Bulletin N° 884
Anthrax War
https://documentaryheaven.com/anthrax-war/
2009
(1:03:58)
A ground-breaking, feature-length documentary by Bob Coen
and Eric Nadler, who also wrote the accompanying book Dead Silence that discusses, in greater detail, the investigation that
this film examines.
This documentary illuminates one of the most important
stories of our age – the threat that a terrifying Germ War Arms Race may now be beginning around the globe . . . . And
where the anthrax used in the
2001 attacks may have originated.
Subject
: The Architects of War vs.
The People.
February 28, 2020
Grenoble,
France
Dear
Colleagues and Friends of CEIMSA,
In
his 1963 book, The
Triumph of Conservatism, Gazbrierl Kolko frames the following question: “To what extent was
the evolution of the Federal Reserve System into a crucial aspect of political
capitalism inherent in the very premises and specifics of the [Federal Reserve ]Act?” This Act of Congress was passed into law on December
23,1913, thereby creating a U.S. central bank the
purported purpose of which was to prevent a financial debacle on a scale of the
one that had wrecked the American economy in 1907.
Later
economic historians have established the fact that the financial crisis of 1907
(which saw the American economy rescued only by the “generosity” of J.P.
Morgan) was in fact deliberately manufactured by large US banking interests in
the U.S., in an effort to overcome popular opposition to the
creation of a U.S. Central Bank. The required stratagem involved the
creation of a national third political party, “The Bull Moose Party,” led by
Theodor Roosevelt, who predictably split the Republican vote and assure the
electoral defeat of President William Howard Taft, in 1912, by the
“Progressive” presidential Democratic Party candidate, Woodrow Wilson, whom the
bankers could rely on to support the creation of a private central bank which
would control the production of US currency and much more.
During
the First World War, writes Kolko, Wilson’s Secretary
of the Treasury, William Gibbs McAdoo, “found it useful to have the banking
system centralized, according to H. Parker Willis, one of the actual authors of
the Act:
‘by
accepting the dominance of the Federal Reserve Bank of New York in the councils
of the Reserve system and by employing the machinery of the reserve Bank of New York for the purpose of directing and
reorganizing the finance of the rest of the country.’(p.253)
“This
centralization lasted after the war, but lest it be thought it was a necessity
imposed by extraordinary circumstances, even Carter Glass [who succeeded McAdoo
at Secretary of the Treasury in 1918] in a moment of frankness, admitted that
it was hardly the destruction of the Money Trust that he sought in his bill. In
April, 1916, well before the emergency reorganization of the American economy
for war, Glass told a Washington audience that:
The
proponents of the Federal reserve act had no idea of
impairing the rightful prestige of New York as the financial metropolis of this
hemisphere. They rather expected to confirm its distinction, and even hoped to
assist powerfully in wresting the scepter from London and eventually making New
York the financial center of the world. Eminent Englishmen with the keenest
perception have frankly expressed apprehension of such result. Indeed,
momentarily this has come to pass. And we may point to the amazing contrast
between New York under the old system in 1907, shaken to its very foundation
because of two bank failures, and New York at the present time, under the new
system, serenely secure in its domestic banking operations and confidently
financing the great enterprises of European nations at war.(p.254)
For
further interpretations of the origins of World War I, please see our
presentation of Gerry Docherty and Jim Macgrego’s
book, Hidden
History: The Secret Origins of the First World War (2013), at Ceimsa
Bulletin N° 863: “The Capitalist Conspiracy: writing for the blind.”
The 19 + items below are articles and essay, several of which suggest the
ruling classes of the world collaborate to solidify their power over a
controlled population, in order to protect the wealth and power they have
accumulated. Under current conditions, the progressive pretensions of capitalism
have lost credibility. The consolidation of oligarchic power promises to be a violent
and cruel paradox, ending ultimately in failure with much “collateral damage.”
We are well advised, at this moment
in history, to hope for the best and prepare ourselves for the worst.
Sincerely,
Francis
Feeley
---
Professeur honoraire de l'Université Grenoble-Alpes
Ancien Directeur de Researches
Université de Paris-Nanterre
Director of The Center for the Advanced Study
of American Institutions and Social Movements
(CEIMSA-in-Exile)
The University of California-San Diego
a.
A Fiction or Reality?
“The Report
from Iron Mountain”: A Blueprint for Tyranny
(video, 2:21:00)
May 22, 2019
&
A Short Descriptive Text
(5 pages)
https://archive.org/stream/ReportFromIronMountain135/The%20Report%20from%20Iron%20Mountain_djvu.txt
(book published in 1961)
+
+
Doctors Sound the Alarm on
Climate Emergency
https://www.truthdig.com/articles/doctors-sound-the-alarm-on-climate-emergency/
by Kieran Cooke
LONDON — The doctors are worried about the climate emergency.
