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Ringing out the neo, Ringing in the neo By S. Artesian
It has been going on a long time, hasn’t it? The bourgeoisie have been on an offensive; the offensive was triggered by a decline in the rate of profitability; the offensive has not been able to systematically overcome the decline in the rate of profit; the offensive was kick-started with the overthrow of Allende in… Continue reading
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Vladimir Putin was Never Head of the KGB, Nor Did He Order the Hacking of the DNC By Prof Michel Chossudovsky
Putin joined the KGB upon completing his undergraduate studies at the State University of Leningrad (today St Petersburg) in 1975 at age 23. He was first stationed in Leningrad (St Petersburg) and then transferred to East Germany where he occupied a junior undercover position as a translator in Dresden. Upon the collapse of the Soviet… Continue reading
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Can We Make Sense of Trump? By Soraya Sepahpour-Ulrich
A month has passed since Donald Trump was declared president-elect soon to be the 45th president of the United States. Since his win, pundits, analysts, and experts continue to debate the victory – a surprise to most. While the reason/s for this victory depend on one’s perspective, most agree on one thing: Trump is unpredictable.… Continue reading
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Media: Hypocrisy of Russia-Did-It Stories Is Hard to Stomach
Meddling in other countries’ elections is an exciting adventure–when it’s the United States doing the meddling. It is, of course, worth knowing what involvement any other country might have had in the US election, but elite media’s consumption with the Russia-did-it storyline so far is discouraging to say the least. Continue reading
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FYI: It’s the Russkies Wot Did It?
13 December 2016 — CLG News [It remains to be seen just how accurate the stories below really are. WB] Breaking: Administration is now actively questioning the legitimacy of Trump’s election victory | 12 Dec 2016 | Hillary Clinton’s top political adviser John Podesta said the campaign is supporting an effort by members of the… Continue reading
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Constitutional Crisis, Movement to Undermine President-elect Donald Trump’s Accession to the White House? By Prof Michel Chossudovsky
Global capitalism is by no means monolithic. What is at stake are fundamental rivalries within the US establishment marked by the clash between competing corporate factions, each of which is intent upon exerting control over the incoming US presidency. In this regard, Trump is not entirely in the pocket of the lobby groups. As a… Continue reading
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The Next Frontier: Trump and Space Weapons By Karl Grossman
It is highly likely that the Trump administration will move to have the U.S. deploy weapons in space. If this happens, it will be profoundly destabilizing, setting off an arms race and, also likely, leading to war in space. Continue reading
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Media: Naureckas: Trump Son-in-Law’s Paper Outlines ‘a Complete Crackdown on Dissent’
Trump’s son-in-law’s paper calls for “a thorough probe of the protests—to include possible ties to organizations demanding vote recounts”—that “continue to mar the presidential election’s aftermath.” Continue reading
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Blaming Trump’s Win on the Age Group Least Responsible for It
Before the election, corporate media nonsensically tried to blame the rise of Donald Trump on Millennials (FAIR.org, 10/10/16)—and now, after the election, the Washington Post is still at it. Continue reading
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Media: Corporate Welfare Will Bring Back Jobs vs. Jobs Will Never Come Back
The Carrier company’s announcement that, after exhortations from Donald Trump, it was going to move a thousand jobs overseas—rather than the 2,000 that it had previously planned to move—led New York Times reporter Nelson Schwartz (11/29/16) to declare that “Mr. Trump is a different kind of Republican, willing to take on big business, at least… Continue reading
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If We Care About the Constitution, Trump Has to Sell His Empire
Donald Trump is about to become president and immediately begin violating the Constitution. The Constitution explicitly prohibits the president from taking payments and gifts from foreign governments. (Can we stop using the term “emolument“? No one has used it for a hundred years. We want to be clear on what the Constitution means.) Continue reading
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Video: Did Trump Win Through Vote Flipping and Vote Stripping?
Robert Fitrakis, election lawyer and international election observer, says had the outcome on November 8 occurred in another country the State Department would have questioned the integrity of the vote Continue reading
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‘People Can Protect the Rights of Everyone in Their Community’
Janine Jackson: Watching social media, interest and energy around issues seems to swell and dissipate. But moving toward a functioning, inclusive democracy requires sustained work: building institutions, organizing, so that in times of acute crisis we have structures, or at least models of ways to respond. Continue reading
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A Note on the Taboo Subject of Stolen Elections
Back in the spring of 2016, an intrepid ACLU voting rights expert in California named Lori Shellenberger was able to help inform state legislators of the dangers of a new computer program against voter fraud called Interstate Crosscheck. The program claimed to identify people who were voting in more than one state. What it really… Continue reading
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Media: Lashing Out at ‘Identity Politics,’ Pundits Blame Trump on Those Most Vulnerable to Trump
21 November 2016 — FAIR Over the past two weeks, pundits from all ends of the spectrum have been scrambling to explain Clinton’s unexpected loss, with reasons spanning from the plausible to the highly dubious; WikiLeaks, Bernie Sanders, fake news, Jill Stein, Russia, bad algorithms and the FBI have all been accused of having sole… Continue reading
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BLOOD-SOAKED TRUMP "VOTING MACHINE" PROTEST LEAVES TRUMP SOHO RED
19 November 2016 — YesLab FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE Hoax Highlights Voter Suppression, Russian Intervention, Stains Trump Hotel Floor But seriously, folks—in the face of fascism, what are strategic next steps Continue reading
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BLOOD-SOAKED TRUMP “VOTING MACHINE” PROTEST LEAVES TRUMP SOHO RED
19 November 2016 — YesLab FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE Hoax Highlights Voter Suppression, Russian Intervention, Stains Trump Hotel Floor But seriously, folks—in the face of fascism, what are strategic next steps Continue reading
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