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Donald Trump: Finally Caught Crossing A Red Line

29Jun

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Politics, USA

Donald Trump: Finally Caught Crossing A Red Line

by MELVIN GOODMAN Photograph by Nathaniel St. Clair Donald Trump has crossed many red lines over the past three and a half years, but he has finally crossed one that could cost him politically. The trappings of his fascist march to St. John’s Episcopal Church and his blasphemous display of a bible (held backwards and upside down) in front of the church have elicited significant criticism, including from the highest military and civilian leaders of the Pentagon. The military obviously didn’t share the view of Trump’s press spokeswoman, Kayleigh McEnaney, who compared the president’s bible-toting stroll to something “Like Churchill…inspecting bombing damage….” The crossing of well-established lines in his “American Carnage” inauguration speech; his racist Muslim travel ...

It’s Trump vs. Bolton, and I’m Rooting for a Meteor

28Jun

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C.I.A, Politics, USA

It’s Trump vs. Bolton, and I’m Rooting for a Meteor

By: William Rivers Pitt June 18, 2020 "Information Clearing House" - I thought it was over in September 2019, when Donald Trump and his third national security adviser, the execrable John Bolton, got into a “You’re Fired/I Quit!” fight on the front page of all the papers. “Maybe he’s really gone now,” I thought wistfully of Bolton, the war-humping neoconservative ghoul who has haunted U.S. foreign policy in one form or another since the Reagan administration, lo these 40 long years. No such luck. Now he has a book poised for release that is allegedly filled with all the scurrilous details on the Ukraine debacle that he should have shared under oath before Rep. Adam Schiff’s impeachment hearings. He didn’t, Trump was acquitted, and now the president has filed sui...

Obama & Biden helped the Nazi regime 2014 Gaza Holocaust

28Jun

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Gaza, Human Rights, Palestine Affairs, Politics, USA, ZIO-NAZI

Obama & Biden helped the Nazi regime 2014 Gaza Holocaust

Blinken reveals how Obama & Biden helped Israel’s 2014 Gaza massacre By: ALISON WEIR A Palestinian family carries their belongings towards the remains of their destroyed home, hit by Israeli shelling and air strikes. August 5, 2014. (Finbarr O’Reilly/Reuters) During Israel’s 2014 onslaught against Gaza, Israel said ‘jump,’ and Obama and Biden jumped… to the tune of a quarter of a billion taxpayer dollars By Alison Weir President Barack Obama’s Deputy National Security Advisor – and current Biden campaign senior advisor – recently described how Obama and Biden had helped Israel during its 2014 onslaught against Gaza. Israel had said ‘jump,’ and Obama and Biden had jumped – to the tune of a quarter of a billion dollars. (This is on top of the $10 million per ...

28Jun

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Human Rights, Politics, USA

Police Killings are a Political Tactic

by ROB URIE Photograph by Nathaniel St. Clair As the spark that lit a fire, the murder of George Floyd was horrifyingly, sickeningly ordinary. According to the scant data on police killing of citizens that is available, about three people are killed by the police in the U.S. every day. And despite the protest movements Black Lives Matter and Occupy Wall Street, this number has remained about constant in recent years through Democratic and Republican administrations. This persistence stands in contrast to the political ‘branding’ of the mainstream political parties where difference is claimed, but little is evident. The place of Mr. Floyd’s murder in the ordinary working of American governance makes it the catalyst, not the cause, of current protests. The background circ...

28Jun

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Human Rights, Politics, USA

Systemic Racism and the Killing of Rayshard Brooks

by F. ELIZABETH DAHAB The killing of 27 year old Rayshard Brooks on Friday, June 12th, in Atlanta, Georgia, occurred less than three weeks after the murder of George Floyd. Both were killed by a white police officer. It seems that 18 days of protests over the May 25 murder of Floyd did not deter from this new heinous murder. Brooks was shot in the back as he was running away from the two police officers who had fooled him by their seemingly cordial demeanor only to suddenly and unexpectedly handcuff him from the back. I scoured the internet looking for a complete, untruncated video of the incident in order to understand the about-face that led to murdering a man in the process of running away from the scene, and who, consequently, offered no threat whatsoever to the lives of the tw...

