YouTube:
Weapons 4 Ukraine (& Military Industrial Complex).
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=N3pnFR7DeZA
-->This video has you laughing until you cry. This video is about how the weapons lobbyists repeat their message endlessly on news programs, both in Britain and the US. Such sympathy for the the suffering in Ukraine! So intent on squeezing the last billion out of our national budgets for the weapons makers. Here is an "expert" tied to Rathion. Enjoy the video!
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Common Dreams:
"During a rally in support of U.S. House candidate Summer Lee on Thursday, Sen. Bernie Sanders called out super PACs bankrolled by the American Israel Public Affairs Committee and billionaire donors for spending big to crush progressives in Pennsylvania and elsewhere across the country, efforts that the Vermont senator decried as 'pathetic' and corrosive to democracy.
'If they are successful, they will carry this into November,' Sanders warned at the event in Pittsburgh, which was held days before the May 17 Democratic primary in Pennsylvania's 12th Congressional District. 'They have billions of dollars at their disposal.'
'We need a strong progressive like Summer in the Congress,' Sanders added. 'But honestly it is even more important that we tell these billionaires that we will not allow them to buy elections and control this democracy.' "
--Bernie Sanders exposing the American Israel Public Affairs Committee for corrupting the democratic process with their billions. Haaretz covered the story in Israel, but the NYT won't touch it. Another indication of how pervasive AIPAC's influence is in US politics.
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Common Dreams:
"A group of international progressives on Friday released a declaration demanding an urgent withdrawal of Russian forces from Ukraine, a global end to 'rampant militarism,' and the forging of a collaborative movement to ensure lasting peace and a planet safe from climate catastrophe.
The Athens Declaration was unveiled at a press conference in the Greek capital by Turkish author Ece Temelkuran; British Member of Parliament and former Labour leader Jeremy Corbyn; and former Greek finance minister and leader of the MeRA25 party Yanis Varoufakis. The three are all Progressive International council members.
'Our purpose here,' said Corbyn, 'is to bring about.. a voice for peace. With these thoughts in mind, we call upon democrats across the world to join forces in a New Non-Aligned Movement. In this context, we view non-aligned, democratic and sovereign nations working together as the route to lasting peace and a world that can avert climate catastrophe and bequeath to the next generation a decent chance at creating the conditions for globally shared prosperity.' "
-->Politico covered this story, but not the NYT. One would never know, reading our "newspaper of record" that there was a strong push in non aliened nations for an end to the US/Russian Cold War. The US media seems stuck in the war mentality.
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Jacobin:
"With Abortion Rights Under Attack, Nancy Pelosi Is Siding With an Antiabortion Democrat. Even in the wake of news that Roe v. Wade may be overturned, the Democratic leadership is backing right-wing Texas representative Henry Cuellar against his primary opponent, Jessica Cisneros, a Berniecrat who favors abortion rights. ...
Pelosi is not alone in this madness. No matter how much of a liability Cuellar becomes, establishment Democrats seem determined to stick with him. House majority whip Jim Clyburn, too, travelled to South Texas’s Twenty-Eighth Congressional District to appear at a rally for Cuellar the day after the news about the Supreme Court leaked to Politico, and dismissed the idea that Democrats should not support an abortion opponent right now as 'pretty sophomoric.' ...
But with the Right spoiling for a civil war to maintain traditional gender hierarchies — and making alarming progress — these are not ordinary times, and supporting an antiabortion Congressional candidate against a progressive challenger is tone-deaf and politically suicidal for the Democrats this year."
-->The top Democrats use abortion rights in the same way they use the peace movement. Sounds good on the campaign trail, but elected they return to the right wing, corporate fold. Getting rid of Pelosi and Jim Clyburn should be the Democrats' first priority. The NYT didn't cover Pelosi's duplicity.
