#IndependenceDay Hypocrisy, Not #Democracy

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Independence Day Hypocrisy, Not Democracy

By Stephen Lendman, July 04 2016

On July 4, 1776, America gained independence from Britain. Everything changed but stayed the same under new management – the way the framers planned it. Today we’d call them a Wall Street crowd – a deplorable bunch, including bankers, merchants, planters, ship owners, lawyers, politicians, judges, slave owners and traders, speculators, smugglers, privateers, and other type wheeler-dealers. 

 

The Orlando Shootings: Police SWAT Team Involved in the Killings?

By Prof Michel Chossudovsky, July 02 2016

“Officers may have shot Orlando Club patrons” “the possibility that some victims may have been killed by officers trying to save them.” … [A]uthorities are investigating whether some of those killed were hit by friendly fire” 

 

The International Criminal Court (ICC) Will Not Prosecute Tony Blair, Others Are Planning To

By Felicity Arbuthnot, July 03 2016

“But then, once in a lifetime the longed for tidal wave of justice can rise up,and hope and history rhyme. Believe that a further shore is reachable from here. Believe in miracles.” (Seamus Heaney, 1939-2013, “The Cure at Troy.”) 

 

Canada’s Foreign Policy: “Copy and Paste” of Washington’s War Crimes Agenda

America’s Independence Day. The Meaning of the 1791 Constitution

Ironies in the Fireworks: America’s Independence Day. The Meaning of the 1791 Constitution

By William Boardman

What would the Fourth of July be without nostalgia?

In the nostalgic spirit of the Fourth of July, here are some of the things that seemed important 27 years ago, at least to the editor of the Progressive:

— President Reagan was promoting the Strategic Defense Initiative, a theoretical missile defense system referred to as “Star Wars” that continues to cost billions of dollars a year (well past $100 billion total, no one really knows how much) without useful accomplishment for the nation. Reagan promised that the program would make nuclear missiles “impotent and obsolete.”

— Military spending continued to remain larger and to grow faster than any other budget category worldwide. There were roughly 15 wars being fought.

— U.S. advisors and CIA personnel continued to train and work with government-supported death squads in El Salvador

— Conservative William F. Buckley was advised that “This is the moment for skillful diplomacy. We need to go a step further than to leave our bases in the Philippines at the mercy of democratic whimsy.” 

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