Unmasking Racial Terror and Seeing Whiteness

28Jun

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Human Rights, Politics, USA

Unmasking Racial Terror and Seeing Whiteness

by MARK SCHULLER Photograph by Nathaniel St. Clair Tuesday was the funeral for George Floyd, killed by Minneapolis Police Department (MPD) officer Derek Chauvin on Memorial Day, as the U.S. COVID death toll approached 100,000. Floyd’s murder was caught on tape: for eight minutes and 46 seconds, Chauvin held his knee on Floyd’s neck. Floyd’s words, “I can’t breathe!” echoing Eric Garner’s, killed six years ago by an NYPD chokehold, became a rallying cry for justice. The local twin cities community, having emerged from the pandemic stay-at-home order the previous Monday, came together to share their outrage. The first three days of protests were large, multi-racial, passionate, and energetic. No one was hurt, no property damaged. The Minneapo...

28Jun

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Politics, USA

Livable Ecology, Not Police

by PAUL STREET Photograph by Nathaniel St. Clair I have never heard it louder than I did this morning. The Interstate highway, I-80, that is, two miles or so north of my abode in Iowa City. It’s a highway to Hell in the heartland of the deranged Superpower that leads the world in per-capita Greenhouse Gassing. All those carbon-spewing, planet-cooking semi-trailers, cars, vans, SUVs, motorcycles. and buses merge into a continuous roar that comes down through the campus town’s treetops like some howling serpent with no discernible head or tail. It was just six-thirty in the morning. I could already hear the endless howl of engines and tires. What a shame. For three days and nights last week, marching crowds of angry young adults and teenagers silenced the beast for a few mi...

Gender equality forms part of a better future

27Jun

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Politics

Gender equality forms part of a better future

By: Nibal Zgheib EBRD PRESIDENT'S SPEECH Building gender equality part of a vision for a better futureEquality the hallmark of the new world, W20 saysEBRD and W20 helping G20 leaders develop gender-responsive recovery policies The world must draw conclusions from the coronavirus pandemic and build a more inclusive and sustainable future, the President of the European Bank for Reconstruction and Development (EBRD), Suma Chakrabarti, has said. Speaking at a seminar co-hosted with the Women20 (W20) group, he said building gender equality into the recovery from the crisis was part of a vision for a better future, boosting long-term economic resilience and sustainability. “This crisis is revealing entrenched systemic and structura...

Spanish Government Moves Forward on Hypervigilance Project. Towards a Surveillance Police State

26Jun

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Politics, Spain

Spanish Government Moves Forward on Hypervigilance Project. Towards a Surveillance Police State

By: Lucas Leiroz de Almeida Several experts suggest that the post-pandemic world will be very different from the world we know. It is speculated that a new order, based on the prevention of the spread of diseases, will be put in place and that, for this purpose, governments and intelligence organizations in all countries will use advanced control and surveillance systems, in order to track infected people and keep them in quarantine, preventing the circulation of infections. Despite possible benefits, such as preventing a new pandemic, this model of organization also has some problems, as it sacrifices several civil liberties in the name of disease prevention, annihilating the right to privacy and the right to come and go. In several countries, the tests for a post-coronavirus orde...

Whistleblowing, the Pandemic and a ‘Law and Order’ System of Injustice

26Jun

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C.I.A, Politics, USA

Whistleblowing, the Pandemic and a ‘Law and Order’ System of Injustice

By: JEFFREY STERLING Photograph by Nathaniel St. Clair It is hard to find many positives as the death toll from the novel coronavirus continues to climb, but as we have seen before with situations of crisis, truth does find a way to make itself known. In the sense of whistleblowing, we saw it with the crisis involving the president, which demonstrated the worth and power of whistleblowers to bring accountability to power (though of course, the end result had more to do with denial than truth). Now we see the revealing nature of whistleblowing once again as so many have been coming forward to reveal how we have had no preparedness nor plan with regard to combatting the coronavirus. Whistleblowers have testified before Congress about how woefully unprepared we have been and how the r...