive US war machine
N. Korea test fired an ICBM missile yesterday that according to them could reach Alaska & Hawaii. The initial US response came from the top US Gen'l in S. Korea Vincent Brooks saying, Self restraint is the only thing stopping war in Korea. But N. Korea has only developed its missile & nuclear arms as a deterrent against a US attack especially against a US war machine that has repeatedly attacked non nuclear regimes.
SHARE Monday, June 4, 2012 The Implications of Tomorrow's Recall Election in Wisconsin
Two months ago a state panel set tom'w as the date for the recall election of Gov. Scott Walker in Wisconsin. Walkers actions as governor taking on the public service unions & stripping them of their collective bargaining rights is really an assault on all working men & women. His recall will have nat'l implications.
SHARE Friday, February 28, 2014 America, "Land of the 'not so' free and home of the brave"
Since the end of WWII & more so since 9/11 America has become an empire, exercising hegemony everywhere, conducts worldwide surveillance of all electronic communications, initiated cyberwarfare, started unnecessary wars & now justifies the assassination of American citizens deemed a threat & w/out due process. Though DoD ads gush the military is A force for good in the world its hardly in defense of the American people.
SHARE Thursday, May 14, 2020 The China bashing, a war with the PRC on the horizon?
In the midst of the Covid-19 epidemic the Trump administration has China in its crosshairs. W/people in the US preoccupied w/the virus Trump's been hammering China for initiating & covering it up. Besides the virus China bashing continues w/the ongoing trade war, provocations in the S. China Sea, placing tactical nukes on submarines, threats of sanctions for receiving Iranian oil. What's the US intent? Eventual war w/ China?
SHARE Monday, September 23, 2013 America in Distress, The Sinister Actions by the Government
America & Americans are not the government. The gov't has become a separate entity completely unto itself. The people are superfluous, necessary foils to that gov't providing a fig leaf of legitimacy & the impression we remain a republic, a constitutional democracy & a gov't of, by and for the people. Nothing can be further from the truth.
(3 comments) SHARE Friday, January 13, 2012 Madness Reigns with Obama's Threats to Iran
The U.S. is pushing Iran to the breaking point. Treasury Sec'y Geitner was in China pressing them to reduce import of Iranian oil. Saudi Arabia, Kuwait and the UAE jointly assured China, Japan and S. Korea they would increase production if Iran oil supply was cut off. Obama official says, We mean to close down Central Bank of Iran, its largest revenue source. Obama seems intent on provoking unnecessary war w/ Iran.
(1 comments) SHARE Thursday, April 23, 2020 A perfect scenario to start a war with Iran
A US war w/Iran on the agenda again? Yesterday Pres. Trump aid, "I have instructed the US Navy to shoot down & destroy any & all Iranian gunboats if they harass our ships @ sea". It's the 1st time a US Pres. gave the order to fire on Iranian patrol boats. Scott Ritter says..."a war w/ Iran might be the only thing that can save US oil." People in the US are distracted w/ Covit-19. A perfect scenario to start a war w/Iran.
(1 comments) SHARE Saturday, April 18, 2020 "We have met the enemy and he is us"
The "news" from the corporate MSM even the alternative media seems all over the place. Sides taken denigrating others who disagree. There's no middle ground. It's a sort of myopic madness that's descended upon America. There's a sense of uncertainty during an unprecedented time w/ lives so disrupted. What's certain is humanity has had countless viruses & we've survived them all. Why should the Covid-19 virus be any different.
(2 comments) SHARE Friday, October 21, 2016 "All The News That's Fit To Print", Not
America once had a free press. In the early 1970's the Washington Post exposed the Nixon Watergate conspiracy unraveling the affair that got Nixon to resign in disgrace. That's ancient history. The Post has since become a neo-con propaganda rag & regime change booster. It's not just the Post. The entire MSM in America has become an "unofficial" organ of the state masquerading as a free press and a handmaiden of the state.
(3 comments) SHARE Friday, November 26, 2010 Tom Delay Convicted of Money Laundering, A Harbinger of Things to Come?
A Texas jury on Wednesday found ex House Majority Leader Tom Delay guilty of money laundering. Hopefully his conviction will spur more prosecutions of other hack politicians and their corporate and special interest backers that have corrupted the political process in their favor. Add in SCOTUS decision in "Citizens United" along w/ Delay's conviction and it shows why the current system must be completely overhauled.
(6 comments) SHARE Wednesday, December 7, 2011 What to Make of Obama's Speech in Kansas?
Yesterday President Obama gave a speech in Osawatomie, Kansas. It seemed reminiscent of those inspiring speeches he gave in the 2008 presidential campaign. He is brilliant, eloquent and inspiring. That's why he was elected in 2008. But this is 2011 and he's up for reelection. Will he not say anything he thinks will help him get reelected? What are we to make of his inspiring speech yesterday?
(2 comments) SHARE Tuesday, February 14, 2012 Orwell's "1984" in Reality
In America, most of us haven't been vigilant, We've gotten complacent, taken our democracy for granted, our standard of living a given; as Americans we're exceptional and entitled, the American dream. Meanwhile the forces of mega corporate greed and have usurped, corrupted and distorted that democracy and that dream. We've gotten distracted, been in denial and passively indifferent to what has been happening in our midst.
(9 comments) SHARE Monday, October 3, 2011 Americas Descent Into Legal and Moral Degeneracy
Pres. Obama made good his threat to kill Anwar al-Awlaki, the American born Islamic cleric. There is no legal way to justify the official OK to kill an American, outside a war zone and w/o due process. If Awlaki committed crimes, he needed to be arraigned and prosecuted in a U.S. court of law. That didn't happen. This targeted killing of an American was a criminal act by the gov't and the official who authorized it.
(4 comments) SHARE Tuesday, June 5, 2018 Rebellion in America? Not likely
There was rebellion in America in the late 1960's and early 70's on college campuses against the US war in Vietnam. Today there are serious activists protesting the environment, fracking, oil & gas pipelines et al but the protests remain single issue, siloed, separate from one another rather than interconnected & focused on their common adversary the elitist, imperialist, corporatist & elected gov't felons in charge in the US.
(5 comments) SHARE Wednesday, September 21, 2016 Misrepresenting the facts
Less than 2 weeks ago Sec'y of State Kerry & Russian Foreign Minister Lavrov worked out a cease fire plan for Syria. That plan was shattered when US planes bombed a Syrian army base outside of Deir Ezzor last weekend killing some 60 elite army troops & wounding over a 100. The Syrian gov't accused the US of a deliberate attack. The US called it an "accident". Finian Cunningham called it"a deliberate act of murderous sabotage".
(2 comments) SHARE Monday, August 20, 2018 1953 CIA led coup in Iran, "an act of international banditry"
Yesterday marked the 65th year since the August 19, 1953 CIA led coup in Iran that toppled the legitimately elected government of Prime Minister Mohammad Mossadegh. A crime John Wight bluntly describes, "was by any measure, an act of international banditry that continues to cry out for just redress", this from his "RT" article, "1953 Iran coup-a crime authored by London and Washington".
SHARE Tuesday, August 7, 2018 Sanctions, war on the horizon with Iran
In the bizarro world of Trump renewed sanctions on Iran are "the most biting sanctions ever imposed. In Nov. they ratchet up yet another level. Anyone doing business will NOT be doing business w/ the US. I am asking for WORLD PEACE, nothing less". How does that translate into asking for world peace? It makes no sense. Iran may have a US gun pointed @ it but it won't capitulate & negotiate w/ US sanctions against them.
(4 comments) SHARE Monday, January 20, 2014 The U.S. Needs "Enemies"
Here is a supposition, the U.S. needs “enemies”. W/o enemies the U.S. could not justify the bloated defense spending, deploy over a 1000 military bases worldwide & have surveillance practices targeting everyone in America & the world. It makes no difference if the enemy poses a real threat as did the USSR in the cold war or now the fabricated war on terror invented by Bush; a never ending war against a never ending enemy.
SHARE Saturday, January 20, 2018 Arguing over government shutdown, the old divide and conquer strategy by the white supremacist deep state
The fed'l gov't shut down @ midnight last night. We can argue who is to blame, the Dems or the Repubs. But it's all a big distraction, a ruse this "dysfunction" by our gov't witnessed by the people to get them bickering & arguing who is to blame. It's what the deep state wants, the old divide & conquer strategy to distract & deflect attention away from the real villains of this country the white supremacist elite deep state.
(1 comments) SHARE Tuesday, April 9, 2019 This is big
Chinese foreign Ministry spokesman said, "Latin American affairs are not a certain country's exclusive business, nor a certain country's backyard". A clear rebuke to Trump & his advisers telling Russia to get out of the country. Now Chinese troops are there. Not a formidable military presence but maybe enough to get the US to revise its plans for regime change."
(3 comments) SHARE Wednesday, December 29, 2010 A Mean Spirited Mentality About to Take Control in the House
Republicans are about to regain control in the House. A priority is beefing up enforcement and getting tough on illegal aliens. These people have become convenient scapegoats of the xenophobic among us who suspect all non white "foreigners". Republicans would deport them all even though that is impossible. A path to citizenship for illegal aliens must be a priori to any real solution. This seems lost on most Republicans.
(6 comments) SHARE Tuesday, June 22, 2021 In America why are the unvaccinated ostracized, cast as pariah's?
As to COVID those who have chosen not to be immunized are constantly bombarded w/ appeals to "Take one for the team, get the vaccine" something promoted by all MLB baseball teams. There's a concerted effort to get everyone vaccinated. It seems unrelenting. Most people in America probably believe it's un-American not to get the shot. The unvaccinated seem ostracized as pariah's. Is that fair? what happened to freedom of choice?
SHARE Thursday, January 31, 2013 The Crisis in Egypt
Mohamed elBaradei, an Egyptian & former head of the U.N.'s IAEA nuclear inspection agency & now a rep. for a secular party in Egypt has along w/ other disparate opposition groups urged talks w/ Pres. Morsi hoping to quell the present turmoil in the streets. Hopefully Morsi will agree to a dialogue w/ these groups & they can reconcile Egypt's fractious internal divisions & avoid going the way of Syria into civil war.
SHARE Wednesday, June 10, 2020 An ominous sign of what's to come?
This morning there was a picture of protesters tearing down a statue of Christopher Columbus in Richmond,VA. Byrd Park setting it on fire & throwing it in a nearby lake. From the time of Columbus America was built on genocide of the indigenous peoples & on the backs of blacks brought here as slaves. That's our true legacy. Not the fabricated one we were indoctrinated w/notthe land of the free & the home of the brave hyperbole.
(1 comments) SHARE Friday, April 16, 2021 A softer approach toward Russia?
W/ regard to Russia yesterday Pres. Biden told reporters, "Now is the time to de-escalate. The way forward is thru thoughtful dialogue & diplomatic process. The US is prepared to move forward constructively w/ that process". Last month he referred to Russian Pres. Putin as a killer. Now Biden's reaching out to Putin in a complete reversal of what he's been saying about him & Russia. Does he need Putin & Russia to help w/Iran?
(1 comments) SHARE Wednesday, December 9, 2020 Will the American people wake up? They're just pawns to be used and abused by the ruling elites that control the country
Will the American people wake up to the reality they're just pawns to be used & abused by the ruling elite that control the country? They've been so indoctrinated w/ the land of the free & home of the brave lies to let themselves be open to an alternative narrative from the one they were taught would cause cognitive dissonance throwing the world they'd come to believe in upside down. It's hard to imagine that happening.
(3 comments) SHARE Wednesday, January 5, 2011 Republicans, aka Ruthless and Unscupulous
To be Republican is to have no inner core, no guiding principles, no ethics; no integrity other than win at all costs. Methods, no matter how unscrupulous or duplicitous, whatever strategy for the moment is employed, defeat of the opposition is all that matters. Repubs. are ruthless. Obama and the Dems. failed to comprehend the ruthlessness of their Repub. opponents. They and us are about to pay the price for their ineptness.
(2 comments) SHARE Friday, September 4, 2015 Maintaining the veneer of a democracy
The West is @ a crisis crossroad. First w/ colonialism & exploitation now w/ coups, assassinations, false flag events, wars, occupations, torture, the crisis is exacerbated. Syria, Ukraine, the refugee crisis in Europe, a direct result of war in Africa & the Middle East. And in America overseeing these horrors sits the president, the "unitary executive", the dictator in charge, where the "veneer" of democracy is maintained.
(1 comments) SHARE Wednesday, August 8, 2012 An Autocracy with Secret "Legal" Memos Undergirding the Authority which "Caesar" Operates
In a truly free society laws calling for the indefinite detention &assassination of American citizens should be topics posed & debated by the candidates running for president. Such issues being ignored are a clear indicator of how we've transformed from a republic to an empire, the rule of law under the Constitution sacrificed for an autocracy w/ secret Justice Dep't memos undergirding the authority which "Caesar" operates.
SHARE Wednesday, March 24, 2021 Where exactly are the foreign policy achievements expected when Biden replaced Trump?
Since Biden became president foreign policy wise it's been a disaster. No new wars but antagonisms a plenty. No return to the nuclear deal w/ Iran, Biden referring to Vladimir Putin as a killer, a supposed diplomatic summit w/ China in Alaska with Sec'y of State Blinken admonishing China's supposed genocide of Uighirs, affairs in Hong Kong, Taiwan,- military activities in the S. China Sea. Hardly improved foreign relations.
(1 comments) SHARE Tuesday, January 31, 2017 Trouble ahead in the South China Sea
Of the troubling aspects w/ Trump being president most troubling has to do w/ foreign policy & US provocations against China in the S. China Sea. The US protecting 'freedom of navigation" in the S. China Sea is a ruse for the US to insert itself in an area outside its sphere of influence. Now Trump's Sec'y of State designee Rex Tillerson said, "I would block access to the islands in the S. China Sea". There's trouble ahead.
SHARE Thursday, January 19, 2017 Defending your country?
According to "The Saker" the mission of the Russian armed forces is to defend Russia & "The specific political objective given to the Russian military is quite simple: to deter or repel any attack against Russia". What exactly is the American military's mission? In Iraq the American soldier was told Saddam Hussein had WMD's, the primary reason given for the invasion. None were found. Thus the US military mission was bogus.
(12 comments) SHARE Friday, March 23, 2018 Oh my god, John Bolton named Trump's new National Security Adviser
Trump just named John Bolton as his new Nat'l Security Adviser. Bolton wasn't an original signee to the 1990's Project for the New American Century-the neo-con blueprint to destroy Iraq, Syria then Iran-but his comments advocating regime change in all those countries makes him fully in line w/ the Project's signatories. Bolton will certainly be in Trump's ear. If Trump follows Bolton's recommendations that's recipe for war.
SHARE Monday, October 14, 2013 Memo to NSA Director General Keith Alexander, "There is No "Misunderstanding" of What the "Agency" Collects
NSA Director Gen'l Keith Alexander in a 90 minute interview insisted, "We followed the law, we follow our policies, we self report, we identify problems, we fix them". To which we must ask, "Was that before or after Ed Snowden's whistleblower revelations on the NSA's surveillance & data mining on all electronic communications of everyone in the world? To everyone except the NSA there is no misunderstanding of what it collects.
(1 comments) SHARE Saturday, July 3, 2010 Dilemma: Manufacturing Jobs Available, Not Enough Applicants to Fill Them, What To Do
An interesting phenomenon is occurring in the manufacturing sector of the U.S. It is one of the bright spots in the economy, adding jobs rather than shedding them. Yet a problem exists between the skill levels of many of the job applicants and the specialized needs of manufacturers. "The people that are out of work just don't match the type of jobs that are here, open and growing." What we need to do on the jobs front.
(2 comments) SHARE Saturday, February 4, 2017 Take your pick Russia, China and Iran, All in the cross hairs of US machinations
Take your pick, Russia, China & Iran. All are in the crosshairs of US machinations ranging from war like provocations @ their borders, fomenting internal dissent to bring regime change, hegemony over them or war. W/ Trump in the WH it's no different than if a Democrat was in charge. Nuances, bombast may be different but the ultimate strategy remains the same. The US needs enemies & Russia, China & Iran are the new enemies.
(2 comments) SHARE Wednesday, October 11, 2017 Some serious hyperventilating lately over Trump's mental stability
There's been some hyperventilating lately over Trump's mental stability w/ Sen. Bob Corker R. Tenn. saying the White House is "an adult day care center" to which Pres. "tweet" replied Corker "didn't have the guts" to run for reelection. Regarding Trump a group of 27 psychiatrists conclude,"the specific symptoms, the severity of the symptoms, an inability to accept facts, rage reactions...all these things are signs of danger."