In recent days the UK’s Royal College of Physicians (RCP)
has announced it’s halting
investments in climate-changing fossil fuel and mining companies.
The RCP, the British doctors’ professional body
dedicated to improving the practice of medicine, which has funds in global
stock markets amounting to nearly £50 million (US$65m), says it will start
divesting immediately from the worst-polluting oil and gas companies, which are
mainly in the US.
As part of a phased disinvestment policy the RCP –
the oldest medical college in England, with more than 35,000 members – says
that within
the next three years all investments in fossil fuel companies not aligned
with the
goals of the 2015 Paris Agreement on climate change
will be withdrawn.
“The fossil fuel industry is driving the climate
crisis and is responsible for a public health emergency”, says Dr Will Stableforth of the RCP.
+
How We Stay Blind to the Story of Power, While Those
Who Challenge it, Like Assange, Can
Wind Up Behind Bars
by JonathanCook
===========
b.
BBC
News: The Coronavirus Index
+
Coronavirus map: how Covid-19 is spreading across
the world
+
Coronavirus outbreak: WHO expert says
countries must shift mindset to virus preparedness
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-o0q1XMRKYM&feature=youtu.be
(2:01:18)
with Dr. Bruce Aylward
+
Coronavirus: Ukraine protesters attack buses
carrying China evacuees
https://www.bbc.com/news/world-europe-51581805
(1:15)
+
New Virus Cases Fall; WHO Says China Bought the
World Time
https://www.truthdig.com/articles/new-virus-cases-fall-who-says-china-bought-the-world-time/
by Yanan Wang
+
Ebola: Delaware
St. University prof, Dr. Cyril Broderick, says
Africans do not deserve to be treated like guinea pigs
by
Robert Herriman
(September 27, 2014)
+
“Is The US
Government The Master Criminal Of Our Time?”
https://www.paulcraigroberts.org/2014/10/20/us-government-master-criminal-time/
by PaulCraigRoberts
(October 20, 2014)
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c.
Imperialism on
Trial - Exposing war crimes is not a crime
http://www.informationclearinghouse.info/53041.htm
(February 27,
2020)
+
Disinformation, First Amendment, Press Freedom, Prison-Industrial Complex, U.S. foreign policy
Interviews with Assange Legal Advisor Renata
Avila, Journalists Glen Ford, Max Blumenthal and More in new Assange: Countdown To Freedom
(February 14, 2020)
+
We’re Asking One Question In Assange’s
Case: Should Journalists Be Punished For Exposing War Crimes?
http://www.informationclearinghouse.info/53034.htm
by Caitlin
Johnstone
+
Max Blumenthal
on the imperial NGOs that ignore Julian Assange - and
the billionaires behind them
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IT1-tbJ9Mak
+
From: Mark Crispin Miller
Sent: Monday, February 17, 2020
Subject: [MCM] Assange's extradition case is
at a "critical moment"—and political prisoner Chelsea Manning says
she's "never backing down" (2)
Assange’s Extradition Case: Critical Moment for the Anti-War
Movement
The US government’s extradition and prosecution of Julian Assange is a critical moment for press freedom, but also
for the anti-war movement
by Nozomi Hayase
Chelsea Manning Says She Is 'Never Backing Down' in Face of US Detention
Meant to Break
Her
by Eoin Higgins, staff writer
+
Liberal democracy is a lie - Assange extradition hearing - Day 1
http://www.informationclearinghouse.info/53037.htm
by Craig
Murray
(Monday, February 24, 2020)
+
UK inexplicably bars WikiLeaks editor
from extradition hearing day after Assange handcuffed
11 times & STRIPPED twice
with
Wikileaks editor Kristin Hrafnsson
+
The draconian nature of a political show-trial - Assange extradition hearing – Day 2
http://www.informationclearinghouse.info/53040.htm
by
Craig Murray
(Tuesday, February 25, 2020)
+
USA v Julian Assange:
Extradition Day 2
https://defend.wikileaks.org/2020/02/25/usa-v-julian-assange-extradition-day-2/
(Tuesday, February 25, 2020)
+
“Lies, lies and more lies”: Lawyer slams day 2 of Julian Assange’s US extradition hearing, here is how it went down
with Wikileaks editor Kristin Hrafnsson
+
‘Can’t participate,
can’t communicate’: Day 3 of Assange’s US extradition
hearing as it happened
https://www.rt.com/uk/481756-assange-extradition-hearing-treaty/
(February 26, 2020)
Assange
extradition hearing is Damocles sword over journalists’ heads. But UK
mainstream media participate in his crucifixion
https://www.rt.com/op-ed/481750-assange-extradition-free-speech-media/
by
George Galloway
(February 26, 2020)
‘Fair trial threatened’ as judge rejects Assange request to
sit with lawyers: Day 4 of US extradition hearing as it played out
(February 27, 2020)
Day four of Julian Assange’s extradition hearing saw lawyers discussing whether international law supersedes English law and a dramatic rejection by the judge of a simple request for Assange to be allowed to sit with his lawyers.
