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by BAR editor and senior columnist Margaret Kimberley
The Democrats want to make Donald Trump’s racism the only campaign issue, to divert attention from their imperial wars and the global race to the bottom. Trump is a GOP outsider, but the Democrats “eagerly conspire with Republicans on governmental austerity and none of them are anti-war.” The left shouldn’t be suckered into making Trump the paramount issue. “The low hanging fruit of open bigotry should not be the only galvanizing force for progressives.”
Freedom Rider: Protesting Trump and Hillary Too
by BAR editor and senior columnist Margaret Kimberley
“Hillary Clinton is no less terrible and if Trump is the nominee she will become even worse.”
On March 11, 2016 hundreds of people in Chicago gathered to protest Republican presidential candidate Donald Trump. The billionaire reality television star has unleashed the barely concealed angst and fury of white America. He calls for preventing Muslims from entering the United States and for building an even bigger wall on the Mexican border to stop immigration there. He was forced to renounce the support of the KKK and he continues to make racist statements about “the blacks.”
The Chicago actions brought together young and old in a multi-racial coalition. It was wonderful to see a gathering of black Americans and Latinos and whites and at least one person with a flag emblazoned with a hammer and sickle.
Trump is a lightning rod and rightly so but he should not become the only one. Hillary Clinton is no less terrible and if Trump is the nominee she will become even worse. At a recent debate neither she nor Bernie Sanders were willing to call Trump a racist. The Donald Trump phenomenon has already created an even more rightward shift among the Democrats. They want support from white people who have been yearning for someone to come out of their closet and openly make the case for white nationalism.
“The Donald Trump phenomenon has already created an even more rightward shift among the Democrats.”
Trump has bested other Republican candidates because he gets to the heart of the matter for the white people’s party. While others pursue an agenda crafted by pollsters in focus groups he speaks directly to those who have been called the silent majority or Reagan Democrats. Gun rights are more about white people being in physical control of the black population. Abortion restrictions are intended to make white women have more babies. Evangelical Christians believe in America’s ultimate religion, white supremacy, more than they believe in anything else.
Trump has made all of these issues irrelevant because he tells white people that he will make them and their issues number one again. Republicans didn’t become the party of white America with talk of tax cuts for the rich. The masses of their voters don’t really care about that. The system which destroyed living wage jobs has upended their lives too and neither party speaks to that need.
Unfortunately, Trump lets the Democrats off the hook because his racism gives them an out. They love free trade deals just like the Republicans do. They eagerly conspire with Republicans on governmental austerity and none of them are anti-war. Their crimes are now ignored because they have Trump to point to as the new bogeyman. The Chicago protests should be replicated around the country but not just against Trump.
“Evangelical Christians believe in America’s ultimate religion, white supremacy, more than they believe in anything else.”
Trump opposed the invasion of Iraq. He has since backtracked but he spoke of a need to be even handed with Israel. He has said that Social Security is fine the way it is and he has no plans to change it. He initially wasn’t disparaging of Obamacare and expressed concern about not letting people “die in the streets.” He opposes trade deals like NAFTA which have sent jobs overseas in the neoliberal inspired race to the bottom. All of these issues put him to the left of Hillary Clinton, who must also become the target of protest.
Progressives were aghast when Trump said he would kill terrorist suspects and their families. Of course Barack Obama already did that when he performed an extra-judicial execution on Anwar al-Awlaki and his son. The same people who feign shock at Trump are silent regarding Democratic criminality. The same week that Chicagoans took to the street against Trump, the Obama administration killed 150 people in Somalia in an air strike. We were told they were taking part in a “terrorist graduation ceremony.” There is no indication of a commencement speaker or caps and gowns but those people are dead and Trump isn’t even in the White House.
“The same people who feign shock at Trump are silent regarding Democratic criminality.”
Every four years the public are distracted with the high level foolishness inherent in an American presidential campaign. The corporate media and the two largest political parties work together to bring endless coverage of candidates who differ very little from one another and use double speak and code words to assure the ruling class that they won’t change very much at all.
The low hanging fruit of open bigotry should not be the only galvanizing force for progressives. The whole political system must be protested. The people need to be up in arms over many issues and not just the ignorant ruminations of one boorish man rich enough to pay for his own campaign.
