MoA—The FBI, and others involved, knew very early on that the Steele dossier was a bunch of lies. But the issue was kept in the public eyes by continued leaks of additional nonsense. All this was to press Trump to take more and more anti-Russian measures which he did with unprecedented generosity. The accusations about a Trump-Russia connection were the ‘Russia bad’ narrative that pressed and allowed Trump to continue the anti-Russian policies of the Obama/Biden administration. A similar string of continuous policies from the Obama/Biden administration’s ‘Pivot to Asia’ and throughout the four years of Trump is the anti-China campaign.
CAPITALIST SICKNESS
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Why this clown, the “eunuch senator from Vermont”, after all the flim flam and betrayals still tries to inject his verbiage in the political debate is hard to fathom. Vanity? Lack of self-awareness? He’s got some nerve, that’s for sure. But the rest of the (admittedly execrable) political establishment never respected him, seeing him as a mere annoyance. A mosquito with a big ego and lot of very naive followers.
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From useful idiots to just plain idiots now: how the US has betrayed Hong Kong activists
12 minutes readYONDEN LHATOO—Aye, and there’s the rub. They were rejected because, as much as they would like to believe they fought the good fight against “tyranny” and merit “protection” for all the sacrifices they made, they are in fact nobodies in the eyes of the unscrupulous and manipulative officials and politicians in Washington who cheered them on and lulled them into a false sense of security that America had their backs.
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PAUL EDWARDS—Virtually the whole American and Western official press, including all mainstream news organizations, both print and television and their reporters, have not only abandoned Assange as if he were guilty of something other than what they all routinely do much less well, but in their moral cowardice they have made themselves vulnerable to precisely the kind of dirty, dishonest state vendetta he is suffering.
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The new left is characterized by criticism of the conservative nature of the transition from dictatorship to democracy, which has been marked by the heritage of the Pinochet regime, by the remaining characteristics of the constitution, and by the support of the Convergence – an alliance between the Socialist Party and the Christian Democrats – of the neoliberal economic model.