While "camanal" may be the whitehouse of info, the www remains the pablum for people; What was once info-sharing has become an advertising and commercial goldmine.
50million/7billion is about fear mongering and consumer attraction.
The only defence is mindfulness.
Potus simply does not understand beyond his fragile psyche; what would be a cute comment at a dinner table or on an open-mike stage, is ludicrous and moronic from an elected official.
We have been dumbed/numbed-down to the level of an abused spouse or dog to not respond with criticism of the cruelty/fear of jester.
Potus cannot even look at the audience when referring to CAN P.M. - stares at the floor.
An highschool freshman would demonstrat more sincerity.
Your "toilet" imagery is beautiful in its dirtiness.
Keep writing.
Politicization by Republicans is their air; Reich is correct and even cautious - indictment/impeachment actions now will gain [not diminish] support for potus' ouster.
Might be that the real fear by Dems is that potus will meltdown in lethal ways.
Potus feeds on fear, uses fear as power.
Potus' puppet masters/minders created terror by their greed, and use terror as power builder.
Stop murdering in ME and terror will stop.
Protest Loudly.
Vacuum after potus' exit can only be good for the world; usa is a killing machine.
You give potus too much power - usa/the state has NO "impetus to excel" other than at killing weaker peoples.
Your invisible flag waving will fuel further humanitarian distress.
<>
Nice writing with the exception of the paragraph above.
The 11Sept flyers did not come from Malta, the stock portfolios did not tank, Salman et alia "realise" the Sunni challenges, etc...
You cannot have it both ways without being a hypocrite; absolutist is absolutist - 110$Bn [not from potus - from exxon and jpmchase!] in weaponry -not food or medicine - is american absolutism.
Oligarchs holding hands!
You seem to be afraid as saudi critics of getting jailed and tortures.
Return to straight talking, professor, please.
Thank you for another look at potus' oppressive aggression against Citizens and against the laws of the land.
Please continue to write against fear mongering.
It ain't them - snot-nosed or worse!
It is We The People who buy their shyte.
The People choose violence over dialogue.
The People will be entertained to Death.
peotus may be wrong about DE; he may not be wrong about Merkel, NATO, and others - he ain't no diplo.
usa voted for change, and may experience change after his election is formalized.
His slapdown of bush et cie is especially welcome; his domestic agenda will fall very short of desired changes.
Keep writing.
Thank you for facing fear and falsehood with facts; oligarchy/plutocrats won't let peotus damage their golden geese, so that means lying tweets/rants are smoke/mirror pablum to calm the Citizens. Keep writing.
Beware appointee D Friedeman - beyond maps and reasonable thought.
usa not helping israelis to help themselve - same as usa: no external saviours.
Protest Loudly!
Thank you for this detailed clarification;
M. Marty's element no. six is potus-elect's battle-cry.
usa feeds on fear with wa d.c. as chef & waiter.
Keep writing the truth about the ME.
trump as an accessory - remains on ballots.
Mass destruction & civilians - where were the skills taught?
Hate crimes now given a pass.
bush, clintons, potus all push/ed fear.
Indict & Impeach.
"spooked or pretext"... "... was likely friendly fire and a simple mistake."
Both of your initial remarks must be caused by fatigue to be so misleading.
Non-usa leaders do not become spooked; they possess a long-term outlook that potus' lost after LBJ.
Putin does not deal in pretext - look to usa for that, since 1812.
Large mis-targeting is not accidental - lack of any responsibility connotes usa hubris.
Prof. Cole, please don't abandon your réalistique standards.
Excellent response to lopsided media coverages of murderous events.
¿Does not controlled mediæ pre-date trump's inability to be complete and truthful? hrc and trump as puppets.
usa beginning to peek behind the curtain.
Protest Loudly.
Prof. Cole,
All know that t. CAN be sued; please be open and clear about your belief as to whether 1] can he successfully be convicted of incitement? Or, 2] are such suits are frivolous and pointless?
Your response above to your reader leans toward no. 2.
I welcome your clarification.