(3 comments) SHARE Wednesday, November 28, 2018 Ukraine Naval provocations against Russia at Kerch Strait
Last weekend an incident occurred in the Kerch Strait between Ukrainian Navy ships & the Russian Navy. Russia controls the Strait between Crimea & the Russian mainland. It separates the Black Sea from the Sea of Azov. Ships passing the Strait must notify Russian maritime officials before entering the Strait. The Ukrainian ships didn't & were detained by the Russians as aggressors. The US & Nato called it Russian aggression.
(1 comments) SHARE Sunday, July 25, 2010 Bush Era Tax Cuts Due to Expire in December, This Falls Big Political Battle
The Bush tax cuts of 2001 and 2003 are due to expire at the end of the year. For Democrats it should be a no brainer, keep the cuts for the middle class while restoring taxes for the rich to pre Bush era levels. The rich pay less in taxes; have tax shelters, off shore tax havens, foreign bank acc'ts, reduced taxes on dividends, capital gains and estates. It's all but a free ride that needs to change.
(4 comments) SHARE Sunday, May 23, 2010 The Current Intrigue over the Sinking of a South Korean Warship in March
Details remain sketchy but in March a N. Korean submarine apparently sank a S. Korean warship killing 46 men. American intelligence analysts are accusing Kim Jong-il as authorizing the attack (w/ no clear evidence). Sec'y Clinton wants to force consequences on the North. But could this sinking be a tit for tat retaliation by the North over a S. Korean victory last November where a N. Korean ship was damaged w/ N. Koreans lost
(8 comments) SHARE Wednesday, April 27, 2011 What's Behind the Heckling at the Recent Congressional Town Hall Meetings?
What was the true meaning of the ire displayed at last weeks town hall meetings on the proposed budget? It was discovered the people's ire was engineered by leftist political PACS making the bleatings no different than those right wingers (underwritten by Karl Rove and the Koch Bros) who heckled at town hall meetings during the health care "debate". These meetings are pure vaudeville contributing no real debate on the issues.
(3 comments) SHARE Thursday, December 8, 2016 Lauding Dick Cheney, we've officially lost our moral compass
A bust of former VP dick Cheney has been unveiled in the US Capitol w/ Dubya Bush gushing, "For 8 years Dick stood by my side & always did what was right for our nation". No. Cheney is a war criminal who along w/ the rest of the Bush crowd should have been prosecuted for war crimes & authorizing torture. Lauding Cheney this way reveals we've officially lost or moral compass; a perfect example of where America has descended.
(2 comments) SHARE Wednesday, January 22, 2014 Pessimism Stalks Peace Conference on Syria's Civil War
U.N. peace talks on Syria’s civil war begin today in Switzerland. Iran was asked to take part by U.N. Sec’y Gen’l Ban Ki-moon but after receiving pressure exerted by the U.S. he rescinded the offer. Iran has real influence over Syrian Pres. Bashar Assad & could have possibly helped to bring a cease fire that could begin to end the war. Instead U.S. mischief & myopia prevailed & these talks are likely to be still born.
(4 comments) SHARE Monday, September 24, 2018 A stroke of genius
Putin & Erdogan establishing a demilitarized zone around Idlib Province Syria was stroke of genius. W/ Turkish troops along w/ the Russians patrolling the 12.4 zone to be fully operational by Oct. 15, the days of al Qaeda militants retaining control are numbered. They'll be no Syrian army attack on Idlib thus no justification for US retaliation & no humanitarian crisis which the US MSM assumed would happen.
(1 comments) SHARE Saturday, August 15, 2020 The sad truth of US duplicity
Yesterday the US proposed before the UN Security Council snapback sanctions be placed on Iran that are due to expire in Oct. the Coucil rejected the US proposal. In 2018 Pres.Trump w/drew the US from the 2015 nuclear deal w/ Iran. Therefore the US is no longer a party to the deal. Yet after the Council vote US Ambassador to the UN Kelly Craft said, The US has every right to impose the snapback mechanism on Iran.
(1 comments) SHARE Saturday, July 2, 2016 Morally Bankrupt, US will now disclose "bystanders" killed each year in drone strikes
The Obama adm. announced Friday airstrikes it has conducted outside conventional war zones have killed 64 to 116 civilian bystanders. "Bystanders" that's the NY Times word choice for innocents killed in drone strikes. Presumably its Obama's attempt @ transparency. For sure survivors of "bystanders" killed in Pakistan, Yemen, Somalia will now feel greatly relieved the practice will be disclosed. How's that for moral bankruptcy.
SHARE Monday, June 1, 2020 Some cops in Portland, Oregon knelt in solidarity with protesters, a huge step in the right direction
The police killing of George Floyd last Monday in Minneapolis has escalated in protests & violence nationwide. Some violence possibly incited by agent-provocateurs. It shouldn't be condoned. However, vocal protests in the streets are understandable when in most instances the cops are exonerated. Some cops in Portland, OR. knelt in solidarity w/protesters. Such a visible display by cops would be a step in the right direction.
(4 comments) SHARE Monday, May 17, 2021 Genocide by the apartheid Israeli regime
What Israel has been doing since its inception in 1948 is the systematic genocide of the Palestinian's. US support of Israel gives it license to commit this atrocity knowing it can act w/ impunity. All the world recognizes Israel's apartheid policy against the Palestinian's. The world must continue condemning Israel as a pariah state boycotting it, forcing it to end its apartheid rule & force it to return to its 1948 borders.
(1 comments) SHARE Friday, August 31, 2012 A Man Running for the Senate who "will accept no money for his campaign"
We're aware of the effect of money on politics, its influence on the agenda, the laws enacted & the moneyed interests that benefit. Daniel Geery running for Senator in Utah will accept no money for his campaign &says we should run our country on principles &good ideas w/ no taint of money influencing decisions decisions. Geery represents the true intent of the founders, the citizen/legislator serving the public as civic duty.
SHARE Wednesday, March 26, 2014 Obama, No Military Force Against Russia over Crimea, To All Neo-Cons, That's Fait Accompli
Pres. Obama said yesterday the US wouldn’t use military force against Russia over its annexation of Crimea saying it wasn’t part of NATO & the alliance would use force only if a NATO country was being threatened. In other words it’s fait accompli. All the vitriol toward Putin we’ve been hearing is primarily symbolic gestures. Obama put the exclamation pt. on the whole matter by rejecting any military action.
(1 comments) SHARE Thursday, August 1, 2019 Trying to remain sane in the midst of a surreal "official" state of chaos
Persuading the propagandized. That's what some of us attempt in countering what the gov't & its MSM claim as fact. Many people seem closed off from anything that runs counter to what they've come to believe. Unless one is open to other views there often is outright resistance. Now we have domestic & foreign policy by tweet from a Pres. Trump. It's like trying to remain sane in the midst of a surreal "official" state of chaos.
(3 comments) SHARE Wednesday, March 19, 2014 U.S. to Putin and Russia- Condemnation, Demonization, Threats and Stirring Up Hysteria
In lieu of Putin’s actions & annexing Crimea, after the people there voted to join Russia, we’re hearing VP Biden calling it a “land grab” & Sec’y of State Kerry alluding to it as reminiscent of the “buildup to WWII”. It’s nothing of the sort. They’re just issuing threats, stirring up hysteria while condemning & demonizing Putin & Russia. The real danger to the world is the U.S., not Putin & Russia.
SHARE Tuesday, August 22, 2017 "In the end we will win"
"In the end we will win". Those words from Trump last night when he went along w/ his generals & increased the number of troops in Afghanistan. The NY Times put it, "Trump accepted the logic that a big 'military' approach was needed to prevent Afghanistan from again becoming a launching pad for terrorism against the US". Ah yes the terrorism card always handy to scare Americans into believing terrorists are out to get them.
(2 comments) SHARE Friday, October 17, 2014 Latest Pentagon Folly, a $30 million Sanitized, Revisionist History of the Vietnam War
The Pentagon has launched a $30 million program to commemorate the 50th anniversary of the Vietnam War which Prof. Marjorie Cohn accurately depicts as a "$30 million program to rewrite & sanitize its history". The program focused on "honoring our service members who fought in Vietnam, but conspicuously absent is a description of the antiwar movement" while referring to the "My Lai massacre" as simply the "My Lai "incident".
(11 comments) SHARE Friday, June 19, 2015 "We're not worth the air they don't want us to breathe"
Dylann Roof the white suspect is now in custody for committing the mass murder of 9 black people @ the Emanuel AME Church in Charleston, S.C. That a white racist took it upon himself to gun down those who represent the people he hates in nothing new. One black man interviewed put it succinctly, "We're not worth the air they don't want us to breathe", referring to white people in Charleston How's that for an indictment.
(4 comments) SHARE Friday, April 23, 2010 Can there be any doubt there is a need for "real" immigration reform in this country?
Can there be any doubt there is a need for "real" immigration reform in this country? There are probably 20 million illegal aliens here. These people often take the jobs "Americans" are unwilling to do. There is a duality to the problem of illegal immigration of which the extreme right and left offer no real solution. A middle course of elements of the extremes contains a solution. It is long past time for "real" reform.
(1 comments) SHARE Saturday, May 21, 2011 Obama to Netanyahu, A Picture Worth a Thousand Words
President Obama looked none too happy sitting opposite Israeli PM Netanyahu yesterday in the White House. The ice we saw was all too apparent, but Obama stood his ground w/ his implacable Israeli counterpart. He set the tone in his speech on Thursday and followed through on Friday. He needs to stay committed and get the Israeli's to accept the 67' borders as the legitimate starting point for negotiations w/ the Palestinians.
SHARE Tuesday, May 17, 2011 We Are at War All Over The World
Leave no doubt; we are at war all over the world. A classified executive order AQN Ex Ord or Al Qaeda Network Executive Order was signed by then Sec'y of Defense Donald Rumsfeld in 2004 and now expanded by Pres. Obama. It allows "US Special Forces to move to denied areas or countries beyond official battle zones and to operate lethally and unilaterally in any country around the globe. We are at war everywhere.
SHARE Monday, December 5, 2011 The Occupy Movement, Highlighting the Excesses of Fraud, Inequality and Corruption
Though many occupy movement encampments have been forcibly removed this movement is more than pitching tents and retaining a plot of grass or concrete in a city plaza. It is the beginning of a revolutionary movement here for the long haul. It has highlighted severe problems and issues exposing the fraud, inequality and corruption perpetrated by the 1% over the 99%. It represents the chance to rescue and save this country.
(1 comments) SHARE Friday, October 28, 2016 "Full Spectrum Dominance", a mirage?
Full Spectrum Dominance, the Pentagon's plan to have military control over land, sea, air & outer space. Is it a mirage? It appears the plan has been effectively neutralized by Russia's advanced missile defense systems. Investigative journalist Pepe Escobar reports, "the Russian S-500 anti-missile system effectively seals Russia's air space". If so this effectively makes the Pentagon's Full Spectrum Dominance plan a mirage.
(24 comments) SHARE Wednesday, June 30, 2010 The Supreme Court's Majority Ruling Restricting State and Local Government's Ban on Firearms
Monday's 5 to 4 ruling by the Supreme Court restricting states and local gov'ts from enforcing their gun control laws furthers the folly of a citizen carrying a gun is legal and appropriate, even in today's often violent urban settings. It's as if the law enforcement authorities of our large cities are unknowledgeable in a matter they deal w/ daily. The Court's majority is living in a fictionalized past.
(1 comments) SHARE Tuesday, September 18, 2018 A step back from the brink in Idlib,Syria
Yesterday Russian Pres. Putin & Turkish Pres. Erdogan agreed on a demilitarized zone of 20 kilometers-12.4 miles- separating Syrian troops from al Qaeda militants in Idlib Province, Syria. Russian & Turkish troops will enforce the zone. All military arms & ammo are to be removed. Idlib people will be allowed to enter the zone then go to other areas of Syria. At least it's a step back from the brink of an expanded war in Syria.
(2 comments) SHARE Friday, April 4, 2014 SCOTUS Rulings First with Citizens United, now McCutcheon are The Smoking Guns Revealing a Completely Broken System
Many thought SCOTUS outdid themselves in 2010 ruling in favor of Citizens United. They did one better ruling in favor of McCutcheon. Citizens unleashed the flood of corp. $ McCutcheon will let individuals like the Koch Bros. insure the stooges they select get elected. These rulings are the smoking gun revealing the broken system & why getting big money out of the electoral process requires amending the constitution.
SHARE Thursday, November 17, 2011 The Occupy Movement, Energized and Determined More Than Ever
Things are evolving w/ the occupy movement despite crackdowns tearing down their encampments. At U.C. Berkeley 1000's massed at Sproul Hall, the site of massive protests in the 1960's against the Viet Nam war. Today w/ massive loans and few jobs a new generation has found its voice and in solidarity w/ OWS is energized and more determined than ever to push on and continue; far from being broken.
(4 comments) SHARE Wednesday, July 22, 2015 A Day of Reckoning is Coming
A day of reckoning is coming. The signs are everywhere. Whether it's a horrific economic dislocation similar to the '30's depression affecting most of the people, a new world war or an environmental catastrophe, a reckoning is coming. Yet these are ALL man-made phenomena & thus avoidable.The solutions are known, but not taken. It all depends whether we take the appropriate actions necessary to prevent the calamity.
(3 comments) SHARE Friday, September 25, 2020 We live in the most dangerous time in world history
We live in the most dangerous time in world history as the specter of nuclear war makes it so. During the cold war between the US and USSR there was a mutual understanding if either side initiated a nuclear war it would be annihilated in a retaliatory nuclear strike by the other. Now the US renounces nuclear arms control agreements. We're in uncharted territory, miscalculation, even an accident could bring a nuclear holocaust.
(1 comments) SHARE Wednesday, May 8, 2019 They truly are mad
Trump's Nat'l Security Adviser John Bolton just days ago ordered the USS Abraham Lincoln carrier group to the Middle East "to send a clear & unmistakable message to the Iranian regime that any attack on the US interests or those of any of our allies will be met w/unrelenting force". Is this the prelude to war w/ Iran? There doesn't seem to be any entity in "official" Washington capable of stopping this mad rush to war w/Iran.
(4 comments) SHARE Monday, October 8, 2018 Kavanaugh, the "fix" was in from the beginning
From the day Trump nominated Brett Kavanaugh to replace retiring Justice Anthony on the Supreme Court the "fix" was in. Repubs controlled the Senate & there was no way Senate Repub Majority leader Mitch McConnell was going to delay the vote on Kavanaugh's nomination despite the convincing testimony of Christine Ford before the Senate Judiciary Committee of Kavanaugh's sexual abuse while both were in high school in the 1980's.
(3 comments) SHARE Wednesday, March 21, 2018 Judgment reached, no evidence required
The story out of Britain the last 2 weeks over the suspected nerve agent attack of former Soviet double agent Sergei Skripal & his daughter has PM Teresa may saying it's "highly likely Russia was responsible" & is "a direct act by the Russian state against our country". No evidence presented, just allegations & accusations. It's reminiscent of 1950's Mccarthyism, false allegations of people being Communist, no evidence req'd.
SHARE Monday, July 11, 2011 Extremism, Endless War, Apathy and Passive Indifference
There are times the disenchantment feels overwhelming, that the forces of unnecessary endless war are endemic while the majority of people remain apathetic and passively indifferent. It makes one want to shout, "Don't you see; don't you realize what's going on?"
(3 comments) SHARE Thursday, January 31, 2019 It's astounding how blatant US machinations are regarding Venezuela
It's astounding how blatant US machinations are regarding Venezuela. Simply, overthrow the gov't of Pres. Maduro. A coup is taking place interfering in the internal affairs of a sovereign country. Russia among others support Maduro. However, Venezuela & Maduro are not Syria & Assad where Russia was officially invited to intervene. It's hard to see Russia intervening militarily in Venezuela even if they were invited by Maduro.
SHARE Tuesday, October 21, 2014 Obama to Send Delegation to Geneva and Appear Before UN "Committee Against Torture"
Next month Obama must send a delegation to Geneva to appear before the "Committee Against Torture", the UN panel that monitors compliance w/ the UN treaty banning "cruel, inhuman & degrading treatment". The administration hasn't done so in the almost 6 yrs. of Obama's presidency. Anyway, where was the committee after the Abu Ghraib videos went viral on the Web in 2004? They clearly revealed the US was torturing detainees.
(5 comments) SHARE Monday, January 9, 2012 Guantanamo, that "place of suffering and injustice"
Yesterday the NY Times published "My Guantanamo Nightmare" by Lakhdar Boumediene on his 7 yr detention there w/o explanation & why he was imprisoned even though he was innocent. Taken by rendition in 2002, & tortured he was released in 2009 after a SCOTUS decision and a Fed'l Court judge ruling in Wash, DC. His detention was a reprehensible act authorized by our gov't. The ordeal he describes is not what we should be about.
