Apparently, at least ONE Congressman has the brains and courage to reconsider the demonization of Putin and Russia. I did not think that possible…
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Apparently, at least ONE Congressman has the brains and courage to reconsider the demonization of Putin and Russia. I did not think that possible…
The US confusion comes from the anti-terror Propaganda.
Every sin of the US is excused away as a step towards anti-terror.
It is a lie, but it is a lie well sold.
No wonder no one has a clue what the US is doing in Syria.
I thought Ron Paul was the only one.
Ron Paul is the only one: so to speak.
There is also former Congresswoman Cynthia Mckinney (recently interviewed by The Saker).
/the-saker-interviews-cynthia-mckinney/
Congressman Dana Rohrabacher is not the one (as we say in the Matrix). He (Rohrabacher), responding to the Russian show of strength in Syria, has been tapped on the shoulder by his Zionist masters to throw a bone to the rubes (that’s us). The aim is to misdirect opposition to ZionistAmerican imperialism to the idling hope that the old game of negotiating with the Nazis might be of some use, (perhaps even a vote for H. Clinton, or the approved loser, D. Trump could be partaken of). It’s certainly easier than listening to that Anarchist guy.
The Congressman insults Syrian President Assad, and omits to mention the murders and dislocations of millions of humans throughout Southeast Europe (Yugoslavia), (Ukraine), and the Middle East, or to identify the actual terrorist murderers (many of whom he knows personally). He acts as if he has just seen the birth of Terrorism throughout Syria, Iraq, Afghanistan, and Libya, – yesterday. Rohrabacher pretends to never have heard of the Military Financial Complex, The Patriot Act, or the National Defense Authorization Act, among others.
*It is nowhere written in stone that the “Russians were supposed to be our friends;” and that is an untenable way to begin an argument.* Better that America should have friendly relations with Russia and all other nations, based upon its liberating itself from Zionist control, restoring its National Sovereignty, its Republican system of government, ending its imperialist foreign policies and bringing all its troops home (as suggested by former Congressman Ron Paul – but not Rohrabacher).
Additionally, According to Wikipedia, Rohrabacher supported the American bombing of Serbia. https://www.google.com/url?sa=t&rct=j&q=&esrc=s&source=web&cd=2&cad=rja&uact=8&sqi=2&ved=0CCgQFjABahUKEwiU6Ov1p_jIAhVHSSYKHQD_AU0&url=https%3A%2F%2Fen.wikipedia.org%2Fwiki%2FDana_Rohrabacher&usg=AFQjCNF_sVjSeCQCOwhJcqicdWPMzcdZ5g&sig2=JlB271gvP0BcDus8BH2jog&bvm=bv.106674449,d.eWE
Now, if Rohrabacher wishes to change his former political habits and adopt moral ones, and pave his way to Heaven, welcome aboard.
For the Democratic Republics!
IMAGINE
Good call on this one. He’s just another wolf in the sheep’s clothing. Playing the good cop – bad cop routine. Rohrabacher is vile to say the least. I commented on this article already about his connection to the terrorist KLA and to AACL. Then there was his support for intervening against Serbs in Bosnia and again for the bombing campaign in 1999 etc.
I prefer the openly evil types like Hillary Clinton, Biden, McCain and Co. ‘Cause at least they are not pretending to NOT approve of this globalist agenda and continuation of this Imperialistic policy of USA.
Cheers,
Sinisa
Christopher Bollyn (is he a good guy?) –
has an interesting article re drone technology and cyberwarfare in relation to how close to the Israel border the plane crashed:
‘Suspicion about the Russian Plane Crash”
http://www.bollyn.com/home/#article_15282
Congresswoman Tulsi Gabbard is another one:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?feature=player_embedded&v=IHkher6ceaA
Why is it that every American who is in a position of power and speaks our is always demonized. This happens on ever pro Russian site. And someone else backs them up. Seems like you are trying to manipulate the readers. Dunno CIA plants? Bad enough they are demonized by the vast majority of their country men. Surely the neo cons would want 100% support? Not sure about the constant critique of these people that a power on all pro Russian Western sites.
@win
I agree with you wholeheartedly with you that Western pro-Russian figures seem to be strangely demonized on pro-Russian websites by commenters: I’m not sure if that’s because of bad analysis, knee-jerk suspicion/paranoia, trolling by closet anti-Russian commenters, compulsive contrarianism or, least-likely, due to the commenter having inside knowledge.
