en-us https://www.intensedebate.com/users/679805 Comments by Lbanum http://www.informationclearinghouse.info/56293.htm#IDComment1097403198 If I happened to be a Russian citizen, I would be extremely proud of Russian leadership. It's streets ahead of anything I have witnessed among western democratic allies of Washington. Washington and her vassals are in the half-penny place when it comes to principled international leadership Mon, 8 Feb 2021 21:27:53 +0000 http://www.informationclearinghouse.info/56293.htm#IDComment1097403198 http://www.informationclearinghouse.info/56113.htm#IDComment1096356834 Craig Murry has reported well on some issues and is badly biased and ignorant on others. I don't read him in serious mode any more in the same way. He can provide insights into the workings on the UK government to some useful extent but he has been know to produce brainwashed, hawkish, outraged propaganda for Empire on other topics. I don't intend to search to find them but one such was created in the latter part of last year. Perhaps another comment might better reflect that on a topic I cannot now recollect the subject matter. It had to do with a foreign country? Murry spewed for 'outrage' about that situation too. It was all in his mind? Sat, 2 Jan 2021 00:27:04 +0000 http://www.informationclearinghouse.info/56113.htm#IDComment1096356834 http://www.informationclearinghouse.info/56012.htm#IDComment1095812862 I cannot speak for the Palestinians but all the steadfastness in the world won't suffice without unity. The engineered designation of Hamas as a terrorist organisation when sponsored by the USA for Israel got acquiescence from the then EU leadership. It was disgraceful but satisfied leadership played the game of 'two states'. It was never the intended outcome for neo-con Zionism but blabber or just sneering propaganda.Once the democratic choice for Palestinians was discarded their fate was sealed to being that of a divided force. The Palestinian Authority under Abbas has been worse than an abject failure only ensuring the Palestinians would be at effective civil war to the present! Otherwise those of us who might have been inclined to contribute to the Hamas appeals for aid could have done so. But because of this terrorist designation the only support Palestinian could elicit in the west was essentially connected to the Palestinain Authority's authority. Abbas drove the division to extreme levels doing his sponsors bidding and shame has been brought on the Palestinians who were blind ot being lead by the blind. They all fell into the pit! It was rightly seen as a major triumph by israel. The methods used to bring such a fatal blow ot the Palestinain cause was violent and purposeful. The CIA and Mossad together with military support created an uprising in Gaza and inundated the media with all sorts of the usual misinformation and distortion. The downfall arose when Palestinain traitors attempted a coup on Hamas under thee guidance of the above mentioned forces. Abbas was promoted to leadership to keep Hamas enclosed in Gaza and out of government. Abbas hated Hamas because he was corrupted by the lust for power and control. In my opinion too many Palestinian's in the diaspora were brainwashed into supporting the Palestinain cause under the shadowy umbrella of Abbas and his 'Authortiy'. The first thing Palestinians must do is to form a united front. They must reconnect now and reconcile or the future is a foregone conclusion for ever getting home again? New leadership new reconciliation with international law on their side this strong willed gifted people can still emerge victorious. They can only manage that with outside help. Is there anybody out there? Thu, 10 Dec 2020 17:43:13 +0000 http://www.informationclearinghouse.info/56012.htm#IDComment1095812862 http://www.informationclearinghouse.info/55755.htm#IDComment1094787290 Putin is under enormous pressure because The Russian Federation is being attacked on all fronts. China is now undergoing similar treatment. From whence and from whom does all this originate? Persons make such decisions. Money is the spigot turned on and off to keep the poor under control. The military are the enforcers of policy decisions. Intelligence services and other Government agencies come up with. Planning where money is no object in geopolitical matters. Lies and propaganda turning the real world upside down are manipulated power tools. The depravity and hypocrisy of Macon and the EU NATO alliance are evident and obvious from any objective observation of the massive destruction and mayhem. The war against terror has morphed to the ridiculous The UK and France are ably supported by middle eastern Gulf States inspiring ideologies promoting Sunni terrorism. It suits Israel to watch the show as entire human populations are facing existential threat from merciless mercenary forces. Their western sponsored recruitment from across the globe converged on Libya Iraq and Syria. Human beings who fight back become enemies by definition. Greed and crime rule under the guise of fighting that which has been