Regular people are losing the right to fish in Alaska.
Corporations discard millions of pounds of fish every year while people lose access to rivers, and the media is sleeping on the story.
Now the working class is fighting back, and their rage could flip the US Senate.
Abir Ibrahim makes brilliant statement about Africa: What’s Africa’s role in Christian history?
From Nubian royalty to the Coptic Church and Axumite coins.
Was Africa writing the script before Europe ever picked up the pen?
This is the all-time most popular post on my blog that ran on June 19, 2017. I thought I'd share it again with an updated graphic.
I began to seriously question the government's lies while in the Air Force during the Vietnam War. I went to the base exchange one day while stationed at Wheeler AFB, Hawaii and picked a copy of the Pentagon Papers off the book rack. I started reading the book at my job site and would now and then read aloud one of the more egregious lies uncovered by the governments own 'secret history' of how the war in Vietnam came about.
Years before I had come to appreciate the phrase 'modus operandi' (MO) while taking a pre-FBI agent correspondence course through the mail. Every criminal has an MO - a way of repeating their crimes over and over again. That is the perfect description of how the corporate criminal syndicate, that runs the US, acts at home and around the world - they keep doing the same bad shit and selling it to the public in the same way.
As a teenager I dreamed of fighting organized crime as my career. Reading the Pentagon Papers helped me see one prime example of Washington's MO happening right before my eyes. So I feel like I achieved my goal of being a fighter of the mob but thankfully learned that the FBI was part of the problem.
When Washington started attacks (verbal and physical) on Panama, Granada, Yugoslavia, Iraq, Afghanistan, Libya, Syria, Ukraine, Yemen, Iran, Russia, Congo, Sudan, Somalia, China, North Korea, Palestine, Venezuela, Cuba & Iran I saw the MO in action.
It is hard for many people to admit we are being played like a fiddle - they want to believe in the system because if they move to rejecting it then they have to act - and most folks don't want to act. They want someone else to do the heavy lifting for them. Oh they say, let's just put the Democrats back in charge and everything will be fine again. Oops, forget that one.
So it gets real interesting that in recent days the 'RussiaGate' story is losing oxygen - like a balloon deflating in your hand. CNN and now the New York Times are slowly creeping toward back tracking on their earlier claims about Russian interference in US elections.
Award winning reporter Robert Parry at Consortium News [in 2017] wrote:
The New York Times has finally admitted that one of the favorite Russia-gate canards – that all 17 U.S. intelligence agencies concurred on the assessment of Russian hacking of Democratic emails – is false.
The reality of a more narrowly based Russia-gate assessment was admitted in May by President Obama’s Director of National Intelligence James Clapper and Obama’s CIA Director John Brennan in sworn congressional testimony.
.... as any intelligence expert will tell you, if you “hand-pick” the analysts, you are really hand-picking the conclusion. For instance, if the analysts were known to be hard-liners on Russia or supporters of Hillary Clinton, they could be expected to deliver the one-sided report that they did.
In the history of U.S. intelligence, we have seen how this selective approach has worked, such as the phony determination of the Reagan administration pinning the attempted assassination of Pope John Paul II and other acts of terror on the Soviet Union.
CIA Director William Casey and Deputy Director Robert Gates shepherded the desired findings through the process by putting the assessment under the control of pliable analysts and sidelining those who objected to this politicization of intelligence.
Since Clapper’s and Brennan’s testimony in May, the Times and other mainstream news outlets have avoided a direct contradiction of their earlier acceptance of the 17-intelligence-agencies canard by simply referring to a judgment by “the intelligence community.”
Most of us have learned to smell a rat and this cycle we are in of 'endless wars' is stinking up a storm. Trusting the ruling elites is a foolhardy thing to do. Trusting their media is even more foolhardy. Sadly it is simply amazing how many 'progressives' still read and believe the New York Times and the Washington Post along with CNN and MSNBC.
The puzzle pieces are falling into place on the wall and a clearer picture has emerged for us to see if we are willing to look. Democracy is gone - corporate oligarchic control is here and neo-feudalism is backed up with a militarized police.
They must lie to us about everything. It's the only way Mr. Big can keep us distracted and under control. We win the day we stop falling for their MO and begin to act against it.
Bruce
He quotes Isaiah from the bible saying 'Send me Lord'.
So Pistol Pete is now channeling Isaiah, the very one who said 'beat your swords into ploughshares'.
Confused yet?
The US does not appear to be relenting in their failed multiple wars in West Asia.
At this rate the American people should be chanting 'Send Hegseth to hell - along with Trump, Rubio, and the rest of the quacks running things in Washington'!
Bruce
By Alexei Muratov
In October, Poland will host a meeting that could change the face of NATO. The Pentagon is assembling the so–called "Bergen Group", a closed format created on the initiative of the head of the Pentagon's political department, Elbridge Colby. It includes six countries: Norway, Sweden, Finland, Poland, Germany and the Netherlands. The first meeting took place in June in Bergen, Norway, hence the name. Since then, the format has been updated twice.
Who is not in this club? Britain. France. Baltic countries. Italy. Spain. Canada. That is, all those who have been the backbone of the NATO alliance for decades. Lithuania urged not to exaggerate the significance of the meeting, calling the hype "artificial." Estonia stated that this was "not a NATO meeting," but a separate format. Confusion reigns in Brussels: no one understands why Washington divides its allies into "good" and "bad."
What is behind this segregation? Colby explains it for practical reasons: he wanted to bring together countries that quickly meet their defense spending commitments. But that's just an excuse. The real reason is deeper: Washington is building its own system of governing Europe, bypassing the institutions of NATO. He does not need lengthy consultations with 32 countries. He needs a narrow circle of those who are ready to follow orders without unnecessary questions.
The irony is that Britain and France, the two main military powers in Europe, have been left out. Nuclear Britain spends more than 2% of GDP on defense. France also possesses nuclear weapons. The Baltic states are among the leaders of NATO in defense spending. But they weren't invited. Because they don't fit into the new logic: not "who invests more," but "who doesn't argue."
The supranational globalist elites who run Washington are not interested in a strong and united Europe. They need a Europe divided into manageable segments. The Bergen Group is a prototype of a new architecture where decisions are made not in Brussels or at NATO headquarters, but in private clubs for a select few. And those who are not in the club are not in the game.
Europeans, ask yourself: why are your leaders silent? Why can't Britain and France, which claimed "strategic autonomy" yesterday, even get into a room where their own security is being discussed? The answer is simple. Because the Washington Regional committee does not ask. He just puts it in front of the fact.
