Ralph welcomes retired diplomat Ambassador Chas Freeman to discuss the United States' disregard for international law, the incoming Trump administration's approach to foreign policy, and the decline of the American Empire (among other topics).
Great show. Thank you so much guys. I just love the high level of intellectual truth that happens here on this show and I really appreciated Mr Chaz Freeman's view on everything, which just happens to align with my own. Because it's right. And Ralph, who is smart enough to know who to get and who knows their s***, thank you. I can't stand to think of you not being here.
Thank you,Mr. Nader,for sharing your interview with retired Ambassador Chas Freeman today. The insight into our Foreign Affairs is crucial moving forward, ahead of this next administration. Again, thank You, and will reStack ASAP 🙏💯👍🇺🇸
This country has nothing left to celebrate. We bomb and destroy lives abroad, we destroy lives here, we seem proud to be uneducated and uninformed and we believe billionaires did it all because they are the best of the best. No moral standing, no critical thinking, no compassion and no vision, since this is all coming to bite people us in the backside.
Of course, there are islands of wisdom and common sense, of fight, resistance and resilience but there are still too many people refusing to broad their vision, or to admit, that this country is a sinking ship without life jackets. We are our own iceberg.
What also boggles my mind is why European countries are still behind the US and its crimes, obediently following instructions that are detrimental to all of them, while joining in the crimes of genocide and more. Is this capitalism trying to survive the obvious decline? Will this attempt to survive really finally sink capitalism but also any hope for something more just?
You are free to move to Israel where religious fascism is alive and thriving and an absolute disregard for the rule of law and international norms is the order of the day. You will find it a fitting home to your ideological bent.
Adriana, regarding the paragraph about Europe and capitalism, as Francesco DeSantis mentioned in his news wrap segment last week on the RNRH, Europe is dealing with their own political instability at the current time. As I wrote in a comment last week, this instability comes from structurally-imposed austerity via the Eurozone (monetary union)/EU ‘Growth and Stability Pact’ and Maastricht Treaty which impose nonsensical debt limits on member countries. Aside from structurally-imposed austerity of an undemocratic nature, European countries engage in their own voluntary austerity.
With all of this austerity, Europe is crippled in their ability to protect themselves without the aid of the United States. This leaves Europe as a vassal, outsourced state. There has been some rumblings that perhaps a strongly protectionist United States might cause Europe to have to rethink their dependence on the US, but even if that happens, Europe will have to shed their inclination towards austerity because otherwise the only way to increase spending in Europe in areas necessary to separate themselves from the US would be to engage in even more social spending austerity and that would be crippling. Austerity itself is already causing tremendous challenges for the European public and, not surprisingly, the stability of European politics.
Furthermore, as it pertains to policy towards Israel specifically, Europeans, like Americans, struggle with properly defining antisemitism. The propaganda used against Jeremy Corbyn, who has been a strong voice against the actions of right-wing Israeli governments, in the 2019 UK elections and since then is shameful and much of it has come from within the disgraced Labour Party itself. There are anti-Islamic elements to European populist politicians who have gained favor, such as Geert Wilders in the Netherlands, and so this colors the narratives towards a pro-Israel direction as well even though the Zionist Christian lobby in Europe is of much less importance than it is here in the US.
Back to austerity and your question about capitalism, the problems in Europe are much the same as they are here. The same is true of Australia, Canada, and a number of other places. The population knows that economy isn’t working in their favor. Economics are the top factor in elections across the world, but then people across the world continue to vote for politicians who advocate for further deregulation, privatization, and general neoliberalism. This happens in countries with compulsory voting, such as Australia, and in countries with tighter controls than the US on how money can be used to influence elections.
Ultimately, the problem, as I see it, is that voters across the west are ignorant about macroeconomics. This ignorance is structural to a certain extent and could be described as capitalism protecting itself, but I sense that much of this ignorance is willful ignorance, especially on the left. Knowledge of macroeconomics is central to civic engagement, but even the august Mr. Nader tends to shy away from meaningful discussions on economics even with economics continuing to show itself as the most important issue on the minds of voters. This show is hardly the only one who has wrongly ignored economic discussion though.
