The empire is desperate. Either Venezuela delenda est or Iran delenda est. If neither, then Hegemon fears it will run out of markets for its weapons and fuel for its weapons industry.
Methinks I need to pull the covers over my head and go back to sleep. No nightmare I conjur can compare to this that is happening.
Its funny, but as a pacifist and peace-nik, I despair of ever reaching a day when people run out of markets for weapons. But I can believe that the merchants of death might be very afraid of that.
I can’t really imagine a world where people aren’t always looking to buy means to kill each other. There’s not even a shortage of reasons either, but I suppose grabbing power is the driver of the big sales. To me, a world where people run out of markets for weapons is a distant dream that I hope and pray that humanity reaches someday. From here it seems like just a distant Promised Land. But, I can see how evil and twisted minds that create and sell weapons so that people can kill other people might worry about all sorts of fantasies.
And yes, I’m going to vote for Tulsi. I hope that lots of other people join me. I don’t plan on staying in bed on that election day! :)
James Speaks
I am afraid you are right. Trump admitted that 70.000 factories were closed down in the US. The remaining ones are tied to the Military Industrial Complex, which needs wars. A dangerous situation for the US.
Yes, Tulsi Gabbard spoke the truth in this video. However, I fear that she is a Deep State plant. She is a member of the Council on Foreign Relations, and we all know who created it. My personal impression is that the Deep State has given her the role intended for Hillary Clinton, now that Hillary is probably out of the political race for the White House. I see that Tulsi has appropriated Donald Trumps tactics of appealing to the working class in the US. It’s not impossible for Tulsi to get elected as Pfresident. If she does, nothing will change.
Ann Watson
She is ex-military. This means she is military for life. In case you don’t know, any person who signs up with the US military can be recalled back to the military once the contract expires, whether she or he likes it or not. It’s the law. Also, how do you explain the fact that she is on the Membership Roster of the Council on Foreign Relations, bearing in mind who created it and the role assigned to it.
Actually she’s not “ex-military”, she’s still a serving member of the National Guard in between her Congressional duties. Hence the “my brothers and sisters in uniform” bit. She was a in a medical unit in Iraq (for which she gave up her exemption as a member of the Hawaii State House and volunteered when her unit was activated), not a combatant, and later served with Army Military Police in Kuwait. Not a typical resumé for a DC swamp creature by any stretch. And all else aside, it took real guts for her to buck the whole US establishment to go meet with Dr Assad, then come back and deliver to the public the even-handed reports that she did. As for the CFR thing, I find it only mildly troubling. Not every associate member of every American think tank is a warmongering psycho, you know; I’d give it a much higher probability that the CFR offered Gabbard membership in order to try to influence her, than because she’s an agent of its leadership’s agenda.
Following Netanyahu’s controversial address to Congress in March 2015 against the Iranian nuclear deal, Gabbard issued a statement saying, “It’s unfortunate that an issue as important as preventing Iran from obtaining nuclear weapons has been muddled by partisan politics. This is an extremely serious issue, at a critical juncture, that should not be used as a political football.”
The United States’ relationship with Israel, she said, “must rise above the political fray, as America continues to stand with Israel as her strongest ally.”
And in January 2017, Gabbard – a member of the House Foreign Affairs Committee – issued a statement explaining why she voted against a House resolution condemning the UN Security Council resolution, which harshly slammed Israel’s settlement policies, and the failure of the US to block that resolution.
jadez
The Deep state counted on Hillary, hoping she would make history by becoming the first woman president. It did not work out that way. Now Tulsi Gabbard appears, a member of the Council on Foreign Relations. Her job almost certainly is to take over from Hillary.
Do you have any credible, tangible evidence to present, regarding the accusations which you have listed against Representative Gabbard; or are you speaking from the perspective of an amateur analyst, with no experience and/or formal education in international military security policymaking, and international politics? One’s ‘opinion,’ is simply that–an opinion.
The local presstitutes claim that it is ‘Saudi pressure’ causing Trump’s genocidal threats and deranged lying. Dear, sweet, beautiful Israel MUST NOT, under any circumstances, be mentioned of course. Jobs and careers as a highly-paid liar and hypocrite are at stake.
Israel is the # 1 reason why all this is going on, despite everyone, from the US president downward, pretending otherwise.
Israel desperately wants to see Iran destroyed and America is being manipulated by zionist interests, to take on this task.
Remember, Sheldon Adelson demanded that candidate Trump, make tearing up the JCPOA one of his main priorities if elected- he was elected and this he promptly did.
However, as usual, everyone – MSM operatives and politicians alike – have to ignore Israel’s corrosive influence on US policy making, for fear of producing a backlash from the American public.
Jewish influence in America is as powerful, as it is corrosive, and Americans continue to ignore or overlook it, to their peril.
If you dont believe me, go ask Rick Sanchez, who now works at RT.
Rick had a popular show on CNN once, but he got into a war of words with Jon Stewart, who is Jewish, and Sanchez had the gall to point out that persons like Stewart were not part of an “oppressed minority” like they would have othersbelieve, but were extremely powerful and in control of CNN and other MSM outlets.
Of course, making such an observation in the US, can be fatal to one’s career, and poor Sanchez, was immediately dismissed.
Jewish power is real, and to prove this, in sort of a reverse, in what is taking place with Iran, Israel has demanded that Trump not throw Saudi Arabia and its muderous Crown Prince MBS under the bus over the “Kashoggi Affair”, because Israel needs the kingdom’s help in imposing the Kushner-crafted criminal and immoral “Deal of the Century” on the hapless Palestinians.
Again,Trump dutifully obeyed Israel’s request, but he has pretended – and the MSM has played along – that Saudi Money was the reason why he stuck by Mohammed bin Salman.
MAGA has been betrayed, and Israeli interests supercede those of the US.
The not-so-funny thing is that some Jews openly boast of the power and influence of ‘the tribe’ in various Jewish media outlets, but any goy who dares to point it out, and delineate the contours of that power, is instantly crucified. THAT is power.