Regarding Rep. Dana rohrabacher: He has taken a lot of flak from his peers for trying to be objective with respect to Russia and pres. Putin’s policies: ie not toeing the MSM lies.
Some observations I made watching Rep. Rohrabacher over the last 2 years:
He claims he has genuine respect for Putin, he said many times that disrespecting Putin & Russia is wrong.
He respects khadyrov (I believe he went on a tour of Russia and may have met him -his going on a tour is a little fuzzy; I could be wrong about the tour).
He was the only congressman to grill that rabid jackal, Victoria Nuland, forcing her to admit that Neo-Nazis were part of the Maidan putsch when Nuland tried to hide that fact. YouTube link (u can jump to 2:28):
http://m.youtube.com/watch?v=6TpZa4OMFVk
He has complained on air that despite his support for Russia it hasn’t been reciprocated by Russia (to which he was subjected to awkward silence). That doesn’t sound like a deep state insider, but more like a traditional Congressman.
Alright — here’s my take on it. The video showed an ignorant fool, albeit perhaps well meaning to an extent, VS an evil, idiotic liar.
Rohrabacher said stuff that just is not true, but is in concert with the rest of the American mythology and propaganda. That’s not demonizing him, but he’s congress clown who does not, apparently, understand what is actually going on and has been for years — or is simply too fearful or ‘political’ to tell the naked truth.
Saying that USSR wanted to impose an atheist dictatorship over the world is not accurate. If the US had not been attacking the USSR all along then the defensive actions of it would not have been necessary and the ideologues in USSR would not have had the power they did.
Assad is dictatorship? An elected dictator with the support from the majority of Syrians?
No, the Saudi royals are certainly not better than Assad!
Communism was and is not a religious conviction, but in any case religious extremism as is found in KSA is no excuse for what it does.
Yes, US troops in Iraq did murder people in the thousands. Massacring people intentionally in Iraq? How about the ‘Highway of Death’ for one example — murdering thousands of retreating troops?
His question is based on the arrogant assumption that the US even has a right to interfere in Syria and remove Assad.
Listening to him is like eating bread with patches of mold on it, or meat with maggots in it.
Patterson, OTOH, says KAS would not murder their people — but they had no problem sending troops to Bahrain to put down the uprising there, or practicing genocide on Yemen.
They are both toxic.
This “well meaning fool” is actually an ethical failure instead of sticking to the truth they try to go along and get along before they fold and are defeated. In the West we call it “Gotta pay the mortgage….” So…at the heart of it is fear…insecurity of being an outsider…marginalized. etc etc etc. Takes courage to tell the truth. Not having your material well being threatened helps to. The entire basis of western society…actually this is wrong…this is the Edmund Burke neo con economist speaking…. is based on people having to be compelled to “work” based on fear. Mortgage..Death Warrant it’s true or not? We have still not completed the task of the French Revolution. Liberty, Equality, Fraternity….That has been transformed into Bourgeois Right especially Their Liberty…etc,etc, etc….
RR
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So what do you propose? That it would be better for the good Congressman to fully endorse the let’s demonize Russia line? That’s a winning strategy! Not!
Characterizing a US politician who’s trying to counter anti-Russian propaganda as a “Well meaning fool” is so helpful isn’t it?
You’re entitled to your “take”, but those who of us understand that in the real world you have to deal with realpolitik and you have to deal with compromise and negotiation disagree with your certitudes and expectations.
You cannot expect Rohrabacher to deviate completely from the Western narrative and then expect him to be effective or taken seriously by his peers, constitutients and media. People in the US have been fed so many lies that of you try to throw all the truth at them at the same time they react in total disbelief and tune you out. In order to reach them you have to operate in their falsehood ridden paradigm and strategically contradict the most important deceptions. Rohrabacher has to regurgitate that “Assad is a dictator” just to keep his foot in the door of the minds of Americans, but he follows it up with: “but our allies the Saudis are worse”. The main point he’s making is that the US has no business attacking Assad on moral grounds when US allies, the Saudis, are worse and the US shouldn’t attack Assad on practical grounds because it empowers the Islamists.