Macroeconomics isn’t really a difficult subject to understand. People make it out to be some mythical, religious-like thing which can only be understood through complex econometrics and which is only the domain of capitalist kingpins. That’s nonsense, the economy is purely a societal creation and understanding basic macroeconomic theory is quite simple and can be understood through fairly basic language. There is no reason that we, as a society, should continue to be ignorant about macroeconomics or else we’re doomed to ceding policy to those pushing for neoliberalism versus, say, a mixed-economy with controls on capitalism’s excesses much like what was popular during more progressive eras of US and European history.
If I may recommend a book as it pertains to Europe especially and also the US, I suggest Mitchell & Fazi’s ‘Reclaiming the State: A Progressive Vision of Sovereignty for a Post-Neoliberal World’. My local public library has it in eBook form. Hopefully yours has it in some form as well.
Ahh, so Kissinger Effect through seven presidents? Ahh, the Nuland Effect. Kagan and Zyklon Blinken?
A big black hole for Freeman -- how many have been murdered by USA with those unruly rules based BS?
Freeman is, well, blind!
Since World War II, during a supposed golden age of peace, the United States military has killed or helped kill some 20 million people, overthrown at least 36 governments, interfered in at least 86 foreign elections, attempted to assassinate over 50 foreign leaders, and dropped bombs on people in over 30 countries. The United States is responsible for the deaths of 5 million people in Vietnam, Laos, and Cambodia, and over 1 million just since 2003 in Iraq.
Since 2001, the United States has been systematically destroying a region of the globe, bombing Afghanistan, Iraq, Pakistan, Libya, Somalia, Yemen, and Syria, not to mention the Philippines. The United States has “special forces” operating in two-thirds of the world’s countries and non-special forces in three-quarters of them.
See also How Many Millions Have Been Killed in America’s Post-9/11 Wars? Part 3: Libya, Syria, Somalia and Yemen by Nicolas Davies From 2018, this article estimates 5 to 7 million people directly killed by U.S. wars since 2001 in Iraq, Afghanistan, Pakistan, Libya, Syria, Somalia and Yemen.
See also How Death Outlives War by Costs of War. From 2023, this report estimates 4.5 to 4.6 million people killed directly or indirectly by U.S. wars since 2001 in Iraq, Afghanistan, Pakistan, Syria, and Yemen.
The U.S. government provides weapons, military training, and/or military funding to almost every dictatorship and oppressive government on earth. See my 2020 book 20 Dictators Currently Supported by the U.S.
U.S. weapons are used on both sides of many wars.
In an attempt to quantify U.S. warmaking, I’ve copied below lists from these sources:
David Vine: The United States of War
William Blum: America’s Deadliest Export: Democracy
Dr. Zoltan Grossman: A Century of U.S. Military Interventions
James Lucas: U.S. Has Killed More Than 20 Million People
William Appleman Williams: Empire As a Way of Life
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Ralph is myopic over there on the East Coast.
Try a guy living in Moscow, former Navy guy, and you shall receive:
Thanks for providing your sources Paul. That the US arms both sides in a conflict should give pause to Americans to think about the role the US is playing in destabilizing countries around the world politically, socially, economically and environmentally. This will not stay abroad. These actions are not happening in a vacuum. They will come full circle back to the US in one form or another.
🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣Hilarious reply from an anti-American, xenophobic, racist, Nazi tRumptard posing as a what? liberal something? Calling a "comrade" a fascist? Your education is sorely lacking. That is why you and your kind are the darlings of the xenophobic, racist, anti-America, Nazi tRump. He loves the poorly educated, and you fill the bill. Either grow up or get an education sonny.
There is some very good commentary from Mr. Freeman in this RNRH episode. I would like to address a couple of pertinent areas of discussion. First, Mr. Freeman references a report from the Watson Institute about the costs of war. If we look at things from purely an economic standpoint and ignore the direct loss of life and indirect loss of life from militarization’s toll on the environment and culture, the issue is not really with the dollar cost of war. Funding that goes towards militarization does not prevent the federal government from funding education, infrastructure, healthcare, or anything of that sort. After all, there are hardly any barriers towards the US’ ever-increasing funding of the military industry and foreign policy misadventures.
The actual economic costs of militarization are resource opportunity costs. Labor is probably the highest resource cost. Many of our best and brightest minds and highly skilled laborers are recruited to work in the military industry, directly and also indirectly when we look at sponsored research at top universities and so forth. If militarization is right-sized, the country would have more bright minds working on society’s actual problems rather than invented ones to keep the private military industry viable on Wall Street.
