John Chuckman COMMENT POSTED TO AN ARTICLE BY JOE LAURIA IN CONSORTIUM NEWS “The FBI Investigated Robert Parry “The bureau’s file on Robert Parry, the founding editor of Consortium News, was released last month” The FBI investigated virtually anyone whose work wasn’t on an assembly-line because the FBI had nothing useful to do, […]
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JOHN CHUCKMAN COMMENT: COMMENTS TO A STORY ABOUT THE RELEASE OF FBI FILES ON FAMOUS INDEPENDENT JOURNALIST ROBERT PARRY – THERE IS NO PLACE IN A DEMOCRATIC SOCIETY FOR SUCH A POLITICAL POLICE FORCE, RESEMBLING EAST GERMANY’S OLD STASI IN MUCH OF ITS WORK – BUT WHO WOULD SENSIBLY CLAIM AMERICA IS A DEMOCRATIC SOCIETY? – FBI KEPT FILES ON ANY AMERICAN WHO THOUGHT, WHETHER IN POLITICS OR THE ARTS OR SCIENCE – UNDER J EDGAR HOOVER, IT SERIOUSLY INTIMIDATED AND THREATENED PEOPLE AND YET NOTE HOW HIS NAME REMAINS UP IN BIG LETTERS AT THE HEADQUARTERS – A WORD ON MARTIN LUTHER KING’S ASSASSINATION Leave a comment
JOHN CHUCKMAN COMMENT: ON USE OF THE TERM “WORKING CLASS” IN AMERICAN POLITICS – IT WENT THE SAME WAY AS “CITIZEN” Leave a comment
John Chuckman COMMENT POSTED AN ARTICLE BY ANDREW LEVISON IN ALTERNET “What Democrats Still Don’t Understand About Winning Back the White Working Class” Working Class? I thought that phrase had been abolished in American politics. Hadn’t you noticed, for years now, American politicians always use the term “middle class” in their speeches? No […]
JOHN CHUCKMAN COMMENT: HOW AMERICAN POLITICS REALLY WORK – WHY THERE ARE TERRIBLE CANDIDATES AND CONSTANT WARS AND PEOPLES’ PROBLEMS ARE IGNORED – WHY HEROES LIKE JULIAN ASSANGE ARE PERSECUTED AND RIGHTS ARE TRAMPLED AND WHY NOTHING WORTH DOING GETS DONE 32 comments
JOHN CHUCKMAN COMMENT: RECENT BITS AND PIECES – CHINA’S WONDERFUL, YEARS-LONG EFFORT TO ELIMINATE EXTREME POVERTY THROUGHOUT THE COUNTRY IS COMPLETE – PRESIDENT XI DESERVES THE NOBEL PEACE PRIZE FOR TWO REASONS – WHY HE WON’T GET IT – THE LIMITS EMPIRE AND POWER PUT ON HUMANITARIAN EFFORTS LIKE PEACE PRIZES – AMERICA AND LOOKING AFTER ITS OWN PEOPLE – AMERICA’S LONG HISTORY OF TERRIBLE OBSESSIONS – A LIST – INFLUENCE OF PURITANISM IN AMERICA – LEADING POSITION VERSUS LEADERSHIP – AMERICA TRYING TO RETURN TO THE UN HUMAN RIGHTS COUNCIL AND WHY NO COUNTRY IS LESS FIT TO SERVE – A “NEW NORMAL” IN CANADIAN-AMERICAN RELATIONS? – THE EU AND NEW MINDLESS SANCTIONS AGAINST POOR VENEZUELA – THE PARLIAMENT OF CANADA’S RIDICULOUS VOTE ABOUT “GENOCIDE” IN CHINA – VOTING ABOUT SOMETHING YOU KNOW NOTHING ABOUT – A CHEAP POLITICAL STUNT COURTESY OF TRUDEAU AND HIS TIRELESS EFFORTS TO PLEASE WASHINGTON Leave a comment
John Chuckman COMMENTS – RECENT BITS AND PIECES – VOLUME EIGHT President Xi’s wonderful program to eradicate extreme poverty makes a second achievement worthy of a Nobel Peace Prize. It is simply not the kind of massive national task we see undertaken by many states. China can be proud. The other reason President Xi deserves […]
