By The Last Boy In Line
Sunday, September 29, 2019
Dear Deplorables:
Sincerely,
Sunday, September 29, 2019
Dear Deplorables
Dear Deplorables
By The Last Boy In Line
Sunday, September 29, 2019
Dear Deplorables:
Sincerely,
By The Last Boy In Line
Sunday, September 29, 2019
Dear Deplorables:
Sincerely,
Friday, September 27, 2019
If The Facts Come Out, It Could Spell The End For Joe Biden
If The Facts Come Out, It Could Spell The End For Joe Biden
By Ray McGovern
AntiWar.com
September 27, 2019
The Joe Biden-friendly Establishment media has mounted a full-
court press to, “prove” that Biden is, well, not a, "crook."
The stakes are extremely high, Biden is vulnerable, and media
players are using to a faretheewell the old adage about the best
defense being a good offense.
The New York Times, The Washington Post, and The Wall Street
Journal are desperately trying to steal the ball and get ahead in
the publicity game.
But time is about to run out, and preemptive propaganda
is unlikely to snatch victory out of the jaws of defeat.
IF the facts do come out and IF they are reported, Biden’s
presidential hopes may suffer a mortal blow.
When the corruption in which the former Vice President and his son
Hunter were involved in Ukraine becomes more widely known, the
press wants to be in position to “show” that it’s all the fault of
President Donald Trump and his lawyers for trying to derail Biden’s
candidacy by exposing him.
If past is precedent, the media will largely succeed.
The question is whether enough people will, nevertheless,
be able to see through this all-too-familiar charade.
In an interview with The National Interest, Joe Lauria put
this episode in context:
“It was in February [2014] when Yanukovych was overthrown, and
just a few months later (in May), Joe Biden’s son and a close friend
of John Kerry’s stepson, they both join the board of this Ukrainian
gas company.
And the name of that was Burisma Holdings,” said Joe Lauria,
editor of Consortium News and a former correspondent for the
Wall Street Journal.
“So just after an American-backed coup, you have Joe Biden’s son
Hunter Biden and this John Kerry family friend joining the board of
probably the largest private gas producer in Ukraine. They installed
the new government, and as the bounty of this coup, Joe Biden’s
son personally profited. He would not have gotten that job if
Yanukovych was still in power,” Lauria told The National Interest.
Will U.S. voters have any way of putting these dots together, and
also in discerning, for example, how much truth there may be in
charges that Vice President Biden pressed hard for the ouster of
Ukraine’s Prosecutor General, Viktor Shokin, who was canned after
investigating corruption at Burisma Holdings Ukrainian gas company
of which Hunter Biden was a board member?
If the truth does come out, no one will have to rely on remarks
from the likes of Rudy Giulinai, one of Trump’s lawyers, who has
called the episode “an astounding scandal of major proportions.”
That may be hyperbole but, still, the damage to Biden could
be fatal.
And so, damage control is in full swing today at the Times,
the Post, the Journal and other “usual suspects,” with the
Times winning the laurels with its Editorial Board, no less,
weighing in with “What did Trump tell Ukraine’s president?”
There have also been op-eds by Max Boot, Jennifer Rubin,
Anne Applebaum, Greg Sargent, George T. Conway III and
Neal Katyal at the Post, whose headline is:
“Trump has done nothing to warrant impeachment and the
Ukraine allegations are over the top.”
That title is correct.
https://www.antiwar.com/blog/2019/09/22/if-the-facts-come-out-
it-could-spell-the-end-for-joe-biden
By Ray McGovern
AntiWar.com
September 27, 2019
The Joe Biden-friendly Establishment media has mounted a full-
court press to, “prove” that Biden is, well, not a, "crook."
The stakes are extremely high, Biden is vulnerable, and media
players are using to a faretheewell the old adage about the best
defense being a good offense.
The New York Times, The Washington Post, and The Wall Street
Journal are desperately trying to steal the ball and get ahead in
the publicity game.
But time is about to run out, and preemptive propaganda
is unlikely to snatch victory out of the jaws of defeat.
IF the facts do come out and IF they are reported, Biden’s
presidential hopes may suffer a mortal blow.