Am I jaded? Why has US politics become like watching a “B” movie with bizarro random plot lines. The necessary suspension-of-disbelief, to sit through it all without squirming, just doesn’t exist for me anymore. Well, at least the casting is spot-on, otherwise I’d have nothing to say. How many followers of this blog are hopeful enough to believe in Gabbard as the long-sought for “voice of reason,” amongst the droning hive-mind of honey-lipped vipers? The sweeter her face, and more pleasing her words, the more that I recoil, and reject everything.
Could not be more clear. And these clowns have been selling that war because of “Intel”. You know, the Highly Likely, Russians did it, Trump Colluded Intel the US and UK concoct and pedal to dopes and dupes to justify the mind-massage of MSM and “experts”, ex-Station Chiefs (all Jewish, don’t you know) and Israelis (our “best friends” and staunchest ally (if you don’t count the USS Liberty attack).
The same foghorn blasting the same kind of messages about Iran as they did about Saddam, about North Vietnam, about Nicaragua Sandinistas, about the FMLN El Salvador, about Chavez and Maduro, about the Serbs, about Putin, about Kim, about Xi, about the MPLA Angola, etc.,etc. Decade after decade, region after region, continent after continent.
America searches for and manufactures enemies to overthrow, bomb and destroy.
Tulsi is taking a moral stance. She deserves financial assistance from everyone who agrees.
Keep her voice ringing in the big ears of Trump.
You are giving the CFR too much credit. If she were a paid agent, she wouldn’t be speaking up about these issues in the first place. Furthermore, she speaks the truth extremely eloquent in a way which, in my humble opinion, is not faked.
Imho, a fake, worthy of an Acadmy Award, no? She won’t ever get elected if she doesn’t read from the double headed coin script. Please follow along. It’s a show, fake, faker, fakest. And yes, that might be wool in front of your eyes. Only ‘company’ people sit on the CFR.
And the fakestream media presstitute vermin, after the ‘Saddam’s WMD’ lie was disproved (anyone who can fog a mirror and has taken any interest in the subject knew that it was all lies and Iraq had long been demilitarised)and the million plus Iraqis were dead (to add to the million more under the diabolical sanctions regime), promised that they would not be ‘fooled’ again. Fast forward seventeen years and the scum are swallowing every filthy Zionazi lie and loyally regurgitating it, as if Iraq had never happened. They truly are the very dregs of society.
Yeah-but she’s good looking, but not so much as to incite envy. The powers that be haven’t tried pulchritude as a means to peddle a political confidence-trickster, so far. It might just work.
Don’t believe it? Look at the profile,… The ‘Pedigree’…
Non-white/liberal/female/exotic(Samoan and something or other I believe)/openly opposed to the white dude that her own sponsors supported…
Iraq war vet…
Speaking the Bernie speaches(ish)…
Is this person, or is this person not, a member of the U.S. Federal government of Washington DC?
Just sayin’, man.
Is she getting television air time in the states? Would be strange for the tv dudes to give a threat to their position any airtime on their television stations…
P.S. Your blog is awesome, love your articles and analysis of the subjects covered. Pretty awesome.
Saker
Sadly, I see a few problems when I view Gabbard from the Antipodes.
I have to admit though…initially, it is pretty hard not to be excited at the prospect of her being the successful red corner contender…but then it dawns on you…is she not just so damn appealing that it all seems a bit too good to be true?…methinks maybe herein lies the problem.
My concerns;
#1 She really doesn’t stand a snowball’s chance in hell of ever occupying the big old house if she is true to her word as a pacifist. Mainstreet doesn’t decide on who is going to be POTUS, the MIC decides who they will run with and equally who will be unceremoniously thrown under the bus. They are the all-powerful Merchants of Mayhem and will simply not allow their butchery trade to falter.
#2 Just look at the last two Presidents, both were installed on antiwar and anti-intervention platforms…look how they turned out.
#3 Her naive comments in agreeing with the LSM that Assad was moronic enough to conduct chemical attacks on his own people right when he had all but won the war against ISIS.
#4 Her equally astonishing and infantile belief that 9/11 was not an inside job.
#5 CFR membership on her CV.
Add 1 through 5 together and it looks very much like the club is up to its old tricks.. again!
Col
Col, mate, she is the New Model Hillary. Younger. Prettier. Slicker. A touch of the tar-brush, but not too much, like a type of female Obama. CFR? Bingo! But why, oh why, when the machinations of the US system are so well established, does anyone still believe in the process? Why are they able to foist new Messiahs on the suckers every four years? Give me the Pelosi escapee from the feminazi wax-museum any day-what you see is what you get.
It was said somewhere that the Russians and Chinese think in terms of decades, so two consecutive like minded terms is 20 years of consecutive thinking, where as Americans think in terms of election cycles, no where in the history of the states has a consecutive thinking cycle reached 20 years, its almost forbidden by law with 2 term presidents and new news cycles lasting closer to weeks, than years.
There is no coherency in American politics, its a constant clash of ideologies that can never be on the same page b/c they come from two different places, and neither will yield their chain of thought or the wars that support them.
If the American people cant read the doomed sign on the wall, it is b/c they refuse to look at it. Preferring to stare downwards from where they came, and where they are headed.
Partisanship in the USA must be extreme in order to hide the Truth that the two sides are basically just the same ie servants of the money power. As the Gilens Page study and basic commonsense tell you. The problem is that the process can run out of control, particularly if a rogue operative, not vetted by the real power centres, like Trump, gets accidentally elected. Trump ran as a PR stunt, but by imposing Hillary as candidate the DNC ensured his election, so justifiably hated was the Harpie. On election night I thought Trump looked quite ill, as well as surprised. He probably imagined that he might get the JFK treatment, so has gone along to get along with the Deep State ever since. Having the deranged religious nut-case Pence as Veep may be insurance, too. His toadying to Bibi might have guaranteed some MOSSAD protection, as well.
I dont think that is it at all, the qualitative easing of American politics has reduced the # of people who can or will do the right things, its the law of numbers and you can count on one hand (or perhaps a 2nd thumb) the few who are left to try corral the remaining 100’s even thousands of wild critters thrashing about in DC. Its actually a fantastic job of the few remainders to be capable of accomplishing this task.
Politics is/has been doomed in this country for many decades, and promises to be so for many more. Perhaps Trump can put a collar on the beast and we’ll keep him on a short leash so as to prevent damage to everybody, everyone else is on their own.
