INDEX OF ALL POSTS ON THIS SITE

JOHN CHUCKMAN COMMENT: A NAZI UNIFORM AND BLOOD EARRINGS AND THE PRESS – I AM NOT AT ALL INTERESTED IN HARRY AND MEGHAN, NOR IN ANY OTHER CELEBRITIES – BUT I AM VERY MUCH INTERESTED IN THE PROCESS UNDERWAY WITH THIS COUPLE – IT IS IDENTICAL TO WHAT WE SEE WEEK-IN AND WEEK-OUT WITH AMERICA’S MOST HELLISH ACTIVITIES – MASS KILLING, DESTRUCTION, ABUSE, AND THE SUPPORT OF MONSTERS GET TURNED INTO WORKS FOR ENLIGHTENMENT VALUES LIKE DEMOCRATIC AND HUMAN RIGHTS – SOME OF THE EFFORT IS NOT EVEN BADLY INTENDED, JUST UTTERLY UNEXAMINED BY JOURNALISTS FILLING SPACE TO BE SOLD TO ADVERTISERS IN A JUGGERNAUT PRESS MACHINE WHICH MANY TIMES CAN’T TELL THE DIFFERENCE BETWEEN TRUTH AND FICTION BECAUSE IT CANNOT BE BOTHERED SPENDING THE RESOURCES TO INVESTIGATE – IT IS JUST ONE SMALL CORNER OF THE CORRUPTION THAT IS MODERN AMERICAN SOCIETY
JOHN CHUCKMAN COMMENT: THE LOOMING PRESENCE OF TRUMPISM IN AMERICA
JOHN CHUCKMAN COMMENT: RECENT BITS AND PIECES – BIDEN AND RELEASING THE CIA REPORT ON JAMAL KHASHOGGI’S BRUTAL MURDER – WHY IT TELLS US NOTHING – I SEE NO OUTRAGE IN BIDEN’S MOTIVE FOR RELEASING THE REPORT, ONLY HIS PUBLIC-RELATIONS EFFORTS TO APPEAR HUMANE AND SYMPATHETIC – JUST RECALL BIDEN’S FIFTY-YEAR RECORD ON IMPERIAL BRUTALITY – REFERENCE TO AN INTERESTING AND INFORMATIVE ARTICLE ON THE UIGHUR PEOPLE OF CHINA WITHOUT AMERICA’S SICK FANTASIES ABOUT GENOCIDE – AMERICAN DEMOCRACY IN ACTION: NEW SECRETARY OF STATE TALKS WITH UNELECTED NOTHING, JUAN GUAIDO, IN VENEZUELA INSTEAD OF THE DULY ELECTED GOVERNMENT OF PRESIDENT MADURO – A COMPARISON OF THE MAIN INTERNATIONAL EFFORTS OF AMERICA AND CHINA – PRESIDENT XI’S EXTREMELY IMPORTANT RECENT WORDS ABOUT AMERICA – TRUDEAU AND BLINKEN FARCE ABOUT CANADA’S (SELF-MADE) PROBLEMS WITH CHINA – CANADA’S IDIOTIC RECENT GENOCIDE CHARGES AGAINST CHINA – AUSTRALIA’S DESTRUCTIVE PRIME MINISTER MORRISON AND IGNORING HIS COUNTRY’S FUTURE
JOHN CHUCKMAN COMMENT: WHAT WE LEARN FROM BIDEN’S OWN WORDS – TWO STATEMENTS FROM A SPEECH ON FOREIGN POLICY WHICH REVEAL A GREAT DEAL, AND NONE OF IT GOOD
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
JOHN CHUCKMAN COMMENT: DANGEROUS INDICATORS IN BIDEN’S FOREIGN POLICY – MAKING A MESS OF IRAN AND THE MIDDLE EAST – RUSSIA AND CHINA – THE TASK OF THE MAINLINE PRESS WITH BIDEN: REASSURING AMERICANS THAT THEIR “DEMOCRACY” WORKS AND THEIR VOTES BROUGHT REAL CHANGE TO THE COUNTRY – THE TRUTH IS ALMOST THE OPPOSITE
JOHN CHUCKMAN COMMENT: LEADERSHIP NO ONE WOULD CHOOSE – AMERICA’S IMPOVERISHED VIEW OF THE WORLD COMES FROM PUTTING ITSELF AT THE CENTER – FEAR OF COMPETITION DISGUISED AS FEAR OF MILITARY AGGRESSION – NEW COLD WAR A SURE SIGN OF COMPLETE LACK OF IMAGINATION – EXPECT NOTHING OF JOE BIDEN AND YOU WILL NOT BE DISAPPOINTED
JOHN CHUCKMAN COMMENT: RECENT BITS AND PIECES – NATO AND ITS ABSURD JENS STOLTENBERG – AMERICA’S REAL PURPOSE IN STRENGTHENING AND EXPANDING NATO – FEAR OF A PEACEFUL AND COOPERATIVE RUSSIA WORKING WITH EUROPE – TROOPS IN WASHINGTON AND TROOPS ANYWHERE – THE NEW YORK TIMES MISQUOTES WHO EXPERTS – TRUTHS ABOUT THE NEW YORK TIMES, A PRESS HANDSERVANT TO AMERICAN IMPERIAL AIMS ALWAYS – BIDEN BANNING WEAPONS DOESN’T GO FAR ENOUGH – BIDEN AND A NEW UN REPORT ON TERRIBLE MALNUTRITION IN YEMEN – HE COULD PREVENT IT, BUT WHY HE WILL DO NOTHING – AMERICAN SANCTIONS ON VENEZUELA DO NOTHING BUT CAUSE MISERY, YET BIDEN IS TO KEEP THEM – REMEMBER CUBA AND AMERICA’S BRUTALITY FOR SIXTY YEARS – RUSSIA’S NAVALNY AND HIS LATEST STUPDITY – AMERICA’S HOPELESS TASK OF CREATING ANTI-CHINA GROUPS AND JUST WHY IT IS HOPELESS – THE FACT THAT AMERICA WORKS ON SUCH UNCREATIVE TASKS RATHER THAN ON ITS OWN COMPETITIVENESS HELPS EXPLAIN ITS DECLINE – JUSTIN TRUDEAU AND ACTING WITHOUT THINKING – THE DISAPPOINTMENT OF MODERN SWEDEN – MORE ON THE IRAN NUCLEAR AGREEMENT (JCPOA) – GERMANY’S CHANCELLOR MERKEL MEETS WITH IRAN’S PRESIDENT ROUHANI – UNFAIR AND UNREALISTIC DEMANDS BEING PUT ON IRAN, BUT WHEN WAS EMPIRE EVER FAIR?
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
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
JOHN CHUCKMAN COMMENT: RECENT BITS AND PIECES – AMERICA’S EXTREMELY DANGEROUS ACTIVITIES IN TAIWAN – “INDEPENDENCE MEANS WAR” – SOUTH KOREAN-AMERICAN MILITARY EXERCISES – WHY THEY ARE SO DANGEROUS, JUST AS ARE THE US-NATO EXERCISES ON RUSSIA’S BORDER – NORTH KOREA BOTHERS NO ONE AND WHY IT FEELS IT MUST HAVE NUCLEAR WEAPONS – CHINA’S REMARKABLE INVESTMENTS IN HUMAN AND PHYSICAL CAPITAL BUILD A STRONG BASE FOR MANY YEARS OF GROWTH – PUTIN’S ABILITY TO TALK WITH PEOPLE ALMOST LIKE A FAMOUS PROFESSOR CASUALLY DISCUSSING MATTERS WITH A GROUP OF STUDENTS AND NOTHING LIKE IT FROM WESTERN LEADERS – A DEFINITIVE SET OF OBSERVATIONS ON RUSSIAN DISSIDENT ALEXEY NAVALNY AND WESTERN EFFORTS TO MAKE OF HIM SOMETHING THAT HE IS NOT – A CASE STUDY IN WHY IT IS SO HARD TO GET GOOD INFORMATION IN INTERNATIONAL AFFAIRS – NAVALNY “POISONING” HOAX – THE “PUTIN’S PALACE” HOAX – EVIDENCE OF NAVALNY’S DISHONESTY – AMERICA’S DISGUSTING RECORD OF BEHAVIOR IN IRAQ FOR 18 YEARS – THE NEW START TREATY AND STABILITY – THE BAD HABIT OF REFERRING TO “THE WEST” INSTEAD OF “THE US” DIFFUSES RESPONSIBILITY – THE VALUE OF AMERICA’S WORD
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
JOHN CHUCKMAN COMMENT: REFLECTIONS ON MARTIN LUTHER KING’S LAST VIEWS ON AMERICAN VIOLENCE – HIS PROGRESS FROM A LEADER IN CIVIL RIGHTS TO A DEVASTATING CRITIC OF AMERICA’S ABUSE OF POWER – THE VIETNAM WAR – HIS TERRIBLE ENEMIES AND DEATH
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
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
JOHN CHUCKMAN COMMENT: LESSONS FROM AMERICA’S IMPERIAL HORRORS – THE REAL REASONS FOR THE HELL OF VIETNAM – WHY THERE REALLY WERE NO LEGITIMATE AMERICAN POWs THERE – THE LESSONS AMERICANS SHOULD HAVE LEARNED BUT DID NOT – LBJ’s REPULSIVE CHARACTER – WHY KENNEDY DIED – THE POWER ESTABLISHMENT’S EFFORTS AT CHANGE SO IT COULD GO RIGHT ON INFLICTING THE SAME HORRORS IN OTHER PLACES WITH NO OPPOSITION AT HOME – THE MIDDLE EAST’S NEOCON WARS HAVE BEEN ALMOST AS TERRIBLE AND WITHOUT LEGITIMATE PURPOSE BUT AMERICANS WENT RIGHT ON WITH FOOTBALL AND SOCIAL NETWORKING WHILE THEY RAGED, AND SOME OF THOSE WARS RAGE ON STILL
JOHN CHUCKMAN COMMENT: EVENTS AT THE UNITED STATES CAPITOL BUILDING WERE CHAOS, AND IT IS IMPOSSIBLE TO FIND MEANINGFUL PATTERNS IN CHAOS – BUT THE AFTERMATH LEAVES US WITH TWO CERTAINTIES – THE UNITED STATES IS A DEEPLY AND DANGEROUSLY DIVIDED NATION AND AMERICAN POLITICS HAVE BECOME POISONOUS – THERE ARE NO EASY FIXES – THERE IS NO SERIOUS LEADERSHIP IN THE COUNTRY AND THE PRIVILEGED ARE READY TO GIVE UP NOTHING – A STARK COMPARISON OF AMERICA AND CHINA IN THEIR GLOBAL EFFORTS
JOHN CHUCKMAN COMMENT: THE SHAMEFUL BUSINESS OF BLAMING CHINA FOR THE CORONAVIRUS PANDEMIC CONTINUES – NEVER BEFORE HAVE WE BLAMED A PEOPLE FOR THE EMERGENCE OF A DISEASE, SOMETHING WHICH HAPPENS PERIODICALLY AS PART OF EVOLUTION – PREJUDICE OR SPITE ABOUT CHINA’S SUCCESS IS BEHIND THIS – CONSIDER THE ORIGINAL SOURCE, THE MOST DISCREDITED AND FOUL-MOUTHED LEADER ON EARTH, DONALD TRUMP
JOHN CHUCKMAN COMMENT: WHY IT IS SILLY TO SPEAK OF A NEW CIVILIAN CIA DIRECTOR CHANGING THE AGENCY FOR THE BETTER – IT IS MUCH LIKE TALKING ABOUT CHANGING DRACULA’S LIFESTYLE – SINCE THE BEGINNING IN 1947, MERE INTELLIGENCE GATHERING HAS ONLY BEEN PART OF CIA’S PURPOSE– DIRTY OPERATIONS AND KILLING HAVE BEEN A BIG PART OF ITS MISSION, THE OTHER SIDE OF THE HOUSE, SO TO SPEAK – A FEW HIGHLIGHTS OF CIA’S GLORIOUS RECORD – A GOOD AND JUST SOCIETY WOULD NOT HAVE A CIA
JOHN CHUCKMAN COMMENT: AN AUTHOR WRITES OF THE FOLLY OF LOYALTY IN TRUMP’S AMERICA – FIRST, IT ISN’T JUST LOYALTY CALLED INTO QUESTION BUT ALL ETHICAL AND MORAL VALUES – AND, SECOND, IT ISN’T “TRUMP’S AMERICA,” IT’S JUST AMERICA – TRUMP IS A SYMPTOM OF THE SAME DECAY: GOVERNMENT BY, FOR, AND OF MONEY – FOREIGN POLICY BY MONEY – CULTURAL INSTITUTIONS SERVING MONEY – IT IS, IN A WORD, CORRUPTION
JOHN CHUCKMAN COMMENT: TALES OF THE DEATH OF OSAMA BIN LADEN – AN ARTICLE REVIEWS AT LENGTH THE CONTRADICTIONS AND ABSURDITIES OF THE OFFICIAL VERSION (S) – GLOBAL EMPIRE IS ONLY POSSIBLE WITH A STREAM OF LIES TO COVER WHAT ACTUALLY IS TAKING PLACE – THAT IS JUST PART OF WHY THE APPARATUS OF EMPIRE SO ROTS AND DECAYS THE ETHICS OF A COUNTRY LIKE AMERICA – MOST AMERICANS IMMERSED IN THE RELIGIOUS BELIEFS OF EXCEPTIONALISM AND QUESTION LITTLE THEY ARE TOLD – EMPIRE IS SIMPLY INCONSISTENT WITH THE RULE OF LAW AND CONCERN FOR HUMAN AND DEMOCRATIC RIGHTS – KENNEDY ASSASSINATION AND EVENTS OF 9/11 – HOW THE ‘TRUMP RIGHT’ ACTUALLY SUPPORTS WHAT IT THINKS IT OPPOSES, THE DARK STATE
JOHN CHUCKMAN COMMENT: EVENTS AT THE CAPITOL BUILDING WERE UGLY – BUT THEY CANNOT BE CHARACTERIZED AS TERROR OR INSURRECTION BY REASONABLE PEOPLE – RESPONSIBILITY FOR THOSE EVENTS LIES IN TWO PLACES – POLICE PROTECTION AND PLANNING WERE APPALLING – TRUMP AND HIS CLOSE ASSOCIATES WERE CRIMINALLY RECKLESS BY INCITING A MOB –TRUMP’S BEHAVIOR HAS BEEN JUST AS RECKLESS WITH CHINA OR IRAN OR ISRAEL – HE HAS SHAMED THE UNITED STATES MANY TIMES – BUT ONLY NOW DO WE SEE A SERIOUS REACTION AND THE REACTION IS INAPPROPRIATE AND ITSELF DANGEROUS – BIDEN PROMISES NEW DOMESTIC ANTI-TERROR LEGISLATION NOW AS A FIRST PRIORITY – IT IS THE LAST THING ANYONE NEEDS
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
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
JOHN CHUCKMAN COMMENT: THE POLITICAL CONTRADICTIONS WE ARE TAUGHT TO BELIEVE – A FEW THOUGHTS ON CHURCHILL, TRUMAN, AND JOHNSON AS WAR CRIMINALS
JOHN CHUCKMAN COMMENT: ISRAEL’S UNSCRUPULOUS METHODS OF DEFLECTING LEGITIMATE CRITICISM – CRITICISM OF A HEAVILY-ARMED POWER ABUSING MILLIONS IS NOT THE SAME THING AS THE PREJUDICE OF ANTI-SEMITISM – THE DEFINITIVE EXAMPLE OF CRITICIZING A BRUTAL SOVIET UNION BUT NOT HATING RUSSIANS
JOHN CHUCKMAN COMMENT: THE DEMONSTRABLY FALSE NOTION OF ISRAEL AS A FOUNDATION FOR PEACE IN THE MIDDLE EAST
JOHN CHUCKMAN COMMENT: WHY IRAN, A COUNTRY WHICH HAS NEVER STARTED A WAR, IS SO HATED BY THE UNITED STATES AND ISRAEL, COUNTRIES ALMOST CONTINUOUSLY AT WAR – IT HAS ABSOLUTELY NOTHING TO DO WITH NUCLEAR WEAPONS
JOHN CHUCKAN COMMENT: ON THE NATURE OF WAR MONUMENTS – EVEN IF TOU ARE AS ANTI-WAR AS I AM, YOU CAN BE MOVED BY SOME OF THEM – RUSSIA’S “THE MOTHERLAND CALLS” CAN BRING TEARS – IT MOVINGLY RECALLS THE MOST TERRIBLE EVENT IN HUMAN HISTORY – BRITAIN’S BRAND NEW ARMED SERVICES MEMORIAL IS STERILE AND OPPRESSIVE – THE CREATORS REVEAL THE EMPTINESS OF THEIR PURPOSE
JOHN CHUCKMAN COMMENT: OBAMA AND THE DEATH OF HOPE – AMERICAN POLITICAL HOPE ACTUALLY DIED IN THE !960S, BUT OBAMA, EARLY-ON, RAISED A NEW FLICKER – BUT NOT FOR LONG – WHAT THE PENTAGON THOUGHT OF OBAMA AND HOW THEY USED HIM
JOHN CHUCKMAN COMMENT: A HARD ASSESSMENT OF THE LATE JOURNALIST ROBERT FISK FROM AN EXPERT IN MIDDLE EAST AFFAIRS – IT HAS TO BE TAKEN SERIOUSLY GIVEN THE EVIDENCE SUPPLIED – HOW VERY LITTLE WE KNOW ABOUT THIS REGION OWING TO AMERICAN IMPERIAL INTERESTS AND WARS WHICH ALWAYS MAKE A VICTIM OF TRUTH – BUT THEN AGAIN HOW LITTLE AMERICANS KNOW OF WHAT DRIVES THEIR OWN SOCIETY
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
JOHN CHUCKMAN COMMENT: THE INDESCRIBABLE BRUTALITY OF THE PENTAGON’S IMPERIAL WARS – SOMETHING MOST AMERICANS DO NOT UNDERSTAND OR WANT TO UNDERSTAND
JOHN CHUCKMAN COMMENT: THE BATACLAN TERROR ATTACK IN PARIS FIVE YEARS AGO – A WRITER CONCERNED ABOUT “ISLAMIST” TERROR MISSES THE POINT – WHY DO SUCH EVENTS HAPPEN? – THEY ARE THE VENGEANCE OF THE POWERLESS AGAINST ORGANIZED STATE TERROR TEN-THOUSAND TIMES MORE GRISLY – FRANCE’S YEARS OF BLOODY SUPPORT FOR AMERICA’S MIDDLE-EAST CRUSADE, STATE TERROR ON A COLOSSAL SCALE – ANYONE CONCERNED ABOUT PEACE AND THE SANCTITY OF LIFE SHOULD FOCUS ON THE REAL CAUSE OF TERROR
JOHN CHUCKMAN COMMENT: THE TWO GREAT MIRACLES OF MY LIFETIME – THE ADVENT OF PERSONAL COMPUTERS AND THE INTERNET AND THE RISE OF CHINA
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
JOHN CHUCKMAN COMMENT: TRUMP’S IRRESPONSIBLE ELECTION CLAIMS MADE INSTANTANEOUSLY FROM HIS OFFICE WITH ABSOLUTELY NO PROOF – THEY MUCH RESEMBLE HIS OTHER QUACK CLAIMS, AS ABOUT WHAT SUBSTANCES PEOPLE MIGHT INJECT TO FIGHT THE CORONAVIRUS – THE LARGER AND MORE SWEEPING YOUR CLAIM, THE GREATER IS THE BURDEN OF PROOF, BUT WE HAVE NO PROOF, ONLY GOSSIP AND ANECDOTES – TRUMP’S PSYCHOLOGIST NIECE PREDICTED HE WOULD START TEARING THINGS UP IN HIS RAGE OVER THE ELECTION, AND SHE APPEARS TO HAVE BEEN RIGHT WITH HIS FIRING THE SECRETARY OF DEFENSE AND MAKING THREATS ABOUT FIRING OTHERS – TRUMP IS DETERMINED TO LEAVE OFFICE IN A LEGAL SHAMBLE – RUDY GIULIANI IN THE ROLE OF DOCTOR FRANKENSTEIN’S TWISTED ASSISTANT, IGOR, LOOKING FOR BODIES TO PLEASE THE MASTER
JOHN CHUCKMAN COMMENT: WHY BIDEN’S VICTORY IS A GOOD THING FOR MANY SMALL REASONS – MODERN PRESIDENTS DO NOT MAKE MAJOR POLICY AT HOME OR ABROAD – THE AMERICAN ESTABLISHMENT’S VERY DARK MOOD AND ITS BASIC SET OF HOSTILITIES AND DRIVES WILL NOT CHANGE IN FOREIGN POLICY – IN DOMESTIC POLICY BIDEN IS ALREADY COMMITTED TO BIG DONORS TO MAKE LITTLE CHANGE – PUBLIC CIVILITY WILL IMPROVE AND THAT IS A GOOD THING – SUPREME COURT A LOST CAUSE – “PACKING THE COURT,” WHICH IS CONSTITUTIONAL, IS POSSIBLE BUT IS FRAUGHT WITH POLITICAL RISKS – CONTROL OF THE ALL-IMPORTANT SENATE, WHICH MUST APPROVE ALL APPOINTMENTS AND TREATIES, IS STILL UNDECIDED
JOHN CHUCKMAN COMMENT: BIDEN’S EARLY RHETORIC IS NOT PROMISING – AMERICA AS A “BEACON” TO THE WORLD? – ASK VENEZUELA OR CUBA OR IRAN OR CHINA OR SYRIA ABOUT WHAT KIND OF BEACON AMERICA IS – LEADING BY EXAMPLE? THAT WOULD BE GREAT BUT AMERICA HAS NEVER TRIED IT – MAKE AMERICA RESPECTED AROUND THE WORLD? – THAT DOES SOUND LIKE A MAFIA GODFATHER TALKING – THE TWO MEANINGS OF “RESPECT”
JOHN CHUCKMAN COMMENT: TRUMP DIDN’T CREATE THE DIVISIONS IN AMERICA – THEY ARE DEEP AND THEY WILL PERSIST UNLESS FUNDAMENTAL CHANGES ARE MADE WHICH BIDEN IS NOT FREE TO MAKE – TRUMP IS MORE A SYMPTOM OF THOSE DIVISIONS THAN A CAUSE, ALTHOUGH HE DID EVERYTHING HE COULD TO CONTRIBUTE TO THEM
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
JOHN CHUCKMAN COMMENT: A PRESIDENT DEMANDS THAT VOTE-COUNTING BE STOPPED WHILE HE IS AHEAD – IT JUST DOES NOT COME ANY STRANGER IN POLITICS – BUT IT PROVIDES A HINT, AS DO TRUMP’S CONSTANT REFERENCES TO ELECTION CHEATING, OF WHAT’S AHEAD IF HE DOES NOT WIN THIS TIGHT RACE – THE VERY REAL DANGER THAT TRUMP’S POSSIBLE RE-ELECTION REPRESENTS – HE WILL BE BURSTING AT THE SEAMS WITH ATTITUDE ABOUT HIMSELF AND HOW RIGHT HE WAS AND HE WILL REPRESENT A DANGER TO THE ENTIRE WORLD
JOHN CHUCKMAN COMMENT: THE ELECTION SHOWS SOME PROFOUND CHANGES IN AMERICA – BOTH ELITES AND ORDINARY AMERICANS ARE UNSURE OF WHAT TO DO ABOUT AMERICA’S RELATIVE DECLINE – TRUMP’S BELLIGERENCE OFFERS ORDINARY CITIZENS AT LEAST A SENSE OF MOMENTUM – A PROVEN FAILURE OF A PRESIDENT HAS MANAGED TO RUN AN ELECTION WHOSE OUTCOME IS QUITE UNCLEAR THE FOLLOWING DAY – THE ELECTION HAS BEEN AFFECTED BY FEARS AROUND THE MANY DEMONSTRATORS ON THE STREETS, BY FEARS OF INCREASED TAXES, AND BY FEARS AROUND AMERICANS’ BELOVED GUNS – TRUMP HIMSELF RESEMBLES IN MANY WAYS SOMEONE WHO NEVER GREW UP – “I WANT” DOMINATES HIS EVERY THOUGHT AND WORD
JOHN CHUCKMAN COMMENT: EXPECTATIONS FOR THE ELECTION AND AFTER – BIDEN’S STRATEGY SUMMARIZED – SOME OF AMERICA’S GRAVE PROBLEMS AT HOME AND ABROAD – THE PEOPLE WHO REALLY CONTROL BOTH MAJOR DOMESTIC AND FOREIGN POLICIES – RUSSIA, CHINA, IRAN – THERE IS A DEFINITE POSSIBILITY IF TRUMP IS DEFEATED, AS EXPECTED, THAT HIS CROWD WILL JOIN THE EXISTING TROUBLES ON THE STREETS, AND THEY ARE WELL-ARMED – THE RELATIONSHIP BETWEEN RACISM AND GUNS IN AMERICA – GUNS A BIG ELEMENT IN TRUMP’S SUPPORT – THE COUNTRY’S GRAVE PROBLEMS OF DIVISION CANNOT BE HEALED WITHOUT TAXATION CHANGES AND SOCIAL POLICIES THAT ITS ESTABLISHMENT WILL NOT TOLERATE – POSSIBLE ROLE FOR KAMALA HARRIS – A WORD ABOUT CHANGES IN POLLING METHOD
JOHN CHUCKMAN COMMENT: MIKE POMPEO AS THE JUNKYARD DOG OF DIPLOMATS – APPOINTED BY THE WORST PRESIDENT IN AMERICAN HISTORY JUST TO PLEASE MEN WHO MAKE EXTRAORDINARILY LARGE ELECTION CAMPAIGN CONTRIBUTIONS – POMPEO AND TRUMP EMBODY AMERICA’S COMPLETE LACK OF RESPECT FOR THE RULE OF LAW IN INTERNATIONAL AFFAIRS – ILLEGAL SANCTIONS, BLOCKADES, ILLEGAL TARIFFS, DESTRUCTION OF TREATIES, THEFT, KILLING, AND CONSTANT THREATS
JOHN CHUCKMAN COMMENT: POPE FRANCIS AND HIS CHANGES ARE BRINGING THE CHURCH INTO THE 21ST CENTURY – SCIENCE KNOWS HOMOSEXUALITY IS A NATURALLY-OCCURRING TRAIT, NOT A SIN OR A CRIME – THE MEN WRITING THE OLD TESTAMENT KNEW NOTHING ABOUT SCIENCE OR MUCH ELSE – COMMENT ON THE TIRESOME DEROGATORY PHRASE, “VIRTUE SIGNALING,” AND ON THE GREAT PHILOSOPHER, DAVID HUME
JOHN CHUCKMAN COMMENT: A FEW ADDITIONAL NOTES ON TRUMP’S EVANGELICAL CHRISTIAN SUPPORT – ITS IRRATIONAL AND, YES, ITS IRRELIGIOUS NATURE
JOHN CHUCKMAN COMMENT: A WRITER SPECULATES THAT MEDIA SILENCE ON JULIAN ASSANGE HELPS TRUMP – I’M NOT SO SURE – OBAMA’S ROLE WAS CENTRAL TO THE PERSECUTION AND IMPRISONMENT AND EXILE OF ALL THE NOTABLE WHISTLE-BLOWERS AND OBAMA WAS BIDEN’S BOSS FOR EIGHT YEARS – SOME THOUGHTS ON OBAMA AND THE CIA – WAS HE THE SECOND CIA PRESIDENT? – GEORGE H W BUSH WAS CAREER CIA – THE FASCINATING PICTURE THAT HELPS PROVE IT – CIA’S LACK OF ACCOUNTABILITY AND ITS LIMITLESS FUNDING MAKE IT SO THAT IT NEVER LEARNS FROM ITS MANY FAILURES
JOHN CHUCKMAN COMMENT: CHINA IS MODERNIZING ITS ARMED FORCES – CHINA AND RUSSIA ARE INCREASINGLY IMPORTANT TO THE WORLD AS COUNTER-FORCES AGAINST AMERICA’S SHARP NEW AGGRESSIVENESS – DIFFICULT AND DANGEROUS TIMES AHEAD AS AMERICAN ELITES RESENT THEIR LOSS OF INFLUENCE, MEN WHO THINK THEY ARE ENTITLED TO DOMINATE DESPITE AMERICA’S INABILITY TO COMPETE – THE WAY XI AND PUTIN ADDRESS THE WORLD IS PERFECT, AND I HOPE IT DOES NOT CHANGE – BUT I BELIEVE THEY NEED TO QUIETLY PREPARE – THE APT ADVICE IS “WALK SOFTLY BUT CARRY A BIG STICK”
JOHN CHUCKMAN COMMENT: FRANCE’S PRESIDENT MACRON – AN ARROGANT AND INEFFECTIVE LEADER – HIS MANIPULATION OF A MURDER FOR POLITICAL GAIN – THE GAME PLAYED WITH THE WORD “TERROR” – FRANCE’S OWN GRIM HISTORY – FAILING TO CONDEMN CHARLIE HEBDO’S GUTTER-LITERATURE CARTOON IS NOT ABOUT BEING A FREE SOCIETY – INSULTING THE RELIGION OF MORE THAN A BILLION PEOPLE IS NOT ABOUT PEACE OR GOODWILL – FRANCE’S OWN ROLE AS A GENUINE TERRORST ASSISTING AMERICA IN ITS BLOODY, YEARS-LONG RAMPAGE THROUGH THE MIDDLE EAST – MACRON’S OTHER POORLY-CONSIDERED POLICIES – A PROPOSED BOYCOTT ON FRENCH EXPORTS WOULD BE A SUITABLE RESPONSE
JOHN CHUCKMAN COMMENT: AN EXCELLENT ARTICLE ON THE HARSH REALITIES OF AMERICA’S “NORMALIZATION” EFFORTS IN THE CASE OF SUDAN – ISRAEL’S SPECIAL STATUS FOR THE UNITED STATES AS AN IMPERIAL COLONY – BIBLICAL LORE ACTUALLY SERVES SOME GEOPOLITICAL ENDS – THE RELATIONSHIP OF MODERN ISRAEL TO THE LACK OF DEMOCRACY IN THE MIDDLE EAST – ISRAEL’S FRIENDS IN THE REGION ARE ABSOLUTE MONARCHS AND TYRANTS AND “NORMALIZATION” ONLY INCREASES THEIR NUMBER AND STRENGTHENS THE NEED TO PROTECT THEM
JOHN CHUCKMAN COMMENT: TRUMP HAS TAUGHT THE WORLD SOMETHING IMPORTANT ABOUT AMERICAN SOCIETY – CLOSE TO HALF OF AMERICAN ADULTS ENTHUSIASTICALLY SUPPORT A MAN UNMISTAKABLY STAINED WITH RACISM AND MISOGYNY – A MAN WHO DESPISES EXPERTS AND DISPLAYS ALMOST UNPARALLELED TOTAL SELF-INTEREST
JOHN CHUCKMAN COMMENT: AMERICA’S MILITARY AS THE GREATEST POLLUTER ON EARTH – A NEW BOOK REVEALS ABOUT ITS DUMPING GHASTLY POISONS INTO THE PACIFIC OCEAN FOR MANY YEARS – BUT THAT IS ONLY A PART OF THE GIGANTIC MILITARY POLLUTION MACHINERY – 800 TO 1,000 BASES ABROAD TO BE SUPPLIED TO NORTH AMERICAN STANDARDS – BURN PITS – USED AMMUNITION – CHEMICALS AND OLD MACHINERY – DEPLETED URANIUM DUST – AGENT ORANGE
JOHN CHUCKMAN COMMENT: THE DESTRUCTION OF FLIGHT MH 17 IN UKRAINE – RUSSIA HAS LEFT THE CONSULTING PANEL OWING TO NON-STOP BIAS AND LACK OF GENUINE COOPERATION – REVIEWING SOME OF THE BACKGROUND – AN INVESTIGATION THAT SHOULD HAVE REACHED RELIABLE CONCLUSIONS WITHIN A FEW MONTHS IS NOW INTO ITS 7TH YEAR – CRUCIAL EVIDENCE NEVER SOUGHT OR SUPPLIED
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
JOHN CHUCKMAN COMMENT: FEELING ALMOST SORRY FOR TRUMP – HE SEEMS TO BE LOSING THE ELECTION AND KNOWS IT – HE EVEN MAY HAVE RISKED HIS LIFE LEAVING THE HOSPITAL TO TRY TURNING THINGS AROUND – A RATHER SAD LONELY DESPERATE MAN WITH A RECORD OF NO ACHIEVEMENT – LIKELY THERE WILL BE NO SECOND DEBATE OWING TO A CHANGE IN BIDEN’S VIEW – LOW EXPECTATIONS IN MATTERS AT HOME AND ABROAD FOR BIDEN AS PRESIDENT – SOMETHING TO FEEL SORRY ABOUT, PROFOUNDLY SORRY, TOO IN THE NATURE OF AMERICA’S ELECTIONS – A CHANGE IN THE CAST OF CHARACTERS AND THE SAME PLAY JUST CARRIES ON
JOHN CHUCKMAN COMMENT: COVID ENTERS THE ELECTION – CHANGES THAT IT BRINGS – NOTES ON TRUMP’S COMPLETE LACK OF EMPATHY FOR OTHERS – A WORD ON A SHABBY, EMBARRASSING DEBATE – MUSSOLINI DOES A STAGY EVENING RETURN-HOME SCENE FROM THE WHITE HOUSE BALCONY – THE MOST TROUBLING THING ABOUT TRUMP’S TIME IN OFFICE
JOHN CHUCKMAN COMMENT: TRUMP’S GOLD-PLATED MEDICAL TREATMENT – HELICOPTERED TO WALTER REED HOSPITAL FOR MILLIONS OF DOLLARS IN CARE WHILE MILLIONS OF OTHER AMERICANS RECEIVE NO HEALTHCARE AT ALL – AND TRUMP IS STILL OUT TO KILL OBAMACARE WHICH HIS SUPREME COURT NOMINEE THINKS IS UNCONSTITUTIONAL
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
JOHN CHUCKMAN COMMENT: THE ENCOURAGING AMERICAN POLITICAL PHENOMENON OF “THE SQUAD,” FOUR REMARKABLY BRAVE AND OUTSPOKEN WOMEN NEW TO POLITICS – THEY PROVIDE SMALL RAYS OF HOPE IN AMERICA’S TRULY BLEAK POLITICAL LANDSCAPE – SURE, THEY MAKE MISTAKES, BUT CAN YOU IMAGINE ANY GREATER BLUNDERS THAN WHAT WE JUST WITNESSED IN A PRESIDENTIAL DEBATE? ONE CAN ONLY HOPE A BIT FOR THE FUTURE HERE, REMEMBERING THEY ARE NEW AND FEW AND THEY WILL EXPERIENCE THE FULL FORCE OF MONEY-DRIVEN POLITICS UNLEASHED AGAINST THEM
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
JOHN CHUCKMAN COMMENT: SHOULD BIDEN DEBATE TRUMP? – TRUMP IS NOT A PARTICULARLY SKILLFUL DEBATER BUT HE IS A MATCHLESS LIAR AND FANTASIST – OPPOSING HIM IS LIKE TRYING TO NAIL DOWN A BLOB OF JELL-O – TRUMP IS LIMITED BY NO FACTS, ETHICS, OR DECENCY – THE REMARKABLE THING IS THAT CLOSE TO HALF OF AMERICA’S ADULT POPULATION BELIEVES HIM, AND WITH CONVICTION
JOHN CHUCKMAN COMMENT: EFFORTS IN MANY ONLINE PUBLICATIONS TRY EXCUSING THE KENOSHA COP WHO SHOT JACOB BLAKE IN THE BACK MULTIPLE TIMES AND IN FRONT OF HIS OWN CHILD – THE CONFUSED VIOLENT PLACE AMERICA HAS BECOME
JOHN CHUCKMAN COMMENT: A MUSICOLOGIST WRITES OF BEETHOVEN’S “SCOWL” PORTRAITS INFLUENCING HOW WE HEAR HIS MUSIC – I DON’T AGREE – MY RESPONSE CONCERNING ONE OF MY FAVORITE COMPOSERS – THE DARKNESS IN HIS LIFE IS NOT FOUND IN HIS MUSIC, ONLY HIS HEROIC RESPONSE TO IT – MOZART’S LYRICISM AND BITTERSWEETNESS
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
JOHN CHUCKMAN COMMENT: THE ROLE OF DANGEROUS IDEOLOGIES AND SOCIETY’S WILLINGNESS TO EMBRACE THEM – THIS IS NOT LIMITED TO PEOPLE OF LOW INTELLIGENCE AND IT MUCH RESEMBLES OUR INCLINATION TO SUPERSTITITION AND PREJUDICE – OUR ABILITY TO DESTROY THROUGH RAPIDLY CHANGING MILITARY TECHNOLOGY IS STARTING TO OUTSTRIP SOCIETY’S ABILITY TO COPE – THE EMERGENCE OF A MULTI-POLAR WORLD, BUT WE MAY NOT SURVIVE TO ENJOY IT – AMERICA’S CONTEMPT FOR INTERNATIONAL ORGANIZATIONS AND RULE OF LAW AND ITS CONTEMPT FOR OTHER COUNTRIES’ ARRANGEMENTS OF THEIR OWN AFFAIRS – THE CURRENT GENERATION OF LEADERS IN AMERICA, AND NOT JUST TRUMP, IS EXTREMELY DANGEROUS
JOHN CHUCKMAN COMMENT: THE NORMALIZATION OF TYRANNY IN THE MIDDLE EAST – A DEAL SEALED WITH A DELIBERATELY-CONSTRUCTED ARMS RACE – AND AMERICA IS SET TO RECEIVE ALL THE SALES ORDERS – NEVER MIND THE REGION’S WARS, POVERTY, INJUSTICE, TYRANNY, AND DIVISIONS – THAT IS AMERICA’S IDEA OF POLICY IN A CRUCIAL REGION OF ITS FOREIGN AFFAIRS
JOHN CHUCKMAN COMMENT: STEPHEN COHEN, A GREAT AMERICAN SCHOLAR AND AUTHORITY ON RUSSIA, HAS DIED – A WRITER REMINDS US OF HIS WARNINGS IN RECENT YEARS ABOUT A NEW COLD WAR MORE DANGEROUS THAN THE OLD ONE – INDEED, AND HERE IS A LIST OF SOME OF THE AMERICAN ACTIVITIES MAKING IT SO – ANOTHER GENTLEMAN AND SCHOLAR, RUSSIA’S IMPRESSIVE FOREIGN MINISTER, SERGEY LAVROV, REVEALS A SECRET OFFER TO RUSSIA IN THE TIME OF OBAMA CONCERNING CRIMEA THAT MAKES A BAD JOKE OF ALL AMERICA’S HYSTERICAL CLAIMS ABOUT RUSSIAN AGGRESSION IN UKRAINE
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
JOHN CHUCKMAN COMMENT: TRUMP ACTUALLY BRAGS IN A CAMPAIGN SPEECH ABOUT THE REAL REASON AMERICA IS IN THE MIDDLE EAST, AND IT IS NOT FOR THE OIL – HIS IMPORTANT ADMISSION GOES LARGELY UNNOTED IN THE CORPORATE PRESS BECAUSE IT RAISES THE SENSITIVE MATTER OF THE IMMENSE AMOUNT IN LIVES AND TREASURE AMERICA HAS SPENT FOR ISRAEL’S BENEFIT – THE SITUATION IN SYRIA – THE NEOCON WARS IN THE MIDDLE EAST AS A YEARS-LONG 1960s-STYLE SLUM CLEARANCE PROJECT – THE WARS RAISE QUESTIONS ABOUT 9/11 THAT WILL NEVER BE ANSWERED
JOHN CHUCKMAN COMMENT: THE 19TH ANNIVERSARY OF 9/11 – A GIGANTIC EVENT NEVER EXPLAINED – SOME KEY FACTS ABOUT THE TWIN TOWERS – OUR MANUFACTURED REALITY, MANUFACTURED IN THE INTERESTS OF CORRUPT AND POWERFUL PEOPLE – PRELUDE TO THE NEOCON WARS – A SUPERB QUOTE ON OUR SITUATION ATTRIBUTED TO FORMER CIA DIRECTOR WILLIAM CASEY – MANUFACTURED REALITY
JOHN CHUCKMAN COMMENT: ON THE DEATH OF ACTRESS DIANA RIGG
JOHN CHUCKMAN COMMENT: AMERICA SHOULD PREPARE FOR A BIG DISAPPOINTMENT WITH THIS ELECTION, NO MATTER WHO WINS – A BIT ON THE CANDIDATES’ POLITICAL RECORDS – A WORD ON KAMALA HARRIS – TRUMP BACK TO TALKING AGAINST WARS AND THE MILITARY BUT IT MEANS NOTHING BEYOND A PITCH FOR VOTES – HIS ACTIONS OVER FOUR YEARS HAVE IN FACT SET THINGS UP FOR BIG NEW WARS – BIDEN HAS NEVER OPPOSED WARS OF ANY DESCRIPTION, EVEN THOUGH HE, LIKE TRUMP, WAS NEVER IN THE MILITARY – BIDEN HAS MADE TERRIBLE STATEMENTS AFFECTING MILLIONS IN VENEZUELA AND PALESTINE AND IRAN – DEMOCRATIC PARTY TALK ABOUT A NEW PROGRESSIVE AGENDA IS JUST EMPTY ELECTION TALK USING POOR OLD BERNIE SANDERS AS A CHEERLEADER – BIDEN IS A “GOVERNMENT SERVICE “LIFER,” SHARING THE MEDAL OF FREEDOM WITH THE GHASTLY LIKES OF MADELEINE ALBRIGHT AND HENRY KISSINGER
JOHN CHUCKMAN COMMENT: THE NAVALNY AFFAIR MEETS AMERICA’S CORRUPT AND DISHONEST CORPORATE PRESS – A SUPPOSED NATIONAL SECURITY ANALYST WRITES ABOUT TRUMP AND PUTIN AND THEIR THREAT TO NATIONAL SECURITY – THE AUTHOR’S WORDS ARE A SICKENING REGURGITATION OF COLD WAR RHETORIC – THE NEEDS ACTUALLY SERVED IN THE DEMOCRATIC PARTY AND IN THE FBI BY CONTINUING THE UGLY AND PREJUDICED GAME OF RUSSOPHOBIA – AMERICA IS FLIRTING WITH DISASTER WITH ITS B-52s NOW IN UKRAINE IMITATING BOMBING RUNS TOWARDS RUSSIA WHILE ITS PRESS RUNS INFLAMATORY TRASH ABOUT THE COUNTRY – A LUNATIC PLACE WHERE YOU CAN’T REJECT TRUMP’S MUSSOLINI IMITATION WITHOUT BUYING INTO DANGEROUS CLAIMS ABOUT RUSSIA FROM SELF-SERVING BUREAUCRACIES LIKE THE FBI AND THE DEMOCRATIC PARTY
JOHN CHUCKMAN COMMENT: THE CONTROVERSY OVER TRUMP’S REPORTED SAVAGE WORDS ABOUT DEAD SOLDIERS IS ACTUALLY A SIGN OF THE DEEP DIVISIONS IN AMERICAN SOCIETY – DIVISIONS WHICH INCLUDE WILDLY UNLIKELY AND DANGEROUS BELIEFS ALMOST RESEMBLING THOSE OF CULTS – THERE CAN BE NO SERIOUS DOUBT ABOUT THE TRUTH OF THE REPORTED STORY – HERE IS A LIST OF REASONS SUPPORTING THE ARTICLE
JOHN CHUCKMAN COMMENT: WHERE DOES ANYONE SEE DEMOCRACY IN AMERICA? – GIVING PEOPLE A CHOICE BETWEEN TWO POOR CANDIDATES NEITHER OF WHOM OPPOSES ANY OF THE FUNDAMENTAL STRUCTURAL PROBLEMS AFFLICTING THE COUNTRY IS ANYTHING BUT DEMOCRACY – TRUMP’S EMERGING LUKEWARM FASCISM – EVEN IF TRUMP IS NOT RE-ELECTED, HIS PEOPLE AREN’T GOING ANYWHERE, AND THE COUNTRY FACES HUGE ADJUSTMENTS AHEAD, ADJUSTMENTS IT IS NOT PREPARED TO MAKE – NANCY PELOSI’S SECRET HAIR-SETTING STUNT SAYS ALL THERE IS TO SAY ABOUT THE COUNTRY’S LACK OF LEADERSHIP
JOHN CHUCKMAN COMMENT: A STORY OF THE LENGTHS TO WHICH AMERICA’S ESTABLISHMENT – HERE THE FBI AND THE NEW YORK TIMES – WILL GO TO ATTACK A SMALL INTERNET SITE FOR THE POLITICAL NATURE OF ITS CONTENT RATHER THAN ANY QUESTION OF ITS ACCURACY – THE NEVER-ENDING SAGA OF AMERICAN RUSSO-PHOBIA – DECLINING EMPIRES ARE DANGEROUS BEASTS
JOHN CHUCKMAN COMMENT: THE NAVALNY AFFAIR – BELARUS CLAIMS IT INTERCEPTED A CONVERSATION BETWEEN BERLIN AND WARSAW WHICH SHOWS THE AFFAIR WAS FABRICATED – TRANSCRIPTS AND VOICE RECORDINGS ARE TO BE RELEASED
JOHN CHUCKMAN COMMENT: MORE ON THE NAVALNY “POISONING” IN RUSSIA – GERMAN AUTHORITIES NOW CLAIM THE POISON USED WAS NOVICHOK (MILITARY NERVE AGENT) WHICH ALSO PLAYED THE ROLE OF VILLAIN IN BRITAIN’S THEATRICAL SKRIPAL AFFAIR A COUPLE OF YEARS AGO – WHY THIS IS IMPOSSIBLE – BUT WHAT AN EXCELLENT MEASURE OF THE DESPERATELY DISHONEST LEVEL AT WHICH AMERICA CONDUCTS INTERNATIONAL AFFAIRS, INSISTING THAT ITS ALLIES DO THE SAME – WHAT I THINK HAS ACTUALLY HAPPENED HERE
JOHN CHUCKMAN COMMENT: FORMER RUSSIAN PRESIDENT MEDVEDEV TELLS AN INTERESTING ANECDOTE ABOUT HOW SHOCKED HE WAS BY THE SEVERE REACTION OF AMERICA’S CONDOLEEZZA RICE TO A PRIVATE QUESTIONING OF THE ELECTORAL COLLEGE’S ROLE IN AMERICA’S ELECTION SYSTEM – CONDOLEEZZA RICE’S RATHER UNPLEASANT CHARACTER – HER INFAMOUS REMARK ABOUT THE SCREAMS IN THE MIDDLE EAST AS AMERICAN BOMBS STARTED FALLING IN THE NEOCON WARS
JOHN CHUCKMAN COMMENT: CHARLIE HEBDO MAGAZINE IN PARIS REPRINTS ITS INSULTING ANTI-MUSLIM CARTOON – IT’S OKAY TO INSULT AND OFFEND MUSLIMS – TAKING PRIDE IN UGLY HATRED AND PRETENDING YOU SERVE PRINCIPLES OF FREE SPEECH
JOHN CHUCKMAN COMMENT: THE FRIGHTENING POLICE MURDER OF BREONNA JACKSON AND THE CURRENT STATE OF AMERICAN SOCIETY
JOHN CHUCKMAN COMMENT: AMERICA’S MILITARY STATE – WE SEE IN THE ELECTION CHOICES OFFERED TO VOTERS JUST HOW UNIMPORTANT THOSE ELECTIONS ACTUALLY ARE – KENNEDY’S ASSASSINATION WAS A WATERSHED AMERICAN HISTORICAL EVENT – HE WAS THE LAST PRESIDENT TO ASSERT THE AUTHORITY OF ELECTED OFFICE OVER THE PENTAGON AND CIA, KEY COMPONENTS OF THE TRUE DEEP STATE THAT TRUMP NEVER DARES TO TOUCH WHILE HE BLUBBERS ON ABOUT THE SWAMP AND OTHER NONSENSE
JOHN CHUCKMAN COMMENT: THE HOLOCAUST WAS A EUROPEAN EVENT YET PEOPLE IN ANOTHER CONTINENT AND HAVING NOTHING TO DO WITH IT HAVE PAID THE GREATEST PRICE FOR GERMANY’S CRIMES – TERROR AND OPPRESSION FOR OVER SEVENTY YEARS – THE WEST HIDES ITS EYES AND IGNORES ALL OF ITS PRINCIPLES ABOUT HUMAN AND DEMOCRATIC RIGHTS – THE SIX DAY WAR AND GENERAL DAYAN’S HELLISH ADVICE – TRYING TO BLOT OUT THE PAST OF A PEOPLE – ALBERT EINSTEIN’S WISE ADVICE TO EUROPEAN JEWS WHO WANTED TO SETTLE IN PALESTINE WAS IGNORED BY THOSE EAGER TO TRY RE-CREATING ANCIENT ISRAEL WITH NEW PEOPLE – AN EFFORT SUPPORTED BY AMERICA BOTH AS PART OF ITS GLOBAL EMPIRE AND AS A WAY TO AVOID HUGE NUMBERS OF JEWISH REFUGEES ITSELF – THE BLOODY NEOCON WARS UNDERTAKEN BY WASHINGTON ON ISRAEL’S BEHALF – THE SURPRISING IDENTITY OF THE PALESTINIANS – GAZA AS ONE OF THE GREATEST SHAMES OF THE ADVANCED WORLD – HAD EINSTEIN’S WORDS BEEN FOLLOWED
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)
JOHN CHUCKMAN COMMENT: AN AUTHOR’S CONCERN OVER POSSIBLE FUTURE MILITARY ARTIFICIAL INTELLIGENCE MACHINES SEEMS MISPLACED – HOW ABOUT CONCERN WITH ACHIEVABLE MATTERS LIKE AMERICA’S TERRIBLE MILITARY MACHINE TODAY? – OR AMERICA’S APPROACH TO NUCLEAR WEAPONS? – OR AMERICA’S APPROACH TO NUCLEAR TREATIES AND AGREEMENTS? – THE EFFORT TO DOMINATE THE GLOBE? – WE HAVE FAR MORE REAL AND IMMINENT THREATS THAN POSSIBLE FUTURE MACHINES AND, BESIDES, NO POWERFUL EMERGING TECHNOLOGY CAN BE STOPPED WHEN IT IS READY – THE USE OF THE DATED AND INAPPROPRIATE TERM “AMERICAN GI’S”
JOHN CHUCKMAN COMMENT: THE ALEXEI NAVALNY AFFAIR – NONE OF THE FACTS THAT WE HAVE SO FAR SUPPORT ASSERTIONS OF POISONING – THIS IS BEGINNING TO RESEMBLE BRITISH PRIME MINISTER THERESA MAY’S DISGRACEFUL PERFORMANCE IN THE SERGEI SKRIPAL AFFAIR OF 2018 – DARK SUGGESTIONS AND NAME-CALLING WITH NO PROOF – HYSTERIA AND NO INFORMATION – ANYTHING IS GOOD ENOUGH TO SMEAR SOMEONE THE UNITED STATES DOES NOT LIKE, AND IT REALLY HATES RUSSIA ABOUT THE SAME WAY ROME HATED CARTHAGE – THERE CAN NEVER BE ENOUGH RUSSO-PHOBIA – THE SUSPICIOUS-SOUNDING OUTFIT THAT WENT TO THE HUGE COST OF BRINGING NAVALNY TO GERMANY FROM SIBERIA BY AIR AMBULANCE
