@wendy davis

The facts seem to be made up out of thin air. This one ..

Myth 3: NATO has tried to isolate or marginalise Russia
Fact: For more than two decades, NATO has consistently worked to build a cooperative relationship with Russia.

NATO began reaching out, offering dialogue in place of confrontation, at the London NATO Summit of July 1990. In the following years, the Alliance promoted dialogue and cooperation by creating the Partnership for Peace (PfP) and the Euro-Atlantic Partnership Council (EAPC), open to the whole of Europe, including Russia.

In 1997, NATO and Russia signed the Founding Act on Mutual Relations, Cooperation and Security, creating the NATO Russia Permanent Joint Council. In 2002, this was upgraded, creating the NATO-Russia Council (NRC).

We set out to build a good relationship with Russia. We worked together on issues ranging from counter-narcotics and counter-terrorism to submarine rescue and civil emergency planning.

However, in March 2014, in response to Russia's aggressive actions against Ukraine, NATO suspended practical cooperation with Russia. At the same time, NATO has kept channels for communication with Russia open. The NATO-Russia Council has met seven times since April 2016. The Secretary General and Deputy Secretary General also engage regularly with their Russian counterparts. We do not seek confrontation, but we cannot ignore Russia breaking international rules, undermining our stability and security.

Hmm. Wasn't 2014 when Obama decided to overthrow Ukraine's government and install neo Nazis? I do believe it was.

Speaking of neo Nazis in Ukraine

This about sums it up: @JRubinBlogger's @washingtonpost paean to "human rights champion" John McCain literally pictures him alongside Oleh Tyahnybok, leader of the anti-Semitic Ukrainian ultra-nationalist, neo-Nazi Svoboda party. pic.twitter.com/6O8OKr247w

— Nima Shirazi (@WideAsleepNima) August 28, 2018

Tyahnybok is far from a minor player in Ukraine. And since the US-backed coup, he has become increasingly influential.

Tyahnybok has been the leader of the fascist, ultra-nationalist Ukrainian political party Svoboda since its founding in 2004. Svoboda has its origins in the explicitly neo-Nazi Social-National Party of Ukraine, which proclaimed, “We are the last hope of the white race, of humankind as such.”

#5

there is frequent use of har-har-ish emoticons in subtweets, but i reckon when you're the Center of the Empire you can delete at will. i did click on oona goosepimple's Myths tweet to make it a stand-alone to visit the subtweets, and the only possible jest from spain...may not have be one.

if russia's not still the enemy, what's the purpose of nato? well, besides controlling the rest of the globe, of course. colombia is a new nato partner? too clever by half, no?

@wendy davis Somehow I’m not surprised. Not because I think McCain had any real disagreements with W that would have caused him to cross over, but W did him pretty dirty in the 2000 primaries and McCain sure seemed capable of holding a grudge. See also his Obamacare saving vote (gag) which also just happened to put egg on Trump’s face. You can’t convince me that was an ideological stand either.

#7

among the elite political class. in his aug. 27 'Why the US ruling class mourns John McCain', patrick martin at wsws.org parses the ubiquitous paeans to the neo-con warmonger, including this:

"The Sunday television interview programs on five networks devoted the bulk of their coverage to McCain’s life and career and to fond reminiscences by well-heeled journalists and big-business politicians, Democratic and Republican. “Meet the Press” host Chuck Todd noted that McCain was the single most-interviewed person on the program, appearing 73 times in his 36-year political career.

McCain was a right-wing Republican, but the loudest tributes to his political record are coming from Democrats. Senate Minority Leader Charles Schumer proposed renaming the US Senate’s Russell Office Building. Instead of Richard Russell of Georgia, a Democratic Party defender of Jim Crow segregation, the building would now be named after a Republican defender of wars in Vietnam, Central America, Yugoslavia, Afghanistan, Iraq, Libya, Syria, Yemen, etc.

Speaking on ABC’s “This Week,” House Minority Leader Nancy Pelosi said, “Right now I'm just heartbroken. I think America’s in tears about the loss of this great man.” Senator Bernie Sanders tweeted, “John McCain was an American hero, a man of decency and honor and a friend of mine. He will be missed not just in the US Senate but by all Americans who respect integrity and independence.”

CNN on twitter had a host of tear-jerking memories of mccain's honor and decency. and a photo of cindy anheuser-busch with her head on his coffin...weeping. i reckon she figured it will be the historically iconic photo of his exiting this mortal coil...stage right.

the ocassio's tweet, and then a lot on mccain's true legacy.

proving once again, that the political class Ds are a war party, and since the mueller investigation and charges against wilikleaks and assange: Love.The.CIA.

this though, is rich:

"We have noted the embrace of McCain’s legacy by his supposed opponents in the Democratic Party. This is not merely the result of McCain’s support for the bogus allegations of Russian interference in the 2016 US elections, peddled by the Democrats and much of the military-intelligence apparatus. More than a decade ago, in the summer of 2004, there were back-channel discussions between Kerry and McCain, in which the Democratic nominee suggested the formation of a bipartisan presidential ticket, with McCain running as his vice-president, to oppose the reelection of George W. Bush. McCain toyed with the idea, but ultimately decided to remain with the Republicans."