How to spot a Russian war crime
It appears that there is some confusion about what is and what isn't a war crime, so I thought I would help clear up the confusion.
War Crime
On the day a senior United Nations envoy warned that Aleppo could be destroyed within months, France began a new round of diplomatic wrangling to bring an end to the humanitarian crisis in the besieged Syrian city...
He also warned that if attacks continued at the current rate, Aleppo "may be totally destroyed" in the next couple of months.
"We are talking about the whole city," he said.
So now you know what a war crime is.
Not a war crime (i.e. Victory over terror)
With the backing of the U.S. Air Force — there were more than 600 American air strikes in and around Ramadi in the months leading up to that victory — and with U.S.-trained and U.S.-financed local special ops units leading the way, the Iraqi military did indeed largely take back that intricately booby-trapped and mined city from heavily entrenched IS militants in late December.And here’s what victory turned out to look like: According to the Iraqi defense minister, at least 80 percent of the city of 400,000 was destroyed. Rubblized. Skeletized. “City” may be what it’s still called, but it’s hardly an accurate description.
Ramadi was a glorious victory over terrorism. Something to celebrate.
Photographs provided to The Associated Press by satellite imagery and analytics company DigitalGlobe show more than 3,000 buildings and nearly 400 roads and bridges were damaged or destroyed between May 2015, when Ramadi fell to IS, and Jan. 22, after most of the fighting had ended. Over roughly the same period, nearly 800 civilians were killed in clashes, airstrikes and executions.
The glorious victory in Ramadi was very similar to the glorious victory in Kobani the previous year.
Now some might call this a double-standard, but they don't understand what makes it different - who's dropping the bombs.
The fate of the tens of thousands of Iraqi civilians who used to live in Ramadi is little different from that of Syrians, forced to flee Aleppo, but it is not just their relative inaccessibility which explains why their misery captures so little attention from Western politicians or the media. It’s politics.
The bad guys in the Ramadi story, the men who occupied the city for seven months, are the Islamic State group while the men who bombed them out, destroying most of the city, were US-trained Iraqi government soldiers, helped by Shia militias and US special forces.
Indeed, the recapture of devastated Ramadi was described by Iraqi and US officials as “liberation”.
Imagine that word being used in the West today to describe what is going on in Aleppo. Bashar al Assad’s government forces are perceived as the bad guys while their opponents are sanitised as “rebels”...
According to an analysis by the conservative Washington-based Institute for the Study of War, the “rebel” groups in southern Aleppo province whom Syrian government forces have been defeating are a combination of IS, the al-Qaida franchise Jabhat al-Nusra and the radical Salafi group Ahrar al-Sham. The website Al Monitor recently reported that the Syrian Turkmen groups to the northwest of Aleppo whom the Russian have been repeatedly bombing in recent weeks are linked to Jabhat al-Nusra.
It's about human rights
Yesterday, because of their war crimes, Russia lost a symbolic vote.
Russia was ousted from the United Nations Human Rights Council in a General Assembly vote on Friday, signaling a backlash against its policies in Syria.
Russia lost its bid for re-election to council membership by just two votes, but human-rights organizations and some diplomats called the rejection “historic.”
“It’s hard to imagine the atrocities happening in Aleppo were not on the minds of those casting a ballot,” said Akshaya Kumar, deputy U.N. director for the group Human Rights Watch.
In the past few weeks, efforts to isolate and publicly shame Russia for supporting Syria’s regime in a siege of the city of Aleppo and for vetoing a cease-fire have gained ground at the U.N. During meetings of the Security Council and the Human Rights Council last week, member states said the atrocities committed in Aleppo by Syria and its backers—namely Russia—amounted to war crimes.
Yes, a strong vote for human rights.
So who was elected instead?
Saudi Ambassador to the UN Abdullah bin Yahya Al-Moallami said on Friday that re-electing the kingdom as a member of the Human Rights Council will allow his country to complete its mission in defending human rights in the Arab and Islamic worlds, the official Saudi Press Agency (SPA) reported.