JOHN CHUCKMAN COMMENT: THE REPUBLICAN CONVENTION AND THE ROLE OF HUMAN CREDULITY IN POLITICS – I SOLVE THE PROBLEM OF EXPLAINING WHY AMERICAN EVANGELICAL RELIGIOUS PEOPLE SUPPORT A TOTALLY IRRELIGIOUS AND IMMORAL MAN LIKE DONALD TRUMP – A FEW MORE WORDS ON TRUMP’S CHARACTER – IRRATIONALITY’S ROLE IN SOCIETY AND POLITICS – NOTE ON INTELLIGENCE AND POLITICAL LEANING
JOHN CHUCKMAN COMMENT: A GOOD ARTICLE ON AMERICA’S TOXIC POLITICAL ELECTION CHOICE – THE FUNDAMENTAL PROBLEM OF AMERICA’S EXTREME DIVISIONS TODAY – NOT EVEN THE COMMON ENEMY OF A PANDEMIC BRINGS AMERICANS TO RALLY AND WORK TOGETHER – AN UNSTABLE SITUATION PERHAPS PRESAGING MORE DESTRUCTIVE EVENTS
JOHN CHUCKMAN COMMENT: AN ABLE CRITIQUE OF A ZIONIST IDEOLOGUE’S NASTY ATTACK ON THE LATE EDWARD SAID – A FINE AND GENTLE AND LEARNED MAN TREATED AS A TERRORIST BY A WRITER WHO SHOULD BE ASHAMED – IDEOLOGUES ARE PRONE TO DANGEROUS FANTASIES AND ARE THEREFORE DANGEROUS PEOPLE
JOHN CHUCKMAN COMMENT: MORE AMERICAN DISINFORMATION ABOUT TALIBAN SOLDIERS BEING PAID TO KILL AMERICANS – THIS TIME SUPPOSEDLY PAID BY IRAN INSTEAD OF RUSSIA – WHY NOT THROW IN CHINA TOO? – WHY THE TALIBAN NEED NO BOUNTIES TO SHOOT AMERICANS – DETAILS OF AMERICA’S BRUTAL, POINTLESS CAMPAIGN IN AFGHANISTAN – ONE ACHIEVING ONLY DEAD CIVILIANS AND A TIDAL WAVE OF HARD DRUGS ON WORLD MARKETS PLUS ANOTHER GLORIOUS AMERICAN DEFEAT – IMPORTANT AND STILL-IGNORED FACTS ABOUT OSAMA BIN LADEN AND 9/11
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
JOHN CHUCKMAN COMMENT: TRUMP ENGAGES IN VOTER SUPPRESSION AND FLIRTS WITH RACISM AS ELECTION WEAPONS – HIS EFFORTS TO DAMAGE MAIL-IN VOTING – HE SAYS HE FEARS FRAUD BUT WHAT HE REALLY FEARS IS AN INCREASED EFFECTIVE TURN-OUT RATE FOR DEMOCRATIC VOTERS, ESPECIALLY THOSE IN POORER COMMUNITIES – WHY HE IS AMERICA’S “ALT-RIGHT” PRESIDENT – A RECENT ARTICLE I READ SAID WITCH HUNTS STILL EXIST IN SOME POOR PARTS OF THE WORLD WHERE PEOPLE BELIEVED TO BE WITCHES LITERALLY ARE HUNTED DOWN – BUT HARSH IRRATIONALITY IS NOT LIMITED TO SUCH PLACES, IT IS FOUND IN PARTS OF AMERICA, INCLUDING THE OVAL OFFICE
JOHN CHUCKMAN COMMENT: BIDEN’S CHOICE OF KAMALA HARRIS – WHAT IT MEANS – HER STRENGTHS – TRANSITION TO A NEW GENERATION OF POLITICIANS – OVERALL PROSPECTS FOR THE COUNTRY – I DO THINK TRUMP’S TIME ON STAGE AS STAR OF A LUNATIC PASSION PLAY WILL END, BUT HE HOLDS A VERY POWERFUL OFFICE AND HE COULD START A WAR TO RALLY AMERICANS AND THERE ARE POWERFUL ANTI-CHINA AND ANTI-IRAN INTERESTS WHO WOULD SUPPORT HIM
JOHN CHUCKMAN COMMENT: AMERICA’S LACK OF RESPECT FOR LAW – WE HAVE NO INTERNATIONAL ORGANIZATIONS CAPABLE OF DEFENDING OR ENFORCING INTERNATIONAL LAW – AMERICA’S LONG HISTORY AS A SCOFFLAW AT HOME AND ABROAD – FINE WORDS OF FOUNDING DOCUMENTS NEVER TREATED AS UNIVERSAL PRINCIPLES – ATTACKING INTERNATIONAL ORGANIZATIONS AND TREATIES – EUROPE’S INEFFECTUAL CHARACTER AFTER 75 YEARS OF OCCUPATION – CHINA RUSSIA AND IRAN MUST WORK TOGETHER UNDER THE ASSUMPTION OF THE UNITED STATES BEING UNFRIENDLY TO THEIR VITAL INTERESTS
JOHN CHUCKMAN COMMENT: THOUGHTS ON THE CATASTROPHE AT THE PORT OF BEIRUT LEBANON – IN FACT THERE WERE TWO BIG EXPLOSIONS – WHAT WE KNOW – UNEXPLAINED MATTERS – ISRAEL CLEARLY GAINS FROM THIS – SOME NOTES ON THE NATURE OF HEZBOLLAH, WHICH RESIDES IN LEBANON AND IS ALWAYS MALIGNED BY ISRAEL
JOHN CHUCKMAN COMMENT: MICHELLE OBAMA SPEAKS OF HER “LOW-GRADE DEPRESSION” – TRIGGERED BY TRUMPS’S HYPOCRISY AND RACIAL STRIFE – THOSE ARE INDEED DEPRESSING MATTERS – BUT WITH GLOWING IMAGES OF HER WITH HER HUSBAND, AS IF TO PRESENT A CONTRAST WITH TRUMP, SHE OVERLOOKS OTHER VERY TROUBLING MATTERS – SHE IS A SYMPATHETIC AND WELL- INTENTIONED WOMAN BUT NOT A WELL-INFORMED ONE – SOME FACTS ABOUT HER HUSBAND BARACK OBAMA’S KILLING AND LYING – TRUTH IS THAT AMERICA’S POLITICAL ESTABLISHMENT IS NO LONGER CAPABLE OF DOING ALMOST ANY GOOD IN THE WORLD – ITS DRIVES AND INTERESTS ARE ABOUT AS FAR REMOVED FROM DOING GOOD AS YOU CAN GO
JOHN CHUCKMAN COMMENT: SEVENTY-FIFTH ANNIVERSARY OF AMERICA’S UNFORGIVABLE ATOMIC BOMBING OF JAPAN – THE COUNTRY WAS READY TO SURRENDER BUT THEY WERE BOMBED ANYWAY – AMERICA WANTED TO DEMONSTRATE ITS POWER AND RUTHLESSNESS AS IT ENTERED ITS GOLDEN AGE OF “THE AMERICAN DREAM” – NOTE ON TRUMAN’S COLD-BLOODEDNESS, MUCH RESEMBLING THAT OF OBAMA – AND TODAY WE HAVE RECKLESS, MALICIOUS RHETORIC BEING HURLED TOWARDS ANOTHER “YELLOW PEOPLE,” THE PEOPLE OF CHINA
JOHN CHUCKMAN COMMENT: THE GREAT HYPOCRISY AND CYNICISM OF WESTERN COUNTRIES NOT ALLOWING ISIS (AKA DAESH) RECRUITS TO RETURN HOME – WITHOUT A DOUBT ISIS SERVED AMERICAN PURPOSES – AND IN THE PAST MANY SOLDIERS OF FORTUNE SERVED ABROAD IN SOME PRETTY QUESTIONABLE CONFLICTS AND WERE ALLOWED TO RETURN HOME – THE NATURE OF ISIS AND AMERICAN HYBRID WAR IN THE MIDDLE EAST
JOHN CHUCKMAN COMMENT: THE LACK OF “CRITICAL EDUCATION” IN AMERICA ASSISTS THE CARRYING ON OF EMPIRE’S UGLY EXCESSES – THE SECULAR RELIGION OF PATRIOTISM BLINDS PEOPLE – VESTED INTERESTS DO NOT WANT A BETTER COUNTRY, THEY WANT THE ONE THEY HAVE WHICH GRANTS THEM ALL THEIR PRIVILEGES – AMERICA’S BRUTAL POLICIES ABROAD ARE EVERY BIT AS HORRIFYING AS ARE ITS POLICE AT HOME BUT ON A FAR VASTER SCALE AND ALMOST NO ONE QUESTIONS THEM – BLIND RESPECT FOR AUTHORITY YIELDS THE CENTURIES OF ABUSE WE SAW BY THE CLERGY OF THE CATHOLIC CHURCH
JOHN CHUCKMAN COMMENT: TECHNOLOGY AS SOMETHING OF AN EQUALIZER IN MILITARY CAPABILITIES – THE EXAMPLE OF IRAN AND SOME OF ITS REMARKABLE ACHIEVEMENTS – ITS IMPORTANT MOTIVATIONS AND WORK UNDER DESPERATE PRESSURE FROM AMERICA – LITTLE DAVID’S SLINGSHOT BRINGING DOWN GOLIATH
JOHN CHUCKMAN COMMENT: ONE OF THE MOST POWERFUL ARTICLES I’VE EVER READ PROVIDES A DIRGE FOR THE SORROWFUL STATE OF AMERICA
JOHN CHUCKMAN COMMENT: AMERICA AND CHINA – ONLY ONE SOURCE FOR THE CONFLICT – NATIONS ONCE REGARDED AS MENACING NOW WELCOME COOPERATION – AMERICA AND EUROPE – AMERICA AND LATIN AMERICA – AMERICA IN DENIAL OF MANY UNPLEASANT FACTS – PROGRESS DOES NOT COME FROM BEING ARMED TO THE TEETH – HUMANITY’S ENGINE FOR PROGRESS – THE ROLE OF CRUSADER PRINCE IS BEING WRITTEN OUT OF THE PLAY WITH A NEW CAST OF CHARACTERS
JOHN CHUCKMAN COMMENT: “AMERICA’S EVANGELICAL ENFORCER,” MIKE POMPEO – AMERICAN FOREIGN POLICY LITERALLY FOR SALE – THE COMMON ROOT FOR ALL OF AMERICA’S MANY MAJOR PROBLEMS IS THE REALITY OF A PLUTOCRACY WITH DEMOCRACY-THEMED WINDOW DRESSING
JOHN CHUCKMAN COMMENT: A JEWISH COMEDIAN SPEAKS SOME OF THE PLAINEST TRUTHS ABOUT ISRAEL EVER HEARD IN AMERICA – WHERE POWER IS CONCERNED, TRUTH IS RARE
JOHN CHUCKMAN COMMENT: THE SELFISH ATTITUDES OF THOSE WHO OPPOSE MASKS AND SOCIAL-DISTANCING MEASURES – ATTITUDES THAT SEEM CONCENTRATED IN THE RIGHT-WING – HOW CAN YOU SENSIBLY ARGUE AGAINST MEASURES DESIGNED TO PROTECT EVERYONE? – SOCIETIES ALWAYS ASK SACRIFICE IN TIMES OF CRISIS – WHAT IS REVEALED IS A CLEAR LACK OF HUMAN EMPATHY – USING THE VIETNAM WALL AS A MEASURING STANDARD FOR THE SIZE OF A CRISIS SOME STILL CALL A “HOAX” – IT HAS KILLED ABOUT ELEVEN TIMES THE NUMBER OF PEOPLE WHOSE NAMES ARE ENGRAVED ON WASHINGTON’S VIETNAM MEMORIAL, AND IT HAS DONE SO IN FAR LESS THAN A TENTH OF THE TIME
JOHN CHUCKMAN COMMENT: DON’T EXPECT MUCH FROM BIDEN – HE HAS A TRACK RECORD AND IT ISN’T ENCOURAGING – A CLEVER WAG RECENTLY WROTE THAT THE ELECTION AMOUNTS TO A CHOICE BETWEEN EATING A FULL BOWL OF SHIT (TRUMP) OR EATING A HALF BOWL OF SHIT (BIDEN) – AMERICA HAS A GIGANTIC NATIONAL INDUSTRY IN DEATH AND DESTRUCTION AND NEITHER CANDIDATE WILL DISTURB IT
JOHN CHUCKMAN COMMENT: HARRY AND MEGHAN AND BEING ROYAL – EMPTY NOTIONS ABOUT BECOMING “FREE” OR “ORDINARY” REMIND ME OF THE PHRASE “FINDING YOURSELF” REPEATED WIDELY IN THE EARLY 1960s – THE TRUTH OF THE CONTROVERSY AROUND THE COUPLE IS IN FACT CLEAR FROM MANY ANECDOTES AND WITNESSES – BUT STILL MANY PEOPLE AND POPULAR NEWS SOURCES GET IT WRONG – HUMANS ARE SUBJECT TO WILLFUL MISINTERPRETATION, ESPECIALLY WHERE EMOTIONS AND FANTASIES ARE ENGAGED – IS IT ANY WONDER THEN THAT FAR MORE CONSEQUENTIAL MATTERS , ONES GUARDED BY EXTENSIVE SECRECY AND EFFORTS AT MANIPULATION, AS IN WORLD AFFAIRS, ARE NOT UNDERSTOOD BY A GREAT MANY? – A WORD ON PRINCESS DIANA AND THE REAL CAUSE OF HER DEATH
JOHN CHUCKMAN COMMENT: THE DESTRUCTIVE URGE OF AMERICA’S POWER ESTABLISHMENT TO CONTROL EVENTS ELSEWHERE – IT SIMPLY DOES NOT BENEFIT THE AMERICAN PEOPLE OR ANY OTHER PEOPLE – CHINA HAS THE CORRECT LONG-TERM STRATEGY – INVESTING AND BUILDING FOR THE FUTURE, BUILDING JOBS, BUILDING RELATIONS, AND BUILDING FOUNDATIONS FOR INCREASED FUTURE PRODUCTIVITY – AMERICA MAKES NO SERIOUS EFFORT TO IMPROVE ITS COMPETITIVENESS – ITS ESTABLISHMENT REGARDS ITSELF AS INDISPENSABLE AND DEMANDS THAT OTHERS SEE IT THAT WAY – SOME ABSURDITIES OF AMERICA’S MILITARY AND EMPIRE – HOT PIZZA HELICOPTERED TO TROOPS – STEAK DINNERS FOR THOUSANDS ON DISTANT HIGH SEAS – AMERICA CANNOT WIN A CONVENTIONAL WAR AGAINST CHINA
JOHN CHUCKMAN COMMENT: A PERFECT STORM BREWING IN AMERICA? A MISMANAGED PANDEMIC – ECONOMIC AND FINANCIAL TURMOIL – GREAT UNREST OVER SOCIAL INJUSTICE AND SEVERE ECONOMIC INEQUALITY – INCOMPETENT AND UNCARING GOVERNMENT – BUSY WITH THE BUSINESS OF HURTING AND DESTROYING OTHERS RATHER THAN FIXING ANYTHING – SOME THOUGHTS ON THE CORONAVIRUS AND THE FUTURE OF OUR SOCIETY – COMPARING ASIA TO THE WEST
JOHN CHUCKMAN COMMENT: AMERICA AND WORLD DOMINATION – JOHN BOLTON AND OTHER AMERICAN “CREATURES OF THE NIGHT” – THE RECORD OF AMERICA’S PAST WITH FASCISM – A FEW NOTABLE EXAMPLES FROM THE 1930s – THE AMERICAN BUND AND AMERICAN EUGENICS LAWS – IBM AND OTHER CORPORATIONS COZY WITH THE NAZIS – PRESCOTT BUSH AND FRED TRUMP – LYNCHINGS AND ELEANOR AND FRANKLIN ROOSEVELT – “GOING FASCIST VOLUNTARILY” – THE HYBRID WAR AGAINST CHINA IS BECOMING FANATICAL AND HAS THE STINK OF PREJUDICE AND HATRED
JOHN CHUCKMAN COMMENT: ARREST OF GHISLAINE MAXWELL – UNLIKELY THAT THE GREAT MYSTERY OF EPSTEIN’S OPERATION WILL EVER BE CLEARED UP – IT INVOLVES TOO MANY POWERFUL AND FAMOUS PEOPLE – AND IT ALMOST CERTAINLY INVOLVED AN INTELLIGENCE AGENCY – GHISLAINE LIKELY TO TRADE THE TAPES SHE HAS IN A PLEA BARGAIN – THAT WILL BE THE END OF IT BECAUSE EPSTEIN’S COPIES WILL CERTAINLY HAVE BEEN SEIZED AND DESTROYED AFTER HIS ARREST AND KILLING – IN RESPONSE TO ANOTHER COMMENT, SOME IMPORTANT WORDS ON ANOTHER GREAT MYSTERY, THE KENNEDY ASSASSINATION
JOHN CHUCKMAN COMMENT: TRUMP WANTS EXTRADITION OF EX-BRITISH SPY CHRISTOPHER STEELE – THE PROBLEM WITH AMERICA IS MUCH BIGGER THAN TRUMP’S MANY STUPIDITIES – THE SAME KINDS OF THINGS ARE DONE BY THE DEMOCRATS AND BY THE SECURITY AGENCIES AND BY THE MAJOR NEWS SERVICES – DONE JUST WITH LESS NOISY BELLOWING AND CRUDITY – THE ENTIRE AMERICAN POWER ESTABLISHMENT IS CORRUPT – THE PHONY RUSSIANS-AND-TALIBAN STORY, A STORY THAT IGNORES EVEN HOW INTELLIGENCE AGENTS WORK – THERESA MAY’S SALISBURY FAIRY TALE, THE SKRIPAL AFFAIR, A CONTRIVED FANTASY BY A DISHONEST AND SERVILE BRITISH PM TRYING TO PLEASE WASHINGTON – SOME EXCELLENT SKRIPAL LINKS
JOHN CHUCKMAN COMMENT: WE ARE FAMILIAR WITH THE TRAITS DESCRIBED IN MARY TRUMP’S BOOK ABOUT HER UNCLE, THE PRESIDENT – WE SEE AND HEAR THEM ACTED OUT DAILY BY THIS STRANGE MAN – WHAT DO THEY MEAN WHEN YOU ADD THEM UP?
JOHN CHUCKMAN COMMENT: WE DON’T HAVE TO WAIT FOR HISTORY’S VERDICT ON TRUMP – HISTORY CANNOT ADD A LOT – WE HAVE SEEN AND HEARD HIM IN THE RAW – HE ISN’T COMPLEX – HE IS OBVIOUS AND BRUTAL AND HE HAS FAILED AT NEARLY EVERYTHING HE HAS TRIED – HIS FOCUS THROUGH IT ALL HAS BEEN HIS OWN RE-ELECTION – BUT NOW IT SEEMS HE MAY EVEN FAIL AT THAT – CHANGES IN AMERICA’S STATURE IN THE WORLD
JOHN CHUCKMAN COMMENT: THE EQUALITY OF NATIONS – AMERICA’S FIERCE OPPOSITION TO THE PRINCIPLE – THE CASES OF RUSSIA AND CHINA AND IRAN – I BELIEVE THE CORONAVIRUS-INDUCED DEPRESSION WILL LIKELY BECOME A WATERSHED EVENT TOWARDS MAJOR CHANGES IN THE WORLD – SOME OBSERVATIONS ABOUT AN AMUSING IMAGE FROM TRUMP’S JULY-THE-FOURTH RALLY AT THE BASE OF MOUNT RUSHMORE, AN IMAGE LOADED WITH THE CONTRADICTIONS OF AMERICAN SOCIETY
JOHN CHUCKMAN COMMENT: EPSTEIN AND HIS FRIEND GHISLAINE MAXWELL, DAUGHTER OF THE LATE CROOKED PRESS BARON ROBERT MAXWELL WHO WAS SAID TO HAVE BEEN AN IMPORTANT SPY FOR ISRAEL – SOME RECENT FINDINGS IN THE CASE – AN INDUSTRIAL-SCALE HONEY-TRAP ON EPSTEIN’S ISLAND AND THE QUESTION OF FOREIGN INTELLIGENCE – NEW YORK PROSECUTORS FIND VERY LARGE UNEXPLAINED MONEY TRANSFERS BETWEEN BANK ACCOUNTS OF EPSTEIN AND GHISLAINE – EPSTEIN’S WEALTH NEVER EXPLAINED – HE DID NOT WORK AND WAS NOT A FINANCIER – EPSTEIN’S DEATH WAS MURDER – LINK TO AN INTERESTING ARTICLE
JOHN CHUCKMAN COMMENT: THE MISTAKEN NOTION THAT PUTIN HAS BEEN MADE “PRESIDENT FOR LIFE” IN RUSSIAN CONSTITUTIONAL CHANGES – THE IMMENSE IMPORTANCE OF PUTIN FOR RUSSIANS IS NOT APPRECIATED BY OUTSIDERS – THE POST-SOVIET DEPRESSION HE PULLED THEM OUT OF – PUTIN’S IMPORTANCE FOR RUSSIANS RESEMBLES THAT OF FRANKLIN D ROOSEVELT FOR AMERICANS IN THE !930s – HIS ROLE IN RUSSIAN INFRASTRUCTURE AND DEVELOPMENT AND GIVING RUSSIANS NEW PRIDE
JOHN CHUCKMAN COMMENT: CANADA’S AMBASSADOR TO RUSSIA BUTTS INTO RUSSIA’S INTERNAL AFFAIRS – WHY TRUDEAU WILL DO ANYTHING FOR A CHEAP HEADLINE WHICH MAKES SOME CANADIANS THINK HE IS A CHAMPION OF RIGHTS AND LIBERALISM IN THE WORLD, WHICH IS ANYTHING BUT THE TRUTH – TRUDEAU’S POLITICAL SITUATION AND HIS TOTAL DEFERENCE TO THE UNITED STATES IN FOREIGN AFFAIRS
JOHN CHUCKMAN COMMENT: THE MINDLESS AMERICAN NOTION OF “DECOUPLING WITH CHINA” – AMERICA’S CONCERN WITH DOMINANCE RATHER THAN SOUND NATIONAL POLICY – WHICH IS PRECISELY WHY AMERICA TODAY IS SO DANGEROUS
JOHN CHUCKMAN COMMENT: JEFFERSON AND THE SLAVE REVOLT IN HAITI – JEFFERSON ACTUALLY ASSISTED NAPOLEON IN TRYING TO PUT IT DOWN – JEFFERSON HATED THE NOTION OF A BLACK REPUBLIC OF FORMER-SLAVES – IT OFFENDED HIS SENSE OF THE ESTABLISHED ORDER – JEFFERSON THE RACIST AND SEXUAL ABUSER – WHY NAPOLEON FAILED IN SUPPRESSING THE REVOLT
JOHN CHUCKMAN COMMENT: BOSTON TO REMOVE ITS COPY OF THE LINCOLN EMANCIPATION MEMORIAL – AMERICA’S USE OF LINCOLN AS A KIND OF SAVIOR OR REDEEMER FIGURE TO EXPUNGE THE SHAME OF SLAVERY FROM AMERICAN HISTORY – LINCOLN’S NATURE – WHAT THE EMANCIPATION PROCLAMATION WAS – IF STATUES AND MEMORIALS ARE TO SERVE REMEMBERING THE PAST, THEY MUST BE TRUTHFUL – OTHERWISE THEY ARE JUST ADVERTISING OR PROPAGANDA, WHICH IS THE CASE FOR A GOOD MANY OF AMERICA’S HISTORICAL MONUMENTS – IDEAS FOR GENUINE MEMORIALS ABOUT SLAVERY – AMERICA HAS NEVER DEALT TRUTHFULLY WITH THE SUBJECT – BUT THEN AMERICA HAS NEVER DEALT TRUTHFULLY WITH MUCH OF ITS HISTORY – AMERICA IS A VERY CONSERVATIVE SOCIETY AND IN MANY WAYS RESEMBLES THE TENNESSEE WILLIAMS’ CHARACTER, BIG DADDY, AND HIS LIFE AS “A POUNDING FIST”
JOHN CHUCKMAN COMMENT: TRUMP’S ABUSIVE TELEPHONE CALLS WITH FOREIGN LEADERS REVEALED USING THE EXALTED BYLINE OF CARL BERNSTEIN – A LONG PIECE AT CNN IMMEDIATELY MIRRORED IN SEVERAL FOREIGN NEWS SOURCES IN CLASSIC SECURITY-SERVICE PROPAGANDA STYLE – NOT THAT TRUMP MATTERS (HE DOESN’T) BUT THE FOLKS PUTTING THIS “OUT THERE” ARE ALSO PUSHING HATRED FOR RUSSIA – ODD HOW THAT EXACTLY FITS CIA AND PENTAGON PRIORITIES – WHEN AMERICA’S ESTABLISHMENT DOESN’T LIKE YOU, DIRTY TRICKS AND NAME-CALLING ARE ELEVATED TO DIPLOMACY – TOO BAD, IF TRUMP GOES, AMERICA WILL LOSE MIKE POMPEO AT THE STATE DEPARTMENT – THE ROTUND FUNDAMENTALIST PREACHER IS WORLD-CLASS AT DIRT AND NAME-CALLING – CORRUPTION AND POWER BREED DERANGEMENT IN WASHINGTON
JOHN CHUCKMAN COMMENT: SOME PEOPLE WANT TO CHANGE THE AMERICAN NATIONAL ANTHEM BECAUSE THE AUTHOR OF ITS WORDS, FRANCIS SCOTT KEY, WAS A SLAVEHOLDER – THERE ARE OTHER GOOD REASONS FOR DUMPING THE ANTHEM, INCLUDING THE FACT FEW CAN EVEN SING IT, MANY OF ITS WORDS ARE VERBAL KITSCH, AND THE TUNE COMES FROM AN OLD ENGLISH DRINKING SONG – LINK TO A NASTY AMERICAN CONTROVERSY OVER A SPANISH VERSION OF THE ANTHEM SOME YEARS AGO
JOHN CHUCKMAN COMMENT: SPIES FOR THE SOVIETS IN THE 1940s AND 1950s – THE STORY OF URSULA BEOURTON ASSISTING PHYSICIST KLAUS FUCHS IN BRITAIN – ATOMIC SECRETS REVEALED – THE CAMBRIDGE CIRCLE AND OTHERS INCLUDING MI5’S GUY LIDDELL – THE SOVIETS WERE REMARKABLY SUCCESSFUL IN RECRUITING HIGH-LEVEL AGENTS ABROAD BECAUSE OF A STRONG APPEAL TO IDEALISM AND FEARS OF AMERICA AS AN ATOMIC MONOPOLY – RATHER THAN FOCUSING ON THE NOTION OF TREACHERY, I THINK THE WORLD OWES THEM THANKS FOR PREVENTING AN AMERICAN NUCLEAR HOLOCAUST IN THE POSTWAR PERIOD
JOHN CHUCKMAN COMMENT: CANADA’S TERRIBLE STATE OF RELATIONS WITH CHINA – THE RESULT OF JUSTIN TRUDEAU’S COSTLY BLUNDERS AT THE BEHEST OF TRUMP – A COLUMNIST SHILLS FOR TRUDEAU TRYING TO PORTRAY HIM AS TOUGH AND PRINCIPLED IN FOREIGN AFFAIRS – HE IS ANYTHING BUT – CANADIANS ASSUME TWO CANADIANS HELD IN CHINA ARE TIT-FOR-TAT FOR CANADA’S (AMERICAN-REQUESTED) ARREST OF A SENIOR HUAWEI COMPANY EXECUTIVE – CHINA SAYS THE CANADIANS ARE SPIES – TRUDEAU HAS THE ABILITY TO INTERVENE AND FREE THE CHINESE EXECUTIVE BUT HE REFUSES TO DO SO FOR SUPPOSEDLY HIGH PRINCIPLES – THE TRUTH OF THE MATTER – AMERICA’S RELENTLESS ASSAULT ON CHINA AND ALL THINGS CHINESE – JUSTIN TRUDEAU SHARPLY CONTRASTED WITH HIS BRAVE AND ABLE FATHER, PIERRE, IN FOREIGN POLICY AND DEFERENCE TO THE UNITED STATES
JOHN CHUCKMAN COMMENT: A FASCINATING VIDEO OF RUSSIA’S TREMENDOUS PARADE FOR THE 75TH ANNIVERSARY OF VICTORY DAY, WHICH IS A MAJOR HOLIDAY IN RUSSIA – WHAT A SHAME THE US AND ITS CLOSELY-CAPTIVE ALLIES CANNOT JOIN IN THIS MAGNIFICENT CELEBRATION OF THE GREATEST STRUGGLE IN ALL OF HUMAN HISTORY – THE GREATEST BUT ALSO THE MOST COSTLY AND PROFOUNDLY TRAGIC – LINK TO THE VIDEO AND OTHER LINKS ABOUT HITLER’S INVASION OF RUSSIA
JOHN CHUCKMAN COMMENT: INTERDICTION AND SANCTIONS – AMERICAN PIRACY ON THE HIGH SEAS COVERED BY THE FAUX LEGALITY OF SANCTIONS, SANCTIONS WHICH ARE AMERICAN LAWS BEING APPLIED TO PEOPLE WHO ARE NOT AMERICAN – WITH SOME MONUMENTS TO HISTORICAL CRIMES NOW BEING PULLED DOWN, IT WOULD BE NICE TO SEE CONCERN FOR CRIMES BEING COMMITTED RIGHT NOW IN THE NAME OF AMERICANS – THE COUNTRY IS NOT ONLY LOSING ITS RELATIVE ECONOMIC POSITION IN THE WORLD THROUGH NATURAL PROCESSES, IT IS LOSING ITS PRESTIGE AND MORAL AUTHORITY THROUGH CRIMINAL BEHAVIOR – HITLER’S GREAT “PEACE” SPEECH BEFORE WW II AND AMERICA’S ABUSE OF WORDS LIKE “DEMOCRACY” AND “HUMAN RIGHTS” – THE POST-WWII ORDER IS GOING TO SHATTER LIKE A BRONZE STATUE UNDER HAMMERS – A BRAVE NEW WORLD IS ON ITS WAY
JOHN CHUCKMAN COMMENT: PUTIN’S VICTORY DAY ESSAY – SOME MOVING WORDS FROM A GREAT LEADER – MY ADDITIONAL REFLECTIONS ON HITLER’S INVASION OF THE SOVIET UNION, THE MOST DESTRUCTIVE EVENT IN ALL OF HISTORY, GREATER IN SCOPE THAN ANY WAR OR ANY NATURAL DISASTER – AND REMARKABLY FEW AMERICANS ARE EVEN AWARE OF IT – HITLER’S ESPECIALLY BRUTAL APPROACH TO THE INVASION – THE SOVIET RESILIENCE AFTER THE INITIAL TERRIBLE SHOCK – STALIN’S PLACE
JOHN CHUCKMAN COMMENT: AMERICA, RUSSIA, ISRAEL, AND IRAN – THE NEOCON’S NEOCON, VICTORIA NULAND, MAKING UGLY NEW NOISES ABOUT RUSSIA – HOW A CLASH HAPPENS DESPITE PUTIN’S EFFORTS TO MAINTAIN GOOD RELATIONS WITH ISRAEL – THE SITUATIONS IN SYRIA AND IN IRAN CANNOT MAKE SOMEONE LIKE NULAND HAPPY – SO DESPITE ALL THE IMMENSE PROBLEMS OF DISEASE AND ECONOMIC DISASTER AND IRRESPONSIBLE GOVERNMENT IN THE WORLD, NULAND WANTS TO PUSH NEW DANGERS ONTO A FRAGILE INTERNATIONAL SOCIETY – SOMETHING THAT SHOULD SIGNAL JUST HOW DANGEROUS SHE AND OTHERS LIKE HER ARE
JOHN CHUCKMAN COMMENT: A WRITER NOTES BIDEN’S NEW STRIDENT RHETORIC ON FOREIGN AFFAIRS – HE COMES AT A SITUATION LIKE TRUMP’S VICIOUSNESS IN VENEZUELA WITH AN ATTACK FROM THE RIGHT (YES, THAT’S CORRECT, FROM THE RIGHT) – NOTING A FEW ENCOURAGING NOISES BIDEN HAS MADE ABOUT THE PLIGHT OF AMERICA’S MILLIONS OF ILLEGAL RESIDENTS, WE SEE THE CLASSIC OPERATION OF THE MODERN DEMOCRATIC PARTY – STRONG SUPPORT FOR BLOODSHED ABROAD WITH FRIENDLY WORDS ABOUT DOMESTIC POLICIES – MAYBE EVEN A DARK PURPOSE FOR BIDEN’S OTHERWISE HUMANE-SOUNDING ADVOCACY OF LEGALIZING THE STATUS OF AMERICA’S MILLIONS OF ILLEGALS?
JOHN CHUCKMAN COMMENT: TRUMP’S WEAKENED POSITION – HIS FAILED POLITICAL RALLY IN TULSA AND BAD NEW POLLS – BUT IT IS FAR TOO EARLY TO COUNT HIM OUT – HE ENJOYS AN IMMENSELY POWERFUL OFFICE, A GREAT HOARD OF CAMPAIGN FUNDS, A SECURE POLITICAL BASE, AND HE IS RUTHLESSLY WILLING TO DO ALMOST ANYTHING TO GET WHAT HE WANTS – INDEED ONE OF THE THEMES OF BOLTON’S BOOK IS THAT TRUMP HAS NO POLICIES BECAUSE EVERYTHING HE DOES IS DIRECTED TOWARDS RE-ELECTION – TRUMP ALSO HAS THE STRENGTH OF HATRED AND CONTEMPT ON HIS SIDE AND THOSE ARE POWERFUL FORCES IN AMERICA – JOE BIDEN IS NOT A STRONG OPPONENT AND HE CERTAINLY IS NO PRINCE CHARMING ON A WHITE CHARGER, HAVING A LONG RECORD OF COOPERATING WITH CORRUPTION AND EMBRACING VIOLENCE – HORRIBLE AS IT HAS BEEN, THE TRUMP EXPERIENCE HAS TAUGHT THE WORLD IMPORTANT LESSONS ABOUT AMERICA
JOHN CHUCKMAN COMMENT: NEW TARIFFS COMING FROM TRUMP AT A TIME OF GREAT ECONOMIC RISK – WHAT AMERICA’S “STABLE GENIUS” HAS GIVEN THE WORLD – LEADERSHIP IN NOTHING – NOT PANDEMIC, NOT ECONOMICS, NOT TRADE, NOT FOREIGN AFFAIRS – AND REMEMBER, IT WAS AMERICAN TARIFFS IN 1930 THAT HELPED SPEED ALONG THE GREAT DEPRESSION
JOHN CHUCKMAN COMMENT: “DEFUNDING POLICE” IS A SLOGAN AND NOT A POLICY – IT’S NOT EVEN DEFINED BY ITS USERS – ALL POSSIBLE POLICE REFORMS ARE COSTLY – MOST OF THE ESTABLISHMENT ALMOST CERTAINLY BELIEVE EXISTING PROBLEMS ARE NOT WORTH THE COST SINCE THEY AFFECT THE POOR AND POWERLESS – AND FOR SURE TRUMP’S POLITICAL TRIBE BELIEVES THAT – THE ESTABLISHMENT IS EMBARRASSED BY ALL THE UGLY PUBLICITY, BUT THAT WILL PASS – SPEECHES WILL SAY OTHERWISE BUT THEY WILL BE AS INSINCERE AS AMERICA’S SIGNATURE ON AN INTERNATIONAL TREATY – MAINLY THE POOR AND DISADVANTAGED ARE HURT BY POLICE BRUTALITY AND WE HAVE AMPLE PROOF NO ONE CARES MUCH ABOUT THEM – GUNS AND POLICE IN AMERICA AS CAPTURED BY A DISTURBING BRIEF SCENE IN THE OTHERWISE CHARMING FILM, “IT’S A WONDERFUL LIFE” – DANIEL BOONE AS THE BEST EARLY REPRESENTATIVE OF WHAT AMERICA WOULD BECOME
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
JOHN CHUCKMAN COMMENT : TEARING DOWN STATUES – THERE INDEED ARE MANY THAT DESERVE TEARING DOWN – THEY HONOR MEN AND MATTERS WHICH SHOULD NEVER HAVE BEEN HONORED, RATHER THAN HONESTLY TELLING A NATION’S HISTORY – MONUMENTS IN WASHINGTON TO GREAT AND DEDICATED SLAVEHOLDERS – THE LACK OF ANY GENUINE MEMORIAL TO AMERICAN SLAVERY – THE BRUTALITY OF EMPIRE – HOW IS AMERICA’S TREATMENT OF VENEZUELA OR CUBA ANY DIFFERENT THAN THE WORK OF PLANTATION OVERSEERS? – SOME VIEWS ON BRITAIN’S WINSTON CHURCHILL
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
JOHN CHUCKMAN COMMENT: A WRITER SPEAKS OF ISRAEL LOSING ITS BEST – EMIGRATION FROM ISRAEL REFLECTS LIMITED POSSIBILITIES OF THE SOCIETY AND THE SOCIAL CONSCIENCE OF THOSE LEAVING – THE HUGE DISAPPOINTMENT ISRAEL REPRESENTS – ISRAEL’S EFFECT ON ITS REGION AND ITS DISCOURAGEMENT OF ARAB DEMOCRACY – SOME VALID POINTS OF COMPARISON BETWEEN ISRAEL AND THE FORMER SOVIET UNION – THE LEGITIMACY OF CRITICIZING A HEAVILY-ARMED AND OPPRESSIVE STATE
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
JOHN CHUCKMAN COMMENT: RUSSIA AND AMERICA – RUSSIAGATE AND DNC “HACKING” – AN EXCELLENT ARTICLE SHEDS SOME LIGHT ON AMERICAN-RUSSIAN RELATIONS AND THE BEHAVIOR OF KEY AMERICAN PLAYERS – BUT THE ARTICLE MISSES A KEY POINT – THE QUESTIONS RAISED BY THAT POINT ARE ALMOST TOO OVERWHELMING FOR AMERICA TO DEAL WITH – THE MATTER OF SETH RICH’S DEATH – HIGH OFFICIALS WHO ACTED AND LIED THEIR WAY THROUGH THE HORRORS OF SYRIA AND LIBYA WERE PERFECTLY CAPABLE OF BRINGING SUCH BEHAVIOR HOME – THEY SAW IT PROVEN TO WORK ABROAD MANY TIMES AND THEY WERE NEVER HELD ACCOUNTABLE – THERE IS NO INVISIBLE BARRIER AT THE BORDER OF THE UNITED STATES TO STOP HIGH-LEVEL POLITICAL MURDER – KENNEDY’S DEATH IN DALLAS EMPHASIZES THE POINT
JOHN CHUCKMAN COMMENT: THE ROLE OF CORPORATE NEWS MEDIA IN GREAT EVENTS LIKE AMERICA’S RIOTS AND DEMONSTRATIONS AGAINST POLICE BRUTALITY – THE LIMITS TO PUBLISHED TRUTH ABOUT DEADLY SERIOUS MATTERS – CORPORATE JOURNALISM FOR THE MOST PART IS NOT JOURNALISM – IT HAS OTHER JOBS – WRITERS AND EDITORS AND PRODUCERS HAVE LITTLE CHOICE OR DISCRETION IN WHAT EVENTS THEY COVER AND HOW THEY COVER THEM – IN REAL-LIFE EVENTS, PERSPECTIVE IS EVERYTHING, BUT WHEN DEALING WITH CORPORATE REPORTING OF EVENTS, PERSPECTIVE IS ALMOST AN UNACCEPTABLE WORD
JOHN CHUCKMAN COMMENT: SOME REALLY NOTABLE THINGS ABOUT AMERICA REVEALED THROUGH TRUMP
JOHN CHUCKMAN COMMENT: ACCUSATIONS OF CRIMINAL BEHAVIOR COMING FROM THE WORLD’S BIGGEST CRIMINAL ORGANIZATION, THE GOVERNMENT OF THE UNITED STATES
JOHN CHUCKMAN COMMENT: AMERICA BRINGS A NEW PHENOMENON TO WORLD AFFAIRS – THE OBVIOUS SELFISHNESS OF ITS ESTABLISHMENT’S ACTS IS STRIKING – IT HAS LAUNCHED A RELENTLESS AND GIGANTIC CRUSADE AGAINST CHINA JUST BECAUSE AMERICA FEARS THE COUNTRY’S COMPETITIVENESS – AUSTRALIA AND CANADA AS EXAMPLES OF HOW ALLIES ARE NOW SHABBILY USED – AND IT EMPLOYS METHODS FROM THE OLD SOVIET UNION IN INTERNATIONAL RELATIONSHIPS WITH THREATS AND MASSIVE FORCE – A NEW IRON CURTAIN HAS DESCENDED, AN AMERICAN ONE – AND ALL THE DESTRUCTIVENESS AND THREATS COME AT A TIME OF GREAT FRAGILITY FOR THE WORLD’S ECONOMY
JOHN CHUCKMAN COMMENT: AN ARTICLE SPEAKS OF THE DANGER OF A NEW COLD WAR – I’M MORE CONCERNED ABOUT A HOT WAR – A LIST OF THE GREAT RANGE OF HOSTILITIES SET LOOSE BY WASHINGTON
JOHN CHUCKMAN COMMENT: THE CHINESE PEOPLE’S IMMENSE PRIDE IN THEIR ACHIEVEMENTS – STUPIDLY AND DANGEROUSLY BELITTLED BY TRUMP AND POMPEO – HOW I EXPECT CHINA AND THE UNITED STATES EACH TO COME OUT OF THE DOUBLE CRISIS OF ECONOMICS AND DISEASE – CHINA WILL BE STRENGTHENED WHILE THE UNITED STATES WILL BE WEAKENED – THEN THE DANGER OF EVEN WORSE ATTACKS ON CHINA NO MATTER WHO IS ELECTED – ABSOLUTELY NO LEADERSHIP IN AMERICA – WE ONLY HAVE DEMANDS THAT AMERICA MUST BE FIRST – THE AMERICAN POWER ESTABLISHMENT FEARS CHINA AND ITS COMPETITIVENESS – A WORD ON THE AWFUL HONG KONG PROTESTERS
JOHN CHUCKMAN COMMENT: GERMAN FOREIGN POLICY AND ITS LACK OF INDEPENDENCE FROM AMERICA – AN ODDITY FOR A STATE OF SUCH HISTORIC IMPORTANCE AND ONE PROVIDING TODAY THE EU’S MAIN DRIVING ENGINE – SOME OF CHANCELLOR MERKEL’S LIMITED INDEPENDENT ACTS – GERMANY’S POSITION IN POSTWAR EUROPE – LIKE BRITAIN OR FRANCE ITS POLITICS AND PRESS ARE THOROUGHLY PENETRATED BY AMERICAN INTERESTS AND IT IS OBLIGED TO SUPPORT AMERICA’S OFTEN DESTRUCTIVE POLICIES ABROAD
JOHN CHUCKMAN COMMENT: RETIRED U.S. INTELLIGENCE OFFICER GROUP PUBLISHES OPEN LETTER AGAINST AMERICAN INTERFERENCE WITH IRANIAN TANKERS HEADED TO VENEZUELA – BUT EVEN IN ATTEMPTING SOMETHING SENSIBLE WE SEE AN UNPLEASANT AMERICAN IMPERIAL QUALITY IN THE WORDS, WORDS WHICH STRIKE ME AS IRRELEVANT – VENEZUELA IS SIMPLY NONE OF AMERICA’S BUSINESS – AMERICA CANNOT EVEN GOVERN ITSELF – REPEAT OF A LIST OF AMERICA’S SHABBY ACTS OF TERROR AGAINST VENEZUELA
JOHN CHUCKMAN COMMENT: CHINA’S FOREIGN MINISTER WANG YI RIGHTLY REJECTS THE VALIDITY OF AMERICAN LAWSUITS NOW BEING FILED AGAINST CHINA OVER CORONAVIRUS – MOST OF THE WORLD RECOGNIZES WHAT CHINA ACHIEVED IN THE PANDEMIC – BUT NOT TRUMP’S BIZARRE AMERICA – TRUMP’S MAIN ACHIEVEMENT HAS BEEN PILES OF BODIES AT HOME AND ABROAD – OPPORTUNITIES AHEAD FOR CHINA TO OFFER THE WORLD SOME GENUINE LEADERSHIP
JOHN CHUCKMAN COMMENT: AMERICA RELINQUISHING WORLD LEADERSHIP UNDER TRUMP WITH ITS DESTRUCTION OF TREATIES AND LACK OF COOPERATION
JOHN CHUCKMAN COMMENT: A LOOK AT FRANKLIN D. ROOSEVELT AND DONALD TRUMP – WHERE AMERICA HAS GONE IN 75 YEARS OF EMPIRE
JOHN CHUCKMAN COMMENT: THE HAZY IDEA OF “RETURNING TO NORMAL” IN AMERICA WITH JOE BIDEN – AMERICANS WANT A SUGARY WALT DISNEY CARTOON WHILE THE KILLING AND DESTRUCTION ARE CARRIED RIGHT ON ABROAD
JOHN CHUCKMAN COMMENT: THAT GROTESQUE REFRAIN IN AMERICAN POLITICS: “THERE IS NO SUCH THING AS A PALESTINIAN” USED TO EXCUSE ETHNIC CLEANSING AND GARNER POLITICAL CAMPAIGN FUNDS – AMERICA’S EXTREMELY FLEXIBLE IDEAS OF DEMOCRATIC AND HUMAN RIGHTS
JOHN CHUCKMAN COMMENT: THE TRUE NATURE OF THE MIDEAST “PEACE PROCESS” – DECADES OF DECEPTION – DECEPTION AS AUTHENTIC AS AMERICAN JUSTICE OR DEMOCRACY – WHY THIS IS SO – ISRAEL’S ACTUAL ROLE
JOHN CHUCKMAN COMMENT: THE HONESTY OF AMERICAN ELECTIONS – A BIT OF BACKGROUND – AND WHY I DO NOT THINK IT IS POSSIBLE TO FIX
JOHN CHUCKMAN COMMENT: TRUMP AGAIN ATTACKS THE WORLD HEALTH ORGANIZATION AND MAKES THREATS – TYING IT IN WITH HIS SAVAGE ATTACKS ON CHINA – WE HAVE A MADMAN RUNNING THE AFFAIRS OF THE WORLD’S MOST POWERFUL COUNTRY – I DON’T RECALL ANYTHING QUITE LIKE HIS WORDS AND ACTIONS EVEN DURING THE COLD WAR – AGAIN, ALL REAL EVIDENCE POINTS TO EVERYTHING HE KEEPS YELLING ABOUT CHINA BEING ENTIRELY WRONG – HE ALSO ANNOUNCED HE IS NOW SELF-ADMINISTERING A DANGEROUS ANTI-MALARIA DRUG AS HIS IDEA OF VIRUS-PREVENTION, EFFECTIVELY ENDORSING SOMETHING DANGEROUS TO MILLIONS OF VIEWERS
JOHN CHUCKMAN COMMENT: IMPORTANT NEW EVIDENCE SUGGESTS THE CORONAVIRUS STRUCK EUROPE IN NOVEMBER 2019, HAVING NOTHING TO DO WITH CHINA – BUT I DOUBT SCIENCE WILL GET IN THE WAY OF DONALD TRUMP’S WITCH-HUNT RE-ELECTION CAMPAIGN – HE HAS ACHIEVED NOTHING AS PRESIDENT, EXCEPT A GOOD DEAL OF HUMAN MISERY – SO HE HAS TURNED TO THE METHODS OF THE INFAMOUS SENATOR JOSEPH MCCARTHY, ANOTHER POLITICAL FAILURE WHO FIRED UP HIS CAREER FOR A WHILE WITH HATRED
JOHN CHUCKMAN COMMENT: AMERICA PAUSES A MOMENT FROM ITS HARD WORK OF TERRORIZING VENEZUELA TO ACCUSE VENEZUELA OF “PROMOTING TERROR” – I SUPPOSE A TWISTED PERSON COULD INTERPRET VENEZUELA’S MERE EXISTENCE AS PROMOTING TERROR BECAUSE IT GETS AMERICA’S BLOOD UP, BUT IT WOULD BE A LOGICAL STRETCH – HERE’S A LIST OF DONALD TRUMP’S PROUD EFFORTS AGAINST A DEMOCRATIC GOVERNMENT, PAID FOR BY AMERICAN TAXPAYERS TO PRODUCE NOTHING BUT HUMAN MISERY
JOHN CHUCKMAN COMMENT: FURTHER THOUGHTS ON TRUMP – STRIPPING AWAY THE HOLLYWOOD ILLUSIONS ABOUT AMERICA AND REVEALING SOME RAW, DISTURBING REALITIES
JOHN CHUCKMAN COMMENT: JOE BIDEN AND TARA READE – READE IS CREDIBLE AND HAS OFFERED A FAIR-MINDED WAY TO END A SERIOUS CONFLICT OF CLAIMS – BIDEN IGNORES HER OFFER WHILE TALKING MEANINGLESSLY ABOUT HER BEING LISTENED TO – I FEAR AN ELECTION CATASTROPHE – THE WORLD CANNOT TAKE ANOTHER FOUR YEARS OF TRUMP’S VICIOUS LUNACY – BIDEN, ALREADY A WEAK CANDIDATE, MAY WELL HAND TRUMP THE ELECTION WITH THIS SCANDAL – IF THERE IS ANYTHING TRUMP KNOWS HOW TO EXPLOIT, IT’S DIRT – BIDEN SHOULD TAKE A POLYGRAPH ALONG WITH READE OR QUIT THE RACE
JOHN CHUCKMAN COMMENT: A WRITER SAYS “OBAMAGATE” WILL NOT RESULT IN ANY SIGNIFICANT OUTCOME – THE DARK STATE PROTECTS ITS OWN – AND I THINK SHE HAS IT JUST ABOUT RIGHT – I JUST WISH SHE WOULD AVOID USING THAT TIRED POLITICAL SALES-PITCH WORD “SWAMP”
JOHN CHUCKMAN COMMENT: AN IRANIAN OBSERVER SAYS THAT THE TRUMP-POMPEO-HOOK GANG HAS GIVEN AMERICA’S RULING CLASS AN IMAGE OF BEING AN UNRELIABLE ALLY AND A THREAT TO COMPETITORS – AND HE IS RIGHT – BUT BECAUSE OF THE NATURE OF EMPIRE IT ALMOST DOESN’T MATTER – EMPIRES ARE AUTHORITARIAN BY DEFINITION – THEY DEPEND ON FORCE AND NOT GOODWILL – HE ALSO SAYS AMERICANS SEE THESE LEADERS AS INCOMPETENT – BUT THE VIEWS OF ORDINARY AMERICANS HAVE NEVER COUNTED FOR ANYTHING IN FOREIGN AFFAIRS
JOHN CHUCKMAN COMMENT: THE LUNATIC WORLD IN WHICH WE LIVE – DONALD TRUMP AND BEING CONDEMNED TO GO BACKWARDS
JOHN CHUCKMAN COMMENT: WHY THERE WILL BE NO USE OF THE 25TH AMENDMENT TO REMOVE TRUMP FROM OFFICE EVEN THOUGH IT HAS BECOME ABUNDANTLY CLEAR THAT HE DOES SUFFER FROM SOME FORM OF MENTAL ILLNESS
JOHN CHUCKMAN COMMENT: WRITER SPEAKS OF MANY ERRORS MADE BY IRAN’S PRESIDENT ROUHANI AND FOREIGN MINISTER ZARIF IN NEGOTIATING WITH THE UNITED STATES – I DON’T AGREE – WHO CAN FORECAST BEING STRUCK BY A BOLT OF LIGHTNING, WHICH IS EXACTLY WHAT TRUMP REPRESENTS?
