United States

Southeast Asia Was Hit By A Record-Breaking Disaster; It Was Called The United States

July 26, 2019 By Davidswanson.org Educate! Asia, Bombing, History, United States, Wars and Militarism

In my town in the United States — as is not especially unusual — we have big memorials in prominent public places marking some of the most catastrophically immoral actions of the past. Unfortunately, all five of these major monuments celebrate and glorify these past horrors, rather than reminding us not to repeat them. The University of Virginia is building a memorial to the enslaved people who built the University of Virginia. So, we will have five celebrations of evil, and one cautionary remembrance thereof.

Thirty Years After Tiananmen Square, The U.S. Is Still Trying To Destabilize China

July 20, 2019 Max Parry, Dissidentvoice.org Educate! China, Inter-Imperialist Rivalry, United States

Last month marked three decades since the conclusion of the 1989 Tiananmen Square demonstrations in China. The anniversary is opportune for Washington and its Western partners to ramp-up their Sinophobic smear campaign while recycling the hoax they have propagated ever since the June Fourth incident occurred. Coverage of the commemoration has been wedded with the ongoing propaganda and wild accusation that the People’s Republic has currently detained up to 1 million Turkic Uyghur Muslims from the autonomous Xinjiang province in “concentration camps.”

Half A Million American Minors Now Live In Mexico

July 15, 2019 Claudia Masferrer, Theconversation.com Educate! Children, Mexico, Migration, United States

While much of the current news has been focused on Central American migrants making their way through Mexico to the U.S., little attention has been paid to a different migration story: the number of American-born minors – all U.S. citizens – who left the U.S. to live in Mexico. In Mexico, about 900,000 residents were born abroad as of 2015. Some of these are Central American migrants, but the large majority was born in the U.S. and is under age 18.

For The Reasons That Follow, That Country Is Currently Not Likely To Be The United States

July 12, 2019 Vijay Prashad, Tricontinental Institute. Educate! China, Inter-Imperialist Rivalry, Russia, United States

The largest delegation from outside Russia at the St. Petersburg International Economic Forum in early June came from China. The Chinese team was led by the country’s President, Xi Jinping. In this 23rd Forum, Mandarin joined Russian and English as one of the languages on signs and in conversations. Xi and Russia’s President Vladimir Putin seemed comfortable with each other, the bonhomie between the two states clear. During the Forum, the two countries hosted a gala concert to celebrate the seventieth anniversary for the re-establishment of diplomatic ties between China and Russia.

The United States Can Afford The Programs Needed For People And Planet

July 10, 2019 By Ellen Brown, Truthdig.com Educate! Reform, United States, US elections

The Democratic Party has clearly swung to the progressive left, with candidates in the first round of presidential debates coming up with one program after another to help the poor, the disadvantaged and the struggling middle class. Proposals range from a universal basic income to Medicare for all to a Green New Deal to student debt forgiveness and free college tuition. The problem, as Stuart Varney observed on “Fox Business,” is that no one has a viable way to pay for it all without raising taxes, a hard sell to voters.

How Do You Celebrate A Flawed Nation?

July 3, 2019 By Jill Richardson, Otherwords.org Create! Nationalism, Patriotism, United States

As the Fourth of July rolls around, I think plenty of us are eager for barbecues, corn on the cob, watermelon, and fireworks, but our feelings about our country are somewhat more complicated. How do you love and celebrate a country that’s so obviously flawed? A country that’s currently committing atrocities against innocent children? Is criticizing America unpatriotic? Some would say it is. I say no. For me, loving this country means making it better. It means taking a good hard look at our mistakes, learning from the ones in the past, and correcting the ones in the present.

Half Of Americans Are Effectively Poor Now. What The?

June 18, 2019 Umair Haque, Eand.co Educate! Inequality, United States

There are days I feel like I read dystopian statistics for a living. And then there are day when the dystopian statistics take even my jaded breath away. Here’s one: 43% of American households can’t afford a budget that includes housing, food, childcare, healthcare, transportation, and a cellphone. Translation: nearly half of Americans can’t afford the basics of life anymore. Does that take your breath away too? It should. And yet it might not come as a surprise. You might know it intimately. The statistics say there’s an even chance you’re…living it. What a grim and bizarre reality.

According To NYT, ‘Relentless Flooding’ In Midwest Just Happens

June 13, 2019 Joshua Cho, Fair.org Educate! Climate Change, Flooding, Natural Disasters, United States

The New York Times’ 2,400+ word report (6/3/19) by Julie Bosman, Julie Turkewitz and Timothy Williams on the historic flooding in the Midwest—amidst the wettest 12 months ever since recording began 124 years ago—is an illustrative example of how not to do disaster coverage. Recalling the Great Flood of 1993 and focusing on the four inundated towns of Davenport, Iowa; Valmeyer and Prairie du Rocher, Illinois; and Clarksville, Missouri, along the Mississippi River...

