@mimi You mean Howard "The Hack Lobbyist" Dean...

totally messed up world in USAland's parties's landscape. Just can't believe it.

@mimi

totally messed up world in USAland's parties's landscape. Just can't believe it.

@Lookout q
War is our rulers bread and butter. Our rulers violence and ignorance promotes their profit. Sadly, they are as addicted to war as we are to fossil fuels.
I'm sorry, but keep me out of this.

Weapons are our bread and butter. Our violence (and ignorance) promotes our profit. Sadly we are as addicted to war as we are fossil fuels

There's a more important connection which is being driven by the arms industry who are very disappointed actually with the Trump administration. If you read the defense press that caters to the arms manufacturers, the arms manufacturers thought that $54 billion was not nearly enough. That he had promised ... He being Trump, had promised the arms industry a massive increase in expenditure. They're saying this $54 billion Trump proposed was only something like only 2% more than Obama was going to do anyway. Congress, already the Armed Services Committee is talking about another $10 billion, $15 billion on top of the 54.

http://therealnews.com/t2/story:19448:Real-News-Roundtable%3A-The-Russia...

And Sy Hersh had to publish his piece about T-rump's missile attack in Germany because they don't even want people to know what an evil war we created and are waging...

Some American military and intelligence officials were especially distressed by the president's determination to ignore the evidence. "None of this makes any sense," one officer told colleagues upon learning of the decision to bomb. "We KNOW that there was no chemical attack ... the Russians are furious. Claiming we have the real intel and know the truth ... I guess it didn't matter whether we elected Clinton or Trump.“

https://www.welt.de/politik/ausland/article165905578/Trump-s-Red-Line.html

http://therealnews.com/t2/index.php?option=com_content&task=view&id=767&...

When will someone stand up and call out America as war mongers and profiteers....
oh yeah most people and countries around the world feel that way. We just don't hear or read it in the states.

Thanks gjohn for keeping us informed!

@chuckvw The NeoDems are waging total war on anyone, big or small, who the cosidet a threat to their continuing reign of error within the Democratic Party. All their blather against purity tests and for a big tent and the need to be practical are just lies useful to maintaining their death grip on the party.

really have it out for Gabbard. I'm pretty sure they will drop someone in with plenty of $$$ to primary her.

@DonMidwest thanks here they are in a nutshell, her five step program:

step one: Know what's coming.
step two: Get out of your home and defy the bans.
step three: Know your history.
step four: Always follow the money.
step five: Advance a bold counterplan.

ta da!

peace

War is the answer for how to be the "superpower" in the world and why not use same approach at home?

Naomi Klein wrote her book on the Shock Doctrine years ago and now has a new book out

She put up this video recently which should scare the crap out of you.

Our media and politicians and most organizations do not have a crisis management plan to respond to shocks

Naomi Klein: How to Resist Trump's Shock Doctrine

That clip was shown on democracy now which continues with an interview

MY GOODMAN: That video, produced by The Intercept. Their senior correspondent, Naomi Klein, author of the new book, released this week, No Is Not Enough: Resisting Trump’s Shock Politics and Winning the World We Need. Yes, a shock. You’re a specialist in analyzing what happens next, Naomi.

NAOMI KLEIN: Right. And, you know, the reason why I wrote this book very quickly, for me—you know, it usually takes me five years to write a book; I did this in less than five months—is because I really wanted it to come out before any kind of major crisis hits the United States. I mean, lots of people out there see Trump himself as a crisis, and, you know, I would tend to agree, but what really has me scared is what this configuration of characters in the Trump administration—Pence, Bannon, Betsy DeVos, Steve Mnuchin, all these Goldman Sachs alum who are in the Cabinet—how they would respond to a large-scale crisis that they themselves are not creating. I mean, the chaos is chaos they’re generating themselves, either deliberately or out of incompetence and avarice, but what happens if there’s a 2008-like financial crisis? What happens, you know, heaven forbid, if there is a Manchester-like attack in the United States?