JOHN CHUCKMAN COMMENT: BIDEN CALLED THE WORST DEMOCRATIC CANDIDATE IN RECENT HISTORY – PERHAPS, BUT SOMETHING WORSE STARES US IN THE FACE: THE WORST PRESIDENT OF ALL TIME
JOHN CHUCKMAN COMMENT: AN ARTICLE SPEAKS OF THE DEMOCRATS “FOLDING” IN THE FACE OF ISRAEL’S THREATENED ANNEXATION OF THE WEST BANK – A REMARKABLE MISCONCEPTION OF WHAT THE DEMOCRATS REPRESENT IN AMERICAN POLITICS – A NOTE ON THE REAL “FACTS ON THE GROUND” IN PALESTINE, ITS PEOPLE
JOHN CHUCKMAN COMMENT: THE REMARKABLE DUMBING-DOWN OBSERVED IN WASHINGTON DURING THE HANDLING OF THE CORONAVIRUS PANDEMIC
JOHN CHUCKMAN COMMENT: WHY VENEZUELA DOESN’T PUT JUAN GUAIDO ON TRIAL FOR TREASON AFTER HIS CONTRACT WITH A PRIVATE AMERICAN MERCENARY COMPANY TO TARGET PRESIDENT MADURO IS MADE PUBLIC – AMERICA’S PROUD RECORD AGAINST A PEOPLE WHILE PRETENDING TO PRINCIPLE
JOHN CHUCKMAN COMMENT: THE CHILDISH IDEA THAT GLOBALIZATION CAUSED THE CORONAVIRUS PANDEMIC AND THAT THE PANDEMIC WILL PUT AN END TO GLOBALIZATION – THE EXAMPLE OF THE NEW WORLD BEING OPENED IN THE 15TH AND 16TH CENTURIES WITH THE CONSTANT PRESENCE OF DISEASE – AMERICA OFFERS AN EXAMPLE OF HOW TO GOVERN TO NO ONE – AMERICA’S PARODY OF LEADERSHIP – THE OUTSTANDING EXAMPLES OF OTHER SOCIETIES – THE KNOW-NOTHINGS’ ROLE IN AMERICA – IMPORTANT DISTINCTION BETWEEN GLOBALISM AND “NEO-LIBERAL” OR “NEW WORLD ORDER” GLOBALISM
JOHN CHUCKMAN COMMENT: GOOD LEADERSHIP ESSENTIAL TO EVEN MAINTAINING YOUR PLACE IN THE WORLD LET ALONE ADVANCING IT – THE UNITED STATES SIMPLY DOES NOT HAVE ANY – POLITICAL BANKRUPTCY TO GO ALONG WITH ALL THE OTHER BANKRUPTCIES HEADING ITS WAY – EXAMPLE OF TRUMP AND SAUDI ARABIA – SAUDI OPTIONS – POTENTIAL FOR CHINA
JOHN CHUCKMAN COMMENT: OBAMA’S RECORD OF VIOLENCE AND DISHONESTY AND HARSH DEMANDS FOR SECRECY – HILLARY CLINTON AND JOE BIDEN AS AUXILIARIES IN TERROR – AMERICA’S PATHETIC POLITICAL LEFT – ROLE OF MODERN PRESIDENTS IN DETERMINING MILITARY AND IMPERIAL AFFAIRS – THE NEEDS OF EMPIRE – THE DEEP STATE IS AS REAL A DIVISION OF AMERICAN GOVERNMENT TODAY AS THOSE SET BY THE CONSTITUTION
JOHN CHUCKMAN COMMENT: TRUMP’S DING-DONG COMPARISON OF THE CORONAVIRUS PANDEMIC TO PEARL HARBOR AND 9/11 – COMPARING A NATURAL DISASTER FOR EVERYONE INVOLVED TO A DELIBERATE ATTACK BY AN ENEMY – AND MOTIVATED BY HATE – THE MAN HAS NO SHAME OR DECENCY – HIS DOWNRIGHT INCOMPETENCE HAS CHANGED PERCEPTIONS OF AMERICA GOING INTO A POST-CRISIS WORLD
JOHN CHUCKMAN COMMENT: PULITZER PRIZE FOR A NEW YORK TIMES’ SERIES ABOUT RUSSIA CARRIES A CITATION WHICH READS AS THOUGH IT WERE WRITTEN IN LANGLEY VIRGINIA RATHER THAN AT COLUMBIA UNIVERSITY – THE PRIZE’S LESS-THAN-GLORIOUS HISTORY – A SECOND-RATE DISTINCTION AT BEST
JOHN CHUCKMAN COMMENT: REVELATIONS ABOUT BRITAIN’S ROLE IN BIAFRA’S MASS STARVATION OF THE LATE 1960s – THE WORLD MADE NO SERIOUS EFFORT TO STOP THE HORROR INFLICTED BY NIGERIA AND ARMS SALES BY BRITAIN HELPED CARRY IT OFF – RESPONSE TO A COMMENT ON THE HORRORS OF GAZA TODAY INFLICTED BY ISRAEL – AGAIN THE WORLD MAKES NO EFFORT TO STOP THEM – OUR INHUMANITY NEVER ENDS WHERE POWER IS CONCERNED AND THERE IS NO ROOM FOR COMPASSION
JOHN CHUCKMAN COMMENT: POOR PRINCE HARRY – A LONG JOURNEY IN A SHORT TIME – AND NOT A PROMISING DESTINATION
JOHN CHUCKMAN COMMENT: THE SURVEILLANCE STATE IS HERE TO STAY – THE REALITIES OF INCREASINGLY CAPABLE TECHNOLOGY PLUS THE REALITIES OF POWER IN SOCIETY MEAN TRADITIONAL PRIVACY AND RIGHTS WILL BECOME AS OBSOLETE AS BUTTER CHURNS
JOHN CHUCKMAN COMMENT: THE VERY REAL THREAT OF WAR TRUMP NOW REPRESENTS – HIS OWN RE-ELECTION IS MORE IMPORTANT THAN ANYTHING ELSE FOR THIS PRESIDENT – AGGRESSIVE NEW EFFORTS AGAINST CHINA AND EFFECTIVELY THE ENTIRE WORLD, GIVEN ITS FRAGILE ECONOMIC SITUATION – PHONY NEW TRUMP-INSPIRED “DOSSIER” LEAKED ABOUT CHINA’S SUPPOSED RESPONSIBILITY FOR THE PANDEMIC – THE WORLD’S EXPERTS VERSUS A SELFISH POLITICIAN – DANGEROUS PROPOSALS ABOUT COLLECTING VAST “DAMAGES” FROM CHINA CAUSED BY THE CORONAVIRUS
JOHN CHUCKMAN COMMENT: SOME TRUMP TRASH ABOUT CHINA AND THE CORONAVIRUS HITS CANADA IN A FREE NEWSPAPER – HERE ARE SOME FACTS ABOUT THE WUHAN VIRUS LAB – NATURE OF ITS WORK – CONNECTIONS IN THE WORLD – ALL SERIOUS EXPERTS NOW HAVE SAID THE VIRUS WAS NOT MANUFACTURED – IT AROSE NATURALLY AND JUMPED TO HUMANS AS IT EVOLVED – JUST AS DID AIDS OR POLIO IN THE PAST – YOU DON’T HOLD COUNTRIES RESPONSIBLE FOR ACTS OF NATURE UNLESS YOU ARE IGNORANT AND HATEFUL – BUT THOSE WORDS DO DESCRIBE THE KIND OF PEOPLE WHO NOW RUN THE WHITE HOUSE – A FEW EYEBROW-RAISING STATISTICS ABOUT AMERICA AND THE VIRUS WHICH CONVINCINGLY DEMONSTRATE TRUMP’S GROTESQUE MISMANAGEMENT
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
JOHN CHUCKMAN COMMENT: WAYS IRAN HAS BEEN STRENGTHENED BY AMERICA’S LONG AND UNWARRANTED ANIMOSITIES – AND NEW PERCEPTIONS OF AMERICA IN THE WORLD
JOHN CHUCKMAN COMMENT: A WRITER CLAIMS THAT A REFORM BILL FOR AMERICA’S ESPIONAGE ACT WOULD PROTECT JOURNALISTS LIKE JULIAN ASSANGE – WHY I STRONGLY DISAGREE AND REGARD THIS AS “HEAD IN THE CLOUDS” STUFF – AMERICA’S ELITES NEVER LET A LAW ANYWHERE STAND IN THE WAY OF WHAT THEY REALLY WANT – ASSANGE HAS ZERO SUPPORT FROM TRULY INFLUENTIAL AMERICAN FIGURES OR ELSE HE WOULD BE FREE ALREADY
JOHN CHUCKMAN COMMENT: A REPORT THAT IRAQ’S MILITARY IS TO ENTER TALKS WITH THE UNITED STATES ON THE SUBJECT OF AMERICA WANTING TO COMPLY WITH IRAQ’S REQUEST THAT ITS FORCES LEAVE THE COUNTRY – SOMETHING HERE IS JUST TOO GOOD TO BE TRUE – AMERICA’S LEAVING IRAQ WOULD HAVE IMPLICATIONS FOR AMERICAN FORCES “STEALING OIL” IN EASTERN IRAQ – IMPLICATIONS WHICH WOULD MAKE ISRAEL VERY UNHAPPY – AND THAT IS SOMETHING TRUMP IS INCAPABLE OF DOING
JOHN CHUCKMAN COMMENT: FACTS ARE NOT ALWAYS STILL FACTS – AMERICA’S IMPERIAL HORRORS AND THE SOUND OF ONE HAND CLAPPING
JOHN CHUCKMAN COMMENT: DISTURBING NEW DISCOVERIES ABOUT THE CORONAVIRUS
JOHN CHUCKMAN COMMENT: AMERICA’S SELFISH UNWILLINGNESS TO SHARE IN OIL PRODUCTION CUTS THAT IT DEMANDED HIGHLIGHTS SOME FUNDAMENTAL NATIONAL CHARACTERISTICS – THOSE AFFECT FAR MORE THAN WORLD OIL MARKETS OR EVEN OTHER INTERNATIONAL AFFAIRS – THEY EXPLAIN MANY UNPLEASANT PARTS OF AMERICA’S OWN SOCIETY – THE CURRENT SET OF CRISES HAS PUT THEM CENTER STAGE FOR ALL THE WORLD TO SEE – THE WORLD’S CHANGED PERCEPTIONS OF AMERICA WILL BE BUILT INTO FUTURE GLOBAL ARRANGEMENTS
JOHN CHUCKMAN COMMENT: TRUMP’S ILLEGAL SANCTIONS ON IRAN IN A TIME OF FRIGHTENING PANDEMIC – WHY TRUMP HAS BEEN SO VICIOUS TOWARDS A COUNTRY WHICH HAS DONE AMERICA NO HARM AND STARTED NO WARS – THE GENERAL UGLY NATURE OF SANCTIONS IS NOW COMPOUNDED BY ILLNESS – TRUMP REFUSES TO SEE BECAUSE HIS ONLY GOAL IN LIFE IS TO BE RE-ELECTED – AMERICAN ELECTIONS ARE ABOUT MONEY, BIG MONEY, AND FOREIGN POLICY IS UP FOR SALE – IT IS A VERY CORRUPT COUNTRY
JOHN CHUCKMAN COMMENT: THE CONCEPT OF RACE – SOMETHING OF THE WAYS IT WAS USED IN THE PAST – NO LONGER RECOGNIZED AS A VALID CONCEPT – IT STILL DOES ARISE SOMETIMES CONCERNING THE TROUBLES OF THE MIDDLE EAST – BUT THE FORCES AT WORK IN THE MIDDLE EAST HAVE LITTLE TO DO WITH RACE – JUST WHY WE HAVE SUCH A HUMAN CATASTROPHE IN THE REGION – TRUMP’S “DEAL OF THE CENTURY” ONLY FORMALIZES A STRUCTURE FOR THE FUTURE OF EXISTING APARTHEID – A BARBARIC PROPOSAL
JOHN CHUCKMAN COMMENT: A RECORD OF TRUMP’S SLOPPY AND VICIOUS WORDS DURING A PANDEMIC
JOHN CHUCKMAN COMMENT: WHY THE IDEA OF A VIABLE THIRD PARTY IN AMERICA IS A FLIGHT OF FANCY – AMERICA’S CURRENT PLUTOCRATIC STRUCTURE AND WHAT KEEPS IT IN PLACE – THE DARK UNDERSIDE OF AMERICAN POLITICS – VOTER CHOICE? DEMOCRATS AND REPUBLICANS IDENTICAL ON THE MILITARY/SECURITY ESTABLISHMENT AND ITS ROLE IN GLOBAL EMPIRE AND BIG DOMESTIC SOCIAL PROGRAMS IMPOSSIBLE
JOHN CHUCKMAN COMMENT: AN AUTHOR REGRETS HOW PEOPLE GIVE UP FREEDOMS IN THE NAME OF (WHAT HE REGARDS AS A NOT VERY DANGEROUS) PANDEMIC – BUT PEOPLE FOR THE MOST PART HAVE NEVER BEEN INDIVIDUALISTS – THERE IS MOSTLY HERD BEHAVIOR – A WORD ON MILITARY HIERARCHIES – OUR ANCIENT ANCESTORS AND OUR RELATIVES THE CHIMPS – A SPECULATION ON WHERE HUMAN EVOLUTION IS HEADED – ROBOTS
JOHN CHUCKMAN COMMENTS: ON LINCOLN AND THE CIVIL WAR AND SLAVERY
JOHN CHUCKMAN COMMENT: MORE ON THE CIVIL WAR AND SLAVERY – A WORD ON JEFFERSON
JOHN CHUCKMAN COMMENT: A FEW IMPORTANT FACTORS SEEN IN REVOLUTIONS AND AMERICA’S SITUATION
JOHN CHUCKMAN COMMENTS: TO AN ARTICLE BY PATRICK COCKBURN ON AMERICA’S COMING DECLINE
JOHN CHUCKMAN COMMENTS: TO AN ARTICLE ON NATIONALISM BEING A FORCE FOR GOOD
JOHN CHUCKMAN COMMENT: BERNIE CHEATED A SECOND TIME BY THAT MOST DEMOCRATIC OF AMERICAN POLITICAL INSTITUTIONS, THE DEMOCRATIC PARTY – WHY JOE BIDEN WON’T RUN – TRUMP’S MARX BROTHERS’ IMITATION OF HOW YOU HANDLE A PANDEMIC – HE IS VULNERABLE
JOHN CHUCKMAN COMMENT: MANY THINGS SERIOUSLY WRONG WITH THE WAY AMERICA IS ORGANIZED AND GOVERNED A WRITER SAYS – NO SENSE OF THE PUBLIC GOOD IN THE COUNTRY – WHY THIS IS SO AND WHY IT CANNOT CHANGE THROUGH TRADITIONAL AMERICAN POLITICS – APPROACHING CHANGES IN THE WORLD – AMERICA’S CONTINUED DECLINE AND LOSS OF SPECIAL STATUS – THREATS AHEAD FOR WAR AND AUTHORITARIAN GOVERNMENT AS AMERICA’S ESTABLISHMENT POSSIBLY PANICS OVER NEW REALITIES
JOHN CHUCKMAN COMMENT: THE CORONAVIRUS PANDEMIC AND ITS POSSIBLE INFLUENCE ON THE FUTURE OF GLOBAL TRADE
JOHN CHUCKMAN COMMENT: SOME NOTES ON GEORGE WASHINGTON
JOHN CHUCKMAN COMMENT: AMERICA’S WAR ON INTERNATIONAL ORGANIZATIONS OF ALMOST EVERY DESCRIPTION – THE UNITED STATES AND THE RULE OF LAW – EMPIRES, LIKE DICTATORS DO NOT RECOGNIZE THE LAWS AND RIGHTS OF OTHERS – ARBITRARY MEASURES REPRESENT A RETURN TO BARBARISM AND “MIGHT MAKES RIGHT” AND AWAY FROM ENLIGHTENMENT PRINCIPLES – BUT THAT IS JUST WHERE THE US HAS BEEN HEADED FOR A WHILE – NECESSARY QUALITIES REQUIRED FOR ANY CLAIM TO DEMOCRACY
JOHN CHUCKMAN COMMENT: ARTICLE SHOWS CHANGE IN AMERICAN ATTITUDES TOWARDS WAR CRIMES BY ITS SOLDIERS OVER 50 YEARS
JOHN CHUCKMAN COMMENT: ON COMMUNISM AND PLUTOCRACY – CHINA AND AMERICA
JOHN CHUCKMAN COMMENT: NEW PRIORITIES AND LEADERS REQUIRED FOR AMERICA AFTER THE CORONAVIRUS AND THE MILITARY CANNOT GO BACK TO NORMAL SAYS A WRITER – BUT THERE IS ALMOST NO POSSIBILITY FOR SUCH DREAMY OUTCOMES – AMERICA’S MILITARY AND ITS POLITICS SERVE POWERFUL INTERESTS WHO AREN’T GOING AWAY ANY TIME SOON, THE PEOPLE WHO REALLY DO OWN AMERICA AND GIVE IT DIRECTION – SOME SPECULATION ON THE POSSIBILITY THINGS MIGHT BECOME WORSE IN POLITICAL AND EVEN MILITARY TERMS
JOHN CHUCKMAN COMMENT: EMPIRE OF HATE – TRUMP’S VILE CAMPAIGN OF HATE AGAINST CHINA – USING AMERICAN MISERY AND FEAR ABOUT THE PANDEMIC TO WIN RE-ELECTION, THE ONLY GOAL THAT EVER REALLY COUNTS FOR THIS COMPLETE NARCISSIST AND BELLOWING INCOMPETENT – CHINA’S REAL EVIL IS OUTCOMPETING THE UNITED STATES, AN UNFORGIVABLE SIN – USING HATRED AS A TOOL FOR RULING – JOE BIDEN WILL SUFFER THE UGLY OLD CHARGE OF APPEASEMENT AND MAY NOT BE ABLE TO OVERCOME IT – THE UGLY NOISES OF SMARMY SENATOR LINDSEY GRAHAM – INTERESTING NOTE ON THE REAL REASON FOR THE VIETNAM WAR – AMERICANS ARE EASILY MANIPULATED
JOHN CHUCKMAN COMMENT: WHY HONEST INFORMATION DOES NOT REACH AMERICANS EVEN WHEN IT CONCERNS DISEASE – TWO PROFOUND DIVISIONS AT WORK IN AMERICAN SOCIETY HELP GENERATE CHAOTIC THINKING – PLUS SOCIAL RESTRAINTS AGAINST EVEN THE NASTIEST WORDS ARE GONE – BUT THERE IS A UNIFIED FACE DISPLAYED ABROAD BECAUSE THE WORKS THERE ARE SOLELY BY THE DARK STATE – A WORD ON THE LACK OF RESPONSE BY AMERICANS TO THE OBVIOUS MISERY INFLICTED ON SO MANY ABROAD
JOHN CHUCKMAN COMMENT: THE SAD CONTINUED DECAY OF AMERICAN-CHINESE RELATIONS – TRUMP’S “DIPLOMACY” HAS BEEN ABSOLUTELY POISONOUS AND NOTHING GOOD CAN COME FROM IT – CHINA TAKES STEPS AGAINST AMERICAN MEDIA IN RESPONSE TO THEIR PUBLISHING DISINFORMATION ABOUT CHINA – I LOVE CHINA’S CULTURE AND ACHIEVEMENTS AND I HAVE THE HAPPIEST MEMORIES OF THE SMILES AND LAUGHTER OF CHINESE STUDENTS STUDYING IN CANADA
JOHN CHUCKMAN COMMENT: HAS AMERICA TURNED ITS “COLD” HYBRID WAR AGAINST CHINA INTO THE BEGINNINGS OF A HOT ONE WHICH KILLS AND INJURES? – CORONAVIRUS AN ENGINEERED BIO-WEAPON? – SOME VALUABLE PERSPECTIVES ON THE PANDEMIC
JOHN CHUCKMAN COMMENT – A PLAGUE OF CHOLERA AND THE BLOCKADE OF YEMEN – BLOCKADES SHOULD RIGHTLY BE COMPARED TO MASSIVE BOMBING OF URBAN AREAS
JOHN CHUCKMAN COMMENT: A BIT MORE ABOUT HITLER’S FEVERISH OBSESSION, THE INVASION OF RUSSIA – AMERICA’S SAD RECORD SINCE THE END OF WWII – ITS OWN BLOODY GLOBAL EMPIRE AND SUPPORT FOR MANY TYRANTS JUST SO LONG AS THEY FOLLOW AMERICAN POLICY – BRIEF NOTE ON THE ADMIRATION OF HITLER BY BRITISH ROYALS AND ARISTOCRATS
JOHN CHUCKMAN COMMENT: A BRILLIANT SUMMARY OF AMERICA’S POLITICAL SITUATION AND PROSPECTS FOR CHANGES IN FOREIGN POLICY – AN ANSWER TO THE QUESTION OF WHY TULSI GABBARD ENDORSED JOE BIDEN – HOW THE AMERICAN ESTABLISHMENT REMAINS THE ESTABLISHMENT
JOHN CHUCKMAN COMMENT: AMERICAN INHUMANITY ON HARSH DISPLAY – SANCTIONS ON VENEZUELA AND IRAN IN THE MIDST OF A FRIGHTENING PANDEMIC – MEMORIES OF MADELEINE ALBRIGHT AND THE TENS OF THOUSANDS OF DEAD KIDS IN IRAQ – AMERICA’S MEDAL OF FREEDOM AND ORWELL’S PARTY SLOGANS IN 1984
JOHN CHUCKMAN COMMENT: THE INORDINATE INFLUENCE OF “THE ISRAEL LOBBY” WITH WESTERN GOVERNMENTS RESULTS FROM THE INTERACTION OF TWO CIRCUMSTANCES – WESTERN GOVERNMENTS, ESPECIALLY THE UNITED STATES, HAVE PUT MONEY AT THE VERY HEART OF NATIONAL POLITICS AND JEWISH CITIZENS ENJOY AN ABOVE-AVERAGE RATE OF SUCCESS IN BUSINESS AND THE PROFESSIONS OWING TO NATURAL TALENT AND HARD WORK – EFFECTIVE CONSTANT ISRAELI MEDDLING IN WESTERN POLITICS JUST FALLS OUT OF THOSE CONDITIONS – IT REQUIRES THE ATTENTION OF LEGISLATORS TO CORRECT BECAUSE IT HAS RESULTED IN DANGEROUS AND UNFAIR SITUATIONS RANGING FROM THE BLOODY NEOCON WARS IN THE MIDDLE EAST TO THE COMPROMISE OF ESSENTIAL PRINCIPLES OF HUMAN RIGHTS AT HOME AND ABROAD
JOHN CHUCKMAN COMMENT: BIO-WEAPONS – EXPLORING A BIT OF THEIR HISTORY – PROBLEMS USING THEM – THE NATURE OF WAR AND THE PEOPLE WHO WAGE IT – HATRED MAKES PEOPLE IRRATIONAL AND WE HEAR A LOT OF PRETTY INTENSE HATRED THESE DAYS COMING FROM THE UNITED STATES
JOHN CHUCKMAN COMMENT: THE MATTER OF PUTIN’S STAYING ON IN RUSSIA – I’M OPPOSED TO “LIFETIME” LEADERS UNDER NORMAL CIRCUMSTANCES, BUT OUR CIRCUMSTANCES ARE ANYTHING BUT NORMAL – I’M GLAD IF THIS GIFTED STATESMAN CAN CONTINUE MAKING A CONTRIBUTION TO PEACE AND UNDERSTANDING – ESPECIALLY WHEN IT MEANS HE CAN WORK WITH A MAN OF XI’S SUPERB ABILITIES IN CHINA, RUSSIA’S NOW-INDISPENSABLE ALLY
JOHN CHUCKMAN COMMENT: THE NEW YORK TIMES IS THE OFFICIAL HOUSE ORGAN FOR AMERICA’S POWER ESTABLISHMENT – IT “AUTHENTICATES” THE GOVERNMENT’S MANY LIES RATHER THAN INVESTIGATE TO REVEAL THEM – IT HAS ALWAYS DONE SO – NOW IT GOES ALL SELF-RIGHTEOUS OVER SOMEONE SPECULATING ABOUT THE ORIGIN OF CORONAVIRUS AND REVIVES THE LANGUAGE OF THE COLD WAR – AND OF COURSE THE TARGET IS CHINA
JOHN CHUCKMAN COMMENT: THE QUESTION OF WHETHER THE CORONAVIRUS WILL KILL “THE NEW WORLD ORDER” SEEMS NAIVE – IT REPRESENTS A BRIEF CHALLENGE FOR THE IRRESISTIBLE, ENDURING ECONOMIC FORCES OF GLOBALIZATION – WHY THE PHRASE “NEW WORLD ORDER” IS SO UNWELCOME
JOHN CHUCKMAN COMMENT: OBJECTIONS TO JOE BIDEN – A CONSOLIDATION OF POINTS FROM SEVERAL EARLIER COMMENTS – THE FEEBLE STATE OF AMERICAN DEMOCRACY
JOHN CHUCKMAN COMMENT: THE DOWNING OF FLIGHT MH17 IN 2014 OVER UKRAINE RETURNS TO THE NEWS WITH THE QUESTIONABLE TRIAL OF (ABSENT) SUSPECTS AFTER A SHAMEFULLY LONG AND DEFINITELY INCOMPLETE INVESTIGATION – TWO KEY FACTS HAVE DRIVEN MY SUSPICIONS FROM THE START BUT THERE ARE MANY OTHER UNEXPLAINED DETAILS
JOHN CHUCKMAN COMMENT: PUTIN MAY RUN AGAIN FOR OFFICE IN 2024 DESPITE TERM LIMITS IN THE NEW RUSSIAN CONSTITUTION HE SUPPORTS – AND WE ALL HAVE GOOD REASON TO BE GLAD
JOHN CHUCKMAN COMMENT: CHINA FINALLY GIVEN SOME CREDIT FOR ITS IMMENSE AND COSTLY EFFORT IN FIGHTING CORONAVIRUS – I BELIEVE IT HAS THE VIRUS BEATEN – SO WHO SHOULD JUSTIN TRUDEAU GET ADVICE FROM? THE EMBARRASSINGLY IGNORANT TRUMP OR XI’S CAPABLE PEOPLE – TROUBLE IS TRUDEAU HAS STUPIDLY DESTROYED OUR PREVIOUSLY EXCELLENT RELATIONS WITH CHINA TO PLEASE TRUMP
JOHN CHUCKMAN COMMENT: SOME ADDITIONAL REASONS WHY JOE BIDEN IS COMPLETELY UNSUITABLE TO BE THE DEMOCRATIC PARTY’S CANDIDATE
JOHN CHUCKMAN COMMENT: CANADA’S PETER MACKAY, CONSERVATIVE PARTY LEADERSHIP CANDIDATE, MAKES GOOD SENSE AT LEAST ABOUT PROVEN SPENDTHRIFT JUSTIN TRUDEAU’S EXTREME CARBON-TAX POLICIES
JOHN CHUCKMAN COMMENT: THINK TANKS RIGHTLY CALLED “FRONTS” BY A WRITER – A WORD MUCH USED IN THE COLD WAR FOR INSTITUTIONS THE FBI THOUGHT COVERTLY SPONSORED BY THE SOVIETS FITS WELL THESE AMERICAN INSTITUTIONS SPONSORED BY AMERICAN WEALTH – WHAT THEY DO – THE HUGE ELECTROMAGNETIC CLOUD OF ADVERTISING AND PROPAGANDA IN WHICH WE ARE IMMERSED
JOHN CHUCKMAN COMMENT: THE PREVALENCE OF LYING IN AMERICA – A RATHER BOY-SCOUT APPROACH TO IT INSPIRES A RESPONSE – THE COUNTRY RESTS COMFORTABLY IN A VERY THICK WEB OF LIES COVERING ITS CONTEMPT FOR RULE OF LAW AND RUTHLESSNESS – IT NEVER ADMITS THE HORRORS IT INFLICTS ON OTHERS – DETAILS OF RECENT UGLY WORK IN UKRAINE AND VENEZUELA AND IRAN – BUT THE CLAIM IS ALWAYS MADE TO BE WORKING FOR HIGH PRINCIPLES – WHY IT CANNOT BE OTHERWISE – THE VALUES YOU CULTIVATE WITH PLUTOCRACY, MILITARISM, AND EMPIRE
JOHN CHUCKMAN COMMENT: AN AUTHOR RATHER NAIVELY ASKS WHY DOESN’T MACRON’S FRANCE OFFER ASYLUM TO JULIAN ASSANGE – HERE’S WHY
JOHN CHUCKMAN COMMENT: WE KNOW THE DEMOCRATIC ESTABLISHMENT HAS PLOTTED AGAINST BERNIE SANDERS – BUT IT DOES NO GOOD TO RUN A CANDIDATE SUCH AS BIDEN WHO IS LIKELY TO LOSE TO TRUMP – IS THERE A SECRET PLAN CONCERNING A DIVIDED CONVENTION? – THE POSSIBLE ROLE OF THE MOST ADMIRED WOMAN IN AMERICA, MICHELLE OBAMA, WHO IS FAR MORE ELECTABLE THAN BIDEN
JOHN CHUCKMAN COMMENT: THE RELATIVELY SHORT HISTORY OF THE MODERN NATION-STATE – MOST OF HUMAN HISTORY WAS DOMINATED BY POLYGLOT EMPIRES AND KINGDOMS – EARLY NATIONALISM PRODUCED DREADFUL RESULTS – A SITUATION IN AMERICA WITH UNMISTAKABLE FASCIST OVERTONES – DESPITE SETBACKS, LONG-TERM FUTURE OF “GLOBALISM” IS BRIGHT – UNAVOIDABLE POPULATION CHANGES AND MIGRATION COMING – ALL ESTABLISHED NATION-STATES ARE GOING TO LOOK AND SOUND DIFFERENT IN THE NOT-TOO-DISTANT FUTURE
JOHN CHUCKMAN COMMENT: WE ARE DOMINATED BY THE CONCERNS OF THOSE ENJOYING NEARLY ABSOLUTE POWER AND POSSESSING VIRTUALLY NO VALUES – A BRITISH WRITER OFFERS A DEFINITIVE ACCOUNT OF THE LIES CONTAINED IN THE SKRIPAL AFFAIR – AND AN ELOQUENT STATEMENT OF CONCERN FOR WHAT IT REPRESENTS IN OUR SOCIETY
JOHN CHUCKMAN COMMENT: AMERICA’S FEAR OF DEMOCRACY WAS BUILT RIGHT INTO THE STRUCTURE OF THE CONSTITUTION – AND WHILE MANY DETAILS HAVE CHANGED SINCE THE FOUNDING OF THE COUNTRY THAT FEAR REMAINS EMBEDDED IN ITS POLITICS – AS WE CAN SEE IN THE CASE OF THE DEMOCRATS AND BERNIE SANDERS
JOHN CHUCKMAN COMMENT: INTELLECTUAL PROPERTY THEFT – BOTH OLD AND NEW – I REMIND SOME AMERICAN COMMENTERS, ARROGANT ABOUT WHAT THEY REGARD AS CHINA’S BAD BEHAVIOR, A BIT ABOUT AMERICA’S OWN HISTORY AND ITS CURRENT BEHAVIOR IN THE SAME MATTER
JOHN CHUCKMAN COMMENT: ONE OF THE MIRACLES OF OUR TIME – CHINA’S RISE FROM A SECULAR VERSION OF EUROPE’S DARK AGES TO THE HIGHEST MODERNITY WITHIN HALF A CENTURY
JOHN CHUCKMAN COMMENT: A FEW THOUGHTS ON THE KILLING OF SETH RICH – UNSOLVED, ALMOST UNINVESTIGATED, AND JUST ABOUT FORGOTTEN – AMERICA’S CONTEMPORARY LUCREZIA BORGIA
JOHN CHUCKMAN COMMENT: HOW TO HAVE A POWERFUL CENSORSHIP SYSTEM WITHOUT MOST PEOPLE EVER FINDING OUT – BRITAIN’S GUARDIAN NEWSPAPER IS EXPERT AT IT – ALL WHILE IT POSES AS A PROGRESSIVE AND OPEN NEWS SOURCE
JOHN CHUCKMAN COMMENT: WHAT ANTI-SEMITISM ACTUALLY IS AND WHY IT CANNOT DESCRIBE LEGITIMATE CRITICISM OF A HEAVILY-ARMED AND ABUSIVE NATION-STATE LIKE ISRAEL
JOHN CHUCKMAN COMMENT: BERNIE SANDERS MAKES A FOOLISH ERROR – AMERICAN SECURITY SERVICES FOOL HIM WITH YET MORE VICIOUS NONSENSE ABOUT RUSSIAN ELECTION MEDDLING – HE ENDS UP SOUNDING LIKE A CROSS BETWEEN HILLARY CLINTON AND DONALD TRUMP AND YOU CAN’T GO MUCH LOWER – BUT HE IS CAMPAIGNING IN A COUNTRY WHERE VICIOUS NONSENSE PLAYS A MAJOR POLITICAL ROLE – SET OF REASONS WHY BARRELS OF TOXIC WASTE LABELLED WITH RUSSIA’S NAME KEEP REAPPEARING
JOHN CHUCKMAN COMMENT: WHY BERNIE SANDERS HAS A GOOD CHANCE OF BEATING TRUMP – TRUMP IS NOT ALL THAT POPULAR AND IS A MINORITY PRESIDENT – ONE WHO HAS FAILED TO ACHIEVE MUCH – PLUS WEAKNESS IN THE WORLD ECONOMY THREATENS AN INCUMBENT, ESPECIALLY ONE WHO DID SO MUCH TO MAKE IT WEAK – WHO ELSE DO THE DEMOCRATS HAVE WHO CAN GENERATE ANY EXCITEMENT? – THE ESTABLISHMENT’S PLOT AGAINST BERNIE – RUSSOPHOBIA ENTERS STAGE LEFT
JOHN CHUCKMAN COMMENT: AMERICA’S WAR ON HUAWEI IS JUST PART OF ITS WAR ON CHINA’S SUCCESS AND GROWING INFLUENCE IN THE WORLD – AND ALMOST EVERYONE KNOWS IT – IN THE END, AMERICA’S EFFORTS WILL MAINLY HURT AMERICAN INTERESTS – AMERICA AS A 21ST CENTURY LUDDITE
JOHN CHUCKMAN COMMENT: MORE ABOUT MICHAEL BLOOMBERG – WHAT HE APPEARS ACTUALLY TO BE DOING AS A DEMOCRATIC CANDIDATE (HE USED TO BE A REPUBLICAN) AND THE DARK STUFF BEING TURNED UP ABOUT HIM
JOHN CHUCKMAN COMMENT: THE TALE OF RUSSIA TRYING TO INFLUENCE AMERICA’S ELECTION HAS RESURFACED LIKE A BLOATED CORPSE FLOATING IN A STAGNANT POND – WHAT IS GOING ON – WHAT PUTIN ACTUALLY THINKS OF TRUMP
JOHN CHUCKMAN COMMENT: TRUMP’S LATEST GROTESQUE APPOINTMENT – A PROVEN INCOMPETENT DIPLOMAT IS MADE DIRECTOR OF ALL NATIONAL INTELLIGENCE AGENCIES – NO EXPERIENCE BUT DOGGED LOYALTY AND READINESS TO PLEASE – THE CONSIDERABLE DANGER HERE
JOHN CHUCKMAN COMMENT: IN PRAISE OF RUSSIAN FOREIGN MINISTER SERGEY LAVROV – HOW RUSSIA IS BLESSED WITH LEADERSHIP IN THESE DANGEROUS TIMES
JOHN CHUCKMAN COMMENT: THE INDIGENOUS PEOPLE’S HALTING CANADA’S RAILROADS IS HAVING A SERIOUS IMPACT ON THE ECONOMY – ESPECIALLY THE CRITICAL SYMPATHY PROTEST IN SOUTHERN ONTARIO – PROTEST OVER GAS PIPELINE ROUTE IN BC AND POLICE PRESENCE ON INDIGENOUS LAND THERE – TRUDEAU SO FAR HAS SORTED NOTHING – BUT A WAY OUT DOES SEEM REASONABLY CLEAR
JOHN CHUCKMAN COMMENT: TRUMP AND PELOSI SAID TO BE IN A DESPERATE FIGHT OVER FUTURE HEARTS AND MINDS – BUT EXCEPT FOR TRUMP’S GROTESQUELY CRUDE MANNER, I SEE LITTLE DIFFERENCE BETWEEN THE TWO PARTIES, ESPECIALLY IN FOREIGN AFFAIRS
JOHN CHUCKMAN COMMENT: TRUMP CRACKDOWN ON IMMIGRANTS SAID TO BE REDIRECTING MANY TO CANADA – GOOD AND CANADA SHOWS NO CONTEMPT FOR IMMIGRANTS – JUST A FEW MEMORABLE NAMES FROM THE PAST
JOHN CHUCKMAN COMMENT: MORE WORDS ON THAT GENUINE AMERICAN HERO, MUHAMMAD ALI – HE PAID A GREAT PRICE FOR OPPOSING AMERICA’S HOLOCAUST IN VIETNAM – A FEW OF MY FAVORITE ALI QUOTES
JOHN CHUCKMAN COMMENT: BERNIE SANDERS IS THE CANDIDATE WHO CAN BEAT TRUMP – PETE BUTTIGIEG REPRESENTS A WORRIED ESTABLISHMENT’S EFFORT TO STOP BERNIE – THE IMPORTANCE OF YOUTH AND ENTHUSIASM IN DEFEATING TRUMP – IF BERNIE DID NOTHING ELSE THAN SERVE AS THE TRASHMAN CARTING OFF TRUMP, IT WOULD BE AN ACHIEVEMENT
JOHN CHUCKMAN COMMENT: CHINA’S LACK OF DEMOCRACY IS A CONCERN FOR THE CHINESE PEOPLE, NOT FOR OTHER NATIONS TRADING WITH CHINA – FROM A TRADING COUNTRY’S PERSPECTIVE, CHINA TODAY ACTUALLY REPRESENTS A MORE OPEN AND FAVORABLE PLACE THAN THE UNITED STATES
JOHN CHUCKMAN COMMENT: THE HUMAN SPIRIT PREVAILS OVER MIND-NUMBING IDEOLOGY – FIVE-DOLLAR RUSTING REBAR LADDERS AND TRUMP’S COSTLY WALL
JOHN CHUCKMAN COMMENT: THE EXTREMELY SENSITIVE TOPIC OF “HOLOCAUST DENIAL” – THE HOLOCAUST’S CONNECTION WITH THE INVASION OF RUSSIA, THE BLOODIEST EVENT IN HUMAN HISTORY – THE LOSSES OF RUSSIA AND AMERICA AND GERMANY IN THE WAR – AMERICA’S OWN KIND OF “HOLOCAUST DENIAL” ABOUT WHO WON THE WAR – HITLER’S VISION OF GERMANY’S FUTURE AND THE ROLE OF RUSSIA – AMERICA’S “MANIFEST DESTINY” – HITLER’S HATREDS
JOHN CHUCKMAN COMMENT: LYING AND GETTING AWAY WITH IT – BUT AS CRIMES OF EMPIRE GO, LIES ARE MERE POCKET CHANGE – THE INTERLOCKING SET OF CRIMES DEFINING EMPIRE – WHETHER ELECTED FAIRLY AT HOME OR NOT, AMERICA’S GOVERNMENT LOOKS AUTHORITARIAN TO MUCH OF THE REST OF THE WORLD
JOHN CHUCKMAN COMMENT: IS SERGEI SKRIPAL OF THE INFAMOUS SKRIPAL AFFAIR, SOMEONE NOT SEEN IN TWO YEARS, IN FACT IN A BRITISH PRISON? A NEW BOOK MAKES THE CLAIM
JOHN CHUCKMAN COMMENT: A MOVING ARTICLE ABOUT THE EPIC FRENCH-VIETNAMESE BATTLE AT DIEN BIEN PHU – AMERICA DISPLAYED BREATHTAKING ARROGANCE DECIDING THEN TO GO AFTER THE VIETNAMESE – IT LOST BUT CREATED A HOLOCAUST – WHAT’S IT BEEN UP TO SINCE?
JOHN CHUCKMAN COMMENT: NEW CHARGES AGAINST CHINA’S HUAWEI FROM THE U S JUSTICE DEPARTMENT – IS THEIR WORD WORTH ANYTHING?
JOHN CHUCKMAN COMMENT: THE PROSPECT FOR REAL CHANGE IN AMERICA – SOME OBSERVATIONS ON BERNIE SANDERS AND PETE BUTTIGIEG – AMERICA’S POWER ESTABLISHMENT AND A POLITICAL SYSTEM DESIGNED TO PROTECT POWER
JOHN CHUCKMAN COMMENT: THE SILLINESS OF CALLING BERNIE SANDERS A “SOCIALIST”- HE’S AN OLD-TIME PROGRESSIVE – AND NOW WE HAVE BERNIE CLEVERLY REFERRING TO MICHAEL BLOOMBERG AS AN “OLIGARCH” WHICH AT LEAST INVOLVES A CORRECT DEFINITION
JOHN CHUCKMAN COMMENT: AMERICA’S DIRTY WAR ON INTERNATIONAL ORGANIZATIONS – NEW REVELATIONS ABOUT OPCW, THE ORGANIZATION WHICH IS SUPPOSED TO IMPARTIALLY INVESTIGATE CHEMICAL-WEAPONS CLAIMS – ITS 2019 REPORT ON DOUMA SYRIA SUPPORTING A BIG TRUMP MISSILE ATTACK WAS DISHONEST
JOHN CHUCKMAN COMMENT: A VERY UNFORTUNATE EDITORIAL IN THE INDEPENDENT ABOUT THE “REAL” CORONAVIRUS “SUPER-SPREADER”
JOHN CHUCKMAN COMMENT: GROTESQUE HYPOCRISY FROM THE US AROUND SECURITY AND HUAWEI – REVELATION OF CIA’S LONG-TERM OWNERSHIP OF SWISS COMPANY CRYPTO, WORLD’S MAIN ENCRYPTION SUPPLIER – FRIENDS AND FOES HAD ALL SECRET COMMUNICATIONS READ FOR DECADES
JOHN CHUCKMAN COMMENT: “THE PEACE PLAN” SHOULD ALWAYS BE PUT IN QUOTES – INTERESTING FACT ABOUT THE NEW YORK TIMES AND ISRAEL – CONQUEROR GENERAL DAYAN SET ISRAELI POLICY FOR HALF A CENTURY IN 1967
JOHN CHUCKMAN COMMENT: DISAPPEARANCE OF LIBERALISM IN AMERICA – A GOOD QUOTE AND A BRIEF COMMENT
JOHN CHUCKMAN COMMENT: A WRITER REFERS TO “PUTIN’S REGIME” INSTEAD OF “PUTIN’S GOVERNMENT” – USE OF THE WORD “REGIME” IS ALWAYS A RED FLAG FOR PROPAGANDA – THE VERY SMALL PERCENTAGE OF THE WORLD’S POPULATION WHO TRY RUNNING THE WORLD FROM AMERICA – NOW THERE’S A TRUE “REGIME”
JOHN CHUCKMAN COMMENT: AMERICA’S DIVIDED SOCIETY NOT ONLY GOES BACK TO THE CIVIL WAR, IT GOES BACK TO THE BEGINNING OF THE COUNTRY – A FEW INTERESTING FACTS ABOUT THE REVOLUTIONARY WAR
JOHN CHUCKMAN COMMENT: THE EXTRAORDINARY JULIAN ASSANGE GIVEN THE GARY WEBB FREEDOM OF THE PRESS AWARD – BUT WHAT OF AMERICA’S MAINLINE PRESS AND OFFICIALS AND POLITICAL CANDIDATES WHO SAY NOTHING OF HIS POLICE-STATE TREATMENT? – WHAT KIND OF SOCIETY HAS AMERICA BEEN BUILDING?