It is all very nice talk . No war because many merikans will die and Iranians will suffer. That is not a reason for not going to war. What if no merikans would die would war be OK ? War by economical means is OK ?She did not talk about the total destructive criminal politics the US is following and what about the criminal US sanctions. It is all the same cheap amerikan useless talk. And talk is what it is
The only Merkins who will die are the trailer-park trash and the refugees from the ghettos who make up the Imperial Death-Squads. In any case, the Exceptionals far prefer bombing from 40,000 feet, such is their bravery, martial prowess and humanity. One minute you’re there and the next you’re obliterated, to use Hillary’s favourite expression. How humane is that? ‘Western Moral Values’ at their finest.
People have legitimate concerns. We’ve been burned too many times, especially by Democrats. My theory on why she doesn’t address 911, is because the American people are just too down the rabbit (rabid?) hole to face the most awful truths about their country. JFK murdered by CIA/Mossad/Bankers. 911–same thing. FDR most likely poisoned. Henry Wallace sabotaged by the Democratic Party leadership.
The bad money has driven out the good. On the other hand, Gabbard is raising important issues. She just got smeared by the Daily Beast as being funded by Putin apologists, because of 3 out of 65,000 plus donations, including two respected people, Steve Cohen and Sharon Tennison, neither of whom is ‘a Red’. They just want a reasonable policy towards Russia. But the MSM won’t even tolerate that.
For now, I support her but even she says it is not about her. If she can raise issues that are raised here, but in a way that is palatable to the majority of ignoramuses who populate the USA, it will be a step in the right, i.e, correct direction. But we should not rely on any one person as a savior, because of the concerns people have, as well as the fact that if she is sincere, she could still be subject unbearable pressure, threats or worse.
There is a standard test. Has the New Messiah made the ritual trip to Israel to grovel at Bibi’s hooves, and fake awe-struck pseudo-Judaism at the Wailing Wall? Well has she, yet?
Check out the stock market. Remember in the runup to the Iraq war, the stock market was going down, down, down. As soon as the war started, the stock market shot up as if provide an economic reward to those in Washington for their warmongering decision. A similar pattern seems to be at the onset of every recent Middle-east war started. Seems like that is happening now. The stock market appears to ride with the saber rattling out of Washington. Whenever a move toward peace is made, the administration gets punished with a bear market. When a move toward war is made, a bull market makes the day. I bet should a war with Iran actually start, stocks will skyrocket in an outstanding rally of celebration. This might just be some observed conincidence? But then again, just think who really wants this war with Iran, and what they control.
Iran has made many mistakes. Today an attack on Iran is in the cards, but an attack on DPRK North Korea is unthinkable. An interesting analysis here as to why Korea’s security strategy has succeeded while Iran’s has partially if not largely failed.
Comparing Tulsi to Hillary, as some have done on this page, is a really funny business. I’m assuming people who say this don’t live in the States.
Have you seen the multi-million $ PR for bone-heads like Buttagieg and Amy Klobuchar? Are you aware that there are 25 (?) candidates in this “race”? Do you seriously think that the DNC that crushed B. Sanders in CA circa 2016 isn’t doing the same thing to Tulsi Gabbard now?
In fact, Tulsi is being steamrolled in a time honored DNC fashion, and is ignored by the big-league phonies on the left and right. When she does appear, she is insulted and smeared for weeks on end.
It’s to Saker’s credit that he mentions her at all, which is more than total frauds like Democracy Later and Alex Jones bother to do.
Not to sweep a CFR membership under the rug, but heaven knows what kind of dastardly games anyone on earth has to play in D.C. to get anywhere.
The cold fact of the matter is that assuming a miracle, even if Tulsi were to defy the hatred of the MSM and 99% of online opinion, would she be able to assemble the likes of Lavrov and Shoigu (and a thousand others, down to the cook) around her to fix the country? The answer would appear to be no. Competent people in D.C. were a dying breed in the Bush 2 days, and are now assumed by expert naturalists to be extinct.
As for competent people in the MSM to bring support to a pro-peace, anti-war anit-MIC candidate, we can assume that boat sailed 50 years ago.
Nevertheless, supporting Tulsi’s campaign is in the flyover blue collar American spirit of rooting for the underdog’s team, and presenting a somewhat credible face of the country to the rest of the world, in these awful days when the only words and deeds coming out of Washington DC are complete blithering idiocy. Not a worthless endeavor in my view; little things mean a lot.
“She is ex-military. This means she is military for life. ”
There are some homeless veterans on the streets over here who might, I say might, disagree with you. Or check the local VA hospital.
The obvious difference between her & BHO is that John Kerry never introduced her @ the dem. convention. BHO was the chosen club member; the club doesn’t even recognize her. This fact alone gives her a t least some credibility.
Instead of being worried about a post-Mueller voter backlash against Russigate, the Democratic party establishment, or at least part of it, sees opportunities in Russiagate to manipulate voters.
That Taibbi piece, and many like it, illustrate neatly just how quite amazingly verminous the Rightwing Western MSM have become. The years of forcible ideological loyalty to the ‘worldview’ of monsters like Murdoch, the punishment of any apostasy, the compulsory Groupthink and the latter-day hysteria of hatred against Russia and China etc has produced a cadre of lying, hypocritical, hysterical and intellectually insufficient thugs, self-adoringly masquerading as ‘journalists’ and defenders of the Truth. The worst example I can think of, because the ‘volte-farce’ was so abrupt and so marked and hysterical, must be the Guardian, particularly its cadre of feminazi Assange-haters and Corbyn villifiers. There the debasement of feminism and female empowerment, the total abasement before the Likudnik Zionazis and the frenzy of hatred for Russia and China is quite beyond pathological. One really suspects some sort of demonic possession.
I trust her sincerity and her human-core unconditionally. It is better to be betrayed than be a traitor.
1. history
This kid come from “establishment family”. When she enlisted it was all the same “family” for her, the government, the Country, the Freedom, the Army, the war. When she entered the Dem party, CFR it was all the same: the Homeland. What will one do when encounters that the family does bad things? Will one abandon the siblings, the Mother, the Father easily? So, she became an ugly duck in the family.
