Cold N. Holefield 92
“There is no war against Russia and China”
There is/was no war against Iraq
There is/was no wars or regime change ops against Iran.
There is/was no illegal war against Yemen.
There is/was no illegal war against Pakistan
There is/was no illegal war against Libya
There are/were no worldwide American death squads operating in more than 50 countries
There is/was no torture in secret American prisons
There are/were no well funded regime change operations against Russia, China, Cuba and Venezuela
The is/was no massive and growing income gap between the 1 percent and the rest of us
The 1 percent are definitely not above the law
Its all the fantasy of America hating dildo wielding Commie fags
And don’t forget the secret Iraqi WMDs {{:-)}

Posted by: diogenes | Jan 17 2015 16:38 utc | 104

Diogenes at 100
Tx for shedding a little light on the subject! Death Squads R US!

Posted by: rufus magister | Jan 17 2015 16:47 utc | 106

@92
ALL govts are ongoing criminal enterprises. Politics is about money in every county in the world. What politicians purport is disinformation.

Posted by: okie farmer | Jan 17 2015 17:42 utc | 108

ha ha 😉 neretva43 @ 20, I thought Germany for sure. Some of the gossip about Merkel (here in CH) is that part of her pro-US stance re. Russia/Ukraine (showing her true colors imho but ppl seek specific reasons) is because she wants to be next Sec.Gen of the UN (2017), it is the Europeans turn, and she cannot attain this position without support from the US. Sounded rubbish to me – how does a major pol leader of an important country ever get to that seat? for now! but things change..-, yet Germany could do with a dose of Islamic terrorism (errr … from a certain pov.)
Demian @ 29, WoW @ 37, for other readers some background : what Russia, aka one spokesperson, announced (afaik) was that in the future the transit point for gas to Europe would be ‘from Turkey – at the border with Greece’, and that it will now be up to the Europeans to use/organize/build further transit.
Because of the quarrels between the EU and Russia over ‘who builds/owns/controls/gets the revenues/etc.’ from the pipelines , which the EU always insists should be split off from the ‘goods’ themselves (like transport co. is paid to deliver fridges) for all the obvious reasons. – See the quarrels re. Bulgaria. Also Ukr. having to sell off its the transport part of Naftogaz. – 49% though I have no idea if there were any takers or what took place subsequently.
Russia cannot put up with that so it will sell but delivery beyond a certain point will be up to whomever wants to buy *and pay*/organize. Nothing immediate about it however as I understood it?
Southstream is dead.

Posted by: Noirette | Jan 17 2015 18:33 utc | 110

@102
Someone ‘named’ GoraDiva posted a link to …
Richard Wolff on the Greek Crisis, Austerity and a Post-Capitalist Future

… you are either going to knuckle under in the form of austerity, or go through basically another kind of austerity, which is what you would face if you quit the euro, if you went back to the drachma [Greece’s currency before the euro], if you went back to an independent economy; you’d have to devalue something awful; all your input costs will go crazy; you’d have domestic trouble of the sort you haven’t seen in Greece since the Second World War. …
But that’s all premised on [leaving the] economy in the basic structure; all the key decisions are made by the major shareholders and boards of directors of leading Greek enterprises. They have long ago figured out how to keep the government from playing a role that threatens them. If you leave all of that intact, and that’s a fundamental political and ideological condition, then you’re going to face an indeterminate period of time of real economic decline …
And when the state takes it over, as in the Soviet Union, you still have the gap between the mass of people who do the work and the tiny group who make the decisions, but what has changed is that the tiny group is state officials put there by the government or the Communist Party or whatever ruling groups there are, but you still have an organization that juxtaposes a small group of decision-makers at the top, and a vast mass of workers excluded from those decisions practically and in actuality at the other end. …
What we need to do in addition to social ownership of means of production and proper planning for the economic outcomes we want, is we need to democratize enterprises, to finally say goodbye to the capitalist organization of enterprises that has subordinated all of the decisions that enterprises make, that impact the politics, the culture of the whole society, have subordinated those to what is privately profitable rather than what is socially desirable and sustainable. This has driven us to an impossible situation, and whether we look at it environmentally by the degradation of nature that these corporations have done, or we look at it in terms of social inequality, the time to go beyond capitalism is obvious – it’s now, and it’s long overdue.

It certainly looks as though a decision is going to be forced upon Greece … leaving the European Unit necessarily entails a radical solution. Are the Greeks up to it? Are the Russians up to it? Are we up to it?

Posted by: jfl | Jan 18 2015 0:58 utc | 112