The conflict is deliberate!

the established elite 1% call them what you want encourage racism, misogyny, homophobia and other forms of bigotry. Why? Bigotry among the general population distracts them, and keeps them from recognizing their common interests to sustain a better future for their communities.

It is a strategy among many others like keeping wages low, or debt pressure high, which means workers will be less likely to complain or make demands. As workers struggle to provide their families with all the temptations that a capitalist society offers, they become far less likely to risk their employment, and less able to improve their situation.

This self honored group oppose a woman’s right to choose. Why? Unwanted children are an economic burden that put poor women “over a barrel”, forcing them to work cheap.

This self honored group bray about “morality”, “virtue”, “respect for authority”, “hard work” and other “values”. Why? So they can blame your being “over a barrel” on your own “immorality”, lack of “values” and “poor choices”. It however does not apply to them!

Reasonable enough comment Syria is still intact! I would have thought the support for Iran would be there, it is a strategic area for both Russia and China!

Great article!

What did the Chinese do thirty years ago, they made a decision, a strategic economic development decision
They were going to do what the Soviet Union couldn’t and didn’t do they were not going to hitch their store and there hope to go from being a poor backward country to becoming an industrial powerhouse.

They were going do it by becoming an exporting company, they were going do it by producing cheaply better quality than the West was producing for itself and they knew they could not do that by themselves they needed two things which they didn’t have:

One the technology to produce efficiently cheaply and number two entry, because it’s one thing to produce the stuff you have to distribute it, you have to get a way to get your better cheaper stuff into the markets, that the mass of people with money go to.

The Chinese decision therefore meant they had to cut a deal with the West, they had to cut a deal to acquire the technology and to acquire the distribution system.

Here’s how they did that, they invited companies in Britain, German companies, Japanese companies and American and Canadian companies to come.

They said to them very explicitly we are going to provide you with cheaper labor than you ever dreamed, you would have not just cheap but well-educated disciplined, used to working hard work and we will take care of all of that.

Number two as we develop our economy we will give you entree to sell your products here in China you get the workers and you get the market but the deal was we get the technology; nobody’s stealing anything, no American company had to go there and no one had a gun to their head.

These companies climbed over themselves to sell out the workers of their country in the best of neoliberal tradition!

Good summary!

good assessment Mr Whitney!

I think that was important an significant as well!

Again an interesting piece of information for reference thank you!

Well thanks for all the detailed information appreciate that cleared everything up for me!!!

Sometimes these weasels come unstuck with the right interviewer!

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Fair assessment Mr Whitney! Good article for reference!

That about sums it up!!!!

The House of Saud agreed to take only dollars in exchange for their petroleum No in exchange for protection of their shitty little kingdom!

Good article will certainly spread this one around!

MMT modern monetary theory!

1992-2001 were the best years America ever had. When you’ve seen America that great, it’s hard to forget.

Actually The United States after the second world war was when working Americans had it the greatest!

The United States in the 1950s experienced marked economic growth manufacturing , construction and wages

Actually your comment needs inspection right up to the shitty steel sentence ! The United States created its own problems and that is what empires eventually do!

Where does the knowledge of Empires come from! They acquire it just like everybody else does!

You have embraced neoliberal economics for 3+decades !

Those that own the means of production and those who sell their labor as crucial to the maintenance of capitalism. Its function is to create an obedient, docile, uncritical workforce who will work to support the upper-class’s lifestyle and the economy.

Keeping wages low, or debt pressure high, means workers will be less likely to complain or make demands. As workers struggle to provide their families with all the temptations that a capitalist society offers, they become far less likely to risk their employment, and less able to improve their situation.

At bottom, conservatives believe in a social hierarchy of “haves” and “have nots”. They have taken this corrosive social vision and dressed it up with a “respectable” sounding ideology which all boils down to the cheap labour they depend on to make their fortunes.
The larger the labor supply, the cheaper it is. The more desperately you need a job, the cheaper you’ll work, and the more power those “corporate lords” have over you.

The neoliberals especially don’t like social spending or our “safety net”. Why? Because when you’re unemployed and desperate, corporations can pay you whatever they feel like – which is inevitably as little as possible. You see, they want you “over a barrel” and in a position to “work cheap or starve”.

Cheap-labor elites don’t like the minimum wage, or other improvements in wages and working conditions. Why? These reforms undo all of their efforts to keep you “over a barrel”.

Cheap-labor conservatives like “free trade” agreements. Why? Because there is a huge supply of desperately poor people in the third world who are “over a barrel” and will work cheap.

Cheap-labor neoliberal elites encourage racism, misogyny, homophobia and other forms of bigotry. Why? Bigotry among wage earners distracts them, and keeps them from recognizing their common interests as wage earners.

We are there because we have been steered and directed by neoliberal /neoconservative globalization!

The ugly truth is that these parasites just don’t like working people. They want to see absolutely nothing that benefits those who work for an hourly wage.

Whites, Men, Republicans and Other Scum

And that leaves!

This neoliberal neoconservative project encourages racism, misogyny, homophobia and other forms of bigotry. Why? Bigotry among the masses distracts them, and keeps them from recognizing their common interests to create an society for all.

“American society is morally bankrupt and politically broken, and its vision of the future appears utterly dystopian. As the United States descends into the dark abyss of an updated form of totalitarianism, the unimaginable has become imaginable in that it has become possible not only to foresee the death of the essential principles of constitutional democracy, but also the birth of what Hannah Arendt once called the horror of dark times. The politics of terror, a culture of fear, and the spectacle of violence dominate America’s cultural apparatuses and legitimate the ongoing militarization of public life and American society.” HENRY GIROUX

Casino capitalism has us completely taken us! We will be but a memory in a few hundred years

very clear article the loan is odious!