And as of her previous views and actions, CFR, painful news about voting for H. Clinton, and enlistments, one should focus on the core of the character, loyalty to own views, sincerity, courage, and steadiness and depth of learning changes, than on “mistakes” of the past. These who think they always were enlighntened, simply have a poor memory.
We have a fellow who already left for a fight and we will sit behind her back and discuss stains on old clothes dropped to the trench?
2. actual process
T.G. campaign is not for making her a President, or winning Dem. primaries.
This is about evaporating Dems. and Resp. parties and replacing 99% of WH management and Law-makers with grussroot team. Without this goal to happen, it does not matter will she become P. or not. A lone wolf would not make a change. ( Or safe own self from worse things as it was clearly answered in Joe Rogan interview )
This goal is where her campaign unavoidably heads to.
And if this goal succeed, then it will be not a big difference who she really is: talented Hollywood actor, establishment “stodge”, or a real person.
And she is in no mood to stay with the wing if it cannot be “healed”. There is no signs she will compromise and stay with CFR or with Dem party, if this environment stops the movement. Did she resign from DNC when it was contradictory with her views?
Assume one is a traitor and leads the followers to the trap. But when there is a movement, even as small as 75000 individuals who contributed to her campaign so far, what will establishment do with them? Persecute? Put in jail? Being in jail has less shame then being an American citizen nowadays.
3) problems
There may be some problems: 1) “family ideology” rubber stumps and 2)lack of support.
She says only 10% of the truths (because? no support). No clear articulation about Is. Too focused on domestic issues. Tries to represent everybody. She is a voice, but has no listeners. Will she try to represent these 99% indifferent and bystanding Americans who do not listen? She is anti-war mostly on financial grounds, not on moral ones. There is no on-line forum for her followers. They are disorganized so she cannot listen and answer the questions, (questions and doubts like in this blog). She has no specific program on specific issues. It is not clear who her scientific advisers are. The only one candidate who has really mature and moral stand on most important issues is Michael Gravel. She is pro-love so should represent everyone in the World, not only from the narrow USAin point of view.
4) party root benefits
Being an ugly duck has a huge advantage. This duck knows all the ins and outs of the corrupt family.
Another good thing is an attempt to “… reengergize Dem. party from inside … ” instead of alienate own siblings. (The task is to win hearts and minds.)
This is actually good that she can use own party or CFR as a stage for her views.
The fascinating fact is she converts hostile MSM to a tool to propagate her views right at the spot when host helplessly tries to trick or smear her.
4) Gabbard and Gravel candidates break the walls … the others can only collect the pieces
And despite of above concerns and lack of my knowledge, I trust her sincerity unconditionally.
Very fresh/interesting/totally relevant take on the TG phenom K.K., thanks very much for it, would enjoy reading your thoughts as the dreadful election season continues.
I agree about the murkiness of advisors and so on, too true! Which is a question that anyone in any country other than the US would ask: Who exactly is informing you, ma’am? We in US have been conditioned to take these characters as Hollywood self-made individualists, which is ludicrous.
Also one must take into account that she is relatively young, and her understanding of some issues (OBOR?) is perhaps shallow.
Also the standard problem of US “strategy”… aka, what happens _after_ the battle, what is your plan? Do you have a plan? I would think that after seeing what they did to DJT, one would require a plan for swamp creatures, but swamp creatures and the media they control are seldom mentioned.
Gravel and TG seem to be human, which is saying something these days. Gravel is quite funny. Of course, no one asks what kind of cabinet they would have a hope in h$ll of creating.
Elections have always been one of our little games/obsessions, our excuse to forget our bloated plutocracy. But as you suggest, the PR from Gravel and TG may not be entirely useless, we’ll see.
… what he says blows me up with its insight and simplicity https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dU0qilkFO_8
“modern USA election and representative/separation machine was designed in 1787”
Yang is nice and full of ideas, but politics is not a Mechanical Engineering, but a distribution of power: one needs a team “and a thousand others, down to the cook” when doors closed behind P in WH and he is being asked to be cozy and quiet with permitted toy projects …
In contrast, MG seems knows where power comes from and how to hold it.
Tulsi/Gravel as P/VP or vice v. ?
Trump is indebted to Israel and many Talmudic Jewish interests in the USA. These parties want a war against Iran. He will do what his masters demand of him. His lies during the past presidential campaign are no different than his lies to his partners, spouses,business associates as well as to the Draft Board during the Vietnam War when his ” Bone Spur ” deferment enabled him to do 18 holes of Golf but not a five mile march.
The US is not seeking a way to go to war with Iran. They know it’s not possible anymore. And it will be the end of the Saudis and Israelis along with too many casualties for the Yankees and the Britts.
One thing is to aparently seek an atitude. Other is to really act.
The empire is desperate. Either Venezuela delenda est or Iran delenda est. If neither, then Hegemon fears it will run out of markets for its weapons and fuel for its weapons industry.
Methinks I need to pull the covers over my head and go back to sleep. No nightmare I conjur can compare to this that is happening.
Its funny, but as a pacifist and peace-nik, I despair of ever reaching a day when people run out of markets for weapons. But I can believe that the merchants of death might be very afraid of that.
I can’t really imagine a world where people aren’t always looking to buy means to kill each other. There’s not even a shortage of reasons either, but I suppose grabbing power is the driver of the big sales. To me, a world where people run out of markets for weapons is a distant dream that I hope and pray that humanity reaches someday. From here it seems like just a distant Promised Land. But, I can see how evil and twisted minds that create and sell weapons so that people can kill other people might worry about all sorts of fantasies.
And yes, I’m going to vote for Tulsi. I hope that lots of other people join me. I don’t plan on staying in bed on that election day! :)
James Speaks
I am afraid you are right. Trump admitted that 70.000 factories were closed down in the US. The remaining ones are tied to the Military Industrial Complex, which needs wars. A dangerous situation for the US.
Yes, Tulsi Gabbard spoke the truth in this video. However, I fear that she is a Deep State plant. She is a member of the Council on Foreign Relations, and we all know who created it. My personal impression is that the Deep State has given her the role intended for Hillary Clinton, now that Hillary is probably out of the political race for the White House. I see that Tulsi has appropriated Donald Trumps tactics of appealing to the working class in the US. It’s not impossible for Tulsi to get elected as Pfresident. If she does, nothing will change.