With that in mind, my policy suggestion is to nationalize the military industry. This nationalized industry will continue to work on military engineering and manufacturing to meet actual needs, but excess resources will work to produce needed non-military resources in areas such as healthcare and infrastructure. If for some reason there are increased military resource needs, those working in the nationalized industry could easily transition towards meeting those needs. Over time, younger citizens will be encouraged though national priorities to enter healthcare and infrastructure career paths since those are the actual needs of the country.
Secondly, in reference to the discussion about the BRICS, I would like to clarify a few things which I’m sure are on the minds of citizens . First, I don’t believe the US Dollar’s reserve currency status is under any threat as long as China and the other BRICS remain export-oriented and the US is import-oriented. Secondly, outside of national pride perhaps, it is not of great importance if China surpasses the US as the largest economy and if the US Dollar loses reserve currency status (not that I think the latter will happen). Remember, the US was the largest economy in the world even in the late 19th century, but the US Dollar did not become the reserve currency until after WWII and Bretton Woods as the UK pound sterling was still the reserve currency prior to those related events. Even prior to WWII and Bretton Woods, the United States was not limited in their global or domestic power even if the Dollar was not the reserve currency.
Now, I do expect the BRICS to continue to develop their own payment system, BRICS Pay, to bypass the western Swift system. It was probably going to happen anyway, but the US’ military misadventures, hypocrisy, and sanctions have hastened that process.
Anyway, I expect many US politicians will make false claims about the demise of the US Dollar and use this to justify poor diplomacy, increased militarization, and domestic economy austerity. I dare to say that this is already a major factor in US politics and will continue to grow in influence. The public needs to understand these matters to avoid economic balderdash from politicians. The focus needs to be on funding the domestic economy. This is not just to improve the quality of life of citizens, including the environment, but also to set a global standard for democratic stability and human rights. As it is, these important areas have been challenged by the corrosive consequences of bipartisan neoliberalism and we see the results of that when it comes to the US’ blighted foreign and domestic policy.
Public servants with very high level integrity and intelligence do not serve in public office anymore. Although we desperately need them, the deep corruption will not allow them in office. So sad.
We had our chances with people like Chas, and especially you Ralph, but we blew it. We sent Biden, who got the Iraq tragic war wrong, etc., to 1600 Penn. Ave. instead of Sanders, who voted against going to war against a country that couldn't fight it's way out of a ''wet'' paper bag. We have met the enemy, and he is us.
Just about all our problems stem from the fact that we don't have the brains to fund our elections by ''We the People'', instead of motivated warmongers, tax bandits, big business, lobbyists, etc., who fund both sides of the isle to guarantee that the puppets we vote into office go to work for their benefactors instead of us idiots. They remind me of the 1958 movie, ''The Invasion of the Body Snatchers''. We think we are sending Americans to D.C., but once they enter D.C. they become aliens. It would have proven to be our very best investment since the Louisiana Purchase and Alaska combined.
The partitioning of Palestine Nov. 29, 1947 was shoved onto a compliant UN body heckled into place by the Zionists. I must disagree with the accolades the UN body is given by Ambassador Chas Freeman here. The partitioning weaponized the Balfour letter to Lionel Rothschild which brought the U.S. Jewish controlled press on the side of the warmongers for U.S. troops to the Western Front in WWI. This allowed Great Britain's capture of the Levant signed into Treaty by the end of October 1918. Zionists complicity of silence in the 1930s, and signed arrangements with the NAZI's over Occupied Palestine immigration didn't get press coverage while Chamberlin signed off on Czechoslovakia, though Churchill likened Palestinians to "...manger dogs." at the time. The non-college educated Harry Truman needed to listen to General George Marshall about this so called state of Israel not his buddy from the clothes store Mr. Jacobson. The U.S. began terrorizing the Levant supplying even North American F-51 Mustang fighter bombers to the Zionist guerillas besides surplus WWII Sherman tanks et. Colonization was complete, there was never going to be a Two State solution, it was more like a murderous corporate merger of Ashkenazi Jews with Semitic Palestinians.
Freeman like many other unbiased authorities in many governmental affairs are boycotted by the mainstream media. Just watch Napolitano's interviews on Youtube which you have courageously covered. All of these people are highly competent, but when I've mentioned them to people such as David Cay Johnston they reject their views, calling me a "Russian dupe" or other term. It's really time that we get more divergent views where both sides speak to one another.
