#America’s #Drive for #World #Domination

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“Appeasement” as Global Policy. Trump’s “Will to Power”. America’s Drive for World Domination

By Prof. James Petras, June 08 2018

EU kowtowing to President Trump’s grab for global power, has only aroused his desire to dominate their markets, dictate their trade relations and defense spending. Trump tells the EU that his enemies are theirs. Trump believes in the doctrine of unilateral trade and ‘deals’ based on the principle that the US decides.

The US Government Survey on ‘Precarious’ Jobs

By Dr. Jack Rasmus, June 08 2018

The US Government’s Labor Department today, June 7, 2018, released a report on the condition of

Deconstructing #Obama’s #Demagoguery in #Hiroshima

Stephen Lendman

His speeches make painful listening - a litany of deception, Big Lies, and for Hiroshima and Nagasaki victims and survivors, continued coverup of one of history’s great crimes - massacring civilians gratuitously.

Obama saying “(w)e come to mourn the dead” ignores US responsibility for mass murder and endless wars of aggression - notably post-9/11.

Saying “(w)e stand here in the middle of this city (and) force ourselves to feel the dread of children…listen to a silent cry…remember all the innocents killed” in global wars, especially WW II, begs the question of why America nuked Japan twice when it was defeated in process of surrendering.

Obama: “(W)e have a shared responsibility to look directly into the eye of history and ask what we must do differently to curb such suffering again.”

Fact: US wars of aggression against countries threatening no one leaves millions of casualties in their wake, endless suffering over and over again.

Obama: “(T)he memory of the morning of Aug. 6, 1945, must never fade. That memory allows us to fight complacency. It fuels our moral imagination. It allows us to change.”

Fact: America is morally depraved, change unattainable, its aim for unchallenged world dominance overrides peace, stability and other considerations.

Obama: “(S)ince that fateful day, we have made choices that give us hope.”

Fact: Today is the most perilous time in world history. Reality is polar opposite the fantasy Obama presented - claiming “international community established institutions and treaties…work to avoid war.” They rage out-of-control in multiple theaters, America bearing full responsibility.

Obama: We “aspire to restrict and roll back and ultimately eliminate the existence of nuclear weapons.”

Fact: America intends spending a trillion dollars in the next 30 years upgrading its nuclear arsenal, making it more ominous and destructive than ever.

Obama: “We must change our mindset about war itself to prevent conflict through diplomacy and strive to end conflicts after they’re begun.”

Fact: The self-described peace candidate waged and continues waging endless wars of aggression every day throughout his tenure. They serve America’s imperial agenda. Peace defeats it.

Obama: “The irreducible worth of every person, the insistence that every life is precious, the radical and necessary notion that we are part of a single human family - that is the story that we all must tell.”

Fact: Longstanding US policy since the beginning of the republic reflects contempt for human life and welfare, insistence that government serve its privileged elites alone.

Social Security, Medicare, civil rights legislation and other beneficial measures enacted earlier were more about saving and preserving capitalism than instituting social democracy.

Obama saying “we come to Hiroshima (to) think of people we love” mocks the reality of daily life caused by US lawlessness, the endless pain and suffering, the possibility of US-launched nuclear war consuming us all.

Imperial madness makes today’s threat greater than ever.

#Alamo 1836 vs #Hiroshima 1945

Of all the stupid parroted cliches surrounding World War II, the "justification" for dropping Atomic Bombs on Japanese civilians has got to rank as one of the most annoying, most persistent, and most disgusting of them all. You know the routine: "We would have lost at least 100,000 men if we had to invade the mainland. The Atomic Bombs saved the lives of American soldiers." 

It's time we lay this conscience-soothing falsehood to rest. Apart from the fact that it was FDR who set Asia ablaze in the first place by encouraging China to continue fighting Japan (which anyone who has read 'The Bad War' knows by now); and apart from the fact that FDR provoked and had foreknowledge of the justifiable Japanese attack on Pearl Harbor Naval Base (which anyone who has read 'The Bad War' knows by now); and apart from the fact that Japan in 1945 had been trying for months to negotiate an honorable surrender (which anyone who has read 'The Bad War' knows by now) - the argument (rationalization) for dropping not one, but two A-bombs in order to "save lives" is also morally invalid and extremely offensive, on its own - even if one hasn't read 'The Bad War'.

To illustrate both the moral and logical folly of the "bombing Hiroshima and Nagasaki saved American lives" line of reasoning, let us go back to 1836 and revisit "The Battle of the Alamo", with a twist.

The Battle of the Alamo (February 23 – March 6, 1836) was a pivotal event in the Texas Revolution. Following a 2-week siege, Mexican troops under President General Antonio López de Santa Anna launched

#Nuclear #Weapons: Making Us Feel #Secure

by “Threatening Armageddon”

“We prepare for our extinction in order to assure our survival” - 

Jonathan Schell (American author)

By Jim McCluskey

The terrifying film ‘The man who saved the world’ has been showing in London. Stanislaw Petrov, who appears himself in the film, was the lieutenant colonel in charge of the Russian early warning system when the electronic alarms blared deafeningly and insistently in his command centre. All checks confirmed that there was no malfunction. They confirmed a nuclear attack from the US was on its way. It was not possible to wait for radar confirmation of the incoming ballistic missiles because by that time it would be too late to retaliate. Petrov knew that if he reported the alarm to the high command they would immediately order a retaliatory strike¹ initiating a global nuclear war and the end of most of the human race. On his own imitative he decided that he did not trust the computers and did nothing.

The author Steve Taylor, in his book ‘The Fall’, expresses the view that the human race became, to a significant degree, insane about six thousand years ago when we introduced warfare as a way of ‘solving’ disputes. It is difficult to deny that it is insane to set up a system in which it is down to the humanity of one man to save the planet. The insanity is compounded when we realise that, rather than learning from the past, we have perpetuated the same mad system. We even call it MAD (Mutual Assured Destruction).

Over a thousand nuclear weapons are held, right now, ready for launch at the press of a button. Missiles travel at more than fifteen thousand miles an hour so we are entirely dependent on computers to warn of an attack. We know that computers malfunction. But those manning the early warning centres are rigorously