created incrementally as policy makers corrupted psychopathic forces in pursuit of profits. Tens of millions are enslaved and forced into chaotic insecurity and degradation. It's unconscionable horror deliberately inflicted by trained thieves and killers. Their ridiculously wealthy suppliers' and masters' corruption of political elites quite simply disgusts! Sat, 24 Oct 2020 03:22:55 +0000 http://www.informationclearinghouse.info/55755.htm#IDComment1094787290 http://www.informationclearinghouse.info/55726.htm#IDComment1094621867 China has four times the population of the USA. The US steals intellectual property rights all over the globe. Trade Unions improved the plight of poor masses as did socialism and they achieved many improvements by fighting for a fairer share of profits, at the expense of the rich. Putin battered the rich thieves in the Russian Federation and made huge improvements for the majority of impoverished Russian citizens, following the Yeltsin debacles. Russians will recollect well enough! The Yellow vests in France outraged at the exploitative nature of French nobility and elites under Macon direct their protest on inequality of wealth. It's a strong surge current there to-day. All ongoing class war is about freedom from the clutches of Capitalist dominance and explicit exploitation of the poor. The USA is saturated with descendants of other nationalities including Chinese. It has taken the best educated youthful cream of many nations who had paid dearly for their education and training and offered them dollars to attract and extracted benefit for the USA and at poorer countries expense. It's just business! SOmetimes the boomerang effect of globalization bites them and they feel suckered. They designed it and see they are loosing from this? Primarily because of insatiable greed and massive resistance to it grows rapidly. War seems a matter of time away. The native Africans and US indians were rich and the poor American European immigrants attacked them, took their land resources and minerals to acquire those riches for themselves alone. Their genocidal mania on the Native Americans North and South enslaved killed countless tens of millions of humans of different ethnicity. Then they killed each other for a pause before they spread their murderous exploits across the entire globe They called themselves American and The real Americans to make themselves special? They have no real identity save the landmass sectioned off by class and race. A multi cultural people without real conscience mired in cruelty and hubris abroad and at home which cannot address its painful past, because it is too painful? The rich were punished by the poor in Vietnam and Korea, in Cuba, Iceland, Nicaragua, Ireland, Iran and China. Recommend Howard Zinn 'A people's history of America' for more micro--historical material insight to the USA and the fights the poor won against the rich throughout it's existence in the new world. The poor frighten the rich to death! It's a class war. Sat, 17 Oct 2020 02:31:39 +0000 http://www.informationclearinghouse.info/55726.htm#IDComment1094621867 http://www.informationclearinghouse.info/55482.htm#IDComment1092956109 I sense the insanity of war reflects the insatiable greed of Capitalism's beneficiaries. The cruelty knows no bounds. It's a force and power that inflicts pain especially on the poor. It's unconscionable perverted ideologies are to be forced down the throats of all nations and peoples. The nuclear bombs are the ultimate weapon at the disposal of the enforcers. Any attack on the Russian Federation will be answered by a confident and disciplined Russian leadership. Full scale war would entail nuclear bombs and unimaginable destruction. I predict the country of Byeloruss will remain closely attached to The Russian Federation, whatever the outcome of pressure from western powers. It's not as was in Ukraine with a well financed and organised coup. This is an opportunistic and dishonorable attempt to isolate and devour. It's in Russia's interest to ensure it protects itself, its peoples and its allies. It will do just that! Sun, 23 Aug 2020 00:18:47 +0000 http://www.informationclearinghouse.info/55482.htm#IDComment1092956109 http://www.informationclearinghouse.info/55106-c.htm#IDComment1089608686 A typical British outcome of a firmly indoctrinated political imagination flows through the pores of this article. His comparisons in replies are heavily biased against China. Has he any idea of what China has been all about since their Party drove a country together to feed itself and to modernize? He speaks as if apologetically reassuring his opponent and any readers of this mind blowing response that China is 'The Brutal State'! One is left wondering whether this gentleman with all his 'contacts', is not himself sponsored by some part of the 'security' establishment? I won't be visiting his blog but somehow get the impression he wouldn't be for Brexit either? I'll leave others to make up their own minds on the purpose of this ranting? Tue, 28 Apr 2020 16:43:17 +0000 