Political anger is going to be off the charts next year. We've already seen countries such as Syria and South Korea undergoing major upheavals. A sickcare CEO was gunned down by a disgruntled victim in NYC. Trump was a target of two assassination attempts this year; if he fails which no doubt he will on economic and other issues the anger will be a huge issue.
If you were drinking Al's Booz in a hidaway bar in Chicago during probation in the 20,'s you were a scofflaw ,, things have not changed much , today that bar crowd is now the Mega Republicans..
I bet you can't tell who the bar tender is ? T___P ,,,I'll 'let you fill in the blanks .
Set them up T ,,,pour me a tall cold one . So there you have American politics in a bottle,, let's all hope in 4 years the Trump political bar will be close for good ,, , and the bar tender gets what Al got in Chicago for tax evasion ,,, life in prison. but don't count on it ,, if not,, pour me another one and make it a double.
Judging by the bartender's insane and wandering messaging, he already has what Al had. Late stage syphilis, causing his cognitive decline and psychiatric symptoms.
Has Gen. Anthony J. Cotton, commander of the U.S. Strategic Command, actually said that he believes a nuclear war can be won? I couldn't find any such quote from him on the internet.
What a great show as a self proclaimed bleeding heart liberal who left the democratic party in 2016 because of Hillary Clinton who was caught cheating during the 2016. election, thank you Tulsi Gabbard. I always voted for 3rd party candidates elections since voting for Ralph Nader. This year voting for Donald J Trump and so happy the majority of Americans also voted for Trump.
Great show. Thank you so much guys. I just love the high level of intellectual truth that happens here on this show and I really appreciated Mr Chaz Freeman's view on everything, which just happens to align with my own. Because it's right. And Ralph, who is smart enough to know who to get and who knows their s***, thank you. I can't stand to think of you not being here.
Thank you,Mr. Nader,for sharing your interview with retired Ambassador Chas Freeman today. The insight into our Foreign Affairs is crucial moving forward, ahead of this next administration. Again, thank You, and will reStack ASAP 🙏💯👍🇺🇸
This country has nothing left to celebrate. We bomb and destroy lives abroad, we destroy lives here, we seem proud to be uneducated and uninformed and we believe billionaires did it all because they are the best of the best. No moral standing, no critical thinking, no compassion and no vision, since this is all coming to bite people us in the backside.
Of course, there are islands of wisdom and common sense, of fight, resistance and resilience but there are still too many people refusing to broad their vision, or to admit, that this country is a sinking ship without life jackets. We are our own iceberg.
What also boggles my mind is why European countries are still behind the US and its crimes, obediently following instructions that are detrimental to all of them, while joining in the crimes of genocide and more. Is this capitalism trying to survive the obvious decline? Will this attempt to survive really finally sink capitalism but also any hope for something more just?
Can you tell how optimistic I am (not)?
You are free to move to Cuba, Venezuela, N.Korea...
You are free to move to Israel where religious fascism is alive and thriving and an absolute disregard for the rule of law and international norms is the order of the day. You will find it a fitting home to your ideological bent.
Adriana, regarding the paragraph about Europe and capitalism, as Francesco DeSantis mentioned in his news wrap segment last week on the RNRH, Europe is dealing with their own political instability at the current time. As I wrote in a comment last week, this instability comes from structurally-imposed austerity via the Eurozone (monetary union)/EU ‘Growth and Stability Pact’ and Maastricht Treaty which impose nonsensical debt limits on member countries. Aside from structurally-imposed austerity of an undemocratic nature, European countries engage in their own voluntary austerity.
With all of this austerity, Europe is crippled in their ability to protect themselves without the aid of the United States. This leaves Europe as a vassal, outsourced state. There has been some rumblings that perhaps a strongly protectionist United States might cause Europe to have to rethink their dependence on the US, but even if that happens, Europe will have to shed their inclination towards austerity because otherwise the only way to increase spending in Europe in areas necessary to separate themselves from the US would be to engage in even more social spending austerity and that would be crippling. Austerity itself is already causing tremendous challenges for the European public and, not surprisingly, the stability of European politics.