The ambassador Abdullah bin Yahya Al-Moallami also said re-electing Saudi reflects the international community’s “trust” in the kingdom’s “leading role” in the UN Human Rights Council.
No joke: Saudi Arabia is running for the UN Human Rights Council—and their campaign brochure cites the Saudi record on. . . women's rights. pic.twitter.com/2xqO62V1GS
— Hillel Neuer (@HillelNeuer) September 22, 2016
Who else won the election to defend human rights?
A representative of the Egyptian regime of President Abdel Fattah el-Sisi has replaced the delegate of Saudi Arabia as chair of the UN Human Rights Council panel which nominates global investigators, which this week will include the new UN expert on summary executions—even though Egyptian forces summarily killed an estimated 1,000 protesters in a single day less than three years ago.
I hope that clears this up.
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The difference between Aleppo and Mosul
business as usual
I've heard reports of white phosphorus rounds
being used on Mosul. The empire's line is apparently that the Russians are committing war crimes by dislodging Daesh from east Aleppo, but using Willy Pete on Mosul is just fine, and business as usual.
"Obama promised transparency, but Assange is the one who brought it."
they've been pretty brazen
with the white phosphorous, so much so that amnesty int'l is politely suggesting the iraqis and US use a bit less.
here i thought WP was outlawed..
GIANT ALL-CAPS SIG
US confirmed that it has fired DU ammunition in Syria
despite saying they would not use this crap anymore in Iraq and Syria.
http://www.bandepleteduranium.org/en/united-states-confirms-fired-du-syria
IIRC that was about the same time
that the Russian plane was shot down by the Turks. Any idea what they were shooting at? Tanks would be the standard prey.
"Obama promised transparency, but Assange is the one who brought it."
Ok then. In light of this
It is time that I should be appointed the next Dali Lama. I believe the U.N. will support me.
"I can't understand why people are frightened of new ideas. I'm frightened of the old ones."
John Cage
Let's not forget Assad's barrel bombs
Blowing up civilians with barrel bombs is worse than blowing up civilians with regular bombs for REASONS!
But it's OK when Iraq does it.
KSA has bombed 110 schools and hospitals in Yamen
in the past two years.
Solidarity forever
Don't worry, $Hillary will get them Ruskies!
I read today school children in Russia are being taught the USA is their enemy:
http://www.cnn.com/2016/10/29/europe/russia-nuclear-drills/index.html
The real SparkyGump has passed. It was an honor being your human.
If US leaders and allies talk
If US leaders and allies talk like an enemy, point nuclear missiles at you like an enemy, mass on your borders like an enemy, and those children have nowhere safe to duck to but you're trying to protect them as best you can, you'd better alert them as to who that enemy is and to the best place you can rig for them to try to duck to, just in case you can save them.
Hillary loves killing women and children, but they always leave that part out.
Edit: although of course Putin is being calmly reasonable and strongly standing his ground against the lunacy and no sane person (including the Russian, American and other publics, of course,) advocates nuclear attacks or illegal wars attacking other people's countries to further enrich those already having enough to buy governments.
Psychopathy is not a political position, whether labeled 'conservatism', 'centrism' or 'left'.
A tin labeled 'coffee' may be a can of worms or pathology identified by a lack of empathy/willingness to harm others to achieve personal desires.
Ah yes...war crimes...
I think one of the most ignominious war crimes of the last century was the state-sponsored mass murders of civilians during WW II committed by American and British bomber pilots under orders of military high command and sanctioned by the civilian leaders of both countries.
The most horrible example of America's culpability back then was the 1945 raid on Tokyo in which our bomber pilots intentionally scorched and boiled and baked to death over 100,000 Tokyo civilians---women, children, etc.
This was our imitation of what the British bomber command had been doing to German civilians for a couple of years previous. The only real difference between what we were doing and what they were doing is we liked to call it 'strategic bombing', but the British didn't hesitate to call it what it was: terror bombing.
And notice that I didn't even mention the atomic bombs we dropped on civilians...
