So, the Russians are against fracking in Europe and have a safer fertilizer which puts much less toxic cancer-causing cadmium into the food supply which they want to sell in the European market and so support those Europeans who want to enact saver environmental regulations re fertilizer safety: beware it's Putin again trying to take over the world! This is one group of capitalists trying to grab market share by producing a better product -- this is normal inter-capitalist rivalry according to their own "free-market philosophy" but of course when the "Russians" [a general term for evil forces emanating out of the Kremlin - excluding only those who have pro-American and anti-Putin sentiments who are the "opposition"] are involved nothing is as it appears and the "whiff of intrigue" permeates the atmosphere. Western, and certainly American, companies obviously don't have any connections with their governments.
Monday, October 22, 2018
NYT Article Provides Fertilizer for Thought
So, the Russians are against fracking in Europe and have a safer fertilizer which puts much less toxic cancer-causing cadmium into the food supply which they want to sell in the European market and so support those Europeans who want to enact saver environmental regulations re fertilizer safety: beware it's Putin again trying to take over the world! This is one group of capitalists trying to grab market share by producing a better product -- this is normal inter-capitalist rivalry according to their own "free-market philosophy" but of course when the "Russians" [a general term for evil forces emanating out of the Kremlin - excluding only those who have pro-American and anti-Putin sentiments who are the "opposition"] are involved nothing is as it appears and the "whiff of intrigue" permeates the atmosphere. Western, and certainly American, companies obviously don't have any connections with their governments.
Sunday, October 21, 2018
Trump to Ramp Up Chances for Nuclear War
So the US wants to leave the treaty because the Russians are threatening the Europeans (after NATO encamped on its borders) and it's the Europeans who want to keep the treaty. It is pretty obvious who is stirring up tensions and is a threat to the future of humanity -- and it isn't Russia.
Wednesday, October 17, 2018
Khashoggi Killing Will Blow Over ( Oil, Arms, & Putin didn't do it!)
"On Tuesday, the New York Times reported that four of the men identified by Turkish media as part of a 15-man hit squad sent from Riyadh to silence Khashoggi were members of [Prince] Bin Salman’s personal security detail. Another, Tubaigy, holds a senior position in the Saudi interior ministry." Rogue elements? We have a rogue element in the White House! Prediction: This will blow over for 3 reasons -- oil, arms sales, and Putin didn't do it.
Friday, October 05, 2018
"Blackwater," Afghanistan and China
Comrade Prince? This is a revealing article about the Afghan War and Erik Prince of Blackwater infamy. The following quote is noteworthy:"Mr. Prince is positioning his pitch as a cheaper middle option between continuing a largely failed military strategy at an expensive annual tab of tens of billions of dollars, and a complete security withdrawal that some fear would abandon 17 years of costly Western efforts to remake Afghanistan." Prince, whose Blackwater mercenary company has gone through many name changes (it's now called Frontier Services Group) wants to privatize the Afghan War based on 1) the fact that the American military is utterly incompetent despite its bloated budget (its never recovered from its defeat by the Vietnamese peasant army) and faces defeat again in Afghanistan or at best a stalemate with no end in sight and 2. "Blackwater" mercenaries can do a better job and cheaper (allowing the US military to leave with its head held high even if its tail is between its legs). Prince and "Blackwater" have been getting the cold shoulder from the US since the massacre in Iraq (Nisour Square 2007) resulted in poor public relations and necessitated the name changes for "Blackwater." But don't discount Prince's future, as the next quote indicates: "His business has since gone through several reincarnations. His latest venture, the Hong Kong-based Frontier Services Group, has contracts in Africa and Asia, and is backed by Citic Group, a large state-owned Chinese investment company." The Chinese government has the controlling interest in "Backwater" now and it's primary mission is protecting Chinese businesses and personal in Africa and elsewhere. The Chinese are pragmatic and efficient and it would be a lesson in understanding the real world if Prince, now effectively an employee of Qi Jinping, were to succeed where the Soviets and Americans have failed. The Afghan business would no doubt be set up as an independent entity.
Tuesday, October 02, 2018
US Hands Off Nicaragua
The Left should be louder in demanding "US Hands Off Nicaragua" as Trump openly plans to ruin the country"s economy. Reagan redux!
Sunday, September 30, 2018
Will the FBI End of Whitewashing Kavanaugh?
"Republicans and Democrats alike are all but certain to seize on the F.B.I.’s findings to bolster their cases, and some current and former agents fear that politics will drown out any truth uncovered by the investigation." Well, eternal vigilance is the price of liberty and the people's movement has to monitor and make sure the Republicans don't try and use this investigation to whitewash Kavanaugh's reputation. In any case, the whole sordid affair has discredited the confirmation process, the nomination should be withdrawn for the sake of the reputation of the Supreme Court (what remains of it) and if Kavanaugh put the interests of the Court before his own he would voluntarily step down.
Wednesday, September 26, 2018
Propaganda versus Truth & Light
"Mr. Malkevich said he aimed to turn USAReally into a kind of digital-first version of RT or Sputnik — both Russian media organizations that broadcast pro-Kremlin views inside the United States — and a counterweight to organizations funded by the United States, like Radio Free Europe, that broadcast in Russia and other countries." Well there you have it: one side misinforms people with propaganda and the other brings truth and light. One side presents the values of a system that produced Trump, the other one that produced Putin. Diogenes with his lamp would have quite a search ahead of him.
Wednesday, September 19, 2018
Kissinger Rides Again
Kissinger is certainly an egomaniacal jerk but the weakness of this article is that it seems to blame the victory of the National Liberation Front and the Communist government in the North against American aggression in Vietnam on his incompetence rather than on the superior military skills of the Vietnamese under the leadership of Vo Nguyen Giap and the justice of the cause for national liberation. Incidentally, the total incompetence of the US military was a contributing factor as its continuing incompetence has shown to this very day (it has no generals who know how to win a war and only throws out money and death in its efforts to postpone defeat -- its the most expensive, destructive and useless organization in history and should be prevented from hoodwinking young American men and women into thinking they are somehow "serving their country" by joining it when it is merely a political extension of Republican and Democratic politicians furthering the interests of Wall Street Banks and Arms Manufacturers and the tool of fraudsters such as Kissinger.
Wednesday, September 12, 2018
Russia Falls Behind on Domestic Abuse: Bring Back USSR!
Seventy years of "socialist" education and many Russian men (most?) and women still have medieval outlooks re the role of women. Women's rights have gone backward since the end of the Soviet Union as the following quote indicates: "Activists say that the idea that women in Russia are equal is a cliché left over from the constitution of the Soviet Union, particularly in the area of domestic abuse. And various organizations focused on domestic violence ... have been labeled “foreign agents,” forcing some of them to close." The US rejected the "Equal Rights Amendment" for its constitution and we also have a big problem with domestic violence but this article indicates Russian women are worse off than they were in Soviet times as under Putin the laws against domestic violence have been weakened to protect the family! Are families based on violence? Violence is the woman's fault for not obeying her husband: “A man beating his wife is less offensive than when a man is humiliated,” Yelena Mizulina, the lawmaker who led the effort to decriminalize domestic abuse, told reporters in 2016. She added that it was “mandatory” for a woman to respect her husband as the “authority” in the marriage." Sounds like some of the Republican Congressmen we read about!
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