It seems that Saker must have also heard the apparent “ignorance” in Rohrabacher’s words that you object to, yet he found what Rohrabacher said to valuable enough to praise him and post his hearing video here.
There has been such a shift into compromise from lack of courage (or knowledge or conviction) over the years that the entire system is now rotten and crumbling. These people could just as well negotiate with themselves and agree to tell the truth — or resign, taking a fair bit of money with them, as various senators and representatives did some years ago, and continue to speak out — and actually change the situation. The collective moral and truth-telling failure dooms us to destruction, but is no more or less evil than as an individual.
Putin is diplomatic, but has no trouble dealing with the truth and showing some courage, and he is successgful and popular because of it. Roosevelt went against the rich and the wealth shift at the time and was re-elected 3 times.
One can indeed be both effective and taken seriously if one goes about it properly — and has a bit of courage. Rohrabacher did not have to tell lies to get his points across, and the old ‘everybody does it’ is not a valid excuse for dishonesty — and is surely not a reason to criticize those who recognize it and speak out about it, which is not demonization, but just telling it the way it is.
Rohrabacher did not have to tell lies to get his points across
–>Yes he did, as you seemed to have missed my entire point (perhaps you can’t address the point I made): it’s meeting your interlocutors halfway, on their terms, their paradigm of falsehoods, if you are to have any influence on them – even if you don’t agree with them. Remember this was not a discussion held in a Church, it was held in a den of lies called the US Congress.
, and the old ‘everybody does it’ is not a valid excuse for dishonesty —
Don’t put words in my mouth, I never stated that. I conjectured that it might be necessary for him to speak using those terms. Or it could be genuine ignorance on his part, either way he will not get his main point across if he disagrees with every inaccuracy in the discourse.
The lies he told were not ‘every inaccuracy’, but outright vile lies.
I addressed your point — and I disagree that lying is OK. I’ve seen what ths ‘realpolitick’ has done over the years (and this is not realpolitick — not dealing with reality from a point of power) but just lying, not to just the congress but to the people as well. This is why, and so many (vast majority) have no respect for congress or the US government and will not believe what they say. People understand they are liars and gangsters. I often talk to people, and they know this.
Influence? He is going to influence gangsters, fascists, and liars? And this stuff has nothing to do with the real power and deals that go on — it’s just theater, to further the propaganda on the people and provide material for the corporate media, which will pick up on the deceptive points they want to, such as Assad being a ‘bloody dictator’. Who do they think they fooling? Not most American citizens, and not those in other countries who see right through this. Only themselves in their little Washington bubble, until it collapses.
There has always been a lot of lying in the US during my lifetime, but there was a time when it was generally thought to be wrong and we had some moral standards, and it was not excused as just being political.
He’s got far more influence than you. That’s not a personal attack, just a statement of fact: Rigid idealism works fine in books, blogs, theory, and one’s own mind-space but not in the real Imperfect world of man.
You cannot convert people conditioned to a certain set of “facts” ideology and world view, no matter how false you may consider it, by plunging them cold-turkey into uncompromising view diametrically opposed to everything they believed in. Dana R. knows his environment far better than you, and likely knows how far he can push and how to push.
What you are calling rigid ideology is just honesty. Telling the truth is not some weird book thing or theory; it is not only morally right, but it works, and the first time someone does that it encourages and empowers other to do it, and prepares people for hearing it again and more easily accepting it. You don’t have to be offensive to do it, but if you are dishonest now then why should anyone believe you you later — ‘is he lying now or was he lying before?’ — and you lose your reputation and your honor. I’ll never trust him because he has shown himself to be untrustworthy. It’s appalling to me how many people in the US, so-called leaders especially, now think lying is alright, and the breakdown of the society because of that is obvious.
You can think I’m not realistic by not lying if you want — I’ve heard that stuff from some people all my life, but it is not so. It’s not me who is uncompromising, but the facts.
He could just as well have simply said that regardless of what anyone thinks of Assad someone else besides Assad would be worse (or not even pass judgement on Assad and point out he is the elected choice of the Syrians) : Trump said that, and that things would be better with Saddam and Gaddafi still in charge — the truth, and he is quite popular now (despite being wrong in other ways). Putin is also popular for telling the truth. You can deny it — but it’s true, and the figures show it.