JOHN CHUCKMAN COMMENT: RECENT BITS AND PIECES – IMMENSE BRUTALITY USED IN KOREAN WAR – AMERICA AND BIOLOGICAL WARFARE – JAPAN’S INFAMOUS WWII UNIT 731 IN CHINA – AMERICAN SANCTIONS AND PIRACY ONLY SPEED THE COUNTRY’S DECLINE – FRANCE’S PRESIDENT MACRON AS PRETTY MUCH A WASTE OF TIME – ELECTRIC VEHICLES BEGIN TO FIND THEIR PLACE IN THE TRANSPORTATION MIX BUT HYDROCARBONS WILL BE IMPORTANT FOR A LONG TIME – THOUGHT ON AIRCRAFT CARRIERS AND ANTI-SHIP MISSILES – IRAN’S AMAZING SUCCESS THROUGH MORE THAN FORTY YEARS OF HOSTILITY AND AGGRESSION AGAINST IT – JUST PART OFTHE REASON CHINA WILL INHERIT THE EARTH – THE WHO COVID FINDINGS IN CHINA – DESTRUCTIVE TRADE WARS AND THE FAILURE OF TRUMP TO ACHIEVE ANYTHING WITH CHINA – BIDEN’S PHONY PUBLIC-RELATIONS MOVES AGAINST A BLOODY WAR IN YEMEN AMERICA HELPED START AND REFUSES TO END – THE TURKISH COUP AND WHO WAS LIKELY BEHIND IT – THE EU’S UNBELIEVABLY GROSS HYPOCRISY TOWARDS RELATIONS WITH RUSSIA – AN AMERICAN GENERAL FOOLISHLY SPEAKS OF NUCLEAR WAR – CANADA’S JUSTIN TRUDEAU AND HIS NONEXISTANT RECORD ON HUMAN RIGHTS – TRUDEAU’S EMBRACE OF VAST AND GRISLY TERROR WHILE PULLING A STUNT ABOUT DECLARING THE SILLY PROUD BOYS AS TERRORISTS – TRUDEAU’S DAMNABLE RECORD IN SAUDI ARABIA AND VENEZUELA AND PALESTINE AND IRAN – HIS EMBRACE OF THE POLICIES OF THE GODFATHER OF THE PROUD BOYS, DONALD TRUMP – AN INTERESTING OBSERVATION ABOUT IRAN’S REVOLUTION AND ITS PLACE IN THE WORLD Leave a comment
John Chuckman COMMENTS – RECENT BITS AND PIECES – VOLUME SIX Just one added thought. When we discuss such dark matters as biological warfare, it is important to understand, just as with nuclear weapons, we are talking not about something theoretical but something the United States has actually used in the past. During the Korean […]
JOHN CHUCKMAN: RECENT BITS AND PIECES – NO REASON FOR OPTIMISM IN THE MATTER OF AMERICA RETURNING TO THE IRAN NUCLEAR AGREEMENT (JCPOA) – BIDEN AND BLINKEN HAVE MADE TRULY UNTHINKING STATEMENTS – IRAN’S REASONABLE POSITION EXPLAINED – BUT “REASONABLE” AND EVEN “LEGAL” OFTEN MEAN LITTLE TO AMERICA – WHAT ISRAEL REALLY WANTS OF IRAN (WHICH IT PERFECTLY WELL KNOWS HAS NO NUCLEAR WEAPONS) – PERHAPS A GOOD INDICATOR OF HOW UNCHANGED BIDEN’S FOREIGN POLICY WILL BE – THE NAMES ON THE PRESIDENT’S OFFICE DOOR CHANGE BUT IMPERIAL POLICY AND THE POWERFUL FORCES DRIVING IT CARRY RIGHT ON – THE NOBEL PEACE PRIZE – PERHAPS THE MOST ABSURD NOMINATION EVER MADE, JARED KUSHNER – THE DEGREDATION OF THE PRIZE TO SERVE AMERICAN GEOPOLITICAL INTERESTS – WHY THE PRIZE CANNOT POSSIBLY SERVE THE PURPOSE FOR WHICH IT WAS CREATED Leave a comment
John Chuckman COMMENTS – RECENT BITS AND PIECES – VOLUME FIVE At least so far as public statements go, there is little basis for optimism concerning the Iran nuclear agreement (JCPOA). Both President Biden and Secretary of State Blinken have said things which are not encouraging. Only today, Blinken said: “Iran is ‘weeks away’ from […]
JOHN CHUCKMAN COMMENT: RECENT BITS AND PIECES FROM MANY PLACES – POLL SHOWING THE WILLINGNESS OF THE CHINESE TO BE INOCULATED – COOPERATION AS A POWERFUL TOOL FOR ECONOMIC ADVANCE – THE MENNONITE EXAMPLE – TRUMP’S IMPEACHMENT AND THE REASONS IT IS LIKELY TO FAIL – “BUY AMERICAN” CAMPAIGN AND OTHER UNHAPPY SIGNS OF WHERE BIDEN IS HEADED – THE NAVALNY DEMONSTRATIONS IN RUSSIA PUT INTO PERSPECTIVE – HOW ANY COUNTRY’S DISCONTENTS CAN BE EXPLOITED BY AN OUTSIDE POWER – THE IMPORTANT TASK OF REJOINING THE IRAN NUCLEAR AGREEMENT (JCPOA) AND THE MAIN DIFFICULTY IN DOING SO – A NOTE ON HOW A COUPLE OF NEAR MADMEN CAN CAUSE SO MUCH PAIN AND DIFICULTY IN THE WORLD Leave a comment