We bought everything we wanted to buy!
No one forced us.
We have our own prior actions to point to as motivations.
Look at the candidates/sociopaths/warmongers that we have chosen so far.
We have purchased exactly what we have wanted!
If you're no happy - Protest Loudly.
mr t. is correct in that potus has done little/nothing to END occupation, oppression and murder - even con-gress can't/ doesn't call them wars.
And yes, shrub initiated and continued actions that generated blowback gangs such as aq & is
Sound like you agree with trump;
DISCUSSION is that which republicans/trump/oligarchs DO NOT want.
Any thirdgrade student saying such a thing would cause a lockdown and thereby be interrogated by legal authorities.
A new slate of puppets is called for.
No need for name change; DParty means oppression, imperialistic war, poor education and health services, kleptomania and oligarchy. . . .
Thanks for calling this psychopathy out.
Nato is not acting defensively at Poland - aggression is the neoCon only way
A state Dept that advocates physical hostility is a war Dept.
¡Defund the usa dod!
¿What's with the final "ever" in your essay?
Reads as if you're finalizing the exprez' actions.
Positive change will emerge in the west to recognize and support Palestinian human/political rights.
Final two [ 2 ] paragraphs are not coherent.
Dæsh has never HAD territory - it occupies;
¿What is a reverse snowball? And "dwindle away" has not happened since 2001 and this terror war perpetrated by usa.
Attracting mercenaries is not healthy strategy; the west is one culprit; imperialism is the transgressor.
No one has been pushed to the Left - especially hrc; on every single point mentioned above, hrc will bounce back/return to the corporate lockstep in true psychopathique hypocritical nature.
As isræl sidles up to ECR.
Oligarchy all around.
One would have to believe HIS actions would be different from HIS rhetoric . . .
Bought his way onto abc teevee - same as hrc
Oligarchic robber barons
And psychopaths
Sanders or green party
Headline in total error - not an ounce of passion in the marionette.
Also not sure of reason for publicizing w's and jeb's presence.
Was looking for IC's forward leading insights rather than shrub family pathos.
Sir,
Forget the gop - there is only one oligarchy in DC.
And your final Goldwater/tramp contrast is mistaken - Regan is the tramp; Goldwater was the sane one for the party.
Too many maybe-s/too much weaseling in your essay.
Your and Hostader's use of "feeling" and "sense of" diminish/dis the realities of tramp's Followers; they are indeed full of fear and their environment is indeed less than healthy.
What is sickly is that their paranoias have bases in a plummeting world/society.
Stop the Immoral and Illegal Wars!
Indict & Impeach!
The main points made above are that the Net has become a Consumerism Playground, and its oligarchs - Apple, FB, giggle, et al - will not limit themselves in order to forstall abuses by terror groups.
When your not party to the solution, . . .
So POLLS are the new "political reality";
Thankyou for that thunderbolt.
When potus is "...way out ahead..." it will be when war is ended, diplomacy transparent and perps such as shrub, cheney, et al are prosecuted.
¿Israël says "when" to ratification?
¿Persons on street?
or
¿Knesset?
Either one, and we see no action forthcoming.
Headline question is empire's way of claiming rationality, of appearing sane. Not so. Greedy psychopaths, each
..."Don’t listen to his expansive four-stage program or his retooled, stage-managed John Wayne rhetoric. Look at his metaphors. He is telling those who have ears to hear that he is pulling a Yemen in Iraq and Syria. He knows very well what that implies. It is a sort of desultory, staccato containment from the air ..."
Defensive, Professor?
Focus on his metaphors?
Your hitherto excellent insights are now coöpted to support potus'
Compare to golan property losses, and then look at usa creating it's own enemies.
Potus is warring and doesn't know with whom!
Stop the Illegal and Immoral wars!
Paragraph six: ... (The Oklahoma City bombings caused LE to be cautious in confronting the far right extremists; maybe that’s why they are monitoring millions of innocent people instead, who they know won’t push back.)...
Your best insight yet, Prof COLE.