JOHN CHUCKMAN COMMENT: IMMENSE COST OF AN AMERICAN AIRCRAFT CARRIER AND LIMITS TO ITS USE IN VIEW OF ANTI-SHIP MISSILE TECHNOLOGY – NOTE ON POLISH HORSE CAVALRY OPPOSING THE WEHRMACHT IN 1939 AND GENERALS ALWAYS FIGHTING THE LAST WAR
JOHN CHUCKMAN COMMENT: RESULTS OF A LARGE POLL REVEAL CHANGING ATTITUDES TOWARDS NATO – GREAT CHANGES HAPPENING EVERYWHERE – HOW THE US USES NATO AFTER THE END OF THE USSR – SOME AMERICAN-RUSSIAN COMPARISONS – AMERICA’S DESPERATE NEED FOR A BIG ENEMY – HOW AMERICA’S PRESS WORKS TO SUPPORT EMPIRE
JOHN CHUCKMAN COMMENT: A GOOD ARTICLE RAISES THOUGHTS ABOUT THE KENNEDY ASSASSINATION – AN EVENT OF CENTRAL IMPORTANCE TO AMERICA’S CONTEMPORARY IDENTITY – ROLE OF JIM GARRISON – I OFFER A SMALL LIBRARY OF REFERENCES TO MY WRITING ON THE SUBJECT
JOHN CHUCKMAN COMMENT: AN INTERESTING ARTICLE ON TRUMP INVITES THOUGHTS ON TRUMP’S CHARACTER AND THE NATURE OF HIS “LEADERSHIP” – WHY HE SUCCEEDS POLITICALLY DESPITE CLOSE TO COMPLETE FAILURE ACHIEVING ANYTHING – COMPARE PUTIN AND XI – POWER ESTABLISHMENT HAS ITS OWN REASONS TO SUPPORT TRUMP – A GREAT UGLY TRUTH ABOUT AMERICA: HE IS THE PERFECT CONTEMPORARY PRESIDENT
JOHN CHUCKMAN COMMENT: ADDITIONAL PERSPECTIVE ON CHINA’S CORONAVIRUS OUTBREAK – CHINA’S HUGE EFFORTS – THE VIRUS IS NOT THE PLAGUE – IT IS NOT VERY LETHAL – RATE OF GROWTH ALREADY IS SLOWING – AMERICA’S EXTREME HOSTILITY AND THE SPREAD OF PANIC BY EXCESSIVE PRESS COVERAGE – ROLE OF AMERICAN DISINFORMATION
JOHN CHUCKMAN COMMENT: THE BUTTIGIEG BANDWAGON – BUTTIGIEG AS A “MANUFACTURED” CANDIDATE – WHAT HAPPENED IN IOWA TO GIVE HIM HIS “BUMP” IS NOT UNDERSTOOD AND MAY NEVER BE KNOWN – ROLE OF HILLARY CLINTON IN REPRESENTING THE DEMOCRATIC PARTY’S ESTABLISHMENT
JOHN CHUCKMAN COMMENT: IRAN AND THE UNITED STATES AND ISRAEL – TRUMP’S STATE OF THE UNION REFERENCE TO IRAN – A POISONOUS DYNAMIC THAT IS NOT ALLOWED TO CHANGE BECAUSE ISRAEL BENEFITS FROM IT – ISRAEL AND RUSSOPHOBIA
JOHN CHUCKMAN COMMENT: CHINA’S EFFORTS TO PRODUCE TOP-QUALITY NUCLEAR MISSILE SUBMARINES – AMERICA AND RUSSIA AND CHINA – NATURE OF AMERICAN HOSTILITY DIFFERENT THAN IN THE 1970s – CHINA AS A REMARKABLE, DYNAMIC COUNTRY – MOTIVATIONS FOR AMERICAN HOSTILITIES AGAINST RUSSIA AND CHINA – “MAGA” AND “AMERICAN DREAM” SILLINESS – THE COMING CRASH – GENE POOL OF AMERICAN ELITES JUST CANNOT PRODUCE LEADERS LIKE PUTIN AND XI – AMERICA OFTEN POUNDS ITS HEAD INTO WALLS – TRUMP AS HALF-MAD TELEVISION EVANGELIST
JOHN CHUCKMAN COMMENT: THOUGHTS ON THE DEATH OF A TRULY REMARKABLE ACTOR, KIRK DOUGLAS
JOHN CHUCKMAN COMMENT: A FEW THOUGHTS AROUND THE IDEA OF CAPITALISM, “CLASSICAL CAPITALISM,” NO LESS – THE MILITARY AS A HUGE “COMMAND ECONOMY”
JOHN CHUCKMAN COMMENT: TRUMP’S “STATE OF THE UNION” SPEECH AND THE UNION’S REAL STATE – A POLITICAL VERSION OF ROD SERLING’S OLD “TWILIGHT ZONE” TELEVISION SERIES – WE ARE ALL IN SERIOUS TROUBLE
JOHN CHUCKMAN COMMENT: HAS TRUMP SET THE CIA LOOSE IN IOWA? YES, AMERICAN POLITICS ARE THAT DIRTY
JOHN CHUCKMAN COMMENT: THE POLITICAL AIMS OF TRUMP’S “PEACE PLAN” APART FROM ITS OTHER INTENTIONS – IMPORTANT HIGHLIGHTS OF THE WASHINGTON-ISRAELI AXIS – ROLE OF AMERICAN JEWS IN POLITICS – COMPARE BLACKS WITH AT LEAST SIX TIMES THE POPULATION – AMERICA’S SHAMEFUL RECORD ON MONEY IN ELECTIONS A SELF-INFLICTED WOUND – HARRY TRUMAN’S POWERFUL 1948 PRECEDENT STILL HAUNTS AMERICAN POLICY – TRUMP’S GROTESQUE EXCESSES – THE NEOCON WARS – AMERICA’S LARGE POPULATION OF PEOPLE UNINTERESTED IN FOREIGN AFFAIRS – THE CONTINUING ROLE OF XENOPHOBIA AND NATIVISM IN AMERICAN POLITICS
JOHN CHUCKMAN COMMENT: OLD ABBAS ACTUALLY ACTS STRONGLY FOR THE PALESTINIANS CUTTING ALL AMERICAN AND ISRAELI TIES – DEFINING THE CONFUSION THE “PEACE PLAN” SHARES WITH MOST ISRAELIS – WHAT WE ACTUALLY LEARN ABOUT ISRAEL FROM THE AGGRESSIVE SPAMMERS THEY USE ON COMMENT SITES
JOHN CHUCKMAN COMMENT: BONE SPURS AND BOMBER JACKET
JOHN CHUCKMAN COMMENT: AMERICA’S NEW LOW-YIELD (MORE USABLE) NUCLEAR WARHEAD PROJECT ACTUALLY HAS ITS OWN LOGO – TREATING THE UNHOLY AS ORDINARY
JOHN CHUCKMAN COMMENT: PERSPECTIVE ON CHINA’S CORONAVIRUS OUTBREAK AND THE HUGE AMOUNT OF PUBLICITY IT RECEIVES – GIVEN WHAT NOW APPEARS TO BE ITS RELATIVELY LOW THREAT LEVEL, THE PUBLICITY IS OUT OF ALL PROPORTION – THE MANY COSTLY STEPS CHINA IS TAKING TO REASSURE THE WORLD – HAS THIS BECOME PART OF WASHINGTON’S NASTY HYBRID WAR ON CHINA’S SUCCESS AND INFLUENCE? – WE EVEN HAVE A CASE OF WHAT COULD BE CIA DISINFORMATION
JOHN CHUCKMAN COMMENT: CONFLICT FOR CANADA’S TRUDEAU BETWEEN APPROVING A HUGE PROMISING NEW OIL-SANDS PROJECT (TECK FRONTIER) IN NORTHERN ALBERTA AND KEEPING HIS EARLIER PROMISE ON CANADA’S FUTURE CARBON-EMISSION LEVELS, A PROMISE MADE WITHOUT FULL UNDERSTANDING OF ITS IMPACT ON ECONOMIC DEVELOPMENT OR ON THE PROVINCE OF ALBERTA’S INTENSE NEW POLITICAL ALIENATION – THAT WAS A PROMISE THAT SHOULD NOT HAVE BEEN MADE – YOU MIGHT THINK IT WOULD BE EASY TO BREAK GIVEN TRUDEAU’S RECORD OF PROMISES IN OTHER VERY IMPORTANT MATTERS
JOHN CHUCKMAN COMMENT: THE DESTRUCTIVE OUTCOME OF TRUMP’S IMPEACHMENT – UGLY PRECEDENTS SET FOR THE FUTURE – ACCOMMODATING A MAN WITH PERHAPS THE MOST DANGEROUS PERSONALITY EVER TO SERVE AS PRESIDENT AND ASSURING HIS RE-ELECTION – IS AMERICA GIRDING FOR TERRIBLE NEW BATTLES? – THE CONSTITUTION’S BALANCE OF POWERS – HAS AMERICA CROSSED THE RUBICON?
JOHN CHUCKMAN COMMENT: JOURNALIST PATRICK COCKBURN’S INTERESTING OBSERVATIONS ON A WORLD HE REGARDS AS DISINTEGRATING – BUT HE LEAVES OUT AN IMPORTANT CONSIDERATION – THE ROLE OF THE UNITED STATES AND ITS ANGRY REACTION AGAINST CHANGE HAVING SENT SHOCKWAVES THROUGH THE PLANET – AMERICA AS A SLOW AND BRUTAL LEARNER
JOHN CHUCKMAN COMMENT: A FEW WORDS ABOUT MICHAEL BLOOMBERG’S CANDIDACY – AN ESTABLISHMENT FIGURE OF SOME CHARM AND ABILITY – A SAFE CHOICE TO TELL THE WORLD AMERICA IS RETURNING TO ITS SENSES – BUT AMERICA IS NOT RETURNING TO ITS SENSES – IT IS RESENTFUL AND CHILDISHLY ANGRY AND IT IS “MOONING” THE ENTIRE PLANET AND TRUMP FITS THE NEED PERFECTLY – UPDATE INFORMATION ON BLOOMBERG AS A DARKER FIGURE THAN I KNEW
JOHN CHUCKMAN COMMENT: TRUMP’S IMPEACHMENT TRIAL – LAWYER ALAN DERSHOWITZ OFFERS A DANGEROUS PRINCIPLE OF DEFENSE – BUT IT IS ONLY IN KEEPING WITH MUCH OF AMERICA’S LAWLESS BEHAVIOR IN THE WORLD TODAY – AND IT COMES AT A POINT WHEN THE TRIAL APPEARS READY TO CLOSE WITHOUT EVEN LISTENING TO KEY TESTIMONY
JOHN CHUCKMAN COMMENT: NATIVISM AND TRIBALISM IN INTERNATIONAL TRADE AND AFFAIRS – BRITAIN’S NIGEL FARAGE AND BREXIT – THE INDISPUTABLE LONG-TERM FUTURE FOR INTERNATIONAL TRADE AND RELATIONS IS IN PRECISELY THE OPPOSITE DIRECTION – FARAGE AND TRUMP ONLY REPRESENT PAUSING A WHILE ALONG THE WAY TO SUBDUE A VICIOUS SPASM OF HICCUPS
JOHN CHUCKMAN COMMENT: IRAN AND AMERICA – AMERICA’S CEASELESS, STUPID HOSTILITY OF MORE THAN FORTY YEARS – NOW IRAN WILL CAMPAIGN LONG AND HARD AND VERY SUBTLY FOR AMERICA TO LEAVE ITS REGION – AMERICA WILL NOT COMPLETELY LEAVE THE MIDDLE EAST OWING TO THE IMPERIAL COLONY CALLED ISRAEL – WHAT ISRAEL COULD DO TO MAKE THE REGION A BETTER PLACE FOR EVERYONE – BUT TRUMP’S “PEACE PLAN” GOES JUST THE OPPOSITE WAY WITH PALESTINIANS TREATED AS A HERD TO BE PENNED IN
JOHN CHUCKMAN COMMENT: TRUMP’S BIZARRE PEACE PLAN FOR THE MIDDLE EAST – IT HAS NOTHING TO DO WITH PEACE AND IS DEAD ON ARRIVAL – ANOTHER STUNNING DIPLOMATIC EFFORT BY A MAN WITH A LONG LIST OF FAILURES – WINDOW-DRESSING FOR PERMANENT NEW APARTHEID ARRANGEMENTS AS SHAMELESS AND UNFAIR AS THOSE OF FORMER NATIONALIST SOUTH AFRICA
JOHN CHUCKMAN COMMENT: THOUGHTS ON BREXIT – FORCES BEHIND IT – SOME PROSPECTS FOR BRITAIN, THE EU, AND THE UNITED STATES – BRITAIN HOPES TO PLAY ROBIN TO AMERICA’S BATMAN – EUROPE, WITHOUT BRITAIN’S STEADY PULL TOWARDS AMERICA, SHOULD LOOK EAST WHERE THE FUTURE REALLY LIES – AMERICA CANNOT FREE ITSELF FROM THE SELF-IMPOSED PRISON OF A MILITARY/SECURITY STATE CREATED FOR EMPIRE
JOHN CHUCKMAN COMMENT: DANISH PRIME MINISTER TRAVELS TO ISRAEL FOR HOLOCAUST REMEMBRANCE – BUT HER PURPOSE IS ACTUALLY SOMETHING ELSE AND RATHER DARK – THE HOLOCAUST WAS EUROPEAN AND HAD NOTHING TO DO WITH THE MIDDLE EAST – SOMETHING PEOPLE LOSE SIGHT OF – ISRAEL HOLDS THE MEMORY CAPTIVE FOR ITS OWN PURPOSES OF EXPLOITING AND ABUSING OTHERS
JOHN CHUCKMAN COMMENT: CHINA’S CLAIMS IN THE SOUTH CHINA SEA AND ITS FORTIFIED ISLANDS
JOHN CHUCKMAN COMMENT: A HEAVY DOSE OF SARCASM, WELL EARNED, FOR BRITAIN’S GUARDIAN NEWSPAPER
JOHN CHUCKMAN COMMENT: THE NATURE OF AMERICAN IMPEACHMENT – A POLITICAL ACT DESPITE BEING SET BY A RIGID CONSTITUTION – SOME OF THE CONSTITUTION’S MANY SHORTCOMINGS – ITS AUTHORS HAD LITTLE INSIGHT INTO THE COUNTRY’S FUTURE – HUGE UNANTICIPATED IMPORTANCE OF POLITICAL PARTIES – CONSTITUTION OFTEN IGNORED BY WASHINGTON, ESPECIALLY WHERE RIGHTS ARE CONCERNED – HOW EMPIRE HAS DESTROYED LIMITS ON PRESIDENTIAL POWER – HOW AMERICA’S POLITICAL CULTURE OF EVERYONE HAVING THEIR OWN TRUTHS SUPPORTS POLITICAL IMPEACHMENT – AMERICA’S VIGOROUS WORK TOWARDS CREATING WORLD CHAOS
JOHN CHUCKMAN COMMENT: BRITISH LABOUR PARTY LEADERSHIP RACE AND THE UGLY INFLUENCE OF SPECIAL INTEREST CHARGES OF “ANTI-SEMITISM” – A POISONOUS ACCUSATION USED TO DEFEND A HEAVILY-ARMED STATE THAT ABUSES AND BLOODIES MILLIONS FORCED TO LIVE UNDER ITS AUTHORITY – FOREIGN INTERFERENCE IN BRITISH ELECTIONS – WEAK POLITICIANS WHO FAIL TO CALL ON TRUTH – ISRAEL’S TERRIBLE “DEMOCRATIC VALUES” – TRUE LIBERALISM IS DEAD IN ISRAEL AND IN AMERICA – EMPIRE AND PRIVILEGED COLONIES HAVE NO ROOM FOR IT
JOHN CHUCKMAN COMMENT: ON MARTIN LUTHER KING DAY AN ARTICLE SPEAKS OF THE FBI’S VILIFICATION OF KING – BUT IT WAS MUCH HARSHER THAN VILIFICATION – THE FBI HAS A TERRIBLE RECORD – AND IN MANY OF ITS ACTIVITIES IT RESEMBLES EAST GERMANY’S OLD DREADED STASI
JOHN CHUCKMAN COMMENT: “WE HAVE MET THE ENEMY AND HE IS US” – A NEW PARLIAMENTARY COMMITTEE IN CANADA IS TO LOOK INTO THE COUNTRY’S TROUBLED RELATIONS WITH CHINA – BUT YOU DON’T NEED A COMMITTEE – YOU JUST NEED TO OPEN YOUR EYES – JUSTIN TRUDEAU’S SERVILITY TO TRUMP EXPLAINS THE SITUATION COMPLETELY
JOHN CHUCKMAN COMMENT: TRUMP’S STUNNING LINE OF DEFENSE IN THE IMPEACHMENT TRIAL
JOHN CHUCKMAN COMMENT: BORIS JOHNSON ORDERS TALKS FOR AN AMERICAN TRADE DEAL WITH TRUMP TO BEGIN DAY AFTER BREXIT – BRITAIN IS GOING TO PAY A SERIOUS PRICE – LEAVING THE EU, ESPECIALLY NOW, IS FOOLISH – WHERE THE UNITED STATES IS RIGHT NOW – THE NARCISSISTIC NATURE OF ALL TRADE TALKS WITH TRUMP
JOHN CHUCKMAN COMMENT: BORIS JOHNSON THROWS AWAY A CHANCE TO IMPROVE RELATIONS WITH RUSSIA – RESUSCITATING THERESA MAY’S IMPOSSIBLY SICK FANTASY OF A “SALISBURY ATTACK” OR “SKRIPAL AFFAIR” – AND DEMONSTRATING JUST HOW SUBSERVIENT BRITISH LEADERS ARE NOW TO THE WHIMS OF THE UNITED STATES
JOHN CHUCKMAN COMMENT: IS IT JUST THE SILLY SEASON OR AM I BECOMING SENILE? – MEGHAN AND HARRY AGAIN – NO, I THINK I JUST LIKE THE CHANCE TO SORT THE REALITIES OF CHARACTERS AND CLAIMS HERE MUCH AS I DO FOR STATESMEN – AND I FIND A LOT OF PHONY CLAIMS AND DISINFORMATION IN THIS STORY – HARRY TELLS PEOPLE HOW HE FEELS ABOUT WHAT HAS HAPPENED – BUT JUST WHAT HAS HAPPENED? – MY INTERPRETATION OF EVENTS WHICH ARE BEING PORTRAYED VERY DIFFERENTLY
JOHN CHUCKMAN COMMENT: IMPEACHMENT CALLED “A MALICIOUS INDICTMENT” – TIRESOME INCORRECT STUFF FROM THE RIGHT WING – AND TRUMP HAS COMMITTED SO MANY CRIMES AND STUPIDITIES NOW THAT GETTING RID OF HIM WOULD RAISE AMERICA’S STATURE
JOHN CHUCKMAN COMMENT: AMERICA IS REDUCED TO OFFICIAL STATE MURDER IN RETURN FOR CAMPAIGN FUNDING
JOHN CHUCKMAN COMMENT: MUHAMMAD ALI – A GENUINE HERO
JOHN CHUCKMAN COMMENT: CAN YOU IMAGINE THE LARGE AND FRANTIC BUREAUCRACY REQUIRED FOR TRUMP’S ONGOING SANCTIONS LUNACY ? – AND DEFINING THE REAL DIFFERENCES BETWEEN AMERICA’S DEMOCRATS AND REPUBLICANS – CONSEQUENCES OF EMPIRE
JOHN CHUCKMAN COMMENT: A RATHER LIGHT AND FLUFFY SUBJECT BUT ONE TOUCHING SOME IMPORTANT PRINCIPLES – MEGHAN AND HARRY COMING TO LIVE IN CANADA – CANADA’S RELATIONSHIP WITH BRITAIN AND THE CROWN’S ROLE IN CANADA’S GOVERNMENT – NO ROOM FOR RESIDENT ROYALS
JOHN CHUCKMAN COMMENT: CANADA’S TRUDEAU GOVERNMENT CONTINUES ITS SHAMELESS SHILLING FOR TRUMP – NOW CALLING FOR A SEPARATE “CRIMINAL” INVESTIGATION OF THE CRASH OF UKRAINE INTERNATIONAL AIRLINES FLIGHT 752 IN IRAN – THIS HAS NOT BEEN THE PRACTICE FOR MILITARY DOWNINGS OF CIVILIAN AIRLINERS INCLUDING SEVERAL BY THE UNITED STATES AND ONE BY ISRAEL – IT IS A DISTRACTION FROM TRUMP’S 35 PUBLIC MURDERS IN IRAQ, THE CAUSE OF ALL THE INTENSE NEW HOSTILITIES
JOHN CHUCKMAN COMMENT: A FASCINATING SUGGESTION CONCERNING THE DESTRUCTION OF UKRAINE INTERNATIONAL AIRLINES FLIGHT 752 IN IRAN – DID AMERICAN CYBER-WARFARE PLAY A ROLE?
JOHN CHUCKMAN COMMENT: AMERICAN DEMOCRACY LOOKING MORE THREADBARE AND MEAGRE THAN EVER – THE IMPOVERISHED FIELD OF DEMOCRATIC CANDIDATES – FOCUS ON JOE BIDEN’S RECORD OF LYING AND SLEAZE – DEMOCRATS SUPPORT WARS AND COUPS AND SPECIAL INTERESTS JUST LIKE TRUMP – TRUMP’S SITUATION SUMMED UP
JOHN CHUCKMAN COMMENT: HOW WORDS ARE USED IN OUR NEWS SOURCES TO GIVE IMPRESSIONS THAT MAY NOT BE ACCURATE – A NOTE ON THE PERNICIOUS AND WIDESPREAD PRACTICE OF “FACT CHECKING”
JOHN CHUCKMAN COMMENT: IF IT’S TRUE PUTIN’S BIG NEW REFORMS IN THE GOVERNMENT OF RUSSIA ARE ABOUT HIS BEING ABLE TO HOLD ONTO POWER LONGER, THAT MIGHT NOT BE SUCH A BAD IDEA – HE REPRESENTS AN IMPORTANT FORCE FOR GEO-POLITICAL SANITY IN OUR WORLD
JOHN CHUCKMAN COMMENT: HOW TO RUN A ONCE-GREAT COMPANY INTO THE GROUND…OR EVEN AN ENTIRE COUNTRY
JOHN CHUCKMAN COMMENT: IRAN’S ACCIDENTAL DOWNING OF AN AIRLINER – WE ALREADY DO KNOW WHAT HAPPENED – AND THE ONE PERSON WHO SHOULD BE CHARGED, DONALD TRUMP, CERTAINLY WILL NOT BE – ETHICS AND THE RULE OF LAW SHOULD STILL MATTER – BUT NOT TO OUR POLITICIANS SHILLING FOR TRUMP AND LYING ABOUT IRAN – WHAT KIND OF A WORLD DO YOU WANT FOR YOUR CHILDREN? – CALLS FOR PUNISHING IRAN IGNORE THE BIG TRUTHS AND IGNORE HOW PAST AIRLINER SHOOTDOWNS BY AMERICA AND ISRAEL WERE TREATED
JOHN CHUCKMAN COMMENT: ON THE NATURE OF TRUMP’S LEADERSHIP AND OF HIS FOLLOWERS – SOME ASPECTS OF AMERICAN SOCIETY PERHAPS NOT WIDELY UNDERSTOOD
JOHN CHUCKMAN COMMENT: IRAN APOLOGIZED FOR ITS TERRIBLE MISTAKE – HOW DID THE UNITED STATES BEHAVE AFTER IT DESTROYED AN IRANIAN AIRLINER IN 1988 ? – SUMMARY OF THE IMMENSE PRESSURE THE UNITED STATES HAS PUT IRAN UNDER FOR DOING NOTHING BUT FOLLOWING THE RULES – THE DEATH AND DESTRUCTION TOLL OF AMERICA’S NEOCON WARS IN THE MIDDLE EAST
JOHN CHUCKMAN COMMENT: MEGHAN AND HARRY – ABOUT AS FAR AS YOU CAN TRAVEL FROM THE WEIGHTY MATTERS OF WORLD AFFAIRS
JOHN CHUCKMAN COMMENT: THE WAY RELIGIOUS DIVISIONS FLOW OVER INTO POLITICAL AND GEOPOLITICAL DIVISIONS – MUSLIM WORLD NOT UNIQUE – EUROPE’S HISTORY FOR CENTURIES WAS MARKED BY THE CATHOLIC-PROTESTANT DIVISION – AND PEOPLE OFTEN FORGET THAT “THE WEST” IS ABOUT CONTROL OF OTHER PLACES AND DIVISIONS CAN ASSIST IN THE TASK – POSTED TO AN ARTICLE REMINDING THAT MANY MIDDLE EASTERN INFLUENCES LABELLED AS “IRANIAN” ARE REALLY “SHIA”
JOHN CHUCKMAN COMMENT: ASSASSINATION IS AN ACT OF WAR AND THE ONLY REASON ANYONE WOULD THINK OTHERWISE
JOHN CHUCKMAN COMMENT: MORE AMERICAN OBFUSCATION ABOUT WHAT THE MURDERED IRANIAN GENERAL SOLEIMANI WAS DOING – WE KNOW EXACTLY WHAT HE WAS DOING – HE WAS EVEN TRAVELLING ON A DIPLOMATIC PASSPORT – AMERICA’S “GULF OF TONKIN INCIDENT SYNDROME” IN MATTERS OF EMPIRE
JOHN CHUCKMAN COMMENT: THE NEXT DECADE IS CHINA’S – THE MAGNIFICENT BELT AND ROAD INITIATIVE GIVES CHINA A GALAXY OF PROJECTS FOR FUTURE WORK WHILE ESTABLISHING RELATIONSHIPS AROUND THE GLOBE AND CHANGING THE WORLD’S ECONOMIC GEOGRAPHY
JOHN CHUCKMAN COMMENT: ADDITIONAL THOUGHTS ON TRUMP’S IRAN CRISIS – THE CONTINUING DANGER TRUMP REPRESENTS – AMERICAN IMPERIAL DECLINE – ISRAEL’S DELETERIOUS INFLUENCE – AMERICA’S DISMAL FAILURES IN THE MIDDLE EAST
JOHN CHUCKMAN COMMENT: ALMOST PLANNED – THE INTERIM OUTCOME OF TRUMP’S STUPID ASSASSINATION OF A NATIONAL HERO AND IRAN’S REPRISAL MISSILE ATTACK – ALTHOUGH IT AIN’T OVER ‘TIL IT’S OVER – EYE-OPENING INSIDER STUFF ABOUT TRUMP’S TREATMENT OF IRAQ
JOHN CHUCKMAN COMMENT: SAUDI ARABIA AND THE UNITED STATES AND IRAN AND ISRAEL – WHAT REALLY DRIVES THIS SET OF RELATIONSHIPS? – WE NOW HAVE THE VERY OPPOSITE OF ENDING SENSELESS WARS IN THE MIDDLE EAST UNDER TRUMP’S LEADERSHIP – HE NEEDLESSLY EXPOSES US TO THE EXTREME DANGER OF THE BIGGEST WAR OF ALL THROUGH HIS TIRELESS SERVICE TO ISRAEL’S SPECIAL INTERESTS – WAS GENERAL SOLEIMANI’S ASSASSINATION AN ISRAEL SPECIAL PROJECT?
JOHN CHUCKMAN COMMENT: AMERICA’S DISTURBING MODERN HISTORY WITH IRAN – AND NOW WE CAN ADD STATE TERROR – A FEW WORDS ON MURDERED GENERAL QASEM SOLEIMANI – IRAQ IS ORDERING THE AMERICAN MILITARY OUT – A BIG STEP IF IT CAN BE ENFORCED AGAINST THOSE STILL HAPPILY STEALING OIL IN SYRIA – PUTIN’S REACTION TO THE SET OF THREATS AGAINST IRAN WILL BE IMPORTANT
JOHN CHUCKMAN COMMENT: “IT IS A TALE TOLD BY AN IDIOT, FULL OF SOUND AND FURY, SIGNIFYING NOTHING” – AMERICA’S RECENT ACTIONS AGAINST IRAN AND OTHER STATES – TWO DELUSIONS DRIVE AMERICA LIKE AN ENRAGED FANATIC – AND THERE IS NO ESCAPE FROM THE MANY DANGERS THEY THREATEN
JOHN CHUCKMAN COMMENT: TRUMP’S BEHAVIOR TOWARDS IRAN IS INSANE – BUT IT WILL NOT SPARK WAR – IRAN’S LEADERS ARE CAUTIOUS CHESS PLAYERS – PAYBACK WILL BE CAREFULLY CONSIDERED – FORTY YEARS OF OPEN AMERICAN HOSTILITIES DEMONSTRATE THAT – PERHAPS IT’S TIME FOR IRAN TO RECONSIDER NUCLEAR WEAPONS?
JOHN CHUCKMAN COMMENT: WHY NATIONALISM IS NOT A POSITIVE FORCE IN HUMAN AFFAIRS – AMERICA’S VERSION CALLED “PATRIOTISM” SHOULD PROVIDE A WARNING WITH ITS ALMOST RELIGIOUS NATURE AND INTOLERANCE AND READINESS TO PUT ITS LAW ABOVE EVERYONE ELSE’S – AND SOME OUTFITS IT SUPPORTS IN UKRAINE DO FRIGHTENINGLY RESEMBLE 1930s BROWNSHIRTS – THE UNPLEASANT LOYALTY OATH FOR CHILDREN – FOOTBALL AND THE NATIONAL ANTHEM
JOHN CHUCKMAN COMMENT: WHEN FACTS AND LOGIC NO LONGER MATTER – HOW AMERICA’S POWER ESTABLISHMENT WORKS AT HOME AND ABROAD – WHY IT CANNOT BE CHANGED BY AMERICANS – CHANGE IS COMING THOUGH – FROM OUTSIDE – RESPONSE TO AN ARTICLE BY THE LATE ROBERT PARRY
JOHN CHUCKMAN COMMENT: NOTES ON THE INSANITY GRIPPING THE UNITED STATES – RUSSO-PHOBIA AND MEANINGLESS WARS – WITH THOUGHTS ON THE NATURE OF PROPAGANDA
JOHN CHUCKMAN COMMENT: THOUGHTS RAISED BY A STEPHEN F. COHEN ARTICLE – RUSSO-PHOBIA AND IMPEACHMENT – TRUMP AND PUTIN AND THE AMERICAN ESTABLISHMENT – THE REAL PROBLEM IN AMERICA THAT SUCCESS OR FAILURE OF IMPEACHMENT CANNOT POSSIBLY SORT OUT
JOHN CHUCKMAN COMMENT: “THOSE WHOM THE GODS WISH TO DESTROY THEY FIRST MAKE MAD” – TEXTBOOK EXAMPLE BOTH OF JOURNALISM BENT TO PROPAGANDA AND THE ABSURD LENGTHS TO WHICH AMERICA’S WITCH-HUNT RUSSO-PHOBIA IS TAKEN – MONTY PYTHON TAKES ON THE RUSSIAN NAVY
JOHN CHUCKMAN COMMENT: VARIOUS THOUGHTS ON THE FUTURE OF AIRCRAFT CARRIERS – ALREADY NEW TECHNOLOGIES CHALLENGE THEIR USEFULNESS IN TRADITIONAL ROLES – SOME COMMENTATORS HAVE DECLARED THEM VIRTUALLY OBSOLETE AND AS OFFERING ONLY DRAMATIC HIGH-VALUE TARGETS
JOHN CHUCKMAN COMMENT: TRUMP’S INHERENT BELLIGERENT AND ARGUMENTATIVE CHARACTER – THE ARTICLE TO WHICH THIS RESPONDS CLAIMS THE CAMPAIGN-FINANCE SYSTEM IS RESPONSIBLE FOR HIS FAILURE TO PURSUE PEACE – WHAT IS REVEALED BY TRUMP’S APPROACH TO TRADE – PUTTING THE LIE TO THOSE WHO CLAIM OTHERS FRUSTRATE HIM FROM SEEKING PEACE
JOHN CHUCKMAN COMMENT: DONALD TRUMP AND THE EVANGELICAL CHRISTIANS – A GREAT POLITICAL MYSTERY – AN EXPLORATION FROM SOMEONE WHO ONCE, LONG AGO, WAS PART OF THAT COMMUNITY
JOHN CHUCKMAN COMMENT: YET ANOTHER RIGHT-WING WRITER TRIES PORTRAYING TRUMP AS A PEACE-ORIENTED PRESIDENT – THIS TIME IN THE CONTEXT OF HIS IMPEACHMENT – I OFFER A FAIRLY COMPREHENSIVE LIST OF TRUMP’S EFFORTS FOR “PEACE”
JOHN CHUCKMAN COMMENT: SURE SOUNDS LIKE DISINFORMATION FROM CANADA – DOCUMENTS SHOW TURKEY TURNED DOWN CANADA’S OFFER TO HELP INVESTIGATE KHASHOGGI MURDER IN 2018 – IT IS SIMPLY UNBELIEVABLE THAT THEN-FOREIGN MINISTER CHRYSTIA FREELAND WOULD DO ANYTHING TO TARNISH A MAJOR AMERICAN INTEREST LIKE THE SAUDI CROWN PRINCE
JOHN CHUCKMAN COMMENT: AMERICA’S DENSE HAZE OF LIES – ARTICLE REVEALS SURPRISING TRUTHS ABOUT AMERICAN PRESS TREATMENT OF VENEZUELA
JOHN CHUCKMAN COMMENT: FURTHER THOUGHTS ON TRUMP’S IMPEACHMENT AND THE EXTREME DIVISIONS NOW CHARACTERIZING AMERICAN SOCIETY
JOHN CHUCKMAN COMMENT: THE SINGLE-STATE SOLUTION TO ISRAEL AND PALESTINE IS REASONABLE TO ALL REASONABLE PEOPLE – BUT IT HAS THE SAME BASIC PROBLEM AS THE TWO-STATE SOLUTION – AND THAT IS THE UNITED STATES – WHICH IS UNABLE TO PLAY ITS REQUIRED ROLE AS HONEST BROKER
JOHN CHUCKMAN COMMENT: MY RESPONSE TO THE NOTION OF AMERICA’S IMPEACHMENT BEING A “DEMOCRACY-DEFINING” MOMENT – YOU HAD BETTER LOOK A LITTLE MORE CLOSELY AT EVENTS BEFORE TOSSING AROUND SUCH HIGH-BLOWN AND EMPTY WORDS – ALSO REVEALS DEEP DIVISIONS IN AMERICAN SOCIETY
JOHN CHUCKMAN COMMENT: IMMENSE FRAGMENTATION OBSERVED IN THE UNDERSTANDING OF PEOPLE ABOUT WHAT IS HAPPENING IN OTHER LANDS – IT IS NOT AN ACCIDENT – THE PURPOSE IT SERVES – THE FORCES AT WORK – HOPES FOR THE FUTURE
JOHN CHUCKMAN COMMENT: A PROMISING DEVELOPMENT IN CANADA’S POLITICS – THE TALENTED AND EXPERIENCED JEAN CHAREST MAY JOIN THE RACE FOR A NEW CONSERVATIVE PARTY LEADER
JOHN CHUCKMAN COMMENT: BORIS JOHNSON’S BRITISH ELECTION VICTORY -MAJOR REASONS FOR AN OUTCOME SURE TO BRING PAIN INSTEAD OF RELIEF – SERIOUS WEAKNESS IN WESTERN DEMOCRATIC INSTITUTIONS – JOHNSON ECHOES TRUMP’S BULLYING UGLINESS IN ALMOST EVERY DETAIL, DIFFERING ONLY BY AN ETON ACCENT AND A SCHOOLBOY SMILE – THE “SPECIAL RELATIONSHIP” IS ABOUT TO GET A WHOLE NEW MEANING
JOHN CHUCKMAN COMMENT: CANADA’S CHRYSTIA FREELAND RECEIVES SO MANY NEW RESPONSIBILITIES FROM JUSTIN TRUDEAU SHE IS CALLED BY A (PRO-TRUDEAU) COLUMNIST “MINISTER OF EVERYTHING” – IN ORDINARY LIFE FAILURE IN ALMOST EVERYTHING YOU’VE UNDERTAKEN DOESN’T QUALIFY YOU FOR BIG NEW RESPONSIBILITIES – BUT POLITICS CAN BE DIFFERENT – FREELAND IS WELL LIKED BY TRUMP’S STATE DEPARTMENT AND WITH A TRULY WEAK LEADER LIKE TRUDEAU THAT’S ALL THE MERIT REQUIRED
JOHN CHUCKMAN COMMENT: THE ROLE OF SATAN IN MODERN AMERICAN SOCIETY – THE CONSTANT NEED FOR AN ENEMY AS AN IMPORTANT PART OF THE COUNTRY’S PURITAN HERITAGE
JOHN CHUCKMAN COMMENT: SAUDI ARABIA AND ISRAEL AND AMERICAN MIDEAST POLICY – THOUGHTS INSPIRED BY AN EXCELLENT PHILIP GIRALDI ARTICLE – WHAT AMERICA’S POLICY SHOULD BE AND WHY IT CANNOT BE THAT – INSTEAD AMERICA INTRODUCES RISK AND UNCERTAINTY PLUS UNWARRANTED HOSTILITY AND COUNTLESS NEW WEAPONS INTO THE REGION
JOHN CHUCKMAN COMMENT: TRUMP’S BIZARRE NEW EXECUTIVE ORDER ABOUT ISRAEL AND “ANTI-SEMITISM” AND DEFINING A RACE
JOHN CHUCKMAN COMMENT: FURTHER THOUGHTS ON RUSSIA-GATE – INSPIRED BY A RE-PRINTED ARTICLE BY THE LATE ROBERT PARRY – RUSSIA-GATE HAD AT LEAST TWO MAJOR PURPOSES – AMERICA’S PAST ANTI-RUSSIAN HYSTERIA PROVIDED FERTILE GROUND – AMERICANS AS CONDITIONED AS PAVLOV’S DOGS – HILLARY CLINTON OBAMA AND TRUMP – THE DISHONESTY OF BOTH MAJOR PARTIES WHO DO NOT WANT TO EXAMINE MANY MATTERS – TREATMENT OF ASSANGE IS VERY TELLING ABOUT THE REALITIES OF WANTING TO GET TO THE BOTTOM OF ANYTHING
JOHN CHUCKMAN COMMENT: A SURPRISING “YES, VIRGINIA, THERE IS A SANTA CLAUS” ARTICLE TRIES TO DISTINGUISH THE AMERICAN PEOPLE FROM THE AMERICAN EMPIRE – BUT YOU SIMPLY CANNOT DO THAT – APART FROM THE SHEER SENTIMENTALITY OF “DON’T CONFUSE JIMMY STEWART WITH LYNDON JOHNSON,” IT IS JUST A FALSE ARGUMENT – I EXPLAIN WHY
JOHN CHUCKMAN COMMENT: AN INTERESTING ARTICLE ON “MIND CONTROL” RAISES THOUGHTS ON TRUTH AND THE HUMAN CONDITION AND WHETHER INDEED WE ALL REALLY ARE ALONE IN THE UNIVERSE – HARD REALITIES OF POWER – A FEW WORDS ON THE EXAMPLE OF THE KENNEDY ASSASSINATION
JOHN CHUCKMAN COMMENT: A HISTORY FEW AMERICANS APPRECIATE TODAY – WHY THE GREAT AMERICAN JOURNALIST AND HISTORIAN, WILLIAM L SHIRER, ONCE SAID AMERICA COULD BE THE FIRST COUNTRY TO GO FASCIST VOLUNTARILY
JOHN CHUCKMAN COMMENT: THE USELESS EXERCISE OF INVESTIGATING WHETHER A PARTICULAR KILLING WAS “TERROR” – IT HELPS NO ONE AND ONLY SEEKS NEW PROVOCATIVE HEADLINES FOR “THE WAR ON TERROR” – THE WORLD’S ONLY GENUINE TERROR OPERATION IS AMERICA’S MASSIVE STATE TERROR – ALL KILLERS ARE INSANE, WHETHER TEMPORARILY OR CLINICALLY, AND NO ONE UNDERSTANDS THE INSANE
JOHN CHUCKMAN COMMENT: A WORTHY ARTICLE ABOUT THE COUP IN UKRAINE BY THE LATE ROBERT PARRY – AMERICA’S ONGOING DIRTY TRICKS WITH THE LIVES OF OTHERS AND THE ROLE OF ITS PAID PLUG-UGLIES
JOHN CHUCKMAN COMMENT: JUST HOW FAR DOES CIA GO IN SOME OF ITS TERROR PROGRAMS? WE LEARNED UNFORGETTABLE THINGS ABOUT CIA’S WORK DURING THE VIETNAM WAR – THE SECRET EXECUTIONS OF TENS OF THOUSANDS OF CIVILIANS IN OPERATION PHOENIX – AND SHIPPING DRUGS HOME ON COMPANY-OWNED AIR AMERICA FOR OFF-THE-BOOKS FUNDING
JOHN CHUCKMAN COMMENT: INTERESTING ARTICLE SAYS ALL GREAT STATES IN THE LAST CENTURY HAVE BEEN “KILLER STATES” – I REVIEW AMERICA’S RECORD DURING THE TIME ITS CITIZENS ENJOYED “THE AMERICAN DREAM”
JOHN CHUCKMAN COMMENT: A DIRECTIONLESS STATE FALLING BACK ON FIXATIONS OF 70 YEARS AGO INSTEAD OF WORKING TO MAKE ITSELF A BETTER PLACE
JOHN CHUCKMAN COMMENT: YES, TRUMP IS DREADFUL – BUT HE IS NOT THE CENTRAL PROBLEM – NOT NEARLY – AMERICAN PROGRESSIVES ALMOST WELCOME TREATING HIM AS A PRIEST TREATS SATAN – AS A CONVENIENCE ON WHICH TO BLAME ALL OF AMERICA’S SINS
JOHN CHUCKMAN COMMENT: AMERICA WORKS HARD TO BUILD A GIANT GLOBAL WALL OF SANCTIONS – ONLY SPEEDING THE DAY OF ITS OWN DECLINE
JOHN CHUCKMAN COMMENT: MORE OF A SAVAGE IN A SUIT THAN A STATESMAN – PUTIN’S SECRET STRATEGY IN HIS RELATIONS WITH TRUMP – DOING MORE DAMAGE THAN ANY SECRET WEAPON COULD
JOHN CHUCKMAN COMMENT: HOW TRUMP GETS AWAY WITH SO MANY THINGS – EXPLAINED BY THE CHARACTER OF HIS POLITICAL BASE – AMERICA’S SUITABILITY FOR WORLD LEADERSHIP
JOHN CHUCKMAN COMMENT: EXCEPT PERIPHERALLY, OIL HAS NOTHING TO DO WITH THE SYRIAN WAR – SYRIA WAS ONE OF SEVEN STATES THE PENTAGON PLANNED TO TOPPLE WAY BACK NEAR 9/11 – WHY DIRECT INVASION USED ON IRAQ WAS NOT REPEATED ON SYRIA – AMERICAN USE OF TERROR – NEOCON WARS ARE A BLOODY YEARS-LONG URBAN-RENEWAL PROJECT FOR ISRAEL’S NEIGHBORHOOD – IRAN WAS ALSO ON THE LIST AND MAY HAVE ESCAPED ITS FATE THROUGH ITS RECENT IMPRESSIVE DISPLAY OF NEW WEAPONS – BACKGROUND OF AMERICA AND THE 1980S IRAQ-IRAN WAR – HEAVY IRAQI USE OF AMERICAN-SUPPLIED CHEMICAL WEAPONS
JOHN CHUCKMAN ESSAY (REPOSTED FOR THE HOLIDAYS): AND TO ALL A GOOD NIGHT…A CONTEMPORARY CHRISTMAS TALE
JOHN CHUCKMAN COMMENT: ISIS AND SYRIA AND AMERICA’S ILLEGAL PRESENCE THERE – WHAT THE SYRIAN WAR, DISGUISED AS A CIVIL WAR, HAS ALWAYS BEEN ABOUT- THE SAME THING AS THE REST OF THE NEOCON WARS – AND IT’S NOT OIL
JOHN CHUCKMAN COMMENT: THE FANTASTICAL NOTION OF AN AMERICAN “LIBERAL ESTABLISHMENT” – THE REALITIES OF LIBERALISM IN AMERICA – THE CONCEPT HAS ABOUT AS MUCH SUBSTANCE AS RUSSIAN INTERFERENCE IN AMERICAN ELECTIONS – BUT MILLIONS EMBRACE THAT TOO
JOHN CHUCKMAN COMMENT: NATO DEFENDS US FROM NOTHING – HOW THE UNITED STATES USES NATO NEARLY THIRTY YEARS AFTER THE COLLAPSE OF THE SOVIET UNION AND THE RED ARMY – THREATS FROM RUSSIA? AN ALMOST RIDICULOUS NOTION – WHAT RUSSIA IS DOING IN ITS OWN VAST LAND
JOHN CHUCKMAN COMMENT: AN ARTICLE ABOUT ALL THE DISHONESTY OVER UKRAINE MEDDLING BRINGS TO MIND THE GENERAL STATE OF AFFAIRS IN AMERICA – THE NATURE OF TRUTH AT THE CENTER OF EMPIRE – WHY THE CONFUSION AND BELLOWING AND CONSTANT LIES OF DONALD TRUMP MAKE HIM ALMOST A PERFECT REPRESENTATIVE FOR AMERICA TODAY
JOHN CHUCKMAN COMMENT: THE BRITISH PEOPLE FACE A FUNDAMENTAL QUESTION IN THE CURRENT ELECTION – DO THEY WANT SPECIAL INTERESTS TO DIRECT THEIR NATION’S AFFAIRS OR DO THEY WANT OPEN DEMOCRATIC DEBATE OVER POLICY?
