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Ffidel Bennett
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Roy - you don't even need to be in the past tense, although the US supported the apartheid regime openly at first and then covertly until the end. Many people describe the Israeli regime in Palestine as worse than apartheid and this regime receives a huge amount of military and economic aid from the US to say nothing of help in developing their nukes. But the classic indisputable example of example of despots ruling without a hint of humanity in a feudal background are Saudi Arabia and the Gulf states -supporters of al Qaeda, ISIS and whatever butchers they can find to destroy other less primitive more humane states. And who is their chief protector and backer. Well none other than the freedom loving, humanitarian govt of the USA who will not even gently rebuke them.
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As someone who lives here, that is true, and they want people who are here illegally deported, especially second generation Mexican families who have worked hard for 20-30 years
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If there were oil or gold there, or even rare earth metals, you might find a different attitude/response? |
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najbritcol
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Donald Trump is nothing more than a pampered opportunist, bigot and clown. The fact he is in charge of the world's most powerful country is extremely dangerous, worrying and a sad indictment of a large minority of the US electorate. (Hillary actually won three million more votes). And of course US foreign policy is extremely hypocritical and self-interested, especially regarding the Middle East but also Latin America too - criticising and sabotaging Chavez in Venezuela while supporting Uribe in Colombia, when the two were just as vile and authoritarian as each other, just at different ends of the ideological spectrum.
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dr_martinov
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I would argue he's not, President Xi Jinping is. World's most dangerous country I would agree as they have an unsettling combination of high military investment along with religious fanaticism and a self-righteous aggressive foreign-policy.
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najbritcol
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For now, the US is still a bigger economic and possibly military power than China, for better or for worse. |
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Ffidel Bennett
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The following article on military spending and debt in America shows it's getting ever more desperate, and dangerous.
If the hyper-link isn't working you may have to click onto this weekends' Information Clearing House website and look for - "Beware the Dogs of War : Is the American Empire on the verge of collapse? Edited by Ffidel Bennett - 17 April 2017 at 3:35pm |
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najbritcol
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China can call in US debt anytime it wants.
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Ffidel Bennett
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But the US pays no heed to International Law in a whole range of fields, so what makes you think that they won't use their self imposed "exceptional" status and find some excuse for not repaying?
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https://www.theguardian.com/politics/2017/apr/23/when-nigel-farage-met-julian-assange
An interesting article here. Ffidel, do you know anything about this? P.S. Sorry my iPad doesn't seem to insert links properly. Edited by totallybiasedscarlet - 23 April 2017 at 8:43am |
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True - but it also underlines the ability of pressure groups to game the system by flooding the internet with fake news, which is consumed and unfortunately believed by a lot of gullible people. We really needed that march in support of Science yesterday, and can only hope it has some effect.
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“You cannot reason a man out of what he never reasoned himself into.” (Jonathan Swift)
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Ffidel Bennett
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I don't really and can't find the article, but on foreign affairs there is a certain overlap between right and left with both believing that countries need to sort out their own before interfering in others. This was one of Trump's messages before being elected, but he was quickly turned into a typical regime change president by the deep state once in office.
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'83% of major editorial boards supported Trump's Syria strikes, 15% were ambiguous and 2% - or one publication - opposed.'
The Essential Narrative Is A ShamUnreported by almost all 'MSM', there has been credible, expert dissent challenging the US-UK view of what happened in Khan Sheikhoun, Idlib. Hans Blix, former head of the International Atomic Energy Agency, who served as the head of the UN Monitoring, Verification and Inspection Commission in Iraq, commented:
Blix said it was natural to jump to the conclusion that the regime was far more likely than the rebels to have the means to carry out an attack of such a magnitude, but that it was far from proven that it did so:
Former chief UN weapons inspector, Scott Ritter – who defied a false political and media consensus by accurately claiming Iraq had been disarmed of 90-95% of its WMD by December 1998 - wrote:
Indeed, in a much-discussed article, Guardian reporter Kareem Shaheen wrote:
But as the BBC reports:
Ritter continued:
Ritter concluded:
Philip Giraldi, a CIA counterterrorism official from 1976 to 1992, who has an impressive track record in exposing fake government claims, commented:
Giraldi added:
Giraldi concluded:
Our search of the Lexis press database found no mentions of Blix, Giraldi or Ritter in any UK newspaper since the alleged attack in Syria.
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that is one very very impressive report
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Ffidel Bennett
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There's a brilliant article in today's Counterpunch 25/04/2017 by David Swanson with the title "The F-35 and the Incinerating Ski Slope" -sorry I can't get the hyperlink to work.
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