Stop The Illegal And Immoral Wars!
Your last sentence in your thoughtful and experience-filled essay is the total of Usa foreign policy - and with the cover of scotus, is now domestic policy.
Thank you for your honesty.
"...some measures taken by the Indian government in protest have been childish. It removed the barriers in front of the US embassy in New Delhi that prevent suicide car bombers from getting close to the building. It is one thing to tell people to drop dead, it is another to arrange for them to do so."
Desperate people\nations act childishly, Prof Cole - Usa and India; potus ignoring the 4th Amndmnt goes beyond childish to Treasonous, Traitorous and criminally Impeachable!
Keep writing.
Stop The Illegal and Immoral Wars!
Good perspective, Professor.
The disHonourable senator doesn't attend her own committees' meetings.
She doesn't represent Calif.
Senate hearings are photoOps with witnesses speaking to empty chairs!
"...This current nonsense of trying to claim that we can offer the middle class all of the benefits they want and tax cuts too is unsupportable pandering. "
Bill, what you see is not pandering. What you see is unmitigated fear and greed on the part of those who 'have'; there is not offering of benefits, and there is no offering of taxcuts.
Even a "small tax" on net [or gross ] wealth would provide for civil amounts of Healthcare.
Public debate is prescribed.
Gregg, thankyou for highlighting the reality of the all presented health offerings; the representatives are not ignorant of the facts - they fear for their privileged positions.
You present important talking points for Citizens to use with neighbours at Community meetings.
The Revolution is not one of disabusing the Top or the 1%.
It's about the 99ers revolutionizing their focus - away from teevee, suv, labels and violent heroes.
The Revolution will be individually internal followed by non-violent community action.
While "camanal" may be the whitehouse of info, the www remains the pablum for people; What was once info-sharing has become an advertising and commercial goldmine.
50million/7billion is about fear mongering and consumer attraction.
The only defence is mindfulness.
¿"His company-minority stake" OR "a company"? Reads like you're compounding the error.
K. is a foreign asset because of his w.h. presence - he's vulnerable to extortion. So is potus.
Now change the headline.
Potus simply does not understand beyond his fragile psyche; what would be a cute comment at a dinner table or on an open-mike stage, is ludicrous and moronic from an elected official.
We have been dumbed/numbed-down to the level of an abused spouse or dog to not respond with criticism of the cruelty/fear of jester.
"latently"
How polite toward potus and con-gress in this life/death confrontation!
Indict & Impeach - top to bottom - bullys and murderers all.
Good sense here, thanks.
Potus cannot even look at the audience when referring to CAN P.M. - stares at the floor.
An highschool freshman would demonstrat more sincerity.
Your "toilet" imagery is beautiful in its dirtiness.
Keep writing.
Politicization by Republicans is their air; Reich is correct and even cautious - indictment/impeachment actions now will gain [not diminish] support for potus' ouster.
Might be that the real fear by Dems is that potus will meltdown in lethal ways.
Wrong to sell arms in ME - latest sale is to get the goods to usa personnel in Qatar.
usa congress not doing their job.
Stop The Wars!
Potus feeds on fear, uses fear as power.
Potus' puppet masters/minders created terror by their greed, and use terror as power builder.
Stop murdering in ME and terror will stop.
Protest Loudly.
Vacuum after potus' exit can only be good for the world; usa is a killing machine.
You give potus too much power - usa/the state has NO "impetus to excel" other than at killing weaker peoples.
Your invisible flag waving will fuel further humanitarian distress.
<>
Nice writing with the exception of the paragraph above.
The 11Sept flyers did not come from Malta, the stock portfolios did not tank, Salman et alia "realise" the Sunni challenges, etc...
You cannot have it both ways without being a hypocrite; absolutist is absolutist - 110$Bn [not from potus - from exxon and jpmchase!] in weaponry -not food or medicine - is american absolutism.
Oligarchs holding hands!
You seem to be afraid as saudi critics of getting jailed and tortures.
Return to straight talking, professor, please.