(6 comments) SHARE Monday, September 17, 2012 Netanyahu's Influence Peddling into the U.S. Presidential Election
It's less than 2 months before the U.S.pres. election & Israel's P.M. Benjamin Netanyahu is on the Sunday morning political talk show circuit pushing Obama to establish red lines against Iran's nuclear program which he openly rejected last week. It's a clear attempt by Netanyahu to influence the election. It may be legal but it is irresponsible for the media to allow such foreign meddling so close to the November elections.
SHARE Thursday, November 4, 2021 Severe negative implications of Biden's vaccine mandate few are talking about
Biden is going full bore w/his vaccine mandate now extended to Jan.4. OSHA is slated to enforce the mandate. The question is does Biden have the authority to issue such a mandate w/out Congress enacting legislation on it? The American Trucking Ass'n says there's a historic shortage of truck drivers. ATA estimates a 1% loss of truck drivers will be massive & crippling to our supply chain & economy. Has Biden considered this?
(1 comments) SHARE Wednesday, December 21, 2011 Thousand's of Women in Cairo March in Protest Against Egyptian Military's Brutality of Women
Yesterday saw 1000's of Egyptian women marching in downtown Cairo over the military's brutal treatment of women. The catalyst for the revolt was the beating and stripping of an Egyptian woman on Saturday w/ pictures of the brutal assault going viral over the net. Two questions abound; could this women's march improve their plight and could it help increase pressure on the military to cede power to civilian authority?
SHARE Wednesday, September 27, 2017 It's more than Trump's racist tweets
Racism is evident in Trump's S.O.B. tweets against NFL & NBA players. But it's more than Trump's racism in America. For whites we're also the privileged descendents of the white supremacists who committed genocide of the indigenous peoples as well as brought slavery to this continent. How many white Americans would openly admit to the privilege they have just being born white in America? We're in need of some honest dialogue.
(1 comments) SHARE Wednesday, October 20, 2021 What world is the Biden administration living in?
Yesterday Sec'y of Defense Lloyd Austin was in Kiev, Ukraine denouncing Russia & its affairs w/ that country i.e. Russia started the war in Ukraine, Russia is the obstacle to a peaceful resolution, Russia must end its occupation of Crimea, stop perpetrating the war in eastern Ukraine, end its destabilizing activities in the Black Sea. It's not Russian activities in Ukraine responsible for destabilizing Ukraine. It's the US.
(1 comments) SHARE Saturday, August 22, 2020 US willing to cripple UN Security Council
Scott Ritter's latest, "US willing to dismantle UN security Council to put pressure on Iran" is a detailed acc't to what the US is up to regarding Iran, the 2015 nuclear deal Trump reneged on in 2018 & UN snap back sanctions if Iran wasn't complying. Now official Washington is ready to do anything to get the snap back sanctions implemented even if US allies Britain, France&Germany oppose US intentions, as they did a week ago.
(1 comments) SHARE Friday, November 9, 2012 U.S. Drones in Persian Gulf Provoking Iran?
According to the NY Times "Iran Fired on Military Drone in First Such Attack." Two Iranian planes shot @ the drone in the Persian Gulf reportedly over int'l waters just 16 miles from the Iranian coast. But isn't flying drones perilously close to Iranian territory an unnecessary provocation? Could the drone operator 1000's of miles away have miscalculated & actually flown over Iranian territory?
(2 comments) SHARE Sunday, December 29, 2013 Two Contradictory Rulings on the NSA's Surveillance Methods, Probably Headed to the Supreme Court
Less than 2 weeks ago US District Court Judge Richard Leon ruled against the NSA's collection of meta data calling it Orwellian & probably unconstitutional. On Friday US District Court Judge William Pauley found the NSA's meta data methods constitutional & didn't violate the 4th Amendment. W/ these 2 contradictory rulings & expected 34appeals the final outcome is probably headed to the Supreme Court.
(2 comments) SHARE Thursday, December 18, 2014 US diplomatic relations with Cuba restored, Embargo remains in place, only act of Congress can end it
By now we're all aware the US & Cuba renewed diplomatic relations. It took 18 months of secret negotiations yet completed w/ a simple phone call by Obama & Cuban Pres. Raul Castro. Yet the US embargo of Cuba remains in place requiring an act of Congress to end it. No small hurdle to overcome. Repubs. said it was a very bad deal & Dems. may join them opposed to ending the economic, commercial & financial blockade.
SHARE Monday, June 1, 2015 A powder keg in the South China Sea with Washington all too ready to light the fuse
China issued a 9,000 word white paper last week revealing a military strategy of active defense while pledging close int'l cooperation & not attacking unless we are attacked. This comes as the US is dispatching military planes & ships w/in 18 kilometers of the artificial islands China built in the Spratly Islands in the South China Sea. The situation is volatile. A US provocation could happen forcing China to defend itself.
(18 comments) SHARE Saturday, July 24, 2010 When It Comes To Greed, There Is No Shame
When it comes to greed, there is no shame. That's the reaction from this end when reading about a gov't report released Friday regarding Wall St. bonuses of $1.6 billion paid by co's who were bailed out by the gov't. This was not a new revelation but seeing the names of some of the most egregious (AIG, Goldman) renewed the disgust one felt when these revelations first came to light.
SHARE Saturday, January 30, 2010 What the President "Unwittingly Revealed" Wednesday Night
As the president gave his "State of the Union" address, one recalls why he was elected last year. His use of the word, "should", when he spoke of health care, rings in the head of this observer. As he referenced Americans losing their health care insurance, he said, "I will not walk away from these Americans. And neither should the people in this chamber." Does this "unwittingly reveal" his own responsibility, culpability?
SHARE Friday, March 20, 2020 Impact of coronavirus in US, we're already in a recession
Where are "things" headed 2 weeks after the coronavirus was taken seriously in the US? A $trillion dollar proposal is in the Senate w/ a $1200 payment to individuals, assistance to businesses large 7 small & tax cuts. Good news is in China no new cases reported. bad news Italy, 627 deaths in last 24 hrs. w/total dead 4032. Stocks down, oil @ 423.70. Not reported by MSM but w/most business shut down we're in a recession.
(8 comments) SHARE Wednesday, June 8, 2016 "Startling" US survey reveals public support for nuclear strikes
A July 2015 survey -recently published by the WS Journal asked, " Would the US drop the bomb again?"-revealed US public support for nuclear strikes. The survey used a fictional scenario mirroring Pearl Harbor. If Iran attacked a US aircraft carrier in the Persian Gulf would the US public support a nuclear attack on an Iranian city killing 100,000 civilians. 59% backed using a nuclear bomb even w/ vast civilian casualties
(3 comments) SHARE Thursday, October 28, 2021 The January 6th insurrection, FBI agent provocateurs fomenting it?
As to the January 6th "insurrection" @ the Capitol building, it's become so politicized we may never know the truth of why it happened & who was behind it. There is a hypothesis put forward that has the FBI as the perpetrator behind the riot that day sending its own agent provocateurs to foment the insurrection. Something official Washington & its agencies have clandestinely & repeatedly engaged in.
(1 comments) SHARE Saturday, July 10, 2021 Taking a short stroll into some infamous US history
America was built @ the expense-exploitation of others. When the Constitution was ratified by 9 states 8 were slave states including N.Y. & N.J. as well as MD., Del., VA.,N.C., S.C., & GA. Only Mass., CT, R.I., N.H. & PA. were free states. So slavery was a dominant feature of most of the nation from its inception. Voting was for white men landowners, merchants, lawyers only. All women & landless white men were excluded.
(2 comments) SHARE Tuesday, December 7, 2010 A Sign of Things to Come
Yesterday Barack Obama cut a deal with his Republican opponents agreeing to extend the Bush era tax cuts for the rich in order to get unemployment benefits about to end for two million extended for a year. This apparently was Obama's idea of bi partisanship. It was a harbinger of what to expect the next two years; a weak president unwilling to take on the Republicans. That bodes ill for the country.
(6 comments) SHARE Wednesday, November 14, 2012 They are not "Heroes"
In America our media has engaged in extolling our military so often as "heroes" they present it as almost shocking when those heroes all too human frailties are discovered & their "heroism" becomes tarnished over tawdry sexual escapades. Now we're titillated by a former general's sexual indiscretions as if his fall from grace is an issue. The real issue is our unnecessary war mongering & that's not even in the conversation.
(16 comments) SHARE Saturday, March 26, 2022 A false flag chemical weapons attack in Ukraine and Russia is blamed?
Of late there's been accusations Russia could use chemical weapons in Ukraine. What's worrisome there could be a false flag chemical weapons attack & blame it on Russia. It happened in Syria. Obama sent missiles attacking the Syrian army after allegations were made the Syrian gov't ordered a chemical weapons attack on its people. The allegations proved false. How would Biden act if Russia was alleged to order such an attack?
(2 comments) SHARE Tuesday, August 14, 2018 Crazed American war-makers
In Finian Cunningham's latest article,"War or Peace" he surmises "the American regime be abolished or replaced w/ something truly democratic. If not disaster could be our fate." Peace is problematic considering the tentacles of the military/industrial/political complex reach deep into every significant institution in America, where people's livelihoods are dependent on them being complicit w/that complex.
SHARE Tuesday, January 21, 2020 Was cyberwarfare involved in downing of Ukrainian Airliner Flight 752?
"There is much still to explain about the downing of Ukrainian Airlines Flight 752, according to Philip Giraldi's article, Who Targeted Ukrainian Airliner Flight 752?, Iran Shot It Down But There May Be More To The Story. He hypothesizes..."cyberwarfare carried out by the US & possibly Israeli gov'ts" involving elements that have yet to be explained including electronic jamming & the planes transponder being turned off.
(3 comments) SHARE Friday, November 1, 2013 NSA Director Alexander says, "There is nothing that anyone from the NSA has done that is wrong."
On Thursday NSA Director Gen'l Keith Alexander gave a talk @ the Baltimore Council of Foreign Affairs. Among his remarks he said, "There is nothing that anyone from the NSA or Cyber Command has done that is wrong". Not so Gen'l when it's been confirmed you lied before Congress. The questions is why haven't you been fired, charged w/ a felony & still allowed to give talks when its been confirmed you've been lying?
(1 comments) SHARE Sunday, November 28, 2010 With Sorrow and Foreboding, The Spectre of Endless War
On Friday the U.S. surpassed the USSR in longevity of each country's war in Afghanistan. This war is just the overt point of our commitment to engaging in an endless war on terrorism. For terrorism and terrorists are the new enemy (replacing Communism) that we must fight to the death everywhere. It is an unwinnable undertaking that will lead to our undoing.
SHARE Sunday, May 24, 2020 A way the country could be fundamentally changed
We're living in a potentially revolutionary time in this country. The people know instinctively neither the Democrats or Republicans represent their interests. The people would support a progressive coalition not aligned w/ the two major parties if one existed. If there was a progressive majority in Congress representing the will of the people and their interests, the country would be fundamentally changed.
(1 comments) SHARE Friday, January 30, 2015 Netanyahu to speak before joint session of Congress, his "domestic audience"
Yeah it's a bit of old news, House Speaker John Boehner inviting Israeli PM Bibi Netanyahu to speak before congress giving him the bully pulpit to voice the threat-nonexistent-Iran poses not just to Israel but the world & his attempt to try & scuttle the current P5plus1 negotiations w/ Iran. But remember, this is the Israeli PM we're talking about; the US is his "domestic territory". Let's not quibble. Boehner surely didn't.
(2 comments) SHARE Thursday, January 12, 2012 A Dangerous Game Israel and the U.S. are Playing with Iran
A car bomb killed an Iranian nuclear scientist in Tehran yesterday. Iran accused the Israeli's and the US. Both denied their involvement. Sec'y Clinton insinuates Iran must end its provocative behavior, yet what countries are exhibiting the provocative behavior? It's a dangerous game Israel and the US are playing. What may happen if Israel and the US push Iran to the breaking point?
SHARE Saturday, June 11, 2011 "Old Soldiers Never Die, They Just Fade Away", and Some Not So Gracefully
Sec'y of Defense Robert Gates is retiring, apparently not so gracefully. The old cold war warrior threw a few bomb lets at NATO yesterday accusing them of relying too much on the U.S. for Europe's defense and not doing enough in Afghanistan. Bah, humbug. Both Gates and NATO are cold war anachronisms, irrelevant and unnecessary. Both are in need of being placed on the scrap heap.
SHARE Tuesday, November 17, 2015 Madness reigns in the West caused by its own doing
In response to Friday's terrorist attacks in Paris French Pres. Hollande yesterday said , "France is @ war". He's sent French planes to bomb IS HQ in Raqqa, Syria & dispatched its aircraft carrier Charles de Gaulle to sail into the Persian Gulf. What he didn't do is request NATO to send ground forces to invade Syria risking the unthinkable pitting the US against Russia. Madness reigns in the West caused by its own doing.
(4 comments) SHARE Wednesday, November 7, 2012 The Interminable Presidential Extravaganza is Over. Obama Wins a 2nd Term. What Now?
Well the interminable presidential extravaganza finally ended & Obama won a 2nd term. Apparently progressives in swing states swallowed hard & voted for the lesser evil. We face many problems & issues. Is Obama up to the task? Now freed up w/ no more elections will a transformational presidency be able to emerge? Could a reincarnation of FDR happen? Or is that expecting a miracle, like Moses parting of the Red Sea?
(1 comments) SHARE Monday, December 1, 2014 Russia "demonized", suspected behind anti fracking protests
The NY Times published a story denouncing Russian natural gas giant Gazprom of funding anti fracking protests that helped shut down an initial fracking operation by Chevron in a small town in Romania. No proof was given of Gazprom's underwriting the protests other than speculation, fueled by "Cold war-style suspicion" and "Russian meddling" which environmental groups denounce as a "frenzy of paranoia". Paranoia, indeed!
(2 comments) SHARE Tuesday, November 22, 2011 The Scene of Despicable Police Behavior at UC Davis
The events @ the Univ. of Cal. Davis have gone viral. Students sitting arm & arm w/ heads down were pepper sprayed indiscriminately by 2 cops as if the students were cockroaches. Increasingly on college campuses authorities are overreacting and resorting to brutal tactics to quell protests. It will do nothing but galvanize the resolve of demonstrators to continue w/ protests which will grow in sympathy on other campuses.
(1 comments) SHARE Monday, March 25, 2019 It's a multi-polar world yet US clings to the illusion it's a single polar world under its dominance
In a move to assert its sovereignty Italy inked a deal w/ China's Pres. Xi joining China's Belt & Road initiative. The US was not pleased. A spokesman said, " We are skeptical of the Italian gov'ts endorsement it may end up harming Italy's global reputation. He earlier tweeted, "No need for Italian gov't to lend legitimacy to China's vanity project". So condemn it as nothing more than Chinese vanity. It's almost laughable.
(2 comments) SHARE Tuesday, March 21, 2017 Unsubstantiated allegations aplenty, verifiable facts zero. Basically it's trust us
Yesterday FBI Dir. Comey & NSA Dir. Rogers testified as witnesses before the House Intel Committee on "Russia's active interference waged against our 2016 pres. election. Unsubstantiated allegations aplenty; verifiable facts zero. Specifics are classified & issues can't be discussed. Basically it's trust us. This from an NSA that lies as a given & conducts illegal electronic surveillance of everyone including all Americans.
(8 comments) SHARE Wednesday, April 2, 2014 As Expected, Continuing Bluster from NATO with Russia not in "Compliance with International Law"
Yesterday NATO suspended all practical & military cooperation w/ Russia & ordered plans to increase its military presence in Eastern Europe. It’s mainly bluster & response to Crimea joining Russia & Russian troops conducting training exercises near the southern & eastern border of Ukraine. But the idea of Russia invading a NATO country is a fantasy of the cold war era yet something the US media seems intent to resurrect.
(3 comments) SHARE Tuesday, February 24, 2015 Does Collective Insouciance Reign in America?
How else to put it; collective insouciance-w/out a care-seems to reign in America. As to the problems, issues & events in America & the world most seem oblivious while texting away furiously on their smart phones they're immersed in. They seem in an insular cocoon where the reality happening around them, to say nothing of the world has no place in their insular world.
(12 comments) SHARE Wednesday, September 19, 2012 Time to End the Lesser of Evil Choice for President
The presidential election is 7 weeks away. To Mitt Romney 47% of the people are dependent on gov't. believe they're victims, entitled to health care, food, housing & the gov't should give it to them. "My job is not worry about these people." Pres. Obama meanwhile is running for reelection on the unspoken premise "Would you rather have Romney as president? This is the lesser of evils choice that needs to come to an end.