I don’t get that impression – but I suppose I’m easily fooled.
Ann Watson
She is ex-military. This means she is military for life. In case you don’t know, any person who signs up with the US military can be recalled back to the military once the contract expires, whether she or he likes it or not. It’s the law. Also, how do you explain the fact that she is on the Membership Roster of the Council on Foreign Relations, bearing in mind who created it and the role assigned to it.
Actually she’s not “ex-military”, she’s still a serving member of the National Guard in between her Congressional duties. Hence the “my brothers and sisters in uniform” bit. She was a in a medical unit in Iraq (for which she gave up her exemption as a member of the Hawaii State House and volunteered when her unit was activated), not a combatant, and later served with Army Military Police in Kuwait. Not a typical resumé for a DC swamp creature by any stretch. And all else aside, it took real guts for her to buck the whole US establishment to go meet with Dr Assad, then come back and deliver to the public the even-handed reports that she did. As for the CFR thing, I find it only mildly troubling. Not every associate member of every American think tank is a warmongering psycho, you know; I’d give it a much higher probability that the CFR offered Gabbard membership in order to try to influence her, than because she’s an agent of its leadership’s agenda.
“Not every associate member of every American think tank is a warmongering psycho, you know”
They all are, you know, and all are snake oil salesmen/women.
https://www.jpost.com/American-Politics/Democratic-presidential-contender-Gabbard-supports-and-criticizes-Israel-577149
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Following Netanyahu’s controversial address to Congress in March 2015 against the Iranian nuclear deal, Gabbard issued a statement saying, “It’s unfortunate that an issue as important as preventing Iran from obtaining nuclear weapons has been muddled by partisan politics. This is an extremely serious issue, at a critical juncture, that should not be used as a political football.”
The United States’ relationship with Israel, she said, “must rise above the political fray, as America continues to stand with Israel as her strongest ally.”
And in January 2017, Gabbard – a member of the House Foreign Affairs Committee – issued a statement explaining why she voted against a House resolution condemning the UN Security Council resolution, which harshly slammed Israel’s settlement policies, and the failure of the US to block that resolution.
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i dont think you start at the bottom to replace someone as prominent as hillary clinton.
she polls at 1%…just how do you pretend such success?
however i do agree i am not sold about her integrity…and i have yet to see her asked about her connections to the israel far right.
jadez
The Deep state counted on Hillary, hoping she would make history by becoming the first woman president. It did not work out that way. Now Tulsi Gabbard appears, a member of the Council on Foreign Relations. Her job almost certainly is to take over from Hillary.
Do you have any credible, tangible evidence to present, regarding the accusations which you have listed against Representative Gabbard; or are you speaking from the perspective of an amateur analyst, with no experience and/or formal education in international military security policymaking, and international politics? One’s ‘opinion,’ is simply that–an opinion.
The only sane politician running for president. Too bad most of Congress is equally demented as Trump/Bolton.
The local presstitutes claim that it is ‘Saudi pressure’ causing Trump’s genocidal threats and deranged lying. Dear, sweet, beautiful Israel MUST NOT, under any circumstances, be mentioned of course. Jobs and careers as a highly-paid liar and hypocrite are at stake.
Israel is the # 1 reason why all this is going on, despite everyone, from the US president downward, pretending otherwise.
Israel desperately wants to see Iran destroyed and America is being manipulated by zionist interests, to take on this task.
Remember, Sheldon Adelson demanded that candidate Trump, make tearing up the JCPOA one of his main priorities if elected- he was elected and this he promptly did.
However, as usual, everyone – MSM operatives and politicians alike – have to ignore Israel’s corrosive influence on US policy making, for fear of producing a backlash from the American public.
Jewish influence in America is as powerful, as it is corrosive, and Americans continue to ignore or overlook it, to their peril.
If you dont believe me, go ask Rick Sanchez, who now works at RT.
Rick had a popular show on CNN once, but he got into a war of words with Jon Stewart, who is Jewish, and Sanchez had the gall to point out that persons like Stewart were not part of an “oppressed minority” like they would have othersbelieve, but were extremely powerful and in control of CNN and other MSM outlets.
Of course, making such an observation in the US, can be fatal to one’s career, and poor Sanchez, was immediately dismissed.
Jewish power is real, and to prove this, in sort of a reverse, in what is taking place with Iran, Israel has demanded that Trump not throw Saudi Arabia and its muderous Crown Prince MBS under the bus over the “Kashoggi Affair”, because Israel needs the kingdom’s help in imposing the Kushner-crafted criminal and immoral “Deal of the Century” on the hapless Palestinians.
Again,Trump dutifully obeyed Israel’s request, but he has pretended – and the MSM has played along – that Saudi Money was the reason why he stuck by Mohammed bin Salman.
MAGA has been betrayed, and Israeli interests supercede those of the US.
Selah
The not-so-funny thing is that some Jews openly boast of the power and influence of ‘the tribe’ in various Jewish media outlets, but any goy who dares to point it out, and delineate the contours of that power, is instantly crucified. THAT is power.
Am I jaded? Why has US politics become like watching a “B” movie with bizarro random plot lines. The necessary suspension-of-disbelief, to sit through it all without squirming, just doesn’t exist for me anymore. Well, at least the casting is spot-on, otherwise I’d have nothing to say. How many followers of this blog are hopeful enough to believe in Gabbard as the long-sought for “voice of reason,” amongst the droning hive-mind of honey-lipped vipers? The sweeter her face, and more pleasing her words, the more that I recoil, and reject everything.
Could not be more clear. And these clowns have been selling that war because of “Intel”. You know, the Highly Likely, Russians did it, Trump Colluded Intel the US and UK concoct and pedal to dopes and dupes to justify the mind-massage of MSM and “experts”, ex-Station Chiefs (all Jewish, don’t you know) and Israelis (our “best friends” and staunchest ally (if you don’t count the USS Liberty attack).