Thank you for another look at potus' oppressive aggression against Citizens and against the laws of the land.
Please continue to write against fear mongering.
It ain't them - snot-nosed or worse!
It is We The People who buy their shyte.
The People choose violence over dialogue.
The People will be entertained to Death.
peotus may be wrong about DE; he may not be wrong about Merkel, NATO, and others - he ain't no diplo.
usa voted for change, and may experience change after his election is formalized.
His slapdown of bush et cie is especially welcome; his domestic agenda will fall very short of desired changes.
Keep writing.
Thank you for facing fear and falsehood with facts; oligarchy/plutocrats won't let peotus damage their golden geese, so that means lying tweets/rants are smoke/mirror pablum to calm the Citizens. Keep writing.
Reuter's reason for anonymity is bogus; oil/$$$ was talking.
us needs guns & oil to pay for its future - obtuse peace ahead.
Keep writing, professor.
Thankyou and merry Christmas - a welcome review of geopolitics.
Peace
More Peace
Beware appointee D Friedeman - beyond maps and reasonable thought.
usa not helping israelis to help themselve - same as usa: no external saviours.
Protest Loudly!
Thank you for this detailed clarification;
M. Marty's element no. six is potus-elect's battle-cry.
usa feeds on fear with wa d.c. as chef & waiter.
Keep writing the truth about the ME.
¿When we will we ever learn?
Thankyou for giving usa an alternative view.
¿Is not immigrant entry an ipso facto registry?
Oligarchy includes paranoia; don't feed oligarchy.
And every day is Bannon attack progressive activists; potus-elect is appointing skinheads in sheep's coif.
trump as an accessory - remains on ballots.
Mass destruction & civilians - where were the skills taught?
Hate crimes now given a pass.
bush, clintons, potus all push/ed fear.
Indict & Impeach.
Basis reportage - name names & organizations
"spooked or pretext"... "... was likely friendly fire and a simple mistake."
Both of your initial remarks must be caused by fatigue to be so misleading.
Non-usa leaders do not become spooked; they possess a long-term outlook that potus' lost after LBJ.
Putin does not deal in pretext - look to usa for that, since 1812.
Large mis-targeting is not accidental - lack of any responsibility connotes usa hubris.
Prof. Cole, please don't abandon your réalistique standards.
Excellent response to lopsided media coverages of murderous events.
¿Does not controlled mediæ pre-date trump's inability to be complete and truthful? hrc and trump as puppets.
usa beginning to peek behind the curtain.
Protest Loudly.
Reads like a tonne of ink/digits for trump - his bread and butter.
¿What the eff is the ustresury doing with aerospaciale?
Drop the sanctions and stop the subsidies to boeing - welfare whore.
Get off of Iran's back!
Agreed
Prof. Cole,
All know that t. CAN be sued; please be open and clear about your belief as to whether 1] can he successfully be convicted of incitement? Or, 2] are such suits are frivolous and pointless?
Your response above to your reader leans toward no. 2.
I welcome your clarification.
We bought everything we wanted to buy!
No one forced us.
We have our own prior actions to point to as motivations.
Look at the candidates/sociopaths/warmongers that we have chosen so far.
We have purchased exactly what we have wanted!
If you're no happy - Protest Loudly.
Thank you for your historical reportage, Professor.
mr t. is correct in that potus has done little/nothing to END occupation, oppression and murder - even con-gress can't/ doesn't call them wars.
And yes, shrub initiated and continued actions that generated blowback gangs such as aq & is
Your candidate made the statement - not JCole!
trump expressed a threat and must be publicly questioned.
Sound like you agree with trump;
DISCUSSION is that which republicans/trump/oligarchs DO NOT want.
Any thirdgrade student saying such a thing would cause a lockdown and thereby be interrogated by legal authorities.
A new slate of puppets is called for.
No need for name change; DParty means oppression, imperialistic war, poor education and health services, kleptomania and oligarchy. . . .
Thanks for calling this psychopathy out.