John Chuckman COMMENTS – RECENT BITS AND PIECES FROM VARIOUS PLACES – VOLUME THREE I view these poll results about China’s citizens being among the most willing to be inoculated as evidence of the spirit of cooperation among China’s people. That very quality is a powerful one contributing to China’s economic success. The contrast with […]
JOHN CHUCKMAN COMMENT: RECENT BITS AND PIECES FROM MANY PLACES – THE NORD STREAM 2 GAS PIPELINE – EUROPE AND RUSSIA AND THE UNITED STATES – EUROPE’S VITAL INTERESTS – AMERICA EXPLOITS ALLIES TO BENEFIT ITSELF – THE SHABBY STATE OF AMERICAN DIPLOMACY – RUSSIAN DEMONSTRATIONS – SOUTH CHINA SEA AND WHY THE US IS THERE – CBS POLL CONFIRMING EXTREME DIVISION IN AMERICA – JOE BIDEN SIMPLY CANNOT CHANGE THE DIVISION – POMPEO’S POISONOUS, UNINFORMED COMMENTS ABOUT GENOCIDE OF UIGHURS IN CHINA – THE UIGHURS ARE THRIVING – TRUMP’S IDEA OF PEACE IN THE MIDDLE EAST IS DUMPING MORE ADVANCED WEAPONS THERE – WHY WOULD ANYONE HAVE THOUGHT TRUMP WOULD WANT THE LEGACY OF PARDONING ASSANGE? – THE CHARACTER OF TRUMP’S PARDONS, ALL WITHOUT HUMANITY OR DECENCY – NOT A SIGN OF AGGRESSION FROM RUSSIA – THE NEED FOR AN INDEPENDENT EUROPE – BIDEN’S ACTS IN SYRIA NOT ENCOURAGING – PRESIDENTS AND FOREIGN POLCY – MONARCH BUTTERFLIES MIGRATING – “THIS IS AMERICA AND NO ONE SHOULD GO HUNGRY” BUT WHAT ABOUT PEOPLE IN YEMEN AND VENEZUELA AND IRAN AND CUBA? I GUESS THEY DON’T COUNT AS PEOPLE Leave a comment
John Chuckman COMMENTS – RECENT BITS AND PIECES FROM MANY PLACES – VOLUME TWO Completion of the Nord Stream 2 gas pipeline project with gas flowing from Russia to Europe, is a crucial test for Europe: follow your own best interests or continue to follow arbitrary American directions. The pipeline has already been long-delayed by […]
JOHN CHUCKMAN COMMENT: PERHAPS HILLARY CLINTON’S MOST IDIOTIC STATEMENT EVER LEADS ME ON A REVIEW OF AMERICA’S POLITICAL SITUATION, A RATHER DREARY SUBJECT – A FEW NOTES ON RUSSIA’S ALWAYS-MALIGNED PUTIN – AMERICA’S BASIC PROBLEM, ONE THAT BIDEN WILL NOT CHANGE AND ONE TRUMP NEVER TOUCHED – TRUMP’S “SWAMP” NONSENSE – FOOTNOTE ON TRUMP’S JOBS ACHIEVEMENT IN HIS CLOWNISH EFFORTS WITH CHINA – TRUMP’S DESTRUCTION OF A STACK OF NUCLEAR TREATIES SERVED ONLY THE DARK STATE’S DRIVE FOR DOMINATION – TRUMP’S GIVEAWAYS TO ISRAEL WERE NOT ONLY ILLEGAL, THEY SERVED THE POLITICAL ESTABLISHMENT – THE UTTER WASTE OF AMERICA’S MILITARY INVESTMENT – INDEED THAT INVESTMENT ACTUALLY ASSISTS AMERICA’S NEW COMPETITORS – THE LACK OF AMERICAN LEADERSHIP WITH NO SOLUTION IN SIGHT – AMERICA’S POLITICAL SYSTEM MAKES IT A NATION IMMOBIIZED AS THOUGH IMMERSED IN A THICK JELLY ASPIC Leave a comment
John Chuckman EXPANSION OFA COMMENT POSTED TO AN ARTICLE IN INVESTMENT WATCH Hillary:” I would love to see his phone records to see if he was talking to Putin the day the insurgents invaded our Capitol” That has to be the most idiotic thing Hillary Clinton has ever said, and she has said a great […]