The same foghorn blasting the same kind of messages about Iran as they did about Saddam, about North Vietnam, about Nicaragua Sandinistas, about the FMLN El Salvador, about Chavez and Maduro, about the Serbs, about Putin, about Kim, about Xi, about the MPLA Angola, etc.,etc. Decade after decade, region after region, continent after continent.
America searches for and manufactures enemies to overthrow, bomb and destroy.
Tulsi is taking a moral stance. She deserves financial assistance from everyone who agrees.
Keep her voice ringing in the big ears of Trump.
CFR politicians do not make statements based on morality. Get over it and move on. Tulsi is a well paid actor, nothing more.
You are giving the CFR too much credit. If she were a paid agent, she wouldn’t be speaking up about these issues in the first place. Furthermore, she speaks the truth extremely eloquent in a way which, in my humble opinion, is not faked.
Imho, a fake, worthy of an Acadmy Award, no? She won’t ever get elected if she doesn’t read from the double headed coin script. Please follow along. It’s a show, fake, faker, fakest. And yes, that might be wool in front of your eyes. Only ‘company’ people sit on the CFR.
And the fakestream media presstitute vermin, after the ‘Saddam’s WMD’ lie was disproved (anyone who can fog a mirror and has taken any interest in the subject knew that it was all lies and Iraq had long been demilitarised)and the million plus Iraqis were dead (to add to the million more under the diabolical sanctions regime), promised that they would not be ‘fooled’ again. Fast forward seventeen years and the scum are swallowing every filthy Zionazi lie and loyally regurgitating it, as if Iraq had never happened. They truly are the very dregs of society.
On The View, Tulsi said that Assad use chemical weapons against his own people numerous times. Also, she voted for Guantanamo. She’s not very moral.
Yeah-but she’s good looking, but not so much as to incite envy. The powers that be haven’t tried pulchritude as a means to peddle a political confidence-trickster, so far. It might just work.
Another Hawaiian who is not actually from Hawaii? Why is everyone (and, I do mean everyone) in this movie from somewhere else?… Sortta weird…
Don’t believe it? Look at the profile,… The ‘Pedigree’…
Non-white/liberal/female/exotic(Samoan and something or other I believe)/openly opposed to the white dude that her own sponsors supported…
Iraq war vet…
Speaking the Bernie speaches(ish)…
Is this person, or is this person not, a member of the U.S. Federal government of Washington DC?
Just sayin’, man.
Is she getting television air time in the states? Would be strange for the tv dudes to give a threat to their position any airtime on their television stations…
P.S. Your blog is awesome, love your articles and analysis of the subjects covered. Pretty awesome.
No, she is not.
OTOH, Jimmy Dore has given her a lot of airtime, and has hundreds of thousands of viewers.
Most disgracefully, the neoliberals don’t let on that she’s even running.
Saker
Sadly, I see a few problems when I view Gabbard from the Antipodes.
I have to admit though…initially, it is pretty hard not to be excited at the prospect of her being the successful red corner contender…but then it dawns on you…is she not just so damn appealing that it all seems a bit too good to be true?…methinks maybe herein lies the problem.
My concerns;
#1 She really doesn’t stand a snowball’s chance in hell of ever occupying the big old house if she is true to her word as a pacifist. Mainstreet doesn’t decide on who is going to be POTUS, the MIC decides who they will run with and equally who will be unceremoniously thrown under the bus. They are the all-powerful Merchants of Mayhem and will simply not allow their butchery trade to falter.
#2 Just look at the last two Presidents, both were installed on antiwar and anti-intervention platforms…look how they turned out.
#3 Her naive comments in agreeing with the LSM that Assad was moronic enough to conduct chemical attacks on his own people right when he had all but won the war against ISIS.
#4 Her equally astonishing and infantile belief that 9/11 was not an inside job.
#5 CFR membership on her CV.
Add 1 through 5 together and it looks very much like the club is up to its old tricks.. again!
Col
Col, mate, she is the New Model Hillary. Younger. Prettier. Slicker. A touch of the tar-brush, but not too much, like a type of female Obama. CFR? Bingo! But why, oh why, when the machinations of the US system are so well established, does anyone still believe in the process? Why are they able to foist new Messiahs on the suckers every four years? Give me the Pelosi escapee from the feminazi wax-museum any day-what you see is what you get.
It was said somewhere that the Russians and Chinese think in terms of decades, so two consecutive like minded terms is 20 years of consecutive thinking, where as Americans think in terms of election cycles, no where in the history of the states has a consecutive thinking cycle reached 20 years, its almost forbidden by law with 2 term presidents and new news cycles lasting closer to weeks, than years.
There is no coherency in American politics, its a constant clash of ideologies that can never be on the same page b/c they come from two different places, and neither will yield their chain of thought or the wars that support them.
If the American people cant read the doomed sign on the wall, it is b/c they refuse to look at it. Preferring to stare downwards from where they came, and where they are headed.
Partisanship in the USA must be extreme in order to hide the Truth that the two sides are basically just the same ie servants of the money power. As the Gilens Page study and basic commonsense tell you. The problem is that the process can run out of control, particularly if a rogue operative, not vetted by the real power centres, like Trump, gets accidentally elected. Trump ran as a PR stunt, but by imposing Hillary as candidate the DNC ensured his election, so justifiably hated was the Harpie. On election night I thought Trump looked quite ill, as well as surprised. He probably imagined that he might get the JFK treatment, so has gone along to get along with the Deep State ever since. Having the deranged religious nut-case Pence as Veep may be insurance, too. His toadying to Bibi might have guaranteed some MOSSAD protection, as well.
I dont think that is it at all, the qualitative easing of American politics has reduced the # of people who can or will do the right things, its the law of numbers and you can count on one hand (or perhaps a 2nd thumb) the few who are left to try corral the remaining 100’s even thousands of wild critters thrashing about in DC. Its actually a fantastic job of the few remainders to be capable of accomplishing this task.
Politics is/has been doomed in this country for many decades, and promises to be so for many more. Perhaps Trump can put a collar on the beast and we’ll keep him on a short leash so as to prevent damage to everybody, everyone else is on their own.