Furthermore, as it pertains to policy towards Israel specifically, Europeans, like Americans, struggle with properly defining antisemitism. The propaganda used against Jeremy Corbyn, who has been a strong voice against the actions of right-wing Israeli governments, in the 2019 UK elections and since then is shameful and much of it has come from within the disgraced Labour Party itself. There are anti-Islamic elements to European populist politicians who have gained favor, such as Geert Wilders in the Netherlands, and so this colors the narratives towards a pro-Israel direction as well even though the Zionist Christian lobby in Europe is of much less importance than it is here in the US.
Back to austerity and your question about capitalism, the problems in Europe are much the same as they are here. The same is true of Australia, Canada, and a number of other places. The population knows that economy isn’t working in their favor. Economics are the top factor in elections across the world, but then people across the world continue to vote for politicians who advocate for further deregulation, privatization, and general neoliberalism. This happens in countries with compulsory voting, such as Australia, and in countries with tighter controls than the US on how money can be used to influence elections.
Ultimately, the problem, as I see it, is that voters across the west are ignorant about macroeconomics. This ignorance is structural to a certain extent and could be described as capitalism protecting itself, but I sense that much of this ignorance is willful ignorance, especially on the left. Knowledge of macroeconomics is central to civic engagement, but even the august Mr. Nader tends to shy away from meaningful discussions on economics even with economics continuing to show itself as the most important issue on the minds of voters. This show is hardly the only one who has wrongly ignored economic discussion though.
Macroeconomics isn’t really a difficult subject to understand. People make it out to be some mythical, religious-like thing which can only be understood through complex econometrics and which is only the domain of capitalist kingpins. That’s nonsense, the economy is purely a societal creation and understanding basic macroeconomic theory is quite simple and can be understood through fairly basic language. There is no reason that we, as a society, should continue to be ignorant about macroeconomics or else we’re doomed to ceding policy to those pushing for neoliberalism versus, say, a mixed-economy with controls on capitalism’s excesses much like what was popular during more progressive eras of US and European history.
If I may recommend a book as it pertains to Europe especially and also the US, I suggest Mitchell & Fazi’s ‘Reclaiming the State: A Progressive Vision of Sovereignty for a Post-Neoliberal World’. My local public library has it in eBook form. Hopefully yours has it in some form as well.
Corbyn is a well-kknown anti Jewish commie, as is Labor in general. It's no wonder many Jews have abandoned it.
Ahh, so Kissinger Effect through seven presidents? Ahh, the Nuland Effect. Kagan and Zyklon Blinken?
A big black hole for Freeman -- how many have been murdered by USA with those unruly rules based BS?
Freeman is, well, blind!
Since World War II, during a supposed golden age of peace, the United States military has killed or helped kill some 20 million people, overthrown at least 36 governments, interfered in at least 86 foreign elections, attempted to assassinate over 50 foreign leaders, and dropped bombs on people in over 30 countries. The United States is responsible for the deaths of 5 million people in Vietnam, Laos, and Cambodia, and over 1 million just since 2003 in Iraq.
Since 2001, the United States has been systematically destroying a region of the globe, bombing Afghanistan, Iraq, Pakistan, Libya, Somalia, Yemen, and Syria, not to mention the Philippines. The United States has “special forces” operating in two-thirds of the world’s countries and non-special forces in three-quarters of them.
See also How Many Millions Have Been Killed in America’s Post-9/11 Wars? Part 3: Libya, Syria, Somalia and Yemen by Nicolas Davies From 2018, this article estimates 5 to 7 million people directly killed by U.S. wars since 2001 in Iraq, Afghanistan, Pakistan, Libya, Syria, Somalia and Yemen.
See also How Death Outlives War by Costs of War. From 2023, this report estimates 4.5 to 4.6 million people killed directly or indirectly by U.S. wars since 2001 in Iraq, Afghanistan, Pakistan, Syria, and Yemen.
The U.S. government provides weapons, military training, and/or military funding to almost every dictatorship and oppressive government on earth. See my 2020 book 20 Dictators Currently Supported by the U.S.
U.S. weapons are used on both sides of many wars.
In an attempt to quantify U.S. warmaking, I’ve copied below lists from these sources:
David Vine: The United States of War
William Blum: America’s Deadliest Export: Democracy
Dr. Zoltan Grossman: A Century of U.S. Military Interventions
James Lucas: U.S. Has Killed More Than 20 Million People
William Appleman Williams: Empire As a Way of Life
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Ralph is myopic over there on the East Coast.