SHARE Tuesday, September 3, 2013 War Monger Bloviating This Week in Washington
Be prepared for a weeklong charade of war monger bloviating in Washington w/ a full court press by the Obama administration on the Congress for them to vote & give the president cover in sending a missile strike "message" to Syrian Pres. Bashar Assad over his alleged chemical weapons use last week. It still won't be legal & a clear violation of the U.N. Charter. Syria didn't attack the U.S. & is no imminent threat to the U.S.
(2 comments) SHARE Monday, January 17, 2011 "Stuxnet", The Latest Cyber Warfare Weapon
"Stuxnet" is the latest cyber warfare weapon; a computer worm developed by the Israeli's and the Americans that has been successful in the sabotaging Iran's nuclear centrifuges for enriching uranium. This sabotage will likely heighten Iran's resolve and sense of urgency to gain nuclear weapons capability. It will likely make the U.S. more vulnerable to cyber attack in retaliation.
SHARE Wednesday, February 5, 2020 Trump's State of the Union address, theater of the absurd
Last night Trump gave his State of the Union address best described as theater of the absurd. He first honored Juan Guaido self proclaimed pres. of Venezuela, the imposter to succeed Pres.Maduro in a US inspired coup. Never happened. Trump then honored Rush Limbaugh giving him the Pres. Medal of Freedom further tarnishing its reputation to recognize someone's distinguished service to the country. A mostly unforgettable night.
SHARE Tuesday, May 16, 2017 Neo-McCarthyism writ large over the American political landscape
With all the harrumphing coming from the corporate MSM over Trumps firing of FBI Director James Comey last Tuesday & some Senate Dems likening it to the Nixon/Watergate era calling for a special prosecutor something about the whole affair came off as deliberately skewed. It's neo McCarthyism writ large over the American political landscape but there's no Edward R. Morrow to set the present dystopia straight.
(1 comments) SHARE Monday, May 1, 2017 A dystopia in real time
To the US gov't we the people are the enemy. Surveillance camera's everywhere, the ubiquitous If you see something say something to make us fearful of would be terrorists. All meant to keep tabs on us & w/ electronic surveillance of our phones & computers we're under constant surveillance. As for gov'ts explanation of nat'l & int'l incidents, "official" lies have become the natural order of things; a dystopia in real time.
(1 comments) SHARE Saturday, April 16, 2011 Qaddafi Found Using Cluster Bombs in Libya, What About U.S. Doing the Same in Afghanistan, Pakistan and Yemen
Yesterday came news that Qaddafi dropped cluster bombs in Misurata, Libya. The Int'l Convention on Cluster Munitions banned there use. Qaddafi wasn't a signatory but neither is the U.S. The real news was more about our NOT acknowledging the use of cluster bombs in our wars rather than just learning Qaddafi using them against his own people.
SHARE Wednesday, June 24, 2020 Key words of our time, unpredictable and precarious
Two words depict our present time, unpredictable & precarious. Be it covid-19, unemployment,debt-national, personal, college loan debt, soon evictions of people unable to pay the rent, commercial bankruptcy, protests over the police murder of George Floyd,outcome of the presidential election, US provocations against nuclear superpowers just to name a few issues facing us. More unpredictable & precarious than any other time.
SHARE Thursday, January 19, 2012 A Call to Amend the Constitution and Reverse Citizens United
The Maryland State Legislature is about to send a letter to the U.S. Congress calling for a constitutional amendment to overturn Citizens United. The Congress needs to act responsibly and forward an amendment for ratification by the states. The corporate usurpation of the electoral process in this country must be ended. The Citizens United ruling by SCOTUS must be repealed.
(7 comments) SHARE Friday, August 20, 2010 Roger Clemons Indicted on Perjury Charges. Is this What the Justice Department Should be Focusing On?
The headline read, "Roger Clemons Indicted on Perjury Charges". Is this what the Justice Dep't should be focusing on? There have been some pretty heinous decisions made by some really bad people and as a result of those decisions people were killed, maimed and tortured. The Bush/Cheney mob perpetrated an illegal war based on lies. Why haven't they been indicted? What Clemons did is a petty sideshow in comparison.
(10 comments) SHARE Wednesday, December 12, 2018 Are 75% of Americans ignorant of what its government has done in its name in world affairs?
A late November Gallop poll has 75% of Americans believing the US "has a special responsibility to be a leading nation in world affairs". What does this mean? Leading how? A "leading" nation initiating coups, wars, overthrowing legitimately elected gov'ts? Are 75% of Americans ignorant of what its gov't has done in in its name in world affairs?
(6 comments) SHARE Friday, August 24, 2012 U.N. Secretary General Going to Iran despite U.S. and Israeli Objections
Ban Ki Moon the Sec'y Gen'l of the U.N. is going to Iran next week to attend the summit mtg. of the 120 nation non aligned movement over U.S. and Israeli objections. Israeli PM Netanyahu says "Your visit will grant legitimacy to a regime that is the greatest threat to world peace &security". But that's shear propaganda. It is the U.S. and Israeli policy's & actions that pose the greatest threats to world peace & security.
(4 comments) SHARE Monday, January 23, 2017 Trump formally withdraws US from TPP
Today Pres. Trump formally withdrew the US from the TPP, Trans-Pacific Partnership. The NY Times called it "a drastic reversal of decades of economic policy" essentially condemning Trumps action. How about the Democrats that have been against the TPP since Wikileaks released the text of the secret deal in October, 2015? Will they now join the Times in condemning Trump over w/drawing from the TPP or will they support his move?
SHARE Wednesday, March 30, 2016 What is the US doing in the South China Sea?
What is the US doing in the S. China Sea? Supposedly to keep the shipping lanes open. It's just an updated version of gunboat diplomacy. The exceptional US believes its navy has the right to traverse sea lanes everywhere. The S. China Sea islands has been a local dispute for decades between China, Viet Nam, Philippines, Malaysia & Brunei. Now the US has put itself squarely into the dispute upping the ante potential for war.
(4 comments) SHARE Thursday, March 3, 2022 Some reasons why Putin attacked Ukraine
It is being simplistic to automatically condemn Putin & Russia for its attack in Ukraine. There have been ongoing attacks in Ukraine since the coup in Kiev in Feb. 2014 that forced legitimately elected Ukraine Pres. Viktor Yanukovych to flee the country. A coup that brought neo Nazi's into the post coup gov't. A coup the US abetted as a complicit enabler. It appears Putin means to rectify that US injustice his way.
SHARE Friday, January 4, 2013 Senate Filibuster Reform Vote Delayed Until January 22
Keep your eye on Jan.22. That's the date Senate Democrats could amend the filibuster rule by a simple majority 51 votes. Though Senate rule changes must be voted on the opening day of business yesterday's session didn't end as Maj. Leader Harry Reid put the day in recess thus allowing the 1st day to rollover. Let's hope Senate Dems. exercise some Mojo & vote to reform the filibuster on the 22nd.
(1 comments) SHARE Friday, November 20, 2015 Killing all alleged suspects in Paris attacks, a tell tale sign "official" narrative is suspect
It's been a week since the terrorist attacks in Paris. The official narrative remains, it was European, Islamic jihadists. Now all dead including the alleged mastermind Abdelhamid Abaasoud killed in a raid Wed. morning north of Paris. One would think for a thorough investigation of the crime attempts to capture alleged suspects would be preferable. Killing them all is a tell tale sign the official narrative is itself suspect.
(35 comments) SHARE Wednesday, March 21, 2012 There is Nothing Heroic in Fighting a Morally, Ethically and Illegal War
When war is morally, ethically and legally wrong, as our wars in Afghanistan and Iraq are, our soldiers are just the lethal end of those wrongful wars. They are not heroes. They are pawns of the officials who chose to authorize those wars. The only heroic position is to choose not to engage in unnecessary and wrongful war. There in nothing heroic in fighting such wars.
(10 comments) SHARE Tuesday, August 31, 2010 Responsible Republican - The Ultimate Oxymoron
A good definition of the word oxymoron would be responsible Republican. The idea of a responsible Republican just doesn't exist. Republicans are intransigent, obstructionists, reflexively opposed to government. Democrats may be spineless and weak kneed, but recognize the need for government. Republicans contribute nothing to effective government and the legislative process, just cutting taxes, the sine qua non of their beliefs
(1 comments) SHARE Monday, August 2, 2021 House in recess without considering consequences of eviction moratorium expiring
As we know the eviction moratorium expired on July 31 as the Congress left town on a 6 weeks recess w/out extending it. Millions of families are in jeopardy of being tossed out in the street evicted from their homes. That's unconscionable. what will happen to them? Where are they going to go? homeless shelters? Tent cities?
(3 comments) SHARE Sunday, May 2, 2010 Demonstrations Nationwide Protest against New Arizona Law
The front page photo in Sunday's N.Y. Times showed thousands demonstrating in Los Angeles and over 70 other locations nationwide. They were far larger than originally anticipated as the new Arizona law was the rallying cry "transforming them into something akin to a civil rights movement with a national profile." This is a national problem requiring a federal solution. Arizona's law is the siren call for Congress to act.
(7 comments) SHARE Friday, July 16, 2010 The Travesty of Goldman Sachs Settlement with the SEC
On Thursday, Goldman Sachs, the Wall Street financial giant paid a $550 million fine in a settlement of the civil fraud case brought by the SEC. As part of the deal, Goldman did not admit to the SEC's allegations of wrongdoing. This was a case that screamed to be heard in open court. That is betrayal of the people's interests in favor of the interests of the plutocracy.
(2 comments) SHARE Friday, July 22, 2016 Is there any doubt things are politically "surreal" in the US
Is there any doubt things are politically "surreal" in the US. The people running for president from the two major parties are the two most hated candidates ever nominated. Is that not surreal? Trump VS Clinton, is that not a surreal nightmare dream? The political process in the US is a joke where voting for the lesser evil is the primary basis for most people to vote.
(4 comments) SHARE Wednesday, October 6, 2021 Why is censorship of content by Facebook, Google, Apple, Amazon and other internet platforms be permitted?
Frances Haugen, the former Facebook product manager is being unofficially anointed as a "whistleblower" by the N.Y. Times & the Democratic party. She & they are calling for more censorship of misinformation, dangerous content, targeting highly disliked figures aka the "Donald" Trump, repression of dissent et al. The vital question is it legal for them to exercise such censorship?
(7 comments) SHARE Monday, August 11, 2014 A Most Dire Question, How to Prevent the Real War to End All Wars? Part II
The American people when polled recently said they want no more war in Iraq. To that acknowledgement "dear leader" Obama authorized air strikes in Iraq last Thursday. As for the American people they are thoroughly disregarded & dismissed out of hand by a president & gov't that act in their name. Even w/ Iraq in chaos from the seeds we have sown there, it's the crisis in Ukraine that has ominous implications for the world.'
(2 comments) SHARE Thursday, December 1, 2011 Britain's Strike over Extended Austerity Measures: "We're being made to pay for the mistakes of others"
Yesterday in Britain, hundreds of thousands of public service workers took to the streets protesting extended austerity measures against them. "All we want is what is our contractual right. The crisis was caused by the bankers, we're an easy target. We're being made to pay for the mistakes of others". That's the basic meaning behind yesterday's strikes in Britain and the occupy movement in the U.S.
(1 comments) SHARE Friday, October 7, 2011 Yesterday, "Freedom Plaza" Protest Action in Washington, D.C.
Yesterday began the October 2011 protest at Freedom Plaza in D.C. As in N.Y. and around the country the people are saying, "We are here, we are going to be heard, we are not going to be ignored, things will not continue as they have; we demand things change". For the present it's enough to gather and show solidarity. These protests need to coalesce around overturning the electoral process usurped by money in politics.
SHARE Wednesday, June 14, 2017 Resistance aplenty to May continuing as PM
Yesterday was the opening day of the new parliament in Britain since the election on June 8. No business was conducted. Teresa May as PM must deliver the Queens speech to the MP's in the house on June 19 & they must give her a majority vote for her to continue as PM. May is negotiating w/ the N. Ireland DUP asking for the 10 seats they won to give her a 328 seat majority. It's not a done deal & the speech could be delayed.
(5 comments) SHARE Wednesday, November 16, 2011 Is It Any Wonder Newspapers are Dying?
The lead article in the NY Times read, w/ their encampments dismantled, their outposts gone will the occupy movement wither? "No way" say the protesters. So why the withering question? It's just part of their vacuous reporting, the obsession w/ objectivity & refusing to question the authority's legitimacy in abridging the rights of the protesters to peaceably assemble. Is it any wonder newspapers are dying?
(4 comments) SHARE Wednesday, October 12, 2016 US continuing allegations against Putin and Russia
The Obama administration is accusing Russia of cyber-crime trying to disrupt the US pres. election accusing Russia of a hacking campaign to interfere w/ elections alleging Moscow is trying to influence the outcome of the election. All unsubstantiated & no evidence given. It's meant to divert attention of Washington's complicity in illegal wars, covert subversion of foreign states & systematic collusion w/ terrorist networks.
(6 comments) SHARE Wednesday, May 23, 2018 Bolton is to diplomacy what a wrecking ball is to demolition
If the summit between Trump & N.Korean leader Kim Jong-un doesn't come off on June 12 in Singapore blame should be put on Trump's nat'l security adviser John Bolton. He said the Libyan model should be the template for negotiating the denuclearization of N.Korea. that was where Libyan Pres. Qaddafi gave up his nuclear materials to the US as a good faith gesture in 2003 only to murdered by US proxies in 2011. Kim isn't buying.
(3 comments) SHARE Tuesday, May 11, 2021 US Coast Guard fires warning shots at Iranian military ships off coast of Iran
Apparently yesterday a US Coast Guard ship fired warning shots at Iranian military ships in the Strait of Hormuz off the Iranian coast. When did the US Coast Guard become part of the US Navy? Never mind operating in Iranian waters. Isn't the US Coast Guard only supposed to guard US waterways? Isn't the Coast Guard part of the Navy only in a time of war? We're not at war with Iran. What's going on here?
SHARE Monday, November 21, 2016 Trump's going to be president, get over it
Trump becoming president is the reality & Hillary not elected is a good thing. Resets in domestic & foreign policy are coming. All the diseased rhetoric of the campaign is over. Trump working w/ Putin on Syria appears to be in the works. TPP appears dead & Trump may dump NAFTA. As to Russia & China a much needed detente may be forthcoming dispelling a possible nuclear confrontation. Something under Hillary could have happened.
(3 comments) SHARE Thursday, March 16, 2017 Is US openly making plans to assassinate N.Korean leader Kim Jong-Un? If true it's madness on steroids
According to reports from Tyler Durden Zero Hedge the White House is making plans to take out N.Korean leader Kin Jong-Un including both military force & regime change. US policy makers have become mad. Who knows what Kim will do if he & his country are about be attacked by the US? He just might preemptively attack S. Korea, release a nuclear missile on Japan. Have the insane planners in official Washington thought about that?
SHARE Thursday, February 19, 2015 NSA Exposed, Hiding Spying Software Deep Inside Hard Drives
According to Reuters a Moscow based security software maker, "Kaspersky Lab" recently discovered the NSA was hiding spying software deep w/in hard drives made by top computer manufacturers. The program is closely linked to "Stuxnet", the NSA cyber weapon that infected Iran's uranium enrichment facility in 2010 the cyber attack that initiated the cyberwarfare we're currently seeing unleashed all over the world.
(1 comments) SHARE Friday, May 29, 2020 Rage and violence in Minneapolis over the police killing of George Floyd
Things seem ready to boil over police killing of George Floyd last Monday. Last night protesters in Minneapolis torched police headquarters forcing police to vacate in their squad cars. Protests have occurred in NYC & LA over the killing of Floyd. Considering police being exonerated over these killings these past few years, no justice, no accountability, people are capable of rage & violence. That's what we're seeing now.
(3 comments) SHARE Tuesday, March 6, 2018 The ball is clearly in the US court for direct talks with North Korea
Yesterday concluded bilateral talks w/ N.Korean leader Kim Jong-un & S. Korean envoys. They said the North was willing to denuclearize & Kim said he'd suspend all nuclear & missile tests while engaged in talks. The South sent the envoys to Washington to apprise Trump. Hopefully to get him to agree to open ended negotiations w/ the North w/out preconditions. The ball is clearly in the US court for direct talks w/ North Korea.
(2 comments) SHARE Monday, October 31, 2011 The Ruse Of Withdrawal From Iraq
President Obama announced the complete w/drawal of U.S. troops in Iraq by the end of the year. Now days later the U.S. is to expand military ties w/ the Gulf Cooperation Council including Saudi Arabia, Kuwait, Bahrain, Qatar, the UAE and Oman, all dictatorships under the sway of the U.S. So much for w/drawal from Iraq & what Sec'y of State Clinton refers to as a region freed from outside interference on a pathway to democracy.
