The U.S. continues to mess around in everyone else’s business while we fall apart at home. The country needs to return home and rebuild our own land. Ditch the empire of bases and the covert ops network, and invest in the basics. Infrastructure, education, productive enterprise (as opposed to financial smoke and mirrors). We’re being left behind, more all the time. But the way our political system is bought off by the military contractors, it’s hard to see a redirection toward domestic investment on the order required happening, short of complete collapse of our international position. Which seems the likely scenario.
The tweet by David Philipps about how the NYT which worked feverishly to expose the leaker would have worked feverishly to protect him if only he had leaked the documents to them is at https://archive.is/w58Aq
Very Interesting article. Unnecessary reference to transgenderism imo. Right wing is looking for a scapegoat, MSM needs something to write about. It's a culture war issue nobody should hang himself up with, nobody *really* cares about what other people do.
You have to try to imagine things from a Saudi government official's point of view. It is not a secular country, so ideology matters quite a bit and people there care much more what others do than in many parts of the world. Doesn't matter what your or my opinion is on the matter, but it matters to our diplomatic relations what they think.
You have to read and research more on supposed corruption in Brazil, where Lula has been exonerated after being subjected to lawfare of the heaviest kind. Where is the proof? There isn't any.
Dilma Roussef was ousted from power by a judical/congressional coup for something that all governments had done up until that time, and which was put into the statute book officially days after they took power.
So do not believe what the MSM media say. if you believe it, well, that's between you and God, but if you want the truth, you will have a hard time finding it on the BBC, which you cited.
Not a good beginning for the first article I have read on this blog. One has to know what you're talking about if you venture into the public sphere, and I'm afraid, here, you accepted false coinage.
That was hardly the main point of the post, or that section: The fact is, the two are controversial figures. The recent presidential election, as I'm sure you know, was won by a razor-thin margin and there are plenty who don't support Lula's mandate. So, whether you think Lula and Rousseff were unjustly prosecuted is up to you, but it's an opinion.
However, I have clarified the section a bit to indicate the complications. Readers are free to make of it what they will. There are thousands of sources to read, including the BBC, and of course I recommend doing your own research. MSM sources are good to follow to read between the lines, as you get an idea of what the power structure would like you think.
I agree that the point was not central to the article,however, these are not questions of opinion. This is about facts, and the facts do not support the allegation that Lula or Dilma were involved in any corruption.
That broaches the whole discussion around 'science' and so called climate change. There are facts and beliefs about facts, and there lie the rub.
There are definitely facts in the Dilma/Rousseff case but the waters are very muddied and there's far more opinion than fact available for consumption. Common problem these days.
Yes, you are right, people with opinions muddy the waters. That is exactly what has happened. But it is people with an agenda who muddy the waters, because they don't know.
The U.S. continues to mess around in everyone else’s business while we fall apart at home. The country needs to return home and rebuild our own land. Ditch the empire of bases and the covert ops network, and invest in the basics. Infrastructure, education, productive enterprise (as opposed to financial smoke and mirrors). We’re being left behind, more all the time. But the way our political system is bought off by the military contractors, it’s hard to see a redirection toward domestic investment on the order required happening, short of complete collapse of our international position. Which seems the likely scenario.
Spot on
The tweet by David Philipps about how the NYT which worked feverishly to expose the leaker would have worked feverishly to protect him if only he had leaked the documents to them is at https://archive.is/w58Aq
Fantastic share, thanks! Adding it to the article.
Spot on. The death of dollar dominance is long overdue, but sadly has no mechanism of action. This article (and the 2nd comment on it) do a great job of explaining why. https://www.nakedcapitalism.com/2022/12/dethroning-the-dollar-why-the-alternatives-are-not-ready-for-prime-time.html
And more on the lack of alternative: https://www.nakedcapitalism.com/2022/12/dethroning-the-dollar-what-governments-propose-it-disposes.html
Very Interesting article. Unnecessary reference to transgenderism imo. Right wing is looking for a scapegoat, MSM needs something to write about. It's a culture war issue nobody should hang himself up with, nobody *really* cares about what other people do.
You have to try to imagine things from a Saudi government official's point of view. It is not a secular country, so ideology matters quite a bit and people there care much more what others do than in many parts of the world. Doesn't matter what your or my opinion is on the matter, but it matters to our diplomatic relations what they think.
You have to read and research more on supposed corruption in Brazil, where Lula has been exonerated after being subjected to lawfare of the heaviest kind. Where is the proof? There isn't any.
Dilma Roussef was ousted from power by a judical/congressional coup for something that all governments had done up until that time, and which was put into the statute book officially days after they took power.
So do not believe what the MSM media say. if you believe it, well, that's between you and God, but if you want the truth, you will have a hard time finding it on the BBC, which you cited.
Not a good beginning for the first article I have read on this blog. One has to know what you're talking about if you venture into the public sphere, and I'm afraid, here, you accepted false coinage.
That was hardly the main point of the post, or that section: The fact is, the two are controversial figures. The recent presidential election, as I'm sure you know, was won by a razor-thin margin and there are plenty who don't support Lula's mandate. So, whether you think Lula and Rousseff were unjustly prosecuted is up to you, but it's an opinion.
However, I have clarified the section a bit to indicate the complications. Readers are free to make of it what they will. There are thousands of sources to read, including the BBC, and of course I recommend doing your own research. MSM sources are good to follow to read between the lines, as you get an idea of what the power structure would like you think.
I agree that the point was not central to the article,however, these are not questions of opinion. This is about facts, and the facts do not support the allegation that Lula or Dilma were involved in any corruption.
That broaches the whole discussion around 'science' and so called climate change. There are facts and beliefs about facts, and there lie the rub.
There are definitely facts in the Dilma/Rousseff case but the waters are very muddied and there's far more opinion than fact available for consumption. Common problem these days.
Yes, you are right, people with opinions muddy the waters. That is exactly what has happened. But it is people with an agenda who muddy the waters, because they don't know.