Oliver Stone documentary - South of the Border

TWO IMPORTANT ARTICLES ON COUNTERPUCH BY: MIKE WHITNEY

Links:
http://www.counterpunch.org/2017/01/26/double-standards-where-were-the-liberal-protestors-during-obamas-wars/
http://www.counterpunch.org/2017/01/27/game-over-for-democrats/

JANUARY 26, 2017
Double Standards: Where Were the Liberal Protestors During Obama’s Wars?

The election of Donald Trump has sent millions of people pouring out onto the streets to protest a man they think is a racist, misogynist, xenophobic bully who will destroy US democracy in his quest to establish himself as supreme fascist ruler of the country.
Maybe they’re right. Maybe Trump is a fascist who will destroy America. But where were these people when Obama was bombing wedding parties in Kandahar, or training jihadist militants to fight in Syria, or abetting NATO’s destructive onslaught on Libya, or plunging Ukraine into fratricidal warfare, or collecting the phone records of innocent Americans, or deporting hundreds of thousands of undocumented workers, or force-feeding prisoners at Gitmo, or providing bombs and aircraft to the Saudis to continue their genocidal war against Yemen?
Where were they?

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The Issue is Not Trump, It is Us

January 17, 2017

by John Pilger

On the day President Trump is inaugurated, thousands of writers in the United States will express their indignation.  “In order for us to heal and move forward …,” say Writers Resist, “we wish to bypass direct political discourse, in favour of an inspired focus on the future, and how we, as writers, can be a unifying force for the protection of democracy.”

And:  “We urge local organizers and speakers to avoid using the names of politicians or adopting ‘anti’ language as the focus for their Writers Resist event. It’s important to ensure that nonprofit organizations, which are prohibited from political campaigning, will feel confident participating in and sponsoring these events.”

Thus, real protest is to be avoided, for it is not tax exempt.

Al Jazeera Investigations – The Lobby P1: Young Friends of Israel

A six-month undercover investigation reveals how Israel penetrates different levels of British democracy.

Posted January 15, 2016

Dr Udo Ulfkotte, journalist and author, on RT

Why Ridiculous Official Propaganda Still Works

by CJ Hopkins

January 13, 2017

source: http://www.counterpunch.org/2017/01/13/why-ridiculous-official-propaganda-still-works/

For students of official propaganda, manipulation of public opinion, psychological conditioning, and emotional coercion, it doesn’t get much better than this. As Trump and his army of Goldman Sachs guys, corporate CEOs, and Christian zealots slouch toward inauguration day, we are being treated to a master class in coordinated media manipulation that is making Goebbels look like an amateur. This may not be immediately apparent, given the seemingly risible nature of most of the garbage we are being barraged with, but once one understands the actual purpose of such official propaganda, everything starts to make more sense.

We’ve Been Hacking Elections For More Than a Century

By Stephen Kinzer

Source: http://www.informationclearinghouse.info/46234.htm

January 15, 2017 "Information Clearing House" - "Boston Globe" - Outrage is shaking Washington as members of Congress compete to demonize Russia for its alleged interference in America’s recent presidential election. “Any foreign intervention in our elections is entirely unacceptable,” Speaker of the House Paul Ryan has asserted. Russian actions, according to other legislators, are “attacks on our very fundamentals of democracy” that “should alarm every American” because they “cut to the heart of our free society.” This burst of righteous indignation would be easier to swallow if the United States had not itself made a chronic habit of interfering in foreign elections.

The Establishment Is Trying To Steal The Presidency From Trump And the Liberal-Left Is Helping

By Paul Craig Roberts

Source: http://www.informationclearinghouse.info/46222.htm

January 14, 2017 "Information Clearing House" - Reuters reports that 2,700 US troops accompanied by tanks are moving across Poland toward the Russian border. Col. Christopher Norrie, commander of the 3rd Armoured Brigade Combat Team, declared: “The main goal of our mission is deterrence and prevention of threats.” Apparently, the colonel is not sufficiently bright to realize that far from preventing threats, the force he is leading presents as a threat. And to no less a military power than Russia.

The Deep State Goes to War with Trump, Using Unverified Claims, as Democrats Cheer

By Glenn Greenwald

Source: http://www.informationclearinghouse.info/46211.htm

January 12, 2017 "Information Clearing House" - "The Intercept" -  In January, 1961, Dwight Eisenhower delivered his farewell address after serving two terms as U.S. president; the five-star general chose to warn Americans of this specific threat to democracy: “In the councils of government, we must guard against the acquisition of unwarranted influence, whether sought or unsought, by the military-industrial complex. The potential for the disastrous rise of misplaced power exists and will persist.” That warning was issued prior to the decadelong escalation of the Vietnam War, three more decades of Cold War mania, and the post-9/11 era, all of which radically expanded that unelected faction’s power even further.

Pushing for a Lucrative New Cold War

Source: https://consortiumnews.com/2017/01/07/pushing-for-a-lucrative-new-cold-war/

January 7, 2017

The New Cold War promises untold riches for the Military-Industrial Complex, causing hawks inside the Obama administration to push for more hostilities with Russia, as in a Syrian case study dissected by Gareth Porter for Truthdig.