BTW, notice the points he concedes — feeding those who oppose working with Russia:
USSR tried to take over the world (and it is said Putin is trying to do the same while regretting the end of USSR)
Assad is a bloody dictator who deserves to be removed.
The exceptional US has business in getting involved.
The US are good guys who did not intentionally commit atrocities and murder people, as policy.
All of these can be used to say ‘Even Rohrabacher admits this…”.
It’s almost similar to saying the US opposes IS, while providing it weapons.
Re:
Assad is a bloody dictator who deserves to be removed.
The exceptional US has business in getting involved.
He did not say those things, that’s a falsehood. He said the exact opposite. He made case that US allies Saudi Arabia are worse, and he questioned why should the US interfere in a far off land to depose Assad and thereby create the political space for the Islamists to take over.
Listen to the video again.
I also did not hear him say that (despite the horrible sound).
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I’ve already listed several time. I know what I heard, and here is some transcript material, proving I am not telling falsehoods.
He said (approximately according to transcript — but you hear it at the times listed)
1:06
hearing today is is just overwhelming we sit here is a russia wants to keep us in
1:12
power how horrible that is because Assad is a dictatorship
Assad is not a dictatorship.
3:47
reports that we’re getting assad is a murderous dictator but some of the the
3:52
magnitude of his impression and his murder of his own people might be
3:56
exaggerated to achieve certain political ends
Here he reinforces the lie that Assad is murderous dictator.
4:31
happened with qaddafi where the radical Islamist who hate us now see a weaker
4:36
adversary and it will come in and replace whatever that regime is very
4:41
quickly with a regime that will control all of Syria and they will be radicals
4:46
are worst nightmare
4:48
why wouldn’t happen in Syria the way it happened in Libya I need to send
&
2:18
area and now it is totally gone to hell and we still can’t get ourselves to try
2:24
to look at Putin as a possible partner in cooperation to make things better I
What happened in Libya is the the US destroyed the country, as we also did that in Iraq — aggressive war. And that’s the underlying assumption that the US can do that. Both of those attacks were illegal, both under international law and US law and the constitution. He is not addressing that, but saying it was mistaken strategy, not the massive war crimes they were.
‘Make things better’ as if it was within the authority of the US to make things better or worse in someone else’s country. That’s the underlying theme running all through this and US actions and thinking.
Making pointless woowoo sounds doesn’t comprise a debate. mod PS”
OT Who tops Forbes list as worlds most powerful once again?
http://www.forbes.com/sites/davidewalt/2015/11/04/the-worlds-most-powerful-people-2015/
Haha,as much as they hate it, they still must admit that Putin is number 1.
I wouldn’t put too much stock in the Forbes list:
1) Angela Merkel is listed at #2 above Obama; the whole world know that she’s a powerless little poodle in charge of a US vassal and the her boss is Obama.
2) They put Obama in #3 position (even though he’s Merkel’s boss)
3) The intent of this year list is pure malice directed against Russian interests: This idea is to goad Obama into becoming more hawkish and militaristic: The neocons want to embarrass Obama into a more gung-ho and militarily confrontational with Putin.
4) why wasn’t president Xi in at least #3 position? Any list that indicates that Merkel is more powerful the Chinese leader Xi, is a worthlessly inaccurate.
Major MSM and Empire attack tonight in Europe and in the US:
-the Uk and the US are sure it was a bomb on the russian plane(how is it possible they know so much so fast compared to the MH17?).Zero compassion for the victims it is Putin fault,we told him he was adviced.Russian victims being not humans like the one from the MH17 who are ”occidentals’ though much more important(eventhough the Ukies or the Cia did it)
-more sanctions against RF coming in jan 2016, according to D Tusk (EU gestapo non elected invisible president,in fact CIA asset,polish russophobic clown)
-according to Anne Patterson(state dept and once again V Nuland ‘on tour’)Russia is aggravating the war,killing dozens of children and innocents civilians,moderate arab rebels…provocating the whole free world(sic) etc etc..