Nato is not acting defensively at Poland - aggression is the neoCon only way
A state Dept that advocates physical hostility is a war Dept.
¡Defund the usa dod!
Related video is intended by prof. to advertise FOR trump;
Rather than an essay to promote a/other healthy candidate/s.
Follow telesur funding .. . .
¿From whence the image of a Kurdish infantryman training green grass? Are we receiving the entire story?
Unfortunate headline, professor.
Makes the situation seem like the perp is the victim - when that is NOT the circumstance as reported.
Anon: don't worry about other religions - face this act as assault.
Getoff... : far beyond embarrassment; assault was the action.
Me: The fourth definition of rape might be: the improper use of force. Violence against another person has no place on a public aeroplane.
¿What's with the final "ever" in your essay?
Reads as if you're finalizing the exprez' actions.
Positive change will emerge in the west to recognize and support Palestinian human/political rights.
Final two [ 2 ] paragraphs are not coherent.
Dæsh has never HAD territory - it occupies;
¿What is a reverse snowball? And "dwindle away" has not happened since 2001 and this terror war perpetrated by usa.
Attracting mercenaries is not healthy strategy; the west is one culprit; imperialism is the transgressor.
No one has been pushed to the Left - especially hrc; on every single point mentioned above, hrc will bounce back/return to the corporate lockstep in true psychopathique hypocritical nature.
As isræl sidles up to ECR.
Oligarchy all around.
One would have to believe HIS actions would be different from HIS rhetoric . . .
Bought his way onto abc teevee - same as hrc
Oligarchic robber barons
And psychopaths
Sanders or green party
The real story beyond importation of violence; ¿What doing at Brooking?
Thanks, Joe T
Please replace "unwisdom" with a more readily understood term.
Thankyou for a clear view of Iran's election, and for your pursuit of diplomacy.
Headline in total error - not an ounce of passion in the marionette.
Also not sure of reason for publicizing w's and jeb's presence.
Was looking for IC's forward leading insights rather than shrub family pathos.
Sir,
Forget the gop - there is only one oligarchy in DC.
And your final Goldwater/tramp contrast is mistaken - Regan is the tramp; Goldwater was the sane one for the party.
Too many maybe-s/too much weaseling in your essay.
Your and Hostader's use of "feeling" and "sense of" diminish/dis the realities of tramp's Followers; they are indeed full of fear and their environment is indeed less than healthy.
What is sickly is that their paranoias have bases in a plummeting world/society.
Stop the Immoral and Illegal Wars!
Indict & Impeach!
The main points made above are that the Net has become a Consumerism Playground, and its oligarchs - Apple, FB, giggle, et al - will not limit themselves in order to forstall abuses by terror groups.
When your not party to the solution, . . .
Stop the Immoral and Illegal Wars!
Thank you, Professor, for presenting this mutually coöperative demonstration of geopolitics; A silk road rather than carpet bombing
Excellent review of the runners - "debaters" is a term too advanced for them - and their excretions.
And the usa public sleeps through another day!
Sunday court- no press coverage and no outrage from potus!
Poor [maybe excellent] commentary on usa' immorality and ignorance.
Thanks, professor.
So POLLS are the new "political reality";
Thankyou for that thunderbolt.
When potus is "...way out ahead..." it will be when war is ended, diplomacy transparent and perps such as shrub, cheney, et al are prosecuted.
Stop the Illegal and Immoral Wars!
¿Israël says "when" to ratification?
¿Persons on street?
or
¿Knesset?
Either one, and we see no action forthcoming.
Headline question is empire's way of claiming rationality, of appearing sane. Not so. Greedy psychopaths, each
..."Don’t listen to his expansive four-stage program or his retooled, stage-managed John Wayne rhetoric. Look at his metaphors. He is telling those who have ears to hear that he is pulling a Yemen in Iraq and Syria. He knows very well what that implies. It is a sort of desultory, staccato containment from the air ..."
Defensive, Professor?
Focus on his metaphors?
Your hitherto excellent insights are now coöpted to support potus'
Compare to golan property losses, and then look at usa creating it's own enemies.