JOHN CHUCKMAN COMMENT: RECENT BITS AND PIECES – AMERICAN NEOCONS AND WAR – VICTORIA NULAND AND SERGEY LAVROV – THE “SOLAR WINDS” HACK ORIGINATED IN THE US – THE DANGER SIGNAL OF AMERICAN OFFICIALS SPEAKING OF HUMAN RIGHTS – AMERICA’S RECORD IN HUMAN RIGHTS – THE STUPIDITY OF CANADIAN FORCES IN LATVIA DOING WHAT AMERICA WANTS – “TIME FOR EXTREME COURAGE” – AN ABSURD MAN GETS AN ABSURD SEND-OFF – WHAT TRUMP ACHIEVED FOR NORTH KOREA’S KIM JONG-UN – JIMMY CARTER AND ISRAEL’s NUKES – CHINA’S HIGHLY ORIGINAL USE OF LARGE UAVs – AN EXCELLENT SELECTION OF QUOTES AND PICTURES ON AMERICA’S USE OF “HUMAN RIGHTS” – A PERFECT EXAMPLE OF THE UTTER CONFUSION OF AMERICA’S EXTREME RIGHT – RECKLESS USE OF THE WORD “TRAITOR” TODAY – THE OBSCENE BULLY – THE UNFAIR TREATMENT OF IRAN OVER ITS ACCIDENTAL DOWNING OF AN AIRLINER WHEN UNDER EXTREME THREAT FROM THE US – THE KILLING OF A WOMAN IN WASHINGTON’S CAPITOL BUILDING – PARDONS – HOW TWISTED AMERICAN POLITICS HAVE BECOME Leave a comment
John Chuckman COMMENTS – RECENT BITS AND PIECES FROM VARIOUS PUBLICATIONS The Neocons, an extreme and influential American political faction, have been a deadlier disease even than COVID. They are responsible for millions of deaths and injuries through the Middle East and tens of millions of refugees. Plus, several well-running societies being turned into chaos. […]
JOHN CHUCKMAN COMMENT: THE FOOLISHNESS OF AUSTRALIA’S PRESENT MORRISON GOVERNMENT IN DISRUPTING RELATIONS WITH CHINA JUST FOR THE SAKE OF A PAT ON THE HEAD FROM TRUMP – CHINA’S NEAR-TERM PROSPECTS ARE THE STRONGEST OF ANY MAJOR ECONOMY BY FAR – ONLY BACKWARD THINKING AVOIDS ENGAGING WITH CHINA – CHINA BUILDS, EVERYWHERE, WHILE AMERICA IS BENT ON DESTRUCTION – IRRATIONAL IMPULSES CANNOT GIVE US RATIONAL RESULTS – CHINESE PRESIDENT XI’S BELT AND ROAD INITIATIVE (BRI, OR THE NEW SILK ROAD) IS THE GREATEST PROJECT OF OUR ERA AND WILL CHANGE THE WORLD – IT DESERVES THE NOBEL PEACE PRIZE BUT THAT PRIZE HAS LONG BEEN CORRUPTED TO SERVING AMERICAN GEOPOLITICAL INTERESTS Leave a comment
John Chuckman COMMENT POSTED TO AN ARTICLE IN GLOBAL TIMES Canberra’s possible axing of Victoria State agreement with Jiangsu [China’s BRI or New Silk Road] an ‘alarming signal’ It would be a very short-sighted thing for Morrison’s Australian government to do. At a time of global economic problems, we need every bit of investment and […]
JOHN CHUCKMAN COMMENT: THE GREAT “CYBER-ATTACK” ELICITED IMMEDIATE AND UNWARRANTED STATEMENTS AGAINST RUSSIA BY SENIOR AMERICAN POLITICIANS – IT NOW APPEARS TO HAVE BEEN THE SAME KIND OF EMPTY POSTURING AS THE INFAMOUS “POISONING” CASES AGAINST RUSSIA – ARRIVING AT A PLACE WHERE EVERYTHING AMERICANS BELIEVE ABOUT WORLD AFFAIRS IS FALSE Leave a comment
John Chuckman COMMENT – EARLY THOUGHTS ON THE “CYBER-ATTACK” Actually, it is incorrect to call this exploit an “attack.” It clearly is a large-scale effort to collect information, not to damage anything. Collecting information about others is what America’s NSA, CIA, FBI, and other massive agencies do around the clock. Ditto, Britain’s GCHQ and MI6. […]