-Russian did not manage any success, they have 4000 or more soldiers on the ground,many died or were wounded or are missing(re sic)
-the flow of refugees in Europe(mainly to Greece,48.000) has never be so big,120.000 people have been deplaced or left the country
-Assad must go The Hague as ten of thousands disapeared since 2011,they are tortured,killed,their bodies sold for traficking etc(amnesty press conf tonight)
Syria: State profits from crimes against humanity as policy of enforced disappearances drives black market.
https://www.amnesty.org/en/latest/news/2015/11/syria-state-profits-from-crimes-against-humanity-as-policy-of-enforced-disappearances-drives-black-market/
Amnesty and HRW are both Soros assets like open europe, open russia, open whatever..
-Assad is still using chemicals and barills bombs..
-Russian forces are not targeting Daesh(only 10/15 pct of their sorties)
-they are destroying ancient sites and monuments(palmyre I guess?)
-Russians are bombing 6 hospitals(from the guys bombing MSF for real….)
-About the Ukraine, Dusk saying Russia does not respect Minsk 2 and started to bomb again the poor ukies or maybe they bomb themselves??
-etc etc
I never read so many stupidities in one evening in my entire life,even during the peak of the maidan.
US Officials: ISIS “Likely” Had Bomb On Russian Plane.
A U.S. official told NBC News he expects Russia to retaliate “heavily and militarily” if the theory is borne out.
http://www.zerohedge.com/news/2015-11-04/us-officials-isis-likely-had-bomb-russian-plane
US accuses Moscow of ‘dangerously’ worsening Syria war.
http://news.yahoo.com/us-accuses-moscow-dangerously-worsening-syria-war-192755679.html;_ylt=A0LEVxfnnDpWoncADyNXNyoA;_ylu=X3oDMTEyODRjcmJxBGNvbG8DYmYxBHBvcwMxBHZ0aWQDQjAzNDFfMQRzZWMDc2M-
Russia’s Syria force grows to 4,000, U.S. officials say.
http://news.yahoo.com/russias-syria-force-grows-4-000-u-officials-172847086.html
US, UK say bomb may have downed Russian jet.
http://news.yahoo.com/uk-says-bomb-may-downed-jet-suspends-sharm-205020132.html;_ylt=A0LEVzMOjzpWaHsAjlJXNyoA;_ylu=X3oDMTEyODRjcmJxBGNvbG8DYmYxBHBvcwMxBHZ0aWQDQjAzNDFfMQRzZWMDc2M-
Agence France-Presse @AFP 6 hil
#BREAKING Bomb on Russian airliner is “highly possible scenario,” US official says
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Agence France-Presse @AFP 10 hil y
#BREAKING UK suspends Sharm flights over concern Russia jet downed by bomb
Sorry only in french(thanks coop to google)
http://www.romandie.com/news/Ukraine-reunion-vendredi-des-chefs-de-la-diplomatie-russe-ukrainienne-allemande-/645705.rom
The US has just invented two new non existant shadow ‘syrian arab moderate’,even the NYT does not believe it…
”Une enquête en Syrie du New York Times publiée mardi jette ainsi le doute sur la composition réelle des Forces démocratiques syriennes, à l’action près d’al-Hol.
Presque toute la capacité de combat des FDS provient des milices kurdes, et non de groupes arabes, indique le quotidien.
Quand à l’appellation Coalition arabe syrienne désignant les composantes arabes des FDS, soit 4 à 5.000 combattants, elle est une ”invention américaine”, selon le New York Times.
http://www.romandie.com/news/Syrie-le-Pentagone-salue-une-avancee-de-ses-allies-arabes/645701.rom
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Back into English:
And finaly an audio…something more intelligent from :
Is the New Cold War Trending in Russia’s Favor from Syria to Europe?
And will it leave the United States increasingly isolated?
By
Stephen F. Cohen
http://www.thenation.com/article/is-the-new-cold-war-trending-in-russias-favor-from-syria-to-europe/
IMF Credibility to Collapse If Ukraine Allowed to Default to Russia.
Read more: http://sputniknews.com/europe/20151105/1029615516/imf-ukraine-credibility-collapse-if-default.html#ixzz3qaG7BvWP
Do you remember when a few days or weeks ago,Ashton Carter and Mc Cain talked about future Russian casualties with body bags going back to RF?
They were maybe not talking about military but about civilians who knows with such criminal and psychopaths?
Did the US also train the terrorists responsible for the 2013 Latakia massacres?
http://libyancivilwar.blogspot.be/2015/11/fsa-isis-teamwork-in-latakia-massacres.html
It is not a proxy war like in the Ukraine anymore here it is a direct war,the US are only kilometres from the Russians now according to their statements:
Are they looking for a false flag, a pretext some kind of Pear Harbour or Tonkin?