For The US And Israel, Iran Works Best As A Perpetual Threat

June 13, 2019 By Miko Peled, Mintpressnews.com Educate! Iran, Israel, Palestine, United States

JERUSALEM, PALESTINE — According to a story in Haaretz, U.S. Special Representative for Iran Brian Hook said recently that “the United States will respond with military force if its interests are attacked by Iran.” However, there are several reasons why Israel and the U.S. will not attack Iran, at least not directly. Al Jazeera reports that Hassan Nasrallah, the leader of the Lebanon-based Hezbollah, said that the idea of war is “far-fetched” because Washington and its allies know they would pay a heavy price. Nasrallah is most likely right.

Center For Constitutional Rights Alleges U.S. Interference Into International Criminal Court

June 12, 2019 Melanie Burney, Inquirer.com Resist! Corruption, ICC, United States

June 6, 2019, New York –Yesterday, the Center for Constitutional Rights filed a complaint with the United Nations Special Rapporteur on the Independence of Judges and Lawyers alleging ongoing interference by the United States into the operations of the International Criminal Court (ICC) and requesting a formal comprehensive independent investigation. The complaint cites the steady stream of threats made by Donald Trump and other senior officials against the court if it proceeded to open an investigation into war crimes committed by U.S. military and C.I.A. officials in Afghanistan and other countries.

Smearing China

June 10, 2019 Kim Petersen, Dissidentvoice.org Educate! China, History, Inter-Imperialist Rivalry, Media, Tiananmen Square, United States

Elsewhere comes the imposing figure of United States Secretary of State Mike Pompeo who appears, as if on cue, with an “aggressive soundbite” about China that was reported by RT. China’s foreign ministry spokesman Geng Shuang dismissed the smear as “nonsense.” RT America anchor Rick Sanchez characterized the Chinese response as, “You are gonna criticize us because of what happened at Tiananmen Square three decades ago?” At this point my bullshit detector clicked into action.

US Has Regressed To Developing Nation Status, MIT Economist Warns

June 6, 2019 Chloe Farand, Independent.co.uk Educate! Development, Inequality, New Economy, United States

Peter Temin says 80 per cent of the population is burdened with debt and anxious about job security America is regressing to have the economic and political structure of a developing nation, an MIT economist has warned. Peter Temin says the world's’ largest economy has roads and bridges that look more like those in Thailand and Venezuela than those in parts of Europe. In his new book, “The Vanishing Middle Class", reviewed by the Institute for New Economic Thinking, Mr Temin says the fracture of US society is leading the middle class to disappear.

Memo To Donald Trump: It’s Time To End-Run Your Advisers On North Korea

May 24, 2019 By Joel Wit and Richard Sokolsky, Nationalinterest.org Educate! Diplomacy, North Korea, United States

The United States and North Korea are once again locked in a diplomatic standoff over denuclearization and the normalization of U.S.-North Korean relations, which has unfortunately brought to a screeching halt the very promising start North and South Korea have made on building peace and security on the Korean Peninsula. You are in this pickle because in Hanoi you decided to take the misguided, deal-killing advice to go big with Kim Jong-un, instead of following your own instincts to strike a smaller, but still important, deal that could have been reached with some hard bargaining.

Propaganda Intensifies Trade War With China

May 20, 2019 Staff, Moonofalabama.org Educate! China, Propaganda, Trade War, United States

U.S. propaganda is always pointing to one person that solely cases everything and therefore deserves all the hate. It once was Saddam, Saddam , Saddam. Then Ghadaffi, Ghadaffi, Ghadaffi, Assad, Assad, Assad, Putin, Putin, Putin. Now it is Xi, Xi, Xi. In the real word hardly any person leading a state has as much power as such villainizing propaganda tries to make one believe. Countries have interests that define their policies through processes that are often incomprehensible to the cursory observer.

A ‘Caravan’ Of Americans Is Crossing The Canadian Border To Get Affordable Medical Care

May 9, 2019 Chantal Da Silva, Newsweek.com Resist! Canada, Health Care, United States

A "caravan" of Americans living with Type 1 diabetes made its way across the U.S. border into Canada over the weekend in search of affordable medical care in a country where they can get the "exact same" life-saving drugs for a dramatically lower price. "We're on a #CaravanToCanada because the USA charges astronomical prices for insulin that most people can't afford," tweeted caravan member Quinn Nystrom as she shared updates on the journey.

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