JOHN CHUCKMAN COMMENT: A SOCIETY WITHOUT VALUES – TRUMP AS A FITTING SYMBOL OF CONTEMPORARY AMERICA – WHILE HE UNDERTOOK THE POWER ESTABLISHMENT’S TASKS, HE WAS EMBARRASSING AND INCOMPETENT – HIS ABSURD EFFORT TO REDUCE AMERICAN TROOPS IN THE MIDDLE EAST AND WHY IT WAS ABSURD – ISRAEL AS AN INTEGRAL PART OF AMERICA’S EMPIRE – NATIONAL DECLINE FROM THE GREATNESS OF FRANKLIN ROOSEVELT TO THE SHABBINESS OF MIKE POMPEO – THE GREAT PROBLEMS IN AMERICAN SOCIETY WILL NOT BE SOLVED – NOT A LOT TO EXPECT FROM BIDEN BUT AT LEAST CIVILITY WILL RETURN – SOME INTERESTING DETAILS OF AMERICA IN THE 1950S – TRUMP’S POLITICAL FOLLOWERS RESEMBLE A CULT – CONCERNING NEOCON AND CLINTON INFLUENCE UNDER BIDEN – NEOCONS COMPARED TO TRUMP’S ARMED MILITIA TYPES – AMERICA’S DANGEROUS INTRUSION INTO THE SOUTH CHINA SEA – WHAT AMERICA TRULY STANDS FOR IN THE WORLD TODAY Leave a comment
John Chuckman COMMENT – A SOCIETY WITHOUT VALUES I’m sure many would agree if I said Trump was a perfect leader for a society without values. Trump – as a kind of moral psychopath, a man absolutely without values, vulgar and rude and demanding – was in many ways a fitting symbol for contemporary America. […]
JOHN CHUCKMAN COMMENT: AMERICA IS MADE WHOLE AGAIN (WARNING: THAT TITLE IS A SARCASM) – INSIGHTS INTO THE MAN LEAVING OFFICE AND THE MAN COMING IN – WEIGHING THE GAINS AND LOSSES – WHERE THIS AMERICAN POLITICAL MELODRAMA IS LIKELY TO END – JOE BIDEN WILL STEP DOWN AT SOME POINT EITHER BECAUSE OF HIS HEALTH OR THE SQUALID CONTENTS OF HIS DRUG-ADDLED SON’S COMPUTERS NOW IN THE HANDS OF OTHERS – KAMALA HARRIS WILL BECOME PRESIDENT – BEFORE YOU BECOME EXCITED ABOUT A FRESH FACE AND A WOMAN OF COLOR, I RECENTLY LEARNED THAT SHE HAS BEEN UNDER THE TUTELAGE OF IMPORTANT HILLARY CLINTON SUPPORTERS FOR SEVERAL YEARS – NOTHING HAPPENS SPONTANEOUSLY IN AMERICAN POLITICS – THE STAKES ARE JUST TOO HIGH FOR THE ESTABLISHMENT TO TAKE CHANCES 1 comment
John Chuckman COMMENT – AMERICA IS MADE WHOLE AGAIN The remarkable achievement of an American presidential election summarized Perhaps the most ignorant man ever to hold high office appears to have been defeated, although, given his explosive temperament, ugly legal fights lie ahead. A man plagued by suspicion and rumor and driven by the need […]
JOHN CHUCKMAN COMMENT: AMERICAN RUSSOPHOBIA BADLY INFECTS CANADA – CONSORTIUM NEWS, AN OLD AND DISTINGUISHED INDEPENDENT NEWS SOURCE, IS SUING A CANADIAN NEWS NETWORK FOR CLAIMING IT WAS PART OF A RUSSIAN-DIRECTED POLITICAL ATTACK – A FEW NOTES ON CHRYSTIA FREELAND’S CONNECTIONS IN WASHINGTON AND ON HER BIAS – SHE IS SOMEONE JUSTIN TRUDEAU MUCH DEPENDS ON OWING TO HIS OWN WEAKNESS – CANADA’S CHANGED REPUTATION IN THE WORLD – INTERESTING NOTES FROM THE CONSORTIUM NEWS’ INVESTIGATION Leave a comment
John Chuckman COMMENT IN RESPONSE TO AN ARTICLE BY JOE LAURIA IN CONSORTIUM NEWS Consortium News Sues Canadian TV Network for Defamation Over Report CN Was Part of ‘Attack’ ‘Directed’ by Russia In January Consortium News sent a libel notice to Global News demanding a retraction and apology. The TV network refused. On Tuesday CN […]