The actions of this administration make these types of shocks more likely, not less, right? They’re deregulating the banks, creating the conditions for another crash. They are antagonizing the world, particularly the Muslim world. You know, ISIS apparently called Trump’s Muslim travel ban a "blessed ban," because it was so good for recruitment. They are—you know, they are making climate disasters more likely with everything they’re doing to deregulate industry, deregulate for polluters. You know, there’s a lag time between that and when the climate shocks hit, but the truth is, we’ve already warmed the planet enough that no U.S. president can get through a year, let alone a term, without some sort of major climate-related disaster.

So, how does this group of—this Cabinet of disaster capitalists, is what I call them, Amy, because there is such a track record of taking advantage of crisis, whether we’re looking at the Goldman Sachs—former Goldman Sachs executives and the way they profited from the subprime mortgage crisis to increase their own personal wealth, whether it’s Mike Pence and the central role he played when New Orleans was still underwater to come up with a corporate wish list to push through. So, you know, as disastrous as Trump’s policies have been so far, there’s actually long, toxic to-do lists, things that people around Trump and Trump himself have been—have very openly said they would like to do, but they have actually not been able either to get through without a crisis or they haven’t even tried, right? Think about Trump’s threats to bring back torture. Think about his threats to bring the feds into Chicago. Think about his threats not just to have a Muslim travel ban from specific countries, but not to let Muslims into the country, period.

So I think we do need to prepare for this. And what I tried to do with this video is create a little toolkit of, you know, what I have seen work in other countries, because I have been reporting on shocks and large-scale disasters and how societies respond now for a couple of decades, and I’ve seen some amazing acts of resistance, you know?

video and transcript at democracynow.org

https://www.democracynow.org/2017/6/30/naomi_klein_the_worst_is_yet

@Steven D and possibly risking a war with Russia and still her supporters were voting for her anyway. I wonder how many of them voted for Obama instead of her because of her Iraq war vote, but now didn't seem to mind her warmongering. They actually accused us of spreading right wing talking points, when her history showed that she was one. Not too many people had any problem with her when she said that she relied on Kissinger for advice when she was SOS. The war criminal Kissinger got a pass on the GOS. It's mind boggling that her supporters could overlook her bloodthirst for death and destruction. Let's never forget how she reacted after watching Gaddafi's death. Her clapping her hands and cackling with glee over that should have disqualified her for president immediately.

There's a diary on the GOS about how the Trump administration is letting Russia decide what to do with Assad, and the author thinks that this is a bad idea and he places all the deaths and refugees on Assad. The US is apparently blameless for anything that is happening in Syria.

I wonder how many Syrians would be alive today and in their homes if Obama hadn't agreed with the Saudis, Qatar and Israel and decided that he had to be removed from office? As always, our crap doesn't stink.

Let Russia decide

Secretary of State Rex Tillerson told the U.N. Secretary General Antonio Guterres during a private State Department meeting last week that the fate of Syrian leader Bashar Al-Assad now lies in the hands of Russia, and that the Trump administration’s priority is limited to defeating the Islamic State, according to three diplomatic sources familiar with the exchange.

Amazingly, more than half of the comments are in favor of this action.
One comment stood out for its ignorance.

I find it regrettable that on July 4th weekend, any American would want any country other than his own to be the global superpower.

And let’s not forget that President Obama was also wise enough to refrain from increasing US military presence in Syria, to the dismay of many career bureaucrats in the State Department.

President Obama realized that fracking has enabled the US to pivot from the Middle East to Southeast Asia, through which 50% of global commerce passes.

I

and no one in the Democratic Party, save a brave few, have any problem with that, when all the the elected officials of that party stoke hatred against a weak country that just happens to still retain ICBMs, when that same party looks askance at anyone demanding we forego our wars in the ME, accusing them of treason for meeting with the head of a foreign country beset by fundamentalist jihadi terrorists who behead our own reporters and support terrorist attacks in Europe, groups that our government and the Saudi's are funding and providing arms, when they pooh pooh airstrikes that kills thousands of innocent civilians, then yes, that party is to the right of the Republican party circa 1950 in terms of its foreign policy and red-baiting.