PETER KOENIG—There are mid-term elections coming up in the US this fall, and Trump must satisfy his home base, all the workers to whom he promised “Let’s Make America Great Again” – meaning bring back jobs, use US-made metals. So, Trump is also addressing those Americans who wait for jobs. As you know the unofficial but real figure of unemployment in the US is about 22% – and that does not even include the large segment of underemployed people, mostly youth.
Monthly Archives
June 2018
Forever AUMF Stalls at Senate Foreign Relations Committee
8 minutes readRENEE PARSONS—As if the Constitutional violations are not sufficient reason for opposition and while Congress has been less than attentive to its Section 8 duties, a functioning AUMF will not only deny a full and thorough public Congressional debate and roll call vote on the merits of military action but will prevent creation of a historic Congressional record, a journal of which began in 1789 as necessary to providing a formal documentation of all official parliamentary proceedings essential to any operative democracy.
CAITLIN JOHNSTONE—Why is this happening? Why do we have what appears to be a built-in off switch for the very problem that plagues us as a species, and why does it appear to be getting easier and easier for people to switch it off? It is of course possible that spiritual enlightenment is just some random fluke of human neurology, and it is possible that longtime enlightenment coaches are lying or mistaken about that path having become easier for people to travel in recent years, and that we are indeed just one more species headed the way of the dinosaur with no off-ramp. But I do think it’s fascinating that our enslavement to mental narrative is the thing which enables us to be manipulated into consenting to war, oligarchy and ecocide on a large scale…
LENDMAN on Iran Uranium enrichment, Russia’s Nord Stream 2
8 minutes readSTEPHEN LENDMAN—Pre-JCPOA, Iran enriched uranium to a 20% level. It’s prepared to return to that level if Britain, France and Germany observe illegally imposed US sanctions. While claiming their intention to stick to JCPOA terms, follow-up action hasn’t so far hasn’t been forthcoming. Most often Brussels observes US demands – even when harming the interests of EU member nations. Will this time be different? Past history isn’t encouraging, Europe most often acting as an appendage of America’s imperial agenda.
Bachenko faked his own death—with Ukraine’s security services— in a botched attempt to blame Russia. Now the Western disinformers, who had already made a deafening noise about it, as usual, have egg on their faces, but, as John Oliver shows, are busy covering their arses, and above all, trying to salvage the credibility of so many Western false flags. The new line—you judge how plausible this one is—requires us to believe this was actually a sting to get the REAL Putin jackals, the assassins sent by the Kremlin to kill Babchenko et al, and bring them to justice. Right. That is something we can believe.
