Why Americans Must NOT Vote Republican
By James Donahue
With 16 candidates now battling for the Republican nomination for the presidency in the 2016 elections, it is easy to understand why television personality Donald Trump is already receiving high poll ratings. As nutty as this man’s ideas are, we can say that he at least has a slightly different agenda and is better known among nightly television addicts.
But every one of these candidates has one thing in common. They support the privileged few who control the nation’s wealth and favor the destruction of the wonderful safety net established under Franklin D. Roosevelt during the tough years after the Great Depression.
For the average working American, it will be comparable to shooting his or her self in the foot to vote Republican . . . either for federal or state level candidates . . . in 2016.
Because voters were tricked by a costly and cleverly designed advertising blitz leading up to the 2014 mid-term elections, the halls of Congress and the Senate were laced with a pack of ultra-conservative Tea-baggers with three thoughts in mind. One was to block President Barack Obama from achieving any more of the agenda he carried with him to Washington four years earlier. The second was to eliminate the federal health plan which . . . in spite of G.O.P. efforts to twist it into knots . . . is working so well that it could easily be a foundation for low-cost medical care for everybody. And the third part of the Teabag agenda has been to cut, slash and burn all social programs like Social Security, Medicare, Food Stamps and rebuilding the nation’s crumbling infrastructure.
Thanks to the lop-sided and sold-out 5-4 set-up of the Supreme Court, the door was opened prior to the last election for big corporations to dump unlimited amounts of money into election campaigns. Obviously, all of that money went into the pockets of candidates that promised to stay in lock-step with the big bosses of business. And they want a low-paid and enslaved work force, an end to paid vacations, paid health insurance and paid retirement plans.
The Tea-baggers claim they want to cut spending and achieve a balanced budget, but they have no problem dumping volumes of tax dollars into the industrial military complex and building up for war anywhere on the globe.
If the voters get fooled again in 2016, it will be very bad news for most Americans. If the Republicans gain control of all three branches of government in Washington, as they already have in some states, the nation may not survive the next term.
Not only do the Republicans want to ignore the urgent need to respond to the climate change threat and the health problems being generated by the new concept of industrial farming with genetically modified crops, but they appear to want to send our military off to even more wars abroad.
And if they try the latter, they will be in for a big surprise.
If you read and grasped the significance of Pepe Escobar’s story in TomDispatch and the link to TruthDig websites, and a similar story in Al-Jazeera the corporate controlled American media has kept the nation in the dark about an interesting global BRICS/SCO summit held in Ufa, Russia, in which the major industrial nations of Asia, India, Africa, and South America have signed a pact for inter-global trade and military protection against (American and Western) aggression.
Escobar wrote that “Tehran, Beijing, Moscow, Islamabad and New Delhi have been actively establishing interlocking security guarantees.”
BRICS is an acronym for Brazil, Russia, India, China and South America. SCO means the Shanghai Cooperation Council which represents Russia, China, Kazakhstan, Kyrgyzstan, Tajikistan and Uzbekistan.
Putin and China President Xi Jinping dominated the announcements of plans for what looks to be a comprehensive blending of interests and resources of all the states for the balance of the century.
He described what happened in Ufa as “a diplomatic masterstroke of Vladmir Putin’s Russia to have merged those two summits with an informal meeting of the Eurasian Economic Union (EEU). Call it a soft power declaration of war against Washington’s imperial logic, one that would highlight the breadth and depth of an evolving Sino-Russian strategic partnership.”
And Iran is part of this new partnership. According to Escobcar, “Iran will be a vital hub/node/crossroads in Eurasia for this new structure.” Brazil will also be linked to this new concept in international trade and partnership and while Japan was not represented in the summits, the story in Al-Jazeera said there are reports that Japan is also seeking closer diplomatic links to Russia.
Not only this, but plans are in the making for a new international money that will replace the American dollar. Escobcar noted that a new Asian Infrastructure Investment Bank and the NDB are headquartered in China and will work to complement each other’s efforts. At the same time, Russia’s foreign investment arm, the Direct Investment Fund (RDIF), signed a memorandum of understanding with funds from other BRICS countries and so launched an informal investment consortium in which China’s Silk Road Fund and India’s Infrastructure Development Finance Company will be key partners.”
Al-Jazeera noted that "The New Development Bank, signed into life last year in Brazil, will consider new infrastructure projects by year's end with what promises to be simple, clear and transparent procedures."
In the planning is a complex network of superhighways, high speed rail lines, ports, airports, pipelines and fiber optic cables linking all of the participating countries.
The Al-Jazeera story noted that "Chinese dreams for Eurasia are breathtaking in scale, reminiscent of the Jules Verne adventure. There is a proposal to construct an 8,000-mile underground railroad from China through Siberia and across the Bering Sea to Alaska and Canada. There is another proposal to tunnel under Mt. Everest."
Notice that the participating nations are all socialistic type governments that are working hard to tear down borders and establish partnerships that will put an end to war. Notice too that the nations left out of this arrangement are the United States, the European Union and United Kingdom. These are nations encumbered by a dominating capitalistic banking system that feeds a military industrial complex. At political control of the Western world is a twisted-thinking ultra-conservative band of gangsters that appears to be planning for world domination.
Indeed, the U.S. may have the most powerful and sophisticated military the world has ever seen, but giants are eventually brought down. Hannibal, Napoleon, and Hitler are among the historical examples.