When the corruption in which the former Vice President and his son
Hunter were involved in Ukraine becomes more widely known, the
press wants to be in position to “show” that it’s all the fault of
President Donald Trump and his lawyers for trying to derail Biden’s
candidacy by exposing him.
If past is precedent, the media will largely succeed.
The question is whether enough people will, nevertheless,
be able to see through this all-too-familiar charade.
In an interview with The National Interest, Joe Lauria put
this episode in context:
“It was in February [2014] when Yanukovych was overthrown, and
just a few months later (in May), Joe Biden’s son and a close friend
of John Kerry’s stepson, they both join the board of this Ukrainian
gas company.
And the name of that was Burisma Holdings,” said Joe Lauria,
editor of Consortium News and a former correspondent for the
Wall Street Journal.
“So just after an American-backed coup, you have Joe Biden’s son
Hunter Biden and this John Kerry family friend joining the board of
probably the largest private gas producer in Ukraine. They installed
the new government, and as the bounty of this coup, Joe Biden’s
son personally profited. He would not have gotten that job if
Yanukovych was still in power,” Lauria told The National Interest.
Will U.S. voters have any way of putting these dots together, and
also in discerning, for example, how much truth there may be in
charges that Vice President Biden pressed hard for the ouster of
Ukraine’s Prosecutor General, Viktor Shokin, who was canned after
investigating corruption at Burisma Holdings Ukrainian gas company
of which Hunter Biden was a board member?
If the truth does come out, no one will have to rely on remarks
from the likes of Rudy Giulinai, one of Trump’s lawyers, who has
called the episode “an astounding scandal of major proportions.”
That may be hyperbole but, still, the damage to Biden could
be fatal.
And so, damage control is in full swing today at the Times,
the Post, the Journal and other “usual suspects,” with the
Times winning the laurels with its Editorial Board, no less,
weighing in with “What did Trump tell Ukraine’s president?”
There have also been op-eds by Max Boot, Jennifer Rubin,
Anne Applebaum, Greg Sargent, George T. Conway III and
Neal Katyal at the Post, whose headline is:
“Trump has done nothing to warrant impeachment and the
Ukraine allegations are over the top.”
That title is correct.
https://www.antiwar.com/blog/2019/09/22/if-the-facts-come-out-
it-could-spell-the-end-for-joe-biden
Wednesday, September 25, 2019
Dear Democrat Impeachment Inquiry
Dear Democrat Impeachment Inquiry
By The Last Boy In Line
September 25, 2019
Dear Democrat Impeachment Inquiry:
Sincerely,
By The Last Boy In Line
September 25, 2019
Dear Democrat Impeachment Inquiry:
Sincerely,
Monday, September 23, 2019
American Privilege
American Privilege
By Caitlin Johnstone
Information Clearing House
September 23, 2019
American liberals and progressives talk a bit about white privilege,
male privilege, straight privilege etc, but one thing I never hear
them talk about is American privilege: the ability their nationality
gives them to have a relationship with this world that the rest of
us do not have.
American privilege is reassuring yourself that there are problems
enough at home without worrying about the trillions your
government’s war machine is spending terrorizing the world and
encircling the planet with military bases.
American privilege is reluctantly allowing the potential
Commanders-in-Chief have an eight-minute conversation about
foreign policy in your presidential primary debates, when your
country’s military policy functionally dictates the affairs of rest
of the world.
American privilege is arguing against the legality of assault weapons
on the basis that they are, “weapons of war” implying that they’re
fine as long as they’re used to kill some foreigner’s kids.
American privilege is being able to masturbate your outrage
addiction over a racist joke while ignoring the way your military
murders black and brown people by the tens of thousands every
year.
American privilege is being able to lose your mind over someone
using the wrong pronouns while paying no attention to the fact
that your government pours your tax money and resources into
governments and groups who hang gay people in the town square.
American privilege is believing your propaganda is the truth,
and everyone else’s understanding of the world is fake news.
American privilege is assuming your prudish Puritanical brand of
sexuality is healthy and normal so it’s no big deal that you insist
that all English-speaking social media adheres to your creepy
nipple-hating norms.