JOHN CHUCKMAN COMMENT: THE TWO THINGS DEFINITELY TO AVOID AT THE NATO SUMMIT ARE THE VERY TWO THINGS THE UNITED STATES IS PRESSURING EVERYONE TO DO – BANNING HUAWEI AND SPENDING MORE ON THE MILITARY – BOTH RESEMBLE PIECES OF ADVICE FROM A DRUNKEN SAILOR
JOHN CHUCKMAN COMMENT: CHINA’S MAGNIFICENT EFFORT TO TERRAFORM THE GOBI DESERT – THE GREAT GREEN WALL AGAINST DESERTIFICATION – AN EFFORT ONLY CHINA COULD UNDERTAKE – ITS ABILITY TO MARSHAL VAST RESOURCES IN WELL-ORGANIZED PLANS IS ONE OF THE GREAT STRENGTHS OF THE COUNTRY’S SYSTEM
JOHN CHUCKMAN COMMENT: FURTHER THOUGHTS ON NORTH KOREA – TRUMP’S GO-NOWHERE INITIATIVE AND A CHAOTIC AMERICAN GOVERNMENT – POWERFUL EXAMPLE OF IRAN’S REACTION TO GUNBOAT DIPLOMACY – EXISTENTIAL MOTIVES OF NORTH KOREA – A TERRIBLE HISTORY – ATOMIC WEAPONS OTHER PLACES HAVE BEEN TREATED DIFFERENTLY – AMERICA’S URGE TO CONTROL THIS REGION OF ASIA IS AT THE HEART OF THE PROBLEM AND WHY NO CONCESSIONS ARE OFFERED IN “NEGOTIATIONS” WHICH APPEAR TO INCLUDE ONLY DEMANDS
JOHN CHUCKMAN COMMENT: PROBLEMS WITH WIKIPEDIA ARE THE SAME ONES WE SEE WITH ALL AMERICAN INTERNET HI-TECH GIANTS – THEY FAITHFULLY SERVE AMERICA’S POWER ESTABLISHMENT – EFFORTS OF AMERICA’S ESTABLISHMENT RESEMBLE THOSE OF THE CATHOLIC CHURCH LONG AGO – IT IS ALWAYS A BATTLE TO ESTABLISH TRUTH
JOHN CHUCKMAN COMMENT: REASONS FOR AMERICA’S UGLY INTERVENTION IN VENEZUELA – AMERICA’S LACK OF SYMPATHY WITH RULE OF INTERNATIONAL LAW CONFIRMED YET AGAIN – A RATHER FASCIST-LIKE AMERICAN IMPULSE OBSERVED LONG AGO REMAINS ACTIVE – NO APOLOGIES FOR THE HOLOCAUST OF VIETNAM
JOHN CHUCKMAN COMMENT: AN INSIGHTFUL LITTLE ARTICLE RAISES FURTHER THOUGHTS ON TRUMP’S TRADE WAR AGAINST CHINA – TRUMP’S METHODS – ON GLOBALIZATION AND THE LONG-TERM INEVITABILITY OF MUCH GREATER TRADE AND MIGRATION – THE BACKWARDNESS OF “MAGA” – ON EXCEPTIONALISM – THE IMPORTANCE OF COMPETITION IN THE WORLD ECONOMY
JOHN CHUCKMAN COMMENT: TWO KEY NATO MEMBERS CALLING NAMES IN PUBLIC? – FRANCE AND TURKEY – I TAKE IT AS A SIGN OF AMERICA’S DECLINE IN PRESTIGE AND INFLUENCE – A FEW THOUGHTS ABOUT MACRON AND ERDOGAN
JOHN CHUCKMAN COMMENT: TURKEY TESTS ITS RUSSIAN S-400 ANTI-AIRCRAFT RADARS AGAINST AMERICAN FIGHTERS IT ALREADY USES – NEW AMERICAN SANCTION THREATS – AMERICANS JUST CANNOT HANDLE TURKEY’S ERDOGAN – WHY THE THREATS ARE A WASTE OF BREATH
JOHN CHUCKMAN COMMENT: HOW MOSCOW VIEWED ISRAEL AS AN AMERICAN NUCLEAR-ARMED THREAT FIFTY YEARS AGO – AN IMPORTANT INSIGHT INTO MIDDLE EAST AFFAIRS OF THE TIME – AND AN IMPORTANT CLUE ABOUT ISRAEL’S COMPLEX NATURE – SOMETHING RARELY DISCUSSED IN THE WEST
JOHN CHUCKMAN COMMENT: POLLS IN BRITAIN ARE LOOKING FAVORABLE FOR ANOTHER DONALD TRUMP BEING ADDED TO THE STOCK OF WESTERN LEADERSHIP – BORIS JOHNSON IS A DANGEROUS MAN
JOHN CHUCKMAN COMMENT: HOW HIGH THE CARBON TAX MUST REACH – JUST SOME OF THE REASONS IT IS A TERRIBLE IDEA – GOVERNMENT IS TERRIBLE AT FINDING CREATIVE NEW APPROACHES TO ANYTHING – AND MUCH OF THE TAX WILL JUST BE PUT INTO GENERAL REVENUE TO COVER IRRESPONSIBLE DEFICITS – GERMAN GOVERNMENT’S COSTLY WINDMILL FAILURE – BUT GERMAN INDUSTRY WANTS RUSSIAN GAS AND LOTS OF IT
JOHN CHUCKMAN COMMENT: RETHINKING CANADA’S ROLE IN THE WORLD? – BUT THAT HAS ALREADY BEEN DONE – JUST NOT BY CANADA
JOHN CHUCKMAN COMMENT: OUR PRESS’S INTERPRETATION OF LOCAL HONG KONG COUNCIL ELECTIONS FOLLOWING WEEKS OF VIOLENT DEMONSTRATIONS SEEMS QUITE DISTORTED – WHEN A SLOGAN ABOUT DEMOCRACY CAN MEAN SOMETHING ELSE ENTIRELY – IN FACT REVOLUTIONS ARE OFTEN MINORITY AFFAIRS – CLEAR EXAMPLE OF AMERICA
JOHN CHUCKMAN COMMENT: IN LIGHT OF PUTIN’S WORDS ABOUT LIVING IN CAVES WITHOUT HYDROCARBONS – SOME IMPORTANT FACTS ABOUT AMERICA’S SHALE-OIL PRODUCTION TRUMP HAS EXPRESSED SUCH CHILDISH ENTHUSIASM OVER
JOHN CHUCKMAN COMMENT: WAS PHYSICIST ROBERT OPPENHEIMER A SOVIET SPY? – THE SOVIETS’ EXCEPTIONALLY STRONG HUMAN INTELLIGENCE NETWORKS OF THE 1940s AND 1950s – AMERICA AND SCARY ATTITUDES TOWARDS ATOMIC WEAPONS AS ITS ESTABLISHMENT READIED THEMSELVES TO ASSUME WORLD DOMINANCE AFTER WWII
JOHN CHUCKMAN COMMENT: SWEDEN HAS PLAYED A TRULY UNSAVORY ROLE IN THE JULIAN ASSANGE AFFAIR – UNDOUBTEDLY UNDER AMERICAN PRESSURE – BUT STILL SWEDEN USED TO BE SOMETHING COMPLETELY DIFFERENT – A FEW REFLECTIONS ON THE SWEDEN THAT USED TO BE
JOHN CHUCKMAN COMMENT: THE SITUATION BETWEEN NORTH AND SOUTH KOREA – AMERICA’S ROLE IN KEEPING THINGS JUST AS THEY ARE
JOHN CHUCKMAN COMMENT: AMERICA TAKES A DEADLY NEW STEP IN ITS DISPLAY OF ANTAGONISM TOWARDS CHINA – ONE THAT COULD WELL DESTROY THE RELATIONSHIP – HENRY KISSINGER’S WARNING – AMERICA’S INABILITY TO SHOW ANY UNDERSTANDING OR EMPATHY FOR THOSE IT HAS DECLARED TO BE “ADVERSARIES”
JOHN CHUCKMAN COMMENT: YET AGAIN TRUMP GIVES WHAT IS NOT HIS TO GIVE – THE MATTER OF THE LEGALITY OF JEWISH SETTLEMENTS ON PALESTINIAN LANDS – CONTEMPT FOR THE RULE OF LAW FROM THE “LEADER OF THE FREE WORLD” – WHY TRUMP DOES WHAT HE DOES FOR ISRAEL’S NARROW INTERESTS – ISRAEL’S STATUS VIS-A-VIS AMERICA – HISTORICAL OBSERVATIONS ON THE IDENTITY OF CONTEMPORARY JEWS VERSUS THE ANCIENT HEBREW PEOPLE
JOHN CHUCKMAN COMMENT: WORDS ABOUT “LIBERALS” AND BOLIVIA’S COUP BRING SOME THOUGHTS – AMERICA’S WIDESPREAD MISUSE OF THE WORD “LIBERAL” – CAN YOU BE A LIBERAL AND SUPPORT A BRUTAL EMPIRE? – THE GENERALLY UNNOTED ROLE OF WHITE SUPREMACISM IN AMERICA’S COUPS AND INTERVENTIONS
JOHN CHUCKMAN COMMENT: VLADIMIR PUTIN SPEEDS UP HIS PREVIOUS FORECAST OF THE COLLAPSE OF THE DOLLAR AND I’M INCLINED TO THINK HE IS RIGHT
JOHN CHUCKMAN COMMENT: CLIMATE CHANGE AND THE QUESTION OF HUMAN AGENCY – BASIC REALITIES OF FOSSIL FUELS – BASIC PROBLEMS WITH MAJOR ALTERNATIVE ENERGY SOURCES – THE NATURE OF JUSTIN TRUDEAU, THE MAN WHO IS GOING TO PITCH POOR CANADA INTO A COSTLY GRETA THUNBERG CRUSADE – TRUDEAU TOES THE LINE OF TRUMP’S MURDEROUS CHAOTIC INTERNATIONAL POLICIES – YET IN THE VITAL DOMESTIC ECONOMIC MATTER OF ENERGY HE IGNORES TRUMP AND WANTS TO DRIFT OFF INTO FEEL-GOOD FANTASY
JOHN CHUCKMAN COMMENT: JORDAN’S KING ABDULLAH FLIES ALL THAT WAY TO TALK WITH JUSTIN TRUDEAU ABOUT “EXTREMISM” – DOES IT GET ANY SILLIER? – BUT INEPT TRUDEAU GETS TO PLAY STATESMAN FOR THE CAMERAS AND THE KING GETS A BREAK FROM TAKING PARADE SALUTES IN JORDAN – BOTH WILL DUTIFULLY IGNORE THE WORLD’S PRIME EXAMPLE OF VIOLENT EXTREMISM
JOHN CHUCKMAN COMMENT: POPE HAS DOUBTFUL NOTION ABOUT ADDING “ECOLOGICAL SINS” TO CHURCH TEACHING – BUT HE DOES TRY TO BE CREATIVE AND MODERNIZE THE CHURCH – AND AT LEAST HE DOES NOT SERVE THE HELLISH DEMONS OF TRUMP
JOHN CHUCKMAN COMMENT: HONG KONG PROTESTS TAKE NEW TURN IN VIOLENCE – THE GREAT IRONY OF HONG KONG’S TRULY SORDID BRITISH HISTORY – THE FIRST OPIUM WAR – CHINA’S RESPONSE YET REMAINS RESTRAINED COMPARED TO ANY OTHER SUCH CIVIL DISTURBANCE WE SEE – COMPARE MACRON’S BLOODY TOLL ON THE STREETS OF PARIS AGAINST THE “GILETS JAUNES”
JOHN CHUCKMAN COMMENT: TRUMP NOW WANTS JAPAN TO TO PAY FOUR-TIMES AS MUCH FOR ITS OCCUPATION BY AMERICANS – THE DECADES-LONG GRIM REALITIES OF AMERICA’S OCCUPATION FOR ORDINARY JAPANESE – WHAT JAPAN SHOULD DO BUT CANNOT…YET
JOHN CHUCKMAN COMMENT: TRUMP PARDONS SOME GENUINE AMERICAN WAR CRIMINALS AGAINST ADVICE OF SENIOR OFFICERS – TRUMP ALWAYS MANAGES TO FIND THE LOW ROAD – DOING SO IS JUST PART OF HIS POLITICAL PHILOSOPHY
JOHN CHUCKMAN COMMENT: THE ANTI-IMPEACHMENT STUFF JUST INCREASES IN ITS OUTRAGEOUSNESS – NOW WE’RE TALKING OF COUPS – SIMPLY IGNORANT AND DANGEROUS – TRUMP’S CHARACTER AND HIS BASE POLITICAL SUPPORT SUCCINCTLY CHARACTERIZED – THE NATURE OF CONSTITUTIONAL IMPEACHMENT
JOHN CHUCKMAN COMMENT: I DO BELIEVE OBAMA FORMED A “GET-TRUMP” TASK FORCE – BUT AMERICA HAS FAR DEEPER PROBLEMS THAN WHAT THAT REPRESENTS FOR LEGITIMATE GOVERNMENT – WHY, EXCEPT IN MATTERS OF STYLE AND CIVILITY AND TASTE, IT GENUINELY MAKES LITTLE DIFFERENCE WHO IS ELECTED PRESIDENT – THE OFFICE SIMPLY DOES NOT POSSESS THE POWER SO MANY BELIEVE THAT IT DOES
JOHN CHUCKMAN COMMENT: A FEW WORDS ON AMERICAN TRIUMPHALISM FOLLOWING ITS BELIEF IN “WINNING” THE COLD WAR – BUT THERE IS ANOTHER UNDERLYING CHRONIC CONDITION WHICH DRIVES AMERICA’S TRAGIC SITUATION OF WAR AGAINST SO MUCH OF THE WORLD
JOHN CHUCKMAN COMMENT: SEARCHING FOR LOGIC IN THE DETAILED WORKINGS OF AMERICAN EMPIRE – A FRUITLESS TASK
JOHN CHUCKMAN COMMENT: DEMONSTRATORS IN HONG KONG TAKE A DANGEROUS NEW TURN – WHY CAN’T THE UNITED STATES JUST LEAVE OTHERS IN PEACE? BUT THAT IS JUST WHAT BULLIES DO
JOHN CHUCKMAN COMMENT: WHY DO PEOPLE CHEER OFTEN EVENTS HAVING NO RELATIONSHIP TO THEIR OWN WELFARE? HUMAN BEHAVIOR IS SIMPLY NOT ALL SUBJECT TO RATIONAL ANALYSIS
JOHN CHUCKMAN COMMENT: A NOTE ON JOHN MCCAIN’S REMARKABLY BAD CHARACTER – PLUS A REVEALING REFERENCE IN THE CONTROVERSY OVER J. EDGAR HOOVER’S ETHNICITY
JOHN CHUCKMAN COMMENT: TRUMP’S NEW “PASTOR” PAULA WHITE – “BRINGING TRUMP TO CHRIST” OR BRINGING MILLIONS OF CHUMPS IN FOR ANOTHER FLEECING?
JOHN CHUCKMAN COMMENT: FOUNDER OF ONE OF THE GREAT FRAUDS OF OUR TIME, THE WHITE HELMETS IN SYRIA, IS FOUND DEAD – HE WAS A BRITISH MI6 AGENT
JOHN CHUCKMAN COMMENT: PUBLIC EDUCATION AND THE MATTERS OF BULLYING AND VIOLENCE – SCHOOLS ARE NOT EQUIPPED TO HANDLE THEM – AND TRUTH BE TOLD, IT’S NOT CLEAR OUR SOCIETY DOES REGARD THEM AS EVILS – JUST LOOK AT WHO GOVERNS US
JOHN CHUCKMAN COMMENT: RUSSIA’S HUGE TU-160 BOMBER LEAVES TWO PURSUING JAPANESE F-35 FIGHTER-INTERCEPTORS BEHIND IN ITS EXHAUST FUMES – THE F-35 IS IN SO VERY MANY WAYS A PERFECT SYMBOL OF WHAT AMERICA ITSELF HAS BECOME
JOHN CHUCKMAN COMMENT: A BRIEF RECAP OF SAUDI ARABIA AND 9/11 – SAUDI ARABIA NOW LOYALLY SERVES AMERICA’S BLOODY MAKEOVER OF THE MIDDLE EAST
JOHN CHUCKMAN COMMENT: POSSIBLE DARK IMPLICATIONS OF UNTHINKING CALLS FOR POPULATION CONTROL IN THE NAME OF CONTROLLING POLLUTION OR CLIMATE
JOHN CHUCKMAN COMMENT : ARTIFICIAL INTELLIGENCE – OH, BRAVE NEW WORLD, INDEED
JOHN CHUCKMAN COMMENT: THOUGHTS AND SPECULATION ABOUT TRUMP’S POSSIBLE IMPEACHMENT
JOHN CHUCKMAN COMMENT: THE REALITIES OF CHINA’S HUAWEI 5G NETWORKS AND SECURITY MATTERS – THERE ARE NONE – ECONOMIC WAR IS BEING WAGED ON CHINA AND THE WORD OF AMERICAN OFFICIALS SIMPLY CANNOT BE TRUSTED ON ANYTHING REGARDING A COUNTRY WHICH IT TRIES TO DOMINATE RATHER THAN COMPETE WITH
JOHN CHUCKMAN COMMENT: REMARKS FROM AN ARMS EXPERT ON OUR PRESS NOT GIVING PUTIN’S WORK THE RECOGNITION IT DESERVES IN THE SYRIAN WAR – ROLE OF THE WESTERN PRESS IN AMERICA’S IMPERIAL UNDERTAKINGS
JOHN CHUCKMAN COMMENT: IRAN TAKES ITS FOURTH MEASURED STEP AWAY FROM THE TERMS OF THE NUCLEAR TREATY – AND THERE’S NO ONE TO BLAME BUT TRUMP HIMSELF WITH HIS ANGRY-CHILD DESTRUCTION OF A WORKING TREATY AND HIS VICIOUS SANCTIONS AND THREATS AGAINST 80 MILLION INNOCENT PEOPLE
JOHN CHUCKMAN COMMENT: AMERICA’S SUSAN RICE WARNS CANADA TO AVOID HUAWEI’S 5G NETWORKS – THIS FROM SOMEONE WHO HELPED DESTROY LIBYA, SYRIA, AND YEMEN WHILE CHINA WAS AT PEACE AND BUILDING HUMANITY’S GREATEST-EVER BENEFICIAL PROJECT, THE SILK ROAD
JOHN CHUCKMAN COMMENT: CANADA’S POLITICAL TRAIN WRECK OF A PRIME MINISTER, JUSTIN TRUDEAU, SETS AS HIS FIRST BIG POST-ELECTION TASK NOT TO REPAIR SOME OF THE DAMAGE HE HAS CAUSED CANADA BUT TO TRY GAINING HIMSELF VALIDATION AND STATUS IN NEW YORK WITH A U.N. SECURITY COUNCIL NON-PERMANENT SEAT
JOHN CHUCKMAN COMMENT: TRUMP’S OCCUPATION OF SYRIAN OIL FIELDS – WHY IT IS NOT SUSTAINABLE FOR ANY TIME – WHY IT WAS EVEN DONE
JOHN CHUCKMAN COMMENT: THE GREAT, OFTEN-UNSEEN DANGER OF BREXIT: A COMPREHENSIVE TRADE DEAL WITH TRUMP’S AMERICA THAT WOULD DESTROY MANY ASPECTS OF BRITISH SOCIETY – THE EU HAS ITS BUREAUCRATIC ANNOYANCES BUT TRUMP’S AMERICA OFFERS A PERMANENT RELATIONSHIP WITH THE MAFIA
JOHN CHUCKMAN COMMENT: A FINE EXAMPLE OF A LOGICAL FALLACY CALLED THE STRAW-MAN ARGUMENT – SOMETHING USED SO OFTEN IN PROPAGANDA – THE GREATNESS OF CANADA’S PIERRE TRUDEAU
JOHN CHUCKMAN COMMENT: JUST WHY UKRAINE’S NEW PRESIDENT CANNOT MAKE PEACE IN THE EASTERN REGION DESPITE WANTING TO – RUSSIAN INVASION TALES ARE DISINFORMATION – PUTIN REJECTED EASTERN UKRAINE’S REQUEST TO JOIN RUSSIAN FEDERATION – ROLE OF NEO-NAZIS IN UKRAINE TODAY – AMERICA’S PURPOSE IN UKRAINE’S 2014 COUP – BIDEN’S ROLE IN UKRAINE
JOHN CHUCKMAN COMMENT: A TROOP INFLOW/OUTFLOW LOOK AT TRUMP’S SYRIA “WITHDRAWAL” – WHAT GENERATES SUCH ABSURDITIES? – THE IMMENSE IMPORTANCE OF MONEY IN AMERICAN POLITICS – IMPERIAL POLICY TO SERVE PLUTOCRACY
JOHN CHUCKMAN COMMENT: NONSENSE GENERATED ABOUT THE “DEATH” OF AL-BAGHDADI – AND THE FATE OF INTELLIGENCE ASSETS WHO ARE NO LONGER USEFUL OR WHO SOMEHOW THREATEN EXPOSURE AND EMBARRASSMENT – EXAMPLES OF JEFFREY EPSTEIN AND ROBERT MAXWELL
JOHN CHUCKMAN COMMENT: SURVIVING A MINORITY PARLIAMENTARY GOVERNMENT IN CANADA – FALSE PARALLELS BETWEEN A GREAT NATIONAL LEADER LIKE THE LATE PIERRE TRUDEAU AND A PROVEN INADEQUATE ONE LIKE THE CURRENT JUSTIN TRUDEAU
JOHN CHUCKMAN COMMENT: SOLVING THE PROBLEMS ASSOCIATED WITH PLASTIC BOTTLES – WE NEED TO SOLVE DISPOSAL AND RECYCLING PROBLEMS – NOT JUST BAN SOMETHING SO VERY HELPFUL IN EVERYDAY LIFE
JOHN CHUCKMAN COMMENT: AN ARTICLE PORTRAYS PENTAGON OFFICIALS AS HAVING CONVINCED TRUMP ON THE BASIS OF HIS GREED TO MAKE OCCUPYING SYRIAN OIL FIELDS PART OF HIS “WITHDRAWAL” – MY DOUBTS OWING TO THE REMARKABLY LARGE AND DETAILED AMOUNT OF INSIDER INFORMATION WE HAVE ABOUT TRUMP’S BASIC NATURE – HE’S GREEDY BUT THAT’S NOT WHAT IS DOMINANT HERE – WE HAVE ANOTHER ASPECT OF HIS TOTAL OBSESSION WITH BEING RE-ELECTED, AND THAT IS ISRAEL
JOHN CHUCKMAN COMMENT: THE REMARKABLE CLAIM THAT TRUMP UNDERSTANDS WHAT CONGRESS DOES NOT: SYRIA IS NOT AMERICA’S WAR – MY GOD, THAT’S TAKING POLITICAL SUPPORT INTO THE TWILIGHT ZONE – HERE IS EXACTLY WHAT TRUMP UNDERSTANDS ABOUT SYRIA AND WHY HE MAKES THE BIZARRE EFFORTS HE DOES – “FOREIGN POLICY” IS A TERM YOU CAN’T EVEN APPLY TO THIS MANIC FIGURE READY TO DO ANYTHING FOR RE-ELECTION – WHEN A WITHDRAWAL IS NOT A WITHDRAWAL
JOHN CHUCKMAN COMMENT: CANADA’S CRACKERJACK FOREIGN AFFAIRS TEAM OF TRUDEAU AND FREELAND FINALLY GETS AROUND TO APPOINTING A NEW AMBASSADOR TO CHINA – ABOUT NINE MONTHS AFTER THE PREVIOUS ONE WAS FIRED – THIS ALL IN A PERIOD OF TERRIBLE RELATIONS WITH ONE OF THE WORLD’S MOST IMPORTANT COUNTRIES CREATED BY ONE BLUNDERING ACT AFTER ANOTHER FROM THE SAME TEAM
JOHN CHUCKMAN COMMENT: THE MORE THINGS CHANGE THE MORE THEY ARE THE SAME – A PRO-LIFE CANDIDATE’S CONCERN THAT SOME VOTERS CAN’T TAKE HIM AT HIS WORD ABOUT HIS VIEW BEING PERSONAL ONLY WITH NO BEARING ON LEGISLATION OR POLICY – I AM REMINDED OF THE DAYS WHEN PEOPLE WOULD NOT VOTE FOR A CATHOLIC – I HEARD SOME PRETTY UGLY WORDS ABOUT JOHN KENNEDY WHEN I WAS A TEENAGER
JOHN CHUCKMAN COMMENT: ON TRUMP’S WATCHING THE ATTACK ON AL-BAGHDADI – POSED IMAGES ACCORDING TO FORMER WHITE HOUSE PHOTOGRAPHER – TRUTH ABOUT THE ROLE OF ISIS AND AL-BAGHDADI – JOHN MCCAIN AND AL-BAGHDADI – ALMOST EVERYTHING WE SEE AND HEAR ABOUT SYRIA FROM THE CORPORATE PRESS IS DISINFORMATION COVERING AMERICA’S DARK INTENTIONS
JOHN CHUCKMAN COMMENT: CANADIAN GOVERNMENT MINISTER SPEAKS OF “MEDDLING AND MISINFORMATION” ON THE INTERNET DURING THE ELECTION – WHY I FIND SUCH TALK UNWELCOME – SOME HISTORY – IF YOU CRITICIZE ANYTHING OF THIS NATURE YOU NEED TO BE SPECIFIC AND NOT VAGUE – AND A RECORD OF MISINFORMATION FROM THE TRUDEAU GOVERNMENT ITSELF
JOHN CHUCKMAN COMMENT: MORE ON THE REPORTED AMERICAN KILLING OF ISIS LEADER AL-BAGHDADI – TRUMP’S BELIEVABILITY WHILE HE YET AGAIN CHANGES WHAT HE IS DOING IN SYRIA – IN ALL MATTERS TRUMP CANNOT DISTINGUISH BETWEEN TRUTH AND WHAT HE WANTS TO BE TRUE – NATURE OF ISIS
JOHN CHUCKMAN COMMENT: IT’S JUST BRED IN THE BONE – EVEN IN AN OTHERWISE EXCELLENT SOMEWHAT-TECHNICAL DISCUSSION OF RUSSIAN AFFAIRS, AN AMERICAN JUST CANNOT HELP DROPPING BITS OF RUSSOPHOBIC LITTER
JOHN CHUCKMAN COMMENT: EVENTS IN SYRIA – THE KILLING OF ISIS LEADER ABU BAKR AL-BAGHDADI AND THE SENDING OF AMERICAN TROOPS BACK INTO NORTHEASTERN SYRIA, THIS TIME WITH HEAVY ARMOR – WHAT TRUMP IS REALLY DOING
JOHN CHUCKMAN COMMENT: GRETA THUNBERG WORKING HER MAGIC IN VANCOUVER – HER THIRD TIME DOING A 1933-STYLE RANT TO A STREET CROWD IN A CANADIAN CITY – I WISH SHE’D SHARE A BIT MORE WITH OTHERS AND PARTICULARLY IN THE COUNTRIES WHERE WHAT SHE IS RANTING ABOUT IS AN INCOMPARABLY LARGER PHENOMENON THAN IT IS IN CANADA – WE HAVE NO SCIENTIFIC CERTAINTY ABOUT THE CAUSE OF CURRENT CLIMATE CHANGE – AND RANTING HELPS NOTHING
JOHN CHUCKMAN COMMENT: MARIA BUTINA FINALLY RELEASED BY THE UNITED STATES – HERE IS THE BEST MEASURE OF THE RUSSO-PHOBIA SICKNESS GRIPPING THE UNITED STATES
JOHN CHUCKMAN COMMENT: MADNESS STRIKES AMERICA AGAIN – TRUMP INTENDS TO WITHDRAW FROM THE “OPEN SKIES” TREATY WITH RUSSIA – HERE IS WHAT DRIVES AMERICA’S FRIGHTENING BEHAVIOR ABROAD – IT IS HARD TO SEE ANY HOPE FOR CHANGE EVEN IN THE UNLIKELY EVENT OF TRUMP BEING REMOVED
JOHN CHUCKMAN COMMENT: PUTIN’S MAGNIFICENT INITIATIVE FOR AFRICA – RUSSIA AS ALL THAT AMERICA SHOULD HAVE BEEN
JOHN CHUCKMAN COMMENT: WHAT JUSTIN TRUDEAU’S “WIN” OF A MINORITY GOVERNMENT IN CANADA REALLY MEANS – “WESTERN DEMOCRACY” PARLIAMENTS ARE CHARACTERIZED BY ELECTION SYSTEMS THAT DELIVER RULE WITH A MINORITY OF VOTES – AMERICA HAS AN EVEN MORE DEVIOUS SYSTEM
JOHN CHUCKMAN COMMENT: THE PRICE OF TRUTH IN THE UNITED STATES AND IN THE PLACES IT DOMINATES – A MOVING PIECE ON WHAT HAS BEEN DONE TO JULIAN ASSANGE
JOHN CHUCKMAN COMMENT: ANOTHER HARE-BRAINED IDEA FROM TRUMP: LEAVING TWO HUNDRED SPECIAL FORCES BEHIND TO CONTROL SYRIA’S OIL – WHAT DRIVES TRUMP’S EVERY MOVE IN FOREIGN POLICY IS NOT IN FACT FOREIGN POLICY – EXACTLY WHAT THE SYRIAN WAR WAS ABOUT – THE TERRIBLY FAILED, DYSFUNCTIONAL DEMOCRATIC PARTY WILL MANAGE TO RE-ELECT TRUMP IF IT DOESN’T MANAGE TO IMPEACH HIM
JOHN CHUCKMAN COMMENT: A SENIOR RETIRED AMERICAN GENERAL SUGGESTS A COUP AGAINST TRUMP, TRIGGERING THOUGHTS ABOUT THE GRIM STATE OF AFFAIRS AT THE CENTER OF AMERICAN EMPIRE – KENNEDY DEFINITELY FEARED A MILITARY COUP BUT THE CIA GOT TO HIM FIRST – NOT A LOT NEW IN THE PLOTTING AGAINST TRUMP NOR IN THE CLOSE-TO-ABSOLUTE CORRUPTION THAT REIGNS IN WASHINGTON – ET APRES NOUS, LE DELUGE
JOHN CHUCKMAN COMMENT: A FUNDAMENTAL PROBLEM FOR VOTERS UNDER GOVERNMENTS WHICH STYLE THEMSELVES AS AT ALL DEMOCRATIC: DETECTING LIES – THE UNFORTUNATE ATTRACTION OF HIGH-LEVEL POLITICS FOR PSYCHOPATHS AND NARCISSISTS
JOHN CHUCKMAN COMMENT: MIKE POMPEO ADDS ANOTHER TO THE SERIES OF INSANE STATEMENTS COMING FROM WASHINGTON
JOHN CHUCKMAN COMMENT: I HOPE THE ADMIRABLE DAVID ATTENBOROUGH ISN’T JOINING GRETA THUNBERG’S CHILDREN’S CRUSADE
JOHN CHUCKMAN COMMENT: ACTING AS A NAZI ISN’T RESTRICTED BY ETHNICITY OR RELIGION – EVERY GROUP IS PERFECTLY CAPABLE OF PRODUCING SOME PEOPLE WITH THIS BEHAVIOR – AS WE SEE TODAY AMONGST SOME DESCENDENTS OF THE NAZIS’ MOST TERRIBLE VICTIMS – ISRAEL AND ITS TREATMENT OF THE PALESTINIANS
JOHN CHUCKMAN COMMENT: OBAMA HAD A FINE SMILE AND NEVER MADE THE RUDE LUNATIC NOISES OF TRUMP SO THERE ARE PEOPLE WHO THINK HE WAS A GOOD MAN – BUT VIOLENCE AND SECRECY WERE HIS TRUE GIFTS
JOHN CHUCKMAN COMMENT: AMERICA’S GROTESQUE PRESIDENT ACTUALLY DID SOMETHING RIGHT IN LEAVING SYRIA, ALTHOUGH HE DID IT VERY BADLY
JOHN CHUCKMAN COMMENT: TRUMP AND THE BADLY-HANDLED SYRIA WITHDRAWAL – TURKEY’S INVASION – PUTIN’S SUCCESS IN REUNITING SYRIA – SAUDI ARABIA’S INEPT AND POSSIBLY-ENDANGERED CROWN PRINCE – IRAN’S NEW PRIDE IN ITS CAPABILITIES – RISE OF RUSSIA’S INFLUENCE IN THE REGION AND DECLINE OF AMERICA’S
JOHN CHUCKMAN COMMENT: A STRIKING REMINDER OF THE GLORIOUS REALITIES OF AMERICA’S FIGHT FOR FREEDOM IN THE MIDDLE EAST
JOHN CHUCKMAN COMMENT: CONSTITUTIONAL CRISIS LOOMING IN AMERICA – WEAKNESSES IN THE AMERICAN CONSTITUTION – WEAKNESS OF POLITICAL INSTITUTIONS AND WRITTEN CONSTITUTIONS IN GENERAL AGAINST MEN WITH TEMPERAMENTS AND IMPULSES TOWARDS TYRANNY
JOHN CHUCKMAN COMMENT: MORE ON TURKEY AND THE KURDS AND SYRIA AND THE UNITED STATES – SERVED UP WITH A BIG SIDE ORDER OF HYPOCRISY
JOHN CHUCKMAN COMMENT: A BIT MORE ON IMPEACHMENT – NOTHING GOOD TO SAY ABOUT EITHER SIDE – MY SUGGESTION FOR ENHANCING ITS THEATRICAL APPEAL IF THEY DO GO AHEAD WITH IT
JOHN CHUCKMAN COMMENT: ON A NOBEL PRIZE FOR LITERATURE GOING TO A WRITER NAMED PETER HANDKE – JUST NOT WHAT YOU WOULD EXPECT FROM THE POLITICALLY-CORRECT PEOPLE WHO ADMINISTER THE NOBEL PRIZES
JOHN CHUCKMAN COMMENT: THE ORWELLIAN NATURE OF “HATE CRIME” – A CONCEPT WITH ROOTS IN 1984’S “THOUGHT CRIMES” – AN UNHELPFUL CONCEPT TO SAY THE LEAST – WE TRY PEOPLE FOR ACTS NOT THOUGHTS – THE VAST EXTENT AND COMPLEXITY OF HUMAN HATRED – IT IS EVERYWHERE AND CANNOT BE CODIFIED
JOHN CHUCKMAN COMMENT: A FEW OBSERVATIONS ON THE PROSPECTS FOR SOLAR AND WIND POWER
JOHN CHUCKMAN COMMENT: A FEW THOUGHTS ON THE HOUSE INTELLIGENCE COMMITTEE’S IMPEACHMENT INQUIRY
JOHN CHUCKMAN COMMENT: SENATOR LINDSEY GRAHAM BLOWS A GASKET IN WASHINGTON OVER TRUMP’S MOVE IN NORTHEASTERN SYRIA – BUT DESPITE ALL HIS SPLUTTERING AND THREATS MADE AGAINST TURKEY, GRAHAM DOES NOT REALLY SAY WHAT IT IS THAT SO ANGERS HIM – HERE’S HIS REASON – AGAIN SYRIA’S WAR SEEN FOR WHAT IT IS: MANUFACTURED FROM OUTSIDE
JOHN CHUCKMAN COMMENT: THE INEVITABLE DELETERIOUS EFFECTS OF EMPIRE – NOT JUST ABROAD, BUT VERY MUCH AT HOME – AMERICA IS STARTING TO EXPERIENCE THEM IN QUITE BRUTAL FASHION NOW – BUT THE SLIDE DOWNWARD SEEMS UNSTOPPABLE BECAUSE AMERICA’S PRIVILEGED REACT NO DIFFERENTLY THAN DID THE PRIVILEGED OF VICTORIAN BRITAIN OR OTHER GREAT EMPIRES
JOHN CHUCKMAN COMMENT: TRUMP’S DECISION ON AMERICAN TROOPS IN SYRIA – WHY SOME IN WASHINGTON VEHEMENTLY OPPOSE IT – WHERE EVENTS MIGHT GO – BACKGROUND ON AMERICA’S MIDEAST WARS AND PARTICULARLY THE ONE IN SYRIA – WHAT ARE THEY REALLY ABOUT? – WHO BENEFITS? – THE USE OF PROXY AND HYBRID FIGHTING
JOHN CHUCKMAN COMMENT: TRUMP AND THE WHISTLEBLOWERS – A PATHETIC PRESIDENT – SHAMEFUL HISTORY IN UKRAINE FOR ALL CONCERNED – WHISTLEBLOWERS OR PLANTS IN THE WHITE HOUSE? UKRAINE COUP EFFORTS BEING REPEATED ON THE BANKS OF THE POTOMAC?
JOHN CHUCKMAN COMMENT: CANADA’S EARNEST EFFORTS TO RUN THE STUPIDEST ELECTION EVER RECORDED – MONTY PYTHON AT THE BALLOT BOX – OH MY, THE GLORIES OF “WESTERN DEMOCRACY” CLOSE-UP
JOHN CHUCKMAN COMMENT: THE REGRETTABLE GRETA THUNBERG PHENOMENON – A JEHOVAH’S WITNESS AT YOUR FRONT DOOR ON STEROIDS – ECHOES OF DONALD TRUMP’S SUBTLE APPROACH TO COMMUNICATION AND UNDERSTANDING – THE TOPIC OF CLIMATE CHANGE APPEARS TO SUMMON EXTREME VOICES AND IDEAS
JOHN CHUCKMAN COMMENT: HANDGUN CONTROL – JUSTIN TRUDEAU’S INSIPID PROPOSAL FOR CANADIAN CITIES – WHY IT CANNOT WORK – ECHOES HERE OF TRUDEAU’S WEASEL FOREIGN POLICY IN WHICH HE TRIES TO APPEAR OPPOSED TO TRUMP WHILE EFFECTIVELY SUPPORTING HIM
JOHN CHUCKMAN COMMENT: THE DANGEROUS DYNAMICS OF SAUDI ARABIA AND THE UNITED STATES AND ISRAEL WITH YEMEN AND IRAN – A POOR SET OF RELATIONSHIPS DELIBERATELY-SET BY THE UNITED STATES THREATENS TO EXPLODE INTO GOD KNOWS WHAT – WHY THE MURDEROUS SAUDI CROWN PRINCE IS SO CATERED TO BY TRUMP – THE COMPLETE INCOMPETENCE OF SAUDI ARABIA – THE SECRET ASSASSINATION OF THE OLD SAUDI KING’S LOYAL BODYGUARD – NEW STRENGTHS SHOWN BY YEMEN AND IRAN – AMERICA MAY INDEED GET “A NEW MIDDLE EAST” BUT NOT THE ONE IT HAS DONE SO MUCH KILLING TO TRY CREATING
JOHN CHUCKMAN COMMENT: ON THE UNFORTUNATE NORTHERN FRONT OF TRUMP’S VICIOUS HYBRID WAR AGAINST CHINA – MENG WANZHOU, HUAWEI EXECUTIVE, FIGHTS EXTRADITION FROM CANADA TO THE UNITED STATES – THE RESULT OF CANADA’S BOY WONDER PRIME MINISTER, JUSTIN TRUDEAU, TRYING TO PLEASE TRUMP IN EVERY WAY HE CAN
JOHN CHUCKMAN COMMENT: A BLUNDERING BLUSTERING TRUMP, DESPITE A LITTLE SCHEME MACRON LIKELY THOUGHT CLEVER, DOES NOT GET TO SPEAK WITH ROUHANI IN NEW YORK AND IS LEFT WAITING ON THE PHONE
JOHN CHUCKMAN COMMENT: DEFICITS CAN INDEED BE GOOD THINGS UNDER CERTAIN CONDITIONS – BUT IN GENERAL THEY ARE NOT – THE REQUIRED WISE AND CAREFUL GOVERNMENT MAKING GENUINE INVESTMENTS RATHER THAN SPENDING FOR VOTES IS SIMPLY NOT SOMETHING WE EXPERIENCE VERY OFTEN
JOHN CHUCKMAN COMMENT: TRUMP AND THE WHITE-HOUSE WHISTLEBLOWER DOCUMENT AND IMPEACHMENT – MY DOUBTS ABOUT THE NOTION THAT CIA IS OUT TO BRING TRUMP DOWN – ONE DOES NEED A MOTIVE – I DON’T SEE ONE – THE EXTREME RISK OF A SENSITIVE FEDERAL AGENCY ALLYING ITSELF WITH ONE PARTY’S INTERESTS
JOHN CHUCKMAN COMMENT: THERE ARE NO GOOD GUYS IN THE STORY OF TRUMP AND BIDEN AND UKRAINE – A FEW POINTS IN A MATTER THAT MAY WELL MEAN IMPEACHMENT – THE REAL STORY IS WHAT IT ALL TELLS US ABOUT AMERICA TODAY
JOHN CHUCKMAN COMMENT: OBAMA AND THE NOBEL PEACE PRIZE – THE WORLD WAS BRIEFLY CAPTIVATED BY THIS SMILING NEWCOMER AFTER GEORGE BUSH’S DEPRESSING YEARS – HOPES WERE VERY HIGH BUT ALL TO BE DASHED – CLEARLY THE NOBEL COMMITTEE MADE A BIG MISTAKE AWARDING THE PRIZE JUST FOR HOPE AND ENCOURAGEMENT AND FOR ZERO ACHIEVEMENT – BUT THEN THAT’S THEY DO SO OFTEN NOW MAKING IT A NEAR-MEANINGLESS PRIZE – JUST LIKE AMERICA’S MEDAL OF FREEDOM
JOHN CHUCKMAN COMMENT: THE HOUTHI DO IT AGAIN – THIS TIME ON THE GROUND INSIDE SAUDI ARABIA – ONE IS REMINDED OF VIETNAM’S TET OFFENSIVE – SAUDI INCOMPETENCE – MORE EMBARRASSMENT FOR A LUMBERING BELLIGERENT AMERICA – SOMETIMES THE VICTIMS, THE LITTLE GUYS, DO WIN DESPITE IMMENSE RESOURCES ARRAYED AGAINST THEM
JOHN CHUCKMAN COMMENT: DESPITE THE LOGIC AND ELOQUENCE OF THE WORLD’S FINEST FOREIGN MINISTER, RUSSIA’S SERGEY LAVROV, THERE IS NO WAY UN HEADQUARTERS WILL MOVE FROM NEW YORK – EXACTLY WHY THAT IS SO – LAVROV’S WORDS COME ON THE HEELS OF THE UNITED STATES (AGAINST ITS TREATY OBLIGATIONS) REFUSING VISAS TO SOME OF LAVROV’S STAFF
JOHN CHUCKMAN COMMENT: THE HOPELESSNESS OF BELIEVING THAT ELECTION CAMPAIGNS CAN DEAL WITH “THINGS THAT MATTER”
JOHN CHUCKMAN COMMENT: CANADA’S GREEN PARTY GOES OVERBOARD – EVEN A LIKABLE AND ADMIRABLE PERSON CAN BE DEAD WRONG SOMETIMES – AGAIN THE RELIGIOUS OVERTONES OF SOME GREEN ADVOCACY
JOHN CHUCKMAN COMMENT: A LOT OF NOISE IN CANADA OVER CLIMATE CHANGE – SOME MUCH NEEDED PERSPECTIVE TO KEEP IN MIND – OVERTONES OF A RELIGIOUS ENTHUSIASM RATHER THAN A FACTUAL DISCUSSION
JOHN CHUCKMAN COMMENT: HOW THE BREXIT MESS IS REVEALING THE VERY WORST OF BRITISH POLITICAL INSTITUTIONS – THE REALITY BEHIND ALL “WESTERN DEMOCRACIES” – WE SEE GOVERNMENTS IN ALL CASES DESIGNED FOR STABILITY AND SERVICE TO AN ESTABLISHMENT, NOT FOR DEMOCRACY
JOHN CHUCKMAN COMMENT: GIVEN ALL THE CONTROVERSY OVER TRUMP AND BIDEN ACTIVITIES WITH UKRAINE’S GOVERNMENT – DISHONORABLE, ALL OF THEM – HERE’S SOME BACKGROUND ON HOW UKRAINE ARRIVED WHERE IT IS – AND GUESS WHAT? IT WAS STILL MORE DISHONORABLE AMERICAN ACTIVITY
JOHN CHUCKMAN COMMENT: TALK OF AN “ICE-FREE” ENVIRONMENT IN THE ARCTIC
JOHN CHUCKMAN COMMENT: TRUMP’S INSANE MESS IN THE MIDDLE EAST – THE NEW SPECIAL RELATIONSHIP BETWEEN ISRAEL AND SAUDI ARABIA AND HOW IT CAME ABOUT – HOW THEIR POSITIONS IN THE REGION ARE REMARKABLY SIMILAR – A FEW IMPORTANT FACTS ABOUT 9/11, AN EVENT NEVER EXPLAINED – SAUDI GOVERNMENT HAD NO INVOLVEMENT
JOHN CHUCKMAN COMMENT: THE REMARKABLE PARALLELS BETWEEN GRETA THUNBERG AND DONALD TRUMP
JOHN CHUCKMAN COMMENT: WHAT IN THE WORLD IS ISIS DOING IN AFGHANISTAN? – LOYALTIES OF ISIS – THE DELIBERATELY CONFUSING FACE OF AMERICA’S HYBRID WARFARE – TALIBAN AND ISIS – AMERICA LOOKING TO CAUSE TROUBLE ON RUSSIA’S SOUTHERN BORDER? – SOMEWHAT SIMILAR SITUATION TO NORTHEASTERN SYRIA
JOHN CHUCKMAN COMMENT: WHY BRITISH PRIME MINISTERS ALL LIE NOW – WHERE BORIS JOHNSON IS SURELY TAKING BRITAIN WITH HIS MANIC BREXIT EFFORTS – IRAN AND THE DELIBERATELY-PLANNED NEOCON WARS – GENERAL WESLEY CLARK’S LIST – CONDOLEEZZA RICE’S HORRIBLE WORDS – IRANIAN FOREIGN MINISTER ZARIF’S FINE RESPONSE TO BORIS JOHNSON’S ACCUSATION
JOHN CHUCKMAN COMMENT: TRUMP AND BIDEN AND UKRAINE – ALL THE PROOF YOU WILL EVER NEED OF THE TOTAL CORRUPTION AT THE TOP IN AMERICA
JOHN CHUCKMAN COMMENT: ELIZABETH WARREN AND BERNIE SANDERS AND JOE BIDEN – EXACTLY WHY EACH OF THEM IS SO HOPELESS – AND WE ALREADY KNOW HOW HOPELESS TRUMP IS – BUT DON’T WORRY, AMERICA DOES NOT GO UNGOVERNED – THE FOLKS WHO KILLED KENNEDY ARE STILL RUNNING THE SHOW, PERHAPS MORE SO THAN EVER
JOHN CHUCKMAN COMMENT: KEY POINTS ON THE JUSTIN TRUDEAU “BLACK FACE” CONTROVERSY – THIS MAN SIMPLY CANNOT CONTINUE TO REPRESENT THE COUNTRY
JOHN CHUCKMAN COMMENT: WHY CANADA’S JUSTIN TRUDEAU SHOULD STOP OFFERING APOLOGIES AND JUST RESIGN
JOHN CHUCKMAN COMMENT: AN EXCELLENT PIECE ON THE DRONE ATTACK OF SAUDI OIL FACILITIES – AMERICA’S UNRELENTING AND COUNTERPRODUCTIVE HOSTILITY TOWARDS IRAN – ITS SOURCE – THE SECRET AMERICAN GOVERNMENT LIST OF NAMES GENERAL WESLEY CLARK SAW YEARS AGO – IRAN’S AMAZING ACHIEVEMENTS IN DRONES AND MISSILES THWART BULLIES – WORLD ASKED TO BELIEVE A SAUDI CROWN PRINCE WHO HAD A MAN DISMEMBERED ALIVE AND BURNT IN A BBQ
JOHN CHUCKMAN COMMENT: TRUMP DUMPS JOHN BOLTON AND WE READ, EVEN FROM THE LEFT, FANTASY HOPES THAT NOW AMERICAN FOREIGN POLICY MIGHT TAKE SOME NEW DIRECTIONS – JUST AS ON THE RIGHT THERE IS A MYTH OF TRUMP BEING HELD BACK BY OTHERS WITH LITTLE RECOGNITION THAT THE PROBLEM IS TRUMP – LATER, TRUMP MAKES HIS NEW APPOINTMENT AND IT’S A LULU
JOHN CHUCKMAN COMMENT: THE ATTACK ON SAUDI ARABIA’S CRUDE OIL TREATMENT FACILITIES – A WHOLE SET OF SERIOUS EMBARRASSMENTS FOR THE UNITED STATES – WHICH NOW BUSIES ITSELF TRYING TO TURN IT INTO AN EXCUSE TO ATTACK IRAN – HOW MILITARY TECHNOLOGY CAN CHANGE RELATIONSHIPS BETWEEN THE MIGHTY AND THE NOT-SO-MIGHTY
JOHN CHUCKMAN COMMENT: “FAKE ARGUMENTS ABOUT FAKE NEWS” – WHAT GOVERNMENT AND THE CORPORATIONS THAT SERVE IT ARE REALLY DOING IN THE CONTROVERSY OVER WHAT IS TRUE – A FUNDAMENTAL CHARACTERISTIC OF TRUTH THAT GOVERNMENTS AND CORPORATIONS DISLIKE
JOHN CHUCKMAN COMMENT: OLEG SMOLENKOV AFFAIR EXTENDS LIFE OF RUSSIA-GATE LUNACY – PUTIN HAD NO ELECTION INTERFERENCE PLAN BECAUSE NOTHING HAPPENED – DNC MATERIAL WAS NOT HACKED BUT LEAKED FROM INSIDE – YET SETH RICH MURDER HAS GONE ALMOST WITHOUT INVESTIGATION – CIA OFTEN FAILS IN GATHERING AND ASSESSING DEPENDABLE INFORMATION – BUT CIA HAS A GOOD RECORD OF DOING BAD THINGS TO OTHERS – WORK OF OPERATIONS SIDE RESEMBLES THAT OF THUGS WITH LIMITLESS RESOURCES
JOHN CHUCKMAN COMMENT: ALTERNATIVE NEWS SOURCES ARE SUBJECT TO ERRORS AND BIAS JUST AS MAINLINE NEWS SOURCES ARE – THE NEED FOR SCEPTICISM TOWARDS ALL PRESS AND MEDIA – YOU MUST EVALUATE FOR YOURSELF – NO LISTS OF GOOD SOURCES AND NO CORPORATE “SEALS OF APPROVAL” CAN BE TAKEN AT FACE VALUE
JOHN CHUCKMAN COMMENT: HONG KONG DEMONSTRATORS FOOLISHLY WRECKING THEIR OWN CITY’S FUTURE – LETTING AMERICAN AGENTS WHO HATE CHINA INCITE THEM – JUST A FEW WORDS ON THE BLESSINGS OF AMERICAN “DEMOCRACY” – PERSPECTIVE ON CHINA’S CAREFUL HANDLING INCLUDING WHAT AMERICA IS DOING TO THE POOR PEOPLE OF VENEZUELA – CANADA’S DISGRACEFUL ROLE THERE THANKS TO CHRYSTIA FREELAND
JOHN CHUCKMAN COMMENT: YEMEN’S BRILLIANT ATTACK ON MAJOR SAUDI OIL FACILITIES – WE NATURALLY ROOT FOR THE LITTLE GUY (YEMEN) AGAINST THE BLOODY BULLY (SAUDI ARABIA) WHO STARTED ALL THE KILLING – BUT SOME VERY NASTY WORDS ARE COMING FROM WASHINGTON AND THIS COULD GO VERY WRONG FOR…IRAN – YES, AMERICA’S WASHINGTON BOZOS ARE BLAMING IRAN
JOHN CHUCKMAN COMMENT: FAITHFUL ATTACHMENT TO A BLOODY TYRANT PRINCE IS PERHAPS THE CLEAREST MEASURE OF WASHINGTON’S CORRUPTION AND ROT
JOHN CHUCKMAN COMMENT: OF COURSE AMERICA SHOULD LEAVE AFGHANISTAN – IT SHOULD NEVER HAVE BEEN THERE – BUT I CRITICIZE AN ODD AMERICAN WAY OF DISCUSSING THE FACT – 9/11 WAS NEVER INVESTIGATED BUT AN INVASION TO AVENGE IT STILL OCCURRED – THE TALIBAN – THE CORRUPTION OF POWER AND THE MILITARY THAT DOMINATE AMERICA LIKE DRUGS – SAUDIS KEEP COSY WITH AMERICA’S POWERFUL – THE INSANE AND MEANINGLESS WAR ON TERROR – ISRAEL’S BIZARRE POSITION IN THE MIDDLE EAST AND WHY IT GENERATES ENDLESS VIOLENCE
JOHN CHUCKMAN COMMENT: THE CONCEPT OF “PEAK OIL” – WHY THOMAS MALTHUS WAS SO COMPLETELY WRONG IN THE LATE 18TH CENTURY – BOTH ABOUT THE LIMITS TO RESOURCES LIKE FOOD AND ABOUT POPULATION GROWTH – HOW OUR FOOD WILL BE PRODUCED BEFORE VERY LONG – HOW HUMAN POPULATIONS STOP GROWING AND EVEN SHRINK – A WORD ON INTELLIGENT SCEPTICISM
JOHN CHUCKMAN COMMENT: THE DISTINCTLY UNPROMISING FIELD OF REMAINING DEMOCRATIC CANDIDATES DEBATE – THREADBARE DEMOCRACY AT WORK – THE MILITARY ELEPHANT IN THE ROOM – AMERICA POCKMARKED BY URBAN AND RURAL HELLHOLES WHICH ARE IGNORED – BIDEN AND OBAMA SMILED THEIR WAY THROUGH MASS KILLING
JOHN CHUCKMAN COMMENT: AMERICAN COUNTERINTELLIGENCE SAYS ISRAEL HAS BEEN EAVESDROPPING ON THE WHITE HOUSE – ISRAEL DENIES IT BUT ISRAEL’S RECORD FOR TELLING THE TRUTH IS DEPLORABLE AND IT HAS A HISTORY OF RELENTLESS SPYING ON AMERICA
JOHN CHUCKMAN COMMENT: AN ARTICLE REFERS TO THE GUARDIAN AS BRITAIN’S “LEADING LIBERAL NEWSPAPER” – BUT THERE IS NO SUCH THING AS A LIBERAL CORPORATE NEWSPAPER – AND THE GUARDIAN IS ONE OF THE WORST WE HAVE – A TORY WHO ATTENDS EVERY PARTY CROSSDRESSED AS SOMETHING ELSE
JOHN CHUCKMAN COMMENT: FURTHER THOUGHTS ON BOLTON LEAVING THE WHITE HOUSE AFTER LEARNING THAT TRUMP’S PICK AS “ACTING” NATIONAL SECURITY ADVISOR IS ANOTHER UGLY NEOCON
JOHN CHUCKMAN COMMENT: CANADA’S OCTOBER ELECTION – A MISSED OPPORTUNITY FOR CANADA’S THIRD MAJOR POLITICAL PARTY WITH ESTABLISHMENT GUYS RUNNING FOR THE LIBERALS AND CONSERVATIVES – A FEW MORE VERY CRITICAL WORDS FOR TRUDEAU – QUITE A REMARKABLE LIST OF QUALITY LEADERS IN NDP’s PAST
JOHN CHUCKMAN COMMENT: BOLTON’S LEAVING CHANGES ALMOST NOTHING – THE PROBLEM IS TRUMP – AFTER ALL HE NEVER LISTENED TO ANYONE ANYWAY – SOME UGLY MATTERS TRUMP HAS SET IN MOTION – NOTE ON WHY ISRAEL ENCOURAGES AMERICAN AGGRESSION
JOHN CHUCKMAN COMMENT: THE KENNEDY ASSASSINATION AND ISRAEL’S NUCLEAR WEAPONS PROGRAM – LYNDON JOHNSON WAS ALMOST CUSTOM-TAILORED TO ISRAEL’S DESIRES OF THE TIME – THE BOOK “FINAL JUDGMENT” – JACK RUBY – USS LIBERTY – THE ASSASSINATION WAS A WATERSHED IN MODERN AMERICAN HISTORY
JOHN CHUCKMAN COMMENT: THE OTHERWISE BRILLIANT STEPHEN COHEN ASKS, RATHER NAIVELY IT SEEMS TO ME, CAN ATTORNEY GENERAL BARR GET TO THE BOTTOM OF RUSSIA-GATE?