US military advisors are alleged to have started training so-called moderate rebels near the city of Salma in the Latakia province in what amounts to breaking a pledge not to put US boots on the ground in Syria, Lebanon’s satellite television channel al-Mayadeen reported, citing an unnamed military source.
Read more: http://sputniknews.com/middleeast/20151104/1029584343/us-training-rebels-syria-isis.html#ixzz3qaHysxru
The fact that MSM is full on drumming the ‘bomb’ theory is suspiciously diversion tactics…
Bollyn’s well researched article which I linked to above supports ‘remote control’ as ‘they’ have the technology to ‘turn a passenger airline into a drone’ .
Our news just reported ‘a source close to the investigators strongly suspects a bomb… but that can’t say that conclusively’. blah blah…
Yes, the remote control system installed for Boeing aircraft it’s called the ABUC, Airbus would have an equivalent.
It is interesting how that pig-necrophile Cameron is so adamant that the Russian plane may have been brought down by a bomb: the certainty you’d expect from the culprits themselves. Normally responsible govts will not make loud pronouncements like this (even if they were sure it was due to terrorism), because it supports the terrorists objectives (spreads terror & gives widespread publicity to their actions), obviously Cameron is very vocally supporting terrorists. In a responsible scenario, the govts in question would quietly shut down their flights citing a cover-story instead of blowing wind into the sails of the terrorists.
for all who may concern Airbus, they all wish that was a bomb onboard. Tehnical failure is no good for reputation of plane. If it was IL or some ex USSR plane technical failure would fit perfectly in MSM.
Good point,
The Russian investigation was starting to point to exploding engines; engines built by Rolls Royce a UK syndicate.
Either way, this behavior by Cameron is unprecedented.
I apologize for not associating my reply to Mr. Antonsen to myself by failing to fill the name and email boxes.
Don’t recall a reply. Try again?
This man has been speaking the truth for over a year about Russia and Putin.
Meanwhile, OT, but related.
Another American Space failure in Hawaii today.
http://www.nasaspaceflight.com/2015/11/super-strypi-spark-inaugural-launch/
We can’t lift loads into Space without Russian rocket engines.
Barely acceptable. Wholesale ignorance regarding Syria. Then you have that imbecile Patterson defending the Saudis and Gulf states while calumniating Assad–about whom she obviously knows nothing, and parrots mainstream lies and distortions. The whole lot of them is just disgusting and so terribly mediocre. Let’s face it, the average IQ of our Congressmen and Senators is about that of the room temperature, with a very, very few salient exceptions. And the moral integrity of that large majority is close to nil–or nil. Overall, you can expect nothing from the US government but lies and war.
I would caution against jumping the praise bandwagon here. Good ol’ Dana is drowning in Albanian drug money. He was also the first to call for arming the terrorist group KLA on Kosovo.
The AACL keeps his pocket fat and now he’s acting holier than thou.
Saying one reasonable thing can’t atone for his past criminal activity.
I also saw the same thing happen about Iranian general Hossein Hamedani – praised like a hero, without knowing anything about his past. He was on the ground in Bosnia with international wahabi formation El Mujahid. They did everything ISIS does today.
So just to give the heads up and warn that if someone says something that actually makes sense and is not in line with the State department narrative – it doesn’t meant that he’s on “our” side. Or that he’s pro-russian or anti-globalist / anti -imperialist.
I see many jumping the Putin fame train in USA, including Trump for example. Putin is probably the most popular statesman in USA right now and it’s good for votes to act like you care to build good relations with Russia. Especially when there’s a Putin-bashing trend in the MSM. MSM is already discredited to the max, and now it’s trendy to talk the opposite. The zombie masses will immediately go with “Oh look, he’s completely different than those talking heads in the White house and Pentagon!”
Sinisa
@ Sinisa good point!
Dana Rohrabacjer has been promoting radical Islam for years, mujahideen in Afghanistan, and recently the KLA (ISIS ally and offspring of the Albanian SS skanderberg division)
US citizens take note: He also voted for detention without trial of Americans in your own country.
Don’t fall for this guy’s crocodile tears.