Potus is warring and doesn't know with whom!
Stop the Illegal and Immoral wars!
Mark,
Go back to wwll studies of aerial bombing's inefficacy in diminishing The People's Will to defend themselves.
Wakeup, sir.
Paragraph six: ... (The Oklahoma City bombings caused LE to be cautious in confronting the far right extremists; maybe that’s why they are monitoring millions of innocent people instead, who they know won’t push back.)...
Your best insight yet, Prof COLE.
Stop The Illegal And Immoral Wars!
Your last sentence in your thoughtful and experience-filled essay is the total of Usa foreign policy - and with the cover of scotus, is now domestic policy.
Thank you for your honesty.
Bravo, Johnb.
"...some measures taken by the Indian government in protest have been childish. It removed the barriers in front of the US embassy in New Delhi that prevent suicide car bombers from getting close to the building. It is one thing to tell people to drop dead, it is another to arrange for them to do so."
Desperate people\nations act childishly, Prof Cole - Usa and India; potus ignoring the 4th Amndmnt goes beyond childish to Treasonous, Traitorous and criminally Impeachable!
Keep writing.
Stop The Illegal and Immoral Wars!
To answer your headline:
A full fifty percent are christian and so are the northern societies that control the resources and reportage.
StopThe Immoral and Illegal Wars!
"...right to act against its own citizens... "
¿Against?
You ask Why? as if you had an intelligent answer - put yourself in the essay.
Stop The Immoral and Illegal Wars?
Thanks, Prof.
A voice for The People.
Good perspective, Professor.
The disHonourable senator doesn't attend her own committees' meetings.
She doesn't represent Calif.
Senate hearings are photoOps with witnesses speaking to empty chairs!
Stop The Immoral and Illegal Wars!
David: Subject is valid though too soft; slave might be the term we can understand.
Osman: ¿Efficient for whom? Total control is the desired end.
Stop The Wars!
Good essay and Comments;
Military consumption of oil products is NOT mentioned and is NOT irrelevant.
Stop The Immoral and Illegal Wars!
Keep writing, Professor.
Potus, Scotus and congress may see that the People Of The United States are not content to be stripped of their Dignity!
Stop The Wars!
"...This current nonsense of trying to claim that we can offer the middle class all of the benefits they want and tax cuts too is unsupportable pandering. "
Bill, what you see is not pandering. What you see is unmitigated fear and greed on the part of those who 'have'; there is not offering of benefits, and there is no offering of taxcuts.
Even a "small tax" on net [or gross ] wealth would provide for civil amounts of Healthcare.
Public debate is prescribed.
Gregg, thankyou for highlighting the reality of the all presented health offerings; the representatives are not ignorant of the facts - they fear for their privileged positions.
You present important talking points for Citizens to use with neighbours at Community meetings.
Gray, brilliant support of Prof Cole's perspective; great speaking points when we go to our town halls and present Citizens' Rights.
https://bulk.resource.org/courts.gov/c/F3/232/232.F3d.1166.99-10232.html
Extramural jurisdiction emphasized.
¿Can you calculate Sixty PerCent of
US$25billion
First quarter Profit?
We are living with unmitigated Greed.
Stop The Oil Wars!
¿Do Taliban~US talks prior to 30AUG2010 qualify your headline?
WATimes ~ 30 AUG 2010
Wrong
SpacePrograms
Morph into weapons programs
Let's right the social challenges while
Stoppimg War!
[you are usually pointedly correct]
The Revolution is not one of disabusing the Top or the 1%.
It's about the 99ers revolutionizing their focus - away from teevee, suv, labels and violent heroes.
The Revolution will be individually internal followed by non-violent community action.
If you wrote sanely and sharply, you would be Prof. COLE!
Thankyou for this great look at what is being proferred to us/US.
Progress is not about "most corrupt" or least or worst or best
life is about loving the ones you're with - and we are with everyone because there is no "far away" any longer
The phrase above - politicians acting...loss of profit - stands on its own merit!