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Lessons Not Learned From the Pentagon Papers

4Mar

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USA

Lessons Not Learned From the Pentagon Papers

BY ALFRED DE ZAYAS Image Source: Time magazine – Fair Use In June 1971, at the height of the Vietnam War, a US government military analyst with the Rand Corporation and senior research associate at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Dr. Daniel Ellsberg[1], released to the New York Times and Washington Post what became known as the “Pentagon Papers”, 47 volumes of confidential records comprising some 7000 pages of secret government reports that documented the US involvement in “dirty tricks” and illegal actions under the Presidencies of Truman, Eisenhower, Kennedy, Johnson and Nixon. The documentsdemonstrated that successive US Presidents had lied to the American people, that false flags had been organized, “fake news” disseminated, phoney narrat...

4Mar

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Fifty Years of Resistance

BY HOWARD LISNOFF Photograph Source: University of San Diego – Public Domain If only for a short time, the forces of good and evil and all of the shades in between came together. The protester and Yippie cofounder Abbie Hoffman was right about symbolically jumping on the Earth in the 1960s and the Earth jumping back in answer and that it would never happen again. The epoch of the great changes is now so far behind that even a distant look over a person’s shoulder can’t exactly bring it back again the way it really was. We were there as a segment of the generation of baby boomers when all of the forces coalesced and for the briefest of moments we made a difference. Many in the generation of baby boomers knew the distinction between a just war and a just cause in wa...

A Dangerous Fishing Expedition: The Select Committee on China</a>

4Mar

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China, USA

A Dangerous Fishing Expedition: The Select Committee on China

BY EVE OTTENBERG Photograph Source: Speaker of the House Kevin McCarthy – Public Domain Riled up against China, GOP congressmembers have long felt that Washington’s new cold war needed a special venue. So as soon as the baton passed to Republicans in the House, they set up a select committee on China. This is majority leader Kevin “Trump’s the Man” McCarthy’s baby, and if it sounds to you like a forum for much grandstanding and frothing about the communist menace, the yellow peril and the need to beef up the FBI, CIA, DIA and NSA, so they can hunt down China’s spies from the halls of government to the groves of academe – “they’re everywhere” supposedly – you may be onto something. I’m not sure what that something is, but it’s a good bet it ends with U.S. navy aircraft carriers s...

Liquidating the Legacy of Revolution: Ideology of the Russian Invasion

4Mar

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Russia

Liquidating the Legacy of Revolution: Ideology of the Russian Invasion

BY ANDRIY MOVCHAN ‘Bolsheviks sacrifice Russia to the International’ — White Guard caricature, 1918-19 1991, Leningrad. The private office of the deputy mayor of the city. A reporter for the city’s television channel interviews a young official from Anatoly Sobchak’s team. In the frame — a man with a childish face in a white shirt. Behind him, you can see window blinds, a television, a table lamp, a telephone, open folders with papers. A typical Soviet office environment. But something does not add up. From behind the scenes, the voice of the journalist says that yesterday, he could still see a bust of Lenin in this office, but today it had disappeared somewhere. What had happened? ‘I find it difficult to answer what happened. Because this, probably, was done by one of my ass...

When Neoliberals Declared War on the Poor

4Mar

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Politics, USA

When Neoliberals Declared War on the Poor

BY JEFFREY ST. CLAIR - ALEXANDER COCKBURN Homeless encampment on abandoned overpass, Portland, Oregon. Photo: Jeffrey St. Clair. For Bill Clinton and Dick Morris polls were everything. Morris developed what he called a “neuro-psychological profile” of the American voter, and established an iron rule that no initiative could be undertaken by the White House unless polling showed an approval rating of 60 percent. By constant polling, he concocted what he called a “values agenda,” for Clinton. At the top of the list was affirmative action. “Mend it, don’t end it” was the mantra, which meant, in practice, destroy affirmative action from the inside while professing support for the general principle. Next came TV violence. Intimidate the networks, Morris advised, into adopting a “v...

