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ED CURTIN—The recent spectacle over John McCain’s death is a perfect example of myth creation. McCain is, however, a metaphor for the larger ongoing narrative that has been going on for centuries and seems to have no end. McCain’s apotheosis is a made for TV American hero movie, one that he first helped create and one that John Wayne would envy, as blatantly jingoistic and racist as Wayne was in “The Green Berets,” a movie released in 1968, the year after our hero McCain’s dubious involvement in the tragedy of the USS Forrestal aircraft carrier that killed 137 sailors, his being shot down while bombing North Viet Nam, and his subsequent years in captivity.
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PHILIP A. FARRUGGIO—Guess who was the guest on this Sunday of the Labor Day weekend? They had this attorney representing some ‘ Right to Work’ defense organization. He was on the air to trumpet the fact, in his organization’s mind, that we don’t really need unions. He claimed that the government, local and federal, has plenty of laws on the books to protect workers. Imagine the utter gall to suggest that workers shouldn’t worry about how the boss treats them… the government has laws to protect them!
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The deaths of John McCain and Aleksandr Zakharchenko, the first a plutocratic henchman and pathological war lover; the second a young leader and war hero of the Donbass, well known for his decency, presents us with a vivid contrast and undeniable example of the American media’s bankrutpcy and subservience to Washington’s imperialist biases. The Donbass media did not have to whip up an artificial frenzy over the passing of Donetsk Republic president Aleksandr Zakharchenko, as he was genuinely loved. Grieving multitudes attended his funeral.
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MOA—The U.S. is not only spoiling the military operations against the terrorists in Syria. It is trying to hamper any reconstruction and the return of refugees. Reconstruction is made more difficult by the devious sanction regime of the U.S. and EU. But like other problems these will be overcome. It is the U.S. and the EU that will lose the business opportunities while Russian, Chinese and other countries companies will thrive on them.