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Liberals for Hillary
Stephen Lendman
Progressive politics and political pluralism aren’t Beltway attributes. America was never beautiful - now the greatest threat to world peace. Bipartisan neocons infesting Washington risk the unthinkable.
Many self-styled liberals support Clinton - the most recklessly dangerous presidential aspirant in US history - a neocon war goddess/she devil representing pure evil, a war-profiteer’s dream, backed by Wall Street and other corporate predators.Certain Sanders’ endorsement awaits to be announced, betraying his loyal supporters. Liberal progressive in name only Senator Elizabeth Warren backs her, saying “I’m ready to get in this fight and work my heart out for Hillary Clinton to become the next president of the United States and to make sure that Donald Trump never gets any place close to the White House.”
A Clinton Presidency: Humanity’s Worst Nightmare
Stephen Lendman
Since Soviet Russia’s 1991 dissolution, successive US administrations governed increasingly lawlessly and recklessly - Bill Clinton worse than his predecessors, Bush worse than him, Obama worst of all, at war with multiple invented enemies throughout his tenure - from inaugural day to the present.
A neocon Hillary Clinton presidency succeeding him risks the unthinkable - possible WW III. America’s rage for dominance, its wanting planet earth colonized, and increasing belligerence toward Russia and China virtually assures eventual confrontation.Unknown is to what extent, but when conflicts begin, they take on a life of their own. Starting them is easy, resolving them another matter entirely.
The War on Weed Is Winding Down – But Will Monsanto Be the Winner?
Ellen Brown
The war on cannabis that began in the 1930s seems to be coming to an end. Research shows that this natural plant, rather than posing a deadly danger to health, has a wide range of therapeutic benefits. But skeptics question the sudden push for legalization, which is largely funded by wealthy investors linked to Big Ag and Big Pharma.
In April, Pennsylvania became the 24th state to legalize medical cannabis, a form of the plant popularly known as marijuana. That makes nearly half of US states. A major barrier to broader legalization has been the federal law under which all cannabis – even the very useful form known as industrial hemp – is classed as a Schedule I controlled substance that cannot legally be grown in the US. But that classification could change soon. In a letter sent to federal lawmakers in April, the US Drug Enforcement Administration said it plans to release a decision on rescheduling marijuana in the first half of 2016.
The presidential candidates are generally in favor of relaxing the law. In November 2015, Senator Bernie Sanders introduced a bill that would repeal all federal penalties for possessing and growing the plant, allowing states to establish their own marijuana laws. Hillary Clinton would not go that far but would drop cannabis from a Schedule I drug (a deadly dangerous drug with no medical use and high potential for abuse) to Schedule II (a deadly dangerous drug with medical use and high potential for abuse). Republican candidate Donald Trump says we are losing badly in the war on drugs, and that to win that war all drugs need to be legalized.
Brexit Referendum Is Non-Binding
Stephen Lendman
All the fuss and bother about Brexit largely ignores its non-binding status - parliament, not voters deciding if Britain stays or leaves the EU, the latter extremely unlikely.
Writing in the Financial Times, British lawyer David Allen Green explained Brexit voting is “advisory,” not “mandatory.” Parliament has final say.
MPs can legally disregard the public’s will either way, they alone empowered to decide the path Britain chooses.
What happens ahead is “a matter of politics not law. It will come down to what is politically expedient and practicable,” said Green.
Various options exist, including supporting Thursday’s outcome, ignoring it, or “re-negotiating another deal and put(ting) that to another referendum” - repeating the process “until voters eventually vote the ‘right’ way,” what’s best for monied interests, not them.
Us v. Them
Stephen Lendman
In July, Republican and Democrat party bosses will choose the two most widely reviled US presidential aspirants in modern memory.
Each is unfit for any public office. Each represents wealth, power and privilege exclusively. Each mocks rule of law principles and democratic values.
Each assures four more years of war at home and abroad. Each says one thing and intends another, their promises made to be broken.
Each threatens world peace. Each represents what demands rejection. On election day in November, vote independent or stay home. Never support any duopoly power candidate. They’re all cut out of the same dirty cloth. Otherwise they wouldn’t be presidential material.