JOHN CHUCKMAN COMMENT: JOHN BOLTON LEAVES WASHINGTON TO RETURN TO HIS HOME IN HELL – A FEW THOUGHTS, WHICH ARE ABOUT ALL HE EVER DESERVED
JOHN CHUCKMAN COMMENT: BRITAIN’S HAPLESS BORIS JOHNSON – DEMOCRACY AND PARLIAMENTARY GOVERNMENT – BREXIT REFERENDUM STUPIDITIES – REMARKABLY CONSISTENT POOR QUALITY OF LEADERSHIP IN BRITAIN’S CONSERVATIVE PARTY
JOHN CHUCKMAN COMMENT: THE EMPIRE STRIKES BACK – TRUMP’S AFGHANISTAN FIASCO – RECORD OF AMERICAN WAR CRIMES IN AFGHAN WAR – NATURE OF THE TALIBAN – OSAMA BIN LADEN AND 9/11 – TRUMP’S CHAOTIC BEHAVIOR – CANADA’S SAD ROLE IN AMERICA’S POINTLESS AFGHAN WAR – “OWE ONE TO THE PENTAGON” – JACK LAYTON REMEMBERED – BACKGROUND FOR TERM “THE WORLD’S POLICEMAN” – HOPELESS ATTEMPT TO RECLAIM AMERICA’S UNQUESTIONED ECONOMIC SUPERIORITY OF 1950 – POSSIBLE NO MEETING WITH TALIBAN WAS PLANNED
JOHN CHUCKMAN COMMENT: TURKEY’S ERDOGAN SPEAKS ABOUT DEVELOPING NUCLEAR WEAPONS – REAL INCENTIVES FOR NON-NUCLEAR COUNTRIES – NO ONE ATTACKS NUCLEAR STATES AND THEY CAN’T BE BLACKMAILED – MANY PARADOXES AND MUCH HYPOCRISY IN HISTORY OF NON-PROLIFERATION EFFORTS BY MAJOR POWERS – THE GLARING EXAMPLE OF ISRAEL’S PAST PARTNERSHIP WITH NATIONALIST SOUTH AFRICA
JOHN CHUCKMAN COMMENT: CANADA’S UPCOMING ELECTION AND JUSTIN TRUDEAU – POLITICS AND IDEALS – NEEDED QUALITIES FOR GOOD LEADERSHIP – SERVING TRUMP AND COMPANY – DIFFICULTIES AROUND CLIMATE CHANGE – PROBLEM WITH CARBON TAX – TRUDEAU’S WEAKNESSES APPARENT LONG BEFORE HIS ELECTION – GREAT LIBERAL TRADITIONS LOST UNDER HIS GOVERNMENT
JOHN CHUCKMAN COMMENT: DOING WINSTON SMITH’S JOB FOR BIG BROTHER IN “1984” OR WHY YOU SHOULD ADD WIKIPEDIA TO THE LONG LIST OF AMERICAN INTERNET AND HI-TECH COMPANIES FAITHFULLY SERVING AMERICAN DARK INTERESTS – AND WASHINGTON JUST GOES ON AND ON ABOUT NOTHING OVER HUAWEI – PART OF ITS WAR AGAINST CHINA
JOHN CHUCKMAN COMMENT: DEBATES FOR UPCOMING CANADIAN ELECTION – DOUBTS ABOUT TRUDEAU’S PURPORTED ABILITY AS A DEBATER – LIMITS OF VALUE TO VOTERS OF ANY HIGHLY-STRUCTURED DEBATES – A LITTLE-NOTICED PHENOMENON IN WESTERN ELECTIONS ABOUT THOSE MORE SKILLED IN RUNNING FOR OFFICE THAN RUNNING THE OFFICE – CANADA’S UNAPPETIZING MENU CHOICE OF COLD LEFTOVERS SERVED FOR THIS ELECTION – WESTERN “DEMOCRACIES” OFTEN OFFER VOTERS LITTLE REAL CHOICE
JOHN CHUCKMAN COMMENT: MORE ON HONG KONG PROTESTS – YET MORE DESTRUCTIVE EFFORTS AT THE AIRPORT – PERSPECTIVE ON POLICE NOW USING RUBBER BULLETS – NEW EVIDENCE OF AMERICAN INTERFERENCE – HONG KONG’S PERHAPS NOT-SO-BRIGHT FUTURE IN A DYNAMIC NEW CHINA
JOHN CHUCKMAN COMMENT: WITH MUSLIM INTERESTS ENTERING WESTERN POLITICS AND THE RISE OF SOME MUSLIM POLITICIANS, WE SEE A RISING TIDE OF QUESTIONABLE “ANTI-SEMITISM” ACCUSATIONS – A RECENT CASE IN CANADA STARKLY DISPLAYS PRIME MINISTER JUSTIN TRUDEAU’S SQUISHY COMMITMENT TO PRINCIPLES AND REINFORCES THE VIEW OF HIS INABILITY TO STAND UP TO POWER
JOHN CHUCKMAN COMMENT: CORPORATE PRESS TRIES HARD TO MAKE A BIG DEAL OUT OF CHINA’S HANDLING OF HONG KONG DEMONSTRATORS – JUST COMPARE RECENT DEMONSTRATIONS IN FRANCE OR GAZA TO SEE HOW CAUTIOUS CHINA HAS BEEN – AND DESPITE CLEAR AMERICAN OFFICIALS’ PROVOCATION
JOHN CHUCKMAN COMMENT: HUMAN MONSTERS HAVE COMPLEX PERSONALITIES – THEY SHOW ONLY A SUITABLE PORTION OF IT TO ANYONE THEY MEET – ARTICLE ABOUT THE NOTORIOUS CASE OF BBC’S CHILDREN’S ENTERTAINER JIMMY SAVILE – THEY ARE NOT ALL ABOUT SEX – BUT WE HAVE MANY OF THEM – FAMOUS ONES TODAY
JOHN CHUCKMAN COMMENT: A PIECE ABOUT AMERICA FAILING TO CONFRONT THE DARK HISTORY OF SLAVERY – IT DISPLAYS REMARKABLE NAIVETE CONSIDERING THAT JUST A QUICK GLANCE AROUND SHOWS WASHINGTON BUSY ABUSING, THREATENING, AND KILLING IN A DOZEN LANDS – IMPERIAL GOVERNMENTS DON’T DO APOLOGIES OR ADMIT WRONGDOING – AND THEY SURE DON’T COMPENSATE VICTIMS
JOHN CHUCKMAN COMMENT: WHISTLEBLOWERS AND TRUTH AND AMERICA’S GOVERNMENT – AMERICA’S PUBLIC HISTORY OF LAST HALF CENTURY IN FOREIGN AFFAIRS IS ALMOST COMPLETELY FABRICATED – DEMOCRATIC PARTY AND HONEST TULSI GABBARD – JOE BIDEN WITH HIS LONG RECORD OF AVOIDING TRUTH WILL LIKELY BE THE CANDIDATE – AMERICANS JUST DO NOT SEEM TO CARE ABOUT ALL THE COUNTRY’S KILLING AND IMMENSE DISHONESTY
JOHN CHUCKMAN COMMENT: RELATIONSHIP BETWEEN PRESS AND GOVERNMENT IN AMERICA – “TRAILER PARK VALUES” NOW RISING TO THE TOP – SARAH HUCKABEE SANDERS – TRUMP AS THE BEVERLY HILLBILLIES PRESIDENT – GOOD MEASURES OF AMERICA’S SERIOUS DECLINE IN VALUES AND DECENT TASTE
JOHN CHUCKMAN COMMENT: WHAT CANADA’S TRUDEAU IS SUPPOSED TO LEARN FROM MACRON’S G-7 INITIATIVE CONCERNING IRAN – THE REALITIES OF MACRON’S LIMITS AS A STATESMAN – IRAN AND TRUMP AND WHY THERE IS HATRED THAT WILL NOT GO AWAY – THE HYPE VERSUS THE UGLY REALITIES OF JUSTIN TRUDEAU’S FOREIGN POLICY – CHRYSTIA FREELAND, CANADA’s TRULY UNPLEASANT FACE ON THE WORLD
JOHN CHUCKMAN COMMENT: SPACE X TESTS ITS MARS ROCKET MAIN BOOSTER – THE POINTLESSNESS OF SENDING MEN TO MARS – MACHINES CAN DO ALL PLANETARY EXPLORATION BETTER NOW – ELON MUSK AS THE REINCARNATION OF AMERICA’S P. T. BARNUM
JOHN CHUCKMAN COMMENT: RUSSIA’S GIANT ROSNEFT NOW SELLING MOST OF VENEZUELA’S OIL – HUMAN INGENUITY AND BLUNDERING IMPERIAL STUPIDITY – UNINTENDED SIDE EFFECTS OF AMERICAN SANCTIONS
JOHN CHUCKMAN COMMENT: JUSTICE DEPARTMENT DECLINES TO PROSECUTE FORMER FBI DIRECTOR COMEY – PROSECUTE FOR LEAKS? IN WASHINGTON? – GOVERNMENT BY CHILDREN WITH TOO MUCH MONEY AND NOT ENOUGH TO DO
JOHN CHUCKMAN COMMENT: TULSI GABBARD IS DROPPED FROM THE NEXT DEMOCRATIC PRESIDENTIAL NOMINATION DEBATE – ABOUT THE ONLY CANDIDATE THEY HAD WORTH LISTENING TO – THE ESTABLISHMENT WINS ALL POLITICAL CONTESTS IN AMERICA
JOHN CHUCKMAN COMMENT: HERE’S WHAT THAT EXPLOSION AT A MILITARY TEST SITE IN RUSSIA WAS ALMOST CERTAINLY ABOUT – EXPERT SCOTT RITTER’S PAST WORTHY EFFORT TO TELL US THE TRUTH ABOUT IRAQ’S “WMD” BEFORE BUSH INVADED – HIS RECENT EFFORT TO TELL US THE TRUTH ABOUT SYRIA’S “POISON GAS” BEFORE TRUMP HURLED A FLEET OF MISSILES
JOHN CHUCKMAN COMMENT: ONCE HAVING RISEN TO AN IMPORTANT CABINET POST (IN WHICH HE SERVED WITH NO DISTINCTION) UNDER THE CONSERVATIVES, CANADA’S MAXIME BERNIER HAS FORMED HIS OWN PARTY – HE’S HAVING TROUBLE GAINING TRACTION AND SO HE ATTACKS IMMIGRATION AS A WAY TO MAKE LOTS OF NOISE
JOHN CHUCKMAN COMMENT: WHY THERE’S LITTLE REASON TO GET EXCITED ABOUT MACRON’S DIPLOMATIC EFFORT WITH IRAN AND TRUMP – FACTS CAN’T CHANGE TRUMP’S HOSTILITY BECAUSE IT ISN’T BASED ON FACTS – WHAT SERVES HIS PERSONAL NEEDS WILL REMAIN AMERICAN “POLICY” – HE REALLY IS THAT MUCH OF A NARCISSIST
JOHN CHUCKMAN COMMENT: AMERICAN EVANGELICAL CHRISTIANS AND ISRAEL – WHAT ALWAYS WAS SOMETHING OF AN UNNATURAL RELATIONSHIP SHOWS SOME SIGNS OF DETERIORATING – WHY THIS IS ONLY TO BE EXPECTED AND HAS NOTHING TO DO WITH PREJUDICE – A NOTE ON THE EVANGELICALS AND TRUMP
JOHN CHUCKMAN COMMENT: SECRETARY OF STATE MIKE POMPEO DESCRIBED AS “TOXIN” BY A FOREIGN MINISTER – BUT CANADA’S TRUDEAU HAS HIM OVER TO “HELP” WITH CHINA – TRUDEAU EARLIER HAD RUSHED DOWN TO TRUMP TO PLEAD FOR HELP – TRUMP AND POMPEO HAVE ABOUT THE SAME INFLUENCE IN CHINA AS A PAIR OF ESCAPED CONVICTS WOULD
JOHN CHUCKMAN COMMENT: CANADA’S JUSTIN TRUDEAU MAKES A FOREIGN POLICY SPEECH – HE NEEDN’T HAVE BOTHERED – IT’S FULL OF CLICHES AND EVEN OUTDATED TERMS AND IT EMBARRASSINGLY REVEALS HIM AS THE POSEUR THAT HE IS – MY CONCLUSION: AT THE VERY LEAST, TRUDEAU DESPERATELY NEEDS A NEW SPEECHWRITER
JOHN CHUCKMAN COMMENT: AMERICA’S “LYING, CHEATING, AND STEALING” BRAGGART SECRETARY OF STATE, BIG FAT MIKE POMPEO, VISITS CANADA TO PRESSURE TRUDEAU TO JOIN AMERICA IN “SPEAKING WITH ONE VOICE ABOUT HONG KONG” – ESSENTIAL PERSPECTIVE ON EVENTS IN HONG KONG AND THE CHINESE GOVERNMENT’S RESPONSE
JOHN CHUCKMAN COMMENT: THE MASTER STATESMAN AT WORK – PUTIN CASUALLY AND DEVASTATINGLY RESPONDS TO THE HOPELESSLY POMPOUS MACRON ABOUT POLICE AND STREET DEMONSTRATIONS – NOTE THE COMMAND OF FACTS – HE HAS NO PEER
JOHN CHUCKMAN COMMENT: ARTICLE SAYS THERE IS A NEED FOR DEMOCRATS TO ADDRESS AFGHANISTAN – MY HARSH TAKE ON THE AMERICAN PUBLIC’S VIEW OF WARS ABROAD – BRUTAL WARS ABROAD BREED BRUTALITY ON THE HOME FRONT TOO
JOHN CHUCKMAN COMMENT: THERE IS AN ABSURD SIDE TO AMERICA’S FRIGHTENING HYPER-AGGRESSIVE ATTITUDE TOWARDS IRAN
JOHN CHUCKMAN COMMENT: TRUMP’S CAR CRASH IN THE PERSIAN GULF – HOW A POWERFUL NATION DELIBERATELY CREATES DISASTER – CATERING TO THE DISHONEST LEADER OF A SMALL STATE WHILE IGNORING ITS OWN LONG-TERM INTERESTS
JOHN CHUCKMAN COMMENT: AMERICA’S EFFORTS TO CREATE CHAOS IN VENEZUELA – OIL IS NOT THE AIM – CIA AND LATIN AMERICA – PLANTATION SYSTEM – LIMA GROUP – DECREPIT MONROE DOCTRINE – MADURO AS LEADER – CASTRO – THE GREAT IRONY OF ALL AMERICAN EFFORTS TO TELL OTHERS HOW TO RUN THEIR COUNTRIES: IT CAN’T EVEN RUN ITS OWN
JOHN CHUCKMAN COMMENT: THE PUTIN-MACRON MEETING IN FRANCE – A MODERATELY ENCOURAGING EVENT TOWARDS IMPROVED RELATIONS – A FEW HARD OBSERVATIONS ON FRANCE’S EMMANUEL MACRON
JOHN CHUCKMAN COMMENT: SOMETIMES THE LITTLE GUYS BEAT AN UGLY BULLY – SAUDI ARABIA’S GHASTLY WAR IN YEMEN – AND A REAL GLIMMER OF HOPE THAT THE SAUDIS COULD BE BROUGHT LOW
JOHN CHUCKMAN COMMENT: A NEW ITEM TO ADD TO THE RECORD OF HILLARY CLINTON’S BRUTALITIES – AND I’M NOT REFERRING TO THE BAD RIGHT-WING JOKES ABOUT LISTS OF HER PERSONAL VICTIMS – I’M TALKING ABOUT WHAT SHE HAS ACTUALLY DONE IN OFFICIAL CAPACITIES
JOHN CHUCKMAN COMMENT: AMERICA’S NEW STRATEGIC GENIUS IS HARD AT WORK PROMOTING CHAOS BETWEEN SLURPS OF MCDONALD’S AND COFFEE
JOHN CHUCKMAN COMMENT: INTERESTING NEW DEVELOPMENT IN IRAQ CONCERNING AMERICAN MILITARY PLANES’ FREEDOM OF OPERATION – BUT DOES IRAQ HAVE THE CAPACITY TO ENFORCE ITS NEW RULE?
JOHN CHUCKMAN COMMENT: AMERICA’S EFFORT TO HIDE THE TRUTH ABOUT WHAT IT DOES IN THE WORLD – HARDER THAN IT ONCE WAS – THE IMPORTANT ROLE OF MODERN RUSSIAN MEDIA – THE VITAL IMPORTANCE OF THE INTERNET – BLOATED AMERICAN GOVERNMENT-FRIENDLY CORPORATIONS’ ONGOING EFFORTS TO BLOCK AND DIFFUSE ITS POWER FOR FREE SPEECH
JOHN CHUCKMAN COMMENT: THE EFFECTS OF GREAT UNBALANCED POWER ARE TERRIBLE ALWAYS – WE DESPISE MONOPOLIES AND DICTATORSHIPS FOR GOOD REASONS – BUT IN INTERNATIONAL AFFAIRS MANY PEOPLE EMBRACE AS SOMEHOW BENIGN AMERICA’S DICTATORIAL DRIVES – THE GENUINE EVIL OF SANCTIONS – WAR BY OTHER MEANS AND ALWAYS WAR ON THE WEAK AND DEFENSELESS
JOHN CHUCKMAN COMMENT: AMERICA COULD HAVE SETTLED THE MATTER OF ISRAEL/PALESTINE DECADES AGO – IT’S ALWAYS HAD THE LEVERAGE – AND THERE HAVE BEEN MANY FAVORABLE OPPORTUNITIES – SO WHY HASN’T IT?
JOHN CHUCKMAN COMMENT: AMERICA ISSUES A “WARRANT” OVER THE ILLEGAL APPLICATION ITS OWN LAWS TO THE WHOLE WORLD – LACK OF RESPECT FOR INTERNATIONAL RULE OF LAW – AMERICA JUST CANNOT STOP ITS IDIOCY WHEN IT COMES TO IRAN
JOHN CHUCKMAN COMMENT: THE ALT-RIGHT’S OUTRAGE OVER FBI BEHAVIOR TOWARDS TRUMP – WHERE WERE THEY FOR DECADES OF FBI ABUSE? FOR THE ENTIRE HISTORY OF THAT CORRUPT AGENCY? – AND CONSIDERING WHAT A COMPLETE DISASTER TRUMP HAS PROVED, ONE CAN ALMOST SYMPATHIZE WITH EFFORTS TO DERAIL HIM, ALMOST
JOHN CHUCKMAN COMMENT: A WORD ON “CONSPIRACY THEORIES” IN GENERAL – THE TERM’S DARK ORIGIN AND FREQUENT USE BY OUR MAINLINE PRESS – SOME REPORTED DETAILS OF JEFFREY EPSTEIN’S DEATH – AND FOR THIS NON-EXPERT THEY DO RAISE DOUBTS
JOHN CHUCKMAN COMMENT: KEY TURNING POINTS IN AMERICA’S HISTORY – A RATHER ODD AMERICAN GRAB BAG OF AN ARTICLE RAISES SOME THOUGHTS ON AMERICA’S PAST AND WHERE IT IS HEADED – THE CIVIL WAR, THE KENNEDY ASSASSINATION, 9/11 AND THE MODERN MIDDLE EAST CRUSADES, THE APPROACHING MULTI-POLAR WORLD
JOHN CHUCKMAN COMMENT: THE FASCINATING CASE OF JEFFREY EPSTEIN’S DEATH – NEW DETAILS ABOUT PRISON SECURITY – AN IMPORTANT SECRET REVEALED ABOUT HIS ISLAND – HOW HIS PARTNER GHISLAINE MAXWELL DID HER WORK – EASY ASSUMPTIONS MADE BY A MAINLINE PRESS WHICH ASKS FEW QUESTIONS – YET ANOTHER SMALL REASON WHY HE WOULD NOT HAVE KILLED HIMSELF – MORE BIG-NAME EPSTEIN ASSOCIATES
JOHN CHUCKMAN COMMENT: SOME NEW OBSERVATIONS ON THE DEATH OF JEFFREY EPSTEIN – WHY I BELIEVE IT LITERALLY IMPOSSIBLE FOR HIM TO HAVE KILLED HIMSELF – WHAT THIS DEATH SCREAMS TO US ABOUT THE STATE OF AMERICA
JOHN CHUCKMAN COMMENT: THE WORLD’S PRECARIOUS ECONOMIC SITUATION – AND THE CONTRIBUTION NOW BEING MADE TO IT BY DONALD TRUMP – ECONOMIC NUCLEAR WINTER COMING?
JOHN CHUCKMAN COMMENT: AN EXCELLENT SUMMARY-AND-SURVEY PIECE BY ANALYST PHILIP M GIRALDI, A MAN WHO INTIMATELY KNOWS HIS WAY AROUND INTELLIGENCE MATTERS, ABOUT JEFFREY EPSTEIN’S “SUICIDE” – MORE INTRIGUING BITS FROM OTHER SOURCES
JOHN CHUCKMAN COMMENT: BRITISH POLICY ON IRAN? WHAT POLICY? WE SEE ONLY A SERIES OF FOOLISH AND EVEN CONTRADICTORY MOVES AS THOUGH TRUMP WERE MAKING DECISIONS – WELL, I’VE SAID BEFORE THAT BRITAIN’S BORIS JOHNSON IS JUST ANOTHER TRUMP, ONE WITH AN ETON ACCENT AND SCHOOLBOY LOOKS
JOHN CHUCKMAN COMMENT: CHINA HITS AMERICAN FARMERS HARD IN TRUMP’S IDIOTIC TRADE WAR – A PRESIDENT WHO SHOWS HE’S A FOOL AS WELL AS AN INCOMPETENT – TRUMP LABORS MIGHTILY TOWARDS A SECOND GREAT DEPRESSION
JOHN CHUCKMAN COMMENT: HOW COMPLETELY UNTHINKING AN ARTICLE ON FOREIGN AFFAIRS CAN BE – HONG KONG’S DEMONSTRATIONS AND A CALL FOR CANADA TO CONDEMN CHINA – CANADA’S ALREADY POOR RELATIONS WITH CHINA – MORAL PATH IN FOREIGN AFFAIRS? THIS GOVERNMENT? – AND WE HAVE ABSOLUTE PROOF OF AMERICAN MEDDLING IN HONG KONG
JOHN CHUCKMAN COMMENT: JEFFREY EPSTEIN “KILLS HIMSELF” JUST AS THE SENSATIONAL REVELATIONS WERE ABOUT TO BEGIN – RECENT HINTS OF HIS BEING CONNECTED TO MOSSAD – WE HAVE THE EARLIER CASE OF TYCOON ROBERT MAXWELL (KNOWN AS ONE OF MOSSAD’S MOST SUCCESSFUL SPIES) SAID TO HAVE BEEN A SUICIDE BUT WHO ALMOST CERTAINLY WAS KILLED – A MAN WHOSE DAUGHTER, GHISLAINE, WAS EPSTEIN’S CLOSEST ASSOCIATE – COINCIDENCES LIKE THAT JUST DON’T HAPPEN
JOHN CHUCKMAN COMMENT: MORE SECOND AMENDMENT NONSENSE – AMERICA’S PATRIOT RELIGION AND THE EMBRACE OF GUNS – ROLE OF FEAR -WHY WHAT IS NEEDED FOR CHANGE CANNOT POSSIBLY BE PROVIDED BY AMERICA’S GOVERNMENT – NOTE ON THE MEANING OF “RIGHTS”- AN AMERICAN MANTRA WITH AS LITTLE MEANING AS “PRIVACY” – A TOPIC RESEMBLING CHILDREN DESCRIBING SANTA CLAUS
JOHN CHUCKMAN COMMENT: ONCE AGAIN THE SECOND AMENDMENT (A PROTECTION IN AMERICA’S 18TH CENTURY CONSTITUTION ABOUT “THE RIGHT TO BEAR ARMS”) COMES INTO QUESTION – BUT ALL THE DISCUSSION CONCERNS MISINTERPRETATION – THE ACTUAL BACKGROUND AND MEANING OF THE SECOND AMENDMENT – IT HAS LONG BEEN A RELIC – BUT DARK FEARS AND POWERFUL SOCIAL FORCES KEEP MISINTERPRETATION GOING – TODAY’S COMIC BOOK NOTION OF “PATRIOTS” DEFENDING AGAINST TYRANNY
JOHN CHUCKMAN COMMENT: UNRELENTING HOSTILITY AND AGGRESSION, A SINGLE MORNING IN THE LIFE OF THE AMERICAN EMPIRE
JOHN CHUCKMAN COMMENT: CHINA RUSSIA AND THE UNITED STATES IN THE 21ST CENTURY – SOME DIFFICULT AND DANGEROUS TIMES AHEAD AS THE WORLD NOW RAPIDLY EVOLVES IN WAYS AMERICA’S ESTABLISHMENT REJECTS
JOHN CHUCKMAN COMMENT: WHY AMERICAN CANCELLATION OF THE INF TREATY WILL NOT START AN ARMS RACE – SOME THINGS YOU MAY NOT KNOW ABOUT PUTIN – HIS BASIC GOALS FOR RUSSIA – ANOTHER MEASURE OF A GREAT LEADER
JOHN CHUCKMAN COMMENT: BRITAIN’S NIGEL FARAGE CALLS TRUMP A “GENIUS” FOR TELLING FOUR CONGRESSWOMEN TO “GO HOME” – THAT SAYS A GREAT DEAL ABOUT FARAGE’S ORIGINAL MOTIVES AS LEADER OF BREXIT – XENOPHOBIA – SKILL AND CHARACTER NOTES ON TRUMP, LIKELY THE MOST FAILED AND THE CREEPIEST AMERICAN PRESIDENT EVER – YET THOSE QUALITIES ELICIT SUPPORT FROM A SEGMENT OF A VERY DIVIDED AND HOSTILE AMERICA
JOHN CHUCKMAN COMMENT: IRAN ARRESTS ANOTHER TANKER – IT MAY HAVE NOTHING TO DO WITH BRITAIN’S PREVIOUS ACTIONS – BUT IN ANY EVENT BORIS JOHNSON SHOULD SORT OUT THE MESS BRITAIN MADE SEIZING AN IRANIAN TANKER – LISTENING TO A SICK JOHN BOLTON
JOHN CHUCKMAN COMMENT: A FEW WORDS ON THE PROBLEMS WE FACE TRYING TO ALLOCATE CERTAIN JOBS FAIRLY BETWEEN MEN AND WOMEN
JOHN CHUCKMAN COMMENT: THE UNSINKABLE TULSI GABBARD – THE MOST PROMISING AMERICAN PRESIDENTIAL CANDIDATE IN MANY YEARS – SHE’LL ALMOST CERTAINLY FAIL BUT SHE’LL GO DOWN FIGHTING
JOHN CHUCKMAN: BORIS JOHNSON’S APPROACH TO BREXIT WHILE IGNORING SECTARIANISM IN NORTHERN IRELAND REMINDS ME OF TRUMP AND POMPEO – PUSH AND BULLY FOR WHAT YOU WANT AND JUST HOPE IT WILL ALL BE SORTED OUT – SECULAR RELIGIOUS OR MESSIANIC FAITH TODAY IN CHARGE OF MAJOR GOVERNMENTS
JOHN CHUCKMAN COMMENT: WHY CANADA SHOULD BUY ANYTHING RATHER THAN THE F-35 AS ITS NEW FIGHTER – A LIST OF ITS WOES
JOHN CHUCKMAN COMMENT: A FEW MORE THOUGHTS ON TERRORISM – THE 21ST CENTURY’S VERSION OF SATANIC POSSESSION – INSPIRED BY A REPORT ON THE PENTAGON’S GOOD WORKS IN AFRICA
JOHN CHUCKMAN COMMENT: PERHAPS THE WORLD’S MOST REGRETTABLE HUMAN-RIGHTS SITUATION IS SEEN IN GAZA – TOLERATED BY THE ADVANCED STATES OF THE “WESTERN WORLD” BLINDED BY GUILT OVER WHAT SOME GERMANS DID 75 YEARS AGO – BUT ONLY ANOTHER TRUE HATRED COULD CREATE THIS SITUATION AND KEEP IT GOING
JOHN CHUCKMAN COMMENT: TRUMP’S NEW WAVE OF ANTI-CHINESE TARIFFS – “AMERICAN EXCEPTIONALISM” BLINDS AMERICANS TO THE REALITIES THAT THIS DANGEROUSLY IGNORANT MAN REPRESENTS
JOHN CHUCKMAN COMMENT: AN UNBELIEVABLY INEPT PIECE OF PROPAGANDA FROM A MAINLINE NEWS SOURCE – SO BAD IT MAKES YOU THINK YOU ARE READING THE GUARDIAN – HATRED OF RUSSIA YOU HAVE WITH YOU ALWAYS
JOHN CHUCKMAN COMMENT: THE IDEA THAT THOSE RESPONSIBLE FOR RUSSIA-GATE ARE GOING “TO PAY FOR THEIR CRIMES” IS A CHILDISH FANTASY
JOHN CHUCKMAN COMMENT: THE WORD “WAR” OFTEN MISUSED WHEN DISCUSSING ISRAEL’S BLOODY GAZA ASSAULTS – WHAT’S REQUIRED FOR A CONFLICT TO BE CALLED “WAR” ? – THE KIND OF SUBTLE AND POISONOUS DISINFORMATION SO OFTEN TAINTING THE WORDS OF PRESS AND POLITICIANS
JOHN CHUCKMAN COMMENT: NEW IRANIAN-RUSSIAN NAVAL COOPERATION AGREEMENT MAYBE OFFERS A LITTLE OPTIMISM AGAINST AN AMERICAN-LAUNCHED DISASTER IN IRAN – WHAT EXACTLY IS IT THAT AMERICA IS DOING IN IRAN AND JUST WHY IS IT DOING IT?
JOHN CHUCKMAN COMMENT: JAPAN AND KOREA OFFERED AS HISTORICAL EXAMPLES OF HOW DIFFERENTLY THE UNITED STATES CAN TREAT TWO FORMER OPPONENTS – WE SEE MANY EXAMPLES TODAY OF NATIONAL SITUATIONS TREATED AS VASTLY DIFFERENT BY THE UNITED STATES WHEN FACTS DO NOT SUPPORT IT – WHY?
JOHN CHUCKMAN COMMENT: A REMARKABLE EXAMPLE OF THE SUBTLE POISON THAT THE MAINLINE PRESS CONSTANTLY DRIPS INTO ITS COVERAGE OF EVENTS – POLICE AND DEMONSTRATORS IN MOSCOW – I COMPARE TORONTO 2010
JOHN CHUCKMAN COMMENT: BORIS JOHNSON RESEMBLES A NEW INFECTION SPREADING QUICKLY – A REMARKABLY SIMILAR MAN TO DONALD TRUMP ON THE OTHER SIDE OF THE ATLANTIC
JOHN CHUCKMAN COMMENT: NEW INFORMATION ON BRITISH TANKER SEIZED BY IRAN – EVEN THE LEAST-BENT OF BRITAIN’S EMBARRASSINGLY PREJUDICED MAINLINE NEWS SOURCES, THE INDEPENDENT, INDULGES THE COUNTRY’S ALMOST DIRECTIONLESS GOVERNMENT WITH DOUBTFUL JOURNALISM – THE THANKS BRITAIN GETS FOR ITS ROLE AS FAITHFUL HOUSEHOLD SERVANT IN THE “SPECIAL RELATIONSHIP” WITH AMERICA
JOHN CHUCKMAN COMMENT: DEMOCRACY AND THE TYRANNY OF A MAJORITY – ISRAEL AND THE PALESTINIANS – USING UGLY NAME-CALLING TO SILENCE LEGITIMATE CRITICISM OF UNFAIRNESS
JOHN CHUCKMAN COMMENT: SOME BIG QUESTIONS AROUND THE MUELLER REPORT AND MUELLER’S PATHETIC TESTIMONY IN CONGRESS – DID THE REPORT SERVE ANY PURPOSE? DO AMERICANS EVER LEARN ANYTHING ABOUT HOW THEIR GOVERNMENT OPERATES? HERE’S JUST ONE MORE EXAMPLE, A SMALLER ONE, OF THE WARREN COMMISSION OR THE INVESTIGATION OF THE DOWNING OF TWA FLIGHT 800 OR INDEED THE INVESTIGATION OF 9/11
JOHN CHUCKMAN COMMENT: BRITAIN SENDING A NUCLEAR SUB TO THE GULF? – IT JUST DOESN’T GET MORE FOOLISH – WHAT HAS HAPPENED BETWEEN IRAN AND BRITAIN EXPLAINED CLEARLY – HOW EASILY IT MIGHT BE SETTLED – WHERE WE CAN SEE REASON HERE
JOHN CHUCKMAN COMMENT: THE MH17 AIRLINE SHOOT-DOWN OVER UKRAINE COMES ROARING BACK WITH SENSATIONAL STUFF ON EVIDENCE TAMPERING BY INVESTIGATORS – STUFF YOU WON’T SEE IN YOUR LOCAL PAPER OR ON TV – REVELATIONS FROM HIGH MALAYSIAN SOURCES IN NEW FILM DOCUMENTARY
JOHN CHUCKMAN COMMENT: THE NEW YORK TIMES REVERSES ITSELF ABOUT TRUMP AND RUSSIA – I THINK THERE ARE TWO REASONS
JOHN CHUCKMAN COMMENT: VERY DOUBTFUL STUFF ABOUT IRAN – AND IT’S NOT EVEN FROM A MAINLINE NEWS SOURCE
JOHN CHUCKMAN COMMENT: THE TINY MEMBERSHIP OF A POLITICAL PARTY GETS TO PICK BRITAIN’S NEW PRIME MINISTER UNDER PARLIAMENTARY DEMOCRACY – AND IT SELECTS A MAN OF TRUMP’S VIEWS AND POOR TASTE
JOHN CHUCKMAN COMMENT: INTERESTING NEW FACT ON SALISBURY ENGLAND’S SKRIPAL AFFAIR – WHY THE OFFICIAL BRITISH VERSION IS FALSE – IT HAS HAS NEVER MET THE TEST OF REASON
JOHN CHUCKMAN COMMENT: A FEW MORE THOUGHTS ON CLIMATE CHANGE – YES, CHANGE IS AN ESTABLISHED CERTAINTY – AND, NO, THE CAUSE IS NOT – YOU DON’T LEAP INTO “SOLUTIONS” WITHOUT UNDERSTANDING THE CAUSE – ESPECIALLY WHERE COSTS IN THE TRILLIONS ARE AT STAKE AND THE PRECIOUS RESOURCES MAY BE NEEDED FOR ADAPTING OVER TIME
JOHN CHUCKMAN COMMENT: THE DIFFICULTIES OF UNDERSTANDING WHAT HAS HAPPENED IN THE NEWS – THE MOTIVES OF NEWS ORGANIZATIONS – THE GREAT COST OF GOOD INFORMATION – THE MOTIVES OF GOVERNMENT AND ESPECIALLY WHERE THE STAKES ARE HIGH AS IN A WORLD EMPIRE
JOHN CHUCKMAN COMMENT: DONALD TRUMP AND CNN AND RUSSIA – SOME CLARITY – AMERICA’S ESTABLISHMENT AND ITS LASTING HATRED FOR RUSSIA – LIBERAL PRESS AND MEDIA IN AMERICA? – LIBERALS OF ANY KIND IN AMERICA?
JOHN CHUCKMAN COMMENT: KILLING WOMEN AND CHILDREN – THE ORWELLIAN MEANING OF “FREEDOM” IN AMERICA.
JOHN CHUCKMAN COMMENT: STILL MORE REVELATIONS IN LEAKS FROM THE CONFIDENTIAL NOTES OF BRITAIN’S RECENT FORMER AMBASSADOR TO THE UNITED STATES – MORE CHARACTERIZATIONS OF TRUMP BUT I THINK THEY CONTAIN A SERIOUS MISJUDGMENT ABOUT TRUMP’S MOTIVES CONCERNING IRAN
JOHN CHUCKMAN COMMENT: WHAT EVERY CANADIAN SHOULD KNOW ABOUT CANADA’S FOREIGN MINISTER, CHRYSTIA FREELAND – AND WHAT JUSTIN TRUDEAU’S SAD LEGACY AS PRIME MINISTER WILL BE
JOHN CHUCKMAN COMMENT: BRITAIN’S KIM DARROCH AFFAIR – A COMPLETELY DIFFERENT TAKE – SOMETHING WHICH PROVIDES INSIGHT INTO OUR MANUFACTURED WORLD OF NEWS – DONALD TRUMP AS THE EMPEROR WITH NO CLOTHES ON
JOHN CHUCKMAN COMMENT: SHOCK AND AWE AND ENDURING SHAME – THE EFFORT TO RECLAIM THE MANY ANTIQUITIES LOOTED FROM IRAQ AFTER AMERICA’S INVASION – BUT MANY IRREPLACEABLE ANTIQUITIES FROM THIS CRADLE OF CIVILIZATION AS IMPORTANT AS ANCIENT EGYPT WERE DESTROYED TOO THANKS TO RECKLESS AMERICAN BEHAVIOR
JOHN CHUCKMAN COMMENT: TURKEY’S PRESIDENT ERDOGAN – NOT YOUR EVERYDAY POLITICIAN – WHAT THIS NATO MEMBER IS DOING WITH HIS PURCHASE OF RUSSIA’S S-400 ANTI-AIRCRAFT MISSILES AGAINST THE MOST STRENUOUS OBJECTIONS FROM WASHINGTON
JOHN CHUCKMAN COMMENT: SOMEONE PRAISES TRUMP FOR TALKING TO NORTH KOREA – TALK WITH OTHER COUNTRIES IS RARE FOR AMERICA – ITS RECORD IS GRIM – ORDERS THREATS AND BOMBS ARE PREFERRED MEANS OF COMMUNICATION – BUT TRUMP HAS FAILED IN NORTH KOREA – THEY’LL KEEP THEIR NUKES – TRUMP’S JUST SO ERRATIC AND INCOHERENT – AND AMERICA HAS PROVED IT DOESN’T KEEP ITS WORD WITH IRAN AND WITH EUROPE’S IMPORTANT INF TREATY – THE MIDDLE EAST’S MANY HORRORS COURTESY OF AMERICA – THE LONG DARK TALE OF AFGHANISTAN
JOHN CHUCKMAN COMMENT: PALESTINE’S HANAN ASHRAWI OFFERS THE PERFECT RESPONSE TO THE TRUMP-KUSHNER “PEACE PLAN” – KUSHNER’S ATTITUDES EPITOMIZE 19TH CENTURY COLONIALISM – BUT OF COURSE ISRAEL IS INDEED AN AMERICAN COLONY – OBSERVATIONS IN RESPONSE TO A COMMENT ABOUT JARED KUSHNER AND HIS WIFE IVANKA
JOHN CHUCKMAN COMMENT: THE EMBARRASSING LEAK OF AN ASTUTE BRITISH AMBASSADOR’S CONFIDENTIAL OBSERVATIONS OF TRUMP – THEY CONFIRM EVERYONE’S WORST FEARS – MY QUESTION IS THEN WHY BRITISH POLICY TREATS TRUMP AS A LEADER RATHER THAN WHAT HE CLEARLY IS, A DANGEROUS MAN OF NO TALENT AND NO UNDERSTANDING ?
JOHN CHUCKMAN COMMENT: A SOMETIMES AMUSING AND INSIGHTFUL WRITER TURNS TO JUNK “ETHNO-SCIENCE” AND, IN DOING SO, FLIRTS WITH FASCISM
JOHN CHUCKMAN COMMENT: TRUMP’S FOURTH-OF-JULY SPEECH WAS “NON-PARTISAN”? – NO UNDERSTANDING OF THE NATURE OF TRUMP’S PARTISANSHIP – HERE IS AN EXTREME NARCISSIST WHO SEES NOT POLITICAL PARTIES BUT ONLY “ME AND THEM” – A TRULY BIZARRE SPEECH AND TRAMPLING OVER FAMILY-PICNIC-AND-FIREWORKS TRADITIONS – GIVEN BY A GRIMACING MARVEL-COMICS HERO IN A THICK GLASS BOX
JOHN CHUCKMAN COMMENT: MORE ON CANADA AND CHINA – JUSTIN TRUDEAU DECLARES “OUR APPROACH IS WORKING” – WHAT APPROACH?- AN EXCEEDINGLY INEFFECTIVE LEADER HARNESSED TO A NEOCON-LITE, AMERICAN-WANNABE NAMED CHRYSTIA FREELAND AS FOREIGN MINISTER – YOU COULDN’T GET THINGS MORE WRONG – TRUDEAU RESEMBLES JOHN CLEESE IN AN EPISODE OF “FAWLTY TOWERS”
JOHN CHUCKMAN COMMENT: FOR AMERICA’S INDEPENDENCE DAY, SOME “REALITY CHECKS” OFFERED BY OLDER PIECES
JOHN CHUCKMAN COMMENT: AMERICA’S SHAMEFUL TREATMENT OF IRAN AND THE SHAMEFUL REASONS BEHIND IT – BUT EFFORTS TO STRANGLE IRAN’S ECONOMY AND THREATEN A LAW-ABIDING NATION WITH WAR ARE ONLY PART OF THE RECKLESS GLOBAL BEHAVIOR WE SEE FROM AMERICA TODAY – THE LIKELY CONSEQUENCES
JOHN CHUCKMAN COMMENT: SELLING THE RIGHT TO VOTE IN FLORIDA AND THE UGLY AMERICAN PRACTICE OF DEPRIVING THOSE IN JAIL OF THE RIGHT TO VOTE, EVEN AFTER THEIR RELEASE
JOHN CHUCKMAN COMMENT: A PHOTO-OP TO MAKE TRUDEAU LOOK LIKE A STATESMAN – TALKING WITH UKRAINE’S ZELENSKY – THE REALITY OF TODAY’S UKRAINE
JOHN CHUCKMAN COMMENT: CANADA’S HAPLESS PRIME MINISTER TRUDEAU LOOKING TO TRUMP TO SOLVE HIS SELF-CREATED PROBLEMS WITH CHINA – A FEW WORDS ON EXTRADITION TREATIES AND REQUESTS RECEIVED UNDER THEM
JOHN CHUCKMAN COMMENT: TRUMP KIM AND MOON AT KOREA’S DMZ – AMERICA ACTUALLY STANDS IN THE WAY OF PROGRESS THE TWO KOREAN PRESIDENTS COULD ACHIEVE ALONE – REFLECTIONS ON TRUMP’S BLUNDERING WAYS – WHY I THINK THE NORTH WILL NOT COMPLETELY DENUCLEARIZE
JOHN CHUCKMAN COMMENT: ARTICLE ABOUT A NEW THINK-TANK STIMULATES THOUGHTS ABOUT THE NATURE OF SUCH INSTITUTIONS – TV AD MODELS IN WHITE LAB COATS SELLING HEADACHE PILLS – THINK-TANKS PROMOTE POINTS OF VIEW AND ARE UNSCIENTIFIC – THEIR RELATIVE CREDIBILITY MAY BE HELPED BY THE PERVASIVE DECAY IN AMERICAN POST-SECONDARY STANDARDS – HOW SCIENCE WORKS
JOHN CHUCKMAN COMMENT: SECOND DEMOCRATIC CANDIDATES’ DEBATE – KAMALA HARRIS AND JOE BIDEN – HARRIS HAS HER MOMENT AGAINST EASY TARGET – RUBBERY-FACED PHONY JOE BIDEN – BUT HARRIS NO PRIZE WITH HER RISE IN CALIFORNIA – SHE’S ESTABLISHMENT’S “OUTSIDER WOMAN” OFFERING – TULSI GABBARD IS THE REAL THING
JOHN CHUCKMAN COMMENT: ELTON JOHN AND PUTIN – JOHN MAKES EXTREME CHARGES ABOUT SOMETHING HE KNOWS NOTHING ABOUT – PUTIN ANSWERS CALMLY AND REASONABLY – PRESS MISCHARACTERIZES THE EXCHANGE WITH UNFAIR WORDS
JOHN CHUCKMAN COMMENT: KEVLAR IN THE CLASSROOM – HOW FAR OUR HOPELESSLY POLITICALLY-CORRECT PUBLIC EDUCATION ESTABLISHMENT GOES TO AVOID DEALING DIRECTLY WITH A PROBLEM
JOHN CHUCKMAN COMMENT: PUTIN MAKES A STATEMENT AT THE OSAKA G20 THAT MARKS THE FIRST TIME I SERIOUSLY DISAGREE WITH HIM – THE ENDURING VALUES OF TRUE LIBERALISM CAN NO MORE BE OBSOLETE THAN DECENCY AND FAIRNESS
JOHN CHUCKMAN COMMENT: BRITAIN’S THERESA MAY AND RUSSIA’S PUTIN AT THE OSAKA G20 – MAY OFFERS A LESSON IN HOW NOT TO DO THINGS – THE SKRIPAL AFFAIR YET AGAIN – THE REQUIREMENT FOR PROOF NEVER MET
JOHN CHUCKMAN COMMENT: SOME OBSERVATIONS ON ELIZABETH WARREN AS THE DEMOCRATS’ CANDIDATE FOR PRESIDENT – IMPORTANT DIFFERENCES IN THE MEANING OF THE WORD “POPULISM” TODAY COMPARED TO MANY DECADES AGO
JOHN CHUCKMAN COMMENT: CANADA’S FOREIGN MINISTER, CHRYSTIA FREELAND, SPEAKS GIBBERISH ABOUT CHINA AND CANADA AT THE G20 – I OFFER TRANSLATIONS
JOHN CHUCKMAN COMMENT: THE DALAI LAMA SPEAKS A VERY BOLD TRUTH
JOHN CHUCKMAN COMMENT: FIRST DEBATE BY DEMOCRATS BRINGS EYEBROW-RAISING POLLING RESULTS FOR TULSI GABBARD (POLL LINKS) – DESPITE HER BRIEF AIRTIME SHE CRUSHED THE OPPOSITION – A TRULY IMPRESSIVE WOMAN – BUT AMERICA’S ESTABLISHMENT HAS WAYS OF DIMMING THE LIGHT OF SUCH BRIGHT MAVERICKS
JOHN CHUCKMAN COMMENT: TRUMP GIVES A TRULY BIZARRE INTERVIEW – WHERE THE WORLD HAS ARRIVED WITH THIS CONFUSED AND CONFUSING MAN – THE LEGIONS OF IMPERIAL ROME COMMANDED BY MONTY PYTHON’S JOHN CLEESE IN A DARK BLUE BUSINESS SUIT WITH A “POWER TIE”
JOHN CHUCKMAN COMMENT: DISTURBING NEW FINDING ON AMERICAN ATTITUDES ABOUT USING ATOMIC WEAPONS – SOME HISTORY OF AMERICA’S BRUTAL POLICIES OF WWII AND THE COLD WAR – JAPAN AND GENERAL CURTIS LEMAY – PRE-EMPTIVE ATOMIC WAR – FOOTNOTE ON THE VIOLENT RISE OF AMERICAN EMPIRE – AMERICA’S BRUTAL SOCIETY SEEN AS A TRAINING GROUND FOR THE REQUIRED FUTURE KILLERS FOR EMPIRE
JOHN CHUCKMAN COMMENT: NEW DISCOVERY ABOUT THE NEW YORK TIMES – BUT IT’S RIGHT IN LINE WITH WHAT WE KNOW FROM HISTORY – SOME JOURNALISM – SOME FREE SPEECH – SOME LIBERAL SPIRIT
JOHN CHUCKMAN COMMENT: MORE ON IRAN AND AMERICAN DRONES – TRUMP THREATENS “OBLITERATION” IF “ANYTHING AMERICAN” ATTACKED – RUSSIA ADDS TO EVIDENCE THAT AMERICAN DRONE WAS IN IRANIAN TERRITORY – WE WATCH A SICK DANSE MACABRE BY A DANGEROUSLY UNBALANCED PRESIDENT
JOHN CHUCKMAN COMMENT: RESPONSE TO THE IDEA OF TERRIBLE SANCTIONS BEING EQUIVALENT TO WAR – YES INDEED AND THIS IS A NEW KIND OF AMERICAN WARFARE USING ORWELLIAN LANGUAGE TO MAKE IT SOUND MORE BENIGN – SANCTIONS ATTACK INNOCENT PEOPLE
JOHN CHUCKMAN COMMENT: WASHINGTON’S CHIEF BIG FAT LIAR MIKE POMPEO HOLDS TALKS WITH THE BLOODIEST GOVERNMENT OF OUR TIME IN SAUDI ARABIA – THE TRULY TERRIFYING THREAT OF IRAN DEFENSIVELY SHOOTING DOWN AMERICA’S BELLIGERENT DRONES
JOHN CHUCKMAN COMMENT: TRUMP SAYS JOHN BOLTON WOULD GO TO WAR WITH EVERYONE – THE OBVIOUS REJOINDER IS: THEN WHY IS HE STILL WORKING FOR YOU?