SHARE Friday, April 15, 2011 We "Just Don't Care Enough"
During economic good times in America despite greed and excess the people would never rebel. One thought only a severe economic dislocation could bring that about. Well we've had that great dislocation but it's been uneven. Many are not in dire straits. Many remain snug, disconnected and unsympathetic to the plight of those that have been devastated. The reality is "we just don't care enough".
(1 comments) SHARE Monday, February 14, 2022 The opioid crisis in America, what's going on?
There is an opioid crisis in America w/ fentanyl, OxyContin, heroin, cocaine & meth overdoses as the main causes. Apparently health insurers often refuse to pay for treatment. The US is the only 1st world country that doesn't have a gov't sponsored health care system. HMO's not approving drug rehab isn't helping to abate the drug crisis. They're only exacerbating it.
SHARE Friday, June 11, 2021 Let's get to the core of "things" as they really are
Let's get right to the core of "things" as they really are & have nothing to do w/optimism or pessimism, just reality. The reality is US actions in the world reveal it as a criminal enterprise. Criminal in that it has initiated illegal wars & occupations, assassinations, coups, false flag attacks, color revolutions, embargoes, sanctions, provocations against any country that refuses to fall under its hegemony. That's reality.
(1 comments) SHARE Wednesday, March 9, 2011 The Glass of Indignation Spilling Over in Wisconsin Beginning to Happen Nationwide
The glass of indignation that had been brewing and filling finally spilled over, caused by the zealous overreach of the tyrannical, corrupted governor in Wisconsin. The catalyst was his denial of collective bargaining w/ public service unions. In solidarity w/ those protesting in Wisconsin is a sentiment growing nationwide.
(1 comments) SHARE Wednesday, April 9, 2014 Typical Old Cold War "Red" Baiting Rhetoric, Blame Putin and Those "Ruskies" For All The Turmoil in Ukraine
The latest protests in the eastern Ukraine cities of Donetsk, Luhansk & Kharkiv has Sec’y of State Kerry referring to them as “Russian provocateurs & agents…determined to create chaos” & a “pretext for military intervention”. It’s typical old cold war “red” baiting tactic by the US fomenting hysteria depicting Putin & those “ruskies” behind all the turmoil in Ukraine.
(7 comments) SHARE Monday, June 20, 2011 Are We Desperate Enough in America to Have a Successful Rebellion?
W/the rebellions in the Arab world to have any chance for success the people have to be desperate and determined not to go back to passive submission and fear of the dictator and his regime. In America there are people who are desperate and in dire straits. But most Americans stand apart from this desperation of others, too disjointed, isolated and removed. There is no unanimity of purpose. Rebellion here is highly unlikely.
SHARE Saturday, June 10, 2017 With Tuesday's vote in the House of Commons looming, Teresa May remaining as prime minister is certainly precarious
What happened in Britain when people voted for a new prime minister? No party reached the 326 seat threshold. Teresa May's Conservative party got only 318 MP's elected so there's a hung parliament. But as the sitting PM as is protocol May went to Queen Elizabeth to present what's called the Queen's Speech". Then on June 13 May asks the new parliament to approve it for her to continue as PM. That's certainly not a done deal.
SHARE Wednesday, July 3, 2013 U.S. Bully Tactics Behind Bolivian President's Plane Being Forced to Land in Vienna, Snowden Not Aboard?
The intrigue surrounding the Edward Snowden saga continues unrelentingly. Portugal, France, Italy & Spain believed Snowden was on the plane from Moscow carrying Bolivian Pres. Evo Morales back to La Paz. They refused to let Morales plane to enter their airspace. The plane was forced to land in Vienna. Snowden was not onboard.
(2 comments) SHARE Wednesday, November 14, 2018 The US ready to initiate a cold war with China?
VP Mike Pence traveling to Singapore intimated to a reporter the US is ready to initiate a cold war w/ China, that the US is "in strong position" to escalate its trade war w/ China w/ no intention to cede its influence in Asia. Meanwhile Trump's Nat'l Security Adviser John Bolton warned the US will up its naval presence in the S. China Sea which China sees as a provocation & it's not about to rollover & submit to US bullying.
SHARE Monday, August 20, 2012 Pakistan's Security of Nuclear Arsenal in the News after Taliban Attack
The news out of Pakistan has Taliban fighters attacking an air base north of Islamabad suspected of housing nuclear weapons. The attack was repelled & Pakistan denied nuclear weapons were present. The buzz in the U.S. MSM remains; how secure are Pakistan's nuclear weapons? It's an official U.S. obsession. It's a propaganda canard yet if there's any validity to this why hasn't there been a nat'l discussion & debate over it?
(1 comments) SHARE Friday, February 18, 2022 Where is the evidence behind US allegations of Russia about to invade Ukraine?
There continues to be this constant drumbeat by US officials of Russia about to invade Ukraine. From Pres. Biden, Sec'y of State Blinken, Nat'l Security Advisor Sullivan to US Ambassador to the UN Linda Greenfield it's all the same a Russian invasion. Meanwhile Russian even Ukrainian officials dismiss thee US warnings of imminent attack as hysteria. No evidence is ever presented confirming the US allegations yet they continue.
(3 comments) SHARE Thursday, June 3, 2021 The political brouhaha over transathletes competing against females. Let's get real
On Tuesday Florida Gov. Ron De Santis signed legislation prohibiting biological males from competing in female sports. He said, "We're going to go based on biology, not ideology. Girls are going play girls sports & boys are going to play boys sports." He's correct. Simply put biologically born males @ puberty become physically bigger, stronger, quicker, faster than biologically born girls @ this stage of development & beyond.
SHARE Wednesday, November 2, 2011 A Consciousness Raising Development In The Occupy Movement
Retired military and police have begun their own occupy groups in solidarity with the occupy movements all across the country, realizing as they do the military and the police are also part of the 99% represented by the occupy movement protests.
(5 comments) SHARE Wednesday, January 10, 2018 Reflections on Iranian protests, assessing potential for conflict with US, Israel and Saudi Arabia
What's really going on w/ the protests in Iran? It's not exactly clear. The Iranian people have legitimate grievances. Reports have inflation @ some 40% & youth unemployment above 30%. There's been suspicion of agent-provocateurs stirring up crowds to commit violence but no real confirmation. So Iran has internal problems but is not a threat to the US, Israel & Saudi Arabia. Not so these countries voicing threats against Iran.
(1 comments) SHARE Tuesday, October 23, 2018 Trump says Russia and China need to "come to their senses". No it's the US that needs to come to its senses
We've reached an Orwellian state of affairs when Trump says Russia & China need to "come to their senses", regarding their nuclear arsenals or "we will build it up", the US nuclear arsenal. He intends to w/draw from the 1987 INF treaty when thousands of nuclear weapons were destroyed by the US &USSR. By his w/drawing from the INF it's the US needing to come to its senses expanding rather than reducing its nuclear arsenal.
(2 comments) SHARE Saturday, December 21, 2013 Group of 27 Senators in Misguided Bipartisanship Introduce Legislation for New Sanctions on Iran
27 senators including 14 Dems joined w/ 13 Repubs in some misguided bipartisan effort introduced legislation for more sanctions on Iran. Maj. Leader Harry Reid hasn't called for a vote in the full Senate & Obama has vowed to veto the bill. 10 other Dem Senators wrote Reid warning new sanctions would undermine the prospects for a final deal w/ Iran. A final deal w/ Iran must not be scuttled naysayers.
(1 comments) SHARE Wednesday, June 4, 2014 The Crazed in Washington
Pres. Obama was in Poland yesterday pledging $1 billion for Central & E. Europe to stand against Russian "aggression". W/ all NATO members in attendance & those newest in the east jittery in unison dreading a Russian attack on them, it's all a trumped up fantasy. Putin has no designs on them. The real provocateur is the US hoping to provoke Russia in Ukraine w/NATO as the fig leaf disguising US plans for war w/ Russia.
(2 comments) SHARE Monday, October 28, 2013 Wolf in Sheeps Clothing, Goldman Sachs as the Corporate Good Samaritan
Goldman Sachs was in the news reportedly having given 1.6 billion in philanthropy since 2008 hoping to be seen as the corporate Good Samaritan. Lets not be deceived by this charitable giving. It's a con game committed by corporate thieves, a smokescreen of seeming civic goodness to deflect attention away from its primary enterprise making billions any which way it can including outright fraud.
(1 comments) SHARE Wednesday, December 10, 2014 Senate Intel Committee Report, CIA Tortured, How about those who authorized it? No Comment
The Senate Intel Committee finally got around to releasing a nearly 6 yr. old study of the CIA's role in using torture against suspects "between 2002 & 2008 that led to false confessions, fabricated information & produced no useful intel about imminent terrorist attacks. As to who authorized torture; nothing said. That's the real travesty in the whole torture scenario; those who authorized it have never been held to account.
(16 comments) SHARE Saturday, April 14, 2018 Trump backed himself into a corner, he had to launch a missile strike on Syria to back up tough talk
Let's face it Trump backed himself into a corner. He had to launch a missile strike on Syria to back up his tough talk earlier in the week accusing Pres. Assad of an alleged chemical attack killing his own people. Significantly no Russian military facility was hit. The strikes caused limited damage & no deaths. They did nothing to change the situation on the ground. All Damascus has been liberated & Assad is winning the war.
SHARE Tuesday, October 16, 2018 An eerie quiet that's come about
There's a sort of eerie quiet come about. Kavanaugh got confirmed but it remains to be seen what effect he'll have on the Court. A US destroyer almost collided w/ a Chinese warship in the S. China Sea. Big trouble if US provocations continue here. Trump to initiate new oil sanctions on Iran starting Nov.4. Who knows what might happen. The Dow took a 1300 point plunge last Thurs. A harbinger of things to come? Eerily quiet.
SHARE Wednesday, September 20, 2017 Trump's speech at the UN yesterday was completely Orwellian
Trump's speech at the UN yesterday was completely Orwellian, over the top and upside down. The topper or nadir was Trump's "our respect for sovereignty" of other nations. The US doesn't respect the sovereignty of other nations. It is the grand master for undermining any regime that refuses to submit to US hegemony.
(3 comments) SHARE Monday, June 3, 2013 Sunni, Shiite Sectarian Bloodletting, No End in Sight
The sectarian civil war in Syria is escalating ferociously as 1000's of Shiite & Sunni Muslims beyond Syria's borders have joined the fray. Lebanese Shiite leader of Hezbollah openly declared his military support of the Assad gov't. In Iraq the sectarian bloodletting of Sunni's & Shiites has brought that country close to renewed civil war. It's hard to imagine the sectarian bloodletting abating anytime soon.
SHARE Friday, December 10, 2021 Which countries are sovereign, truly their own masters?
When it comes to sovereignty which countries are truly their own masters? The US of course, Russia, China, India, Iran, Cuba, Venezuela, Nicaragua, Bolivia, N. Korea. Notice all except for the US are considered & demonized as enemies of the US. Also notice no European country is listed as sovereign & for good reason. They're all part of the EU & NATO where the US has diktat over foreign policy.
(5 comments) SHARE Friday, December 10, 2010 The American Experiment is at a Critical Juncture
The American experiment that began 234 years ago is at a critical juncture. We have become an empire w/ only the trappings of a republic remaining. The new "Rome". Ironically it could be rectified. What is written in the Declaration and the Constitution are the ways and means to reclaim our country and restore the idea of, by and for the people. That can only happen by the people. Do we have the will and courage to do it?
(1 comments) SHARE Wednesday, August 6, 2014 A Most Dire Question, How to Prevent the Real War to End All Wars?
A most dire question at the moment; how to restrain the US from its headlong rush to provoke war w/ Russia? Of course it's all insane but what countries will have the courage to reject US machinations for provoking war and prevent it from happening. All Europe knows war first hand. So do the Russians. Not so the American people. The hope may very well reside w/ Germany, France & others who know the horror of war.
(1 comments) SHARE Thursday, March 13, 2014 Trust, Honor, Respect, Integrity, Not Synonymous with the Government in America
Trust, honor, respect, integrity, being truthful as well as searching for the truth are important words to live by. Unfortunately these words do not apply, have no connection to or in any way synonymous with our government in America.
(1 comments) SHARE Wednesday, November 7, 2018 So we had an election yesterday, now what?
We had an election yesterday w/ Dems capturing the House & the Repubs retaining the Senate. But does it matter who is in the majority? The status quo doesn't change. The major policies & actions of official Washington remain in place. Why? the Dems & Repubs are all in on it. We're a war based economy. Hot, cold, win, lose it doesn't matter. All that's needed are enemies. Contrived ones will do. It's all to serve unending war.
(4 comments) SHARE Wednesday, October 26, 2016 Throwing off the shackles
Considering US belligerence in the world since 9/11 it is something to behold Philippine President Rodrigo Duterte announcing in a state visit to China, "Your honors, in this venue, I announce my separation from the United States...both in military and economics also". Duterte's declaration throwing off the shackles of US hegemony is reminiscent of our own descendants throwing off the shackles of British colonialism in 1776.
(11 comments) SHARE Saturday, May 1, 2010 Criminal Charges Against Goldman May Be In The Offing
Things are heating up on the suspicious trading allegations against Goldman Sachs as federal prosecutors are in the early stages of bringing criminal charges against the Wall Street titan. A federal case must be proven beyond a reasonable doubt. Cutting "King Goldman" down to size will be no easy task. But there's more to it than that with suspect tentacles reaching into the halls of Congress. Who is investigating them?
(2 comments) SHARE Monday, April 10, 2017 Waiting for the next shoe to drop
Now that President Trump has puffed out his chest w/ the MSM doing its part in triumphalism over his missile attack in retaliation for Syrian President Bashar Assad's alleged sarin gas attack last week, it just feels like waiting for the next shoe to drop. Oh sure this could be a one-time strike-a flexing of muscles & nothing more, @ least for now. But who knows what the "Donald" will do next?
(1 comments) SHARE Monday, July 9, 2012 Corporations Funneling Millions to Tax Exempt Non Profits Avoiding Disclosure
In American politics big money has long been a dominant factor influencing the electoral process. Since SCOTUS decision in Citizens United in 2010 corporations are now donating millions in secret funneled thru non profits & social welfare groups, not req'd to report their donors, and technically not political orgs. but in reality are sham charities not promoting social welfare but est'd for winning elections.
(1 comments) SHARE Tuesday, January 29, 2013 The World's Greatest Threat
American militarism & the nat'l security state that has evolved since 9/11 & the gov'ts methods of instilling propagandized fear in the American people are all means used to justify the policies & expansion of that nat'l security state. It's Fascism wrapped in the mantle of freedom & democracy making it the most insidious form of authoritarian despotism.
(19 comments) SHARE Tuesday, March 27, 2012 The Warped and Surreal Sympathy in the U.S. for Sgt Bales
The latest atrocity committed by our military in Afghanistan has taken a surreal turn in the U.S. Karilyn Bales, the wife of Sgt Robert Bales, the man accused of massacring 17 Afghan women & children, has let herself be interviewed by NBC's Today Show. There's something warped about all this when the media interviews the wife of a presumably cold blooded killer & shows it on Nat'l TV. Where's the sympathy for the victims?
(1 comments) SHARE Monday, April 5, 2021 Why no skepticism of governmental pronouncements in this time of the covid pandemic? Part II
We know the government in the United States lies to its people. Why was there so little skepticism of what the government and particularly Dr. Fauci-who became the government's guru-said about COVID? In particular people who are normally skeptical about what their government says and does were now seemingly trusting that government when it came to following its dictates on COVId?
(1 comments) SHARE Monday, September 28, 2015 Putin to the rescue again
Russia began sharing military intelligence w/ Syria, Iran & Iraq in the fight against ISIS in Syria. This after Russia recently increased its military aid to Syrian President Assad's beleaguered forces. According to the NY Times the US was left "scrambling" & "jolted the White House". So what. Russia's Pres. Putin doesn't need to get clearance from the US hegemon in order to provide coordination to his allies fighting ISIS.
(6 comments) SHARE Monday, November 18, 2013 Another Potential Boondoggle for "Big Pharma"?
This week a controversy has developed over a new set of guidelines published by the Amer.Heart Ass'n & College of Cardiology for lowering cholesterol along w/a calculator meant to assess risks. Two Harvard Med.Sch.Profs took issue w/the report w/ their data showing the calculator over predicting risk by 75 to 150% saying overestimation of risk will lead to considerable overprescription, (a potential boondoggle for Big Pharma).
(4 comments) SHARE Tuesday, December 15, 2015 How did we the people become insouciant "sheeple"?
How did we the people become "insouciant sheeple"? Firstly ending the military draft in 1973 after we left Viet Nam. At the hgt. of the war in 67 to 73, resistance, defiance, protests, demonstrations were the order of the day on college campuses. No longer. Ending the draft of college age men & women, that were @ the heart of the Vietnam war resistance, meant after '73 they have no personal stake in resisting our wars.
