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Jun 13Liked by Paul Street

Who would like to see China send a nuclear armed sub to parade up and down the coast of California? Brought up on a diet of superheroes, the US population continues to see itself as invulnerable - more worried about migrant labour than being blown to pieces.

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Jun 13·edited Jun 13Liked by Paul Street

With the aid of migrant labor and techno savy silicon valley CA could be a viibrant manufacture of EV vehicles. Immigrant labor is the backbone of America. Well paying steady jobs with benefits free of the adversities of sanctions and political meddling. But no Biden carries on Trump's border policies as well as saber rattling in China and Russia. Both candidates are sociopathic genocidal bigots. Vote for peace consider voting Green. Let's give peace a chance.

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What exactly is the goal behind the Jill Stein campaign?

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yes this is what some folks call the Chomsky exercise...imagine the US in China's or Russia;s shows. Imagine how we'd respond to either one of those countires doing on or near their borders what we are doing on and near their borders. And beyond Russia's borders with the US okay to Ukraine using US-made weapons to strike Russia. How long would it take for the US to invade a part of Canada or Mexico that was providing a base for military provocatiion by China? JFK came within a hair's breath of setting off nuclear winter over Soviet missiles in Cuba in 1962.

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Jun 13Liked by Paul Street

Thank you, Paul.

There seems to be no grownups in Capital Hill or anywhere else in our administration, military, courts and spy agencies in this desperation of the USA to save it's rotting carcass for one more terrible war, fought with our tax dollars and trillions from our profligate debt crisis. Only war can save us from bankruptcy and nothing will save us from our moral bankruptcy

I don't think you mentioned that JFK and Khrushchev actually conducted diplomacy by speaking on the phone and making the agreement for all to stand down in the Cuban Missile Crisis. Try to imagine Biden facing Putin this way. Of course no doubt that the powers that be, whoever-the-hell they are in W(i)shington need the corporate war industries to fill the pot over and over again. Hence the forever wars incited by the USA and the other criminal often "Western" governments, need to continue, til I suppose we kill all of ourselves plus the animal and vegetable life with the climate nightmare or nuclear winter. With nobody but appointed agencies of our corrupted government and financial industries, the creatures that do the dirty work behind the scenes(sort of). Peace and Justice, My ass! Sorry for the raging word salad. I'm very upset, as we all should be.

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Yes, and Seymour Hersh has been reporting on Biden's refusal to pick up a phone and talk to Putin. Insanity

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Jun 13·edited Jun 13Liked by Paul Street

There are 'lies' and there are 'lies by omission'--America is guilty of both ,,,and more....so much more!

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Yes i agree the NYT is a tool of the Democratic Party, the military industrial complex, the corporations, the very rich, the security state and the Israel lobby, in order to support these entities it will lie, and leave out and distort inconvenient facts. One thing Trump got right was the fake news!

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It is a tool of the American Empire, for whom Israel is a key strategic asset within and beyond the Middle East.

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​​“When I asked the military advisors if they could assure me that holding fast [during the Cuban Missile Crisis] would not result in the death of five hundred million human beings, they looked at me as though I was out of my mind, or what was worse, a traitor. The biggest tragedy, as they saw it, was not that our country might be devastated and everything lost, but that the Chinese or the Albanians might accuse us of appeasement or weakness. So I said to myself, “To hell with these maniacs. If I can get the United States to assure me that it will not attempt to overthrow the Cuban government, I will remove the missiles.” That is what happened, and now I am reviled by the Chinese and the Albanians.… They say I was afraid to stand up to a paper tiger. It is all such nonsense. What good would it have done me in the last hour of my life to know that though our great nation and the United States were in complete ruins, the national honor of the Soviet Union was intact?”

— NIKITA KHRUSHCHEV (see https://www.currentaffairs.org/2022/03/taking-world-war-iii-seriously)

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Do you vote? Will you be casting a vote this November?

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To win. Than to change our current meritocratic bourgeois bureaucratic system for the better. Know you are a busy guy prolific in your writings and audios and your time sloths full. But give her a peak in your searches in the ether. She'll hopefully get on ballot in 45 or so States. She and Cornel only peace candidates running for POTUS. So she'll get my (protest) vote. People Planet Peace.

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