JOHN CHUCKMAN COMMENT: SOME OBSERVATIONS ON THE FIRST AMERICAN PRESIDENTIAL DEBATE – TRUMP’S DANGEROUS INTENTIONS WITH STREET-GANG SUPPORTERS AND THE SUPREME COURT – BIDEN’S RELATIVELY INSIPID LEADERSHIP – A CANDIDATE WHOSE ONLY REAL ATTRACTION IS NOT BEING TRUMP – I HOPE I AM WRONG, BUT IT IS HARD TO IMAGINE SOMEONE WHO GENERATES SO LITTLE ENTHUSIASM GETTING THE DECISIVE VICTORY REQUIRED TO THWART TRUMP’S INTENTIONS – THE DEMOCRATIC PARTY HAS DONE THE COUNTRY AND THE WORLD NO SERVICE IN TAKING THE BIG RISK OF RUNNING HIM – EVERYONE COMES OUT OF THIS ELECTION SMELLING BADLY – THE DANGEROUS STUPIDITIES AND ATTITUDES TAKING HOLD IN AMERICA AS ITS ECONOMIC DECLINE IS MORE FULLY GRASPED – AMERICA DESPERATELY NEEDS LEADERSHIP BUT THERE IS NONE TO BE FOUND IN ITS MONEY-DRIVEN POLITICS – THE THINGS REALLY NEEDING CHANGE WILL NOT BE TOUCHED – AMERICA IS POLITICALLY BANKRUPT JUST AS IT IS MORALLY AND SOCIALLY AND ABOUT TO BECOME FINANCIALLY Leave a comment
John Chuckman EXPANSION OF A COMMENT POSTED TO AN ARTICLE IN PRESS TV “First US presidential debate for 2020 race in Cleveland, Ohio” A good summary of some key points in the ugly, childish food-fight being called a Presidential political debate. America just becomes stranger every day. While it has been a brutal country […]
JOHN CHUCKMAN COMMENT: TRUMP AND HIS SUPREME COURT APPOINTMENT – HE LIKELY WILL GET IT DESPITE ITS FLYING IN THE FACE OF LEGITIMATE CONCERNS ABOUT VERY LATE APPOINTMENTS BEFORE AN ELECTION – IMPLICATIONS FOR HIMSELF, WHICH OF COURSE IN ALL THINGS COME FIRST FOR TRUMP – DESPITE HER INTELLIGENCE AND CHARMING SMILE, JUDGE BARRETT’S PAST STATEMENTS ON IMPORTANT MATTERS AND HER ASSOCIATION WITH A GROUP CALLED PEOPLE OF PRAISE, A SMALL CHARISMATIC AND SOMEWHAT SECRETIVE CATHOLIC GROUP THAT BELIEVES AMONG OTHER THINGS IN “SPEAKING IN TONGUES,” ARE CONCERNING – HER APPOINTMENT, ON TOP OF TWO OTHERS BY TRUMP, WILL FIX THE COURT’S DIRECTION FOR DECADES AND MAY WELL SECURE TRUMP’S RE-ELECTION – A MAN OF THE MOST QUESTIONABLE CHARACTER EVER TO HOLD HIS OFFICE IS GOING TO LEAVE AN INDELIBLE IMPRINT ON AMERICAN SOCIETY – THOUGHTS ON THE NATURE OF THE COURT, WHAT IT IS AND WHAT IT SHOULD BE Leave a comment
John Chuckman EXPANSION OF A COMMENT POSTED TO AN ARTICLE IN CBC NEWS “Democrats face limited options to prevent confirmation of Trump’s Supreme Court pick [Amy Coney Barrett]” Trump will likely get his Supreme Court appointment. He actually has an attractive conservative candidate. She has intelligence and a charming smile. And what that […]
JOHN CHUCKMAN COMMENT: TRUMP IS WORKING HARD TO DISCREDIT THE ELECTION BEFORE A BALLOT IS COUNTED – HE WANTS THE ELECTION THROWN INTO THE SUPREME COURT WHERE HE IS KEEN TO APPOINT A NEW JUSTICE WHO WILL BE IMMENSELY BEHOLDEN TO HIM IN DECIDING A LIKELY TIE VOTE BY EXISTING JUSTICES – WE HAVE A PRESIDENT ACTIVELY WORKING TO SUBVERT THE AMERICAN CONSTITUTION – TELLING PEOPLE TO VOTE TWICE – LYING ABOUT THE NATURE OF MAIL-IN BALLOTS HE AND HIS WIFE BOTH USE – SAYING HE MIGHT NOT ACCEPT THE ELECTION RESULT – ALL IN KEEPING WITH HIS LONG SMARMY RECORD IN BUSINESS AND GOVERNMENT – GIVEN AMERICA’S CURRENT UNHOLY MASS OF PROBLEMS AND DIVISIONS, THIS IS THE MOST UNFIT MAN POSSIBLE FOR HIS OFFICE – A POLITICAL NIGHTMARE – AMERICA HAS MUSSOLINI BRAGGING ABOUT MAKING THE TRAINS RUN ON TIME Leave a comment