(5 comments) SHARE Wednesday, October 10, 2012 Does U.S. Policy Contribute to Taliban Extremism?
Yesterday a 14 yr. old Pakistani girl was shot in the head by a masked Taliban gunman. The reason: she advocated for girls education. A Taliban spokesman said, She was a symbol of Western culture, her crusade for education rights an obscenity. Most Pakistani's condemned the attack. It shows Pakistan has wide ethnic & sectarian divides. Though the U.S. was not connected to the attack, our policy connects to Taliban extremism.
SHARE Friday, April 20, 2018 A truly inauspicious time fast approaching
May 12 is the deadline for the US to recertify the 2015 Iran nuclear deal. Trump wants the deal "fixed" by then or he'll w/draw the US. Iran says it won't renegotiate the deal. Though unrelated to Iran deal Trump has agreed to meet w/ N. Korean leader Kim Jong-un in late May or June. However if Trump reneges on the Iran deal how would that effect his meeting w/ Kim? Would they even meet? May & June a truly inauspicious time.
(4 comments) SHARE Wednesday, November 10, 2021 Trust the US or Iran?
Trust is something earned. W/ nations trust is determined by the actions a country takes on the world stage. W/ regard to the US & Iran which country is trustworthy? The US initiated a coup in Iran in 1953, reneged on an int'l agreement, places harsh sanctions & provokes Iran by prowling the Persian Gulf in a freedom of navigation ploy. Iran took American embassy personnel hostage in its 1979 revolution. Trust the US or Iran?
(3 comments) SHARE Wednesday, July 30, 2014 The Militarization of Sport in America
There was a time before every pro baseball game there would be the playing of the "National Anthem" & people stood up. Well that modest fanfare is over; today its game commentators, PA announcers & Jumbotrons celebrating our "heroes" in the stands & giving them a standing O. Come the 7th there's the inevitable "God Bless America". It's more &more like lock step obedience, everything but the straight arm salute & Heil Hitler.
SHARE Tuesday, July 31, 2018 Trump's impetuous whirlwind of unpredictability
Each day one wakes up wondering what the latest tweet from Trump will bring. The latest has him threatening to shut down the Fed'l Gov't. Then he wants to grant a $100 billion tax cut on capital gains. Trump's immigration & border wall excesses are unnecessary. So are his threats, provocations, sanctions. A whirlwind of unpredictability the perfect distraction deflecting att'n away from the military/industrial/security complex
(1 comments) SHARE Wednesday, July 2, 2014 "Who are those guys?"
Regarding SCOTUS ruling in the "Hobby Lobby" case; the majority ruled in favor of the family owned corporation whereby a closely held for profit corporation run by religious families can't be required to pay for contraceptive coverage of their female employees. It's clearly discriminatory toward women but apparently not to the five reactionaries in the Court's majority.
(3 comments) SHARE Thursday, January 6, 2022 Why does "official" Washington need to deny any role in Kazakhstan rioting?
Rioting, looting even beheadings of law enforcement officers has occurred in Kazakhstan. Protests began last Sunday over rising fuel prices then escalated violently where the country's president requested its collective security organization to intervene. Russia as part of the bloc last night sent in military peacekeepers to help quell the unrest. Official Washington has denied any involvement. Why the need to issue a denial?
(2 comments) SHARE Friday, January 3, 2014 The "Chickens" are Coming Home to Roost in Iraq
The “chickens” are coming home to roost is a metaphor explaining the sectarian bloodletting in Iraq. The “chickens” are the consequences that must be laid @ the feet of the Bush administration that invaded in 2003, disbanded the Sunni army, dismissed the civil service which encouraged al Qaeda to enter the country & instantly created the insurgency against the Americans & later the Shiite gov't we helped to install.
(2 comments) SHARE Friday, March 9, 2018 Trump accepts"invitation" to meet face to face with North Korean leader Kim Jong-un
Today it was learned N. Korean leader Kim Jong-un "invited" President Trump to meet face to face w/in two months. The two S. Korean envoys that met w/ Kim on Monday & then dispatched to Washington to convey details of that meeting delivered Kim's invitation to Trump. Immediately upon hearing the invitation Trump accepted it.
(1 comments) SHARE Friday, May 21, 2021 No peace until Israel ends its apartheid rule over the Palestinian's
Egypt mediated a cease fire last night between Israel and Hamas ending Israel's bombardment of Gaza and Hamas sending rockets into Israel. But a cease fire isn't peace. There will never be peace until Israel like South Africa before it ends its apartheid rule over the Palestinian's.
(1 comments) SHARE Tuesday, April 19, 2022 Biden to run again in 2024?
Apparently Pres. Biden has told former Pres. Obama his intention to run again in 2024. A source for "The Hill" said, I believe he thinks he's the only one who can beat Trump." If he gets the Dems nomination in '24 he'll be 82. Another drawback inflation is the worst since the 1970's. Then there's the Nov. congressional elections which the Dems could take a big hit. Biden & Trump in '24? American politics is in the abyss.
SHARE Thursday, December 23, 2021 In light of recent tensions over Ukraine Washington and Moscow confirm meeting scheduled for early January
Lately there have been allegations made by US & western MSM that Russia is massing its troops & intends to invade Ukraine early in the new year-which Russia has vehemently denied. To the rescue come Russian Foreign Minister Sergey Lavrov & US Sec'y of State Antony Blinken each announcing Washington & Moscow will hold talks scheduled for early January. Let's hope the talks are fruitful & bring detente between them.
SHARE Saturday, December 3, 2016 Why did it have to be this way?
W/ all the indignation over the Washington Post resorting to McCarthesque scare tactics naming 200 web sites as presenting "fake news", disseminating propaganda or useful idiots of the Russians one may ask why did it have to be this way? It didn't. We have a constitution w/ freedom of the press. But today we have a free press in name only. It's now an unofficial organ of the state presenting only the gov'ts version of events.
(4 comments) SHARE Tuesday, December 8, 2015 "Things" looking ominous in Syria
Things look ominous in Syria. All the world's antagonists are engaged making it so ominous. Russian Pres. Putin was recently described as a paper tiger for not retaliating over Turkey downing a Russian jet fighter in Syria. It was a provocation. Putin refused to take the bait so now he's a paper tiger? Putin's actions in Syria have been defensive & legal under int'l law. But make no mistake Turkey's action won't go unpunished.
SHARE Friday, May 6, 2022 Trump and the Democrats betrayal of the working class
Democrats still fail to understand why Trump appealed to so many & voted for him in 2016 & 2020. In'16 he simply wasn't the hated Hillary. He lost to Biden in 2020 yet garnered over 74 million votes. Dems became apoplectic over him rather than facing the truth; they had abandoned & betrayed the working class starting in the 70's & those people never forgave the Dems betraying them by sending their jobs to 3rd world countries..
(2 comments) SHARE Friday, July 11, 2014 Lethal Recriminations Fly in Israel, Gaza and the West Bank
As to the latest Middle East bloodletting; this time it's again w/the Israeli's & the Palestinians. Recriminations started over murders by each side, Hamas lobbing rockets into Israel & the Israeli's bombing Gaza. The fact is as long as Israel conducts a brutal apartheid rule over the Palestinian's Israel will have no peace. Apartheid didn't work in South Africa & it won't work against the Palestinian's.
(1 comments) SHARE Monday, July 20, 2020 The election of Biden could result in the US returning to the 2015 nuclear deal with Iran
The election of Biden could result in the US returning to the nuclear deal signed by Obama, Britain, France, Russia, China & Germany w/ Iran in 2015. Trump reneged on the deal in May, 2018. The others wanted to save the deal but all unsuccessful. Though not an endorsement of the otherwise woeful Joe the US returning to Iran nuclear deal should be seen as a potentially positive result of a Biden victory in November.
(3 comments) SHARE Tuesday, December 18, 2018 Trump is just the symptom, it's the system that's diseased
It isn't much of a stretch to say the US political system is broken, that it serves the interests of the big corporations, Wall Street, the military/industrial/political complex, AIPAC & Israeli interests et al. is well known. What it doesn't serve are the interests of the people. Today everything is about Trump. But he's just the symptom. It's the system that's diseased.
(2 comments) SHARE Monday, April 15, 2013 The Republican Party as Now Constituted is a Dinosaur
Republicans met in Hollywood last week attempting to map a path to a resurgence but couldn't agree what that path would be. Many insisted it was Romney causing them to lose & all that was needed was a change in tone. How does one change the tone of opposition to same sex marriage when the assembly appr'd a resolution defining marriage as only a union between a man & a woman. The Repub. party as now constituted is a dinosaur.
SHARE Thursday, November 20, 2014 It is the pivotal role of the US and its support of Israel's policies that created the revenge killing of Israeli's
There is no excusing the brutal killing of innocent Israeli Jews in Jerusalem on Tuesday by two Palestinian cousins. But when Palestinian's are brutalized for decades by a brutal Israeli occupier such revenge type killings will occur. The facts are these: It is the pivotal role taken by the US & its unequivocal support of Israel's apartheid rule, policies & actions that create the revenge type killing of Israeli Jews.
(2 comments) SHARE Wednesday, October 29, 2014 "Indoctrination" in America
In America freedom of the press has become a fig leaf for the MSM to hide behind. Now big corporations own the media, control its content & support the gov'ts policies & actions. Add in the corps. usurping the electoral process it makes for a perfect circle of "legalized" corruption. The purpose; rally up & "indoctrinate" the people w/ propaganda to get them to support the gov'ts policies & actions.
(5 comments) SHARE Wednesday, January 28, 2015 Glorifying the Brutality We Commit in Our Wars
The film American Sniper grossed $105 million the 1st weekend of release. It's no surprise. Glorification of our wars can be big box office. But aren't the droves of Americans drawn to American Sniper not in deep denial to the reality of what America has become; a country seen as the greatest threat in the world by most others, yet many Americans now seem to have descended into glorifying the brutality we commit in our wars.
(1 comments) SHARE Tuesday, February 28, 2017 Defense spending edifice premised on "threats" and "enemies", without them the edifice collapses
The White House has called for a $54 billion increase in defense spending. Details could possibly come tonight by Trump to a joint session of Congress. Is this what we need a nonsensical increase to an already bloated defense budget against contrived "enemies" that pose no threat to the US? The whole defense spending edifice the Deep State has erected is premised on "threats" & "enemies". W/out them the edifice collapses.
(2 comments) SHARE Thursday, November 3, 2011 "Occupy Oakland Shuts Down Port", Clashes with Police Occur Late Last Night
Yesterday Occupy Oakland shut down the nations 5th busiest port w/ 3,000 protesters at the port gates. In the AM hours protesters entered a nearby vacant bldg. declaring it part of their encampment. This action brought riot police w/ batons hurling tear gas canisters. Some were thrown back at the police. 60 arrests were made. In Oakland though calm returned an uneasy truce remains between the police and the protesters.
(1 comments) SHARE Tuesday, January 7, 2014 The U.S. and Iran, The Possibilities
The enmity that has existed between the US & Iran may be coming to an end. The sectarian rift between Sunni & Shiite Muslims is such the civil war in Syria could spread to Iraq & Lebanon. There’s an increasing recognition by the Obama administration a stable Iran could be an important diplomatic interlocutor in the increasingly unstable Middle East. How’s that for irony.
(1 comments) SHARE Wednesday, August 31, 2016 Colin Kaepernick's protest
As we know San Francisco 49er QB Colin Kaepernick refused to stand for the nat'l anthem before a game w/ the Green Bay Packers. Wanting to draw att'n over the killing of young black men gunned down by police & their later exoneration he stood by the courage of his convictions & refused to stand. He's unleashed a hornet's nest of knee jerk patriotic indignation. So what. Consciousness raising of the issue needed to be done.
(2 comments) SHARE Wednesday, July 31, 2013 Main Stumbling Blocks in Palestinian/Israeli Conflict Won't be Overcome in Latest Round of "Peace Talks"
Palestinian & Israeli negotiators were in Washington Mon. & Tues. supposedly to begin a new round of peace talks. Yet polls show majorities of Palestinians & Israeli's believe nothing will come from the talks. In truth, the main stumbling blocks in this 46 yr. old saga (since the 67' war) rests solely w/the policies & actions of Israel w/unwavering support of the U.S. which won't be overcome in this latest round of peace talks
SHARE Monday, August 4, 2014 Israel and its Apologists
Israel & its apologists are living in complete denial. They are living in a parallel universe separated & alienated from most people in the world. Most see the current Israeli military assault on Gaza as the brutal killing of innocents. Apologists of Israel see it as defending the Israeli people. But most people are in sympathy & solidarity w/ the Palestinians which sees the IDF slaughtering innocent & defenseless people.
SHARE Friday, February 3, 2012 An Ominous Foreboding, Israel vs Iran, Part 2
The war of words with Israel and Iran got ramped up a notch w/ Israeli Defense Minister Ehud Barak declaring, "Time is running out for stopping Iran's nuclear advance, whoever says later may find that later is too late." Iran's Supreme Leader Ayatollah Khamenei responded if a military strike is carried out Iran "has its own tools" it would use "if necessary" in retaliation. Israel attacking Iran remains an ominous foreboding.
(5 comments) SHARE Sunday, June 20, 2010 The Loophole from Hell; House Bill Likely to Exempt NRA from Disclosure Rules to Political Campaigns
The House is about to create an enormous loophole in their disclosure bill to rein in the power of special interests by exempting from the reporting requirements the NRA. There is no honest way to put it other than to say some office holders have accepted legalized bribery from the NRA and avowed to act to protect their benefactor. This goes to the heart of our dysfunctional political system.
(1 comments) SHARE Saturday, March 3, 2012 Netanyahu and AIPAC, Beating the War Drum to Attack Iran
Israeli P.M. Netanyahu and AIPAC are beating the drum for Israel to attack Iran's nuclear facilities. All U.S. intelligence agencies agree Iran ceased developing a nuclear bomb in 2003. No matter; Israel appears intent to attack. Pres. Obama is to meet w/ Netanyahu. Only he can make it clear the U.S. will not support Israel and will prevent Israel from attacking Iran. The question is, will he?
(4 comments) SHARE Wednesday, April 24, 2019 Madness in the US Senate
The Senate has a bill titled, "Defending American security from Kremlin Aggression Act", introduced in the Senate that..."require the Sec'y of State to determine whether the Russian federation should be designated as a state sponsor of terrorism & whether Russian sponsored armed entities in Ukraine be designated as foreign terrorist organizations". A bipartisan measure revealing these people have gone completely off the rail.
(1 comments) SHARE Monday, August 15, 2011 "Coddling the Super Rich"
Warren Buffett says he and his super rich friends are "under taxed and coddled" by a rich friendly Congress. That is astounding truth telling on his part. But what Buffett is admitting is well known by most people in this country. The truth is we are no longer a representative democracy. We are a plutocracy of oligarchs w/ our elected officials' stooges representing the rich.
SHARE Monday, August 30, 2021 The US withdrawal from Afghanistan, a "screw the pooch" fiasco
In the old movie The Right Stuff about NASA's astronaut space program a scene between Gus Grissom played by Fred Ward & Gordon Cooper played by Dennis Quaid where Cooper says to Grissom I guess they're saving the best for last whereby Grissom replied I guess so hot dog. Just be sure you don't screw the pooch when it's your turn in the space capsule. Let's face it. The US w/drawal from Kabul has been a screwing the pooch fiasco
SHARE Wednesday, August 3, 2011 Egypt, Example to the World
Today,former Former Egyptian strong man, Hosni Mubarak is to face charges of corruption and the killing of demonstrators.
With this act Egypt is showing the world its leaders are not above being held accountable for their crimes. In retrospect, Egypt's act shows how far the U.S. has fallen into disrepute by not holding the Bush Administration accountable for its unjustified war in Iraq and its authorization to torture.
(6 comments) SHARE Friday, January 22, 2016 Maintaining instability all over the world, the ultimate US subterfuge
Since the end of WWII, the US has engaged directly in multiple hot wars, a 45 yr. cold war w/ the USSR, clandestinely in numerous countries using CIA trained & armed proxies, initiated coups, assassinations, drone strikes in the war on terror; quite the chilling resume. The point being all this militarist mayhem & misadventures against "enemies" belie the ultimate aim & outcome of US policy, maintain instability in the world.
(3 comments) SHARE Thursday, November 1, 2018 Pompeo, China needs to "behave like a normal nation" and "respect international law"
Yesterday Sec'y of State Mike Pompeo said, China needs to "behave like a normal nation"...& "respect int'l law". This administration has no shame moralizing to ANY nation not behaving normally & not respecting int'l law. The supreme irony; since the end of WWII it is the US that has completely ignored int'l law, not behaving as a normal nation, instead being the bully against any nation that didn't follow US Diktat.
