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Copyright © 2016 - 2021, The Troy Press
Copyright © 2016 - 2021, The Troy Press
To hear US corporate media tell it, the US was dragged into a brand new war on Wednesday. US destroyers in the Gulf of Aden launched airstrikes against Houthi rebels, a Shia insurgent group currently withstanding a massive bombing campaign from a Saudi-led coalition in a year-and-half conflict between largely Shia rebels and the Saudi-backed Sunni government in Yemen. The Pentagon insisted that cruise missiles had been fired onto the USS Mason on Sunday and Wednesday from Houthi-controlled territory, and called the airstrikes a "limited self-defense" response.
Needless to say, US media followed the Pentagon's lead. The fact that the United States has been literally fueling Saudi warplanes for 18 months while selling weapons and providing intelligence support to the Gulf monarchy-acts which even the US State Department believes could expose the US to war crimes prosecution-was either downplayed or ignored. Nor did media recall the US's long history of drone warfare in Yemen, where the military and CIA have been carrying out long-range assassinations since 2002, killing more than 500 people, including at least 65 civilians.
Every day, more is revealed about Hillary Clinton's pay-to-play relationship with Clinton Foundation's donors. Here Abby Martin breaks down the special favors Hillary gave her sponsors as Senator and Secretary of State. Watch the full episode.
On an email thread discussing a party with policy reform group Engage Cuba, Podesta's friend Luke Albee proposed last year that Clinton deliver a Cuba speech in Miami to "be seen as future oriented" and "brave" even though "she wouldn't be brave to do this."
[EDITOR'S NOTE: This entry is from "telesurtv", the same people who produced the great video documenting Hillary Clinton's Pay to Play behaviors cited above.]
Hillary Clinton dismissed climate activists in withering terms during a meeting with labor unions last year, saying the environmentalists pressing her to renounce fossil fuels should "get a life," according to allegedly hacked emails released Friday by WikiLeaks.
[EDITOR'S NOTE: This just proves Hillary will be the death of us all if she wins, whether it's via nuclear war or via disasterous climate change that takes out humanity. Does it matter? Dead is dead.]
[EDITOR'S NOTE: This was a conversation from our own Progressives' Chat Forum, which captured some data "Live".]
smkngman3 posts the poll link at around 9:20 AM Pacific today.
Alan McLemore replies an hour later (10:30AM): "When I took it, 344K of 409K votes cast said "no".
smkngman3 replies minutes later (10:35 or so AM): "That must have been before CTR sent their trolls."
cathyx replies 4 hours later (2:30 or so Pacific): "351,000 no to 51,000 yes"
claude replies just after after cathyx: "It's still at 85% NO. I just voted now."
cathy replies about 4 hours later (6:35 PM or so, Pacific): "now it's 86% no. 354,000 no and still holding at 51,000 yes."
[EDITOR'S NOTE: This is awesome! She's going to have to steal the election to win and we all know it. We must collectively do everything we can to prevent that!]
Milwaukee County Sheriff David Clarke Jr. tweeted Saturday that it was time for people to rise up and do something more than complain about a "corrupt" system. "It's incredible that our institutions of gov, WH, Congress, DOJ and big media are corrupt and all we do is bitch," Clarke said.
Hillary Clinton has at least twice as many six-figure donors as Donald Trump.
Overall, the Hillary Victory Fund raised $261 million in the three-month time period while Trump Victory raised $61 million. The unconventional Republican nominee has struggled to raise money from the kinds of traditional donors who write the biggest campaign checks.
"When a government is dependent upon bankers for money, they and not the leaders of the government control the situation, since the hand that gives is above the hand that takes. Money has no motherland; financiers are without patriotism and without decency; their sole object is gain."- Napoleon Bonaparte
Wikileaks cables from as early as 2006 show the U.S. State Department, at
the urging of the Israeli government, proposing to partner with Turkey,
Qatar, and Egypt to foment the Sunni civil war in Syria to weaken Iran.
The stated purpose, according to the secret cable, was to incite Syrian
President Bashar al-Assad into a brutal crackdown of Syria's Sunni
population.
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