American privilege is telling foreigners to butt out of your politics,
when your politics are literally killing them.
American privilege is having a shit fit over election meddling in one
social media post, while cheerleading regime change in the next.
American privilege is starting a war on a lie without being charged
with a war crime.
American privilege is committing war crimes with impunity while
jailing the whistleblowers and journalists who reveal them and still
getting to call yourselves the good guys.
American privilege is being able to spend all day arguing online
about domestic policy while the rest of the world, completely
incapable of influencing your government’s behavior, prays you
don’t get us all killed.
American privilege is only having a robust antiwar movement when
your own citizens are at risk of being drafted, then completely
forgetting about peace for decades while an increasingly robotic
military force gives you even more peace of mind.
American privilege is being able to relax about war because
your soldiers are being replaced with drones and proxy militias
in US-driven conflicts, even though those kill people just as
dead as manually operated killing machines.
American privilege is being hush-hush about the egregious
imperialist stances of progressive candidates like Bernie
Sanders because they have some decent domestic policies.
American privilege is black bloc protests against public appearances
by figures like Milo Yiannopoulos and the Proud Boys while
murderous war pigs like Bill Kristol, Henry Kissinger, John Bolton,
David Frum and arms industry executives go from appearance to
appearance completely unbothered.
American privilege is benefiting from cheap goods and oil and a
strong dollar and never wondering how many innocent foreigners
lost their lives and homes in the wars your government starts to
make that so.
American privilege is living in a nation whose government can
murder an entire family one day with explosives dropped from
the sky, and yet you never hearing about it because that isn’t
considered a newsworthy occurrence.
American privilege is being one of the worst-travelled populations
in the world while having military bases in countries that most
Americans wouldn’t recognize the name of, let alone have been
to.
American privilege is having your insane culture normalized around
the world via Hollywood and other media so that nobody stops and
wonders why we’re letting this bat shit crazy nation rule our planet
and so no one makes you feel bad about your American privilege.
American privilege is living in a nation that uses its military
and economic might to terrorize, murder, imprison, starve
and impoverish anyone who doesn’t go along with its interests,
and feeling no urgent need to bring a stop to this.
American privilege is being fine with being the world leader,
but not being too bothered about what exactly that means.
http://www.informationclearinghouse.info/52265.htm
By Caitlin Johnstone
Information Clearing House
September 23, 2019
American liberals and progressives talk a bit about white privilege,
male privilege, straight privilege etc, but one thing I never hear
them talk about is American privilege: the ability their nationality
gives them to have a relationship with this world that the rest of
us do not have.
American privilege is reassuring yourself that there are problems
enough at home without worrying about the trillions your
government’s war machine is spending terrorizing the world and
encircling the planet with military bases.
American privilege is reluctantly allowing the potential
Commanders-in-Chief have an eight-minute conversation about
foreign policy in your presidential primary debates, when your
country’s military policy functionally dictates the affairs of rest
of the world.
American privilege is arguing against the legality of assault weapons
on the basis that they are, “weapons of war” implying that they’re
fine as long as they’re used to kill some foreigner’s kids.
American privilege is being able to masturbate your outrage
addiction over a racist joke while ignoring the way your military
murders black and brown people by the tens of thousands every
year.
American privilege is being able to lose your mind over someone
using the wrong pronouns while paying no attention to the fact
that your government pours your tax money and resources into
governments and groups who hang gay people in the town square.
American privilege is believing your propaganda is the truth,
and everyone else’s understanding of the world is fake news.
American privilege is assuming your prudish Puritanical brand of
sexuality is healthy and normal so it’s no big deal that you insist
that all English-speaking social media adheres to your creepy
nipple-hating norms.
American privilege is telling foreigners to butt out of your politics,
when your politics are literally killing them.
American privilege is having a shit fit over election meddling in one
social media post, while cheerleading regime change in the next.
American privilege is starting a war on a lie without being charged
with a war crime.
American privilege is committing war crimes with impunity while
jailing the whistleblowers and journalists who reveal them and still
getting to call yourselves the good guys.