James Kroeger
Actually, the Americans and British together managed
to kill around 160,000 civilians in Dresden, Germany, with the same kind of firestorm.
I wrote a thesis at the Air Force Academy, in 1984 or so, called "The Myth of the Precision Daylight Bombing Campaign in Germany in WWII", or something to that effect. I got an F, of course. The justification was that I had quoted a passage from Kurt Vonnegut's "Slaughterhouse Five", which was "a work of fiction".
He was there, a German POW, and saw it first hand. He wrote a science fiction novel about it, because he really couldn't describe it in any other context.
"I’m a human being, first and foremost, and as such I’m for whoever and whatever benefits humanity as a whole.” —Malcolm X
You should have framed the paper
and hung it on your wall with pride.
I suspect I would have never heard of Dresden were it not for Slaughterhouse Five. Not even the novel, just the movie.
Great novel
Stark raving reality packaged in the literary trappings of scifi-fantasy genre fiction. The kind of thing that can really open the eyes of your average high school adolescent boy. It sure did mine.
Was it this bad during the Soviet Cold War era?
There is this assault on Russia that seems to be even beyond what went on during the Cold War. Maybe it was this hysterical, in different ways. At every turn it seems that the EU and NATO are doing everything they can against the Russians from stationing German troops in Lithuania (that one should have insulted every Jew in the world) to kicking Russians out of the Para Olympics. Russia gets voted out of the UN Human Rights group and barely a peep over Saudi Arabia which forget their oppressive regime, has supported American killing terrorists. To kick Russia, the EU has been willing to lose hundreds of millions in agricultural exports to Russia.
I see Samantha Powers totally unhinged in the UN and pundits at our major papers engaged in unhinged propaganda that reminds me of the Nazis and their virulent attacks on Slavs and Jews. Is it the MIC on a propaganda campaign to incite war and all that means for arms industry? Is it that simple?
And it seems to me that the hysteria at this point cannot be stopped, and we know where countries go with that kind of hysteria.
It was this bad, and worse, during
the McCarthy era. By the time I was a "Cold Warrior", many of the participants understood that it was a big cat and mouse game, and that the Soviets had similar motivations to our own. Personally, I think they were less ambitious than our own.
Every aggressive move we made was justified as a reaction to some move that they made. But a thinking person could recognized that every move that they made was a reaction to one of our own.
"I’m a human being, first and foremost, and as such I’m for whoever and whatever benefits humanity as a whole.” —Malcolm X
So what is your take on modern neocons?
It does seem that many understood the game being played in the Cold War. For example, the buzzing of ships. From what I read, this was no big deal as both sides did it. Nobody panicked over it and said we need to shoot down Russian fighters doing it. Same with the harassment of embassy officials from either country. Normal part of the game on both sides according to one ex-CIA official.
But I get the impression that the neocons in the universities, military and state, live in fantasy world of their ideology divorced from reality.
The moment the Soviet Union fell, they all went insane.
The Neocons embedded in the highest ranks of the Federal Government collectively decided that, "Now is the moment to seize the entire Earth and all of its resources for the US Empire!"
The PNAC (Project for a New America) letter, signed by the Neocons, followed shortly thereafter in 1998. The Neocons, who run the Permanent Federal government, follow PNAC policy to the letter.
The people keep voting for the Temporary elected government, but elected officials have no authority over the Permanently installed Necons at State, Defense, and Intel. They cannot even view classified documents without permission from the Neocons, who generate all of them. So, the Temps collect their million dollars and move on to even more lucrative endeavors as advisors and lobbyists.
And the US foreign policy continues to follow PNAC to the letter. No matter how the people vote.
You would think the American people would pick up on this. But they never do. instead they will vote a gungho Neocon as President of the Temporary government.
This is a real gift to the Permanent government, and it should speed the violent quest for Empire to its greatest heights, yet.
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The political system is what it is because the People are who they are. — Plato
It reminds me of the movie "Arbitrage" with R. Gere
The premise was this ethics-challenged hedge-fund type who found a way to exploit Russian resources, then when the Russians awoke from the Yeltsin coma, they cut off the gravy train, ruining him.
