ERIC ZUESSE—One of those polls, the Harvard-Harris poll that’s run by Hillary Clinton’s former chief strategist Mark Penn, is specifically trying to find information that might help the Democratic Party to suppress the likelihood of RFK Jr.’s becoming the nominee, and so their first poll on this, in mid-May, excluded even mentioning RFK Jr. as an option though RFK Jr. had already publicly announced his candidacy a month earlier, but they did list Maryanne Williamson (the only other announced contestant against Biden) plus 11 other Democrats (including Kamala Harris, Hillary Clinton, Bernie Sanders, Pete Buttigieg, AOC, Gavin Newsom, and Elizabeth Warren).
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EDITOR—An important interview with Scott Ritter, just back from a book-promotion tour of his latest book in Russia, with surprising commentary about the situation in Russia, and the feelings of the population toward the Ukraine war, the West, and Amerians in particular.
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MIKE MIHAJLOVIC—In river hydraulics, there is a way to make large water masses move faster. The solution in the Dnieper Cascade is the dam in Zaporozhie. Whoever controls the dam can close all gates and let the reservoir slowly fill up to the maximum safe level. There is no lack of water upstream. In a coordinated move, taking calculations and hydrodynamics, opening all available gates will make hundreds of thousands of cubic meters of water start to move, first slowly, then accelerating as more mass is added.
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JEFF J. BROWN—Poverty is exploding here. This is what they need to be protesting. And so, Macron and the power elites love this because it’s a waste of time and they should be protesting neoliberal capitalism, jungle capitalism, the impoverishment of the people, taking away medical care, and medical benefits, closing tens of thousands of hospital beds, getting rid of nurses. This is what they ought to be protesting. But they don’t.
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KIM PETERSEN—Following the Spanish-American War, the US sought to recolonize hitherto Spanish colonies, one of which was the Philippines. The Philippines resisted US imperialism. So the US waged a bloody war against the Philippines from 1899 to 1902. The estimates of Filipino fatalities ranges from 200,000 to 3 million.
