Wow -- thank you very, very much for the "bananas" link: ..."President Nixon and Henry Kissinger, his chief foreign policy adviser and subsequently secretary of state, were more or less BANANAS."
I was completely unaware of that.
Extract from The Arrogance Of Power: The Secret World Of Richard Nixon, by Anthony Summers, with Robbyn Swan, published by Gollancz. Copyright Anthony Summers 2000.
Will there be, I hope, a chapter 3? And maybe some predictions? Your piece generally ends with Wynken, Blynken, and Nod's spectacular demonstration of incompetence fairly soon after taking power. And I appreciate seeing Mr. Yang's response to Blynken. I remember back in the 1967 time frame thinking that the only way I could tolerate being forced into the military was to resist "the communist bloc's" attempts to foist their governmental and economic systems on me. Here it is 50 years later and we are guilty of exactly what I was complaining about then. It was, after all, the US that made sure that the Bolivian army murdered Che Guevara when he went down there to foment a revolution and bring communism to the country. How is that different than what we did in Ukraine and tried to do in Belarus and Boliva? And it gets worse. Tass has reported that US staffers said to the Russians after the summit that Russia had better get in line because if it didn't there would be additional pressure. Lavrov basically said don't do it. You'll get a very asymmetrical response (we've had enough of your bullshit).
I think there's a lot more to the national currencies movement which isn't just Russia and China. Argentina, Venezuela, Iran and other countries are doing it and it's not entirely nascent. Indeed I think you need a third chapter to address all the dumbass things the US and its vassals are doing to pressure Russia and China specifically.
Blessings, Jeffrey. Thanks the comment. In my view, we're watching the gradual emergence of a world order defined by parity. The non-West has asked for this for a long time and the U.S. has done noting to oblige., What we see now, if I have it right, is the non-West simply demanding what has not come harmoniously. O.K. by way of a prediction? Perhaps James has a view. His byline, after all.
One way of looking into future is to believe that socialism is indeed the future for humanity. A very large and increasing portion of US population thins so already.
Remember St. Obama: “Venezuela is fundamental threat to USA” -- declared St. Obama formally initiating regime change.
What he meant is “Socialism is a threat to capitalism”… hence imperial War-party endless wars -- against Bolivia, Nicaragua, Venezuela, Syria, Cuba, Libya, China….. ad infinitum
I'm not going to disagree with you. I will note that Rmoney also claimed that Venezuela was a threat to the US and the US's first coup attempt in Venezuela was in 2002. Not to mention Revoltin' Bolton's claim that the US was going to take out all the socialist governments in the Americas.
Personally, I'm of the opinion that mankind is screwed until we take all the ideologues out and shoot them. Neither ideology works all the time. We need a blend of the two ideologies to create something that works for people. Ideologues tend to be unable to blend their ideology with somebody else's ideology.
Wow -- thank you very, very much for the "bananas" link: ..."President Nixon and Henry Kissinger, his chief foreign policy adviser and subsequently secretary of state, were more or less BANANAS."
I was completely unaware of that.
Extract from The Arrogance Of Power: The Secret World Of Richard Nixon, by Anthony Summers, with Robbyn Swan, published by Gollancz. Copyright Anthony Summers 2000.
Indeed. All you really need to do is read Kissinger's memoirs.
Will there be, I hope, a chapter 3? And maybe some predictions? Your piece generally ends with Wynken, Blynken, and Nod's spectacular demonstration of incompetence fairly soon after taking power. And I appreciate seeing Mr. Yang's response to Blynken. I remember back in the 1967 time frame thinking that the only way I could tolerate being forced into the military was to resist "the communist bloc's" attempts to foist their governmental and economic systems on me. Here it is 50 years later and we are guilty of exactly what I was complaining about then. It was, after all, the US that made sure that the Bolivian army murdered Che Guevara when he went down there to foment a revolution and bring communism to the country. How is that different than what we did in Ukraine and tried to do in Belarus and Boliva? And it gets worse. Tass has reported that US staffers said to the Russians after the summit that Russia had better get in line because if it didn't there would be additional pressure. Lavrov basically said don't do it. You'll get a very asymmetrical response (we've had enough of your bullshit).
I think there's a lot more to the national currencies movement which isn't just Russia and China. Argentina, Venezuela, Iran and other countries are doing it and it's not entirely nascent. Indeed I think you need a third chapter to address all the dumbass things the US and its vassals are doing to pressure Russia and China specifically.
Blessings, Jeffrey. Thanks the comment. In my view, we're watching the gradual emergence of a world order defined by parity. The non-West has asked for this for a long time and the U.S. has done noting to oblige., What we see now, if I have it right, is the non-West simply demanding what has not come harmoniously. O.K. by way of a prediction? Perhaps James has a view. His byline, after all.
One way of looking into future is to believe that socialism is indeed the future for humanity. A very large and increasing portion of US population thins so already.
Remember St. Obama: “Venezuela is fundamental threat to USA” -- declared St. Obama formally initiating regime change.
What he meant is “Socialism is a threat to capitalism”… hence imperial War-party endless wars -- against Bolivia, Nicaragua, Venezuela, Syria, Cuba, Libya, China….. ad infinitum
I'm not going to disagree with you. I will note that Rmoney also claimed that Venezuela was a threat to the US and the US's first coup attempt in Venezuela was in 2002. Not to mention Revoltin' Bolton's claim that the US was going to take out all the socialist governments in the Americas.
Personally, I'm of the opinion that mankind is screwed until we take all the ideologues out and shoot them. Neither ideology works all the time. We need a blend of the two ideologies to create something that works for people. Ideologues tend to be unable to blend their ideology with somebody else's ideology.
Thank you -- a peaceful coexistence with respect for international laws would be sufficient.
However, that is totally unacceptable to the US war industry and all the players (politicians, media, etc.) that are fed by its "donations."