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How Obama and Congressional Republicans Intend to Pass TPP Into Law — After the November Elections
Eric Zuesse
Back on 10 December 2015, the head of the U.S. Senate, the pro-Obama-trade-deals Republican Mitch McConnell, said that Obama shouldn’t try to pass his TPP or any other of his three mega-trade-deals until after the November elections, because Senators and Representatives won’t vote for it until the voters have already voted for their re-election (so that they’ll then be free to vote against those voters’ interests). The previous congressional votes on these deals showed that congressional Republicans overwhelmingly favor them but many congressional Democrats oppose them. For example, in the crucial vote, in the Senate, only 37 of the 100 Senators voted against the enabling legislation (without which legislation they can’t pass), called “Fast Track Trade Promotion Authority,” which will enable the President to ram these treaties through Congress, and 30 of these Senators were Democrats, 5 (Collins, Cruz, Paul, Sessions, and Shelby) were Republicans, and 2 (Sanders and King) were independents. That’s both independents, 30 of the 44 Democrats, and only 5 of the 54 Republicans. So: these bills are overwhelmingly Republican trade bills, which were created by a ‘Democratic’ President.
Hillary Clinton: Wall Street Shill, Threat to World Peace
Stephen Lendman
A Trump presidency would be an anti-populist crapshoot on what outrageous domestic and geopolitical schemes he’d cook up following earlier ones.
A previous article said his only redeeming quality is he’s not Hillary Clinton - the most recklessly dangerous US presidential aspirant in memory, a menace risking global war and full-blown tyranny.
Her despicable record as first lady, US senator and secretary of state exposed her villainy - revealing a war-profiteers dream, a Wall Street favorite.
A previous article said she loves Goldman Sachs. A leaked transcript of her June 2013 speech to their officials revealed comments never heard on the stump.
She said productive work by ordinary Americans didn’t make the nation great. “(I)t’s due to (Wall Street) investing, credit and economic stewardship.”
George Soros’ Anti-Trump Campaign
Stephen Lendman
Soros represents pure evil, one of the world’s most infamous figures.
He’s a notorious international con man, known for profiting from human misery, supporting color revolutions and wars to serve his interests.
Moscow’s Prosecutor General calls his Open Society Institute and Open Society Institute Assistance Foundations “threat(s) to Russian national security and constitutional order.”
His groups are subversive, undermining fundamental freedoms, listed as undesirable foreign organizations in Russia for good reason. They’re prohibited from supporting political parties, free to engage in other activities.
Remembering Rachel Corrie’s Passion for Justice
Stephen Lendman
Rachel died as she lived, her short life snuffed out at age 23, her body put on the line against Israeli injustice toward Palestinians - risking death for supporting their fundamental rights, victimized by regime barbarism.
Thirteen years ago on March 16, a soldier-operated giant armored Caterpillar bulldozer used to smash Palestinian homes crushed her to death.
She tried stopping a Rafah refugee camp home demolition from proceeding. She tried reasoning with the driver, knelt meters away, blocking its path with her body - in clear view of its operator. It lurched forward. Activists screamed for it to stop to no avail. It crushed Rachel’s body the way it smashes homes, at times with defenseless victims inside.
Making sure she was dead, the soldier-operator ran over her twice, remaining unaccountable for premeditated murder to this day.
GOP Plot to Stop Trump
Stephen Lendman
Party bosses representing monied interests decide who holds high office in America. Elections are farcical when held. Voters have no say whatever.
On March 17, the Washington Post discussed GOP power brokers meeting secretly, discussing how to undermine Trump’s campaign - including a possible “third-party challenge.”
They’re not concerned about his agenda as Republican nominee or holder of the nation’s highest office, only about their ability to control him.
GW Bush was the ideal president - intellectually deficient, unable to reason analytically, closed-minded and simplistic, easily controllable, needing others around him to do his thinking and decision-making.
KKK Grand Dragon Endorses Hillary Clinton
Stephen Lendman
The New York Times and KKK appear likeminded. Both endorse war goddess, Wall Street favorite Hillary Clinton for president - the most disdainful of world peace, equity and justice among a deplorable array of aspirants.