The Masters of the Universe feel entitled to the resources of the whole world, and are willing to sacrifice us to get them. Any nation that doesn't trade in dollars is an enemy, and one that also has un-leveraged energy assets is a mortal enemy. The blather about democracy and human rights is window-dressing, what they really want is a piece of every transaction on earth.
"Obama promised transparency, but Assange is the one who brought it."
I wish you weren't so
I wish you weren't so freaking dead-on right about this... But the Nazi's seemed unstoppable and weren't, and where there's life, there's hope.
Just for FSM's sake, don't anybody vote for this! Neither corporate party candidate nor the TPP/corporate-coup-supporting Libertarian seem likely survivable for anyone as they all enable the same PTB, which shouldn't be, at all.
Psychopathy is not a political position, whether labeled 'conservatism', 'centrism' or 'left'.
A tin labeled 'coffee' may be a can of worms or pathology identified by a lack of empathy/willingness to harm others to achieve personal desires.
Pluto nailed it ^^^^^
I could hope to do half as well, Mr. Webster.
I can add some gee-whiz, though...I both tailed "Bear" bombers, and was buzzed by one. I helped reconnaissance planes track and evaluate Soviet missile tests, and hung around where Korean Air 007 was shot down, numerous times. I flew "freedom of navigation" flights, and once, with 21 other airplanes, flew right to the "point of no return" depicted in Dr. Strangelove, went "nyah, nyah!", and turned around and came back. Those were the days.
And I launched ordinance at the Soviet Union. A Twinkie...through the sextant port. Take That, Evil Empire!
"I’m a human being, first and foremost, and as such I’m for whoever and whatever benefits humanity as a whole.” —Malcolm X
You launched a Twinkie?
Haterz gotta hate.
Just kidding….! You gave me a well-needed LOL. Thanks Bisbonian.
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The political system is what it is because the People are who they are. — Plato
Yeah, it was in my "box lunch" and...
well, I don't eat twinkies.
We navigated using a sextant...taking shots of the sun during the day, three roughly equally spaced stars at night ... the moon wobbles. We didn't use GPS, or VORs, or any electronic stuff, because a) one nuke goes off and all that stuff is fried and b) using them also sends out signals that betray your position. Heck, we used to put covers on microphone jacks, and turn off the radio altimeter, which told us when we were too close to the ground.
So anyway, the sextant goes up through a hole in the roof (which has a cover). When you open the cover, air pressure goes rushing out, taking things held fairly close to the sextant port with it. Hard boiled eggs fit. And Twinkies. I rolled toward the west, about 60 degrees of bank, and let fly a Twinkie. There is no known defense.
"I’m a human being, first and foremost, and as such I’m for whoever and whatever benefits humanity as a whole.” —Malcolm X
Thank goodness autonomous artificial intelligence wasn’t around
in those days.
Can you imagine?
Not having been trained to recognize a Twinkie, the Doomsday Machine’s “expert system” decided that this was a brand new type of weapon.
So — not wanting to make the same kind of mistake Japanese observers in Hiroshima made when they said, hey, it’s just one B-29, what could one B-29 do? — the system then proceeded to . . .
So you were the bastard who took down Soviets with Twinkies
Yah, well, seems like the film The Gods Must Be Crazy. You drop a Twinkie, some Soviet kid picks it up, cries to his father and mother he wants more...and the rest is history.
I figured out that
the Cold War was bs. in the 5th grade. Duck and cover in the heart of LA made no sense. This was after McCarthy's era in the late the 50's. They were still pumping the Russian fear and loathing. I'd seen the scary A through H bomb propagandist fear films of what occurs at ground zero. What a thing to show kids.
The adults got all hysterical and said the Russian's are coming, the Dr.Commie Rat's are coming! I would think, that's ridiculous why would they want to come and if they did how would they all fit. Visions of babushka clad women in heavy coats in Pasadena flooded my imagination.
