James Petras

“Many of our interlocutors have been purged or arrested”.

James Clapper, US Director of Intelligence on Turkish Coup (Financial Times 8/3/16, p. 4)

Introduction

Washington has organized a systematic, global, no holds barred campaign to oust Republican Presidential candidate Donald Trump from the electoral process. The virulent anti-Trump animus, the methods, goals and mass media resemble authoritarian regimes preparing to overthrow political adversaries.

Comparable propaganda efforts led to political coups in Chile in 1973, Brazil 1964, ad Venezuela in 2002. The anti-Trump forces include both political parties, a Supreme Court judge, Wall Street bankers, journalists and editorialist of all the major media outlets and the leading military and intelligence spokespeople.

Washington’s forcible and illegal ouster of Trump is part and parcel of a world-wide campaign to overthrow leaders and regimes which raise questions about aspects of the imperial policies of the US and EU. We will proceed to analyze the politics of the anti-Trump elite, the points of confrontation and propaganda, as a prelude to the drive to oust opposition in Latin America, Europe, the Middle East and Asia.

The Anti-Trump Coup

Never in the history of the United States, has a President and Supreme Court Judge openly advocated the overthrow of a Presidential candidate. Never has the entire mass media engaged in a round-the-clock one-sided, propaganda war to discredit a Presidential candidate by systematically ignoring or distorting the central socio-economic issues of their opposition.

The call for the ouster of a freely elected candidate is nothing more or less than a coup d’état.

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Stephen Lendman

The Wall Street Journal’s deputy editorial page editor Dan Henninger loved it “on balance,” he said. More on his comments below.

The one-sidedly pro-Clinton/anti-Trump media resoundingly turned thumbs down - notably The New York Times and Washington Post.

According to Henninger, Trump addressed public angst over deplorable (Main Street) economic conditions, and the “60 - 70% of the American people think(ing) the country is on the wrong track.”

“I think this was the first important step in a big uphill comeback for Donald Trump,” he said. “The question now is whether he will stay on message, whether he can go around the country basically repeating this message, giving people some hope and some details of his economic plan... These are things that will appeal to families, to small businessmen and to corporate types.”

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Stephen Lendman

Big Lies repeated enough get most people to believe them. That’s how propaganda works - disinformation drowning out hard truths.

Ever since Washington replaced Ukraine’s democratically elected government in February 2014 with Nazi-infested putschists, Russia was irresponsibly accused invading its territory, threatening its other neighbors and having revanchist aims - none of it true, no credible evidence supporting phony claims. They keep coming. Media scoundrels disgracefully repeat them. US-dominated NATO has thousands of combat troops deployed near Russia’s border. Its warships patrol near its waters. Its warplanes fly provocatively close to its airspace. Its large-scale military exercises show it wants war, not peace.

Russia’s aims are polar opposite. US hostility forces it to act defensively. In January, it announced the formation of three new army divisions to reinforce its western border - aimed at countering NATO’s aggressive buildup.

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Stephen Lendman

Here’s a snapshot courtesy of Bloomberg PoliticsV. Specifics aside, promises and fulfillment most often diverge greatly.

It’s easy to propose, hard to deliver, especially when intent falls short of campaign pledges. Then there’s Congress to contend with. Even public opinion occasionally has sway - rarely, but sometimes.

Ahead of his August 8 economic policy address, Bloomberg said he’ll propose no new financial regulations until “significant (economic) growth” occurs. Earlier he said he’d repeal Dodd-Frank, erroneously touted financial regulatory reform - doing nothing to curb casino capitalism. He’ll propose repealing the so-called “death tax,” estate taxes affecting high-net worth individuals and households only, lowering maximum corporate taxes to 15%, and substituting three tax brackets for the current seven.

“He’ll call for the elimination of special tax treatment for carried-interest income at private-equity firms and other investment firms,” said Bloomberg.

He’ll continue expressing opposition to TPP, support for polluting coal and environmentally destructive Keystone pipeline construction.

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James Petras

Introduction

For the past decade, the US intelligence agencies operating in Turkey have worked closely with the increasingly influential parallel government of Fethullah Gulen. Their approach to power was, until recently, a permeationist strategy, of covertly taking over political, economic, administrative, judicial, media, military and cultural positions gradually without resort to elections or military coups. They adopted flexible tactics, supporting and shedding different allies to eliminate rivals.

