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Dispatches from
STEPHEN LENDMAN
She’s recklessly pro-war, pro-business, anti-populist, a threat to world peace and stability. Her deplorable public office record shows she opposes equity, justice, rule of law principles and democratic values. Her agenda is frightening, electing her president unthinkable, a neocon war goddess, supporting endless conflicts, deploring peace, risking direct confrontation with Russia and China. Her finger on the nuclear trigger leaves humanity’s fate up for grabs. NYT editors support the most recklessly dangerous US presidential aspirant in modern memory while bashing Trump relentlessly. He’s over-the-top like all duopoly power presidential aspirants, supporting the same dirty business as usual agenda. Unlike Clinton, he’d rather make money than start WW III.
The Times went to extraordinary lengths to bash his womanizing history, making “unwelcome advances,” conducting “unsettling workplace conduct over decades.” It assigned unknown numbers of reporters to locate and interview over 50 women who worked with, dated or interacted with him socially “since his adolescence” – without explaining how any of this relates to affairs of state if he’s elected president.
RFK/JFK: Undiluted imperial corporatists, and womanizers, to boot. Are you listening Oliver Stone? Liberal infatuations die hard. Still, what they did with women—consenting adults—is their business.
[dropcap]N[/dropcap]umerous past presidents had extramarital affairs, including Washington, Jefferson, Franklin Roosevelt, Dwight Eisenhower, Jack Kennedy, Lyndon Johnson and Bill Clinton, among others. Little or nothing was said about their private lives while campaigning or throughout their tenure. Instead of focusing solely on issues and where candidates stand, The Times dwelled on where it had no business going. Nothing it reported suggested wrongdoing.
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Countless hours spent locating and interviewing dozens of women found nothing more than a “portrait of a wealthy, well-known and provocative man and the women around him, one that defies categorization,” said The Times. “Some women found him gracious and encouraging.” Some got high-level positions in his enterprises. The Times called it “a daring move for a major real estate developer at the time.”
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Who cares if he made “romantic advances.” He didn’t rape or molest anyone. “A lot of things get made up over the years,” he said. “I have always treated women with great respect. And women will tell you that.” About all The Times could conclude was saying he had power and women he came into contact with didn’t. He had and still has “celebrity…wealth (and) connections.” Some women sought his help with their careers and stuck with him.
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The lengthy article isn’t worth the time or trouble to read. It reveals more about The Times’ deplorable agenda than Trump’s. Political reporting should focus solely on issues and pinning down candidates on where they stand. America’s money-controlled system features horse-race journalism. Duopoly power is ignored. So is a sham political process too debauched to fix. Whether Trump or Clinton succeeds Obama, ordinary people lose.
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The biggest unreported issue is avoiding global nuclear war. [Ironically, despite the huge noise made by the establishment about what a terrible risk to the nation and the world Trump is] with Trump there’s a chance, likely little at best with Clinton.
STEPHEN LENDMAN lives in Chicago. He can be reached at lendmanstephen@sbcglobal.net. His new book as editor and contributor is titled "Flashpoint in Ukraine: US Drive for Hegemony Risks WW III." ( http://www.claritypress.com/LendmanIII.html ) Visit his blog site at sjlendman.blogspot.com.
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