26-02-2017, 09:41 AM
Cliff Varnell Wrote:Quote:How New Cold Warriors' Cornered Trump
By Gareth Porter
Many people who oppose Trump for other valid reasons have seized on the shaky Russian accusations because they represent the best possibility for ousting Trump from power. But ignoring the motives and the dishonesty behind the campaign of leaks has far-reaching political implications. Not only does it help to establish a precedent for U.S. intelligence agencies to intervene in domestic politics, as happens in authoritarian regimes all over the world, it also strengthens the hand of the military and intelligence bureaucracies who are determined to maintain the New Cold War with Russia.
The precedent for a U.S intelligence/law-enforcement agency intervention in US politics occurred during the 2016 campaign with James Comey's malicious handling of the Clinton e-mail flap.
Really? Are you asserting that JFK, Nixon, MLK, 9/11 (and numerous others besides) etc did not have elements of US intelligence/Law Enforcement intervention?
Quote:Authoritarian regimes don't let their opponents vote -- Republican operatives have disenfranchised millions of minority voters.
Well, that statement is untrue also.
Singapore is listed as an authoritarian regime (HERE) which has both parliamentary and presidential elections. Likewise Azerbaijan which votes for a legislature and a head of state. I imagine there are others too that likewise defy this contortion of fact.
Interestingly, almost all of those nations listed as authoritarian regimes today (see above) were regarded by the Obama administration (and the Clinton administration before that) as allies and friends, for example, Saudi Arabia, Qatar, Jordan, Oman, UAE, Brunei etc - featured by state visits and military agreements.
Quote:Unless Porter wants to recognize "deep state" voter suppression I can't see his crocodile tears over poor Strongman Trump -- or, for that matter, President Steve Bannon.
I bet it didn't even it occur to you in your lush, self-satisfying and perspective-less partisan myopia that Porter is simply doing what he's been doing for over forty years - which is to send the public an important message pointing out the hypocrisy and double standards that is rife in the American body politic? He has been writing about these things dating back to the Vietnam war and is a recognized for exposing state propaganda (HERE).
The shadow is a moral problem that challenges the whole ego-personality, for no one can become conscious of the shadow without considerable moral effort. To become conscious of it involves recognizing the dark aspects of the personality as present and real. This act is the essential condition for any kind of self-knowledge.
Carl Jung - Aion (1951). CW 9, Part II: P.14