IN AN ARTICLE PUBLISHED IN THE GUARDIAN, Robert Reich is a bit glib, disingenuous or naive in introducing his 25 steps on how Trump will fudge the system to be reelected. I don’t believe a word from Robert Reich. 

It seems the US won’t rest until Donald Trump is gone… He represents — or has been made to represent by the western liberal media — what HAS ALWAYS BEEN WRONG WITH THE USA, for yonks.

 

 

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“Gitmo Files” lifted the Pentagon’s lid on the prison, describing a corrupt system of military detention resting on torture, coerced testimony and “intelligence” manipulated to justify abuses at the base, writes Patrick Lawrence.

 

Up to 11,000 renewable energy workers are expected to lose their jobs over the next two years under current government policies, according to a university analysis.

   Trump has become the symbol of a million years of sins. Our history is full of glorious shit and infamous crap that underpins the present moment. We know.

 

Remove the past and the kids end up like the “Children of Tomorrow” who — alone around a feeble camp-fire fuelled by the destroyed furniture and barrels of money, eating out of smashed tin-cans of beans and having no idea what a vinyl disc can do — talk funny about yesterday they don’t remember because they made sure to forget, but weirdly imagine.

   In 2001, Donald Rumsfeld and Admiral Arthur Cebrowski defined the Pentagon’s objectives in the era of financial capitalism. The staff then drew up this map of the partition of the Greater Middle East.

 

French President Emmanuel Macron has denounced Ankara’s ‘dangerous game’ of meddling in Libya and said the illegal targeting of a French frigate by a Turkish ship proved correct his comments about ‘brain death’ of NATO.

In the chapter  “What the Enlightenment Got Wrong” in his book Humankind, A Hopeful History, Bregman makes some assumptions that are full of shit.