California KKK grand dragon Will Quigg switched his earlier support for Trump to Clinton, saying he likes her “hidden agenda.”
Interviewed by the London Telegraph, he said “(w)e want Hillary Clinton to win.”
“She is telling everybody one thing, but she has a hidden agenda. She’s telling everybody what they want to hear so she can get elected, because she’s Bill Clinton’s wife, she’s close to the Bushes.” “(O)nce she’s in the presidency, she’s going to come out and her true colours are going to show…She’s…our choice for the presidency.”
Last September, Quigg endorsed Trump, saying “(y)ou Sir are the only hope we have of getting WHITE AMERICA BACK! We all will be voting for you.”
Another Way ‘Democracy’ Is Rigged in America
Eric Zuesse
Did you know that if a given political party already has an incumbent in a particular political post, it’s standard practice in the United States for a political party to prohibit its voter-list to be purchased by anyone who’s not an incumbent office-holder in that party — including by someone who wishes to challenge or contest within that party the incumbent, in a primary election?
Only incumbents have access to that crucial list — crucial for any candidate in a primary election (unless there is no incumbent who is of that party).
Here’s an example:
Debbie Wasserman-Schultz, a long-time unquestioningly loyal operative of Hillary Clinton, was selected by the Democratic President Barack Obama (though she had condemned Obama while he was running against Clinton in 2008) to run the Democratic National Committee, so that Obama’s Administration will be continued with little change by his (chosen) successor (just a change of the President’s name, and only a bit more of a neo-conservative on her foreign policies than he was). However, Ms. DWS has a very low approval-rating from her constituents, and a Bernie Sanders supporter wants to contest against her in a Democratic primary. But, he says:
Last week, I called the Florida Democratic Party to request access to the voter file database and software known as VAN that is routinely used by Democratic candidates across the country.
The global refugee crisis: humanity's last call for a culture of sharing and cooperation
Rajesh Makwana
The real crisis is not the influx of refugees to Europe per se but a toxic combination of destabilising foreign policy agendas, economic austerity and the rise of right-wing nationalism, which is likely to push the world further into social and political chaos in the months ahead.
Razor-wire fences, detention centres, xenophobic rhetoric and political disarray; nothing illustrates the tendency of governments to aggressively pursue nationalistic interests more starkly than their inhumane response to refugees fleeing conflict and war. With record numbers of asylum seekers predicted to reach Europe this year and a morally acceptable humanitarian response nowhere in sight, the immediate problem is more apparent than ever: the abject failure of the international community to share the responsibility, burden and resources needed to safeguard the basic rights of asylum seekers in accordance with international law.
U.S. Government Blames 9/11 on Iran, Fines Iran $10.5B; Iran Refuses to Pay
Eric Zuesse
On March 14th, Iran announced that it will never pay the $10.5B that a U.S. court demanded it pay for the 9/11 attacks.
The same Bill-Clinton-appointed judge who had ruled, on 29 September 2015, that Saudi Arabia has sovereign immunity for 9/11 and so can’t be sued for it, ruled recently, on March 9th that Iran doesn’t have sovereign immunity and fined Iran $10.5 billion to be paid to 9/11 victims and insurers; but, on March 14, Iran’s Foreign Ministry said Iran won’t pay, because, as the Ministry’s spokesman Hossein Jaberi Ansari put it, "The ruling is ludicrous and absurd to the point that it makes a mockery of the principle of justice while [it] further tarnishes the US judiciary’s reputation.”
Syrian Kurds Declare Autonomous Northern Region
Stephen Lendman
Syria’s Kurdish Democratic Union Party (PYD) officials meeting with Arabs and other northern Syria ethnic groups in Rmeilan, in Syria’s northeastern Hasakeh province, agreed on establishing area autonomy, short of declaring independence - acting perhaps with tacit US support.
Turkey remains adamantly opposed, a foreign ministry statement saying acting unilaterally has no validity.
Syrian UN envoy/head of its Geneva III delegation, Bashar al-Jaafari, said his government intends preserving the nation’s sovereign independence and territorial integrity.
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