It is all very nice talk . No war because many merikans will die and Iranians will suffer. That is not a reason for not going to war. What if no merikans would die would war be OK ? War by economical means is OK ?She did not talk about the total destructive criminal politics the US is following and what about the criminal US sanctions. It is all the same cheap amerikan useless talk. And talk is what it is
The only Merkins who will die are the trailer-park trash and the refugees from the ghettos who make up the Imperial Death-Squads. In any case, the Exceptionals far prefer bombing from 40,000 feet, such is their bravery, martial prowess and humanity. One minute you’re there and the next you’re obliterated, to use Hillary’s favourite expression. How humane is that? ‘Western Moral Values’ at their finest.
Israel’s most powerful weapon is victimization. Try criticizing Israel and they will bring that card to the table every time. Dangerous.
People have legitimate concerns. We’ve been burned too many times, especially by Democrats. My theory on why she doesn’t address 911, is because the American people are just too down the rabbit (rabid?) hole to face the most awful truths about their country. JFK murdered by CIA/Mossad/Bankers. 911–same thing. FDR most likely poisoned. Henry Wallace sabotaged by the Democratic Party leadership.
The bad money has driven out the good. On the other hand, Gabbard is raising important issues. She just got smeared by the Daily Beast as being funded by Putin apologists, because of 3 out of 65,000 plus donations, including two respected people, Steve Cohen and Sharon Tennison, neither of whom is ‘a Red’. They just want a reasonable policy towards Russia. But the MSM won’t even tolerate that.
For now, I support her but even she says it is not about her. If she can raise issues that are raised here, but in a way that is palatable to the majority of ignoramuses who populate the USA, it will be a step in the right, i.e, correct direction. But we should not rely on any one person as a savior, because of the concerns people have, as well as the fact that if she is sincere, she could still be subject unbearable pressure, threats or worse.
There is a standard test. Has the New Messiah made the ritual trip to Israel to grovel at Bibi’s hooves, and fake awe-struck pseudo-Judaism at the Wailing Wall? Well has she, yet?
Check out the stock market. Remember in the runup to the Iraq war, the stock market was going down, down, down. As soon as the war started, the stock market shot up as if provide an economic reward to those in Washington for their warmongering decision. A similar pattern seems to be at the onset of every recent Middle-east war started. Seems like that is happening now. The stock market appears to ride with the saber rattling out of Washington. Whenever a move toward peace is made, the administration gets punished with a bear market. When a move toward war is made, a bull market makes the day. I bet should a war with Iran actually start, stocks will skyrocket in an outstanding rally of celebration. This might just be some observed conincidence? But then again, just think who really wants this war with Iran, and what they control.
Iran has made many mistakes. Today an attack on Iran is in the cards, but an attack on DPRK North Korea is unthinkable. An interesting analysis here as to why Korea’s security strategy has succeeded while Iran’s has partially if not largely failed.
https://militarywatchmagazine.com/article/in-america-s-crosshairs-what-makes-iran-a-much-softer-target-than-north-korea-part-one
https://militarywatchmagazine.com/article/in-america-s-crosshairs-what-makes-iran-a-much-softer-target-than-north-korea-part-two
The Supreme Leader declared a fatwah against nukes as ‘un-Islamic’. But you can bet that they are 100% kosher.
Comparing Tulsi to Hillary, as some have done on this page, is a really funny business. I’m assuming people who say this don’t live in the States.
Have you seen the multi-million $ PR for bone-heads like Buttagieg and Amy Klobuchar? Are you aware that there are 25 (?) candidates in this “race”? Do you seriously think that the DNC that crushed B. Sanders in CA circa 2016 isn’t doing the same thing to Tulsi Gabbard now?
In fact, Tulsi is being steamrolled in a time honored DNC fashion, and is ignored by the big-league phonies on the left and right. When she does appear, she is insulted and smeared for weeks on end.
It’s to Saker’s credit that he mentions her at all, which is more than total frauds like Democracy Later and Alex Jones bother to do.
Not to sweep a CFR membership under the rug, but heaven knows what kind of dastardly games anyone on earth has to play in D.C. to get anywhere.
The cold fact of the matter is that assuming a miracle, even if Tulsi were to defy the hatred of the MSM and 99% of online opinion, would she be able to assemble the likes of Lavrov and Shoigu (and a thousand others, down to the cook) around her to fix the country? The answer would appear to be no. Competent people in D.C. were a dying breed in the Bush 2 days, and are now assumed by expert naturalists to be extinct.
As for competent people in the MSM to bring support to a pro-peace, anti-war anit-MIC candidate, we can assume that boat sailed 50 years ago.
Nevertheless, supporting Tulsi’s campaign is in the flyover blue collar American spirit of rooting for the underdog’s team, and presenting a somewhat credible face of the country to the rest of the world, in these awful days when the only words and deeds coming out of Washington DC are complete blithering idiocy. Not a worthless endeavor in my view; little things mean a lot.
“She is ex-military. This means she is military for life. ”
There are some homeless veterans on the streets over here who might, I say might, disagree with you. Or check the local VA hospital.
Typical American opening……shock and awe bombardment. Should show the real ravages of war….missing arms, legs, heads.
The obvious difference between her & BHO is that John Kerry never introduced her @ the dem. convention. BHO was the chosen club member; the club doesn’t even recognize her. This fact alone gives her a t least some credibility.
Matt Taibbi has a new article in Rolling Stone about press attacks on Gabbard and Sanders:
https://www.rollingstone.com/politics/politics-news/taibbi-tulsi-gabbard-bernie-sanders-trump-2020-838156/
Instead of being worried about a post-Mueller voter backlash against Russigate, the Democratic party establishment, or at least part of it, sees opportunities in Russiagate to manipulate voters.
That Taibbi piece, and many like it, illustrate neatly just how quite amazingly verminous the Rightwing Western MSM have become. The years of forcible ideological loyalty to the ‘worldview’ of monsters like Murdoch, the punishment of any apostasy, the compulsory Groupthink and the latter-day hysteria of hatred against Russia and China etc has produced a cadre of lying, hypocritical, hysterical and intellectually insufficient thugs, self-adoringly masquerading as ‘journalists’ and defenders of the Truth. The worst example I can think of, because the ‘volte-farce’ was so abrupt and so marked and hysterical, must be the Guardian, particularly its cadre of feminazi Assange-haters and Corbyn villifiers. There the debasement of feminism and female empowerment, the total abasement before the Likudnik Zionazis and the frenzy of hatred for Russia and China is quite beyond pathological. One really suspects some sort of demonic possession.