SHARE Wednesday, November 9, 2011 The Broader Implications of Yesterday's Vote in Ohio Repealing Limits to Collective Bargaining
Yesterday voters in Ohio repealed a bill limiting collective bargaining by 62 to 38%. It's an issue raised in the occupy movement. What's unknown is whether the gen'l population makes the connection that limiting collective bargaining is synonymous w/ and interconnected w/ the larger class war by the 1% against the 99% that spawned the occupy movement. If not, it's the leap of consciousness that needs to occur w/ the people.
(2 comments) SHARE Thursday, September 2, 2021 Is the US headed for eventual war with China?
Is the US headed for war w/China? A nuclear superpower capable of destroying the US in a retaliatory nuclear strike. That reality should put to rest any idea of provoking China. Yet the US continues to provoke China & Russia whether it was the crowd of the crude Trump, articulate Obama or the current one whose occupant ought to be in an old age rest home. They all provoked China & Russia w/out considering the consequences.
(1 comments) SHARE Saturday, May 14, 2011 The Sudden Resignation of George Mitchell as American Mid-East Envoy, What It Says
Yesterday it was announced that American Mid-East envoy George Mitchell was resigning his post effective in one week. Mitchell famous for brokering the peace deal in N.Ireland in the late 90's presumably was expected to achieve a similar result w/ Israel and the Palestinian's. In frustration he abruptly resigned. In truth he had no chance to succeed in the Mid-East to begin with.
SHARE Monday, December 22, 2014 An Example of Society's Civil Breakdown
Is it a surprise 29 yr. old Ismaayl Brinsley murdered 2 NYC cops on Saturday? And probably for no other reason than they were uniformed cops. It was a brutal murder & a tragedy for their families. From the "Instagram" Brinsley posted, "They take 1 of ours lets take 2 of theirs" referring to the killing of Mike Brown & Eric Garner w/ no indictments of the police quite probably became the catalyst for the Brinsley murders.
(1 comments) SHARE Thursday, March 10, 2011 The Ultimate Irony that Plagues Republicans
Repub. state senators in Wisconsin last nite voted on Gov. Walker's measure to restrict collective bargaining w/ the public service unions. They revised Walker's original bill by omitting the financial provisions that allowed a vote w/o a quorum. It was a maneuver technically legal but seen as unethical by many i.e. they "pulled a fast one". Their retribution will be petitions for their recall and in 2012 the recall of Walker.
(2 comments) SHARE Sunday, January 4, 2015 Name any national problem and issue in contemporary America where a real solution has been carried out?
Name any nat'l problem & issue in contemporary America where a real solution has been carried out? From health care, gun control to the environment among the issues facing America real solutions are found wanting. Solutions are known but big money-corporate, individual, special interest & dark money from anonymous sources control the entire electoral, political process & agenda preventing any real solutions from being enacted.
(2 comments) SHARE Monday, June 9, 2014 When Fantasy Met Reality in Wisconsin
A little over a week ago in Wisconsin two 12-yr-old girls stabbed another 12-yr-old girl 19 times with the intent to kill her; all this over a fictional internet character they fantasized as real and to prove it had to kill their best friend. Even Rod Serling couldn't have come up with this one. Luckily the girl survived the attack & is recovering in the hospital. This could only happen in America.
(7 comments) SHARE Monday, November 10, 2014 A 90 year old man just cited for feeding the homeless in public, a practice he's done for decades
Last week a 90 yr old man was cited for feeding the homeless in public violating a recently passed ordinance in Ft. Lauderdale, FLA. He's been feeding the homeless roasted chicken & potatoes in this way for decades. Now he faces 2 months in jail & hundreds of dollars in fines. Apparently 57 cities have also limited or banned public feeding. Has Ayn Rand type greed, stinginess & lack of compassion taken over the country?
(1 comments) SHARE Monday, November 17, 2014 Just another "enemy" to our government
According to the lead article in Sunday's NY Times, "The fed'l gov't has significantly expanded undercover operations w/ officers from @ least 40 agencies posing as business people, welfare recipients, political protesters & even doctors or ministers". To the gov't everyone is a potential suspect so even your doctor or minister could turn out to be a fed'l agent. We the people are just another "enemy" to our gov't.
SHARE Monday, April 23, 2012 A Culture of Corruption
According to the NY Times WalMart has been involved w/ a vast bribery case over its subsidiary Walmart de Mexico. A 2005 memo described an orchestrated campaign of bribery all over the country. After an internal probe WalMart's leaders shut it down & accepted a white wash inquiry that concluded no evidence of bribery. This after the original inquiry confirmed evidence of bribery. WalMart may be implicated in illegality.
SHARE Wednesday, April 15, 2020 Governors using Constitutions 10th Amendment in dispute with Trump claim they decide how to proceed in their states
The Constitutions' 10th Amendment states, "The powers not delegated to the United States by the Constitution, nor prohibited by it to the States, are reserved to the States respectively, or by its people." W/ the US in the midst of the Covit-19 pandemic, there's an ongoing dispute between Trump & some state governors who use the Amendment as their guide saying they decide how to proceed in their state & not the President.
(1 comments) SHARE Tuesday, February 14, 2017 Playing with Fire
Today neo-cons, R2P liberals & their neo-liberal fellow travelers are playing w/ fire using combative rhetoric, unsubstantiated allegations, lies, demonization, military provocations, threats of a blockade against Iran. China & Russia are strategic allies. A military attack on one would bring the others to their defense. China & Russia are nuclear powers capable of annihilating the US. It is madness to threaten them or Iran.
(5 comments) SHARE Saturday, February 13, 2010 Barack Obama, A Squandered Opportunity and a Failure in Leadership
It is excruciating to continue to hear Barack Obama extol bipartisanship with the Republicans. His belief that working with the other side is fundamental to governing is astonishing. He has gone to extraordinary lengths to embrace them. But they are in lockstep opposition to everything. Obama was elected on a mandate for "change." That seems all but squandered. It didn't have to be this way.
(4 comments) SHARE Wednesday, March 8, 2017 WikiLeaks exposes CIA Cyber Warfare Tactics
WikiLeaks just released the CIA's uses of "malware, viruses, trojans" which appears an extension to the machinations it's been conducting since its inception in 1947 as successor the war time OSS. Considering the assassinations, overthrowing legitimately elected gov'ts, training & arming mercenary jihadists in Syria, the question begs what reason to justify its continued existence. There aren't any. It should be abolished.
(13 comments) SHARE Friday, October 9, 2020 The fundamental issue going unaddressed in this country, an electoral system corrupted by big moneyed interests
These are trying times w/ COVID, a coming presidential election along w/ a fractious electorate. Yet a fundamental issue goes unaddressed in this country. An electoral system corrupted by big moneyed interests. It's the standard "pay to play" in all elections whether local, state & federal. All our other problems & issues won't be addressed adequately as long as our corrupted electoral system remains in place.
(1 comments) SHARE Wednesday, September 15, 2021 Trust the government?
There have been watershed events that changed the course of history. The JFK assassination & 9/11 are such events. Each had "official" investigations. Multiple investigations later, official or otherwise, put into question the conclusions reached by the official versions. The result? Trust in our gov'ts pronouncements has never been lower.
(1 comments) SHARE Friday, October 2, 2015 Putin to the rescue again, Part II
The geopolitical center of attention in the world today is Syria particularly w/ Russian Pres. Putin's actions on Syria changing the equation. He recently bolstered Syrian Pres. Assad's military sending planes &other armaments to Assad's beleaguered forces & coordinating military intel w/ Syria, Iraq, Iranian ground forces. Putin's actions jolted the White House but his actions seem intended to turn the tide against IS.
(1 comments) SHARE Friday, July 16, 2010 Israel Seems to Exist In Its Own Parallel Universe, Not the One the Rest of the World Inhabits
An Israeli military investigation of the Gaza bound flotilla incident 6 weeks ago found the naval assault justified. It seems to reside in its own parallel universe detached from the terrible realities it creates while the rest of the world recoils against its illegal actions. It is like South Africa during apartheid, defending the indefensible. The area is a tinder box waiting to explode. Israel must be brought to yield.
SHARE Monday, August 16, 2010 "Gates Sees Afghan Progress", Are We Missing Something Here?
The headline read, "Gates sees Afghan Progress." Is this a cruel joke? Are we missing something here? Along with General Petraeus pointing to "pockets of progress" and Gates' myopia what we have here is a two pronged PR offensive that's tired and worn out. It's taken from the same playbook that was used in Viet Nam. Just because these two flacks spout "progress" doesn't make it a veritable truth. It isn't gonna happen folks.
(1 comments) SHARE Monday, August 16, 2021 The Taliban capture Kabul, in full control of Afghanistan
Yesterday in Afghanistan the Taliban took Kabul much sooner than expected. Yesterday the Taliban flag flew over the capital. Meanwhile US military helicopters were furiously evacuating US embassy personnel reminiscent of US helicopters evacuating embassy personnel as Saigon fell to the N. Vietnamese in 1975. Now Afghanistan the graveyard of empires sees the US as the latest empire vanquished by the indigenous Afghan Taliban.
(2 comments) SHARE Monday, December 15, 2014 Reaching the Depths of Depravity
The long knives are out criticizing the Senate intel Committee's report of the CIA's torture of suspects. The Sunday talk shows were littered w/ such guests but numero uno was former VP Cheney defending & deflecting whatever host Chuck Todd threw @ him;it was app'd by the DOJ, was legal, waterboarding isn't torture, rectal hydration was done for medical reasons, it worked. I'd do it again in a minute. How's that for depravity.
(1 comments) SHARE Monday, June 18, 2018 Simply unconscionable
Where else in the world, besides America would we see a frightened, screaming child being wrenched away from the arms of their parent, then taken away, placed in some detention facility while the parent is hauled off as an illegal alien to be deported? It is simply unconscionable.
(4 comments) SHARE Thursday, December 15, 2016 Trust the CIA?
All the buzz from gov't & the MSM has Russia interfering w/ the presidential election helping Trump get elected. It's all attributed to a secret CIA report then leaked to the MSM. The only problem there's no evidence to substantiate Russia interfered w/ the election. So it's trust the CIA. The CIA lies as part of its makeup. Yet Dems & Hillary supporters are ready to overthrow the election over unsubstantiated CIA claims.
(1 comments) SHARE Friday, June 29, 2018 Trump to meet with Putin in Helsinki July 16
Trump is to meet w/ Russian Pres. Putin in Helsinki July16. Coupled w/ Trump's summit w/ N.Korean Leader Kim Jong-Un in June he's on his own diplomatic mission few saw coming. But then there's Trump alienating allies in Europe seceding from the Iran nuclear deal, threatening countries w/ sanctions if they trade w/ Iran & then the policy of separating children from their parents @ the Mex. border. It's all rather quixotic.
(1 comments) SHARE Monday, October 17, 2011 Worldwide Protests in Solidarity with Occupy Wall Street
This weekend saw 1000's demonstrating all over the world in solidarity w/ Occupy Wall Street. They are identifying w/ OWS because they too are dealing w/ the effects of a globalized financial system that serves big moneyed interests at the expense of the people who face harsh austerity measures while the banksters are bailed out. This is basic unfairness, easily identified w/ for 1000's to rally around everywhere in the world.
SHARE Saturday, March 31, 2012 Recall Election of Wisconsin Gov. Walker Set for June 5
In Wisconsin, a state panel set June 5 as the date for the recall election of Gov. Scott Walker. The significance of this recall election can not be overstated. Walker became infamous for his direct assault on public service unions & their right to collective bargaining. The outcome of this recall will say a lot on where we're headed, not only in Wisconsin, but nationally.
(1 comments) SHARE Monday, January 12, 2015 Millions march in Paris over Charlie Hebdo massacre, though skepticism over "official" version is justified
Yesterday a million people, including world leaders marched in Paris over the Charlie Hebdo massacre committed last week. "Officials" say the perpetrators were 3 Muslim terrorists killed in a separate incident. The revulsion to the crime by people is palpable. But what if the "official" version of events is not exactly what the gov't says it is? Certainly there's been no investigation confirming it. Skepticism is justified.
(2 comments) SHARE Thursday, November 6, 2014 "Pushed beyond the tolerable with nothing left to lose rebellion comes easy"
According to Lorraine Swartz, a researcher & political analyst regarding the people in Saudi Arabia, "They have not yet been pushed beyond the tolerable. There is a key & social factor to any revolution. Once people have nothing to lose rebellion comes easy". As for America it remains to be seen whether most people will ever feel "pushed beyond the tolerable & believe they have "nothing left to lose" & rebellion comes easy".
(1 comments) SHARE Thursday, January 8, 2015 Economic Inequality in the U.S.
Economic inequality is the current economic reality in the US, comparable to the age of the robber barons in the 1890's. Incomes have been flat since the 1970's. Much of it has to do w/ the demise of domestic manufacturing w/the means of production taken to 3rd world countries, plant closures, job outsourcing & downsizing so many good paying middle class jobs have disappeared. For many the American dream has become a chimera.
(1 comments) SHARE Monday, November 28, 2016 Stepping back from the brink
Two positive things can be said of Trump ascending to the presidency. His saying he could work w/ Russian Pres. Putin & he doesn't support regime change in Syria. So the likelihood of a nuclear confrontation is diminished. A Clinton presidency would have been a prescription for continuing endless war & eventual confrontation w/ Russia & China. That not occurring has the world stepping back from the brink of nuclear war.
(2 comments) SHARE Saturday, July 23, 2011 We the People Need to Confront Our Present Political State of Affairs
The corporatists and their lackey's in Congress have the country by the throat. Our current electoral system must be confronted and overthrown. We just can't continue to vote for those they nominate and control. The system is rigged w/ outrageous sums of corporate largesse that corrupts the electoral process to benefit them. It must be replaced w/ a people funded, publicly financed electoral process on all levels of gov't.
SHARE Wednesday, July 7, 2010 U.S. Charities Use Tax-Exempt Funds for West Bank Expansion
It appears American based charities are funding questionable and illegal settlement activities in the West Bank. This is in complete contradiction to supposed U.S. policy which according to Obama is against all West Bank settlement expansion. So just what exactly is our policy?
(2 comments) SHARE Wednesday, January 18, 2012 Overturning "Citizens United", The Quintessential Need of this Country
Saturday marks the 2nd anniversary of the Citizens United ruling handed down by the Supreme Court. It gave corps. 1st amendment rights to spend unlimited money to support or defeat candidates for office. The ruling is the greatest threat to our democracy. As Frederick Douglas said, "Power cedes nothing without a demand". There is no more important demand the people can make than demanding the overturn of Citizens United.
SHARE Friday, February 5, 2021 Secretary of State Tony Blinken said, Our commitment to Israeli security is sacrosanct it has a free hand to do anything
The US is Israel's primary defender. Israel acts w/impunity knowing it has Congress & US presidents behind it. It commits genocide against the Palestinian's in Gaza, steals their land in the West Bank evicts them as squatters then allows Jewish settlers to build illegal settlements on the stolen land. US Sec'y of State Antony Blinken said, "Our commitment to Israel's security is sacrosanct". That means Israel has a free hand.
(6 comments) SHARE Wednesday, October 21, 2020 The social unrest roiling the country, the perfect scenario the ruling elite want keeping the focus away from them
There's is little doubt social unrest is roiling this country. Whether from the left or right it seems ready to explode. It is the perfect scenario the ruling elite want. It keeps the focus away from them. The unrest serves to distract the majority of people from realizing it's the ruling elite that needs to be their focus & be dislodged from power. Not the divisive issues of the right & left that pit them against each other.
(1 comments) SHARE Wednesday, January 21, 2015 What is the Hope for America on this 5th Anniversary of SCOTUS "Citizens United" Ruling?
Today marks the 5th anniversary of the infamous "Citizens United" decision handed down by SCOTUS that has given rise to an avalanche of big corporate money flooding & corrupting the electoral process in America. Over these past 5 yrs. efforts continue calling for an amendment to the Constitution overturning Citizens & replace the current broken system w/ a publically financed system for all elections.
(1 comments) SHARE Monday, July 1, 2013 With a "Friend" like this, who needs enemies?
Reactions continue thru out the world over the NSA's surveillance activities. Outrage was sparked in the EU, particularly in Germany when the magazine Der Spiegal told of the NSA tapping EU offices in Washington, Brussels & at the U.N. The European commissioner for justice & fundamental rights said, "Partners do not spy on each other". Not the U.S. which sees enemies everywhere; "allies" & enemies alike.