American privilege is being able to spend all day arguing online
about domestic policy while the rest of the world, completely
incapable of influencing your government’s behavior, prays you
don’t get us all killed.
American privilege is only having a robust antiwar movement when
your own citizens are at risk of being drafted, then completely
forgetting about peace for decades while an increasingly robotic
military force gives you even more peace of mind.
American privilege is being able to relax about war because
your soldiers are being replaced with drones and proxy militias
in US-driven conflicts, even though those kill people just as
dead as manually operated killing machines.
American privilege is being hush-hush about the egregious
imperialist stances of progressive candidates like Bernie
Sanders because they have some decent domestic policies.
American privilege is black bloc protests against public appearances
by figures like Milo Yiannopoulos and the Proud Boys while
murderous war pigs like Bill Kristol, Henry Kissinger, John Bolton,
David Frum and arms industry executives go from appearance to
appearance completely unbothered.
American privilege is benefiting from cheap goods and oil and a
strong dollar and never wondering how many innocent foreigners
lost their lives and homes in the wars your government starts to
make that so.
American privilege is living in a nation whose government can
murder an entire family one day with explosives dropped from
the sky, and yet you never hearing about it because that isn’t
considered a newsworthy occurrence.
American privilege is being one of the worst-travelled populations
in the world while having military bases in countries that most
Americans wouldn’t recognize the name of, let alone have been
to.
American privilege is having your insane culture normalized around
the world via Hollywood and other media so that nobody stops and
wonders why we’re letting this bat shit crazy nation rule our planet
and so no one makes you feel bad about your American privilege.
American privilege is living in a nation that uses its military
and economic might to terrorize, murder, imprison, starve
and impoverish anyone who doesn’t go along with its interests,
and feeling no urgent need to bring a stop to this.
American privilege is being fine with being the world leader,
but not being too bothered about what exactly that means.
http://www.informationclearinghouse.info/52265.htm
Wednesday, September 18, 2019
Dear Saudi Arabia
Dear Saudi Arabia
By The Last Boy In Line
September 18, 2019
Dear Saudi Arabia:
Sincerely,
By The Last Boy In Line
September 18, 2019
Dear Saudi Arabia:
Sincerely,
Monday, September 16, 2019
Who Was Really Behind 9/11?
Who Was Really Behind 9/11?
By Eric Margolis
Information Clearing House
September 16, 2019
A large number of Americans still don’t believe the official version
of the 9/11 attacks on New York and Washington.
I am one of them.
The government and tame media version – that crazed Muslims
directed by Osama bin Laden attacked New York’s twin towers
and the Pentagon because they hated ‘our freedoms’ and our
religions – is wearing very thin as contrary evidence piles up.
Ever since the attacks, I’ve held the belief that neither bin Laden
nor Afghanistan’s Taliban were involved, though bin Laden did
applaud the attacks after the fact and remains a key suspect.
Unfortunately, he was murdered by a US hit squad instead of being
brought to the US to stand trial.
Mullah Omar, the Taliban leader, was adamant that bin Laden was
not behind the attacks.
So who did it?
In my view, the attacks were financed by private citizens in Saudi
Arabia and organized from Germany and possibly Spain.
All the hijackers came from states nominally allied to the US or its
protectorates.
Fifteen of the 19 were Saudis.
Two came from the United Arab Emirates (UAE), and one each
from Egypt and Lebanon.
Amazingly, during the national uproar after the attacks, little
attention was focused on Saudi Arabia, a key US ally (or
protectorate) even though most of the hijackers were Saudi
citizens, and a planeload of important Saudis were quietly
ushered out of the US by the CIA soon after the attacks.
Saudi Arabia was too important to US domination of the Mideast
to point any fingers at the Saudis.
The Saudi royal regime in Riyadh did not appear to have been
involved – why would it since their survival and gravy train
depended on US protection?
But the royal regime does not represent all Saudis,
as many people believe.
Saudi Arabia is a collection of tribes played off against one another
by Riyadh and kept in line by the US Air Force from its bases in
Saudi and a tribal force, ‘the white army,’ led by American ‘advisors.’