===========
d.
If
slowing growth, unsound financial systems and the coronavirus
don’t trigger a market meltdown, central banks will
by Gary
Biddle
(February
20, 2020)
+
“Money, Power and a Call to Radical Change”
(1:28:09)
with Yanis Varoufakis and Brian Eno
+
Huawei in the
Crosshairs
http://www.informationclearinghouse.info/53033.htm
by
Mike Whitney
The Trump administration’s
appalling treatment of Huawei shows that the United
States will risk anything, even a nuclear conflagration with China, to maintain
its tenuous grip on global power.
Huawei is China’s behemoth technology
company that has recently come under fire by the Trump administration for
violating sanctions against Iran and for providing network equipment that
(allegedly) poses security risks for its customers. Both charges are baseless,
but they’re being used as the pretext for launching a full-blown war on China’s
telecom-equipment giant.
Huawei’s troubles stem from the fact that
the company has taken the lead in fifth generation wireless technology (5-G)
and left the US behind eating their dust. The situation creates an
insurmountable problem for the US which wants to preserve its role as global
superpower into the next century. That dream will not be realized if China
dominates communications technology and continues to be the industry leader in
next-generation mobile infrastructure. That’s why Trump has taken off the
gloves and is preparing to do whatever it takes to sabotage Huawei
and prevent its cutting edge infrastructure technology from being installed
around the world.
+
How Capitalism
Works
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BGmEUR3gDew&feature=emb_rel_end
(32:16)
with
David Harvey
+
Asia's surprising resilience in a world market crash
https://asiatimes.com/2020/02/asias-surprising-resilience-in-a-world-market-crash/
by David P. Goldman
+
No Weapon Left
Behind: The American Hybrid War on China
by Pepe Escobar
===========
e.
David Cay Johnston: “It's Even Worse
Than You Think”
(47:18)
+
Sanders & Socialism: Debate Between Nobel Laureate Paul Krugman
& Socialist Economist Richard Wolff
(26:28)
+
The
Democrats’ Quandary
http://www.informationclearinghouse.info/53044.htm
by
Michael Hudson
In a
struggle between oligarchy and democracy, something must give.
To hear the candidates
debate, you would think that their fight was over who could best beat Trump.
But when Trump’s billionaire twin Mike Bloomberg throws a quarter-billion
dollars into an ad campaign to bypass the candidates actually running for votes
in Iowa, New Hampshire and Nevada, it’s obvious that what really is at issue is
the future of the Democrat Party. Bloomberg is banking on a brokered convention
held by the Democratic National Committee (DNC) in which money votes. (If
“corporations are people,” so is money in today’s political world.)
+
“The
Billionaire Election”: How 2020 Is a Referendum on Wealth Inequality
https://www.democracynow.org/2020/2/26/anand_giridharadas_2020_the_billionaire_election
with Anand Giridharadas
(20:02)
+
The Cosmic Irony of Bernie Sanders’s Rise
by Seth Ackerman
+
Musical Chairs in the White House
http://www.informationclearinghouse.info/53045.htm
by Philip Giraldi
On the job training in the intelligence community
The problem with that argument is that there have been clear instances when the
president could have followed through on pledges to reduce troop levels or
withdraw completely from war zones before reversing himself and doubling down
rather than doing the right thing. One need only cite the increases in numbers
of combatants in both the Middle East and Afghanistan and the reversal of an
initial decision to stage a complete withdrawal from Syria which instead turned
into a move to occupy the country’s oil fields.
===========
f.
Refugees Flee Worsening Syria-Turkey Conflict
(23:30)
with
Rick Sanchez
+
We should applaud the Syrian military’s actions in Idlib,
not deplore them
http://www.informationclearinghouse.info/53042.htm
by Stephen Gowans
The US news media perversely view the prospective liberation of millions of Syrians from a Turkish-backed Al Qaeda tyranny in Idlib as a humanitarian tragedy, betraying their allegiance to Washington’s geopolitical agenda and its aim of dominating every country in West Asia without exception, even if it means relying on Al Qaeda to accomplish its goal.
