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Democrats’ Cave-In on TPP and TTIP. Good-Bye Democracy.
Eric Zuesse
On Wednesday afternoon, May 13th, a catastrophic failure became clear to the few honest Democrats who were determined to stop Obama’s disastrous ’trade deals’ which are actually going to transfer regulatory sovereignty away from elected government officials as at present (who are answerable to voters), and instead move these powers into the hands of international corporate cartels, which will have the final say over the safety of our air, water, automobiles, and other products, and of the environment, and of workers’ rights (and which regulations will become answerable instead to the controlling stockholders in those mega-corporations). Mega-corporations will set international standards, which none of the signatory nations within the TPP and TTIP will be legally able to exceed without paying heavy penalties to those corporations for violating those corporations’ ‘rights’ under these trade-deals. The current ability of individual nations to establish their own standards will disappear, except to the extent that international corporations allow.
Here’s How Your Senators Voted, in the Key Senate Vote to End American Democracy
Eric Zuesse
The key vote, in the U.S. Senate, to transfer to international corporate panels America’s democratic national sovereignty over the laws and regulations on the environment, workers’ rights, consumers’ rights, and finance, was officially titled with the misleadingly unrelated phrase "Ensuring Tax Exempt Organizations the Right to Appeal Act,” and it passed the U.S. Senate as “H.R. 1314,” by 65 to 33 votes, at 1:55 in the afternoon of Thursday 14 May 2015.
That’s five votes more than the 60 votes that the measure needed in order to pass. This is the key congressional action among the many that are required in order for U.S. President Barack Obama’s international-‘trade’ treaties — TPP, TTIP, and TISA — to become law in the United States. It’s the ultimate decision-moment, concerning America’s future.
Ukraine's Poroshenko Wants Russians Interned in Prison Camps
by Stephen Lendman
Ukraine is a US-installed Nazi-infested fascist police state - waging war on its own people.
Criticizing regime policy is strictly forbidden. Anyone opposing state policies is targeted for elimination - by imprisonment or cold-blooded murder.
Free and open media don't exist. Authorities want only their own views disseminated. Reporting hard truths on issues mattering most is criminalized.
Journalists are murdered for doing their job responsibly. Western governments support what demands condemnation. Western media ignore what demands headlines.
Kiev fascists operate extrajudicially. Poroshenko and supportive lunatics proposed "On legal regime of martial law" legislation.
Senate Defeats Anti-Consumer Trade Bill Fast Track Authority
by Stephen Lendman
Score one for the good guys. A previous article explained so-called "trade promotion authority (TPA)" lets Obama and his trade representative, complicit with corporate predators, ram through Congress, with minimal debate, no amendments or public discussion outrageous legislation global justice advocates call NAFTA on steroids.
Proposed Trans-Pacific Partnership (TPP) and Transatlantic Trade and Investment Partnership (TTIP) are stealth corporate coup d'etat measures - freedom and ecosystem-destroying nightmares.
Corporate giants wrote both measures - to establish unrestricted supranational global trade rules overriding national sovereignty, domestic laws and personal freedoms, serving their interests at the expense of humanity.
Why Hillary Clinton Would Be a Weak Presidential Nominee for Democrats
Eric Zuesse
If Hillary Clinton wins the Democratic Presidential nomination, then how strong a candidate will she be against a Republican nominee who, as a representative of the conservative party, is proudly and openly supporting conservative positions?
Taegan Goddard of The Week headlines on May 11th, “Is Hillary Clinton Flip-Flopping or Just Evolving?” and he notes several issues on which she has rhetorically veered to the left recently. He further notes that one of the things that probably shaved a crucial few percentage-points off the losers in previous Presidential general-election contests and caused them to lose, such as John Kerry and Mitt Romney, was the given candidate’s primary-campaign rhetorical flip-flops that had been made during the Party’s primaries in order to be able to wrap up that candidate’s Party-base so as to win its Presidential nomination and so be able to become a participant in the general-election contest.
Political Prisoner Hassan Diab's Letters
by Stephen Lendman
In November 2008, Royal Canadian Mounted Police arrested Diab for a crime he had nothing to do with - a 1980 Paris synagogue bombing.
Not a shred of evidence connects him to it. He's a former University of Ottawa and Carleton University sociology professor - terminated without just cause.
He's a Lebanese national with dual citizenship. He has no criminal record whatever or involvement with the group accused of the Paris bombing.
In June 2011, an Ottawa judge ordered him extradited to France. Several appeals for justice failed.
Canada's Supreme Court refused to hear his case. A day after last November's decision, he was extradited. His lawyer, Donald Bayne, said he wasn't even given time to see his family before departure.
Saudis Violate Agreed On 5-Day Truce in Yemen
by Stephen Lendman
Riyadh's proposed 5-day ceasefire is a duplicitous thinly veiled PR stunt ignoring what matters most - halting Obama's aggression using Saudis and other regional rogue states as convenient proxies to do his dirty work.
Announced short-term cessation of hostilities is meaningless. Rogue states operate by their own rules.
Saudi terror-bombing continued after its proposed pause, effective 11PM Tuesday evening local time.
Multiple airstrikes targeted Hajja, Saada and Lahij province - in blatant violation of announced truce. Dozens were killed or wounded. Residential areas and civilian infrastructure were struck.
Non-Religious Population Is Soaring in America
Eric Zuesse
The Pew Research Center on Religion & Public Life is reporting, in their poll of 35,000 Americans, that during the seven years from 2007 to 2014, the numbers of religiously “Unaffiliated” were soaring, the numbers of Christians were plunging, and the numbers of adherents to non-Christian faiths were rising substantially but not nearly as much as were the numbers of “Unaffiliated.”
This report, issued on May 12th, is headlined, "America’s Changing Religious Landscape: Christians Decline Sharply as Share of Population; Unaffiliated and Other Faiths Continue to Grow.”
Mandatory Childhood Vaccine Legislation Proposed In Congress For Nationwide Implementation
by Lily Dane
A Florida Congresswoman has introduced legislation that will send chills down the spine of any liberty-loving American.
On May 1, Frederica S. Wilson (D-FL-24) presented H.R.2232 – Vaccinate All Children Act of 2015.
From the bill:
REQUIREMENT.—For a State or a political subdivision or other public entity of a State to be eligible to receive a grant under this section, the applicant shall demonstrate to the Secretary’s satisfaction that, subject to paragraphs (2) and (3), the State requires each student enrolled in one of the State’s public elementary schools or public secondary schools to be vaccinated in accordance with the recommendations of the Advisory Committee on Immunization Practices.
That’s right. Wilson wants to require children who attend public schools to receive every shot on the CDC recommended vaccine schedule.
Have you seen that vaccine schedule lately?
Fidel Castro's Remarks on the 70th Anniversary of Russia's Great Patriotic War
by Stephen Lendman
Fidel is a living legend - bigger than life, remarkable by any standard, a hero to Cubans and millions worldwide.
He recovered from serious illness that nearly took him. His inner strength and redoubtable spirit saved him. He's an inspiration to us all.
In August, he'll reach age 89. His intellect and spirit remain strong. The flesh isn't what it used to be - nor for most anyone after 80 years.
He still writes occasional articles and reflections - always with important thoughts to convey - this time on "Our right to be Maxist-Leninists."
His article was published the day before Russia's stunning V-Day commemoration - a glorious tribute to millions of heroes who saved their Motherland, Europe and beyond from the scourge of fascism.
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