Saudi Arabia has little in the way of a regular army because its
rulers fear coups by the armed forces such as occurred in Egypt,
Iraq and Syria.
In addition, over 40,000 Americans live and work in Saudi.
Another 5,000 US military personnel are stationed there.
Much of the kingdom’s technology – banking, telecommunications,
airports and flights, trains, military affairs, TV and radio – are
supervised by foreigners.
This process began in the 1920’s when the British moved into
Arabia and helped promote the Saudi tribe to prominence.
A sizeable Yemeni community lives in Saudi.
The bin Laden family originally hailed from Yemen.
Saudi also has an important Shia Muslim minority, about 20%
of the population, with smaller numbers of other Muslim sects.
Most important, the reactionary, ultra rigid Wahabi religious
sect still dominates the nation and royal family.
The Wahabis hate Shia, calling them apostates and heretics.
A similar dim view is taken of the nine million foreign workers,
principally Indians, Pakistanis and other South Asians, who do
all of the Kingdom’s dirty work.
Within the complexities of Saudi Society lie bitterly anti-western
groups who see the nation as being militarily occupied by the US
and exploited – even pillaged – by foreigners.
Arabia was originally the holy land of Islam.
Today, it has been westernized, occupied by US military power,
and given marching orders by Washington.
While covering the Afghan War in the 1980’s, I met Sheikh Abdullah
Azzam, a fiery nationalist leader and anti-communist who was bin
Laden’s teacher and spiritual mentor.
“When we succeed in kicking the Russians out of Afghanistan,”
Azzam told me, “we will go on and kick the Americans out of
Saudi Arabia.”
I was shocked, never having heard of Americans called ‘occupiers’.
Azzam was murdered by a bomb soon after, but his words kept
ringing in my ears.
He thought of the Americans as much colonialists as the Soviets.
Private nationalist groups in Saudi who bitterly opposed foreign
domination of their country could very well have financed and
organized 9/11.
But, of course, Washington could not admit this.
That would have brought into question the US occupation of Saudi.
What’s also pretty clear is that Israel – at minimum – knew the
attack was coming yet failed to warn its American ‘allies.’
Israel was the chief beneficiary of the 9/11 attacks – yet its
bumbling Arab foes and bin Laden were blamed for this crime.
ttp://www.informationclearinghouse.info/52270.htm
By Eric Margolis
Information Clearing House
September 16, 2019
A large number of Americans still don’t believe the official version
of the 9/11 attacks on New York and Washington.
I am one of them.
The government and tame media version – that crazed Muslims
directed by Osama bin Laden attacked New York’s twin towers
and the Pentagon because they hated ‘our freedoms’ and our
religions – is wearing very thin as contrary evidence piles up.
Ever since the attacks, I’ve held the belief that neither bin Laden
nor Afghanistan’s Taliban were involved, though bin Laden did
applaud the attacks after the fact and remains a key suspect.
Unfortunately, he was murdered by a US hit squad instead of being
brought to the US to stand trial.
Mullah Omar, the Taliban leader, was adamant that bin Laden was
not behind the attacks.
So who did it?
In my view, the attacks were financed by private citizens in Saudi
Arabia and organized from Germany and possibly Spain.
All the hijackers came from states nominally allied to the US or its
protectorates.
Fifteen of the 19 were Saudis.
Two came from the United Arab Emirates (UAE), and one each
from Egypt and Lebanon.
Amazingly, during the national uproar after the attacks, little
attention was focused on Saudi Arabia, a key US ally (or
protectorate) even though most of the hijackers were Saudi
citizens, and a planeload of important Saudis were quietly
ushered out of the US by the CIA soon after the attacks.
Saudi Arabia was too important to US domination of the Mideast
to point any fingers at the Saudis.
The Saudi royal regime in Riyadh did not appear to have been
involved – why would it since their survival and gravy train
depended on US protection?
But the royal regime does not represent all Saudis,
as many people believe.
Saudi Arabia is a collection of tribes played off against one another
by Riyadh and kept in line by the US Air Force from its bases in
Saudi and a tribal force, ‘the white army,’ led by American ‘advisors.’