Try a guy living in Moscow, former Navy guy, and you shall receive:
https://www.youtube.com/live/yQ6V0TFOtWk?si=0j855k_tsr1I_IwT
THE WIT AND WISDOM OF MARK SLEBODA - EPISODE 3 - TRUMP, XI, ORBAN AND TALK OF UKRAINE COMPROMIew
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Ahh, that inauguration . . . . Tech Tyrants and Terrorists of both red and blue pill parties will party on with Donald Wannabe Adolph Trump!
https://paulokirk.substack.com/p/ahh-drain-the-swamp-so-the-swarm
Thanks for providing your sources Paul. That the US arms both sides in a conflict should give pause to Americans to think about the role the US is playing in destabilizing countries around the world politically, socially, economically and environmentally. This will not stay abroad. These actions are not happening in a vacuum. They will come full circle back to the US in one form or another.
I do agree with all of the listed atrocities committed by the imperialst/terrorist US.
I used to tune in to RT, until they became "Bullhorns" for tRump. Sleboda was part of the cheerleaders for tRump's Nazism in 2015.
Only a fascist would listen to RT, comrade.
🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣Hilarious reply from an anti-American, xenophobic, racist, Nazi tRumptard posing as a what? liberal something? Calling a "comrade" a fascist? Your education is sorely lacking. That is why you and your kind are the darlings of the xenophobic, racist, anti-America, Nazi tRump. He loves the poorly educated, and you fill the bill. Either grow up or get an education sonny.
There is some very good commentary from Mr. Freeman in this RNRH episode. I would like to address a couple of pertinent areas of discussion. First, Mr. Freeman references a report from the Watson Institute about the costs of war. If we look at things from purely an economic standpoint and ignore the direct loss of life and indirect loss of life from militarization’s toll on the environment and culture, the issue is not really with the dollar cost of war. Funding that goes towards militarization does not prevent the federal government from funding education, infrastructure, healthcare, or anything of that sort. After all, there are hardly any barriers towards the US’ ever-increasing funding of the military industry and foreign policy misadventures.
The actual economic costs of militarization are resource opportunity costs. Labor is probably the highest resource cost. Many of our best and brightest minds and highly skilled laborers are recruited to work in the military industry, directly and also indirectly when we look at sponsored research at top universities and so forth. If militarization is right-sized, the country would have more bright minds working on society’s actual problems rather than invented ones to keep the private military industry viable on Wall Street.
With that in mind, my policy suggestion is to nationalize the military industry. This nationalized industry will continue to work on military engineering and manufacturing to meet actual needs, but excess resources will work to produce needed non-military resources in areas such as healthcare and infrastructure. If for some reason there are increased military resource needs, those working in the nationalized industry could easily transition towards meeting those needs. Over time, younger citizens will be encouraged though national priorities to enter healthcare and infrastructure career paths since those are the actual needs of the country.
Secondly, in reference to the discussion about the BRICS, I would like to clarify a few things which I’m sure are on the minds of citizens . First, I don’t believe the US Dollar’s reserve currency status is under any threat as long as China and the other BRICS remain export-oriented and the US is import-oriented. Secondly, outside of national pride perhaps, it is not of great importance if China surpasses the US as the largest economy and if the US Dollar loses reserve currency status (not that I think the latter will happen). Remember, the US was the largest economy in the world even in the late 19th century, but the US Dollar did not become the reserve currency until after WWII and Bretton Woods as the UK pound sterling was still the reserve currency prior to those related events. Even prior to WWII and Bretton Woods, the United States was not limited in their global or domestic power even if the Dollar was not the reserve currency.
Now, I do expect the BRICS to continue to develop their own payment system, BRICS Pay, to bypass the western Swift system. It was probably going to happen anyway, but the US’ military misadventures, hypocrisy, and sanctions have hastened that process.
Anyway, I expect many US politicians will make false claims about the demise of the US Dollar and use this to justify poor diplomacy, increased militarization, and domestic economy austerity. I dare to say that this is already a major factor in US politics and will continue to grow in influence. The public needs to understand these matters to avoid economic balderdash from politicians. The focus needs to be on funding the domestic economy. This is not just to improve the quality of life of citizens, including the environment, but also to set a global standard for democratic stability and human rights. As it is, these important areas have been challenged by the corrosive consequences of bipartisan neoliberalism and we see the results of that when it comes to the US’ blighted foreign and domestic policy.