Imagine journalists deploring the Allies’ liberation of Europe because the project created refugees, and you’ll understand the US news media’s reaction to the prospect of the Syrian military liberating Idlib from the rule of a branch of Al Qaeda. Implicit in the condemnation is support for the status quo, since any realistic attempt to end an occupation will trigger a flight of civilians from a war zone. What is in fact support for continued occupation by reactionaries, and their imposition of a terrorist mini-state on millions of Syrians, is slyly presented by the US news media as concern for the welfare of Syrian civilians.
On February 20, The Wall Street Journal ran an article on what it said could be the “biggest humanitarian horror story of the 21st century,” namely, the advance of the Syrian military into Idlib, “backed by Russian airstrikes and pro-Iranian militias” which has “forced the flight of some 900,000 people” as Syrian president Bashar al-Assad vows “to retake every inch of Syria.”
To illustrate the so-called impending horror, Journal reporter Raja Abdulrahim follows “Amro Akoush and his family” as they flee “their home in northwest Syria with no time to pack a bag and no vehicle to escape the machine-gun fire and falling bombs.”
“I feel like this is the end, the army will advance and kill us all and that will be the end of the story,” Abdulrahim quotes Akoush as saying. “We no longer have hope for anything other than a quick death, that’s it. That’s all we ask for.”
In Abdulrahim’s narrative, Assad is a tyrant setting in motion a humanitarian catastrophe to satisfy his urge (are we to construe it as greed?) to “retake” every inch of his country (not recover or liberate it.) Assad’s foil, his nemesis in this tale, is Turkey’s president Recep Tayyip Erdogan, presented as the personification of the calvary, rushing to the aid of hapless Syrian civilians, by dispatching tanks across the Turk-Syrian border.
Erdogan, Abdulrahim writes, “has threatened to launch a full attack on Syrian government forces if Mr. Assad doesn’t halt the military offensive. Turkey has sent more than 10,000 troops and more than 2,000 pieces of artillery, tanks and armored vehicles into Idlib.”
It all seems fairly simple: Assad is a brute who has launched a military offensive “to defeat the remnants” of Syria’s “armed opposition”, sparking a humanitarian catastrophe in embryo, while Erdogan, our hero, acts to stay the tyrant’s hand.
It’s a good story, but wrong. The “armed opposition” is not a group of plucky liberal democrats fighting for freedom, but Al Qaeda; Turkey is not the calvary, but a foreign aggressor with designs on Syria that has long backed Al Qaeda as its proxy in Idlib; and Erdogan’s goal isn’t to rescue Syrians from a tyrant, but to impose a Turkish tyranny by proxy on Idlib. All of this has been reported previously in the US news media, including in Abdulrahim’s own Wall Street Journal, but has since been lost down to the memory hole. Additionally, other realities have been minimized, including the continued Al Qaeda attacks on the Syrian military and Syrian civilians.
In early March, 2015 Erdogan flew to Riyadh to meet Saudi Arabia’s recently crowned King Salman, to agree on a new strategy to oust Assad. Both leaders were keen to see Syria’s Arab nationalist republic dissolved. Erdogan, an Islamist with connections to the Muslim Brotherhood, objected to Syria’s secularism and long-running war with the Muslim Brotherhood. Salman, a misogynistic, democracy-abominating monarch backed to the hilt by Washington, objected to Syria’s anti-monarchism, Arab nationalism, and insistence that the Arab world achieve independence from US domination–ideologies which threatened his family’s rule over the Arabian peninsula and its vast oil resources.
To overcome the Syrian menace, Erdogan and Salman agreed to establish a joint command center in Idlib in order to coordinate the activities of Al Qaeda (operating in Syria at the time under the alias Jabhat al-Nusra.) Al Qaeda and other jihadist groups had taken up the Muslim Brotherhood’s struggle against the Assad government’s secularism and Arab nationalism. The jihadists were threatening to seize control of all of Idlib, and the Turkish Islamist and Saudi despot were eager to lend a hand.
+
Trump pushed U.S.
and Iran 'close to the brink,' Iran's Zarif tells NBC
News
https://www.nbcnews.com/news/world/trump-pushed-u-s-iran-close-brink-iran-s-zarif-n1137196
by Dan De Luce
===========
g.
Tired of Holding
Other Worlds
in My Fist
https://consortiumnews.com/2020/02/17/tired-of-holding-other-worlds-in-my-fist/
by Vijay
Prashad
+
History of US
Rule in Latin America
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NKwJI9axblQ
(1:14:52)
with
Noam Chomsky
(December 2009)
===========
h.