Perhaps because my Grandmother was a socialist, commie lover who had Paul Robeson's picture in her dining room next to Rockwell's Four Freedoms from FDR I was not so susceptible to their insane war mongering and the cooked up fear. I was freaking right. They started the Cold War before the hot one WW11 ended. It must have flipped out the generals and majors when they tore the Evil Empire's wall down.
9/11 put the killer apes with fruit on their chest's back in action. Strange that it has now come full circle and once again the non commie oligarchical Russians have replaced the 'terrist's who are gonna kill yer family'. Enough is enough.How many times do we as humans have to go through this mad false scenario. We are the biggest baddest super power ever and need dominion over all God's creatures and mother nature. What a weird way to look at not only humans but the planet that sustains life.
It may not be as simple
as you describe it, but pretty close, I think.
If we had no well-armed enemies, no really scary threats to our security, there would be no virtually-unlimited funding for defense, for NATO, for the nuclear weapons industry, and there would be no dictatorships, because there are no dictatorships that aren't armed to the teeth.
If the whole world becomes like Norway, with peace, prosperity, labor rights, and democracy, all these psychopathic warmongers will be out of business. The only way to put them out of business is to cut them off from their funds.
But it seems right now that there's more going on than just drumming up reasons to fear someone, anyone. Instead, it seems like our craven leadership is trying, since 9/11, to distract us from any attention being paid to the Saudi complicity in 9/11, their funding of Al Qaeda before and since 9/11, and that there has been an ongoing assertion that the REAL enemy of the United States is Iraq, or Iran, or Russia, or North Korea, or China, or even Japan. Or Syria. Or that Syria needs a regime change because it has a dictator. Or Libya has a dictator and needs a regime change. And we can't control what happens after regime change because. Look over here, they seem to be saying, don't look at Treasury reports about the Saudi princes before 9/11. Everything we do seems to result in support for Saudi Arabia, but we can't control the blowback. We can't stop them from supporting ISIS. We can't visualize what will happen when we arm unnamed rebels or bomb cities. It's all out of our control. But we have to do it.
Looking at Saudi Arabia is dangerous not only to the U.S. oil companies aligned with it, but also to the U.S. covert operators who arrange for the dictatorship, the arming of the dictatorship, and the funding of Al Qaeda. I think those persons are running scared since 9/11 because, yes, it produced a rationale for the invasion of the Middle East on behalf of the PNAC. But also, it raised the consciousness of the American people, and the Treasury department, that we have a problem within our government. And they know how to distract us from looking at it.
If you are asking about Nazism and Fascism in the US,
...you are asking the right question. Nazism and Fascism bloomed in the US immediately following World War II. (They had to hide and nest somewhere. Where could be better that a total genocide nation.) The only thing that held the US Nazis at bay was the Russians and the Cold War. The Russians have always known who they are. They have a genetic memory.
When the Soviet Union fell in 1990, the Nazis moved out the shadows and took over the Federal government as well as law enforcement throughout the US. It's a familiar pattern. They exist as the "Neocons" and they are permanently embedded in the "civilian" positions of the very highest authority. They control access to all top secret, classified documents, which they themselves generate. (Think about the Hillary emails and why you can't touch her.) They hide behind these documents. They are the reinvented Nazis.
The Americans were so easy to brainwash using their tried and true techniques. Can they ever wake up?
The Nazis have always had a savage hatred of the Russians, which they will purseue to the ends of the earth. They are in a feeding frenzy right now. You can see it.
But don't listen to me. Let John Pilger lay it out with elegant precision for you in Why the rise of fascism is again the issue.
If you are wired right, you will know the truth the moment you see it.
If you are wired right, you will know the lies and immediately reject them:
Do read on.
We need to get on the same page if we are going to survive.
"Know your enemy."
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The political system is what it is because the People are who they are. — Plato
Pluto's Republic,
I agree with you completely, except that I would not place the time of the rise of Nazism in the United States to after World War II, but before and during the war.
