Stephen Kinzer, one of the last serious journalists alive in the US, dissects the myth-making around Aleppo and pro-regime change efforts against Syria:

Very sad news about the passing of Fidel Castro tonight. He was an historical figure of monumental importance, who changed the face of the modern Americas like no other. He survived 638 US assassination attempts, and survived 10 US presidential administrations. His memory will live on and he will be commemorated worldwide.

Lost the working class? Blame it on Russia.

This article is supposed to be warning you about the "dangers of protectionism" -- but read it closely. In it you find evidence of new jobs being created, of money being transferred to local workers (not to foreign elites), and of industries cushioned against the threat of a plunging local currency. Then there's this: “If you opened imports in the extreme, we’d have a country with 35% or 40% unemployment”. That is indeed one of the unstated aims obscured by free trade propaganda.

In spite of the fact that 77% of Canadians want restricted trade, not free trade, the government of Justin Trudeau relentlessly pushes free trade--in a world that has turned against it. This means Canada is ill equipped with such "leadership" (a Clinton-aligned adjunct of the transnational capitalist class) to face a world that no longer supports its quasi-religious doctrinaire agenda. When you open the doors wide to those who close their doors, when you enforce dependency, then what you are doing is laying the foundations for the recolonization of Canada. Simply put, Canada is screwed. #cdnpoli

“President-elect Trump and I had a frank and positive conversation in which we discussed a variety of foreign policy issues in depth. I shared with him my grave concerns that escalating the war in Syria by implementing a so-called no fly/safe zone would be disastrous for the Syrian people, our country, and the world. It would lead to more death and suffering, exacerbate the refugee crisis, strengthen ISIS and al-Qaeda, and bring us into a direct conflict with Russia which could result in a nuclear war. We discussed my bill to end our country’s illegal war to overthrow the Syrian government, and the need to focus our precious resources on rebuilding our own country, and on defeating al-Qaeda, ISIS, and other terrorist groups who pose a threat to the American people."

Be careful with all those fake news websites -- in particular: CNN, MSNBC, The New York Times, The Washington Post, Huffington Post, Politico, Daily Kos...

“Anyone who thinks Donald Trump is more of a fascist than Barack Obama is some combination of an imbecile, a liberal, and a charlatan.”

"I have watched as you accommodated yourself to most of the retrograde social forces you claim to abhor. I have seen you be almost completely silent before the world’s greatest evil, unprovoked war, going so far as to embrace as your presidential candidate this year a person who cold-bloodedly carried out the complete destruction of Libya, a real country with real people who love their children like you and me, in order—as the Podesta emails make clear—to further her personal political ambitions."

"It shouldn’t come as a surprise to anyone that, with a few exceptions, we were all tacitly or explicitly #WithHer, which has led to a certain anguish in the face of Donald Trump’s victory. More than that and more importantly, we also missed the story, after having spent months mocking the people who had a better sense of what was going on. This is all symptomatic of modern journalism’s great moral and intellectual failing: its unbearable smugness."

“People should have listened,” Mrs. Conway said. “Instead of listening to each other on TV sets, they should have been listening to Americans. They would have learned a great deal.” +

“If 98% of your newsroom feels a certain way, your poll is going to end up reflecting that. What you take from the poll and tell America you learned from the poll is going to start reflecting that, invariably. The questions you ask, and what you decide to share with people. And I’ll give you a great example.…These polls are now asking about temperament and about experience as a qualification. Polls in 2008 avoided questions about experience as a qualification because Sen. Obama was polling. Now, all of the sudden, it was the gold standard of polling.”

A memorable scene from "Hell or High Water", which also helps to explain what the "New Indians" means:
https://zeroanthropology.net/…/11/17/trump-and-anthropology/