By James Donahue
With 16 candidates now battling for the Republican nomination for the presidency in the 2016 elections, it is easy to understand why television personality Donald Trump is already receiving high poll ratings. As nutty as this man’s ideas are, we can say that he at least has a slightly different agenda and is better known among nightly television addicts.
But every one of these candidates has one thing in common. They support the privileged few who control the nation’s wealth and favor the destruction of the wonderful safety net established under Franklin D. Roosevelt during the tough years after the Great Depression.
For the average working American, it will be comparable to shooting his or her self in the foot to vote Republican . . . either for federal or state level candidates . . . in 2016.
Because voters were tricked by a costly and cleverly designed advertising blitz leading up to the 2014 mid-term elections, the halls of Congress and the Senate were laced with a pack of ultra-conservative Tea-baggers with three thoughts in mind. One was to block President Barack Obama from achieving any more of the agenda he carried with him to Washington four years earlier. The second was to eliminate the federal health plan which . . . in spite of G.O.P. efforts to twist it into knots . . . is working so well that it could easily be a foundation for low-cost medical care for everybody. And the third part of the Teabag agenda has been to cut, slash and burn all social programs like Social Security, Medicare, Food Stamps and rebuilding the nation’s crumbling infrastructure.
Thanks to the lop-sided and sold-out 5-4 set-up of the Supreme Court, the door was opened prior to the last election for big corporations to dump unlimited amounts of money into election campaigns. Obviously, all of that money went into the pockets of candidates that promised to stay in lock-step with the big bosses of business. And they want a low-paid and enslaved work force, an end to paid vacations, paid health insurance and paid retirement plans.
The Tea-baggers claim they want to cut spending and achieve a balanced budget, but they have no problem dumping volumes of tax dollars into the industrial military complex and building up for war anywhere on the globe.
If the voters get fooled again in 2016, it will be very bad news for most Americans. If the Republicans gain control of all three branches of government in Washington, as they already have in some states, the nation may not survive the next term.
Not only do the Republicans want to ignore the urgent need to respond to the climate change threat and the health problems being generated by the new concept of industrial farming with genetically modified crops, but they appear to want to send our military off to even more wars abroad.
And if they try the latter, they will be in for a big surprise.
If you read and grasped the significance of Pepe Escobar’s story in TomDispatch and the link to TruthDig websites, and a similar story in Al-Jazeera the corporate controlled American media has kept the nation in the dark about an interesting global BRICS/SCO summit held in Ufa, Russia, in which the major industrial nations of Asia, India, Africa, and South America have signed a pact for inter-global trade and military protection against (American and Western) aggression.
Escobar wrote that “Tehran, Beijing, Moscow, Islamabad and New Delhi have been actively establishing interlocking security guarantees.”
BRICS is an acronym for Brazil, Russia, India, China and South America. SCO means the Shanghai Cooperation Council which represents Russia, China, Kazakhstan, Kyrgyzstan, Tajikistan and Uzbekistan.
Putin and China President Xi Jinping dominated the announcements of plans for what looks to be a comprehensive blending of interests and resources of all the states for the balance of the century.
He described what happened in Ufa as “a diplomatic masterstroke of Vladmir Putin’s Russia to have merged those two summits with an informal meeting of the Eurasian Economic Union (EEU). Call it a soft power declaration of war against Washington’s imperial logic, one that would highlight the breadth and depth of an evolving Sino-Russian strategic partnership.”
And Iran is part of this new partnership. According to Escobcar, “Iran will be a vital hub/node/crossroads in Eurasia for this new structure.” Brazil will also be linked to this new concept in international trade and partnership and while Japan was not represented in the summits, the story in Al-Jazeera said there are reports that Japan is also seeking closer diplomatic links to Russia.
Not only this, but plans are in the making for a new international money that will replace the American dollar. Escobcar noted that a new Asian Infrastructure Investment Bank and the NDB are headquartered in China and will work to complement each other’s efforts. At the same time, Russia’s foreign investment arm, the Direct Investment Fund (RDIF), signed a memorandum of understanding with funds from other BRICS countries and so launched an informal investment consortium in which China’s Silk Road Fund and India’s Infrastructure Development Finance Company will be key partners.”
Al-Jazeera noted that "The New Development Bank, signed into life last year in Brazil, will consider new infrastructure projects by year's end with what promises to be simple, clear and transparent procedures."
In the planning is a complex network of superhighways, high speed rail lines, ports, airports, pipelines and fiber optic cables linking all of the participating countries.
The Al-Jazeera story noted that "Chinese dreams for Eurasia are breathtaking in scale, reminiscent of the Jules Verne adventure. There is a proposal to construct an 8,000-mile underground railroad from China through Siberia and across the Bering Sea to Alaska and Canada. There is another proposal to tunnel under Mt. Everest."
Notice that the participating nations are all socialistic type governments that are working hard to tear down borders and establish partnerships that will put an end to war. Notice too that the nations left out of this arrangement are the United States, the European Union and United Kingdom. These are nations encumbered by a dominating capitalistic banking system that feeds a military industrial complex. At political control of the Western world is a twisted-thinking ultra-conservative band of gangsters that appears to be planning for world domination.
Indeed, the U.S. may have the most powerful and sophisticated military the world has ever seen, but giants are eventually brought down. Hannibal, Napoleon, and Hitler are among the historical examples.