(3 comments) SHARE Tuesday, May 8, 2018 Trump reneges on Iran nuclear deal
A few minutes ago Pres. Trump pulled the US out of the P5&1 nuclear deal w/ Iran. All the reasons he gave for reneging on the deal were bogus. The IAEA inspectors as an integral part of the agreement certified on multiple times Iran was in full compliance in all terms of the deal which the US had agreed to in 2015. Every complaint Trump gave for withdrawal falls completely outside the parameters of the deal the US agreed to.
(1 comments) SHARE Wednesday, July 18, 2018 Falsely juxtaposing history with the present
Since Trump's summit w/ Putin on Monday it's been all Trump all the time. Now he's reversing himself blaming Russia for interfering w/ the election after cozying up to Putin that had Repubs become apoplectic over his comments w/ the Russian leader. That detente w/ Putin may have been accomplished by Trump is absolutely lost in the murky fog generated by the MSM. It's as if Trump was being Neville Chamberlain appeasing Hitler.
(2 comments) SHARE Monday, July 20, 2015 Misanthropes in High Places
A mad neo-con led deviancy has captured "official" Washington driving US militarism since the cold war ended. American acquiescence permits Washington do anything it wants, wars, torture, drone strikes. Though not a classical conspiracy there is a collusion of the military, defense contractors & politicos. Although not a classical conspiracy they're like minded misanthropes who've usurped the reins of power in this country.
SHARE Tuesday, June 29, 2021 Biden orders US military airstrikes at the Syria-Iraq border
On Sunday the US military conducted airstrikes against facilities used by Iran backed militia groups in the Iraq-Syria border region. Sec'y of State Blinken claimed they were necessary & appropriate. The Iraqi gov't called the airstrikes a blatant violation of sovereignty. Syrian Pres. Assad never invited the US military into his country. Such US military actions are illegal & there's nothing legal that can justify them.
(5 comments) SHARE Thursday, June 13, 2019 Early this morning two oil tankers attacked in Gulf of Oman
This morning 2 oil tankers in the Gulf of Oman were apparently attacked causing explosions, damage to hulls,on fire &adrift w/sailors rescued. This after 4 ships were damaged off coast of the UAE last month. To date no evidence found though Pentagon immediately accused Iran. Trump's nat'l security adviser weighed in saying the attacks were mines "almost certainly" from Iran. Sec'y of State Pompeo accused Iran for todays attack
(1 comments) SHARE Thursday, February 3, 2022 White House now saying Russian invasion of Ukraine is not imminent
The White House thru spokeswoman Jen Psaki just explained the alleged Russian invasion of Ukraine wasn't "imminent" saying it was sending an unintended message. "I think it sent a message that we weren't intending to send". Then why send it in the first place? Imminent means about to happen. Russia said they had no intention of invading Ukraine. The WH saying the invasion was imminent was just deceiving the American people.
SHARE Friday, January 22, 2010 The United States of "Corporate" America
On Thursday, the Supreme Court, in a landmark 5 to 4 decision essentially decreed there is no limit to corporate funding of elections. The implications could not be more clear. It is the corporation that reigns in America. Thursday will be our day of infamy if "We the People" remain passive in the face of the tyranny the Court decreed with its decision to open the floodgates of corporate largesse corrupting our elections.
(2 comments) SHARE Monday, November 7, 2016 "Allegations" without factual evidence
In America when the gov't alleges anything w/out factual evidence or evidence later found to be false it means the gov't was up to something. The 1965 Tonkin Gulf Incident was portrayed as American navy ships being attacked by N. Vietnam. It never happened. Yet the incident was the primary basis for expanding the Vietnam war. The same w/ Sec'y of State Colin Powell @ the UN in Feb. 2003 alleging Iraq had WMD. They had none.
(1 comments) SHARE Thursday, March 14, 2013 A New Pope is Chosen, Does it Matter Who It Is?
Yesterday Jorge Mario Bergoglio (Pope Francis) was chosen as the new pontiff to lead the church. Would it have mattered who the next pope would be? The church has been its own wordt enemy & is tainted institution. The cover up of priests molesting young boys is int"l in scope w/ church leaders complicit in covering it up. It's hard to imagine the church ever recovering & looked upon as a respected & moral institution.
SHARE Wednesday, April 13, 2022 In America everything is blamed on Putin
It's becoming surreal. Pres. Biden in Iowa yesterday promoting a 5% increase in ethanol to gasoline. While making a speech in an Iowa barn he gets hit w/ bird poop below his left lapel. Yet his handlers can't even admit the obvious insisting it was corn splatter that hit the prez. Biden calls Russian Pres. Putin a war criminal. His attack in Ukraine meant to exterminate Ukrainians. Everything in America is blamed on Putin.
(2 comments) SHARE Sunday, May 9, 2010 G.M.s Repayment of "TARP" Money Not What it Appears
G.M.s repayment of "TARP" money is not what it appears. Senator Charles Grassley of Iowa discovered when he queried Treasury, they "confirmed that the money G.M. used to repay its bailout loan had come from the taxpayer-financed escrow account held for the automaker at the Treasury." So the truth of the matter is G.M. repaid nothing. It just robbed Peter (escrow) to pay Paul (bailout).
(2 comments) SHARE Saturday, July 2, 2011 Ideological Extremism on the Left as well as the Right
All ideology is dangerous, whether it be from the right or left. By its nature it is extreme with no room for dissent and for those who disagree. The world is complicated with no easy solutions. And that goes particularly for anything that springs from the extremes on the right or the left.
(2 comments) SHARE Tuesday, January 31, 2012 Obama Defends Drone Strikes
Yesterday Pres. Obama conducted a virtual interview w/ 5 people defending his use of drones in Pakistan saying they were very precise, precision strikes, carefully targeted, not used willy nilly and is respectful of the sovereignty of nations where drones strikes are conducted. The president's defense of the use of drones is full of absurdities, an insult to our intelligence and mere "newspeak" something out of Orwells "1984".
SHARE Wednesday, February 6, 2019 Pope Francis acknowledges sexual abuse of nuns including sexual slavery of nuns by priests
Yesterday Pope Francis responded to a question about sexual abuse of nuns including sexual slavery of nuns by priests w/ the Pontiff responding the Vatican is "working on it". One wonders what's behind the sexual aberrations of some of its clergy. Could it be some of the Church's edicts? How about celibacy? Could it be behind this sexual deviancy?
SHARE Monday, April 4, 2022 The US leading a new world order?
Pres. Biden recently speaking @ a business roundtable said, "Now is a time when things are shifting & there's going to be a new world order out there, & we've got to lead it". If the old world order @ least since the end of WWII which the US has led in the sinister wrongs it has committed is any indication of its prowess the world will be better off w/out the US leading any new world order.
(2 comments) SHARE Wednesday, September 17, 2014 It is Irredeemable
The gov't in America captured by neo-con ideology is insane, a mad malignant scourge that is the greatest threat in the world. Most Americans haven't come to that conclusion. Most others in the world have come to that conclusion w/ the war on terror, bombing, drone & missile attacks killing innocents, torture, wars & occupations. There is no denying this sordid history. As for reform, however well intended, it is irredeemable.
(7 comments) SHARE Saturday, March 16, 2013 A War Crime That Will Live in Infamy
March 20, 2013 is the 10th anniversary of Bush's invasion of Iraq. It was built on deception & lies. Saddam Hussein no had WMD as former nuclear inspector Scott Ritter reiterated time & again. It had been destroyed by Ritter & the other nuclear inspectors in the early 1990's after the 1st Gulf war. The invasion of Iraq was a war crime executed by war criminals & never brought to justice. A war crime that will live in infamy.
(2 comments) SHARE Tuesday, March 11, 2014 The West's Demand to Maintain the Territorial Integrity of Ukraine Ignores the Ethnic Realities on the Ground
The people of Crimea are set to vote Sunday on a referendum to join the Russia. Sanctions against Russia are being discussed but w/the EU dependent on Russian natural gas the threat is muted. Diplomacy will eventually come into play to end the Ukraine crisis but for now its shadow boxing diplomacy. The west maintains the territorial integrity of Ukraine is a must but this ignores the ethnic realities on the ground.
(4 comments) SHARE Thursday, November 13, 2014 "Enemies" and war are the elements that sustain the US war machine, without "enemies" the whole edifice would collapse
"Enemies", real or contrived along with wars they produce are the necessary elements to sustain & justify the war machine in this country. Then w/ fear laced propaganda convince the population to support & fight against the "enemies" official Washington & complicit MSM convince us is the "enemy" we must defend ourselves against. Without "enemies" the whole edifice would crumble & collapse.
SHARE Wednesday, July 14, 2021 Looking at some of the volatile situations in the world today
There are many volatile situations in the world a spark could ignite any one of them which could spread & become a firestorm. Think Syria, Iran, the Persian Gulf & Strait of Hormuz, Gaza, Palestinian West Bank, Jerusalem, provocations in the S. China Sea, Taiwan Strait, Black Sea war games, Ukraine, just to name a few. How can these volatile situations be resolved?
SHARE Wednesday, May 22, 2013 Hypocrisy from Oklahoma Senators Inhofe and Coburn in Wake of Tornado Striking Constituents in Moore, Oklahoma
Both U.S. senators from Oklahoma, Sen. James Inhofe & Sen. Tom Coburn in January voted against the supplemental appropriations bill that was targeted for the victims of Hurricane Sandy that tore into N.Y & N.J. Now comes the monster tornado that ripped thru Moore, Okla. on Monday & now they're both singing a different tune w/ disaster striking their constituents in Okla.
SHARE Friday, July 10, 2020 China in the crosshairs?
According to several sources the US Navy has 2 aircraft carrier groups about to conduct round the clock war games tom'w in the S. China Sea. Coincidentally, China had long planned to conduct its own war games this weekend. Putting adversaries in close proximity is inherently dangerous. What's the chances of an incident, an accident occurring w/ sailors killed. A reciprocal response by the other? The situation could unravel.
(1 comments) SHARE Monday, May 17, 2010 The American Military's Secret Network of Private Spies
A secret network of private contractor spies operating in Pakistan and Afghanistan has just been revealed. It was approved by General Patraeus in Jan. 2009. The contractors were supposed to supply only broad information but some Pentagon officials said the operation morphed into traditional spying activities. Army rules do not allow hiring contractors for spying. A clearly illegal program; why did it exist in the first place.
SHARE Wednesday, October 3, 2012 U.S. Contemplating Clandestine Special Ops Raid in Libya over Benghazi Mission Attack
According to unnamed officials the U.S. is considering operations to kill or capture militants implicated in the attack on the U.S. diplomatic mission in Benghazi, Libya saying the gov't is too weak to question alleged attackers. But if recent U.S. actions are any guide, it won't matter if we kill a few Libyans, guilty or innocent. Our policy is attack & kill first. If we subsequently find out later they're innocent so be it.
(6 comments) SHARE Tuesday, July 27, 2010 Just Where Are We With Obama 18 Months Into His Presidency?
Just where are we with Obama some 18 months into his presidency? Have we experienced "change you can believe in?" In policy, has there been a significant difference between him and his predecessor? Were our expectations of him too great, so mesmerized by his eloquence it obscured the lack of experience and indecisiveness. When we look at his handling of the issues, they do not draw high marks for leadership and competence.
(1 comments) SHARE Wednesday, January 19, 2022 To "official" Washington Russia invading Ukraine seems a foregone conclusion, just a matter of time
What Sec'y of State Antony Blinken just said to US embassy staff in Kiev reads like Russia invading Ukraine is a foregone conclusion, just a matter of time. Because of the buildup of Russian forces on the Ukraine border Russian Pres. Putin on short notice could take aggressive action. Meanwhile Russia maintains it has no plans to invade Ukraine & its military moves on its territory is an internal matter & no concern to others.
(2 comments) SHARE Monday, November 29, 2010 The Latest WikiLeaks Disclosure, a Reaction and Reflection
The latest WikiLeaks disclosure of secret American diplomatic cables should be seen as their providing a public service. The disclosures are raw and unvarnished, not the sanitized news of the corporate owned main stream media. When so much of our governments dealings are shrouded and cloaked in secrecy the truth begs to be revealed. Thank you WikiLeaks.
(2 comments) SHARE Thursday, February 23, 2012 "Yes Justice Kennedy, We The People See The Corruption"
At a protest rally today outside the Supreme Court a sign read, "Yes Justice Kennedy, we the people see the corruption". That's a direct reference to Kennedy's assertion in "Citizens" that "independent expenditures by corps. do not give rise to corruption & the appearance of influence or access will not cause the electorate to lose faith in this democracy". Yes it will and the corruption is all too evident.
(2 comments) SHARE Thursday, August 20, 2015 Have we reached the point of no return?
Is humanity's plight possible extinction thru abrupt climate change or that other potential calamity nuclear war? And all w/ the haunting irony it was all avoidable. War is not instinctive, hereditary in the DNA, something we're born w/ & can't be avoided. As to the environmental calamity have we reached the point of no return & our eventual extinction by not acting when the consequences of the climate crisis became known?
(5 comments) SHARE Monday, November 19, 2012 Legitimate Criticism of Israeli Policy and Action is Not Ant-Semitism
Branding anyone who criticizes present day Israeli policy & actions as being anti-Semitic is an unjust accusation. It is a ruse to deflect honest criticism, a camouflage to hide behind that wrongfully defends Israel from being legitimately criticized. The continuing Israeli military air campaign over Gaza is aggression. It needs to be seen & condemned as such. That's not anti-Semitism. It is the truth.
(1 comments) SHARE Thursday, November 10, 2011 A Near Term Disaster In The Making
IAEA Director Yukiya Amano claims in U.N. report on Iran that details intelligence and IAEA research shows Tehran working on all aspects of research toward making a nuclear weapon. The British Gov't believes Israel will attempt a preemptive strike sooner rather than later before Christmas or early next year. Any attack on Iran will prove disastrous w/ no positive outcomes from such an unnecessary and unprovoked attack.
(4 comments) SHARE Friday, May 6, 2011 The Current Debate Over The Use of Torture
W/ the killing of Osama bin Laden has come a renewed debate on the value of torture. Former Justice Dep't lawyer John Yoo and his ilk believe waterboarding et al conducted by interrogators got them to find bin laden and develop a plan to take him out. Many former CIA and FBI interrogators strongly disagree on the value of its use. Officially we don't torture. That's pure propaganda. We do it on a grand scale.
(1 comments) SHARE Thursday, January 27, 2022 US rejects in writing Russia's security concerns
Last week Russian Foreign Minister Lavrov & US Sec'y of State Blinken met in Geneva & the latter said the US would provide a written response to Russia's security guarantees Russia sent to the US & NATO in December. Lavrov said "there was no positive response" provided by the US pointing out the document failed to address these points. Russian Pres. Putin was said to be assessing the document contemplating his response.
(2 comments) SHARE Friday, January 27, 2017 Trump's latest "art of the deal", we build it, you pay for it
After Pres. Trump signed an exec. order for construction of a wall w/ Mexico, they're having none of it. Mex. Pres. Enrique Nieto was to meet Trump next week but canceled the meeting when Trump insisted Mexico pay for the wall. The idea of Mexico having to pay for a wall entirely on the US side of the border is a bit of chutzpah to begin w/. Not for Mr. art of the deal himself, it's we build it you pay for it. Ah maybe not.
SHARE Wednesday, August 25, 2010 This Could Only Happen in America
This could only happen in America. A federal judge issued a temporary injunction halting all stem cell research. He called into question the legal basis of Obama's order allowing all stem cell research be permitted w/o restrictions. Congress on their return should enact legislation to legally allow all stem cell research to continue. It should be their first order of business.
(1 comments) SHARE Wednesday, April 20, 2011 America, Reform, Rebellion or Both
Reform or rebellion; which is most needed in America? The country has become a plutocracy of, by and for the rich and powerful, the U.S. of Corporate America. The people need to rebel against both the Dems. & the Repubs. Both are equally corrupt and beholden to big moneyed and special interests. An untainted and uncorrupted people's party, of right and left, needs to be formed to truly represent the will of the people.
(2 comments) SHARE Thursday, February 28, 2019 Summit collapse squarely on Trump and US failure to negotiate with Kim
Trump & N. Korean leader Kim Jong-un met for round two negotiations earlier today in Hanoi but nothing was signed. No agreement on anything. Trump intimated it wasn't a "good thing" to be signing anything. Kim wanted the sanctions lifted against his country. Trump the self described deal maker couldn't do it w/out Kim giving up his nuclear program, the very thing that prevents the US from attacking N. Korea. Kim wasn't buying.
(1 comments) SHARE Tuesday, March 30, 2010 Could the Far Right Be Incited to Go From Raucousness to Violence? Part II
This past week has seen an increase in the number and severity of incidents, mostly surrounding the health care legislation just signed into law. These incidents were aimed primarily at house Democrats who voted for the final bill. This phenomenon is not going to fade into oblivion any time soon. They are increasingly dangerous and taking things into their own hands. There's blood in the water and these sharks