The left have no friends among the Democrats or Republicans. The quadrennial circus side show is a very dangerous distraction. Instead it should be a time to gain political insight and maturity. It is time to shut down Trump and Hillary too.
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Is it live or is it Memorex?
Submitted by beverly on
Is it live or is it Memorex?
Amid actual anti-Trump protestors are agent provocateurs courtesy of global "fixer" George Soros and CIA Gene Sharp. See partial article from investigative reporter Wayne Madsen:
"March 14-15, 2016 -- Soros/Sharp methods employed by anti-Trump protesters
The people of eastern Europe and the Middle East are all-too-familiar with the street tactics being employed by anti-Donald Trump protesters across the United States. As previously seen on the streets of Europe during highly-coordinated and well-planned political demonstrations, anti-Trump protesters in Chicago, Cleveland, St. Louis, Dayton, and other cities appeared before television cameras waving freshly-printed protest signs. Such "rent-a-mob" actions are trademark signs of the involvement of George Soros and the Central Intelligence Agency's "godfather" of political street violence, Gene Sharp, in disrupting the normal political process.
Soros and Sharp honed their street revolution tactics on the streets of Belgrade in the Bulldozer Revolution that overthrew Serbian president Slobodan Milosevic on October 5, 2000. Two Soros-financed and Sharp-inspired groups, OTPOR! and the Center for Applied Nonviolent Action and Strategies (CANVAS), as well as their leader Srdja Popovic, a so-called pro-democracy agitator, have all been unmasked as US intelligence assets. Popovic has received funding from the CIA- and Mossad-linked U.S. Institute of Peace, a creation of neo-conservatives to advance the type of undemocratic political street disruptions first seen in Serbia and that soon expanded to Ukraine, Georgia, Egypt, Venezuela, Russia, Macedonia, and other countries. Today, Soros-inspired political violence has targeted Trump rallies across the United States.
It has also been discovered that Popovic and his CANVAS non-governmental organization (NGO) has received funding from a former Goldman Sachs executive named Muneer Satter. Satter happened to work at Goldman Sachs with fellow corporate executive Heidi Cruz, the wife of Trump's opponent for the Republican presidential nomination, Senator Ted Cruz of Texas. Although Satter retired from Goldman Sachs in 2012 he continues to serve as vice chairman of the Goldman Sachs Foundation. In 2012, the year that Satter retired from Goldman Sachs, the firm loaned more than $1 million to Cruz's Texas U.S. Senate campaign.
Satter also happens to be close to both President Barack Obama and anti-Trump GOP operative Karl Rove. Satter has donated to both Obama and Rove's Crossroads political action committee. Satter was also the national finance co-chair of Mitt Romney's 2008 and 2012 presidential campaigns. Romney is currently stumping in Ohio for presidential hopeful John Kasich in order to deny Trump the state's wealth of convention delegates. Currently, Satter is the Illinois finance co-chair for Florida Senator Marco Rubio's teetering campaign. However, the Rubio and Kasich campaigns have reportedly been coordinating strategic voting efforts for the March 15 primaries in Florida, Ohio, Illinois, and North Carolina to deny Trump first place. In addition, Cruz has been involved in several dirty tricks operations in GOP primaries to shave votes from his opponents.
Popovic first began to infiltrate American politics by ostensibly supporting the Occupy Wall Street movement. As his ties to the CIA and Goldman Sachs later showed, his intent and that of his financiers were to derail the anti-capitalist popular movement.
Several veteran agents provocateurs of the Occupy Wall Street movement who are now part of the Bernie Sanders presidential campaign have been enlisted by groups like Unbound Philanthropy, an immigrant rights group, to disrupt Trump rallies.
Unbound Philanthropy is funded by Obama's deep-pocketed friend and frequent vacation host in Hawaii, William Reeves, a former J P Morgan executive who now heads up BlueCrest Capital. In some cases, the political protesters masquerade as Trump supporters by wearing pro-Trump shirts and hats in order to gain access to Trump campaign venues. At a rally last month in Tampa, anti-Trump demonstrators were heard planning their coordinated timed-protests from different sections of the University of South Florida's sports arena. In some cases, the protesters got cold feet and decided to forgo staging a protest because of the overflow number of Trump supporters."
CAN WE FACT-CHECK WHAT WE ARE BEING TOLD?
Submitted by akechlo on
What exactly is happening in Central America, South America and Mexico that are killing the natives of color and driving thousands and thousands them fleeing northwards for their lives? From whom are these people running?