Saudi Arabia has little in the way of a regular army because its
rulers fear coups by the armed forces such as occurred in Egypt,
Iraq and Syria.
In addition, over 40,000 Americans live and work in Saudi.
Another 5,000 US military personnel are stationed there.
Much of the kingdom’s technology – banking, telecommunications,
airports and flights, trains, military affairs, TV and radio – are
supervised by foreigners.
This process began in the 1920’s when the British moved into
Arabia and helped promote the Saudi tribe to prominence.
A sizeable Yemeni community lives in Saudi.
The bin Laden family originally hailed from Yemen.
Saudi also has an important Shia Muslim minority, about 20%
of the population, with smaller numbers of other Muslim sects.
Most important, the reactionary, ultra rigid Wahabi religious
sect still dominates the nation and royal family.
The Wahabis hate Shia, calling them apostates and heretics.
A similar dim view is taken of the nine million foreign workers,
principally Indians, Pakistanis and other South Asians, who do
all of the Kingdom’s dirty work.
Within the complexities of Saudi Society lie bitterly anti-western
groups who see the nation as being militarily occupied by the US
and exploited – even pillaged – by foreigners.
Arabia was originally the holy land of Islam.
Today, it has been westernized, occupied by US military power,
and given marching orders by Washington.
While covering the Afghan War in the 1980’s, I met Sheikh Abdullah
Azzam, a fiery nationalist leader and anti-communist who was bin
Laden’s teacher and spiritual mentor.
“When we succeed in kicking the Russians out of Afghanistan,”
Azzam told me, “we will go on and kick the Americans out of
Saudi Arabia.”
I was shocked, never having heard of Americans called ‘occupiers’.
Azzam was murdered by a bomb soon after, but his words kept
ringing in my ears.
He thought of the Americans as much colonialists as the Soviets.
Private nationalist groups in Saudi who bitterly opposed foreign
domination of their country could very well have financed and
organized 9/11.
But, of course, Washington could not admit this.
That would have brought into question the US occupation of Saudi.
What’s also pretty clear is that Israel – at minimum – knew the
attack was coming yet failed to warn its American ‘allies.’
Israel was the chief beneficiary of the 9/11 attacks – yet its
bumbling Arab foes and bin Laden were blamed for this crime.
ttp://www.informationclearinghouse.info/52270.htm
Wednesday, September 11, 2019
Dear Inside Job
Dear Inside Job
By The Last Boy In Line
September 11, 2019
Dear Inside Job:
Sincerely,
By The Last Boy In Line
September 11, 2019
Dear Inside Job:
Sincerely,
Monday, September 9, 2019
Tempestuous
Tempestuous
By Danica Williams
September 9, 2019
I am impatient
Exasperated
Reaching my destination
So many limitations
This ain’t no vacation
Time is perpetual
Feel what I’m saying
This vessel is evanescent
Man I learned my lesson
Where the **** is my progression
****, didn’t get the message
Progression is not of the essence
Listen at your discretion
This is my speculation
No need for susceptibility
Condemned before nativity
This world is in captivity
Brainwashed and oblivious
Under their supremacy
Never finding tranquility
Just another annuity
Contradicted delusions
Man I just might lose it
Into the abyss
Nah I don’t wanna be missed
My words are amidst
By Danica Williams
September 9, 2019
I am impatient
Exasperated
Reaching my destination
So many limitations
This ain’t no vacation
Time is perpetual
Feel what I’m saying
This vessel is evanescent
Man I learned my lesson
Where the **** is my progression
****, didn’t get the message
Progression is not of the essence
Listen at your discretion
This is my speculation
No need for susceptibility
Condemned before nativity
This world is in captivity
Brainwashed and oblivious
Under their supremacy
Never finding tranquility
Just another annuity
Contradicted delusions
Man I just might lose it
Into the abyss
Nah I don’t wanna be missed
My words are amidst
Friday, September 6, 2019
Dear Angel of Darkness
Dear Angel of Darkness
By The Last Boy In Line
Friday, September 6, 2019
Dear Angel of Darkness:
Sincerely,
By The Last Boy In Line
Friday, September 6, 2019
Dear Angel of Darkness:
Sincerely,