Saved by the Bell…The Phone call that may have prevented (temporarily) WWIII

Mark Glenn

To say it has been a month of political roller coasters powerful enough to give even the most seasoned veterans a case of severe whiplash is an understatement…

The beginning of September featured what looked for sure to be yet another military disaster in the Middle East for Israel’s benefit. By all appearances, a nagging, needling Benjamin Netanyahu had finally gotten on U.S. President Barack Obama’s last nerve and pushed him into doing what he has resisted doing now for the last 4 years, meaning war with Syria. With up to the minute news reports featuring U.S. military assets steaming towards the Syrian coast at breakneck speed and a doomsday clock counting down to D-Day and H-Hour, the drama surrounding the event was so thick one could cut it with a knife…

And then, almost as quickly as it all started, it ended as abruptly as someone slamming on the brakes seconds before going over a 1,000 foot high cliff. Suddenly, President Obama remembered about the oath he swore to protect and defend the U.S. Constitution and announced that there would be no military action without the U.S. Congress being brought in on it, just as the law of land demands.

Of course, even the most politically naive would have a hard time leaving out of this curious political equation the fact that a mere few days before Obama had suddenly became a conscientious constitutionalist, he and other world leaders met in St. Petersburg, Russia for the G20 conference.

Equally difficult would be dismissing the possibility (likelihood) of Obama having discussed the messy business of Syria with Russian President Vladimir Putin who up to this point has made it clear that as far as Syria going the way of Iraq, Afghanistan and Libya that ‘nyet’ means ‘nyet’ and that Mother Russia was not going to simply sit by as yet another neighborhood within the community of man was decimated.


America: The Republic of Lying

Stephen Lendman

Longtime investigative journalist Seymour Hersh addressed it. More on what he said below.

Others like him did years earlier. They included HL Mencken, Charles Edward Russell, Lincoln Steffens, Upton Sinclair, and IF Stone among others. Stone (1907 - 1989) said he

"tried to bring the instincts of a scholar to the service of journalism; to take nothing for granted; to turn journalism into literature; to provide radical analysis with a conscientious concern for accuracy, and in studying the current scene to do (his) very best to preserve human values and free institutions."

He deplored the ascendancy of "right-wing kooks" taking over America.

Ralph Nader called him a modern day Tom Paine. He was "as independent and incorruptible as the come," he said. He was "journalism's Gibraltar." He was a crusader. He was an irritant. He spoke truth to power. He did it forthrightly. FBI agents monitored him for years. They tapped his phone. They intercepted his mail. They amassed a file on his activities threefold their size for Al Capone. He was a journalist's journalist. He was a newspaperman at heart. He said:

"The only kinds of fights worth fighting are those you are going to lose, because somebody has to fight them and lose and lose and lose until someday, somebody who believes as you do wins...."

He lectured young students wanting to enter the profession. He told them: "All governments lie and nothing they say should be believed." Media liars reflect the same problem.


The Real Crisis Is Not The Government Shutdown

Paul Craig Roberts

The inability of the media and politicians to focus on the real issues never ceases to amaze.

The real crisis is not the “debt ceiling crisis.” The government shutdown is merely a result of the Republicans using the debt limit ceiling to attempt to block the implementation of Obamacare. If the shutdown persists and becomes a problem, Obama has enough power under the various “war on terror” rulings to declare a national emergency and raise the debt ceiling by executive order. An executive branch that has the power to inter citizens indefinitely and to murder them without due process of law, can certainly set aside a ceiling on debt that jeopardizes the government.

The real crisis is that jobs offshoring by US corporations has permanently lowered US tax revenues by shifting what would have been consumer income, US GDP, and tax base to China, India, and other countries where wages and the cost of living are relatively low. On the spending side, twelve years of wars have inflated annual expenditures. The consequence is a wide deficit gap between revenues and expenditures.

Under the present circumstances, the deficit is too large to be closed. The Federal Reserve covers the deficit by printing $1,000 billion annually with which to purchase Treasury debt and mortgage-backed financial instruments. The use of the printing press on such a large scale undermines the US dollar’s role as reserve currency, the basis for US power. Raising the debt limit simply allows the real crisis to continue. More money will be printed with which to purchase more new debt issues needed to close the gap between revenues and expenditures.


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