PAUL CRAIG ROBERTS—In the Washington Post Max Bergmann tells us that Trump is going to sell out NATO in Helsinki. This line leads to the supposition that Putin is using Trump to unleash the Russian military on Europe. Many conspiracy theorists have come together on the view that first the Baltic States will be invaded and then Putin will move on to Germany and the rest of Europe. The New York Times’ Roger Cohen even pulls Marine Le Pen into the plot which widens to include ethnically cleansing the West of the refugees from Washington’s wars. This is the level of absurdity that the American media delivers to the public’s understanding of foreign affairs.
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Trump Treats EU Like Bozos by Finian Cunningham + NATO Needs To End by Pat Elder
PAT ELDER—Now, all of this is important in helping to understand the newest American monster. It was Lenin who said, “A lie told often enough becomes the truth.” I would say a multitude of lies mixed with statements of truth and sincerity create a cocktail of confusion. People don’t know what to believe. It is too much for them to consume so they turn it off and it is in that vacuum where Trump operates best.
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EXCELLENT COMMENTS} On wet noodle demonstrations and other liberal delusions
It should be clear then that all these protests in regulated demonstrations and most of the leftist writing play into the hands of the status quo. Otherwise these would not be tolerated, and they form an outlet for the heaped-up steam of resistance.
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Can the Green Party Be Saved From Liberal Tokenism and Black Opportunism? We’ll See.
BRUCE DIXON—In my May 30 column, Why Our Green Parties Haven’t Taken Off, I noted that the GP does get a few important things absolutely correct, and briefly discussed some of its defects and difficulties as well – foggy politics, no organizing methodology, addiction to the models of Democrats and Republicans, and more. It’s a work in progress, often way more work than progress. Some of us are committed to transforming the Green Party into a 21st century left and socialist party, eventually capable of partnering in labor and other organizing ventures and competing for actual power.
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Freedom Rider: Democrats Unhinged by Korea
MARGARET KIMBERLEY—The Democrats like war, interventions and United States hegemony. They always have. If anyone wants proof they need only look at their collective hissy fit regarding the Trump and Kim summit. Part of the reaction is caused by fear of Trump getting credit for a foreign policy achievement. But Democrats are also true believers in imperialism. The last thing they want to see is any reduction in the American military presence in Korea or anywhere else.
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Social Media Giants Choking Independent News Site Traffic to a Trickle
This work is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial 4.0 International License Parting shot—a word from the editors The Best Definition of Donald Trump We Have Found In his zeal to prove to his antagonists
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HIROYUKI HAMADA IMMIGRATING FROM JAPAN TO THE BELLY OF EMPIRE
HIROYUKI HAMADA—And getting back to American people being nice and generous, they just can’t express those feelings of caring and love in constructive ways, as long as they are embracing imperialism. I mean, that’s like saying someone is a great guy, although he owns a few slaves and shoots Indians occasionally. We need to change our mode of thinking so that imperialism and wealth accumulation as guiding principles are as shameful as slavery or colonialism. The thing is that when you throw anything into the hierarchical system shaped by money and violence, the good will always turns into something else–like, people wanting to stop violence and drugs would end up supporting police violence, mass incarceration and gentrification, or people longing for peace and democracy would end up supporting colonial wars, regime change operations and so on.
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