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Trump and Transition Team Spied On
Stephen Lendman
On Wednesday, House Select Committee on Intelligence chair Devin Nunez (R. CA) issued a statement, saying “on numerous occasions, the Intelligence Community incidentally collected information about US citizens involved in the Trump transition.”
“Details about US persons associated with the incoming administration - details with little or no apparent foreign intelligence value - were widely disseminated in intelligence community reporting.”
“I have confirmed that additional names of Trump transition team members were unmasked” - their identities revealed, likely for political reasons.
“To be clear, none of this surveillance was related to Russia or any investigation of Russian activities or of the Trump team.”
“Ryancare” Dead on Arrival: Can We Please Now Try Single Payer?
Ellen Brown
The Canadian plan also helps Canadians live longer and healthier than Americans. . . . We need, as a nation, to reexamine the single-payer plan, as many individual states are doing.
— Donald Trump, The America We Deserve (2000)
The new American Health Care Act has been unveiled, and critics are calling it more flawed even than the Obamacare it was meant to replace. Dubbed “Ryancare” or “Trumpcare” (over the objection of White House staff), the Republican health care bill is under attack from left and right, with even conservative leaders calling it “Obamacare Lite”, “bad policy”, a “warmed-over substitute,” and “dead on arrival.”
The problem for both administrations is that they have been trying to fund a bloated, inefficient, and overpriced medical system with scarce taxpayer funds, without capping its costs. US healthcare costs in 2016 averaged $10,345 per person, for a total of $3.35 trillion dollars, a full 18 percent of the entire economy, twice as much as in other industrialized countries.
Ross Perot, who ran for president in 1992, had the right idea: he said all we have to do is to look at other countries that have better health care at lower cost and copy them.
Fake News Proliferator NYT Mocks Real News Broadcaster RT
Stephen Lendman
The Times is America’s leading proliferator of state-sponsored propaganda - providing press agent services for powerful interests, journalism the way it’s supposed to be off-the-table on its pages, why relying on it assures being misinformed.
The Times asked if RT is “more BBC or KGB.” Of course, it’s neither. It produces real news and information, not fake news and misinformation like The Times, BBC and other media scoundrels - paid to lie, not inform.
The Times: “(M)any Western countries regard RT as the slickly produced heart of a broad, often covert disinformation campaign designed to sow doubt about democratic institutions and destabilize the West.”
Fact: It’s an effective antidote to Western propaganda. It reaches around 50 million unique users monthly worldwide - via television, online and mobile devices.
“It’s a world leader among non-Anglo-Saxon international TV news channels,” it explains - for a good reason, because millions of people want real news and information, not rubbish media scoundrels like The Times feature.
US Demands Raped Cambodia Repay War Debt
Stephen Lendman
During its war on Southeast Asia, America raped and destroyed Vietnam, Laos and Cambodia.
Terror-bombing massacred civilians indiscriminately. A decade of merciless war took millions of lives, around eight million tons of ordnance used in Vietnam alone, threefold WW II’s tonnage - about 300 tons for every Vietnamese man, woman, child, infant, the elderly and infirm.
Herbicidal warfare was waged using deadly agent orange. Millions of gallons of dioxin-containing defoliant contaminated over five million acres. Exposure to minute amounts causes serious health problems or death.
Other terror-weapons were used, including napalm, white phosphorous, cluster bombs and depleted uranium.
UN Report Calls Israel an Apartheid State
Stephen Lendman
Titled “Israeli Practices towards the Palestinian People and the Question of Apartheid,” authors Richard Falk and Virginia Tilley discussed how Israel persecutes and dominates defenseless Palestinians.
Apartheid is a high crime against humanity, ongoing in Israel since its 1948 establishment, hardening over time, worst of all under Netanyahu’s coalition regime.
The authors state their “study was motivated by the desire to promote compliance with international human rights law, uphold and strengthen international criminal law, and ensure that the collective responsibilities of the United Nations and its Member States with regard to crimes against humanity are fulfilled.”
Harvard’s Fake Guide to Fake News Sites
Stephen Lendman
Is this what parents pay $63,000 annually for tuition, room, board and fees - so their children can be ill-served and ill-taught?
Following the 2014 Obama administration Kiev coup, replacing democracy with fascist dictatorship, Harvard expressed concern about nonexistent “Russian aggression.” Some faculty members called for US
military intervention.