In 2010 in support of Erdogan, they played a major role in arresting and purging 300 Kemalist – military officials. Subsequently the Gulenists moved to prosecute and weaken the Erdogan regime via revelations of family corruption uncovered by their intelligence officials and publicized by its mass media outlets.

The Gulenists shared several important policies with Washington which favored “the convergence” that led up to the July 15, 2016 coup.

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Stephen Lendman

Islamophobia is longstanding in America, especially virulent post-9/11. Bipartisan complicity targets Muslims as enemies of convenience at home and abroad.

They’ve have been hounded, vilified and persecuted for their faith, ethnicity, prominence, activism and charity - arrested, detained, tried on secret evidence or summarily declared guilty by accusation, imprisoned on bogus charges or none at all, at times longterm.

Numerous examples explain bipartisan viciousness, unjustifiable state-sponsored scapegoating, continuing largely unreported. Criticizing Trump’s Islamophobia misses the bigger picture. Post-911, Washington declared war on Islam, ravaging and destroying one Islamic country after another, terrorizing US Muslims for practicing their faith at the wrong time, vilifying them as demons of convenience - imprisoning unknown numbers solely for political reasons.

Bipartisan complicity targets them. The difference between Trump and other high-level US politicians and bureaucrats is he openly expresses views they share but won’t admit.

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Gary G. Kohls, MD

It is a fact that 90% of America’s school shooters were on prescription brain-altering psychiatric drugs – drugs that are well known to cause inebriation, intoxication, loss of impulse control, rage, aggression, homicidal ideation, suicidal ideation, and temporary drug-induced mania and/or psychosis.

But the well-documented psychiatric drug connections to school shootings and a host of other widely-publicized episodes of “senseless violence” has been treated as a taboo subject by Big Media, Big Pharma and the medical profession. (For much more on the connections between psych drugs and “irrational” behaviors of many types, click on http://www.globalnewscentre.com/duty-to-warn-the-red-lake-school-shootings-10th-anniversary/#sthash.TB6ZespH.dpbs.)

The first cover-up started rather innocently after August 1, 1966, when a likely drug-intoxicated (and/or drug-withdrawing) ex-Marine sharp-shooter named Charles Whitman earned his infamous title as the “Clock Tower Sniper” at the University of Texas (UT) at Austin.

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Stephen Lendman

If she were male and grew a funny-looking mustache to go with her scowl when cameras aren’t running, resembling that other guy with delusions of grandeur way back, the whole world would rally to combat the menace she represents.

At times, I feel like a lonely warrior for peace, equity and justice, trying to help heal a sick world without success. On reflection, I know doing the right thing is its own reward.

Reader support energizes and drives me, some comments truly remarkable, crediting me in ways I don’t deserve - days earlier, red roses twittered, an accompanying comment saying “Get Well Soon, Stephen.”

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Is it possible mainstream media did report anything about the death of Holiyah Soetoro Sobah, aka Lia Soetoro, Obama’s adopted sister? Not to be confused with Maya Kasandra Soetoro-Ng, Obama's maternal half-sister.

Fortunately we have a number of alternative news website that thought the death of Obama's sister, dying right before she was be reunited with her childhood companion and adopted brother, was important enough to publish.

“Lia”Obama’s Adopted Sister Died Suddenly

Holiyah Soetoro Sobah, aka Lia Soetoro, Obama’s adopted sister: died under mysterious, sudden, and unusual circumstances just as she was getting ready to be reunited with her childhood companion and adopted brother. She spoke of many specific incidences in the household, where she grew up with “Barry

Deaths connected to the Obama White House, “Lia”Obama’s Adopted Sister Died Suddenly

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Eric Zuesse

The results are already in, even before the official campaign-finance final figures will become available after the election.

Though a large percentage of the people funding the campaign advertising will never be made public — due to recent Supreme Court decisions allowing “dark money” — data already exist on the final product of the campaigns (including both the above-board and the dark money), which is the booked advertising time for each of the two candidates at the start of their campaigns. (Similar proportions of donations go also to get-out-the-vote and other campaign-activities; so, these booked-advertising figures correlate rather well with across-the-board funding of the two campaigns.)

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