Lavrov Accuses NATO,
Europe Of Stoking Tensions
https://www.rferl.org/a/lavrov-accuses-nato-europe-of-stoking-tensions/30436094.html
+
Chinese Slams
"Racist" Reports by German Media over Coronavirus
+
Iranian foreign
minister accuses US of 'state terrorism' as country's parliament votes to
designate US forces as 'terrorists'
https://edition.cnn.com/2020/01/07/middleeast/iran-zarif-united-states-intl/index.html
by
Fred Pleitgen
===========
i.
US lawmakers
vote to stop Trump warmongering with Iran
https://www.aa.com.tr/en/americas/us-lawmakers-vote-to-stop-trump-warmongering-with-iran/1719669
by
James Reinl
+
How World War II got Japan and the US hooked on
amphetamines, ‘the ultimate military performance enhancing drug’
by Peter Andreas
===========
j.
Ralph Nader on Bloomberg, Bernie, and the Rot Within the DNC
https://theintercept.com/2020/02/16/ralph-nader-interview-bernie-sanders-bloomberg-pelosi-democrats/
by Jeremy Scahill
+
How Billionaire Michael
Bloomberg’s Deep Pockets Have Let Him Win Friends
and Buy Influence
https://www.democracynow.org/2020/2/17/michael_bloomberg_unprecedented_campaign_spending
(9:29)
with Blake Zeff
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k.
From: Mark Crispin Miller
Sent: Monday, February 17, 2020
Subject: [MCM] Why no investigation of the
Jeffrey Epstein blackmail operation? (PETITION)
From
Nick Bryant:
Mark,
a number of outlets, including the New York Times, have
reported on Epstein’s penchant for blackmail. Of course there hasn’t been
a followup.
On
the petition site, I cite 5 mainstream media articles that discuss Epstein’s
penchant for blackmail, and then I discuss how sexual-political blackmail
is a time-honored American tradition. The crescendo
is Larry Craig and
Dennis Hastert.
Every
statement of fact in the article has a citation, so it might be a good article
for the Underground
https://www.change.org/p/stop-the-cover-up-demand-justice-for-jeffrey-epstein-s-victims/u/25759329
Jeffrey Epstein: Blackmail American Style
Nick Bryant
New York, NY, United States
FEB 16, 2020 —
Epstein's blackmail enterprise has been outed
in the mainstream media, but its reality has failed to launch a full scale
investigation by the media or the government.
https://www.vanityfair.com/news/2019/08/the-mystery-of-ghislaine-maxwell-epstein-enabler
https://www.nytimes.com/2019/08/12/business/jeffrey-epstein-interview.html
https://www.nytimes.com/2019/07/08/opinion/jeffrey-epstein-trump.html
Sexual,
political blackmail is a time-honored tradition in America, but Americans are
extremely naive about its reality. The husband of Alexander Hamilton’s
23-year-old mistress financially extorted Hamilton to ensure that his affair
remained surreptitious.[1] A muckraking journalist
exposed Hamilton’s affair.[2] Hamilton and Jefferson were antagonists, and the
muckraker who outed Hamilton’s extramarital affair
felt that Jefferson owed him a political appointment when Jefferson became
president.[3] But Jefferson declined, and the muckraker disseminated news about
Jefferson’s affair with one of his slaves.[4]
In
the previous 18 years, the following U.S. congressmen—senators and
representatives—have been entangled in sexual scandals: Gary Condit, (D-CA),[5]
Ed Schrock, (R-VA),[6] Steven C. LaTourette (R-OH),[7] David Dreier (R-CA),[8]
Don Sherwood, (R-PA),[9] Mark Foley, (R-FL),[10] David Vitter (R-LA),[11] Larry
Craig (R-ID),[12] Tim Mahoney, (D-FL),[13] Vito Fossella (R-NY),[14] John
Edwards (D-NC),[15] John Ensign (R-NV),[16] Chip Pickering (R-MS),[17] Eric
Massa (D-NY),[18] Mark Souder, (R-IN),[19] Christopher Lee (R-NY),[20] Anthony
Weiner (D-NY),[21] Scott DesJarlais (R-TN),[22] David
Wu (D-OR),[23] Vance McAllister (R-LA),[24] Blake Farenthold
(R-TX),[25] Dennis Hastert, (R-IL),[26] Tim Murphy (R-PA),[27] Al Franken
(D-MN),[28] Joe Barton, (R-TX),[29] Trent Franks (R-AZ),[30] John Conyers
(D-MI)[31] and, last but probably not least, Pat Meehan (R-PA).[32]
The
aforementioned names are merely the U.S. representatives and senators whose sexcapades have pierced the mainstream media. The majority
of Americans are probably cognizant of Hollywood Babylon, but Sodom and
Gomorrah on the Potomac seems to be largely overlooked. I’ll comment on two of
the formerly esteemed men that I’ve cited, and they should give the reader an
idea of the relative ease a third party would have compromising a politician
and also of the mind-boggling risks politicians will take to satiate their
lusts.