JOHN CHUCKMAN COMMENT: TRUMP LITERALLY THREATENS IRAN WITH “OBLITERATION” IN WORDS HITLER MIGHT WELL HAVE USED – THE WHOLE WORLD TERRIFIED OVER TRUMP’S RE-ELECTION NEEDS – TRUMP IS SICK BUT SO IS AN ENTIRE AMERICAN POLITICAL SYSTEM THAT ALLOWS FOR SUCH VICIOUSNESS
JOHN CHUCKMAN COMMENT: BRITAIN’S BORIS JOHNSON REVEALED FOR JUST WHAT HE REALLY IS IN TWO EMBARRASSING EVENTS – HE REALLY IS JUST DONALD TRUMP WITH AN ETON EDUCATION
JOHN CHUCKMAN COMMENT: CANADA’S TRUDEAU SENDS A FRIGATE THROUGH THE TAIWAN STRAIT – JUST THE LATEST BLUNDER FROM A SMILING HANDSOME INCOMPETENT – HIS DEPENDENT RELATIONSHIP WITH A CLOSET-AMERICAN NEOCON FOREIGN MINISTER, CHRYSTIA FREELAND – TRUDEAU’S FATHER PIERRE FONDLY REMEMBERED – GOODBYE TO BRAVE AND WORTHY DEEDS
JOHN CHUCKMAN COMMENT: CONCERNING EVENTS IN IRAN AND VENEZUELA – A NOTE ON THE USE OF LANGUAGE BY TRUMP’S THUGS – WHAT IT GENUINELY DOES REVEAL
JOHN CHUCKMAN COMMENT: CLARIFYING FACTS ABOUT IRAN’S DESTROYING AN AMERICAN SPY DRONE – TRUMP’S POORLY-CONSIDERED “RETALIATORY” MISSILE-STRIKE ORDER – WHY IRAN WOULD BE A FORMIDABLE ENEMY – BUT WE HAVE FORTY YEARS OF RELENTLESS AMERICAN ILL-WILL TOWARDS IRAN – ALL NEEDLESS, UNWARRANTED, AND VERY DANGEROUS
JOHN CHUCKMAN COMMENT: EVERYTHING WORTH KNOWING ABOUT SAUDI ARABIA’S NEW RULER, THE CROWN PRINCE – A DARK TALE OF THE GHASTLY BRUTALITY WHICH SERVES THE AMERICAN EMPIRE
JOHN CHUCKMAN COMMENT: RESPONSE TO THE OFTEN-HEARD CRITICISM OF CHINA’S LACK OF DEMOCRACY – SOME COMPARISONS OF THE EARLY UNITED STATES AND TODAY’S CHINA – EXTRA THOUGHTS ON THE NATURE OF MODERN DEMOCRACY
JOHN CHUCKMAN COMMENT: A WRITER ON TRUMP’S POLITICAL MARKETING SKILLS HITS ON A FUNDAMENTAL TRUTH – COUNTLESS EXAMPLES SHOW MARKETING IN AMERICA DOES NOT REQUIRE A SOUND PRODUCT – P. T. BARNUM THE TRUE FOUNDING FATHER OF CONTEMPORARY AMERICA – IMPLICATIONS FOR AMERICAN WORLD LEADERSHIP
JOHN CHUCKMAN COMMENT: WAS AMERICA’S GENERAL PATTON ASSASSINATED? AN ARTICLE REVIEWING A BOOK OF SOME YEARS AGO IS PRETTY CONVINCING – BUT OF COURSE IF HE WAS IT JUST FALLS INTO LINE WITH A STRING OF DARK-OPS AND KILLINGS THAT CHARACTERIZE MODERN WASHINGTON
JOHN CHUCKMAN COMMENT: AMERICA’S DREADFUL WAR ON HUAWEI – CANADA’S TRUDEAU NOW GOING TO APPEAL TO TRUMP OVER SOME OF THE FALLOUT – JUST ONE MORE PUBLIC DEMONSTRATION OF TRUDEAU’S POOR JUDGMENT
JOHN CHUCKMAN COMMENT: THE MANY FORMS OF HUMAN LUNACY – SOMEONE WITH MIKE POMPEO’S STYLE OF DEATH-OBSESSED FUNDAMENTALISM HAS NO MORE BUSINESS IN HIGH OFFICE THAN A DRUNK PLACED IN CHARGE OF MISSILE-LAUNCH FACILITIES
JOHN CHUCKMAN COMMENT: IMPORTANT HIGHLIGHTS AND COMPARISONS BETWEEN BRAZIL’S NEW PRESIDENT JAIR BOLSONARO AND AMERICA’S DONALD TRUMP
JOHN CHUCKMAN COMMENT: FORMER CIA CHIEF BRENNAN APPEARS HEADED FOR TROUBLE HE WELL DESERVES – BUT HERE’S HOW, IN A VERY REAL SENSE, BRENNAN’S UGLY CROWD STILL WILL HAVE WON – IMPORTANT NOTES ON RUSSIA AS SEEN BY AMERICAN EYES
JOHN CHUCKMAN COMMENT: THERE ARE MANY REASONS NOT TO CREDIT “BIG FAT LIAR” POMPEO’S EVIDENCE-FREE CHARGES AGAINST IRAN FOR OIL-TANKER ATTACKS IN THE GULF OF OMAN – HERE’S A KEY ONE FOR ME AND IT SPEAKS AGAINST A COMING CAMPAIGN OF COVERT IRANIAN SABOTAGE SOME HAVE SUGGESTED
JOHN CHUCKMAN COMMENT: REPOSTING OF COMMENT ON SHIP ATTACK IN GULF OF OMAN WITH IMPORTANT ADDED INFORMATION ABOUT AMERICA’S RELEASE OF A POOR-QUALITY VIDEO SUPPOSEDLY SHOWING IRANIANS REMOVING AN UNEXPLODED MAGNETIC MINE FROM THE STRICKEN SHIP
JOHN CHUCKMAN COMMENT: ON WHY AMERICAN INTELLIGENCE IS TEARING THE COUNTRY APART FROM INSIDE – EXPECTATIONS FOR TRUMP’S AND THE AMERICAN ESTABLISHMENT’S VICIOUS EFFORTS ABROAD
JOHN CHUCKMAN COMMENT: IMPORTANT FACTS ABOUT THE TANKER ATTACKS IN THE GULF OF OMAN NEAR IRAN – FACTS WHICH TELL US A GREAT DEAL
JOHN CHUCKMAN COMMENT: MORE ON THE RELATIVELY MINOR ROLE OF D DAY IN ENDING WWII – THE WAR’S TURNING POINT CAME MORE THAN A YEAR BEFORE AT STALINGRAD, THE MOST TERRIBLE BATTLE IN ALL HUMAN HISTORY – A FEW WORDS ON AMERICAN PREJUDICE ABOUT THE WAR
JOHN CHUCKMAN COMMENT: AMERICA IS GOING TO TARGET CUBA’S WORLD-ADMIRED PROGRAM FOR TRAINING DOCTORS AND SENDING THEM WHERE THEY ARE NEEDED
JOHN CHUCKMAN COMMENT: THE ULTIMATE INTERFERENCE IN THE ELECTIONS OF OTHERS – AMERICA’S SECRETARY OF STATE MIKE POMPEO OPENLY VOWS AMERICA WILL WORK AGAINST BRITAIN’S LABOUR PARTY LED BY JEREMY CORBYN
JOHN CHUCKMAN COMMENT: THE IMPOSSIBILITY OF REVERSING THE CLOCK ON ANY ASPECT OF TECHNOLOGY – A REMINDER THAT TECHNOLOGICAL CHANGE NEVER COMES WITHOUT HURTING SOME, EVEN THOUGH IT BRINGS BENEFITS TO MANY – THE LONG-TERM DRIVING FORCE IN ECONOMICS AND SOCIETY AND POLITICS, EVEN IN ETHICS
JOHN CHUCKMAN COMMENT: A VERY POOR EXCUSE OF A “JOKE” ABOUT BRITAIN’S NIGEL FARAGE – ALL OF OUR POLITICS SEEM TO BE TURNING VICIOUS AND TRUMP-LIKE
JOHN CHUCKMAN COMMENT: MY REACTION TO THE SUGGESTION THAT IRAN “RETURN TO THE NEGOTIATING TABLE” – WHAT TRUMP’S MINDLESS DEMANDS OF IRAN ARE REALLY ALL ABOUT – CLEAR ECHOES OF HITLER RAGING AGAINST CZECHOSLOVAKIA AT MUNICH 1938
JOHN CHUCKMAN COMMENT: “DA VINCI’S” SALVATOR MUNDI PAINTING IS MISSING – AFTER MUSEUM QUESTIONS AROUND ITS AUTHENTICITY IT’S SAID TO BE ABOARD THE GIGANTIC YACHT OF SAUDI ARABIA’S BLOODY CROWN PRINCE, THE MAN WHO PAID NEARLY HALF-A-BILLION FOR IT
JOHN CHUCKMAN COMMENT: A FEW THOUGHTS ON WHAT IT REALLY MEANS TO GIVE UNQUALIFIED SUPPORT TO ISRAEL TODAY
JOHN CHUCKMAN COMMENT: CANADA CUTS SERVICES AT EMBASSY IN CUBA HURTING MANY INNOCENT PEOPLE – IT USES THE FLIMSY AMERICAN EXCUSE OF EMPLOYEES BEING HURT BY “SONIC WEAPONS”- A COVER FOR FOLLOWING AMERICA’S NEW TURN OF HARSHNESS TOWARDS CUBA – OUR FOREIGN AFFAIRS IN BAD HANDS
JOHN CHUCKMAN COMMENT: MORE CREEPY STUFF FROM FACEBOOK ON ITS WAY FOR CANADIANS – YOU MIGHT THINK PEOPLE SHOULD HAVE LEARNED THAT FACEBOOK IS MORE OF A GENUINE THREAT THAN ANY FOREIGN STATE IT POMPOUSLY PRETENDS TO DEFEND US FROM – BUT THE LEARNING CURVE IS LONG – A WORD FROM STEPHEN F COHEN
JOHN CHUCKMAN COMMENT: LATEST AMERICAN PHONY TRUTH-IN-MEDIA PROJECT – “THE TRUST PROJECT” – WHAT WE REALLY SEE REVEALED IN ALL SUCH SCHEMES – THEY ARE IN LINE WITH AMERICA’S EFFORTS TO CONTROL THE PLANET – JUST LIKE THE RUSSOPHOBIA NONSENSE – 21ST CENTURY PURITANISM IN AMERICA
JOHN CHUCKMAN COMMENT: TOTALLY INAPPROPRIATE LEGISLATION IN FLORIDA HIGHLIGHTS A HUGE AND ONGOING PROBLEM – ISRAEL’S DIRECT AND PERSISTENT INTERFERENCE IN AMERICA’S INTERNAL POLITICAL AFFAIRS
JOHN CHUCKMAN COMMENT: AN EXCELLENT ANALYSIS OF THE NEAR COLLISION OF AMERICAN AND RUSSIAN WARSHIPS IN SOUTH CHINA SEA – JUST SUPPORTS THE GENERAL PATTERN OBSERVED OF AMERICAN AGGRESSION ALMOST EVERYWHERE AND IN EVERYTHING
JOHN CHUCKMAN COMMENT: A SERIOUS DECLINE IN PROTOCOL AROUND BRITAIN’S ROYAL FAMILY – THE ROLE OF TONY BLAIR AND PRINCESS DIANA’S DEATH – WHY MONARCHY SHOULD END AFTER ELIZABETH – WHY BRITISH MONARCHY WILL LIKELY NOT END
JOHN CHUCKMAN COMMENT: SOMETHING OF THE REAL FACE OF WAR AMIDST ALL THE REVIEWING-STAND CLAPTRAP – WHY GOVERNMENT COMMEMORATIONS ALWAYS LIE ABOUT WAR
JOHN CHUCKMAN COMMENT: D-DAY COMMEMORATION AND THE CURRENT STATE OF THE NATO ALLIANCE – NO SUCH THING AS A FOREVER ALLIANCE – NEEDS AND INTERESTS OF COUNTRIES CHANGE – IMPORTANT COMPARISONS OF OF D-DAY LANDINGS AND THE RUSSIAN FRONT – REASON FOR AMERICA’S POOR RECORD AS AN ALLY
JOHN CHUCKMAN COMMENT: MORE ON CANADA’S DETENTION OF HUAWEI’S MENG WANZHOU – AMERICA’S EFFORT TO APPLY AMERICAN LAWS EVERYWHERE AND “…THAT GOOD MEN SHOULD LOOK ON AND DO NOTHING” – EXTRADITION TREATIES
JOHN CHUCKMAN COMMENT: ON THE OCCASION OF MIKE PENCE’S QUICKIE VISIT TO OTTAWA – A SUMMARY OF WHAT THE ACTUAL ROLE AND DUTIES OF AN AMERICAN VICE PRESIDENT ARE – BRIEF NOTE ON VENEZUELA AND CANADA’S DOING AMERICA’S DIRTY WORK
JOHN CHUCKMAN COMMENT: THE AMERICAN RIGHT WING’S NEED FOR ALMOST COMICAL PHRASES TO DESCRIBE THINGS THAT ARE SUPPOSED TO BE SERIOUS AND THREATENING MATTERS
JOHN CHUCKMAN COMMENT: SOME WORDS ON SPIES AS RUSSIA HONORS A REMARKABLE ONE – USSR’S MATCHLESS SUCCESS WITH “HUMINT”- THE CURSE OF CASSANDRA – RUSSIA AND GERMANY SOMETIMES THREW AWAY HUGE REVELATIONS CONCERNED THEY WERE PLANTS
JOHN CHUCKMAN COMMENT: JUSTIN TRUDEAU ADDRESSING GENDER INEQUALITY FROM A COMFORTABLE PULPIT – WHAT’S HIS REAL PERFORMANCE IN DEFENSE OF WOMEN? THE TENS OF THOUSANDS SLAUGHTERED AND MADE REFUGEES IN AMERICA’S WARS? NOT A WORD FROM OUR FASHIONABLY-ATTIRED DO-GOODER
JOHN CHUCKMAN COMMENT: REFERRING TO THE UNSANITARY HORRORS OF LA’S HOMELESSNESS AS “THE FILTH OF PROGRESSIVISM” – YOU COULDN’T COME UP WITH A MORE IGNORANT PHRASE – AMERICA’S GROTESQUE POVERTY WHILE HUNDREDS OF BILLIONS SPENT ABROAD TO CREATE STILL MORE HUMAN MISERY
JOHN CHUCKMAN COMMENT: INTERESTING ARTICLE ON UPCOMING MEETING OF AMERICANS RUSSIANS AND ISRAELIS PROMPTS THOUGHTS ON PUTIN’S LEADERSHIP – IMPORTANT HISTORY AND EXPLANATION OF RELATIONS BETWEEN IRAN AND AMERICA – A WORD ABOUT UKRAINE
JOHN CHUCKMAN COMMENT: I ADMIRE THE SPUNK SHOWN BY THE BRITISH PEOPLE DEMONSTRATING AGAINST TRUMP’S VISIT – WHAT IT REVEALS ABOUT PARLIAMENTARY GOVERNMENT AND DEMOCRACY
JOHN CHUCKMAN COMMENT: A FEW WORDS ON HISTORY AND YOUTH – IT’S JUST THE HUMAN CONDITION THAT HISTORY DOES TEND TO BE FORGOTTEN
JOHN CHUCKMAN COMMENT: THE INTERNET AS SURVEILLANCE TOOL – A METHOD RESEMBLING CATHOLICS IN THE MIDDLE AGES GOING TO CONFESSION
JOHN CHUCKMAN COMMENT: HARD TO BEAT THIS FOR ARROGANCE AND PREJUDICE – TRUMP SON-IN-LAW, JARED KUSHNER, PRONOUNCES PALESTINIANS “NOT READY TO GOVERN THEMSELVES”
JOHN CHUCKMAN COMMENT: “TANK MAN” VIDEO FROM CHINA’S TIANANMEN SQUARE – WHAT IT HAS ALWAYS LOOKED LIKE TO ME – NOW WE HAVE A NEW DAMNING REVELATION ABOUT IT
JOHN CHUCKMAN COMMENT: OBAMA STOPS BRIEFLY IN OTTAWA TO SAY A FEW WORDS TO A THINK-TANK AND PICK-UP A $250,000 FEE – CANADA’S PRESS FAWNS OVER HIM AND HE OFFERS SOME OF HIS USUAL ARROGANT HOT AIR – NOTES ON OBAMA’S ACTUAL RECORD OF ACHIEVEMENT FOR THOSE WHO DON’T KNOW IT
JOHN CHUCKMAN COMMENT: THOUGHTS AROUND GERMANY’S OFFER TO DO AIR PATROLS IN AMERICA’S ILLEGALLY OCCUPIED REGION OF NORTH EASTERN SYRIA – WHAT INFLUENCES THE DECISIONS OF A COUNTRY LIKE GERMANY ESSENTIALLY OPPOSED TO FOREIGN INTERVENTION
JOHN CHUCKMAN COMMENT: SUGGESTION CHINA USE ITS TRADE-WAR “NUCLEAR WEAPON,” ITS VAST HOLDING OF AMERICAN T-BILLS – HOW CHINA APPROACHES ITS STRATEGIES – THE OPPOSITE OF TRUMP – CARE, CAUTION, STUDY, TEST – WHEN YOU COMMIT IT’S VERY SERIOUS – AMERICA WILL REGRET WHAT IT HAS STARTED – BUT SO MIGHT THE WHOLE WORLD
JOHN CHUCKMAN COMMENT: RIGHT-WING MILITIA COMMANDER THREATENS NEW PRESIDENT OF UKRAINE – THE WHOLE POINT OF AMERICAN POLICY IS UKRAINE IS TO CREATE CHAOS ON RUSSIA’S BORDER – HERE WE SEE “PATRIOTISM” AT WORK AS VIOLENT RELIGIOUS FUNDAMENTALISM
JOHN CHUCKMAN COMMENT: WHO DOESN’T LIKE THE STORY OF LITTLE DAVID DEFEATING GOLIATH? – AN IMPRESSIVE VIDEO OF HOUTHIS IN POOR YEMEN STRIKING VEHICLES OF SAUDI-BACKED ATTACK FORCES WITH MISSILES
JOHN CHUCKMAN COMMENT: MORE ON THE DANGERS OF “PATRIOTISM” – A GROWING THREAT IN THE WEST – I’M NOT REFERRING TO AFFECTION FOR YOUR COUNTRY – I’M REFERRING TO “MY COUNTRY, RIGHT OR WRONG” AND THAT IS DEADLY POISONOUS STUFF – EXACTLY LIKE RELIGIOUS FANATICS READY TO KILL THOSE WHO DON’T EMBRACE THEIR VIEW
JOHN CHUCKMAN COMMENT: I THINK IT FAIR TO SAY THAT THE UNITED STATES DOES NOT KNOW HOW TO NEGOTIATE, AT LEAST WITH SMALLER STATES – IT ONLY TELLS OTHERS WHAT TO DO – THE POWERFUL OBSERVATION OF LORD ACTON ABOUT POWER AND CORRUPTION IS ON FULL DISPLAY IN AMERICA’S RELATIONS – AMERICA LIKE A FLY FIXED IN AMBER
JOHN CHUCKMAN COMMENT: IS KIM JONG UN REALLY THE ABSOLUTE RULER OF NORTH KOREA? REASON TO DOUBT
JOHN CHUCKMAN COMMENT: THE DEMOCRATS AND IMPEACHING TRUMP – DESPITE TRUMP’S MANY FOUL ACTIVITIES, IMPEACHMENT IS PROBABLY A BAD IDEA – A SILVER LINING TO TRUMP’S LIKELY RE-ELECTION
JOHN CHUCKMAN COMMENT: THE ARGUMENT OVER WHETHER BEING TRANSGENDER IS A MENTAL HEALTH ISSUE – BASIC CIVILITY IS WHAT IS REQUIRED HERE – LIVE AND LET LIVE – NOT ARGUMENTS ABOUT WHAT WE DO NOT UNDERSTAND
JOHN CHUCKMAN COMMENT: AMERICA COMES UP WITH THE NAME “FREEDOM GAS” FOR ITS LIQUEFIED NATURAL GAS EXPORTS – SHADES OF THE PAST’S “FREEDOM FRIES” AND “VICTORY CABBAGE”
JOHN CHUCKMAN COMMENT: DONALD TRUMP AND JOHN MCCAIN – DESPITE THE EFFORTS OF THE PRESS AND POLITICIANS TO SAY OTHERWISE THESE TWO MEN WERE CUT FROM THE SAME CLOTH – MCCAIN WAS LIFETIME SLEAZE – A MANUFACTURED HERO FROM A GHASTLY TIME AMERICA DESPERATELY NEEDED ONE
JOHN CHUCKMAN COMMENT: TRUMP AND CHINA AND HIS WHOLE APPROACH TO TRADE – HIS METHODS RESEMBLE THOSE OF SOME VERY UNSAVORY CHARACTERS – DANGERS HE REPRESENTS – JUST WHY THE UNITED STATES IS IN THE POSITION THAT IT IS
JOHN CHUCKMAN COMMENT: CURRENT REALITIES OF SPYING BY EVERY AMERICAN HI-TECH COMPANY AND THE POWERFUL NSA COMPARED TO FAKE COMPETITION-SUPPRESSING FEARS PLANTED ABOUT HUAWEI
JOHN CHUCKMAN COMMENT: MORE ON THE WAYS AMERICA USES NATO FOR ITS OWN BENEFIT – ONE OF THE AMERICAN POWER ESTABLISHMENT’S MOST FEARED POSSIBLE DEVELOPMENTS IN WORLD AFFAIRS
JOHN CHUCKMAN COMMENT: THE INSUFFERABLE PRETENSIONS OF FACEBOOK AND NATIONAL ELECTIONS – CANADA FALLS FOR AMERICAN INTERFERENCE IN OUR ELECTIONS IN THE NAME OF COUNTERING FOREIGN INTERFERENCE
JOHN CHUCKMAN COMMENT: IT HAS BECOME A REGULAR EVENT FOR THE PRESS TO IMMEDIATELY CELEBRATE WEALTHY PEOPLE WHO SAY THEY ARE GIVING AWAY PART OF THEIR FORTUNE BEFORE THEY’VE DONE ANYTHING – WORDS ON AMERICAN FOUNDATIONS AND WHAT THEY DO
JOHN CHUCKMAN COMMENT: A FAIRLY FACILE PIECE ON CHINA’S LEADERSHIP FACING POSSIBLE DANGER IF THE TRADE WAR GOES ON FOR LONG – THE NOTION THAT CHINA’S “SOCIAL CONTRACT” MIGHT BE BROKEN IF THE STATE FAILS TO DELIVER THE GOODS
JOHN CHUCKMAN COMMENT: ACTOR JON VOIGHT COMPARES TRUMP TO LINCOLN – THE ALT-RIGHT NEARLY PEES ITS PANTS WITH EXCITEMENT – I AM REMINDED OF A QUOTE FROM WRITER TRUMAN CAPOTE ABOUT ACTORS
JOHN CHUCKMAN COMMENT: THERESA MAY FINALLY DECIDES TO STOP TORTURING BRITAIN AND THE EU TO STEP DOWN – BREXIT WAS NOT HER ONLY GROSS FAILING – BRITAIN’S APPALLING RECORD OF LEADERS IN RECENT DECADES
JOHN CHUCKMAN COMMENT: MICROSOFT’S INVOLVEMENT IN YET ANOTHER BIG BROTHER HORROR – “ELECTIONGUARD” FOR VOTING MACHINES JOINS “NEWSGUARD” WITH ITS 1984 CONCEPT OF ASSURING READERS ABOUT THE TRUTH OF WHAT THEY READ – A FEW WORDS ON MICROSOFT’S UNINSPIRING HISTORY
JOHN CHUCKMAN COMMENT: WORDS ABOUT A SCIENCE FICTION MASTERPIECE ON ITS FORTIETH ANNIVERSARY, RIDLEY SCOTT’S “ALIEN” – THE IMPORTANCE OF CASTING IN FILMS IS OFTEN OVERLOOKED – A COUPLE OF EARLIER GREAT SCIENCE FICTION FILMS
JOHN CHUCKMAN COMMENT: WHAT THE CURRENT SCANDALS IN WASHINGTON MEAN – UGLY HABITS OF BOTH PARTIES IN AMERICAN FOREIGN AFFAIRS HAVE TAKEN HOLD IN THEIR OWN CAPITAL – A DANGEROUS MAN AND HIS DANGEROUS OPPONENTS – MONEY, THE MIDEAST, AND WORLD STABILITY – LAST DAYS OF ROME?
JOHN CHUCKMAN COMMENT: TRUMP AND IRAN AND INDICATIONS “TRUMP’S PEOPLE” DO NOT WANT WAR WITH IRAN – TRUMP PUT HIMSELF INTO DEBT TO PEOPLE WHO VERY MUCH WANT TO SEE IRAN HARMED – HE HAS NO ROOM FOR MANOEUVRE BESIDES BEING AS WEAK AS A PATHETIC WHINING CHILD
JOHN CHUCKMAN COMMENT: UKRAINE’S HUGE ECONOMIC PROBLEMS CANNOT BE SOLVED WITHOUT RUSSIA – AMERICA CARES ABOUT AS MUCH FOR UKRAINE’S PEOPLE AS IT DOES FOR THE WOMEN AND CHILDREN OF YEMEN OR SYRIA OR VENEZUELA
JOHN CHUCKMAN COMMENT: THE TRUDEAU GOVERNMENT’S INITIATIVE TO HAND OUT MONEY TO A HARD-SHIPPED PRESS IS POORLY CONSIDERED AND IS BEING HANDLED BADLY – FUNDAMENTAL TRUTHS ABOUT THE ROLES OF THE PRESS AND GOVERNMENT
JOHN CHUCKMAN COMMENT: HAS NATIONALISM’S DAY COME? AS ONE WHO DISLIKES AMERICAN-THROWBACK THINKING, I SINCERELY HOPE NOT – PATRIOTISM IS JUST A FORM OF SECULAR RELIGION – FANATICISM IN SUPPORT OF EMPIRE MUCH AS WITH ISRAEL’S ULTRA-ORTHODOX “SETTLERS”
JOHN CHUCKMAN COMMENT: USING THE TERM “REGIME” FOR A GOVERNMENT – ON THE IDEA THAT ISRAEL DOES NOT WANT WAR WITH IRAN – NO, NOT A WAR ON ITS OWN BUT ITS GOVERNMENT RELISHES THE IDEA A PROXY WAR USING AMERICANS AS THEIR PROXIES
JOHN CHUCKMAN COMMENT: A WORD ON “RUSSIA-GATE AS COUNT DRACULA” – SOMEONE CITES A NEWSPAPER, THE GUARDIAN, WHICH WEARS ITS HEAVY BIAS LIKE A BIG UGLY FUR COAT
JOHN CHUCKMAN COMMENT: ONE OF MAINLINE JOURNALISM’S CHEAP TRICKS – JOURNALISM IS FREE AND WELCOME TO EXAMINE ANY POLITICIAN’S BELIEFS IN DETAIL BUT NOT TO SUMMARILY LABEL THEM AS “CONSPIRACY THEORY”
JOHN CHUCKMAN COMMENT: FURTHER WORD ON QUEBEC’S PROPOSED “SECULARISM” LEGISLATION – WHAT SECULAR GOVERNMENT TRULY MEANS – THE SOVIET MODEL OF THE STATE AND RELIGION – DEMOCRACIES ARE CAPABLE OF TYRANNY OVER MINORITIES
JOHN CHUCKMAN COMMENT: REFLECTIONS ON THE CHARACTER OF OBAMA IN LIGHT OF THE SENTIMENTAL MEMORIES OF A SENIOR STAFF AIDE – A FEW THOUGHTS ON WHAT TRULY IS REQUIRED TO BE PRESIDENT
JOHN CHUCKMAN COMMENT: REFLECTIONS ON CANADA’S FOREIGN MINISTER, CHRYSTIA FREELAND, AND THE APPARENT ABANDONMENT OF THE COUNTRY’S TRADITIONAL VALUES IN INTERNATIONAL AFFAIRS, FAIRNESS AND DECENCY
JOHN CHUCKMAN COMMENT: AMERICA’S WARNING TO AIRLINES ABOUT BEING “MISIDENTIFIED” IN THE PERSIAN GULF RECALLS AMERICA’S 1988 DOWNING OF AN IRANIAN AIRLINER AND THE DEATHS OF NEARLY 300 SOULS – WORD ABOUT THE BUSH FAMILY
JOHN CHUCKMAN COMMENT: THE INEPT BEHAVIOR OF GOVERNMENT IN CANADA RAISES DOUBTS EVEN IN THIS OLD-AGE “SMALL-L” LIBERAL ABOUT GOVERNMENT’S ABILITY TO GET THINGS DONE – THE EXAMPLE OF THE CITIZENSHIP GUIDE
JOHN CHUCKMAN COMMENT: IMPORTANT NEW FBI DOCUMENTS ABOUT 9/11 ARE RELEASED – AN EXCELLENT ARTICLE ON THEM – WILL THEY JUST GO IGNORED MUCH AS THAT LAST MOST REVEALING DOCUMENT RELEASED ON THE KENNEDY ASSASSINATION?
JOHN CHUCKMAN COMMENT: TRUMP’S TRADE WAR WITH CHINA – CHINA’S SECRET WEAPON – THE REAL REASON AMERICA CANNOT WIN
JOHN CHUCKMAN COMMENT: IRAN AND URANIUM ENRICHMENT – THE HATE FOR IRAN – IMPORTANT NOTE ABOUT THOSE SAUDI OIL TANKERS THAT WERE SUPPOSEDLY DAMAGED BY SABOTAGE
JOHN CHUCKMAN COMMENT: WRITER SAYS AMERICA HAS LOST TOUCH WITH REALITY – YES, IT VERY MUCH HAS, BUT IT HAPPENED A LONG TIME AGO
JOHN CHUCKMAN COMMENT: IN THE EARLY DAYS OF WWII BRITAIN AND FRANCE PLANNED TO BOMB RUSSIA – YOU JUST NEVER KNOW WHERE WARS MAY LEAD YOU – THAT’S WHY IT’S BEST TO AVOID THEM
JOHN CHUCKMAN COMMENT: CANADA’S TRUDEAU SIGNS NEW ZEALAND PLEDGE ABOUT INTERNET CONTENT – WHILE HE IGNORES TERRIBLE REAL-LIFE VIOLENCE IN THE WORLD, THAT OF THE UNITED STATES AND SOME OF ITS ALLIES
JOHN CHUCKMAN COMMENT: TRUMP BANS HUAWEI – SORRY YOU CAN’T COMPETE THAT WAY – YOU CAN’T EVEN STAY IN THE GAME – STEALING INTELLECTUAL PROPERTY? AMERICA HAS A LONG HISTORY OF DOING JUST THAT
JOHN CHUCKMAN COMMENT: SERIES OF COMMENTS ON IRAN AND AMERICAN WAR PRESSURE FROM BOLTON AND TRUMP – BUT DEMOCRATS ARE NO FRIENDS OF PEACE
JOHN CHUCKMAN COMMENT: A BLISTERING ASSESSMENT OF TRUMP – A RESPONSE TO ONE OF THOSE HOPELESS WRITERS WHO YET SEE HIM AS A GIANT BEING HELD BACK BY PYGMIES AND COWARDS – “IF ONLY HE HAD A FREE HAND” IS A REPLAY OF HITLER’S “STAB IN THE BACK” EXPLANATION FOR LOSING WWI
JOHN CHUCKMAN COMMENT: IF VENEZUELA IS ANY INDICATION OF THE WAY TRUMP ATTACKS SOMEONE MAYBE WE DON’T HAVE SO MUCH TO FEAR – A BRISTLY WALRUS MUSTACHE AND MR. PEEPER GLASSES AND NO HUMOR AND LOTS OF DUMB WORDS
JOHN CHUCKMAN COMMENT: AMERICA AND IRAN – RESPONSE TO SOMEONE ABOUT HAVING HAD HOPES WHEN TRUMP TORE-UP THE IRAN NUCLEAR TREATY THAT OTHER COUNTRIES MIGHT ISOLATE THE UNITED STATES OVER THEIR STRONG DISAGREEMENT
JOHN CHUCKMAN COMMENT: ISRAEL AND EUROVISION – ISRAEL’S “TROLL FARMS” – ISRAELI TOURIST FILM – CLUMSINESS OF ISRAELI PROPAGANDA OFTEN RESEMBLES THAT OF THE USSR – WHAT YOU GET WHEN FANATICS AND IDEOLOGUES RUN THINGS – TRUMP-LIKE MENTAL-COCOON THINKING
JOHN CHUCKMAN COMMENT: A GOOD PIECE ABOUT THE TROUBLE MUELLER MAY FACE STIMULATES FURTHER THOUGHTS ON THE CHAOS AND DANGER WASHINGTON REPRESENTS TODAY BOTH AT HOME AND ABROAD
JOHN CHUCKMAN COMMENT: WHY DEMOCRATS KEEP WASTING TIME ON “CONSPIRACY THEORIES” – THERE ARE HUGE NATIONAL ISSUES AROUND BUT THE DEMOCRATS ARE NOT THE ONES TO PURSUE THEM
JOHN CHUCKMAN COMMENT: WHY TRUMP DOESN’T REIN-IN BOLTON – DISMAL BOLTON, POMPEO, AND ABRAMS ARE PART OF THE PRICE TRUMP PAID FOR POLITICAL SUPPORT AGAINST THREATS HE FELT AND GETTING A BIG PILE OF CASH TO FIGHT 2020 ELECTION – TRUMP’S DOMINANT CHARACTER TRAIT
JOHN CHUCKMAN COMMENT: NOTE ON CANADA’S LEADERSHIP PROBLEM – SUPPORT FOR TRUDEAU – TROUBLING ASPECTS OF OUR DEMOCRACY – INCREASING BUT MEANINGLESS HYPER-POLITICAL PARTY PARTISANSHIP
JOHN CHUCKMAN COMMENT: OUR APPROACHING BRAVE NEW WORLD – OLD CLICHES ABOUT THE PRESS AS TRIBUNE FOR THE PEOPLE OR FOURTH ESTATE – THE PRESS’S EXAGGERATED IMPORTANCE TO DEMOCRACY AND WESTERN VALUES – ITS ACTUAL HISTORICAL ROLE – WHAT I FEAR THE FUTURE HOLDS FOR THE CONCEPT OF A FREE SOCIETY
JOHN CHUCKMAN COMMENT: THE ROLE OF LIES IN THE HISTORY OF EMPIRE AND ABUSE – ESSENCE OF AMERICA’S LIES ABOUT RUSSIA – RUSSIA-GATE – MIKE POMPEO AS AN EXAMPLE TO US ALL OF BIZARRE CONTRADICTIONS – FREUD’S NOTION OF HUMAN AMBIGUITY
JOHN CHUCKMAN COMMENT: CARBON TAX – JUSTIN TRUDEAU AS TELEVANGELIST ADDRESSING HIS FLOCK TO SEND IN DONATIONS – IF YOU REALLY CARE ABOUT THE WORLD’S ENVIRONMENT, DON’T IGNORE THE OVERWHELMING DESTRUCTIVE FILTH OF AMERICA’S MILITARY
JOHN CHUCKMAN COMMENT: CORRECTION ABOUT THE SIZE AND QUALITY OF VENEZUELA’S OIL RESERVES – JUST AS WITH WINE NOT ALL OIL IS EQUAL – THE REAL REASON AMERICA IS INTERFERING – MUCH AS WAS THE CASE IN THE BLOODY IRAQ INVASION, IT’S NOT REALLY ABOUT CONTROL OF OIL
JOHN CHUCKMAN COMMENT: JOHN BOLTON PUSHING HARD FOR WAR AFTER HIS EMBARRASSING FAILURE WITH COUP IN VENEZUELA – WHERE DOES AMERICA GET THESE OLD NAZIS FROM?
JOHN CHUCKMAN COMMENT: I LOVE ASSANGE’S DEFIANT WORDS ON EXTRADITION TO THE UNITED STATES
JOHN CHUCKMAN COMMENT: CHINA SUSPENDS PORK IMPORTS FROM TWO CANADIAN COMPANIES ON TRUDEAU’S HOME TURF OF QUEBEC – A FURTHER REMINDER OF THE BLUNDERING INSULT OF CANADA’S ARREST OF A HUAWEI EXECUTIVE BY TRUDEAU AND FREELAND
JOHN CHUCKMAN COMMENT: A COUP ATTEMPT WHICH OWES A GREAT DEAL TO MONTY PYTHON AND THE KEYSTONE COPS – JOHN BOLTON AND MIKE POMPEO DO VENEZUELA – MY ANSWER TO A CRITIC
JOHN CHUCKMAN COMMENT: HUMAN HATREDS NEVER GO AWAY DUE TO HUMAN NATURE – BUT LEGAL PROTECTION IS KEY TO THEIR DOING LITTLE DAMAGE – WE HAVE THAT – GLARING HATREDS IN ISRAEL OFTEN IGNORED BUT CAUSE ANGER AND SUFFERING AND THERE IS NO PROTECTION
JOHN CHUCKMAN COMMENT: TRYING TO OVERTHROW YOUR GOVERNMENT ON BEHALF OF JOHN BOLTON – IN THE U.S. WHAT GUAIDO ATTEMPTED WOULD GET YOU BLASTED FULL OF HOLES OR TOSSED IN CHAINS INTO PRISON – SMILING AT TREASON – CONTEMPT FOR RULE OF LAW
JOHN CHUCKMAN COMMENT: REAL REASON AMERICAN TROOPS WILL REMAIN ILLEGALLY IN N E SYRIA – ONLY PARTY WHICH HAS GAINED FROM TRUMP ELECTION – A PRESIDENT WHO HAS ACHIEVED LESS THAN NOTHING
JOHN CHUCKMAN COMMENT: CANADIAN SENTENCED TO DEATH IN CHINA IN VICIOUS METH RING – WHY CANADA’S FOREIGN MINISTER FREELAND HAS A COMPLETE LACK OF MORAL AUTHORITY – SAUDI RECORD EXECUTIONS AND A BOY EXECUTED BUT NOT A WORD – YEMEN
JOHN CHUCKMAN COMMENT: THE AMAZING ABU BAKR AL-BAGHDADI (LEADER OF ISIS) AND HIS MANY MIRACULOUS ESCAPES – HE ALMOST CERTAINLY IS AN ASSET OF MOSSAD OR THE CIA
JOHN CHUCKMAN COMMENT: A UNIQUE AMERICAN TAKE ON RELIGION – BIG PROFITABLE AND POLITICALLY ACTIVE CHRISTIAN FUNDAMENTALISM SERVING AN EMPIRE
JOHN CHUCKMAN COMMENT: A WRITER SAYS ASSANGE’S ARREST MIGHT REVEAL MORE CORRUPTION THAN ALL PAST LEAKS – BUT WE SEE THAT SAME CORRUPTION DAILY IN AMERICA’S AFFAIRS AND BARELY A WORD IS SAID
JOHN CHUCKMAN COMMENT: A WRITER ASKS WHAT WE KNOW OF TRUMP’S PEACE PLAN – HERE’S EXACTLY WHY IT DOESN’T MATTER IF WE EVER LEARN MORE
JOHN CHUCKMAN COMMENT: BEING ON THE WRONG SIDE OF HISTORY – THE UGLY REALITY OF AMERICAN POLICIES IN EVERY SPHERE OF INTERNATIONAL RELATIONS – WHERE WE ARE HEADED -THE RELIGIOUS-LIKE BLINDNESS OF IDEOLOGUES – THE HUMAN CONDITION
JOHN CHUCKMAN COMMENT: AH, THE EXCITEMENT OF JOE BIDEN ENTERING THE PRESIDENTIAL RACE – KEY POINTS YOU SHOULD KNOW ABOUT JOE BIDEN – WHY HE’S JUST ONE MORE EXAMPLE OF PURE AMERICAN POLITICAL SLEAZE
JOHN CHUCKMAN COMMENT: TWO PARALLEL LIVES HIGHLIGHT THE SAD STATE OF AMERICA’S RESPECT FOR THE RULE OF LAW PLUS ITS DANGEROUS ATTITUDES TOWARDS TWO FOREIGN STATES, RUSSIA AND ISRAEL
JOHN CHUCKMAN COMMENT: MEANING OF PUTIN’S EASING OF APPLICATIONS FOR RESIDENTS OF BREAKAWAY RUSSIAN-SPEAKING EASTERN UKRAINE (DONBASS) TO APPLY FOR RUSSIAN PASSPORTS – IT’S NOT REALLY WHAT THE AUTHOR OF AN ARTICLE SUGGESTS – IT REFLECTS PUTIN’S CAUTION, STRATEGIC THINKING, AND LONG VIEW
JOHN CHUCKMAN COMMENT: ON JONATHAN COOK’S NOTION THAT AMERICA’S ISRAEL LOBBY IS WEAKENING – WHY I THINK THIS A FALSE NOTION – MAYBE ONE DAY THERE WILL BE A BACKLASH IF ISRAEL KEEPS OVERPLAYING ITS HAND – BUT RIGHT NOW AMERICANS RESEMBLE A HERD QUIETLY GRAZING WHILE JUST OVER THE HILLS VICIOUS ARMIES CLASH AND THREATEN THE FUTURE
JOHN CHUCKMAN COMMENT: A FEW MORE WORDS ON CANADA’S FOREIGN MINISTER CHRYSTIA FREELAND – ONE OF TRUDEAU’S MAJOR APPOINTMENTS AND A MINISTER HE MUCH DEPENDS UPON BUT ONE WHO GETS ALMOST NOTHING RIGHT
JOHN CHUCKMAN COMMENT: JAPANESE AMBASSADOR ADVISES CANADA ON SURVIVING “DIPLOMATIC BRAWL” WITH CHINA – COMPOUNDING THE BLUNDERS OF OUR GOVERNMENT BY HAVING A JAPANESE OFFICIAL COMMENT ON CHINA – HOSTILITY STILL OVER JAPAN’S ATROCITIES IN WWII CHINA
JOHN CHUCKMAN COMMENT: SOME INTERESTING HISTORY OF PURITANISM IN AMERICA – IT EXPLAINS A LOT OF TODAY’S WARS AND BELLIGERENCE AND CLOSED-MINDEDNESS – THEY WEREN’T QUITE THE NICE FOLKS A BENIGN NAME LIKE “PILGRIMS” SUGGESTS
JOHN CHUCKMAN COMMENT: THE MAIDAN MASSACRE THAT STARTED THE COUP IN UKRAINE – A RECONSTRUCTION INVESTIGATION – BUT THE PEOPLE WHO BANKROLLED THAT HARDLY WANT TO SEE THE TRUTH – EXAMPLE OF THE KENNEDY ASSASSINATION
JOHN CHUCKMAN COMMENT: HOW FITTING THAT A COMEDIAN SHOULD BE ELECTED PRESIDENT OF UKRAINE, A COUNTRY REDUCED TO A SHAMBLES BY INCOMPETENCE – THERE ARE HINTS HE MAY TRY SOMETHING WORTHWHILE – EXPECT U.S. PRESSURE IF HE DOES
JOHN CHUCKMAN COMMENT: MIKE POMPEO AT TEXAS A & M UNIVERSITY – NOTHING SO REVEALS THE STINKING ROT AS THIS – AMERICA HAS PRETTY WELL TOUCHED BOTTOM – THE MEANING OF WORDS – WHETHER THE BIBLE OR THE CONSTITUTION
JOHN CHUCKMAN COMMENT: SERIES OF COMMENTS ON AMERICAN SANCTIONS AND IRAN – WHY AMERICA HATES IRAN – IMPORTANT DETAILS OF IRAN’S PAST TREATMENT BY THE U.S. – REAL REASON ISRAEL HATES IRAN – DEMOCRACY IN THE WEST? – EXTREME DANGER OF A WORLD DICTATOR
JOHN CHUCKMAN COMMENT: A FEW CRITICAL THOUGHTS ON EARTH DAY – A BIT MORE ON ELECTRIC CARS AND WIND TURBINES – THE OVERLOOKED ROLE OF AMERICA’S MILITARY IN PUMPING OUT VAST QUANTITIES OF POISONS
JOHN CHUCKMAN COMMENT: TIME MAGAZINE AND ITS OLD RELATIONSHIP WITH CIA – MOST GLARING EXAMPLE DECADES AGO WAS TIME’S OWNERSHIP AND TREATMENT OF THE ZAPRUDER FILM OF KENNEDY’S ASSASSINATION
JOHN CHUCKMAN COMMENT: JARED KUSHNER AND DONALD TRUMP AND THE MIDEAST PEACE PLAN – SOME OF THE MOST BIZARRE DIPLOMACY EVER SEEN – BUT YOU MUST CONSIDER THE NATURE OF THE MEN ENGAGED – THE REAL DANGER FOR THE PALESTINIANS
JOHN CHUCKMAN COMMENT: ON CLIMATE CHANGE AND DAVID ATTENBOROUGH’S NEW FILM
JOHN CHUCKMAN COMMENT: A FEW WORDS ON THE IDEA THAT HARRY AND MEGHAN ARE BREAKING ROYAL TRADITION – THEIRS IS ACTUALLY A SAD STORY SPEAKING TO THE HUMAN CONDITION
JOHN CHUCKMAN COMMENT: TULSI GABBARD HITS A HOMERUN WITH HER EPITHET ABOUT “TRUMP MAKING AMERICA SAUDI ARABIA’S PROSTITUTE” – AND HERE’S SOME INSIGHT INTO THE UGLY RELATIONSHIPS BETWEEN AMERICA AND SAUDI ARABIA AND ISRAEL
JOHN CHUCKMAN COMMENT: WHO WAS JAMES MONROE? AND WHY WOULD HIGH AMERICAN OFFICIALS CITE HIS “DOCTRINE” TODAY – JUST ONE MORE EXAMPLE OF THE DANGEROUS ABSURDITY INTO WHICH AMERICA SINKS
JOHN CHUCKMAN COMMENT: BERNIE SANDERS AND ANN COULTER TOGETHER BIZARRELY PROVIDE PROOF OF THE UTTER MEANINGLESSNESS OF AMERICAN POLITICS – A HOLLOW GAME OF ENTERTAINING WORDS
JOHN CHUCKMAN COMMENT: CHINA’S AMAZING TECHNICAL ADVANCE – ITS NOMINALLY “COMMUNIST” STATE OFFERS A NEW MODEL FOR ADVANCE – AMERICA BEGINS RESEMBLING WHAT CHINA WAS – WITH SECULAR RELIGION AND SUPERSTITIOUS BELIEFS IN ITSELF
JOHN CHUCKMAN COMMENT: FROM SOME SPECIFIC ARGUMENTS AROUND RUSSIA-GATE AND THE MUELLER REPORT TO THE FAR GREATER MEANING OF THE EVENTS – WHY THAT MEANING WILL NOT PENETRATE AND INFLUENCE AMERICA’S NATIONAL CONSCIOUSNESS
JOHN CHUCKMAN COMMENT: LOOKING AT CLAIMS OF NORTH KOREA’S HACKING AND BANK ROBBERIES AND DOLLAR COUNTERFEITING – I’M NOT NAIVE TO THINK NORTH KOREANS ARE SWEET INNOCENTS BUT THESE CLAIMS ARE SUSPICIOUS – CIA’S ILLEGAL ACTIVITIES
JOHN CHUCKMAN COMMENT: BERNIE SANDERS – IF HE’S THE BEST PROGRESSIVE AN AMERICAN PARTY CAN PROVIDE, IT ONLY HIGHLIGHTS THE COUNTRY’S POLITICAL BANKRUPTCY
JOHN CHUCKMAN COMMENT: THE KIND OF POLITICIAN’S STATEMENT THAT MAKES YOUR TOES SCRUNCH AND YOUR SKIN CRAWL – FROM KAMALA HARRIS – THE PATHETIC NATURE OF AMERICAN ELECTIONS
JOHN CHUCKMAN COMMENT: DISSECTING TRUDEAU’S LETTER TO NEWLY-ELECTED (VERY) CONSERVATIVE ALBERTA PREMIER JASON KENNEY – I AM NO FAN OF KENNEY BUT TRUDEAU’S LETTER IS WEAK AND REVEALS A LACK OF UNDERSTANDING
JOHN CHUCKMAN COMMENT: A FURTHER WORD ON QUEBEC’S PROPOSED “SECULARISM” BILL – MONTREAL’S MAYOR, WHO BRAVELY SPOKE IN OPPOSITION TO IT, RECEIVES A THREAT, CONFIRMING THE REAL NATURE OF THE BILL
JOHN CHUCKMAN COMMENT: A DMITRY ORLOV INTERVIEW PACKED WITH PERSPECTIVE AND PIQUANCY AND OTHER THINGS – SUBJECTS INCLUDE UKRAINE AND THE UNITED STATES
JOHN CHUCKMAN COMMENT: A FEW WORDS ABOUT THE MOST UNUSUAL AND INTERESTING ARTICLE ON CLIMATE CHANGE I’VE EVER READ
JOHN CHUCKMAN COMMENT: GERMANY SURPRISES BY INDEPENDENCE IN RESPONSE TO A CALL BY BRITAIN’S GAVIN WILLIAMSON (POSSIBLY EUROPE’S MOST ABSURD PERSON) FOR YET ANOTHER PROVOCATIVE BIG DISPLAY ON RUSSIA’S BORDER
JOHN CHUCKMAN COMMENT: CHEAP EFFORT AT “SOFT” ATTACK ON ASSANGE – PATHETIC BUT CONSIDER THE SOURCE FROM A CANADIAN PROPAGANDA MILL MUCH LIKE AMERICAN “THINK TANKS” – ASSANGE IS A JOURNALIST AND HE DOES WHAT CORPORATE JOURNALISM STOPPED DOING LONG AGO, INVESTIGATIVE REPORTING – TECHNOLOGY’S EFFECT ON WHISTLEBLOWING – THE MANY ILLEGALITIES IN ASSANGE’S ARREST
JOHN CHUCKMAN COMMENT: A PROFESSOR WRITES OF ENDING NATO AND CLOSING 800 AMERICAN OVERSEAS MILITARY BASES AND PROSECUTING WAR CRIMINALS – WHY THOSE CAN’T HAPPEN BEFORE HUGE CHANGES INSIDE THE UNITED STATES – CHANGES WHICH ARE LIKELY NO TIME SOON
JOHN CHUCKMAN COMMENT: BRITAIN FRANCE AND GERMANY WHO SUPPORTED THE IRAN NUCLEAR AGREEMENT AGAINST TRUMP NOW SEEM ALMOST AS THOUGH THEY’RE TRYING TO SABOTAGE IT – WHY?
