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Total number of comments: 15 (since 2013-11-28 16:53:29)

LillithMc

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  • The US Role in Turning Countries into Shitholes and provoking Immigration
    • Alfreda Weiss 01/12/2018 at 11:30 am

      For me the process began in Vietnam where US corporations are now supported by the US Navy port and use the equivalent of slave labor to sell products in what is left of the West. The US was made by being the only nation after WWII that was not blown up. So it became predatory too.

  • Nearly a year after Trump bombed Syria, al-Assad and Russia extend control
    • Alfreda Weiss 01/12/2018 at 11:26 am

      I remember a Syrian in a camp in Europe trying to get his family out of Syria. He said climate change destroyed their ability to feed themselves. When they went to Assad they got nothing beyond violence I add. Notice in Yemen multiple fatal viruses are killing the people while the bombs fall. How brutal and immoral are these military attacks done as proxy wars with no concern about what lives in the carnage.

  • Under Saudi Bombs, Yemen hit by 500,000 Cholera Cases
    • Alfreda Weiss 08/15/2017 at 12:34 pm

      Yemen is a photo of the horrors of the "wars" done on their land by proxies with no concern for what they do to the people who live there.

  • Washington's Supreme Hypocrisy on Chemical Weapons and Civilian Deaths
    • Alfreda Weiss 04/06/2017 at 12:10 pm

      We do not know what really happened in Syria. We know Kushner was in Iraq with the Joint Chiefs. Tillerson went to Turkey. Trump met with Egypt. Trump's Ambassador right-wing Friedman is in Israel.

  • Is Bruited Sec. of State Tillerson allied with Iran & at war with Iraq?
    • freddieweiss 12/11/2016 at 3:09 pm with 2 replies

      Trump is heavily involved in an oil and gas exploration with Putin and Exxon that Obama stopped when he sanctioned Russia for Crimea. The ease that they could get Trump elected President when Putin calls him his "useful idiot" says much about the FOX-heads, control of red states and Republicans who are happy to be neo-fascists. We see the decline in life terms just like when Russia collapsed in 1990.
      USINC is now connected to Exxon, Putin and oil around the world. Your tax-dollars go to them, not to the residents of the US.

  • 10 Things Weiner did Worse than Storing H. Clinton Emails on his computer
    • Alfreda Weiss 10/29/2016 at 12:22 pm

      Comey, as a Bush appointee, is playing politics or trying to protect himself while he ignores his boss Director Lynch head of the Dept. of Justice. The media ignore all of Trump's crimes giving him free media for 2 years while Clinton is investigated non-stop using tax-payer money. Time to send the GOP out of office.

  • Can Americans get back their Democracy from the Oligarchy?
    • Alfreda Weiss 07/17/2016 at 6:57 am

      California was under the thumb of Republicans for many years in a version of the oligarchy now in charge of the federal government. When we elected a Democrat we got some changes that make a difference. It is not hopeless, but time under the thumb of the dark side leads to the police carnage, gun carnage and lack of safety living under the power of money before people. Change can not come soon enough.

  • The Bernie Sanders Miracle: American Crowd in Brooklyn Cheers Palestinian Dignity
    • Alfreda Weiss 04/17/2016 at 7:40 am

      Bernie Sanders is a very brave man who knows what he believes and decided to act on it. Very risky in the US at this time in history.

  • Bernie Sanders launches "Political Revolution" w/ 100K Virtual House Partiers
    • Alfreda Weiss 07/30/2015 at 1:41 pm

      This is how to begin a movement from the people. Those who met and organized last night can last past the election to make changes locally, statewide and on the federal level. It is the only way to counter the effects of the billionaires and wealthy few who own and run U$INC.

  • Israeli PM Netanyahu Is a National Security Risk—And Washington Knows It
    • Alfreda Weiss 11/10/2014 at 2:43 am

      Bibi is friends with the far right and assumes after the patsy Obama finishes cleaning up some of the disaster left by Bushco the powers that run the US will put the GOP back in charge and do whatever Bibi wants. That is why Bibi goes out of his way to insult Obama to please his Republican friends.

  • Is Rula Jebreal right about US Media Bias against Palestinians?
    • LillithMc 07/24/2014 at 12:26 pm with 1 replies

      Prime Minister Netanyahu has shown obvious and often rude preference for Republicans in the US. He extends this prejudice toward Secretary of State Kerry who is trying to stop the carnage in Gaza. Time for Israel to be concerned about living conditions in Gaza. Also time for Hamas to back down on their hatred of Israel and admit they can not destroy Israel. The solution is not military so stop the killings and begin to talk.

  • Anthony Bourdain on Palestinians: "The World has visited many terrible things on" them, robbed of their Humanity
    • LillithMc 05/22/2014 at 2:43 pm

      On CNN Tony seems able to include politics into his programs. His recent visit to Mexico City was shocking in the effect on private people of their control by the same drug cartel that once ran Columbia. He has a heart and is a good man to report honestly about the condition of the countries he now visits.

  • Logical Errors and Propaganda in Republican Debate on the Middle East
    • Alfreda Weiss 02/23/2012 at 2:26 pm with 1 replies

      You say Gingrich and I say Adelson. 5 billionaires supporting the GOP candidates. Soon we will be asked to approve their selections without a vote.

  • Olbermann Departs, as Media Consolidate Further
    • LillithMc 01/23/2011 at 12:49 pm with 1 replies

      Schultz got the deep six with his new time slot and Cenk Uygur moved up. I will not watch Cenk who is the corporate dream when he bashes Obama and says little of substance. Maddow is the best. The media is owned by rich men who don't want to support their families. They like the violent insanity of the right and spend billions to keep the lies coming. There is no balance and the false equivalencies are specious. None of the mess in the US is by accident. Next will be the internet devoid of content. Notice how the FCC has been captured.

  • Beck Subtext: Obama Planning to Assassinate Tea Partiers
    • LillithMc 07/21/2010 at 5:51 pm with 1 replies

      Good idea to be concerned. The pattern is not only crazy talk, but threats of violence. The NAACP has received over 100 threats of violence since they called the Tea Party racists. Alan Grayson also was targeted this week with someone willing to pay if someone else beat him up. It is a constant pattern. FOX news was irresponsible or worse this week with their doctored video of Shirley Sherrod. Their ACORN attack is now in court. We need a spotlight on this intimidation. This is not a "democratic" process or even consistent with the Constitution and "free speech".

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