http://www.informationclearinghouse.info/55106-c.htm#IDComment1089608686 http://www.informationclearinghouse.info/55058-c.htm#IDComment1089090592 This person has been a consistent and highly qualified figure to call for an awakening on the entire business of Big Pharma and the dangers of vaccine proliferation. It's a well formed and genuine appeal to have this issue properly investigated in the manner proposed. I salute Mr Kennedy and have long paid attention to his long standing principled stance on these issues. When one reads the basic statistics he forwards in focus it's as plain as the nose on a face that something is terribly wrong. Entire generations are being put at unnecessary risk and that seemingly from conception lives are facing essence contamination and damage. There is zero liability. No recourse to remedy save ones to be offered by the same companies that produce the vaccines. The Medical Profession had better examine it's conscience in a truthful and objective manner. Whistle blowers may be required? Mon, 13 Apr 2020 23:25:35 +0000 http://www.informationclearinghouse.info/55058-c.htm#IDComment1089090592 http://www.informationclearinghouse.info/54087.htm#IDComment1088527119 It was an important point by Chomsky about self-isolation from addictions to technology for communication purposes. I wish him well. Tue, 31 Mar 2020 06:46:23 +0000 http://www.informationclearinghouse.info/54087.htm#IDComment1088527119 http://www.informationclearinghouse.info/52449-c.htm#IDComment1082939047 The SDF are guarded by the US military who ensure theft. It will rightly be resisted by The Russian Federation and will not go by without responses from Syria and her allies. But this is criminal theft in international law and many other countries in the UN will condemn it as well. The theft of oil was halted largely by the Russian air force amd supporting troops. It was a major legitimate gripe for the Russian's that had long been ignored by the US and her allies. Putin put an end to that lucrative business because it was being used to fund terrorism through NATO land. I see this latest revelation from high sources being publicized in Russia as being a principled stance of Putin's. No theft of Syrian resources will be acceptable and particularly strong inclinations to fight designated terrorist organizations and to hold firmly to the rule of law on the international stage should not be underestimated. It's potentially much more dangerous in Syria's neighborhood, if such theft is to be continued? Unfortunately, it's more likely to be expanded; more and more pay offs with big business appetites. How corrupt can such corruption become? Wed, 30 Oct 2019 20:46:50 +0000 http://www.informationclearinghouse.info/52449-c.htm#IDComment1082939047 http://www.informationclearinghouse.info/52458-c.htm#IDComment1082936629 These outrageous, intimidating, tactics against a principled high class journalist it has been my pleasure of paying attention to, are to be condemned! This all reeks of corruption and a setup. It reminds me too, of Assange's legal wranglings around suspiciously dodgy accusations.. Max will have a whole lot of support and any criminal court case against him for this assault charge may open up doors for Max and his legal team to pry open? That is my hope of outcome for the vindication of this honorable, courageous journalist should he be forced to defend himself against charges he emphatically denies. Max is as honest a reporter as it gets to become one. He has my full support. There should be an investigation into the costs and reasons the police could justify for such a major operation in this particular case. Wed, 30 Oct 2019 19:15:53 +0000 http://www.informationclearinghouse.info/52458-c.htm#IDComment1082936629 http://www.informationclearinghouse.info/52194-c.htm#IDComment1080363240 I have to support some comments on Fisk and Ahmadinejhad. For those who may be interested I suggest they look up and discover the speech given in New York by this ex-Iranian President when he addressed the United Nations General Assembly. What's more he then courageously positioned himself in open discussion on US television when he conducted himself is a very forthright and composed fashion. It was highly unusual for any politician to have left himself so open to aggressive interview and to have left the discussion open to an audience to bombard him with questions on air. He again performed with dignified distinction and was highly impressive. As for Robert Fisk and his instinctive inherent bias as a white english speaking European of Anglo Irish extraction he has degenerated into a propagandist of his own making. Fisk got too big for his proverbial boots. He has a deep hatred of Iran and is very suspect in many of the reports he continues to churn out to his admiring readership. It's a pity because he has done some fine work and his 'Pity the Nation' remains a classic of the origins of recent middle eastern developments centered on Lebanon's proximity to the ongoing Zionist destructive measures in Palestine. It's a shameful that this once courageous reporter has sunk deep