Charles Higham's Trading With the Enemy documents that the most powerful and ruthless U.S. banks and military industrial companies financed, fueled and maintained the German war effort for the duration of WWII. FDR licensed these companies to be exempt from the Trading With the Enemy Act, and in spite of congressional hearings on this issue during the war, the individuals guilty of this treason went scott free.
It's not that Germans hate Russians. These self-same U.S. industrialists were developing the resources of the Soviet Union from the Bolshevik period onward, right up until the present time. The problem for these industrialists was not that the Soviet Union was a dictatorship. Far from it. The problem for them was that it was a Labor dictatorship. Averell Harriman, a U.S. mining, railroad and banking executive, said that he could work with Trotsky, though Trotsky was a purist and believed in the revolution, but that he could not work with the Soviet workforce. The people of Russia had been through WWI, famine, revolution, and civil war, and they had been through Bolshevik schools. The problem he had with them was that they believed they owned the means of production. They were essentially One Big Union.
Harriman was a key figure in Nazi military industrial production. He and his banking partner, Prescott Bush, were cited under the Trading With the Enemy Act during the war. But Harriman was also a key funder of Roosevelt's presidential campaigns, and he practically owned the DNC. His lawyer during his difficulties with the feds over this support for Nazi Germany was Allen Dulles, first director of the CIA. Dulles ran the rat lines protecting Nazi butchers after the war. Early in the war, Roosevelt exempted certain companies from prosecution, and no further hindrance of this treason occurred.
In my opinion, these industrialists built Hitler and the Nazi military state in order to replace the Soviet system with fascism because they couldn't work with the Soviet workforce. They had already been working with Stalin. In fact Harriman and Stalin were very close. It was to shut down the labor movement in all its forms that these psychopaths built Nazism, and it is only because of the Red Army and Roosevelt's decision to arm the Allies, not Germany, as was planned by his benefactors, that we are here to talk about it.
I, in turn, agree with all you've said.
The connections you point out are well established.
What changed after WWII was the mainstreaming of the Nazi version of Fascism into the civilian authority of the Federal government. We know Eisenhower saw the rise of the Neocons because they largely established themselves in the State Department and Department of Defense and actively evolved the estate of Intelligence that has grown like a fungus covering the nation and world.
Another thing that was known was Hitler's admiration of the United States government, particularly for the extermination of 100 million native Americans — the ethnic cleansing of a vast continent. He obsessed over how Americans processed so many bodies. To him, the US was a utopia of social engineering — a fascist utopia. Today's incarceration rates and storm-trooper law enforcement in every corner of the nation, prove how correct Hitler was about the US.
In the early part of the 20th century, fascist-style nationalism had spread globally. At some point, almost every nation in the world had a Fascist Party. What they stood for, then, was anti globalism. Periodically, the fascist intelligencia was on the run, migrating to the white enclaves of the Americas, especially in the US. This was the case with the Communist intelligencia as well. They disappeared into the Americas of the industrialized workers and found heart among the indigenous non-whites, whose culture was naturally sharing and communal. Beyond the consistency of the Fascist hatred of Russians — which is still playing out in the body politick of the 2016 elections — is the Fascist hatred of communism. This was the obsessive madness that defined the 20th-century experience inside the United States.
The post-WWII emergence of the Fascist/Neocon was their successful authoritarian occupation of the US Federal Government. This coup state happened during the Reagan years. At that time, the Neocons could freely lock themselves into the most powerful (unelected) roles of authority. From here, the Neocons could and did rewrite the national narrative. They fortified their power by protecting it with classified documents that only they have the authority to read and write. What allowed for their explosive growth was the fall of the Soviet Union. The Russians no longer held the Fascists in check.
They acted quickly. First they infiltrated the Democratic Party and rooted out its socialist ideals and inherent support of workers and unions, which they saw as the "communist menace" that threatened the rise of the Global Fascist Empire. The Democratic Party was co-opted into the doctrine of Neoliberal globalism, and it became fully committed to funding the Neocon war machine with the People's money. The Neocons wrote and signed their manifesto in 1998, Project for a New American Century. After a single (foreign) attack on the World Trade Center, in 2001, the American People were completely on board, no questions asked, eager to give up their own rights. This, they did.
