Things to consider—

Since early 2011, Obama's been waging proxy war on Syria. Imported death squads masquerade as freedom fighters. The scheme's familiar. It repeats. It reflects US imperialism's dark side. In the 1980s, CIA-recruited mujahideen fighters battled Afghanistan's Soviet occupiers. Ronald Reagan called them "the moral equivalent of our founding fathers." He characterized Contra killers the same way. —Stephen LendmanFor over a century now US ambassadors have acted as fifth columns in the nations they are embedded in, their role chiefly to foster corporate and plutocratic power and coordinate machinations against any truly pro-democratic government.•••••"The dead end identity politics of SF Pride, which sells out a peace hero like Bradley Manning to curry favor with the American ruling class, is what I had in mind. The empire loves your tameness, irrelevance and cowardice, SF Pride. You don’t bother the American ruling class — a five foot two, 105 pound soldier does because he has a conscience and because he didn’t make comfort the guiding principle of his life...." —Randy Shields

Betrayals never end: Simpson-Bowles 2.0

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Apr 302013
 
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Simpson-Bowles (Bloomberg)

Simpson-Bowles (Bloomberg)

 

Both men represent the nation’s ruling class. They want more wealth transferred from ordinary people to corporate America and privileged elites like themselves. They’re back with plan B. More on that below.

On February 18, 2010, Obama issued Executive Order 13531. It established the National Commission on Fiscal Responsibility and Reform (NCFRR).  Two neoliberal ideologues head it: former Senator Alan Simpson (R. WY) and former Clinton White House chief of staff Erskine Bowles. Continue reading »

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The Fall of Libya: A Study in Hypocrisy

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Apr 292013
 
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Gaddafi's brutal murder at the hands of fanatical hyenas unleashed on him by the Western alliance was a cynical and cold-blooded war crime. Hillary memorably joked about his killing.

Gaddafi’s brutal murder at the hands of the fanatical hyenas unleashed on him by the US-led Western alliance was a cynical and cold-blooded war crime. Hillary Clinton typically and memorably joked about his killing.

Global Research, April 29, 2013

Perhaps no war in recent memory has so thoroughly flummoxed the Euro-Atlantic left as the recent NATO war on Libya. Presaging what would occur as U.S. proxies carried out an assault on Syria, both a pro-war left and an anti-anti-war left started filling up socialist e-zines and broadsheets with endless explanations and tortuous justifications for why a small invasion, perhaps just a “no-fly-zone,” would be okay—so long as it didn’t grow into a larger intervention. They cracked open the door to imperialism, with the understanding that it would be watched very carefully so as to make sure that no more of it would be allowed in than was necessary to carry out its mission. Continue reading »

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STEPHEN LENDMAN: US False Flag Pretext for War on Syria

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Apr 292013
 
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obamaSyriaEditor’s Note: Here’s the sanctimonious claptrap being distributed by the American media to the perennially clueless American public (this version courtesy of the Wall Street Journal) as they tighten the noose around the Syrian regime’s neck. As always, American officialdom’s hypocrisy beats just about any emetic on the market—PG

By JAY SOLOMON, WSJ

WASHINGTON—Republicans and Democrats pressed President Barack Obama on Sunday to do more to intervene and stop the civil war in Syria, citing a U.S. intelligence report released last week that concluded President Bashar al-Assad used small amounts of chemical weapons against his opponents. Continue reading »

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The [expletive] running dogs of the media

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Apr 282013
 
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Selling us imperialist wars 24/7
In any decent society, warmongering should be regarded as serious felony or worse.

UPDATE: Read the addendum, by Stephen Lendman, detailing the full-dress campaign for war on Syria being provided, once again, by the utterly filthy US mainstream media. Is there anything more repulsive than these propagandists for war against weaker nations? —PG

Ward: Beware of toxic reporting.

Ward: Beware of toxic reporting.

Many naive people marvel that the all-powerful American corporate state, unlike the totalitarian behemoths of the past, does not seem to have a real propaganda arm. The simple answer—as practically our entire audience knows—is that the US ruling class does not need  a formal propaganda apparatus (although it does have that, too, of course, with multiple organs of disinformation operating covertly and semi-covertly all over the place), for it needs none. It has something far better than that, the  gianormous globe-girding oxymoronic  ”Free Press” with countless careerist running dogs falling all over each other to do all the propagandizing and truth-twisting that the American state thinks necessary. Continue reading »

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FBI Responsibility for US Terror Plots

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Apr 262013
 
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Dzhokhar Tsarnaev: Sinister terrorist or FBI patsy?

Dzhokhar Tsarnaev: Sinister self-motivated terrorist or FBI patsy? Plenty of room for doubt.

Boston’s marathon bombings leave disturbing questions unanswered. Official accounts lack credibility. Mounting evidence suggests FBI responsibility. It doesn’t surprise.  Project Censored’s fourth top 2013 censored story headlined “FBI Agents Responsible for Majority of Terrorist Plots in the United States.” More on that below. Continue reading »

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Obama Heads Closer & Closer to War on Syria

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Apr 262013
 
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Obama plans lots more death and destruction. Current multiple direct and proxy wars aren’t enough. His appetite for more is insatiable.  A previous article discussed spurious allegations of Syrian chemical weapons use. Obama calls using them a “game changer.” He also said their use crosses a “red line.” Continue reading »

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