Not a word about US-supported putschists seizing power. Nothing about the most brazen European coup since Mussolini’s 1922 march on Rome.
No explanation about a scheme orchestrated in Washington. Silence about a major crisis in Europe’s heartland still ongoing. Trump inherited Obama’s mess, so far not indicating clearly where he stands on Ukraine.
Harvard is at it again. It’s University Library published a fake guide to “fake news, misinformation, and propaganda.”
It recommends using FactCheck.org, Politifact, Snopes.com, Washington Post Fact Checker, and other self-styled fact-checkers, biased against truth-telling on all major issues, acting as censors, trashing reliable alternative sources of news, information and analysis.
Trump’s Presidency Is Already Doomed
Eric Zuesse
If President Donald Trump doesn’t get an Obamacare replacement bill passed into law, then he’s not going to get anything significant done in domestic policy, because he had made this goal the centerpiece of his campaign. But it won’t happen; his Presidency (at least in domestic policy) is already dead.
Trumpcare — his promised replacement for Obamacare — is so blatantly atrocious that an excellent NBC News article on it, from March 8th, was headlined, and documented that — “Experts: The GOP Health Care Plan Just Won’t Work”. This was even before the Congressional Budget Office had priced out its costs to taxpayers (which still hasn’t yet been done but can only sink it even deeper when it finally is).
Already, by the time of Sunday, March 12th, Huffington Post bannered about it, “Tom Cotton Warns GOP Health Care Bill Could Put House Majority At Risk”, and subheaded with a quote from this Republican U.S. Senator saying to Republicans in the House: “Do not walk the plank and vote for a bill that cannot pass the Senate and then have to face the consequences of that vote.”
It was already a hot potato by that time. In fact, on March 10th, CNN had headlined “Nobody wants their name on the Republican health care bill” and opened: “The White House says don't call it ‘Trumpcare.’ Critics are labeling it ‘Ryancare’ and ‘Obamacare lite.’ Hospitals hate it, and insurers are pushing the panic button. The House GOP bill to repeal Obamacare is quickly becoming a bill that nobody wants to own.”
The Rising Tide of Militarism in the 21st Century: From Clinton, Bush, Obama and Trump
James Petras
Introduction
US militarism expanded exponentially through the first two decades of the Twenty-First Century, and was embraced by both Democratic and Republican Presidents. The mass media’s hysteria towards President Trump’s increase in military spending deliberately ignores the vast expansion of militarism, in all its facets, under President Obama and his two predecessors, Presidents ‘Bill’ Clinton and George Bush, Jr.
We will proceed in this essay to compare and discuss the unbroken rise of militarism over the past seventeen years. We will then demonstrate that militarism is an essential structural feature of US imperialism’s insertion in the international system.
Russian Ambassador Met with Hillary’s Advisors
Stephen Lendman
Ambassadors to America and other countries routinely meet members of their political establishment and figures connected to it.
It’s part of the job. Russia’s ambassador to Washington met with numerous congressional members, including 30 Democrat senators in 2015 alone, discussing the Iran nuclear deal.
Criticizing Michael Flynn and Jeff Sessions for meeting with Ambassador Sergey Kislyak is one among many ways of bashing Trump.
Interviewed on CNN Sunday, Putin spokesman Dmitry Peskov explained Kislyak was doing his job. He spoke with members of Trump’s campaign and future administration officials “about bilateral relations and…what was going on in the United States.”
Legislation to Stop Arming Terrorists Introduced in US Senate
Stephen Lendman
Rep. Tulsi Gabbard earlier said “(w)hen it comes to the war against terrorists, I’m a hawk. When it comes to counterproductive wars of regime change, I’m a dove.”
In January, she called for ending Washington’s “regime change war in Syria now” - after spending a week-long visit to Damascus, Aleppo and Beirut, learning firsthand about ongoing horrors, devastating the lives and welfare of millions of Syrians, victims of US imperial viciousness.
Last December, her press release announced Stop Arming Terrorists legislation she introduced, saying it “would prohibit the US government from using American taxpayer dollars to provide funding, weapons, training, and intelligence support to groups like the Levant Front, Fursan al Ha and other allies of Jabhat Fateh al-Sham, al-Qaeda and ISIS, or to countries who are providing direct or indirect support to those same groups.”
On the House floor, she said “(u)nder US law it is illegal for any American to provide money or assistance to al-Qaeda, ISIS or other terrorist groups.”
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