Former
U.S. Senator Larry Craig was in Washington, D.C. as a congressman for more than
25 years.[33] During his tenures as a U.S.
representative and a senator, his voting record for gay-rights legislation was
deplorable, even though he used the services of a gay escort service.[34] Craig
was an unrepentant conservative, so, if his homosexual endeavors were exposed,
his political career would ignominiously crash and burn.
But,
nonetheless, Craig was arrested for lewd conduct in a restroom at the
Minneapolis-St. Paul International Airport: He propositioned an undercover
police officer in a bathroom stall.[35] Craig was
brazenly using the prostitutes of a gay escort service and attempting gay
liaisons in public restrooms: He would’ve been nearly effortless blackmail
fodder. A teenager with a smart phone, participating in an after school
project, probably could’ve compromised Craig.
Republican
Dennis Hastert was the former Speaker of House from 1999 to 2007.[36] During
those years, he was constitutionally the third most powerful man in the
country, and he established a reputation in the House as being a strong-arm
specialist.[37] Hastert, however, had concealed pedophilic predations for
decades throughout his meteoric political ascent.[38] As the revelations about
Hastert became increasingly sordid, and the story incited a media feeding
frenzy, a federal judge, siding with federal prosecutors, ruled that discovery
in the case would not be made public.[39] Then, suddenly, the news about
Hastert’s predatory behavior quickly evaporated.
Hastert’s
illicit sex with minors stunned a nation. But in a 2006 investigation, the
House Ethics Committee ruled that Hastert and other Republicans were
"willfully ignorant" for months in their response to recurring
warnings that U.S. Representative Mark Foley was preying on teenage,
congressional male pages.[40] In 2009, an F.B.I. whistleblower testified during
a deposition that the F.B.I. was cognizant of Hastert visiting a Chicago
townhouse for “certain not very morally accepted activities” during his
speakership.[41] If the whistleblower’s revelations are true, then F.B.I.
personnel were aware of Hastert’s shadow life, but, yet, he was publicly
unscathed by it during his years as Speaker of the House.
To
view this discussion on the web visit https://groups.google.com/d/msgid/newsfromunderground/CAGxB6W8%3Dg-OBKJuwiB%3Dv7q4rNiNM1_k14uta8VAMVn7Q792LBg%40mail.gmail.com.
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l.
From: Mark Crispin Miller
Sent: Monday, February 17, 2020
Subject: [MCM] The Oligarchy's forcing countless students into
prostitution
Countless
students coast to coast—and not just women—have had to sell
themselves to put themselves
through school; and many of them get into
the sex trade
through avenues far seamier than the "service" covered in
this article.
(We
looked into this at NYU, which has more students in this plight than
any other school in
the US.
MCM
This
billboard advertisement for a Toronto-based sugaring company appeared in 2013
in Pittsburgh, Pa., and was deemed legal because it did not directly state it
promoted the exchange of sex for money. (Keith Srakocic / AP)
by Julie Bindel
https://www.truthdig.com/articles/sugaring-is-sugar-coated-pimping/
Editor’s note: Some names have been changed to protect
interviewees’ identities.
I saw the
billboards during a research trip to Los Angeles.
“Happy 18th Birthday! Meet your new Daddy,” read one
website advertisement. “Do you have strong oral skills? We’ve got a job for
you!” cooed another.
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m.
French reforms: Why France is resisting Macron's
push on pensions
https://www.bbc.com/news/world-europe-51502427
by
Hugh Schofield
+
Pascal Boniface porte plainte contre la « Brigade juive »
par Nadir Dendoune
===========
n.
The CIA’s Complicity in Recent Global Atrocities
Revealed
http://www.informationclearinghouse.info/53030.htm
+
THE ANGRY ARAB: The Sham of Arab Revolutions
https://consortiumnews.com/2020/02/19/the-angry-arab-the-sham-of-arab-revolutions/
by As`ad AbuKhalil
+
Malcolm X’s Daughter Ilyasah
Shabazz on Her Father’s Legacy & the New Series
“Who Killed Malcolm X?”
(43:49)
+
The West
Displays Its Insecurity Complex
https://consortiumnews.com/2020/02/19/the-west-displays-its-insecurity-complex/
by Diana
Johnstone
(February 19, 2020)
The only complaint the
U.S. allows is that the United States might not defend us enough, when the
greater danger comes from being defended too much, writes Diana Johnstone on
the Munich conference.
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o.
From:
GAZA PALESTINE [mailto:anahona366@gmail.com]
Sent:
Tuesday, February 25, 2020
Subject:
When we are ignored ... you must stand beside us .... be bombed and violate human rights...Israel is slowly
killing us .... people trying to stop our work.
