I beg to differ. If foreign were the key word then Jarrod would be in serious trouble over his dealing with and influence peddling for Israel. He's not so enemy is the key word. You collude with enemies and cooperate with friends
I didn't realize there was an investigation into wether or not Russia was an enemy. That certainly is progress and the type of lateral thinking that I wouldn't have credited them with
You could just relax and call it cooperation. Probably the sky wouldnt fall in. But it would require removing Russia from your list of enemies I suppose. If collusion then according to Hersch in the article linked to above it was widespread through the ...
Of course it counts. And heres a fascinating read on attempts to sway Obama away from his arming of the jihadists featuring one Michael Flynn as head of the DIA. Seems though that the whole house is now stacked with Russophobes with the appointment of ...
Ok. So thanks for the link. Ive read the first chapter and you're right theres a lot to chew over. War is hell. Thats the first point.I consider myself lucky enough to have experienced the tail end of a war zone. Bosnia circa 1995. Lucky because I know ...
Thats a long stretch back in time. How anout recently? The only one I can think of is Obama being told there was no credible evidence of Assad launching the Gouta chemical weapon attack but peobably didnt need a spy agency to tell him that.
So it doesnt say that? Then where did you get such an absurd idea from??
You reference an 800 page book. Maybe you can help me out with page numbers to support your assertion that spy agencies work for peace. Also you show your euro centric (racial) bias. As a percentage of world population violence has decreased. This means ...
The edit was going to say: Your train wreck analogy just might have worked if we were talking one wreck. We're not. Its many many many train wrecks to the point where sane people start to question the underlying system. Doing the same shit and expecting ...
You said that the purpose of spying is to prevent or shorten wars??? An incomprehensible statement given reality
Oh. So not only are the spies cotenders for innumerable peace prizes but philosophers as well. The CIA trained and armed jihadists in Syria. Not noted for capturing anyone much alive or if they do not for long. Libya whole and in good condition. Yeah right...
You really believe the purpose of spying is to prevent or shorten wars???? What a flippin idiotic thing to say. CIA for the next nobel peace prize then. I finally understand why you believe everything the spy agencies say.
Along with Dorris Lessing one of my favourite authors at one time of my life. Always sad when such gifted people leave us
In the South the vagrancy law was such that you had to be able to show written proof of a job at the beginning of each year or else be susceptible to being arrested and sent to jail from where you could be sent out to work on plantations. If course these ...
Absolutely awesome. Just hope that the many people that Viola will have inspired are able to do as she implored them to do. Keep it rolling after they go home.
Well said Olwyn. Ad gives many great reasons to oppose Trump. Just wish that these were front and centre of the opposition.Sadly they are not. Who is going to stand up and lead on these great causes?
Youre exactly right. Everything has a level of toxicity and it is the level that is the key along with the exposure time. Also people who take the dcientific approach in which I include myself dont usually feel the need to resort to abuse. As you say. The ...
Sorry for being unclear but I meant gone down like a lead balloon with the powerful not the general population. As regards the general population we will soon know their feelings about Manning
The video of the apache helicopter crew laughing as they murder unarmed civillians in Baghdad that was leaked by Chelsea Manning was an event that forever changed my view of what collateral damage actually meant. It is well known that information is power ...
My body is more than my teeth. If I replace rotten parts of my teeth with a mercury containing filler that is durable and seals against any further infection my teeth will be stronger. But as is the case with mercury, fluoride is also a known poison to ...
Yes. And furthermore why have the democrats handed to a man the decry as a madman or Hitler or an agent of Russia the continuation of such extraordinary powers of surveillance? '55 Democrats voted against your constitutional rights and opposed the USA ...
I suspect youre right about the 2x4s. But they may need more cause Trumps head is remarkably thick. Neocon thinking on Trump according to Greenwald 'but they were also worried that his uncouth, offensive personality would embarrass the U.S. and thus weaken...
In case anyone still thinks carbon capture technology will save us think again. The greatest carbon capture technique known i.e methane hydrate frozen into the Arctic is breaking down at a rate that is impossible to ever catch up to except possibly by ...
Yes Rouhani appears to be your standard neoliberal leader engaged in austerity and slashing of social programs including raising the price of petrol by 50%. The protests that have started over there may be the beginnings of genuine class action. This is ...
Mostly, the war on drugs was designed as a way to disenfranchise people who were not to the liking of conservative white people. It always went against scientific and medical advice but was a useful way to disrupt and shrivel groups opposed to the powerful...
That just about says everything that needs saying on the topic. Thanks for putting it so well
On the contrary. He types common sense. The only drivel is coming from those who see the bible as some eternal atlas of the world. Sorry to break it to you but etrnity doesn't exist
That would be like calling apartheid South Africa a democracy. Only 1 in 7 Palestinians get to vote. None in the West Bank or Gaza although Israeli "settlers" do. https://www.middleeastmonitor.com/20150311-10-facts-about-israels-elections-and-the-...
Would that be like the All Blacks continuing to play in South Africa? Apartheid is apartheid and the only message that might get through is boycott and divest. Playing in Israel will only be taken as support for the rascist regime.
Yes Bill. One such place for optimism is outlined in this article. https://www.counterpunch.org/2017/12/15/the-demoralizing-impact-of-trump-but-hope-has-arrived/ Its the poor peoples campaign and is pretty big and operating outside the electoral system at ...
Thanks for that Morrissey
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