What we are seeing from the UK is old fashioned Imperialism... The hypocrisy of arresting the Iranian ship and then threatening war when Iran commits precisely the same illegal act in retaliation is absolutely sickening.
Americans don’t need a Green New Deal any more than they needed the original New Deal. Each of them is a grab bag of progressive social and economic goodies with horrific consequences for liberty and property.
"The measure is designed - in the CIA's own words - to prevent the kind of transparency that was provided by Wikileaks. It is a war on the free press!"
An “attack” on America was no longer limited to physical attacks on US soil, or even on US allies and assets: any attempt to escape unipolarity is now treated as a direct attack on the empire.
Her filing this lawsuit is making it clear that even a fairly conventional Democrat on most all other issues is to be marginalized if she criticizes the empire...
But the past decade has seen U.S. diplomacy become one-sided in turning the International Monetary Fund (IMF), World Bank, SWIFT bank-clearing system and world trade into an asymmetrically exploitative system...
As was adequately revealed by the Republicans who grilled Robert Mueller, the entire special counsel investigation (and it’s ensuing report) was a concerted effort to gaslight the American public via it’s bizarre, and even Orwellian, deceptions.
"All bets are off in the geopolitical insanity stakes"... Donald Trump says he’s ‘okay either way’, whether there’s war with Iran; and Tehran seems to be okay with that too...
From a vantage point in the not-too-distant future, we look back on 2019 as a year when, in retrospect, it was clear the United States had passed a point of no return...
And now a fretful silence will descend around this colossal goddamned mess as the momentum of history shifts against the perpetrators of it, and the true machinery of American justice is brought to bear upon them.
