The European Union said Wednesday it rejected new moves by the White House to impose a total blockade on Venezuela. Though the EU has also placed sanctions on the elected government of Venezuela, they oppose U.S. attempts to extend the sanctions ‘extraterritorially’.
Chris Hedges introduces the audience to the insidious manner in which war and nationalism often unite to unleash all manner of misery on people caught in their infernal pact.
CHRISTOPHER BLACK—Reasonable people ask what can be done about the aggressive policies of the United States leadership. Russia and China talk about containment of the threat, renew calls for peaceful diplomacy, support dialogue with Iran to reduce the imminent danger of war in the Persian Gulf, with Venezuela, with respect to all the nations attacked occupied or threatened by the United States. But the Trumps and Obamas, the Bushes and Clintons of the American world, respond with all the more arrogance and fall all over themselves as to who among them is the most bellicose, the most ready to go to war to “make America great again, the most able to “support the spread of democracy,” that is, their rule over the world.
WHITNEY WEBB—While President Trump is clearly connected to both Epstein and Cohn, Cohn’s network also extends to former President Bill Clinton, whose friend and longtime political advisor, Richard “Dirty Dick” Morris, was Cohn’s cousin and close associate. Morris was also close to Clinton’s former communications director, George Stephanopoulos, who is also associated with Jeffrey Epstein. [George Stephanopoulos has a cushy sinecure now at ABC, while pretending to practice journalism. It pays to serve the superrich.—Ed]
PHILIP A. FARRUGGIO—Why the dropping of two atomic bombs on Japan, if the Japanese were desperate for a deal? Why the stall of a second front invasion by the US and Brits? Let us answer the latter question first, as it happened before the other one. Roosevelt and ( especially ) Churchill were already into their ‘ Cold War Mode ‘ in 1942. What they had hoped for was that the longer it took for the Allies to invade European soil, the more. devastation the Russians and Germans would inflict upon each other. It is no wonder that the Russians are overly sensitive of NATO having missiles planted on their borders.