Your correct you are a neoliberal!
Hudson been around long enough to know how the IMF works !
Be interesting to know which country you refer!!

‘Martyanov names the real enemy of both the Russian and the American people – the US political elites and, especially, the Neocons: they are destroying the US as a country and they are putting all of mankind at risk of nuclear annihilation.’

That is a real problem to be faced! Good article look forward to the book!

You give a reply like that and call him clueless and expect us to consider what you have said in reply! Write something intelligent to consider!!

Well I have three brain cells and I think the perpetrators of the crime was part of the investigation team ! You obviously have four brain cells so it should not be hard to work that out!

good article to match and reference with events! Thanks for the post!

While it is only human for people to become infuriated by unprovoked attacks – these attacks by the US and Israel are designed specifically to provoke a response. Long-term patience is just as important to winning a war as immediate fury.

Sun Tzu stated in the timeless strategic treatise, “The Art of War,” that:
A government should not mobilize an army out of anger, military leaders should not provoke war out of wrath. Act when it is beneficial, desist if it is not. Anger can revert to joy, wrath can revert to delight, but a nation destroyed cannot be restored to existence, and the dead cannot be restored to life.

http://landdestroyer.blogspot.com.au/2018/05/israel-baits-hook-will-syria-bite.html#more

Reading is a wonderful thing but not from the corporate mainstream, You know the ones that feed the military industrial complex!

The Republicans and the Democrats are two factions of the one party! The corporate democrats would even rather Trump in place than Bernie Sanders. Working people in America essentially are not represented and if any attempt is made to represent working people this is what happens

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Just what the world needs another opinion from a middle class white man!

The illusion of choice to the American people! Every four years the circus comes to town! The two parties represent two sides of the same coin!

An incomplete picture is also being drawn by you as well!

Thanks for the reply Carlton! I think your reply of more value !

To keep your puppet on the line you put pressure on them!

Wolfowitz doctrine » of 1992, according to which Washington must conserve its advance over the rest of the world by hindering the development of all potential competitors ………..
In 1992, he wrote that the most dangerous competitor of the United States was the European Union, and that Washington should destroy it politically, even economically.

NATO’s manifesto has always been to keep the Americans in control Russia out and Germany down!

And what did the intervention and bombing, exploitation, dislocation and playing one group of people of against another do for the people in third world countries invaded by the West and indeed empire?
There is an old biblical saying “We reap what we sow”

Richard Broinowski is President of the New South Wales Chapter of the Australian Institute of International Affairs, a writer, and a former Australian Ambassador to the Republic of Korea.

similar sentiments

http://johnmenadue.com/?p=10120

Meanwhile what is going on in Mosel or Yemen! Does anyone really care!

Both groups are not socialist!

“Frankly, it’s an idea that I find attractive, mainly because I think Trump’s views on immigration, the environment, human rights, civil liberties and deregulation are so uniformly horrible, they could destroy the country. But the Times objections are different from my own. The reason the Times wants Trump removed is because Trump wants to normalize relations with Russia which threatens to undermine Washington’s effort to project US power deeper into Central Asia.”

Trump basically upsets the Washington consensus and their little neocon plans! As always Mike some thought behind your articles!

How independent is this organisation!

In April 2015 TI defended the decision by its American chapter, TI-USA, to give Hillary Clinton its Integrity Award in 2012. TI’s statement followed a report by National Public Radio that Bill and Chelsea Clinton were not factual regarding the transparency of the Clinton Foundation.
It has the smell of the corporate sector all over it!

The corporate elite are firmly in control!
http://www.blacklistednews.com/Meet_the_Neocons%2C_911_Criminals_and_Goldman_Bankers_On_Team_Trump/55231/0/38/38/Y/M.html

Wonderful review of recent history it is a pity the facts are missing!

From another retired Marine General Smedley D Butler Major general US marine core twice decorated with the Medal of Honor!
“War is a racket. It always has been.
It is possibly the oldest, easily the most profitable, surely the most vicious. It is the only one international in scope. It is the only one in which the profits are reckoned in dollars and the losses in lives…………..
The only way to smash this war racket is to conscript capital and industry, before the nation’s manhood can be conscripted. Let officers and the directors and the high powered executives of our armament factories and our steel companies and our munitions makers and our shipbuilders, and our airplane builders and the manufacturers that provide anything that profits from war together with the bankers and the speculators be conscripted on the same wage as a foot soldier”

Ukraine’s President Petro Poroshenko requests the supreme court of Ukraine to declare that his predecessor, Viktor Yanukovych, was overthrown by an illegal operation; in other words, that the post-Yanukovych government, including Poroshenko’s own Presidency, came into power from a coup, not from something democratic, not from any authentic constitutional process at all.

http://www.globalresearch.ca/ukraines-president-poroshenko-says-overthrow-of-yanukovych-was-a-coup/5457631

There is a lot to read out there maybe you should start!

Agree she is a war monger and her record is there as as an example! I am only interested in foreign policy of the United States and Trump is at least taking advice from more realistic sources Michael T Flynn is one case in point!

Interesting article and one that shows a new element to the struggle. The Turks as with the Israelis are good at fighting people who cannot fight back but when you have a seasoned fighting force different story! Maybe when they are faced with a touch of uncertainty and dire consequences it will produce a peaceful rational outcome!

Russia has been playing and excellent strategy in restoring the state of Syria with compliance to the rules. One can only imagine the chaos if they were not supporting the government of Syria! A good summary of the state of play. I only hope cool heads will prevail like those on the Russian and Syrian side.