into the pit of propaganda and servile subjection to emperialist drivel. Anyone interested would do well to look up and view Ahmadinejhad's address to the UN in NY Fisk speaks about. It was brilliant then and still is now. Wed, 4 Sep 2019 04:31:46 +0000 http://www.informationclearinghouse.info/52194-c.htm#IDComment1080363240 http://www.informationclearinghouse.info/52188-c.htm#IDComment1080205303 Both USA and Canadian citizen's can remain comfortably well off, that seems to be their bottom line for a better life with major government transfers in kind to be fought for. It's all about dollars and quality of life. The fact that such quality of life comes at the cost of the infliction of unnecessary suffering on other humans in a wide abroad doesn't appear to be of much consequence. So what is life about? Eat drink and be merry for tomorrow we die? It is the unconscionable actions of their governments and bankers that see the blind leading the blind into the pit. Never will Canadian and USA citizens have anything to boast about as long as their respective countries are up to their neck in oppressive endorsements subsidizing and partaking in aggressive war and international hypocrisy. Their sovereignty is the responsibility of the citizens to uphold the law and to defend their boundaries. The bullying tactics of one and the servile complicity of the other are a good match from a wider perspective. Shame on both! Take their consistent approach and their absolute commitment to the destructive forces in Palestine to see mirror images of themselves in action! Their behavior and their aggressions maintain this wonderfully attractive life style they have aspired towards for their children and themselves. The price is paid off the sweat and labour and the massive suffering others are forced to endure. Nothing about Christian values, human rights, dignity or any sort of imagined human freedoms are even to be considered for so many others, foreigners, as a direct result of the participation and involvement of both these first world countries in deceitful and outright barbarism outside their borders. If the troops are to be blessed then bless the politicians who send them and the citizens who vote for the politicians. Yes God Bless America and Canada and Israel. They stand together united as great democracies standing for freedom liberty and happiness in a big bad world full of terrorists communists and of course Russians. Imagination knows no bounds and the hypocrisy of these false images produced, becomes part of a hypnotic distorted dream on to death. While others burn, we great wonderful people live the life of Riley with our GDP's on the up and up? Don't we realise that everything must be paid for? Do we care at all? Sat, 31 Aug 2019 14:32:23 +0000 http://www.informationclearinghouse.info/52188-c.htm#IDComment1080205303 http://www.informationclearinghouse.info/52005-c.htm#IDComment1078311752 The sheer and utter madness of western powers and the recurrent belligerence of the UK and USA establishments in particular have been endangering the world to-day. It's astonishing how these two neo-liberal capitalist elitist democratic regimes, have presumed to use sanctions and their military against the developing world. Either or both are warfare now. The dreadful history of their interference in the entire middle east has reached a point where another major war that could easily in very unpredictable fashion spiral out of any control appears to underway as we speak. The targeted State is Iran. Wed, 31 Jul 2019 14:37:45 +0000 http://www.informationclearinghouse.info/52005-c.htm#IDComment1078311752 http://www.informationclearinghouse.info/51995-c.htm#IDComment1078202048 I hop ethe uk does a Brexit as the democratic will of the people of the UK was clear and Scotland as part of the UK had its chance in 2014 to leave the UK but chose to remain within it and by a disturbingly comfortable majority. It's ridiculous and contrived to then bemoan the fact that the UK election result on Brexit shouldn't include the Scots. . However, this typical blowing hard article is really about not 'sovereignty' in any real sense. The compromises envisaged by the SNP would make a mockery of that term. I'd love to see and support a real independent Scotland. That won't happen within the EU either. It's obvious Tommy has a soft spot for Labour and is an independence activist in political circles. But let us all be honest now! .His deliberate neglect in pointing out the fact that in 2014 Scotland voted to remain in the UK by a disturbingly comfortable majority. That put it squarely in the democratic arena with no excuses within the UK system and despite it having a devolved government it has no real independence if any at all in crucial areas of defence and finance. To speak about independence, what is Tommy' or the SNP's position on NATO and nuclear weapons and Scotland? What about finance, the crown and Scotland? What about the not elected leadership of the EU in The Commission and Scotland's democratic mandate? its prospects of remaining outside of these