These
days, we are under very violent bombing and a major violation of human rights,
the last of which was the abuse of the body of one of the young men participating
near the separation fence, and a bulldozer pulled out the bodies of the martyrs
in a very bad way.
It
wounded a young man who tried to reach this young man, who is in good
condition.
After
that, the violent bombing of the Gaza Strip began in an insane manner, 48
hours. It was crazy for us.
The
shelling wounded more than 10 people and killed two young men while they were
in their homes.
What
we are experiencing is a lot of pain due to the lack of donations that come to
us.
I
would like to thank very much the friend Peugeot Holm who helped us in the last
period, and thank the other friend Pengent, and the
Lynn who helped us in the last period.
There
is nothing left to start the return marches again. We do not know what will
happen in the coming period, and on the day when the major return marches
begin, we expect many, many injuries.
I
hope that you will continue to support us and not to ignore us, because we need
you.
You
can support us via the following new link:
https://gogetfunding.com/gazanow2/
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The Zionist Colonization of Palestine
http://www.informationclearinghouse.info/53031.htm
by
Chris Hedges
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p.
From: Jim O'Brien via H-PAD
Sent: Thursday, February 20, 2020
Subject: [H-PAD] H-PAD Notes 2/20/20: Links to recent articles of
interest
Links
to Recent Articles of Interest
"The
Conversation about American Torture Is 400 Years Old"
By
William Fitzhugh Brundage, Aeon,
posted February 20
"For
400 years, Americans have argued that their violence is justified while the
violence of others constitutes barbarism." The author teaches history at
the University of North Carolina and his latest book is Civilising Torture: An
American Tradition (Harvard U. Press, 2018).
"The
Old Normal: Why We Can't Beat Our Obsession with War"
By
Andrew J. Bacevich, Harper's, posted
February 20
A
highly readable essay on the history of American expansionism and warmaking since the nineteenth century. The author is a
professor emeritus of history and international relations at Boston University
and president of the Quincy Institute for Responsible Statecraft.
"'The
Right to Do Whatever I Want as President': Impunity Guaranteed for Torturers
(and Presidents)"
By
Rebecca Gordon, TomDispatch.com, posted February 18
On
the lack of accountability for war crimes in the "war on terror." The author
teaches at the University of San Francisco and is writing a book on the history
of torture in the United States.
Coronavirus Spurs Prejudice. History Suggests That's No
Surprise
By
Marisa Peryer, Undark,
posted February 17
On
the scapegoating associated with many past epidemic
diseases, going back to the Plague of the fourteenth century. Undark is a
nonprofit digital magazine focused on the intersection of science and society.
"The Deep Roots of Trump's Anti-Immigrant
Policies"
By
Daniel Denvir, Jacobin, posted February
12
On
a long history of anti-immigrant prejudices and policies going back to the
nineteenth century. The author is a visiting fellow at
Brown University's Watson Institute and is author of the forthcoming Verso
Press book All-American
Nativism.
"Rush Limbaugh and Bayard Rustin: A Tale of Two
Countries"
By
Peter Drieir, The Nation, posted
February 7
Compares
two recipients of the Presidential Medal of Freedom (named by two different
presidents). The author
teaches politics at Occidental College.
"A
Victory for the Immigrants' Rights Working Group of Historians for Peace and
Democracy"
By
Margaret Power and Alex Aviña, History News
Network, posted February 6
On
the approval by the American Historical Association business meeting last month
calling for an end to collaboration between high education and Immigration and
Customs Enforcement (ICE). The authors teach Latin American history at,
respectively, Illinois Institute of Technology and Arizona State University.
"Why You May Never Learn the Truth about ICE"
By
Matthew Connolly, New York Times, posted February 4
About
the Trump administration's go-ahead for the accelerated destruction of government
records, including those related to abuse of immigrant detainees. The author
teaches history at Columbia University.
"Trump Vilifies Palestinians for Using the Same
Violence That Birthed Israel"
By
Edo Konrad, Responsible Statecraft, posted
February 1
The
author
is the editor of +972 magazuine, based in Tel Aviv.
"War, Rape and Patriarchy:
The Japanese Experience"
By
Yuki Tanaka, Asia-Pacific Journal/Japan Focus, posted December 31
The
author is a historian and editor and has had several books published on World
War II, including Japan's
Comfort Women: Sexual Slavery and Prostitution during World War II and the U.S.
Occupation. This article was inadvertently omitted from a previous listing.
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q.
Thanks
for Chris Jonsson for putting these links together.
