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Submitted by Lookout on Sun, 05/05/2019 - 8:00am
Coup, Coup, Cachoo
The world is engulfed with U.S. led coups. There's Venezuela, Iran, Ukraine, Nicaragua, Cuba, and too many other African and Asian nations to list. In a comment this week Joe suggested there may not be more ongoing coups today than in the past, but they've never been so blatant and obvious. There's also an on going coup against truth tellers. To paraphrase Julian, "Since lies bring us wars, perhaps truth can bring peace." Concurrently, we have a corporate coup against the ecosystem. May 5, Cinco de Mayo, is a celebration of a coup when the Mexican Army defeated the French Empire at the Battle of Puebla, on May 5, 1862 (at least temporarily). However, Mexico celebrates independence day on September 16, commemorating the Cry of Dolores, which initiated the war of Mexican independence from Spain. Stretching the theme this week, let's also look at coops and chicken coops.
NPR Lies By Omission — Fails to Mention Taped Sy Hersh Phone Call When Discussing Retracted Fox News Story on Seth Rich
Submitted by veganmark on Sun, 05/05/2019 - 8:00amOriginally published Sep 18, 2017
David Folkenflik of NPR has just commented on the retracted Fox News story claiming that Seth Rich had been in touch with Wikileaks:
http://www.npr.org/2017/09/15/551163406/fox-news-has-yet-to-explain-what...
One thing about this story sticks out like a sore thumb — it doesn’t mention Sy Hersh.
Alas, Babylon
Submitted by hecate on Sun, 05/05/2019 - 4:51amWhen I was a lad I read Alas, Babylon, a novel by depressed Florida newspaperman Pat Frank, one envisioning much of the Northern Hemisphere crisped by nuclear fire.
In his book, Frank focuses on the before, during, and after, of the fire, as it effects the denizens of a small rural town. In the after, as they struggle to survive in a world suddenly pre-industrial, Frank's people come to refer to that day when came the fire—when, as the mad monk of Patmos did write, "Alas, alas, that great city Babylon, that mighty city! for in one hour is thy judgment come!"—simply as The Day.
Let's Blow
Submitted by hecate on Sun, 05/05/2019 - 4:29amTime's cover story the weekend of October 15, 1965 was "The Turning Point In Vietnam." The Berkeley Barb counter-headlined: "VDC Shatters War 'Consensus,' Greatest Antiwar Protest Ever, UC Center Of Worldwide Action." A proposal from the Berkeley chapter of the Vietnam Day Committee had grown into a coordinated event in twenty countries. Of the two American demonstrations, one was going to be in Berkeley.
As it was planned, there would be speakers and antiwar folksingers all day Friday, then an afternoon march on the army induction center in Oakland, followed by an all-night vigil and more speakers on Saturday. Some 14,000 people came for the event from scores of western cities, whole busloads from Los Angeles and Portland. Some of them had sat since morning in a vacant lot on the University of California campus hearing the war denounced by student and labor radicals and a slate of antiwar writers. Ken Kesey was scheduled in a superstar time slot, just a speaker or two before the march was to start.
The VDC organizers who put together the anitwar cheerleader lineup could not have been up-to-date on Kesey's recent interests.
International Criminal Court Declines to Do It's Job
Submitted by Big Al on Sat, 05/04/2019 - 10:47pm
What bad economy?
Submitted by edg on Sat, 05/04/2019 - 4:36pmSome people claim that the U.S. economy under Trump is in bad shape. Combine that with his failure at being a decent human being, his love affairs with Vladimir Putin and Kim Jong Un, and his misogyny and racism, and it's a sure thing that he'll lose the 2020 election and be escorted out of the White House in an orange jumpsuit to serve his time in New York's state prison system.
But is the economy really that bad?
Rachel Sides with Bolton on Venezuela
Submitted by snoopydawg on Sat, 05/04/2019 - 4:35pmShocking MSNBC segment in which @maddow sympathizes with poor John Bolton who has a tough job bc he wants to go to war against Venezuela but Trump is not complying bc Putin. No joke, that’s actually what she says https://t.co/COYVVtZNfB
Calling the bully's bluff
Submitted by gjohnsit on Sat, 05/04/2019 - 4:12pmRep. Ilhan Omar is in trouble again for telling the truth.
Just as in interventions past, those who oppose war are labeled supporters of dictators and haters of “freedom.”
We saw this playbook in Iraq.
Tulsi "Endorsements" and Nevada Upcoming
Submitted by apenultimate on Sat, 05/04/2019 - 11:17amTulsi got a couple of major endorsements (of sorts) this past week.
Joe Rogan
First, and probably most importantly, was Joe Rogan who commented in one of his shows that he is voting for Tulsi and not even thinking about anyone else. Rogan had interviewed Tulsi last September (well before she declared), which was a very good conversation.
