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Wyden Shows Connection Between Rigged Trade & Rigged Government
By Kevin Zeese
A week with Wyden shows a secret fundraiser for a secretly negotiated corporate agreement
Note: We are still hoping that Senator Wyden will listen to the people and not his big money donors. He should announce now that he will not be supporting any fast track trade authority legislation. The three treaties being negotiated in secret by Obama are too far along and cannot meet the transparency and participation requirements that Wyden has said he supports. He should come out against fast track for all the deals currently being negotiated.
In recent town hall events Sen. Wyden has said that export from Oregon to Asia is a foundation of the Oregon economy. But, as he knows, the US already has trade deals with most of the countries involved in the TPP so it will make little difference on Oregon’s exports. What is will do is give these foreign corporations the ability to move to locations with cheaper labor and resources as well as the power to sue if Oregon takes action in the public interest to protect people and planet. The TPP is a loser for the Oregon economy and for the people of Oregon. KZ
Fight Back! News Activism
by Stephen Lendman
Humanity faces a struggle for survival today like never before. Lunatics in Washington risk mass annihilation in their quest for world dominance.
Minneapolis-based Fight Back! is on the front lines for progressive change. It publishes online and in print.
It features "news and views from the people's struggle" for equity and justice.
Community organizers and other activists are involved. "We are not 'neutral' or 'even-handed' in our coverage," it says.
"We are opposed to exploitation, discrimination, and oppression."
"We hold that the rich class of people who run the economy and government of this country are unfit to rule."
Lies and Deceptions on the Left: The Politics of Self Destruction
James Petras
Introduction
Over the past year, what appeared as hopeful signs, that Left governments were emerging as powerful alternatives to right-wing pro-US regimes, is turning into a historic rout, which will relegate them to the dustbin of history for many years to come. The rise and rapid decay of left-wing governments in France, Greece and Brazil is not the result of a military coup, nor is it due to the machinations of the CIA. The debacle of left governments is a result of deliberate political decisions, which break decisively with the progressive programs, promises and commitments that political leaders had made to the great mass of working and middle class voters who elected them.
Increasingly, the electorate views the leftist rulers as traitors, who betrayed their supporters at the beck and call of their most egregious class enemies: the bankers, the capitalists and the neo-liberal ideologues.
Model Venezuelan Democracy v. US Imperial Lawlessness
by Stephen Lendman
Venezuelan democracy is real. It's the hemisphere's best. It shames America's sham system.
It threatens no other country. It doesn't bully, harass, invade or terror-bomb them. It fosters good relations with all nations.
Its Constitution mandates governance of, by and for everyone equitably. Its policies are polar opposite US imperial lawlessness.
On Wednesday, President Nicholas Maduro initiated an international campaign challenging Obama outrageously calling Venezuela a threat to US national security.
It deserves universal support. He wrote an open letter to Americans affirming Venezuela threatens no one.
Police State Israel on Steroids Under Netanyahu
by Stephen Lendman
Expect ruthless Palestinian persecution to be worse than ever during Netanyahu's fourth term.
Institutionalized viciousness best describes it. Daily Israeli crimes against humanity persist - grave enough to shock anyone supporting right over wrong.
State terror haunts Palestinians - defenseless against Israeli ruthlessness. The price of praying to the wrong God is brutalizing treatment.
Poroshenko: Declaring Peace, Waging War
by Stephen Lendman
US-appointed, he serves at the pleasure of his puppet masters.
He's a convenient stooge - easily replaced if no longer serving US interests. In September 2014, he straightaway breached Minsk ceasefire terms.
On February 12, he agreed to Minsk II peacemaking measures. Terms include:
- ceasefire effective midnight February 15;
- withdrawal of heavy weapons from front line positions;
- granting Donbass autonomous special status self-rule;
- ending economic blockade;
- Ukrainian constitutional reform;
- other provisions relating to monitoring, border control, prisoner exchanges, amnesty and safe access for humanitarian aid.
California Water Wars: Another Form of Asset Stripping?
by Ellen Brown
In California’s epic drought, wars over water rights continue, while innovative alternatives for increasing the available water supply go untapped.
Wars over California’s limited water supply have been going on for at least a century. Water wars have been the subject of some vintage movies, including the 1958 hit The Big Country starring Gregory Peck, Clint Eastwood’s 1985 Pale Rider, 1995’s Waterworld with Kevin Costner, and the 2005 film Batman Begins. Most acclaimed was the 1975 Academy Award winner Chinatown with Jack Nicholson and Faye Dunaway, involving a plot between a corrupt Los Angeles politician and land speculators to fabricate the 1937 drought in order to force farmers to sell their land at low prices. The plot was rooted in historical fact, reflecting battles between Owens Valley farmers and Los Angeles urbanites over water rights.
The Clinton Crime Family
by Stephen Lendman
They're one of America's notable crime families - Bill as president, Hillary as first lady, senator, secretary of state and now presidential aspirant.
Bill's rap sheet includes:
● eight years as Wall Street's man in Washington - facilitating casino capitalism more than ever before;
● NAFTA and the World Trade Organization - anti-democratic job and environmental-destroying coup d'etas;
● compromising vitally needed welfare aid;
● marketplace medicine managed competition Hillarycare - Obamacare's precursor.
● responsibility with Bush I for ethnic Rwandan massacres;
● Iraq sanctions causing mass starvation, disease and 5,000 monthly Iraqi children deaths, according to former humanitarian relief coordinator Denis Halliday;
Heading for WW III
by Stephen Lendman
The signs are ominous. US combat forces are directly aiding Ukraine's military.
It's readying for resumed war on Donbass. Congress wants more heavy weapons sent to Ukraine than already.
They've been covertly supplied since conflict began last April.
According to Donetsk People's Republic (DPR) Prime Minister Alexander Zakhsrchenko: "The United States is already supplying weapons there. For instance, in Debaltsevo we saw US ammunition. That’s a lethal weapon."
"NATO planes land at the airports of Dnipropetrovsk, Zaporizhia and Kharkiv every day."
"Ukraine has not pulled back weapons. It is bringing them back. The pullout was a fake."
Fascist US House Members Declare War on Russia
by Stephen Lendman
Madness defines US policy. Lunatics infesting Washington want war on Russia.
Things head incrementally closer to the unthinkable. US-installed Ukrainian Nazis are used as a dagger aimed at Russia's heartland.
House members want them more heavily armed than already. They want them used as proxies serving US interests.
They want Donbass democracy crushed. They want fascist governance controlling Ukraine nationwide.
They want direct confrontation with Russia. They want US global dominance achieved any way possible.
They want nuclear war against America's main military rival. They're crazy enough to think it's winnable.
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