AMERICAN EXCEPTIONALISM

MoA—The “phased ungrounding” means that the U.S. Federal Aviation Administration would certify the plane as being safe while other regulators would still not do so. U.S. passengers would be asked to fly on a plane that the rest of the world would still consider too unsafe to fly. 737 MAX flights from the U.S. to other countries would still be grounded as would the by far largest part of the total fleet in Europe and China.

DAVID W. PEAR—The success of the VHA is owed to its being socialized medicine, and its dedicated doctors, nurses, medical personnel and employees.  The dedicated men and women of VHA prove that not everybody is motivated by profit.  In fact, most people are not. The VHA is a federally-funded government healthcare system.  Unlike Medicare, Obamacare, and Medicaid it is not a health insurance program, which depends on the for-profit medial industry for healthcare.  At VHA the government owns the “bricks and mortar”:  the hospitals, clinics, etc.

DARIUS SHAHTAMASEBI—We don’t need a Foreign Affairs article to tell us that regime change is the ultimate goal of Washington’s war hawks with respect to Iran. Even with Bolton gone in spectacular, Trump-Twitter-style fashion, this will never change. Iran has too much oil and natural gas and acts too independently for America’s liking, forging strong ties with Russia, China, North Korea, Syria and attempting to bypass the US dollar on multiple fronts.

CAITLIN JOHNSTONE—“We need to stop pretending FB and Twitter aren’t arms of the US state,” Artyukhina said in a popular Twitter thread last month after another purge. “For over a year they’ve deleted accounts of Iranians, Venezuelans, Russians, and Chinese simply for daring to voice opinions different from the imperialist narrative, under the aegis of combating ‘disinformation’.” “These reports often claim the accounts were ‘used to promote content from inauthentic news sites,’ but that simply refers to outlets like PressTV and TeleSUR, which don’t toe the Western MSM line,” Artyukhina added. “As always, it’s only propaganda when somebody else does it.”

The country that constantly brags about being the most generous nation on earth has no qualms about plotting to cut medical services to the poor worldwide—how revoltingly low and sordid can American policy get? Apparently there is no limit.