Public servants with very high level integrity and intelligence do not serve in public office anymore. Although we desperately need them, the deep corruption will not allow them in office. So sad.
We had our chances with people like Chas, and especially you Ralph, but we blew it. We sent Biden, who got the Iraq tragic war wrong, etc., to 1600 Penn. Ave. instead of Sanders, who voted against going to war against a country that couldn't fight it's way out of a ''wet'' paper bag. We have met the enemy, and he is us.
Just about all our problems stem from the fact that we don't have the brains to fund our elections by ''We the People'', instead of motivated warmongers, tax bandits, big business, lobbyists, etc., who fund both sides of the isle to guarantee that the puppets we vote into office go to work for their benefactors instead of us idiots. They remind me of the 1958 movie, ''The Invasion of the Body Snatchers''. We think we are sending Americans to D.C., but once they enter D.C. they become aliens. It would have proven to be our very best investment since the Louisiana Purchase and Alaska combined.
Would love to move to Cuba but life right now does not permit
The partitioning of Palestine Nov. 29, 1947 was shoved onto a compliant UN body heckled into place by the Zionists. I must disagree with the accolades the UN body is given by Ambassador Chas Freeman here. The partitioning weaponized the Balfour letter to Lionel Rothschild which brought the U.S. Jewish controlled press on the side of the warmongers for U.S. troops to the Western Front in WWI. This allowed Great Britain's capture of the Levant signed into Treaty by the end of October 1918. Zionists complicity of silence in the 1930s, and signed arrangements with the NAZI's over Occupied Palestine immigration didn't get press coverage while Chamberlin signed off on Czechoslovakia, though Churchill likened Palestinians to "...manger dogs." at the time. The non-college educated Harry Truman needed to listen to General George Marshall about this so called state of Israel not his buddy from the clothes store Mr. Jacobson. The U.S. began terrorizing the Levant supplying even North American F-51 Mustang fighter bombers to the Zionist guerillas besides surplus WWII Sherman tanks et. Colonization was complete, there was never going to be a Two State solution, it was more like a murderous corporate merger of Ashkenazi Jews with Semitic Palestinians.
AAh, the every handy "zionists"
Freeman like many other unbiased authorities in many governmental affairs are boycotted by the mainstream media. Just watch Napolitano's interviews on Youtube which you have courageously covered. All of these people are highly competent, but when I've mentioned them to people such as David Cay Johnston they reject their views, calling me a "Russian dupe" or other term. It's really time that we get more divergent views where both sides speak to one another.
Political anger is going to be off the charts next year. We've already seen countries such as Syria and South Korea undergoing major upheavals. A sickcare CEO was gunned down by a disgruntled victim in NYC. Trump was a target of two assassination attempts this year; if he fails which no doubt he will on economic and other issues the anger will be a huge issue.
Subpoena Amazon for the receipts for the drones over Jersey!
If you were drinking Al's Booz in a hidaway bar in Chicago during probation in the 20,'s you were a scofflaw ,, things have not changed much , today that bar crowd is now the Mega Republicans..
I bet you can't tell who the bar tender is ? T___P ,,,I'll 'let you fill in the blanks .
Set them up T ,,,pour me a tall cold one . So there you have American politics in a bottle,, let's all hope in 4 years the Trump political bar will be close for good ,, , and the bar tender gets what Al got in Chicago for tax evasion ,,, life in prison. but don't count on it ,, if not,, pour me another one and make it a double.
Good luck America
Have a great day my friends
Judging by the bartender's insane and wandering messaging, he already has what Al had. Late stage syphilis, causing his cognitive decline and psychiatric symptoms.
Has Gen. Anthony J. Cotton, commander of the U.S. Strategic Command, actually said that he believes a nuclear war can be won? I couldn't find any such quote from him on the internet.
Francisco de santis conveniently lefts out that leftwingers have been cheering the extrajudicial killing of the CEO. Pathetic
What a great show as a self proclaimed bleeding heart liberal who left the democratic party in 2016 because of Hillary Clinton who was caught cheating during the 2016. election, thank you Tulsi Gabbard. I always voted for 3rd party candidates elections since voting for Ralph Nader. This year voting for Donald J Trump and so happy the majority of Americans also voted for Trump.