I trust her sincerity and her human-core unconditionally. It is better to be betrayed than be a traitor.
1. history
This kid come from “establishment family”. When she enlisted it was all the same “family” for her, the government, the Country, the Freedom, the Army, the war. When she entered the Dem party, CFR it was all the same: the Homeland. What will one do when encounters that the family does bad things? Will one abandon the siblings, the Mother, the Father easily? So, she became an ugly duck in the family.
And as of her previous views and actions, CFR, painful news about voting for H. Clinton, and enlistments, one should focus on the core of the character, loyalty to own views, sincerity, courage, and steadiness and depth of learning changes, than on “mistakes” of the past. These who think they always were enlighntened, simply have a poor memory.
We have a fellow who already left for a fight and we will sit behind her back and discuss stains on old clothes dropped to the trench?
2. actual process
T.G. campaign is not for making her a President, or winning Dem. primaries.
This is about evaporating Dems. and Resp. parties and replacing 99% of WH management and Law-makers with grussroot team. Without this goal to happen, it does not matter will she become P. or not. A lone wolf would not make a change. ( Or safe own self from worse things as it was clearly answered in Joe Rogan interview )
This goal is where her campaign unavoidably heads to.
And if this goal succeed, then it will be not a big difference who she really is: talented Hollywood actor, establishment “stodge”, or a real person.
And she is in no mood to stay with the wing if it cannot be “healed”. There is no signs she will compromise and stay with CFR or with Dem party, if this environment stops the movement. Did she resign from DNC when it was contradictory with her views?
Assume one is a traitor and leads the followers to the trap. But when there is a movement, even as small as 75000 individuals who contributed to her campaign so far, what will establishment do with them? Persecute? Put in jail? Being in jail has less shame then being an American citizen nowadays.
3) problems
There may be some problems: 1) “family ideology” rubber stumps and 2)lack of support.
She says only 10% of the truths (because? no support). No clear articulation about Is. Too focused on domestic issues. Tries to represent everybody. She is a voice, but has no listeners. Will she try to represent these 99% indifferent and bystanding Americans who do not listen? She is anti-war mostly on financial grounds, not on moral ones. There is no on-line forum for her followers. They are disorganized so she cannot listen and answer the questions, (questions and doubts like in this blog). She has no specific program on specific issues. It is not clear who her scientific advisers are. The only one candidate who has really mature and moral stand on most important issues is Michael Gravel. She is pro-love so should represent everyone in the World, not only from the narrow USAin point of view.
4) party root benefits
Being an ugly duck has a huge advantage. This duck knows all the ins and outs of the corrupt family.
Another good thing is an attempt to “… reengergize Dem. party from inside … ” instead of alienate own siblings. (The task is to win hearts and minds.)
This is actually good that she can use own party or CFR as a stage for her views.
The fascinating fact is she converts hostile MSM to a tool to propagate her views right at the spot when host helplessly tries to trick or smear her.
4) Gabbard and Gravel candidates break the walls … the others can only collect the pieces
And despite of above concerns and lack of my knowledge, I trust her sincerity unconditionally.
Konstantin Kirillov, Bitlab.
Chicago, IL.
Very fresh/interesting/totally relevant take on the TG phenom K.K., thanks very much for it, would enjoy reading your thoughts as the dreadful election season continues.
I agree about the murkiness of advisors and so on, too true! Which is a question that anyone in any country other than the US would ask: Who exactly is informing you, ma’am? We in US have been conditioned to take these characters as Hollywood self-made individualists, which is ludicrous.
Also one must take into account that she is relatively young, and her understanding of some issues (OBOR?) is perhaps shallow.
Also the standard problem of US “strategy”… aka, what happens _after_ the battle, what is your plan? Do you have a plan? I would think that after seeing what they did to DJT, one would require a plan for swamp creatures, but swamp creatures and the media they control are seldom mentioned.
Gravel and TG seem to be human, which is saying something these days. Gravel is quite funny. Of course, no one asks what kind of cabinet they would have a hope in h$ll of creating.
Elections have always been one of our little games/obsessions, our excuse to forget our bloated plutocracy. But as you suggest, the PR from Gravel and TG may not be entirely useless, we’ll see.
You are welcome. If there is any freshness, it is inspired by TG and spirit of Saker’s blog.
Sadly, MG may not get 65K donors till June. He needs $1 helps.
My discovery of MG:
Sen. Mike Gravel on ‘This is America.’
Published on Oct 8, 2007:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=x5Dw4ZTts2o
… what he says blows me up with its insight and simplicity
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dU0qilkFO_8
“modern USA election and representative/separation machine was designed in 1787”
The 2020 program: https://www.mikegravel.org/issues/
2020. He is endorsing TG:
Niko: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NnVfx7RBIKo
Yang is nice and full of ideas, but politics is not a Mechanical Engineering, but a distribution of power: one needs a team “and a thousand others, down to the cook” when doors closed behind P in WH and he is being asked to be cozy and quiet with permitted toy projects …
In contrast, MG seems knows where power comes from and how to hold it.
Tulsi/Gravel as P/VP or vice v. ?
Trump is indebted to Israel and many Talmudic Jewish interests in the USA. These parties want a war against Iran. He will do what his masters demand of him. His lies during the past presidential campaign are no different than his lies to his partners, spouses,business associates as well as to the Draft Board during the Vietnam War when his ” Bone Spur ” deferment enabled him to do 18 holes of Golf but not a five mile march.
A good assessment of Iran’s very serious mistakes which have left it so vulnerable to a Western attack 🇮🇷 🇺🇸
https://militarywatchmagazine.com/article/in-america-s-crosshairs-what-makes-iran-a-much-softer-target-than-north-korea-part-one
The US is not seeking a way to go to war with Iran. They know it’s not possible anymore. And it will be the end of the Saudis and Israelis along with too many casualties for the Yankees and the Britts.
One thing is to aparently seek an atitude. Other is to really act.