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2016 Postmortem
Related: About this forumHillary Is the Candidate of the War Machine
Published onFriday, February 05, 2016
by Common Dreams
Hillary Is the Candidate of the War Machine
by Jeffrey D. Sachs
There's no doubt that Hillary is the candidate of Wall Street. Even more dangerous, though, is that she is the candidate of the military-industrial complex. The idea that she is bad on the corporate issues but good on national security has it wrong. Her so-called foreign policy "experience" has been to support every war demanded by the US deep security state run by the military and the CIA.
Hillary and Bill Clinton's close relations with Wall Street helped to stoke two financial bubbles (1999-2000 and 2005-8) and the Great Recession that followed Lehman's collapse. In the 1990s they pushed financial deregulation for their campaign backers that in turn let loose the worst demons of financial manipulation, toxic assets, financial fraud, and eventually collapse. In the process they won elections and got mighty rich.
Yet Hillary's connections with the military-industrial complex are also alarming. It is often believed that the Republicans are the neocons and the Democrats act as restraints on the warmongering. This is not correct. Both parties are divided between neocon hawks and cautious realists who don't want the US in unending war. Hillary is a staunch neocon whose record of favoring American war adventures explains much of our current security danger.
Just as the last Clinton presidency set the stage for financial collapse, it also set the stage for unending war. On October 31, 1998 President Clinton signed the Iraq Liberation Act that made it official US policy to support "regime change" in Iraq.
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Please read the full article exposing her militaristic pro-war record at:
http://www.commondreams.org/views/2016/02/05/hillary-candidate-war-machine
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Hillary Is the Candidate of the War Machine (Original Post)
imagine2015
Apr 2016
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ViseGrip
(3,133 posts)1. Excellent! Absolute truth.
Buzz Clik
(38,437 posts)2. Well, well, well. Look who emerged from Begging for Bernie at the Vatican...
... to carrying Sanders's water.
Nicely played, Jeffrey! Hoping for a cabinet post? One problem with that -- your boy is getting thrashed.
To damned bad about the crapped out photo op with the Pope. That might have sealed the deal.
imagine2015
(2,054 posts)3. Who are you addressing your comments to?
emulatorloo
(44,182 posts)4. The author of your article is named "Jeffery"
Buzz Clik writes:
"Nicely played, Jeffrey!"
msongs
(67,441 posts)5. sorry but it is bernie sanders who votes to pay for these wars every year after year after year....
he is the MIC's best friend. call him up, maybe he can get you an F-35
Octafish
(55,745 posts)6. Wars without end for profits without cease.
A primer on using money to gain power and power to protect wealth.
Is the Clinton Foundation the Dulles Brothers Sullivan and Cromwell?
by JOHN STANTON
CounterPunch, APRIL 15, 2016
EXCERPT...
As Secretary of State, Hillary Clinton instigated and legitimized the overthrow of the Honduran government in 2009 not all that unlike the 1954 Guatemala Coup engineered primarily by CIA Director Allen Dulles, supported by Secretary of State John Foster Dulles, and with the glowing approval of President Dwight Eisenhower.
In a March 2016 interview with Amy Goodman on Democracy Now, Greg Grandin, a professor of Latin American history at New York University, discussed the fallout from the 2009 Honduran Coup. I mean, hundreds of peasant activists and indigenous activists have been killed. Scores of gay rights activists have been killed. I mean, its justits just a nightmare in Honduras. I mean, theres ways in which the coup regime basically threw up Honduras to transnational pillage. And Berta Cáceres [a prominent Honduran activist assassinated in 2016], in that interview, says what was installed after the coup was something like a permanent counterinsurgency on behalf of transnational capital. And that wasthat wouldnt have been possible if it were not for Hillary Clintons normalization of that election, or legitimacy.
In an April interview with Dana Frank, professor of history at the University of California, Santa Cruz, on Democracy Now, Frank indicated that President Obama had basically turned over Central and South America to Hillary Clinton. Frank then said this: I think its really about the U.S. pushback against the democratically elected governments of the left and the center-left that came to power in Latin America in the 90s and in the 2000sVenezuela, Bolivia, Argentina, Ecuador, Chile, El Salvador, all these countries. And Zelaya was the weakest link in that chain. He, himself, did not come out of a big social movement base at the time of his election, certainly since the coup. And I think they werethe U.S. was looking for a way to push back against that. Theres a very important military base, U.S. military base, Soto Cano Air Force Base, in Honduras. And Honduras has always been the most captive nation of the United States in Latin America. So, I think they were testing what they could get away with. And they got away with it. It was the first domino pushing back against democracy in Latin America and reasserting U.S. power, in service to a transnational corporate agenda.
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http://www.counterpunch.org/2016/04/15/is-the-clinton-foundation-the-dulles-brothers-sullivan-and-cromwell/
It is the foreign policy of Empire -- war abroad and repression at home to empower and profit the connected few. Like a racket.