undemocratic influences are zero, save their prospective SNP leaders sign up for them and make the pretense of calling that democracy? Kratos my eye! No, Tommy is prepared to become dependent on England and the USA through NATO, the pound or the euro under unelected bureaucratic European leadership, to claim this so called independence. Were he to state plainly he'd be prepared fight to get rid of nuclear weapons in Scotland, have no part in NATO's shenaegins and then wish to prevent his people being conned under the undemocratic power of a EU commission, it might have some serious implications for acceptable diminished sovereignty of the population's proposed State in real terms. But financial money talk would have to be negotiated with London and the Central Banks in the EU and then what would be in prospect? All that and much more relates to an article that primarily and evidently wishes to overturn the referendum result of Brexit. That is the point! Tommy might be able to work with Labour and to make arrangements where he and his people arrange a form of independence within or without of the UK? Within the EU or without? The only independence that deserves to be fought for and one that would deserve a proper new referendum would be a Scotland outside either. One with its own currency, armed force and outside NATO. The rest is just a name and emotion for becoming another pathetic added appendage to Empire. One last question for Tommy and the SNP might be with independence would their independent country be for a two state solution in Palestine like the Tories? Or would that be outside the arena of discourse because the foreign policy of the Scottish people's representatives in high office would be determined elsewhere ? Scotland could become like other nation states such as Latvia, Kosova or the Ukraine, play music and sing Dixie! Sometimes you cannot be true to yourself and fight without compromising principles within the world of politic?. But that's the problem. We desperately need and must discover persons of real principle that refuse to compromise on it. The Greeks produced some like that and civilization took a leap forwards. You appear with the SNP to want your cake and eat it. You fight for independence for Scotland and are prepared to jump from the kettle into the fire. Good luck all the same. Tue, 30 Jul 2019 02:08:59 +0000 http://www.informationclearinghouse.info/51995-c.htm#IDComment1078202048 http://www.informationclearinghouse.info/51998-c.htm#IDComment1078194819 I never trusted her hype and she reminded me too of Obama. Now she is seriously damaged goods and will never really recover. That's cool too. Mon, 29 Jul 2019 23:09:22 +0000 http://www.informationclearinghouse.info/51998-c.htm#IDComment1078194819 http://www.informationclearinghouse.info/51892-C.htm#IDComment1077079428 Yes Bolsheviks! Examine the membership in the initiation of that vile anti-christian and anti religious ideology and you'll will notice what group the overwhelming majority of its cadres and membership of its functionaries were classified as. It's all on indisputable record. That seeming irony can be exposed by what you correctly deem the fascist ideology of Jobotinski's followers and their close affiliation with Nazi fascists not alone in the Ukraine but on a much broader field too in no way diminishes the catastrophic explosion on the scene of Bolshevism. But let's never forget those ideologues continue to transmute and thrive in present forms largely due to the support of leaderships in largely secularized western democracies, operating within an imposed neo-liberal capitalist system, on steroids. Thu, 11 Jul 2019 22:09:26 +0000 http://www.informationclearinghouse.info/51892-C.htm#IDComment1077079428 http://www.informationclearinghouse.info/51442-c.htm#IDComment1072317601 If the 9/11 Commission Report became a closed book in the USA then nothing will come of anything related to getting to the truth of this matter either. It wasn't a hack it was a leak from inside the Democratic Party's offices. Assange knows this. Thu, 18 Apr 2019 01:28:42 +0000 http://www.informationclearinghouse.info/51442-c.htm#IDComment1072317601 http://www.informationclearinghouse.info/51432-c.htm#IDComment1072314815 The Russian Federation can be proud of their diplomats under Putin's leadership. There is something reasonable, authentic and honest about them. They are principled servants of their government in the interests of their electorate. We can but admire them and bewail the utter paucity of such of comparable personages in the wonderful western democratic diplomatic corps. So many come across as brash, ignorant and arrogant . They are dishonest, manipulative and unprincipled. Thu, 18 Apr 2019 00:08:48 +0000 http://www.informationclearinghouse.info/51432-c.htm#IDComment1072314815 http://www.informationclearinghouse.info/51085-c.htm#IDComment1069268985 Seriously, this article is for contamination of the sensible mind. It's worthless amusement at best. Tue, 12 Feb 2019 18:00:29 +0000 http://www.informationclearinghouse.info/51085-c.htm#IDComment1069268985