MCM
You can view Part One here.
https://consortiumnews.com/2020/01/13/new-documentary-sheds-light-on-ukrainegate/
New Documentary Sheds Light on Ukrainegate
January 13, 2020 • 69 Comments
A new documentary by Olivier Berruyer, editor of the website les-crises.fr, released in conjunction with Consortium News, sorts out
the complicated scandal and the role Joe Biden played in it.
https://consortiumnews.com/2020/01/20/part-two-of-ukrainegate-inconvenient-facts/
Part Two of ‘UkraineGate –
Inconvenient Facts’
January 20, 2020 • 32 Comments
https://consortiumnews.com/2020/01/29/part-three-of-ukrainegate-inconvenient-facts/
Campaign
2016, Campaign 2020, Foreign
Policy, International, Media, Russia,
Russiagate, Ukraine
Part Three of ‘UkraineGate –
Inconvenient Facts’
January 29, 2020 • 11 Comments
Part Three
of a new documentary by Olivier Berruyer, editor of
the website les-crises.fr, released in conjunction with Consortium News, continues the
probe into the complicated scandal and Joe Biden’s part in it.
UkraineGate – Inconvenient Facts
Part Three: “A Not So Noble
President”
February
17, 2020
Part Four of ‘UkraineGate –
Inconvenient Facts’
Part Four: “Shokin
Strikes Back”
Part Four of a new documentary by
Olivier Berruyer, editor of the website les-crises.fr, released in conjunction with Consortium News, continues
the probe into the complicated scandal and Joe Biden’s part in it.
February 17, 2020 • 6 Comments
Part Four of a new documentary by
Olivier Berruyer, editor of the website les-crises.fr, released in conjunction with Consortium News, continues
the probe into the complicated scandal and Joe Biden’s part in it.
UkraineGate – Inconvenient Facts
Part Four: “Shokin
Strikes Back”
You can view Part One here.
You can view Part Two here.
You can view Part Three here.
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Watch "Best Documentary of the Housing Market
Crash (of 2020?) | Inside the Meltdown | Behind the Big Short"
(42:30)
“MELTDOWN “- The Men Who Crashed The
World The first of a four-part investigation into a world of greed and
recklessness that led to financial collapse. In the first episode of Meltdown,
we hear about four men who brought down the global economy: a billionaire
mortgage-seller who fooled millions; a high-rolling banker with a fatal
weakness; a ferocious Wall Street predator; and the power behind the throne.
The crash of September 2008 brought the largest bankruptcies in world history,
pushing more than 30 million people into unemployment and bringing many
countries to the edge of insolvency. Wall Street turned back the clock to 1929.
But how did it all go so wrong?
+
This $20 Billion Time Bomb Could Trigger Next U.S. Housing
Market Crash
https://www.ccn.com/this-20-billion-time-bomb-could-trigger-next-u-s-housing-market-crash/
by
Harsh Chauhan
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s.
Satire
Dems Should Do The Sensible Thing
And Nominate A Moderate Rapacious Psychopath
http://www.informationclearinghouse.info/52996.htm
by
Caitlin Johnstone
+
Being Honest About U.S. Foreign Policy
http://www.informationclearinghouse.info/53043.htm
by
Daniel Larison
There was
a statement that Sanders made at the debate
last night that deserves more attention, because it gets at the heart of the
manufactured controversy over Sanders’ own past statements and the glaring
hypocrisy that defines so many of our foreign policy discussions. Sanders said
this:
Excuse me,
occasionally it might be a good idea to
be honest about American foreign policy [bold mine-DL], and that
includes the fact that America has overthrown governments all over the world in
Chile, in Guatemala, in Iran. And when dictatorships, whether it is the Chinese
or the Cubans do something good, you acknowledge that. But you don’t have to
trade love letters with them.
+
NATO as an internal security issue for its member states
https://www.dailysabah.com/columns/ihsan-aktas/2020/02/21/nato-as-an-internal-security-issue-for-its-member-states
by İhsan Aktaş
During the Cold War, the world was divided into two opposing camps: NATO and the Warsaw Pact. Being the leading powers of each group, the U.S. and Soviet Russia had strong ties with their allied countries. They acted as the "guardian angels" of their own alliance. From intelligence activities and technological competition to political, economic and cultural issues, member states of each alliance were acting in solidarity with each other.
With the disintegration of the Warsaw Pact and the end of the Cold War, NATO emerged as the unrivaled political alliance in the face of an isolated Russia. However, the emerging "new world order" has turned into a global disorder. Especially, Middle Eastern countries have found themselves amid political, economic and cultural chaos.
By the end of the Cold War, the internal order of NATO has also undergone a dramatic change. NATO's first trauma occurred in Italy in the 1990s when Operation Gladio was exposed.