PETER KOENIG—What Trump is doing – or attempting to do – with tariffs and with sanctions – is dividing the world, breaking up alliances, i.e. trade alliances in the case of WTO. It’s the old rule: “Divide to Conquer” – and conquer in this case means that when alliances like WTO – in the creation of which – by the way – the US and the EU were instrumental – are broken up, the US will engage in bilateral agreements with individual nations – like in the case of the “new NAFTA” – negotiating with Mexico alone, dictating her terms to weaker nations. If Canada will be ready again for a NAFTA-like agreement, the process will be similar, with Washington in the driver’s seat.
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Chris Hedges, Yale grad, formerly a foreign correspondent with the New York Times, and an ordained a minister of the Presbyterian church, has been gaining traction with the American public over the years, even though, as we are all aware, corporate media obfuscation still very much controls the national debate. This is an interesting talk by Chris. See what you think. Keep in mind that Hedges does not come to his criticism of the American leviathan so much from a leftist/Marxist perspective, but, as suggested above, from a rather religious background. This, we feel, sometimes may limit his critical vision and narrow his field of analysis. That said, he remains one of the most active and articulate commenters on the rotten status quo.
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STEVEN JONAS—Returning to the Soviet experience, one must acknowledge (which Western analysts, neither capitalist nor self-styled “socialist” do) that it was shaped in a significant part by what someday will come to be known as “The 75 Years War Against the Soviet Union, 1917-1992.” One must also acknowledge, that every other attempt at some sort of socialist experiment following World War II (except for Cuba) was beaten back and eventually destroyed by Western Imperialism, most often led by the United States. That is, the Soviet experience did not take place in a neutral environment. “Peaceful Co-existence” a la Khrushchev, and indeed a la John F. Kennedy in his “American University Speech” of 1963 (with which he signed his own death warrant), was never tried.
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JAMES PETRAS—There are several important motives for the US government to resort to conspiracy plots. By accusing countries of crimes, it hopes that the accused will respond by revealing their inability or unwillingness to engage in the action falsely attributed to them. Pentagon plots put adversaries on the defensive – spending time and energy answering to the US agenda rather than pursuing and advancing their own. For example, the US claims that China is stealing economic technology to promote its superiority, is designed to pressure China to downplay or modify its long-term plan for strategic growth. While China will not give general credence to US conspiracy practitioners, it has downplayed the slogans designed to motivate its scientists to “Make China Great’.
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GARY KOHLS—And below is a frank and very depressing/realistic response to the longer Chomsky speech from: “crzxr”. The comment is a serious challenge to the mainstream media, every capitalist out to make a quick buck, every political party, every politician that is running for office, every citizen that will be voting for those politicians, every militarist, every scientist, and every unfortunate person that has become addicted and/or distracted by excessive entertainment and brain-altering substances:
“Surely Noam Chomsky is bright enough to realize that humanity is far too thick to do anything about these problems, and that it won’t.