Thus, the Neocons began their military attacks on the brown world, destabilizing region after region, until they all surrender to the Empire of the United States as their Supreme Ruler.
To this day, the Permanent government of the Neocons has no oversight or regulation, and the power of the Deep State is unchecked. The US Constitution not only failed to protect the American people, it betrayed them utterly. It has turned them into enemy combatants in their own hometowns.
The obsolete US Constitution was weaponized by the Neocons, who actually do cherish it because it does not address the very real deep state (permanent) government — anymore than it could address digital communications, climate change, election systems, health care, labor laws, or human rights. It is primitive. Its irrelevance to the current world is compounded by the fact that it is written in a language whose word-meanings are frozen in time; it is based on a reality that the American people will never experienced; and it was birthed in a society that experienced only half the lifespan of modern humans.
What the Neocons like best, though, is that the Constitution is so remote that it can be legally interpreted only by carefully groomed political appointees, who spend their coddled lives determining the law of the land from their subjective bubble-view inside the Supreme Court, in the land of the Political Elite and their monied donors.
Thus, the naive Constitution paved the way for the corporate ownership of the state. It allows for state control over information by allowing politically beholden business monopolies to be the official news channels of the State. With propaganda as its core competency, the Deep State fascists used the monopolies to keep the American people awash in constant propaganda and deliberate misinformation.
By 1985, the idea of democracy became a cruel absurdity in the US. Cynically, the Neocons brainwashed the American people into objectifying the US Constitution, and worshipping it as a holy writ. By the turn of the 21st century, it had become an American fetish, with people carrying around in their pockets. Ironically, it bears almost no resemblance to the world they live in.
With this delusion firmly in place, replacing critical thinking, the Neocon's were able to usurp political control in the United States. They are invisible to the People, whom they taught to obsess over Domestic issues; distracting matters in which the Neocons have little interest. They are nationalists gone globalist. Their interests — which they call "the national interest" — lie in harnessing US abundance and power and using to build a global Empire while destroying any and all competing civilizations.
Once Heillery is elected, they will seal the final loophole of self-determination that opened in 2016, allowing outsiders and third parties to gain political power in the US. But, what happened in 2016, will never, ever be allowed happen again. Quiet legal barriers will be erected. New classified documents will appear to explain it away as a vital "national security" issue. The people will never again get a foot in the doorway to power. They will simply continue to vote in their pretend democracy.
If Hillary is defeated, the People will fight for control another day.
If she wins, the US plantation will be sealed from outside influence, and the fascist monster will rise against the world.
Yr friend,
Pluto
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The political system is what it is because the People are who they are. — Plato
OMG, that article ought to be
OMG, that article ought to be required reading on a global basis.
Thank you so much for posting it, although I would not have thought it possible that even the neocons could manage to keep this much pathology and horror buried from out sight.
The global corporate 'trade deal'/military take-over must be stopped - please do not vote for it!
Psychopathy is not a political position, whether labeled 'conservatism', 'centrism' or 'left'.
A tin labeled 'coffee' may be a can of worms or pathology identified by a lack of empathy/willingness to harm others to achieve personal desires.
This is the global Nazi take
This is the global Nazi take-over attempt all over again. Even some of the same corporations wil be involved in the corporate coups being passed off as 'trade deals'.
And how many Americans are voting for it?
Psychopathy is not a political position, whether labeled 'conservatism', 'centrism' or 'left'.
A tin labeled 'coffee' may be a can of worms or pathology identified by a lack of empathy/willingness to harm others to achieve personal desires.
Not all that many.
But the minimum number is only one.
"I’m a human being, first and foremost, and as such I’m for whoever and whatever benefits humanity as a whole.” —Malcolm X
gjohnsit, thank you
for all that you do every day. This essay is extremely important. You are doing absolutely great work in the interests of peace.
In the beginning and now towards the messy middle
Everybody has a different idea about what this is about.