The Problem with ‘Israel’s’ So-Called ‘Crisis of Democracy’

4Mar

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ZIO-NAZI

The Problem with ‘Israel’s’ So-Called ‘Crisis of Democracy’

The Problem with Israel’s So-Called ‘Crisis of Democracy’ BY NEVE GORDON Photograph Source: Daniele Marcucci – CC BY 2.0 Since the start of the new year, reading about Israel in the Hebrew-language press has been an unnerving experience. One article described a maternity ward in which a Palestinian woman from Nazareth was persuaded to move rooms after a Jewish woman complained about sharing the same space with a non-Jew. Another article revealed that the Israeli military commander responsible for the West Bank recently distributed to his officers a messianic pamphlet – “The Secrets of the Land Redeemers, from Abraham our Father to the Young Settlers” – on how to seize Palestinian land. A third reported that the number of Palestinians killed by Isr...

War in Ukraine and ICBMs: The Untold Story of How They Could Blow Up the World

4Mar

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Russia, Ukraine, USA

War in Ukraine and ICBMs: The Untold Story of How They Could Blow Up the World

BY NORMAN SOLOMON Photograph Source: U.S. Air Force – Public Domain Ever since Russia invaded Ukraine a year ago, media coverage of the war hasn’t included even the slightest mention of intercontinental ballistic missiles (ICBMs). Yet the war has boosted the chances that ICBMs will set off a global holocaust. Four hundred of them — always on hair-trigger alert — are fully armed with nuclear warheads in underground silos scattered across Colorado, Montana, Nebraska, North Dakota and Wyoming, while Russia deploys about 300 of its own. Former Defense Secretary William Perry has called ICBMs “some of the most dangerous weapons in the world,” warning that “they could even trigger an accidental nuclear war.” Now, with sky-high tensions between the world’s two nuclear supe...

3Mar

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USA

The Day the World Should Have Changed

BY PATRICK MAZZA The Trinity explosion, 16 ms after detonation. The viewed hemisphere’s highest point in this image is about 200 metres (660 ft) high – Public Domain There was a day when humanity was invited to reinvent its relation with power, when we should have realized that competition among nations as we knew it was obsolete, as well as pretty well all our relations based on power and domination. The day was July 16, 1945, the day of the Trinity test at Alamogordo, New Mexico, when the first nuclear weapon was exploded, proving that humanity had pierced the secrets of the atom and could now build weapons staggeringly larger than the 25-kiloton bomb exploded that day. The hydrogen bomb was already envisioned. It would use fission devices such as the Trinity bomb to create...

The Chinese Balloon: the Biden Team’s Hot Air

3Mar

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China, USA

The Chinese Balloon: the Biden Team’s Hot Air

BY MELVIN GOODMAN Photograph Source: Department of Defense – Public Domain Over the past 60 years, U.S. presidents have benefitted from advice from moderate and pragmatic advisers as well as examples of presidents ignoring such advice and suffering the consequences. President John F. Kennedy was not admirably served by his secretaries of state and defense, Dean Rusk and Robert McNamara, but a little-known U.S. Foreign Service Officer, Llewellyn Thompson, former ambassador to the USSR, provided the off-ramp that resolved the Cuban missile crisis without use of force. An official in the administration of Lyndon B. Johnson, George Ball, provided superb advice that challenged the Cold War thinking of the “best and brightest” leftovers from the Kennedy administration, but Johns...

Gaza: Nazi Artillery Shelling Wounds Two Palestinians

3Mar

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Gaza, Human Rights, Palestine Affairs, ZIO-NAZI

Gaza: Nazi Artillery Shelling Wounds Two Palestinians

Two Palestinians were wounded on Wednesday when Nazi forces fired artillery shells from tanks stationed at the border of the Gaza Strip. The two were wounded in an area east of Khan Younis, in the southern Gaza Strip. Correspondents with the Wafa news agency reported that the Nazi occupation tanks, stationed at the separation fence east of the city, fired several shells at a site and the surrounding agricultural land, wounding two civilians. The two injured were taken to Nasser Hospital in Khan Younis. In addition to the artillery shelling, Nazi warplanes circled the airspace of the Gaza Strip, while reconnaissance planes continued buzzing the airspace since the previous evening. https://youtu.be/JDS_8ykF2Sk?t=17 Nazi soldiers weld doors to Palestinian home shut while...