John Chuckman EXPANSION OF A COMMENT POSTED TO AN ARTICLE IN RUSSIA TODAY “Trump says 2020 election may end up before US Supreme Court, so it’s important to fill empty seat” It is neither necessary nor desirable for unelected judges to determine who is elected President. The Court provides only a dire-emergency fallback, […]
JOHN CHUCKMAN COMMENT: MORE ON THE MYSTERIOUS NAVALNY CASE – WE HAVE BEEN PROVIDED NO EVIDENCE – RUSSIA’S CRIMINAL INVESTIGATORS HAVE ALSO NOT BEEN PROVIDED EVIDENCE – WILLING TO ACCEPT ANYTHING WITH GENUINE PROOF – THE SKRIPAL AFFAIR DÉJÀ VU? – GERMANY’S USE OF THE OPCW, AN ORGANIZATION WHICH HAS NOTHING TO DO WITH CRIMINAL INVESTIGATIONS – ALSO THAT ORGANIZATION’S HAVING BEEN COMPROMISED BY FALSE CLAIMS ABOUT POISON GAS IN DOUMA, SYRIA TO SERVE AMERICAN INTERESTS – SOME INTERESTING FACTS AROUND GERMANY’S VULNERABLE POSITION VIS-À-VIS DEMANDS AND THREATS FROM UNITED STATES – THE GERMAN-RUSSIA GAS PIPELINE PROJECT (NORD STREAM II) AND AMERICAN LNG – AMERICA’S VERY PUBLIC USE OF ASSASSINATION – INTERESTING NEW EVIDENCE FOR AMERICA’S USE OF BIOLOGICAL WARFARE IN THE KOREAN WAR GIVES NO SUPPORT TO THE IDEA THAT AMERICA CONDUCTS ITSELF ABROAD ETHICALLY 4 comments
John Chuckman COMMENT – FURTHER ON THE MYSTERIOUS NAVALNY CASE I don’t think there can be any doubt that something very unpleasant happened to Navalny in Siberia, and I would certainly like to understand just what it was. But, as I’ve said a number of times, I do have a bias for facts. I […]
JOHN CHUCKMAN COMMENT: MEANING AND CONSQUENCES OF AMERICA’S PRESIDENTIAL ELECTION – WHY IT IS MEANINGLESS ON MANY LEVELS – WHAT DEFINES THE DIFFERENCE BETWEEN THE PARTIES – BOTH ARE WAR PARTIES – THE LACK OF EMPATHY IN AMERICA ABOUT OTHERS – AMERICA’S HISTORICAL SUCCESS IN CONQUEST COMPARED TO NAPOLEON’S FRANCE OR HITLER’S GERMANY EXPLAINED – DOMESTIC POLICY IN AMERICA – AN EMPTY KIND OF POLITICS AND A THREADBARE DEMOCRACY – INTENSITY AND ENTHUSIASM AND BIG EXPENCES OVER NOT MUCH – TRUMP’S LANGUAGE OF THE ALT-RIGHT, THE LANGUAGE OF THE GUTTER – ME, MINE, AND FUCK YOU – LITTLE DIFFERENCE IN CHARACTER BETWEEN BIDEN AND TRUMP – SOME GAIN ON THE PERSONALITY LEVEL WITH BIDEN OVER TRUMP – AMERICANS GET TO CHOOSE A FULL BOWL OF SHIT (TRUMP) OR A HALF BOWL OF SHIT (BIDEN) Leave a comment
John Chuckman COMMENT – SOME FURTHER THOUGHTS ABOUT THE AMERICAN ELECTION, ITS MEANING AND CONSEQUENCES On many levels, no matter what partisans may earnestly insist, the American election is close to meaningless. On the level of American foreign policy, something which perhaps would be better called American global belligerence, virtually nothing will change – […]
JOHN CHUCKMAN COMMENT: THE NATURE OF A REPUBLIC – THE INSTRUCTIVE EXAMPLE OF THE UNITED STATES – A COUNTRY THAT HAS GONE FROM A VERY UNDEMOCRATIC EARLY REPUBLIC AT ITS FOUNDING TO A PLUTOCRACY WITH DEMOCRATIC WINDOW-DRESSING – THE ROLE IN AMERICAN POLITICS OF “THE CULTURE OF COMPLAINT” – THE NATURE OF ELECTIONS TODAY IN AMERICA – THOMAS JEFFERSON WAS THE FOUNDING FATHER OF TODAY’S “ALT-RIGHT” – THE FOUNDERS’ LACK OF BELIEF IN DEMOCRACY – AMERICA’S VERY COSTLY ELECTIONS WHICH CHANGE ALMOST NOTHING AT HOME OR ABROAD BUT GET PEOPLE VERY EXCITED 1 comment