By Gareth Porter

Airstrikes by the United States and its allies against two Syrian army positions Sept. 17 killed at least 62 Syrian troops and wounded dozens more. The attack was quickly treated as a non-story by the U.S. news media; U.S. Central Command (CENTCOM) claimed the strikes were carried out in the mistaken belief that Islamic State forces were being targeted, and the story disappeared.

The circumstances surrounding the attack, however, suggested it may have been deliberate, its purpose being to sabotage President Obama’s policy of coordinating with Russia against Islamic State and Nusra Front forces in Syria as part of a U.S.-Russian cease-fire agreement.

Normally the U.S. military can cover up illegal operations and mistakes with a pro forma military investigation that publicly clears those responsible. But the air attack on Syrian troops also involved three foreign allies in the anti-Islamic State named Operation Inherent Resolve: the United Kingdom, Denmark and Australia. So, the Pentagon had to agree to bring a general from one of those allies into the investigation as a co-author of the report. Consequently, the summary of the investigation released by CENTCOM on Nov. 29 reveals far more than the Pentagon and CENTCOM brass would have desired.

Thanks to that heavily redacted report, we now have detailed evidence that the commander of CENTCOM’s Air Force component attacked the Syrian army deliberately.

The Democrats’ Russia-Did-It Dodge

Source: https://consortiumnews.com/2017/01/10/the-democrats-russia-did-it-dodge/

January 10, 2017

To avoid facing up to why Hillary Clinton’s pro-corporatist candidacy really lost key Rust Belt states, national Democrats are finding it easier to blame Russia, a dangerous and self-defeating game, says Norman Solomon at The Hill.

By Norman Solomon

Two months after the defeat of Hillary Clinton, the most cohesive message from congressional Democrats is: blame Russia. The party leaders have doubled down on an approach that got nowhere during the presidential campaign — trying to tie the Kremlin around Donald Trump’s neck.

Still more interested in playing to the press gallery than speaking directly to the economic distress of voters in the Rust Belt and elsewhere who handed the presidency to Trump, top Democrats would much rather scapegoat Vladimir Putin than scrutinize how they’ve lost touch with working-class voters.

Meanwhile, the emerging incendiary rhetoric against Russia is extremely dangerous. It could lead to a military confrontation between two countries that have thousands of nuclear weapons each.

At the Senate Armed Services Committee hearing last Thursday on foreign cyber threats, ranking member Jack Reed, D-Rhode Island, denounced “Russia’s rejection of the post-Cold War international order and aggressive actions against its neighbors,” and he condemned “a regime with values and interests so antithetical to our own.” It was the kind of oratory that would have made John Foster Dulles or Barry Goldwater proud.

Like so many other senators on the committee, Reed seemed eager for a new Cold War while accusing Russia of digital aggression. “In addition to stealing information from the Democratic National Committee and the Clinton campaign,” he said, “and cherry-picking what information it leaked to the media, the Russian government also created and spread fake news and conspiracies across the vast social media landscape.’’

Emails Were Leaked, Not Hacked

By William Binney, Ray McGovern

Source: http://www.informationclearinghouse.info/46166.htm

January 06, 2017 "Information Clearing House" -  It has been several weeks since the New York Times reported that "overwhelming circumstantial evidence" led the CIA to believe that Russian President Vladimir Putin "deployed computer hackers" to help Donald Trump win the election. But the evidence released so far has been far from overwhelming.

The long anticipated Joint Analysis Report issued by the Department of Homeland Security and the FBI on Dec. 29 met widespread criticism in the technical community. Worse still, some of the advice it offered led to a very alarmist false alarm about supposed Russian hacking into a Vermont electric power station.

WikiLeaks Julian Assange Interview with Sean Hannity (1/3/2017)

ده روز که دنیا را تغییر داد

جان رید مهمترین کتابش را در مورد انقلاب ۱۹۱۷ روسیه تحت عنوان “ده روز که دنیا را تکان داد” نوشت. در تاریخ ایران نیز ده روز است که ایران را تکان داد و باعث تغییر سیاستهای جهانی‌ برای همیشه شد. این ده روز بین زمانی‌ است که خمینی وارد ایران شد و بختیار از پست نخست وزیری خود استعفا داد و به فرانسه مهاجرت کرد، که البته چند سال بعد قمه کشان خمینی او را کشتند. اگر بختیار، که با پشتیبانیِ نیروهای طرفدار خمینی این پست را قبول کرده بود (با وجود اینکه همزمان با تَقَبّل این سمت او را از حزبش بیرون کردند) قادر بود که در آن دهه به نقطه مشترکی با خمینی برسد (گر چه در این راه تلاش نیز کرد) و دولت خود را با خواستهای خمینی تنظیم و برقرار نگاه میداشت، امروزه دنیا شکل دیگری گرفته بود!

Ten Days That Changed The World

John Reed wrote his most famous book about the Russian revolution of 1917 titled “Ten  Days That Shook The World”. In Iranian history, there are ten days that shook Iran, and subsequently, changed the politics of the world forever. These ten days are the day Khomeini entered Iran on the first of February 1979, until 11 February 1979, the day that Shah’s last Prime Minister, Shahpour Bakhtiar, abdicated his office and left Iran to an exile in France, to be assassinated by Khomeini’s thugs on August 6, 1991. If Bakhtiar, who was originally encouraged to accept the position of Prime Minister by the opposition (in spite of being expelled from his own party), was able to create a coalition between himself and Khomeini’s regime during those ten days, the world would have looked differently today!

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