We all know South America, Central America and Mexico have some of the most fertile land masses on planet earth! The so called "illegal immigrants", who have been lucky enough to cross in to the USA are the most hardworking and exploited humans! Why are these people leaving their fertile land in order to face death, exploitation and detention in immigration jails in USA?
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The first year into Barack Obama's presidency, 2009, there was a coup in Honduras! What followed was an influx unaccompanied children fleeing for their lives and entering USA southern states and assassinations of natives who lands are targeted for grabs!
http://www.counterpunch.org/2016/03/18/the-political-murder-that-exposed...
http://www.michaelparenti.org/Honduras.html
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Why are thousands of South Sudanese Black Africans, who have lived on this fertile piece arable land along the River Nile for generations, being killed while thousands and thousands others are fleeing for their lives into refugee camps; camps where they are now facing starvation? These are the same camps operated by financially driven international operators! Who are funding these refugee operators?
I recently learned that young refugees (men and women) in these camps are now being subjected to recruitment and armed to fight their own people in the wars whose purposes and aims they do not understand! Who has granted these recruiters access to these vulnerable young men and women in the refugee camps and WHY?
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POOR people of color are being forcefully removed from their homes and lands by a tug team of well organized and well armed global and local elites who are united to wreak havoc on them and make them landless! This is a deliberate and well organized alliance in which the multinational elites and carefully chosen local elites cooperate. In this cooperation, it is the local elites who are giving orders passed to them by multinational elites inflict the brutalization, killing and the displacement of their own poor population! People are being terrorized in order to drive them from their land!
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Before 2011, Libya was one of the most economically stable and rich African countries where many citizens of the neighboring sub-Saharan African countries could go and find jobs to educate their children and feed their families back home! Obama-Hillary team had other plans for Gaddafi and Libya which totally disregarded the lives of Libyan citizens and their sub-Saharan African immigrants which the Libyan economy supported! Can somebody ask who has been the beneficiary of the Libyan failed state?
http://www.thenation.com/article/henry-kissinger-hillary-clintons-tutor-...
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Between January 20, 1993 and January 20, 2001, Bill Clinton was the two terms POTUS and his policies during this period speak volumes, particularly, towards African Americans with the Famous crime Bill!
(A) As Bill Clinton was about to ascend into power, the Bosnian War (1992-1995) broke.
(B) Between 1996--2003, at the height of Bill Clinton's Presidency, two bloody wars (First and Second Congo Wars), in which over 10 million poor African civilians were slaughtered. The Rwandan Genocide and Paul Kagame are the only entities on these two catastrophic wars in the African Great Lakes being recited today. The design of these two wars was a master piece, created and carried out from the neighboring county of Uganda, where President Yoweri Kaguta Museveni still wreaks havoc on the citizens without any news coverage.
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This may not make sense to the majority of citizens who are bombarded with misinformation coming from the mainstream Media. However, one does not have to go too far in the past to understand the tactic! The "EMERGENCY MANAGERS" gig by Governor Rick Snyder in Michigan that gave Flint, LEAD POISONED WATER used similar tactic. This system "empowered" a number of well educated African American players, with SIX FIGURES salary incentives, and set them loose on their fellow Blacks. These individuals pushed all the buttons dictated to them and inflicted irreparable damages to Michigan towns and cities where majority of African American population dwell!
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With every election, of a new POTUS, interest groups do put million$$$ to shape policies beneficial them. Then the demand our votes! Can those African Americans who are staunch supporters of Bill and Hillary help me understand how we as a people has benefited or will benefited by pulling the voting levers in favor of Bill and Hillary Clinton family? Will this team work for us or do we just to cast our votes, take some numbing pills and forget the consequences of that consequential support?
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David Duke, the Aryan Nation, and other the white supremacists have been legal voters, supporting elected officials in US Congress who serve their values for centuries. They serve, incognito, in police force and in the military!
On other hands, Bill and Hillary Clinton 1994 crime bill targeting thousands of African American men and women with long jail sentences have destroyed lives. After leaving jails, these men and women can neither find jobs nor rent an apartment nor vote! They cannot be integrated into their communities or repair their lives! Someone has created an environment in which African American are dysfunctional!
http://www.thenation.com/article/henry-kissinger-hillary-clintons-tutor-...
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