John Chuckman EXPANSION OF A COMMENT POSTED TO AN ARTICLE IN CBC NEWS “Why Queen Elizabeth and the ‘nuclear option’ won’t likely come into play in the Governor General Payette controversy” “Revelations of unusual spending and allegations of a toxic work environment at Rideau Hall have raised questions about the fate of Canada’s current […]
JOHN CHUCKMAN COMMENT: AMERICA’S CIVIL UNREST IS UNLIKELY TO PRODUCE REAL CHANGE IN ANY OF THE MATTERS DISTURBING SO MANY – PROTESTS LIKELY WILL LOSE STEAM GRADUALLY – AMERICAN SOCIETY LITERALLY IS STRUCTURED TO RESIST CHANGE – NONE OF THE COUNTRY’S IMPORTANT INTEREST GROUPS SEE IT AS TO THEIR BENEFIT – WITH COUNTLESS BILLIONS AT RISK, CHANGE IS NOT VIEWED AS A FRIEND – AMERICA’S MAJOR PROBLEM IS ACTUALLY SOMETHING ELSE, ITS DEEP DIVISIONS ALONG MANY LINES – AND THERE IS NO LEADERSHIP, NONE AT ALL, TO BRIDGE THOSE DIVISIONS – AND NOW IT IS SPREADING DIVISION IN THE WORLD 1 comment
John Chuckman COMMENT – AMERICA’S DEEPENING DIVIDE I tend to doubt that the civil unrest in America will result in fundamental reform. The truth is that the set of problems involved is just too massive to be dealt with by anything less than heroic effort, and where is the leadership for such an effort? […]
JOHN CHUCKMAN COMMENT : THE EXTRAORDINARY TOM PAINE – AN 18TH CENTURY POLITICAL WRITER FAR AHEAD OF HIS TIME – HIS UNPLEASANT RELATIONSHIP WITH GEORGE WASHINGTON – AND REMEMBERING THAT GREATEST HYPOCRITE IN AMERICAN HISTORY, THOMAS JEFFERSON Leave a comment
John Chuckman COMMENT POSTED TO AN ARTICLE BY RUSSELL BENTLEY IN FORT RUSS NEWS “TOM PAINE – THE ORIGINAL CHE GUEVARA” Paine was one of our great, non-academic political writers. His words may still be profitably read. A very eloquent and thoughtful man, and given to sharp sarcasm. George Washington treated him shamefully. […]
JOHN CHUCKMAN COMMENT: AMERICAN RACISM AND POLICE BRUTALITY – BUT THERE ARE OTHER TOXIC INGREDIENTS IN THE SOCIAL MIX PRODUCING WHAT WE’VE SEEN ON AMERICA’S STREETS – A LIST OF TERRIBLE PRACTICES IN AMERICAN POLICING, INCLUDING ITS MILITARIZATION AND HIRING SOLDIERS FROM AMERICA’S BRUTAL COLONIAL WARS AS POLICE – TERRIBLE PRACTICES USED TO RUN A VAST PRISON SYSTEM WITH THE WORLD’S LARGEST POPULATION OF PRISONERS – THE NEGLECT OF ORDINARY PEOPLE AS NATIONAL GOVERNMENT FOCUSES ENTIRELY ON THE MEANS OF WAR AND EMPIRE AND SERVING WEALTH – THE IMMENSE DISPARITY IN AMERICAN SOCIETY CREATED THROUGH ITS POLITICS – THE DISAPPEARANCE OF THE WORD “CITIZEN” IN AMERICAN POLITICS – ORDINARY AMERICANS INCREASINGLY SEEN BY THE ESTABLISHMENT AS A HERD Leave a comment
John Chuckman COMMENT – AMERICAN RACISM AND POLICE BRUTALITY Racism is certainly a problem in America, a profound and very longstanding one. Its origins trace their roots to the very Founding. But events like the gruesome police killing of George Floyd in Minneapolis bring other harsh matters to our attention. A crucial one is […]
CHUCKMAN'S WORDS ON WORDPRESS: COMMENTS FROM THE WORLD'S PRESS 