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Friday, May 27, 2016

Dancing with America's Darkside



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America Wants a World of Vassal States


May 25th, 2016 

Stephen Lendman
America’s deplorable dark side reflects pure evil, an agenda, including:
  • endless wars on humanity, raping one country after another, murdering millions of helpless victims, creating nightmarish dystopian conditions everywhere it shows up;
  • g monied (as in gangsta) interests exclusively at the expense of beneficial social change, transforming America into a nation of paupers, run by super-rich elites;
  • criminalizing whistleblowers and activists for justice, systematically destroying fundamental freedoms at home and abroad, tolerating nothing interfering with its hegemonic agenda.

Lunatics in Washington fear real democracy, governance serving everyone equitably and fairly, peace and stability, nation-state sovereign independence, and mutual cooperation among all nations, a level playing field benefitting everyone.

They want a world of subservient vassal states, serving their interests exclusively, controlling global resources, exploiting populations as serfs.

Regime change is longstanding US policy - targeting all sovereign independent states, war its usual strategy of choice, other times coups, installing puppets like in Ukraine, many times assassinating “uncooperative” leaders, replacing them with convenient stooges.

America demands its choices run key world institutions - the Bank of International Settlements (the central bank for central banks), all other central banks, the IMF, World Bank and other financial institutions, the UN, the World Trade Organization, labor groups, the OECD, judicial bodies, academia, the clergy, everything everywhere.

Hegemons demand everyone worldwide march to the same drummer. Washington insists its rules alone apply, obedience demanded. Deviants are punished, independent thought and reasoning not tolerated.

Orwell’s envisioned future “imagine(d) a boot stamping on a human face forever” - Big Brother watching everyone. Huxley’s dystopian, totalitarian Brave New World portrayed one controlled by mind manipulation and soma (a narcotic drug), people assigned to certain roles, conditioned to accept them docilely.

America combines characteristics of both worlds - including a permanent state of war against invented enemies combined with police state repression, targeting nonbelievers, along with bread and circuses (soma) distracting people from what matters most.

The narcotic of weekend football, other popular sports, shopping, television with nothing to watch but watched anyway, and other favored diversions manipulate people to ignore their own welfare, accept a miserable status quo instead of demanding something better.

The courage of persecuted Palestinians is absent in America. Societies where serfs love their masters or cower under their boot aren’t fit to live in - the deplorable state of today’s America, a warrior police state, threatening humanity’s survival.

The political philosopher Montesquieu (1689 - 1755) said “(t)here is no greater tyranny than that which is perpetrated under the shield of law and in the name of justice.”

Rule of law principles no long matter in America. State terror replaced them, disguised as humanitarian intervention and democracy building, as well as maintaining order and security.

A permanent state of war exists. US streets are battlegrounds. Lunatics run things. Washington’s criminal class is bipartisan. The unthinkable is more possible than ever - humanity-destroying nuclear war.

Humans may become the first species ever to destroy themselves, exterminated by arrogance, hubris and overreach - emanating from Washington, partnered with Israel, Britain and other rogue states, ending life on earth, returning it to its state before bacteria emerged or however things began.

We’re our own worst enemies as long as lunatics in Washington run things. They’ll kill us all if not stopped.

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Stephen Lendman lives in Chicago and can be reached at lendmanstephen@sbcglobal.net.
His new book as editor and contributor is titled "Flashpoint in Ukraine: How the US Drive for Hegemony Risks World War III".


Visit his blog site at sjlendman.blogspot.com.

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Tuesday, March 22, 2016

The Ostensible Writing On the Wall: Hillary et. al. See One Thing, #StillSanders Stubbornly Sees Another


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The Ostensible Writing On the Wall: Hillary et. al. See One Thing, #StillSanders Stubbornly Sees Another


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The discrepancies mount. In March, a grotesquely and unnecessarily pandering Hillary gave perhaps her most hawkish speech yet to the Zionist confab AIPAC, where to thunderous applause she spoke out against the "appalling" BDS movement she has long criticized, promised to invite Netanyahu to the White House right after she's elected, described sitting in Israeli hospital rooms comforting the victims of "terrorist bombs," vaguely urged everyone to try "avoiding damaging actions" on illegal settlements, and insisted American support of Israel's "security or survival" is not negotiable.



A Gleeful Bernie in Washington


In contrast, the Jewish Sanders, who spent time on an Israeli kibbutz in the 1960s and has promised to seek a "level playing field" for Israelis and Palestinians, skipped the event, theonly candidate to do so. It's unclear if that was  because of his campaign schedule, or because he was heeding the petition asking him to reject a lobby representing "the racist, militaristic, and anti-democratic policies of the most right-wing government in Israel's history.”

Instead, Sanders headed to Washington rallies that drew over 35,000 supporters in three cities, including over 15,000 in Seattle, where many stood in lines in the rain for hours, and many more had to settle for listening from outside (with the bonus of Bernie eventually making his way out to greet them.) His events were all free. When Hillary goes to Washington this week, she'll be speaking at a small, private fundraiser that will cost $2,700 to get in. For $50,000, you get to talk to her. 'Nuff said.

The mind-blowing kicker: Despite everything - the fact that Sanders just raised a record $43.5 million from 1.5 million small contributors, his campaign has galvanized millions, his core arguments on economics, military interventionism, police violence etc have resonated so deeply with Americans that establishment bestie Clinton now repeatedly parrots and sometimes morphs into him, that polls find Sanders trouncing Drumpf et al by the biggest margins - despite all this, most of the press continues to ignore, bury, patronize and belittle him and his "fantasy" campaign.

Now, establishment pols, out of patience and/or a tad panicked by his grit, are politely calling for Sanders, in the words of Politico, to "start winding things down," or as Barbara Boxer would have it, "The writing's on the wall." Yes, well. Depends on your interpretation. For evidence it's not over till it's over and many, many people swear it's not and are willing to work hard to make it so, see here, here and here. 

In the latest shock to the people who are supposed to know about these things, a new poll has found that even in super-red Utah, where a Democrat hasn't won anything for 50 years, Bernie would beat Drumpf 48% to 37%, compared to Clinton narrowly beating him 38% to 36%. Chris Karpowitz, co-director of Brigham Young University's Center for the Study of Elections and Democracy, calls "any matchup in which Democrats are competitive in the state of Utah" as "shocking." He adds, "Wow. Wow. That's surprising." There's been a lot of that going around.

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