I think what Saker was trying to show with this video is that even the most dubious US politicians are voicing doubts with the direction the USA ‘s foreign policy, and that is something to be hopeful for…
Sinisa and Serbian girl on November 05, 2015 · at 1:33 pm UTC
make good points ! This is all Kabuki theatre…….
cliches….
His track record speaks volumes…..
Leo-pards don’t change their spots !…..
Old soldiers never die…they only fade away !……
He’s only there for the paycheck and the retirement board directorship.
Ad nauseam, Ad infinitum
His moment of truth, is what we refered to in Oz years ago,as a sh*t sandwich……one thin slice of truth,sandwiched between two slices of the unpalatable.
@sinisa
Note from posting above:
He has complained on air that despite his support for Russia it hasn’t been reciprocated by Russia (to which he was subjected to awkward silence). That doesn’t sound like a deep state insider, but more like a traditional Congressman.
And by a traditional Congressmen I mean one who expects quid-pro-quo and sponsorship. Also one who is a standard thinker and not a fully informed and deep analyst.
Many people in the West bought the propaganda line that the West is trying to help liberate and protect people, including many of their politicians and military; not all are so astute as to have understood the con-job from day one. Many people used to believe in Ronald Reagan, only after seeing the terrible legacy of that administration/Regime and other disallusioning events carried out by the Western alliance did their beliefs get shattered and they then start questioning their own government’s actions.
This poor guy thinks that the USA opposed the Soviet Union because of their ideology.
It was because the Soviet Union were competition.
So I guess “enforced disappearances” will be the new phrase used to justify all sorts of horrors from the US govt. I remember when Clinton first used the term “weapons of mass destruction” that we were in for a nasty ride. That term’s had alot of legs; I expect no less from “enforced disappearances”. These terms are obviously market tested, if for no other reason as something Chris Wallace can mouth with suitable gravitas.
well, I suppose the meaning of this publish is to show how the tide may be changing in the US… nobody have illusions about the american politicians, but the meaning of such statement is very significant… not because Rohrabacher became a saint, but because, even with all the positioning described in above comments, now he feels compelled to change position… very meaningful
Rohrabacher is a very conservative Republican, elected many terms by a very conservative district in Orange county, California. At least he isn’t running exclusively with the herd!
So you’re saying Saker was wrong in his positive assessment of Rohrabacher and that you believe you know better.
Then you make the assumption that Patterson is an imbecile, what about the possibility that she’s a completely sold-out liar that is fully aware of the true nature of the regimes she’s covering up for? That wouldn’t make her an imbecile, that would make her a b-stard, or how about the possibility that she could be both.
You have to be an idiot to say what Patterson said and expect to be taken seriously — it’s like telling people that the world is flat — and thinking that’s a clever way to do diplomacy or that it will help the US position. Even if one is an evil psychopath one have to be stupid to say such unbelievable things and not know it will blow back in the future.
Politicking: Stephen Cohen on the Ukraine crisis and his ‘unpatriotic’ views
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2x_TM-BHSDQ
See the wisdom of Stephen Cohen – sets Larry King back on his heels
Thanks for that,a good show !
I like Stephen Cohen,he takes flack,but still talks as straight as the viewer can accept.
All but a few newbies on this blog,know that the US wears the ‘black hat’ and that the US has no friends just vassals.
My god, is that US ambassador a total bullshitter. She says that the Saudis are not killers like Assad (who is essentially defending his government from their goons)? What the hell are they doing in Yemen, woman? What do you call their involvement in Syria? They supply men, arms and money to ISIS, al-Qaeda and al-Nusra. How would you describe their horrid treatment of the multitude of guest workers they hire and treat like slaves? Did you forget that 16 of the 19 terrorists who hijacked the airliners on 9-11 were Saudi’s? Osama bin Laden was a Saudi, undoubtedly protected by his government until it was expedient to kill him. They behead people and crucify them for protesting against their despotic rule. Yet you purport that their hands are clean? Too bad the congressman wasn’t astute enough to nail her on those points. Absolutely no one speaks for truth in the American regime, from Dictator (and war criminal) Obama on down. And now we are about to give Turkey a blank check to invade Syria. Our dictator just loves other dictators, loves war and hates people. Hence the fools in Norway awarded him the Nobel Peace Prize, just like Kissinger.