BRIAN BERLETIC—Despite US voters hoping the incoming Trump administration will end America’s wars abroad, citing apparent interest in divesting in Ukraine as proof of change to come, President-elect Trump and his vice president pick JD Vance have vowed even while campaigning to shift US attention overseas from Ukraine to a much larger and more dangerous confrontation with China.
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EDITORS—An eloquent discussion of the evolution of US imperialism from the end of WW2, when it quickly rose to global supremacy, to its marked 21st century rapid decline. Americans—misled by the political and media classes, live in denial, says Wolff, not to mention the noxious exceptionalist/chauvinist indoctrination all Americans receive, making them practically immune to unpleasant truths about their nation’s realities and despicable deeds around the globe, from Ukraine to Palestine, Europe, and the Far East, all part of Washington’s penchant for constant war, which is now courting a global disaster by seeking a possible nuclear confrontation with Russia, China, and Iran. The Transition, notes Wolff, from FDR social democracy, when the economy was in good shape due to its robust set of income supports, to the free-marketism of “Neoliberalism” in the 1970s, which culminated with Reagan’s presidency and the massive offshoring of jobs and manufacturing to low-wage nations such as China, were the decisive points in US capitalism’s trajectory from affluence and power to oligarchic decrepitude.
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EDITORS—NIMA and Dmitry discuss breaking news around the globe, with a main focus on Ukraine, Palestine, Iran, and China (Taiwan, Far East nations, etc.). The conclusion is that the Trump administration is bound to find a tough set of customers in the areas it may seek to bully, as the rise of BRICS, and the palpable decline of the US empire is now limiting America’s options dramatically compared with just a decade ago.
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FRANK LATTUADA—A modest contribution to your efforts to educate the brainwashed public, especially Jews, like me, who until recently never questioned their alegiance to Israel.
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JON. COOK—In other words, not only was Sky’s reporter correct in her first account of the events in Amsterdam, but Sky’s news editors back in London knew exactly what the footage showed too – because the Dutch woman who filmed it had told them.
And yet Sky’s news team still edited a truthful news report to make it untruthful.
The only conclusion one can draw is that they did so to mislead their audience. They didn’t make a mistake. They didn’t act out of ignorance. They knowingly aired disinformation. They intentionally peddled fake news.