Clinton is an unindicted war criminal/racketeer. Business tycoon Trump likely amassed wealth the old-fashioned way. Balzac once said behind every great fortune is a crime.
Putin at St. Petersburg International Economic Forum
Stephen Lendman
Called Russia’s Davos, this year’s SPIEF (its 20th annual forum) is one of its “most extensive,” according to Tass, featuring three days of over 100 events - from June 16 - 18.
Attending are representatives of 600 Russian and 500 foreign companies from 60 countries, including America and EU ones - to the displeasure of Washington, wanting Russia increasingly isolated, marginalized, weakened, and transformed into a US vassal state.
Addressing SPIEF’s plenary session, Putin’s remarks were wide-ranging, discussing “systemic problems…besetting the global economy and practically all countries,” as well as expressing an eagerness to restore normalized relations with EU countries, disrupted by hostile US policy.
“We do not hold a grudge, and are ready to meet our European partners halfway. But it certainly cannot be a one-way game,” he stressed.
America’s One-Party Government
INTRODUCTION
Today’s United States is a more realistic version of the type of society
that George Orwell fictionally described in his allegorical novel 1984.
Like in 1984, the American public don’t know that they’re merely the tools of some unseen aristocracy who manipulate them by fear of ‘the other’, some ‘enemy’ group — manipulate the public via the media, which the aristocracy controls. But the big failing of Orwell’s model as a portrayal of the (when he wrote it) coming fascist-corporate dystopia was that he misunderstood how and why the public would falsely believe that they live in a democracy. His central character Winston Smith worked in an unrealistically portrayed propaganda-mill. But in some other fundamentals, Orwell had it right. The public don’t know that their real enemy is their own nation’s aristocracy who are mentally holding the public in bondage by lies systematically implanted into their beliefs, by means of ‘news’ media that are controlled by their own nation’s aristocracy, who own those media and/or control the government by bribery (sometimes subtle) of the politicians whom the aristocracy’s media are being paid to promote. In any case, the aristocracy control the public’s mind, to accept the fundamental legitimacy of the regime the aristocrats are imposing. Aristocrats hire the ‘news’ media.
UEFA Bashes Russia for Euro 2016 Hooliganism
Stephen Lendman
Hooliganism involving disorderly crowd behavior and violence all too commonly accompanies European football matches - rowdy groups, gangs or individuals responsible, not nations.
Following Saturday’s Russia/England match, Russian fans broke into Marseille, France’s Stade Velodrome’s English zone. Violence followed, including on city streets for three straight days.
Dozens were injured, at least four seriously. Russian Sports Minister Vitaly Mutko said Russian fans improperly behaving will be punished appropriately.
NYT Praises Obama’s Phony War on Terror, Lauds Clinton, Blasts Trump
Stephen Lendman
NYT editors never let facts interfere with their worldview, consistently misinforming readers, willfully lying.
On Tuesday, they ignored Obama’s imperial madness, his high crimes against peace, his rage for wars, waging them in multiple theaters, using ISIS and other terrorist groups as US foot soldiers.
Instead they praised what demands universal condemnation and accountability, saying in a Tuesday speech, Obama “listed the ways in which his administration has worked to subdue the threat of terrorism abroad and home” - at the same time denouncing what he called Trump’s “dangerous” mindset.
Pentagon Hypes Nonexistent Russian Threat
Stephen Lendman
Today is the worst of times. Reckless US fear-mongering persists. No Russian threat exists. Claims otherwise are fabricated - a hoax proliferated by irresponsible media scoundrels, paid to lie, trashing journalistic ethics.
Putin gets no credit for being the world’s preeminent peacemaker - polar opposite Obama, Hillary Clinton and other neocons infesting Washington.
US Deputy Assistant Defense Secretary for Russia, Ukraine and Eurasia Michael Carpenter hyped fear irresponsibly, ludicrously suggesting Russia can overrun Baltic states Lithuania, Latvia and Estonia in 60 hours.
He cited a months earlier RAND Corporation report, the organization a largely Pentagon funded military think tank, paid to produce material serving US imperial interests.
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