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PAUL CRAIG ROBERTS—Russia’s other alternative to the self-defeating one the government has chosen is to hit back hard. Lendman suggests that when US or Israeli attacks on Syria kill Russians, Russia should destroy the bases from which the attacks originated and simply quit worrying about whether the necessary retaliation kills Americans and Israelis. Why are Americans and Israelis more important than Russians and Syrians? Does the Russian government believe the propaganda about Americans being “exceptional and indispensable” and the Israelis being “God’s chosen people?”

PETER LEE—Instead of accepting the possibility that some draftees imprisoned under miserable conditions might have traded their signature on a petition for better treatment, or some might have had doubts about the US social system, or maybe *gulp* some were confessing to actual crimes, the US establishment became convinced that the POWs were victims of brainwashing. The CIA and US Army especially feared that returning POWs might be infiltrated by brainwashed human robots programmed to do the will of their Chinese masters and attack America.

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.

ANDRE VLTCHEK—If you compare police actions here to those in Paris, it is all politeness and softness. Hardly any rubber bullets. Tear gas is ‘honest’ and not mixed with deadly chemicals, like it is in many other places, and administered in small doses. No water cannon spitting liquid full of urine and excrement, as in many other cities of the world.

Assange explains the details of the operation to get Snowden to a safe place and how it was disrupted by US intel in cahoots with European allies. A clearly illegal action by the US involving several European vassal nations to block the Bolivian president’s plane from refueling on its way home from Moscow. If nothing else, it shows the abject degree of vassalage and criminality exhibited by supposedly “sovereign” nations like France, Spain and Italy as they collaborate with the US in operations of importance to the ruling plutocracy.