alanjjohnstone
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I don’t foresee any let up in the campaign to de-legitimise Biden as the Trump’s appear determined to make their family a political dynasty, like the Kennedys and Bushes
Lara, Ivanka and Don Jnr. are all being viewed as future candidates for Congress. If his health prevails Trump himself may make a running for 2024.
A Kurdish civil war?
Peshmerga forces loyal to the Kurdistan Democratic Party (KDP) “ambushed” the PKK.
Attorney General Barr accused of not being sufficiently compliant enough to his master, steps down
William Barr: US attorney general to leave post by Christmas – BBC News
Just to be clear, i do not say that Beeley is wrong on some of her reporting. I happen to agree with her that the White Helmets were a front, that most of the anti-Assad militias were also fronts and that some of the gas attacks were not conducted by the Syrian government but by jihadists.
My point is that she is pro-Assad, declining as a journalist to report events where his forces or his allies are guilty, such as the shelling and bombing of hospitals.
The Nazi media may have been truthful when they said the Katyn Massacre was not committed by them but by the Russians but i wouldn’t give that reporter any credit as legitimate.
Our position is a plague on both houses in the Syrian civil war. Beeley has chosen her side.
Trump’s nuclear weapon modernisation policy and arms spending is only the continuance of Obama, which is the continuance of Bush, which is the continuance of Clinton’s etc etc…all the way back in America’s history…
The reference in the US Marine Corp anthem “to the shores of Tripoli” refers to military regime change to install a new Pasha in 1805 in North Africa
Then, Janet, why would not use Beeley? Have you checked her credentials?
I have read of her reporting over the years and she is a shameless apologist for Assad, much the same as Sister Mariam.
Why do you rate her as a trusted and honest source?
Yes she has some defenders. John Pilger, for example, and i won’t question her personal courage to go into the war-zones. But nevertheless Beeley is very open in her support for the Syrian government and the Syrian army.
By now you know my own record, i have heavily criticised the White Helmets as fake humanitarians, the alleged gas attacks and the credibility based upon a mainstream media reporter of the integrity of the late Robert Fisk and of the so-called Syrian National Army and jihadist militias.
The blog began covering Syria as early as 2013 when it was still at the street protest level and i have followed its evolution into a bloody civil war fought by proxy forces. I do know trusted and honest sources when i encounter them. Beeley isn’t. Simple as that. She has ignored or denied the Syrian government army and its allies atrocities.
The content of her article that jihadists have been diplomatically supported and military supplied is not new news, but it offers additional details.
I was going to post this but then i saw who wrote it and i have my doubts about the author and was reluctant to give her legitimacy
She isn’t an unbiased neutral observer
Having endorsed the vote for the lesser evil, Wolff now says that Biden’s policies could lead back to another Trump-style presidency
How Biden could pave the way for the next Trump – Alternet.org
“Biden gives every sign—in conditions of even worse economic and political decline—of repeating these oscillating failures. In so doing, he prepares the way for the next Trump.”
“Swampy” re-surfaces in HS2 eco-protest.
Veteran British eco-activist “Swampy” removed from protest site (trust.org)
At times you just have to feel “sorry” for the Republicans. Without very many policy promises, Biden campaigned on his integrity and character compared to Trump’s.
Now as i think we said previously the Biden media went softly-softly on Hunter Biden (and Biden’s brother) trading off his father’s name and position.
Now it seems Hunter was under investigation by the FBI prior to the election which was hushed up in case it influenced the election. And no doubt the nitty-gritty details of the devious dealing will become clearer but probably declared technically legal.
I agree with your intent, MS.
My worry is that the confidence in the American electoral system by those of a conservative political bias is not going to be a temporary one and disappear with Trump’s exit.
He has created a toxic politics that is being absorbed and will be released in some very unhealthy way for democracy.
Biden’s most probable failure in the future to substantially improve the well-being of Americans will add to the mix.
I’m concerned of the lasting-effects of the 2020 election, MS. I don’t think they will end very soon.
Receiving less attention is the farmers protests in Peru, over much the same issues.
Cracks Appear in Peru’s Neoliberal Agriculture | Dissident Voice
Biden is going to find it increasingly difficult to deny M4A demands after this authorative analysis of its costs but he will.
Today, another pro-Trump protest march.
SCOTUS throws out Texas law-suit
And still the majority of Republicans believe the election was stolen from Trump
I thought i lost this quote but it was in my personal blog archives
In March 2000 Mbeki’s spokesperson, the late Parks Mankahlana, gave this blunt justification to Science magazine as to why the South African Department of Health will not provide a relatively inexpensive shot of Nevirapine to 100,000 pregnant, HIV-positive women to prevent mother-to-child transmission:
‘That mother is going to die and that HIV-negative child will be an orphan. That child must be brought up. Who is going to bring the child up? It’s the state, the state. That’s resources, you see.’