JOHN CHUCKMAN COMMENT: AN INTERESTING REVELATION ABOUT DR. TOM DOOLEY WHO WAS REGARDED AS A HEROIC FIGURE IN THE LATE 1950s – HOW PROPAGANDA IS CREATED AND USED – IN DOOLEY’S CASE TO PROMOTE WAR IN VIETNAM
JOHN CHUCKMAN COMMENT: ON THE PURPOSES OF EMBASSIES AS AMERICA SEES THEM
JOHN CHUCKMAN COMMENT: THE DISCOVERY THAT GENERAL WESTMORELAND WAS GOING TO USE NUKES AT KHE SANH SIEGE IN VIETNAM – HERE’S SOME OF THE GROTESQUE RECORD OF AMERICA’S GENERALS AND THEIR BOMBING SINCE WWII – A TOLL GREATER THAN THE HOLOCAUST BY FAR
JOHN CHUCKMAN COMMENT: THE F-35 FIGHTER PLANE – PERFECT SYMBOL OF AMERICA’S CRAZED OBSESSION AND WASTE WITH ITS MILITARY – THE ESTABLISHMENT COULDN’T CARE LESS BECAUSE WITH NO TAXES THEY DON’T PAY THE BILLS – EYEBROW-RAISING FACTS ON THE F-35
JOHN CHUCKMAN COMMENT: THERE IS NO SILVER LINING IN THE DARKNESS DESCENDING UPON THE WEST – STATE BRUTALITY AND KILLING AND THREATENING HAVE BECOME EVERYDAY ACTIVITIES – AND NO ONE OBJECTS
JOHN CHUCKMAN COMMENT: TRUTH HAS BECOME A CRIME WITH JULIAN ASSANGE ‘S ARREST – REFLECTIONS ON THE NATURES OF HILLARY CLINTON AND DONALD TRUMP
JOHN CHUCKMAN COMMENT: CANADA’S JUSTIN TRUDEAU ADDS TO HIS MANY MISTAKES A CHILDISH THREAT TO SUE THE LEADER OF THE OPPOSITION FOR A REMARK – TIME FOR THIS NOW-TIRESOME POLITICIAN TO GO
JOHN CHUCKMAN COMMENT: SOME OF AMERICA’S NEW HOSTILE APPROACH TO TRADE IS NOT GOOD FOR THE ECONOMY BUT IT MAY UNINTENTIONALLY HELP A MULTI-POLAR WORLD TO EMERGE
JOHN CHUCKMAN COMMENT: MY RESPONSE TO THE NOTION “THEY CAN’T DEFEAT FREEDOM FOREVER” – AMERICA IS DOING A PRETTY GOOD JOB TRYING – JACKBOOTS AND TRUNCHEONS ARE OUT OF STYLE – WE SEE SOMETHING NEW IN THE EFFORT TO DOMINATE
JOHN CHUCKMAN COMMENT: OLD MIKE GRAVEL ADDS HIS NAME AS A DEMOCRATIC CANDIDATE – HE INTENDS ONLY TO INJECT SOME ISSUES INTO THE CAMPAIGN – I DO THINK THAT MAY BE A HOPELESS TASK BUT WISH HIM WELL
JOHN CHUCKMAN COMMENT: A FEW OBSERVATIONS ON THE IDEA OF RIGHTS
JOHN CHUCKMAN COMMENT: A FEW WORDS ON A PIECE ATTACKING AMERICAN POLITICIAN ILHAN OMAR
JOHN CHUCKMAN COMMENT: DEVELOPMENTS IN AMERICAN HIGHER EDUCATION OVER THE LAST 40 YEARS OR SO HELP EXPLAIN AN AUTHOR’S CONCERNS OVER THE UNIMPRESSIVE QUALITY OF A GOOD MANY AMERICAN ACADEMICS
JOHN CHUCKMAN COMMENT: AN ARTICLE ABOUT ERNEST HEMINGWAY’S BRIEF UNHAPPY DAYS IN TORONTO BRINGS BACK MEMORIES OF MY OWN EARLY DAYS IN THE CITY
JOHN CHUCKMAN COMMENT: THE ABSOLUTELY AWFUL STUFF THAT KEEPS FLOWING LIKE SEWAGE OUT OF WASHINGTON ABOUT RUSSIA – WHY THIS IS SO – A SERIOUS WARNING ABOUT TRUMP
JOHN CHUCKMAN COMMENT: CANADA’S NEW FACE IN FOREIGN AFFAIRS – JUSTIN TRUDEAU AND CHRYSTIA FREELAND BRING SHAME TO THE COUNTRY’S TRADITIONS WITH UNPRECEDENTED SUPPORT FOR GANGSTERS
JOHN CHUCKMAN COMMENT: AMERICAN DRONES KILLING CIVILIANS IN EAST AFRICA – WHY WE SHOULD NOT BE CONCERNED ONLY WITH INNOCENT BYSTANDERS BEING KILLED
JOHN CHUCKMAN COMMENT: WHY TRUMP DECLARED IRAN’S REVOLUTIONARY GUARDS TERRORISTS – THEY ARE JUST A LARGE ELITE BRANCH OF THE COUNTRY’S ARMED FORCES -WHEN WORDS HAVE NO MEANING
JOHN CHUCKMAN COMMENT: EXACTLY WHY PEACE CANNOT COME FROM ISRAEL – THERE IS NO ENGINE FOR DOING IT AND STRUCTURAL REALITIES DICTATE VIRTUALLY ENDLESS HOSTILITY – AS FAR AS PEACE DICTATED FROM OUTSIDE, AMERICA ABDICATED ITS RESPONSIBILITY – ONLY THE QUIET ENDURING REALITY OF THE PALESTINIAN PEOPLE MEANS CHANGE SOMEDAY
JOHN CHUCKMAN COMMENT: THE BANALITY OF EVIL – POLITICIAN PETE BUTTIGRIEG ON THINGS THE UNITED STATES CAN LEARN ABOUT “SECURITY” FROM ISRAEL – BUT “SECURITY” IS USED BY ISRAEL AS NEWSPEAK WAS IN 1984
JOHN CHUCKMAN COMMENT: THE REMARKABLE CASE OF THOMAS JEFFERSON – HE WASN’T AT ALL WHAT SO MANY THINK HE WAS – HOW THE NEEDS OF POLITICS CAN TWIST AND EXPLOIT HISTORICAL FIGURES – AND MYTH-MAKING AS AN IMPORTANT ACTIVITY OF EMPIRE – CITING SECULAR SCRIPTURE WHILE BOMBING THE CRAP OUT OF PEOPLE TEN THOUSAND MILES AWAY
JOHN CHUCKMAN COMMENT: NORTH KOREA CALLED “MOST DESTABILIZING NATION ON EARTH” – LET’S COMPARE THE HERMIT KINGDOM’S RECORD WITH THOSE OF THE UNITED STATES AND ISRAEL – WELL, IN TRUTH THERE IS NO COMPARISON, AMERICA AND ISRAEL ABSOLUTELY LEAD THE WORLD AS DEADLY DESTABILIZING FORCES
JOHN CHUCKMAN COMMENT: ON THE PLIGHT OF THE PALESTINIANS, I AM A PESSIMIST FOR THE FORESEEABLE FUTURE – BUT NOTHING LASTS FOREVER – THE USSR, WHICH SHARED MANY PRACTICES WITH ISRAEL, DID FINALLY COLLAPSE LEAVING A PEACEFUL RUSSIA
JOHN CHUCKMAN COMMENT: A FEW MORE WORDS ON QUEBEC’S PROPOSED BILL TO ENFORCE “RELIGIOUS NEUTRALITY OF THE STATE” BY TELLING PEOPLE WHAT THEY CAN WEAR TO THEIR JOBS IN PUBLIC INSTITUTIONS
JOHN CHUCKMAN COMMENT: SUGGESTIONS AROUND SAUDI ARABIA GOING NUCLEAR – WHETHER TRUE OR NOT, SAUDI ARABIA HAS BEEN SPENDING IMMENSE AMOUNTS ON ITS MILITARY – HOW IS IT THAT ISRAEL DOESN’T OBJECT? – THE SECRET SAUDI-ISRAELI ALLIANCE AND REASONS FOR IT
JOHN CHUCKMAN COMMENT: ASSANGE SILENCED NOW A YEAR – THE PATTERN OF ABUSE USED AGAINST HIM IS SIMILAR TO THAT USED NOW IN ALL AMERICA’S DIRTY OPERATIONS AND WARS – BRASS KNUCKLES IN PRETTY VELVET GLOVES
JOHN CHUCKMAN COMMENT: QUEBEC’S PROPOSED LEGISLATION PREVENTING ANYONE WORKING AT GOVERNMENT INSTITUTIONS, INCLUDING SCHOOLS, FROM WEARING CLOTHING OR SYMBOLS ASSOCIATED WITH A RELIGION WHILE AT WORK – PETTY AUTHORITARIANISM IN THE GUISE OF SECULARISM – AND FLIRTING WITH ISLAMOPHOBIA
JOHN CHUCKMAN COMMENT: HITLER’S INVASION OF RUSSIA – SOME IMPORTANT POINTS AGAINST THE NOTION, HELD BY SOME, THAT HITLER WAS MOTIVATED OUT OF FEAR THAT STALIN WAS ABOUT TO STRIKE GERMANY
JOHN CHUCKMAN COMMENT: “RUSSIA-GATE” AND TRUMP AND HILLARY CLINTON – HILLARY WILL NOT BE INDICTED CONTRARY TO AN ARTICLE – WASHINGTON’S UTTER CORRUPTION – THICK-HEADED TRUMP HAS NOW TAKEN STEPS SO DANGEROUS THEY MAKE “RUSSIA-GATE” LOOK SILLY
JOHN CHUCKMAN COMMENT: IT APPEARS “RUSSIAGATE” IS OVER – IT WAS ONLY EVER A CHEAP POLITICAL SCHEME EXPLOITING AMERICAN FEARS ABOUT RUSSIA – BUT THE SCHEME ALREADY SUCCEEDED WITH TRUMP HANDING OVER FOREIGN POLICY TO NEOCONS WHO WILL ENTRENCH RUSSOPHOBIA AND ENDLESS WAR – ANOTHER FEAR ABOUT MUELLER
JOHN CHUCKMAN COMMENT: GAZA’S HEROIC MARCH OF RETURN HAS ITS FIRST ANNIVERSARY – ONE OF THE BRAVEST SET OF ACTS IN THE NAME OF HUMAN FREEDOM I’VE SEEN IN A LIFETIME
JOHN CHUCKMAN COMMENT: THOMAS FRIEDMAN TALKS OF HIS “ANCESTRAL HOMELAND” – AND HE DOESN’T MEAN MINNESOTA WHERE HE WAS BORN – THE SLIPPERY IDEA OF ISRAEL AS AN ANCESTRAL HOMELAND – FUN WITH SOME OF FRIEDMAN’S PAST QUIRKY WRITING AS A PENTAGON PR AGENT
JOHN CHUCKMAN COMMENT: TRUMP AND THE GOLAN HEIGHTS – BREAKING MANY LAWS AND GIVING AWAY OTHER PEOPLE’S PROPERTY WITH NO CONCEIVABLE AUTHORITY FOR DOING SO – OH FOR SOME BOLD MEXICAN ILLEGALS TO SEIZE MAR-A-LAGO AND DECLARE IT ETERNALLY THEIRS
JOHN CHUCKMAN COMMENT: THE INTERESTING CASE OF TURKEY’S PRESIDENT ERDOGAN – THE UNEASY RELATIONSHIPS HE KEEPS WITH AMERICA AND EUROPE
JOHN CHUCKMAN COMMENT: AMERICA’S ELITES AND HITLER’S GERMANY – SOME KEY RELATIONSHIPS OF THE PERIOD – HOW EASILY WE FORGET THE PAST AND INDEED OFTEN LIE ABOUT IT – NO LESSONS LEARNED
JOHN CHUCKMAN COMMENT: ON A COMMENT CALLING AMERICAN POLITICIANS OMAR AND TLAIB “WOLVES IN SHEEP’S CLOTHING” – YOU CANNOT EXPECT COMPLETE HONESTY FROM ANY U.S. POLITICIAN – AFTER ALL WE ARE SPEAKING ABOUT THE CAPITAL OF AN EMPIRE, NOT 1960s SWEDEN – THE REALITIES OF LIBERALISM IN AMERICA
JOHN CHUCKMAN COMMENT: FURTHER THOUGHTS ON WHAT TERROR IS – THE DISTINCTION BETWEEN “ORDINARY KILLING” AND TERROR KILLING – USING “TERROR” AS A LABEL LIKE “WITCH” – NATIONS USE THE WORD “TERROR” TO SERVE SELFISH INTERESTS – A GREAT DEAL OF DELIBERATE CONFUSION IN OUR PRESS WITH THE WORD “TERROR” – STATE TERROR PLAYS AN IMPORTANT ROLE IN OUR WORLD
JOHN CHUCKMAN COMMENT: THE NEW ZEALAND MASS KILLER – NOTHING TO DO WITH TERROR – A GREAT DEAL TO DO WITH THE HATRED AND VIOLENCE WITH WHICH AMERICA FILLS THE VERY AIR WE BREATHE – INABILITY TO IDENTIFY AND HELP SICK PEOPLE – ACCESS TO GUNS
JOHN CHUCKMAN COMMENT: WHY A CRITICISM OF TRUMP’S HALTING CIVILIAN-DEATH DRONE REPORTS REPRESENTS SOMETHING SERIOUSLY WRONG – PICKING OUT A SMALL PART OF THIS UGLY STORY IS LIKE CRITICISING AN ADMINISTRATIVE ERROR AT A DEATH CAMP
JOHN CHUCKMAN COMMENT: CHANGING NATURE OF VOTING UNDER A PARLIAMENTARY SYSTEM – PROBLEMS REPRESENTED – GETTING RID OF BAD LEADERS – NEED FOR ELECTION REFORM
JOHN CHUCKMAN COMMENT: HOW AMERICA’S USE OF SANCTIONS RESEMBLES ITS USE OF BOMBING
JOHN CHUCKMAN COMMENT: JUST IMAGINE THE DAMAGE TO MILLIONS DONE BY AMERICA’S UGLY STUNT OF DESTROYING VENEZUELA’S ELECTRICITY GRID? – SUCH IS AMERICA’S CARE FOR PEOPLE’S WELFARE
JOHN CHUCKMAN COMMENT: TRUTH COMES WRAPPED IN THE IMAGE OF A GENTLY-SMILING MADONNA – ILHAN OMAR IS A MIRACLE
JOHN CHUCKMAN COMMENT: “RUSSIA-GATE” HAS ALWAYS BEEN POLITICAL CRAP – BUT THERE IS ANOTHER CLOSE ASSOCIATION OF TRUMP’S THAT IS NOT AND IT’S EXTREMELY DANGEROUS – THE NEOCONS’ NEOCON
JOHN CHUCKMAN COMMENT: IS THE WESTERN WORLD RATIONALLY GOVERNED? NOT IF YOU LOOK AT THE EXISTING SITUATION WITH BRITAIN AND THE EU – AND THEN THERE’S AN EVEN MORE OMINOUS SITUATION AS AMERICA NOW SPREADS THREATS AND DANGER ALMOST EVERYWHERE
JOHN CHUCKMAN COMMENT: SHABBY EFFORT TO MALIGN BDS – ISRAEL AND APARTHEID SOUTH AFRICA – ON BUILDING IRON WALLS INSTEAD OF BRIDGES – ISRAEL’S HELP WITH SOUTH AFRICAN NUCLEAR WEAPONS – WHY THERE IS NO “ISRAEL-PALESTINE CONFLICT” – IT’S A MANUFACTURED PHRASE TO HIDE REALITY
JOHN CHUCKMAN COMMENT: THE BRAVEST PERSON IN AMERICA DESERVES THE NOBEL PEACE PRIZE – CHELSEA MANNING – WHY IT CANNOT HAPPEN
JOHN CHUCKMAN COMMENT: THUGS LIKE MARCO RUBIO – VICIOUS ATTACKS ON VENEZUELA – AMERICANS SEEM COMFORTABLE WITH WHAT CAN ONLY BE CALLED FASCISM
JOHN CHUCKMAN COMMENT: WHY WOULD ANYONE CARE ABOUT BERNIE SANDERS MAKING IT TO THE OVAL OFFICE? – A MEASURE OF AMERICAN LIBERAL DESPERATION AND CHILD-LIKE FANTASY FEELING
JOHN CHUCKMAN COMMENT: WINSTON CHURCHILL’S MENTAL CONDITION – REFLECTIONS ON HIS CHARACTER
JOHN CHUCKMAN COMMENT: CANADA’S STUPID ARREST OF A HUAWEI EXECUTIVE AND WHAT IT MEANS
JOHN CHUCKMAN COMMENT: JUSTIN TRUDEAU FINISHED? LET’S HOPE – JUST SOME OF HIS INCOMPETENCE AND FAILURE – AND THE UNPLEASANTNESS OF CHRYSTIA FREELAND, HIS CLOSEST CABINET APPOINTMENT
JOHN CHUCKMAN COMMENT: JUSTIN TRUDEAU’S FORMER RIGHT-HAND MAN/OPERATOR TESTIFIES – VERY CONVINCING COMPARED TO AN HONEST AND DECENT WOMAN’S TESTIMONY – DETAILS OF MY PARTISANSHIP IN RESPONSE TO AN OBTUSE COMMENT
JOHN CHUCKMAN COMMENT: REFLECTIONS ON PUTIN AS A LEADER AND ON THE WORLD SITUATION IN WHICH HE WORKS
JOHN CHUCKMAN COMMENT: THE PROFOUND IMPORTANCE OF THE RULE OF LAW IN SOCIETY – YET WE HAVE THE UNITED STATES AND ISRAEL CONSTANTLY IGNORING IT IN THEIR DEALINGS WITH OTHERS
JOHN CHUCKMAN COMMENT: THE TERRIBLE EFFORTS BY ISRAEL-FRIENDLY FOUNDATIONS IN WASHINGTON TO GENERATE WAR WITH IRAN
JOHN CHUCKMAN COMMENT: FORMER CIA WHISTLEBLOWER JOHN KIRIAKOU TELLS AN ANECDOTE FROM HIS TIME IN JAIL – EVEN THE POST OFFICE SPIES ON YOU – BUT HERE’S WHY THE AMERICAN NATIONAL SECURITY STATE CANNOT BE STOPPED
JOHN CHUCKMAN COMMENT: AMNESTY INTERNATIONAL NOW PEDDLING AMERICA’S LINE ON VENEZUELA – IT DOES SEEM ALL INTERNATIONAL ORGANIZATIONS OF INDEPENDENCE AND SUBSTANCE HAVE BEEN REDUCED BY U.S. EFFORTS IN RECENT DECADES
JOHN CHUCKMAN COMMENT: SHOULD CANADA LET CITIZENS WHO JOINED ISIS RETURN? – GENERAL PRINCIPLE IS SIMPLE: ONCE A CITIZEN ALWAYS A CITIZEN – WORDS ABOUT WHAT ISIS AND AL NUSRA (AND “THE WHITE HELMETS”) REALLY ARE – AMERICAN MILITARY ATROCITIES LIKELY DWARF THOSE OF ISIS – USING THUGS TO GET YOUR WAY
JOHN CHUCKMAN COMMENT: ISRAEL PRESSES U.S. FOR RECOGNITION OF ILLEGAL GOLAN ANNEXATION – BIZARRE BUT NO MORE THAN U.S. RECOGNITION OF A SELF-SWORN PRESIDENT IN VENEZUELA – WESTERN FOUNDATIONAL PRINCIPLE OF THE RULE OF LAW ABANDONED – PERHAPS THE MOST CONSEQUENTIAL CHANGE OF OUR TIME – THE LUNATICS RUN THE ASYLUM – AND WAR WITH IRAN A GOAL?
JOHN CHUCKMAN COMMENT: THE RISE OF A DUAL SOCIETY IN AMERICA – PLUTOCRACY’S EFFECT ON DEMOCRACY RESEMBLES A TOP PREDATOR AMONG A GRAZING HERD – AN INTERESTING VIDEO BY TUCKER CARLSON, SOMEONE I NORMALLY DO NOT SEE
JOHN CHUCKMAN COMMENT: IMPORTANT POINTS AROUND ELECTRIC CARS – SOME OF THE ENTHUSIASM AROUND THEM LACKS SOUND FOUNDATION
JOHN CHUCKMAN COMMENT: GETTING WHAT YOU WANT WITH CUSTOM-MADE TALES – “BIG INTELLIGENCE” IS MORE GUIDED BY GOVERNMENT THAN GUIDING IT – IT PROVIDES A PRODUCT WRAPPED IN PRESUMED CREDIBILITY
JOHN CHUCKMAN COMMENT: A WRITER SAYS CIA IS OUT OF CONTROL – OF COURSE IT IS – GIVEN ITS BASIC STRUCTURE, THERE REALLY IS NO WAY FOR IT TO BE OTHERWISE
JOHN CHUCKMAN COMMENT: ON THE IDEA OF BANNING A COMPANY LIKE HUAWEI – AND AN INADVERTENTLY AMUSING REFERENCE TO THE “FIVE-EYES” – WHAT THAT IS – NOTHING GOOD
JOHN CHUCKMAN COMMENT: UNTOLD SECRETS BEHIND THE BATTLE OVER AID DELIVERY ON VENEZUELA’S BORDER – IMPORTANT THINGS THE MAINLINE PRESS NEVER MENTIONS – HOW AMERICA USES SUCH AID DELIVERIES AS BLACK-OPS
JOHN CHUCKMAN COMMENT: EUROPE’S BALTIC GAS WAR – WHAT AMERICA IS REALLY TRYING TO DO IS STOP A FUTURE (INEVITABLE) GERMAN-RUSSIAN ALLIANCE – WHAT LIQUIFIED NATURAL GAS (LNG) IS AND WHY IT IS NOT COMPETITIVE WHERE PIPELINE GAS IS AVAILABLE – IRRELEVANCE OF UKRAINE
JOHN CHUCKMAN COMMENT: A NICE PIECE ON VENEZUELA BY JOHN PILGER – A TRIBUTE TO CHAVEZ – AND AMERICA’S PRIVILEGED LITTLE BOYS PULLING THE WINGS OFF BUTTERFLIES THEY CATCH AS SPORT
JOHN CHUCKMAN COMMENT: DESPITE A POORLY-CHOSEN TITLE FOCUSING ON SWINE, DMITRY ORLOV REVIEWS A FINE SPEECH OF PUTIN’S – BUT HE MANAGES TO GO COMPLETELY OFF THE RAILS WITH WORDS ABOUT AMERICAN CONGRESSWOMAN CASIO-CORTEZ
JOHN CHUCKMAN COMMENT: ELIZABETH WARREN ADDRESSES THE DEMOGRAPHY OF PALESTINIANS IN ISRAEL – A CLASSIC RACIST THEME FROM ISRAELIS LIKE NETANYAHU – BUT THEN I NEVER DID REGARD HER AS MUCH OF A LIBERAL
JOHN CHUCKMAN COMMENT: REFLECTIONS ON AMERICA’S MADELEINE ALBRIGHT – WHAT SHE REPRESENTED – THE PERFECT EXAMPLE OF OLD TALES ABOUT SELLING YOUR SOUL TO THE DEVIL
JOHN CHUCKMAN COMMENT: A SHARP AMERICAN CRITIC-COMEDIAN NAMED LEE CAMP REMINDS ME OF THE DAY THERE WERE MORE LIKE HIM – AND I DOUBT WE’D HEAR MUCH FROM HIM IF HE HADN’T BEEN PICKED UP BY RT
JOHN CHUCKMAN COMMENT: MAX BLUMENTHAL TOURS A SUPERMARKET IN CARACAS AND PUTS THE LIE TO THE AMERICAN TALE OF A HUMANITARIAN CRISIS IN VENEZUELA
JOHN CHUCKMAN COMMENT: JUST ONE MORE, OFTEN-OVERLOOKED ABSURDITY IN ISRAEL’S EFFORTS TO LABEL ITS CRITICS AS “ANTI-SEMITIC”
JOHN CHUCKMAN COMMENT: SENATOR MARCO RUBIO’S VIEWS ON AMERICAN COMPETITION WITH CHINA – JUST ONE MORE REASON WHY HE IS A PERFECT IDIOT
JOHN CHUCKMAN COMMENT: THERE IS A REAL PRICE TO PAY IF CANADA SHOULD BAN CHINA’S HUAWEI FROM 5G NETWORKS – BUT MONEY IS JUST PART OF THE COST – AMERICAN POLITICAL LUDDISM BEING FOISTED ON THE PLANET – A BULLY TRIES TO TELL EVERYONE WHAT TO BUY
JOHN CHUCKMAN COMMENT: RECENT REVELATIONS OF CRAPPY BEHAVIOR BY THE FBI COME AS NO SURPRISE IF YOU KNOW SOMETHING OF ITS PAST – IT HAS A GOOD REPUTATION ONLY IN ITS OWN MIND
JOHN CHUCKMAN COMMENT: WHEN YOU ATTACK AN IMAGE OF THE MADONNA YOU MAKE A SERIOUS MISTAKE – THE ISRAEL LOBBY’S BLUNDERING ERRORS ARE STARTING TO TURN GENERAL PUBLIC PERCEPTIONS – FINALLY
JOHN CHUCKMAN COMMENT: YOU FIND EFFORTS TO JUSTIFY ALMOST ANYTHING THESE DAYS – MY RESPONSE TO AN ARTICLE CLAIMING THERE WAS A KIND OF DEMOCRACY IN HITLER’S GERMANY
JOHN CHUCKMAN COMMENT: THE BASIC STORY OF THE ISRAEL LOBBY AND AMERICA’S DEEP STATE – A BRAVE AND SMILING-FACED WOMAN, REPRESENTATIVE ILHAN OMAR, TAKES THEM ON
JOHN CHUCKMAN COMMENT: TULSI GABBARD IS THE MOST APPEALING AMERICAN POLITICIAN IN A LONG TIME – THE REALITIES AWAITING HER SHOULD SHE EVER MANAGE TO GET ELECTED – ELIZABETH WARREN AND P. T. BARNUM
JOHN CHUCKMAN COMMENT: AMERICA’S UGLY DRUNKEN-SAILOR ACT TOWARDS VENEZUELA – SETTING NEW LOWS IN STATESMANSHIP AND RESPECT FOR LAW – A MODEST PROPOSAL FOR FUTURE BEHAVIOR BY OTHER STATES
JOHN CHUCKMAN COMMENT: THE CARELESS TALK ABOUT CAPITALISM VERSUS SOCIALISM IN THE UNITED STATES
JOHN CHUCKMAN COMMENT: MIKE POMPEO AND HEZBOLLAH IN SOUTH AMERICA WITH JESUS AND A HOST OF ANGELS – LUNACY AT THE TOP OF A THERMONUCLEAR POWER
JOHN CHUCKMAN COMMENT: TRUMP’S STATE OF THE UNION REVIEWED BY A SUPPOSED ESTABLISHMENT CRITIC – NO WONDER AMERICA IS IN SO MUCH TROUBLE – EVEN THE CRITICS ADMIRE STUPIDITY SO LONG AS IT IS GENUINELY AMERICAN
JOHN CHUCKMAN COMMENT: THE VERY PECULIAR NATURE OF TRUMP’S MANY LIES – HIS PRECARIOUS POSITION WITH THE WASHINGTON POWER ESTABLISHMENT – THE USE THEY MAKE OF HIM – SOMETHING OF WHERE WE ARE HEADED
JOHN CHUCKMAN COMMENT: HONEST TULSI GABBARD AND AMERICA’S VICIOUS ESTABLISHMENT PRESS – FOR THE ROLE OF 2020 WOMAN OUTSIDER CANDIDATE THEY HAVE KAMALA HARRIS – OBAMA REDUX – A PLEASANTLY SMILING SAY- AND DO-NOTHING
JOHN CHUCKMAN COMMENT: NANCY PELOSI’S “F-U” MOMENT – I’M NOT FOND OF HER BUT SHE SHOWS SHE IS STILL A PRETTY FORMIDABLE OPPONENT FOR TRUMP
JOHN CHUCKMAN COMMENT: FACTS AND SOME HISTORY AROUND WHY CANADA’S NOW LEADING THE SHABBY “LIMA GROUP” AGAINST VENEZUELA’S ELECTED GOVERNMENT IS SO ASTONISHING
JOHN CHUCKMAN COMMENT: BIG FAKE INTERNATIONAL GET-TOGETHER IN CANADA CELEBRATED BY NEWS COVERAGE SAYING NOTHING WE DIDN’T KNOW – “LIMA GROUP” EMBRACES OPPOSITION AND CALLS ON VENEZUELA’S MILITARY TO QUIT MADURO – SELLING HOT AIR
JOHN CHUCKMAN COMMENT: THE REAL PROBLEMS FOR CRITICS REACHING THE PUBLIC WITH NEWS STORIES – NATURE OF MASS AUDIENCES – MUCH OF HUMAN PSYCHOLOGY JUST NATURALLY HELPS THE BAD GUYS
JOHN CHUCKMAN COMMENT: CANADA’S JUSTIN TRUDEAU AND INTERNATIONAL HUMAN RIGHTS – NOTE ON TRUDEAU’S HIGHLY SELECTIVE SHEDDING OF TEARS
JOHN CHUCKMAN COMMENT: THE SAD STATE OF THE PRESS – A MAJOR AMERICAN NETWORK RUNS A STORY ON TULSI GABBARD RESEMBLING 1950s MOVIE MAGAZINE GOSSIP ABOUT HOLLYWOOD STARLETS – BUT WITH A RUSSIAN TWIST
JOHN CHUCKMAN COMMENT: WHY IT IS AN ERROR TO WRITE OF “POMPEO’S DERANGED FOREIGN POLICY” – A FEW NOTES ON OBAMA WHO IS STILL PRAISED BY SOME STYLING THEMSELVES “LIBERAL” – A FEW NOTES ON THAT GREATEST OF ALL AMERICAN HYPOCRITES, THOMAS JEFFERSON
JOHN CHUCKMAN COMMENT: VENEZUELA’S COUP-IN-SLOW-MOTION – AMERICA LOOKING TOWARDS A BETTER WORLD…FOR THE LIKES OF BOLTON POMPEO AND HASPEL – MACRON (A JOKE IN HIS OWN COUNTRY) DEMANDS MADURO RESIGN – AMERICAN LEFT…WHAT LEFT?
JOHN CHUCKMAN COMMENT: WHEN TREASON IS PRAISED – VENEZUELAN AIR FORCE GENERAL CALLS FOR OTHERS TO OPPOSE THE ELECTED MADURO AND SUPPORT THE SELF-APPOINTED GUAIDO – NOTE ON JIMMY CARTER
JOHN CHUCKMAN COMMENT: AMERICAN WITHDRAWAL FROM THE INF TREATY – AN ACT LIKELY REALLY AIMED AT CHINA – SO WHY DOES THE UNITED STATES SAY RUSSIA CAUSES IT? – RUSSOPHOBIA IS AN AMERICAN NATIONAL PREOCCUPATION NOW AND LYING IS A VERY OLD HABIT
JOHN CHUCKMAN COMMENT: THE LANGUAGE OF SOVIET APPARATCHIKS LIVES ON – FACEBOOK CRACKDOWN ON “COORDINATED INAUTHENTIC BEHAVIOR”
JOHN CHUCKMAN COMMENT: MORE DANGEROUS SILLINESS FROM ISRAEL – CONTROL OF THE KEYS TO THE HOLY SEPULCHRE – HOW ISRAELI AUTHORITIES THEMSELVES REPRESENT THE ULTIMATE IN DANGEROUS SILLINESS
JOHN CHUCKMAN COMMENT: THE REAL TARGET OF AMERICA’S HUAWEI SANCTIONS – CHINA IS TAKING CENTER STAGE AND THE “INDISPENSABLE NATION” ISN’T HAPPY ABOUT IT – CHINA BUILDS WHILE AMERICA BOMBS
JOHN CHUCKMAN COMMENT: WHAT ACTUALLY DRIVES ISRAEL’S NETANYAHU – RESPONSE TO AN INTERESTING ARTICLE ABOUT NETANYAHU’S QUITE APPARENT TOLERANCE FOR SEVERAL FLAGRANT CASES OF ANTI-SEMITISM
JOHN CHUCKMAN COMMENT: ON TALK OF LIBERAL ELITES AND “GLOBALISM” – LIBERALISM POOH-POOHED WHEN IN FACT IT HAS NEVER BEEN EMBRACED BY THE WEST – MODERN IMPERIALISM AND A TERRIBLE MILITARISM ARE WHAT AMERICA EMBRACES – THE IMMENSE IMPACT UPON SOCIETY OF CHANGING TECHNOLOGY – DECENTRALIZATION AND LONELINESS AND GLOBALIZATION
JOHN CHUCKMAN COMMENT: IS PUTIN TOO SOFT IN HIS RESPONSES TO THE ATTACKS OF THE WEST? DOES HE NEED TO BE MORE LIKE KHRUSHCHEV WAS? – THOUGHTS ON HIS LEADERSHIP QUALITIES AND ON THE TIME OF KHRUSHCHEV
JOHN CHUCKMAN COMMENT: IS THERE APPRECIABLE RACISM IN QUEBEC? MY EXPERIENCE SAYS ABSOLUTELY NOT – BUT WE DO HAVE A PROBLEM FOR IMMIGRANTS IN GETTING ASSISTANCE WITH THEIR FRENCH LANGUAGE
JOHN CHUCKMAN COMMENT: SOME STRANGE CRIMES IN AMERICA ACCOMPANIED BY STRANGE OR STRANGER POLICE INVESTIGATIONS OF THEM
JOHN CHUCKMAN COMMENT: HOW CENSORSHIP IN AMERICA HAS BEEN RATIONALIZED – POLITICAL IDEOLOGY IS A FORM OF SECULAR RELIGION – WHY PROPAGANDA DOES INDEED WORK – AND BACK TO WASHINGTON’S EFFORT TO BE IMPERIAL ROME
JOHN CHUCKMAN COMMENT: ANYONE ATTACKED BY AMERICA’S NEW DISINFORMATION-FOR-PROFIT SCAM CALLED NEWSGUARD SHOULD WEAR IT AS A BADGE OF HONOR
JOHN CHUCKMAN COMMENT: AMERICAN BRAIN SICKNESS STRIKES CANADA – GOVERNMENT PROPOSES SETTING UP A “WARNING TEAM” AGAINST POTENTIAL ELECTION INTERFERENCE – NO DEFINING THE THREAT OR IDENTIFYING WHO MIGHT OFFER IT OR ANY BASIS FOR EVEN MAKING THE CLAIM
JOHN CHUCKMAN COMMENT: CANADA’S TRUDEAU CONTINUES TO BLUNDER IN RELATIONS WITH CHINA – WHAT AMERICA’S CHARGES AGAINST CHINA ARE REALLY ALL ABOUT
JOHN CHUCKMAN COMMENT: JUST TO STATE THE TRUE MEANING OF THE WORD “LIBERALISM” HIGHLIGHTS WHAT IS WRONG IN ISRAEL AND WHY ISRAEL ATTACKS CRITICS AND CALLS THEM NAMES
JOHN CHUCKMAN COMMENT: ON ISRAEL RESEMBLING A MODERN SPARTA
JOHN CHUCKMAN COMMENT: BREXIT GOES ON AND ON – HOW POINTLESSLY DESTRUCTIVE GOVERNMENT CAN BE – BRITAIN’S DAVID CAMERON AND THERESA MAY
JOHN CHUCKMAN COMMENT: A NIGHTMARE ORWELL NEVER ANTICIPATED – WASHINGTON’S POLITBURO NOW TELLS COUNTRIES A COUPLE OF THOUSAND MILES AWAY WHO SHOULD BE ELECTED – POLITBURO CHIEF POMPEO PUTS ON A STAGE SHOW WHERE SOMEONE WHO DIDN’T EVEN RUN FOR OFFICE SWEARS HIMSELF IN AND THEN ALL THE POLITBURO’S LOYAL DEPENDENCIES DEMAND HIS RECOGNITION ON CUE – VENEZUELA IS THE BUSINESS OF VENEZUELANS
JOHN CHUCKMAN COMMENT: CLOSING THE GOVERNMENT – TRUMP’S BLUSTER AND COWARDICE – WHY HE REALLY GAVE IN – NOTE ON TULSI GABBARD – NOTE ON FBI HISTORY – NOTE ON U.S. AS A CLOSED SOCIETY – IMPORTANT NOTES ON THE DESIGN OF “AMERICAN DEMOCRACY” FROM ITS CREATION
JOHN CHUCKMAN COMMENT: ARTICLE ON ROGER STONE’S INDICTMENT REGURGITATES THE UNPROVED (AND LIKELY UNTRUE) IDEA OF RUSSIAN HACKING PROVIDING THE DEMOCRATIC PARTY MATERIAL TO WIKILEAKS DURING ELECTION – NO WONDER PEOPLE BECOME SICK OF MAINLINE NEWS OUTLETS – ADDITIONAL PERSPECTIVE
JOHN CHUCKMAN COMMENT: JAPAN’S AMBASSADOR SAYS SOME VERY SILLY THINGS TO CANADA ABOUT RELATIONS WITH CHINA – SOME PERSPECTIVE
JOHN CHUCKMAN COMMENT: THE SITUATION IN VENEZUELA AND THE GENERAL OPERATING PRINCIPLES AND METHODS EMPLOYED BY THE UNITED STATES IN ITS IMPERIAL AFFAIRS
JOHN CHUCKMAN COMMENT: ISRAEL’S NEW “APARTHEID HIGHWAY” IN THE WEST BANK – ISRAEL’S FUTURE WITH THE PALESTINIANS HAS ONLY FOUR POSSIBLE OUTCOMES – HERE THEY ARE WITH THE STATUS OF EACH
JOHN CHUCKMAN COMMENT: TRUTH ABOUT “TRUMP DERANGEMENT SYNDROME” – AND TRUMP IS A SADLY RECOGNIZABLE PART OF WHAT AMERICA IS – CHANCES TO CHANGE AMERICA IN OUR TIME ARE PRETTY MUCH NONEXISTENT
JOHN CHUCKMAN COMMENT: TALK ABOUT INTERFERENCE IN THE AFFAIRS OF OTHER STATES – IN A SCENE FROM A LOONEY TUNES CARTOON VENEZUELA’S OPPOSITION LEADER SWEARS HIMSELF IN AS UNELECTED “PRESIDENT” – AMERICA AND CANADA JUMP RIGHT IN TO RECOGNIZE HIM – CANADA’S JUSTIN TRUDEAU AS TONY BLAIR-LIKE LAPDOG
JOHN CHUCKMAN COMMENT: ON RE-OPENING THE KENNEDY ASSASSINATION INVESTIGATION – WHY IT WOULD BE A WASTE OF TIME – THE NATURE OF TRUTH WHERE EMPIRE OR GREAT POWER IS INVOLVED – SOME TRUTHS ABOUT THE FBI, WHO BY THE WAY DID ALL THE INVESTIGATING FOR THE SHABBY WARREN COMMISSION
JOHN CHUCKMAN COMMENT: THE TRUTH ABOUT “STATE OF THE UNION” SPEECHES – AMERICAN POLITICS BECOME MORE MEANINGLESS EACH PASSING DAY
JOHN CHUCKMAN COMMENT: ABUSE OF NGOs BY INTELLIGENCE SERVICES – CASE OF AMNESTY INTERNATIONAL – BUT JUST ABOUT ALL INTERNATIONAL ORGANIZATIONS END UP SERVING CREEPS LIKE CIA, WILLINGLY OR OTHERWISE – NOTE NOBEL PEACE PRIZE
JOHN CHUCKMAN: HOW TO SOUND RIDICULOUS AS YOU PREACH TO OTHERS ABOUT RUNNING THEIR AFFAIRS – THE STUNNINGLY DUMB CAIRO SPEECH BY AMERICAN SECRETARY OF STATE POMPEO
JOHN CHUCKMAN COMMENT: SOME DEMOCRATS COMING TO ACCEPT THE REALITY OBAMA WAS A BAD PRESIDENT – BUT A VITAL POINT IS LOST – TRUMP IS AS BAD AND THE TWO CASES SUPPORT REALITY OF THE “DARK STATE”
JOHN CHUCKMAN COMMENT: MORE ON “FACT-CHECKING” AND AN OMINOUS NEW AMERICAN OUTFIT CALLED NEWSGUARD – WHAT FREE SPEECH AND FREE PRESS AND A FREE SOCIETY REALLY MEAN – EMPIRE AND FREEDOM?
JOHN CHUCKMAN COMMENT: POLL SHOWS AMERICAN MILITARY OCCUPATIONS ARE SUPPORTED MORE BY DEMOCRATS THAN REPUBLICANS – WHY THIS SHOULD NOT SURPRISE – WHAT LIBERALS ARE AND WHY THERE ARE NONE IN AMERICA
JOHN CHUCKMAN COMMENT: CANADA’S CHRYSTIA FREELAND MAKING A CHEAP SHOW WELCOMING ONE AFFLUENT RUNAWAY SAUDI GIRL AS A REFUGEE – A PUBLICITY STUNT WHILE IGNORING NUMBERLESS VICTIMS’ SCREAMS
JOHN CHUCKMAN COMMENT: THE COMING OF NEWSGUARD TO A WEBSITE NEAR YOU – AMERICA SLIPPING INTO INSANITY
JOHN CHUCKMAN COMMENT: THE DEMOCRATS’ REAL REASON TO DENY TRUMP FUNDING FOR A WALL – IT AMOUNTS TO NOTHING MORE THAN PUTTING HIS NATIVE QUALITIES ON DISPLAY FOR VOTERS TO SEE
JOHN CHUCKMAN COMMENT: TRUMP’S SPEECH FOR HIS WALL – IF THERE IS ONE THING TRUMP KNOWS IT IS HIS CUSTOMERS
JOHN CHUCKMAN COMMENT: JOHN BOLTON IN ISRAEL – AMERICA IN SYRIA – HOW TO OPENLY IGNORE AN AMERICAN PRESIDENT – SOME FACTS ABOUT SYRIA AND ABOUT IRAN AND ABOUT ISRAEL – AMERICA’S DECLINING INFLUENCE IN THE MIDDLE EAST
JOHN CHUCKMAN COMMENT: “FIVE EYES” IS A HIGH-LEVEL WESTERN-GOVERNMENT SHELL GAME IN THE SECRECY OF CITIZENS THAT HAS BEEN GOING ON FOR DECADES – PEOPLE ARE COMPLETELY RIGHT NOT TO TRUST THEIR GOVERNMENTS WHEN THEY BEHAVE LIKE THIS
JOHN CHUCKMAN COMMENT: THE SAD HOPES OF THOSE CALLED (WRONGLY) AMERICA’S LIBERALS – ELIZABETH WARREN’S CANDIDACY FOR PRESIDENT
JOHN CHUCKMAN COMMENT: THE MOST RIDICULOUS GOVERNMENT ON THE PLANET, AUTHOR OF THE OUTRAGEOUS SKRIPAL AFFAIR, PREACHES TO RUSSIA ABOUT USING PEOPLE AS “PAWNS” – THE RUSSIAN ARREST OF PAUL WHELAN FOR SPYING WHO AS IT TURNS OUT HAS MORE PASSPORTS THAN JAMES BOND
JOHN CHUCKMAN COMMENT: A FEW WORDS ON WHY LAUREL AND HARDY WERE SO VERY SPECIAL
JOHN CHUCKMAN COMMENT: THE ODD NOTION THAT AMERICA “POLICES THE WORLD” HAS SIMPLY NEVER BEEN THE CASE – WHAT WE DO FIND IN FACT – AND AMERICA’S INABILITY TO GOVERN EVEN ITS OWN FINANCES – A HUGE SOCIETY’S DANGEROUS UNEXAMINED ASSUMPTIONS
JOHN CHUCKMAN COMMENT: IT SURE DIDN’T TAKE LONG FOR TRUMP TO BACK DOWN ON HIS ONE GOOD DECISION – THE MILITARY WITHDRAWAL FROM NORTHEASTERN SYRIA – AND HERE’S THE REASON FOR IT
JOHN CHUCKMAN COMMENT: CORRECTION ON THE GHASTLY TOLL OF “WAR ON TERROR” – THE HANDIWORK OF AMERICA’S PRIVILEGED CLASS ANSWERING TO NO ONE AND ABOUT AS CORRUPT AS THEY COME – AMERICANS’ ASTONISHING TRUST IN BOUGHT POLITICIANS AND IN BOUGHT JOURNALISM
JOHN CHUCKMAN COMMENT: THINKING PEOPLE HAVE BEEN APPALLED BY THE GUARDIAN’S RECENT FALSE STORY ATTACKING JULIAN ASSANGE – BUT THE CONTEMPORARY GUARDIAN IS CONSISTENTLY APPALLING – IN ITS HARD NEWS AND VIEWS THE GUARDIAN IS ABOUT AS TORY AND PRO-AMERICAN AND WAR-LOVING AS THERESA MAY
JOHN CHUCKMAN COMMENT: CAN TRUMP REMAIN FIRM IN HIS SYRIA DECISION? – APART FROM FORCES AGAINST HIM WE DO HAVE EVEN SOME POSSIBILITY OF A HOAX – TWO POWERFUL WASHINGTON FORCES AT WORK HERE AND TRUMP IS NO ENEMY OF EITHER – DESPITE TRUMP’S CLAIM AMERICA WAS NEVER THE MIDEAST’S “POLICEMAN” – POLICE ENFORCE LAWS BUT THAT’S NOT WHAT AMERICA DOES – AMERICA AND PROXY WARS – ISRAEL AND TURKEY AND THE KURDS
JOHN CHUCKMAN COMMENT: INSIDER DISINFORMATION WAR AGAINST TRUMP’S SYRIA DECISION STARTS ALREADY – WHY AMERICANS ARE EVEN IN SYRIA AND THEIR REAL RECORD WITH ISIS – WHY IT STARTED KILLING ISIS INSTEAD OF ASSISTING THEM – KURDISH RUMP STATE?
JOHN CHUCKMAN COMMENT: SCEPTICISM WELL JUSTIFIED OVER TRUMP’S ANNOUNCEMENT OF TROOP WITHDRAWAL FROM SYRIA – PUTIN’S SENSIBLE REACTION – A WORD ON THE “NEED” FOR CHANGE IN AMERICAN POLITICS AND JOURNALISM
JOHN CHUCKMAN COMMENT: RIGHT-WING GOBBLEDYGOOK ABOUT LIBERAL MEDIA AND TRUMP’S ANNOUNCED WITHDRAWAL FROM SYRIA
JOHN CHUCKMAN COMMENT: GOD THIS GENERATION DOES SAY SOME PATHETIC SELF-SERVING THINGS – AND THE PRESS PUBLISHES THEM – SANDRA BULLOCK AND BEING A SINGLE MOTHER – MY HEROIC MOTHER 65 YEARS AGO
JOHN CHUCKMAN COMMENT: THE BEST LINE WRITTEN ON TRUMP’S CLAIM THAT AMERICA DEFEATED ISIS
JOHN CHUCKMAN COMMENT: FROM AN INTERVIEW WITH A HUNGARIAN SCHOLAR ON THE HIGH ODDS OF A RUSSIAN-AMERICAN WAR, WORDS ON THE WORK OF CIA AND AMERICA’S CONTINUOUS COLONIAL WARS – THE SICKNESS LINGERING OVER AMERICA
JOHN CHUCKMAN COMMENT: THE SENSELESS CASE AND SHAMEFUL TREATMENT OF RUSSIAN CITIZEN MARIA BUTINA – AMERICA BECOMES COMPLETELY UNHINGED BY RUSSOPHOBIA
JOHN CHUCKMAN COMMENT: FORMER TRUMP ATTORNEY MICHAEL COHEN STATES OBVIOUS TRUTH ON MAKING HUSH PAYMENTS FOR TRUMP – THE DAMAGING ROLE PLAYED BY OUR PRESS IN TREATING EVERY SQUEAL AND SHOUT TWEETED BY TRUMP AS NEWSWORTHY
JOHN CHUCKMAN COMMENT: A GOOD WORKING DEFINITION OF TYRANNY FROM AMERICAN SECRETARY OF STATE MIKE POMPEO
JOHN CHUCKMAN COMMENT: THERE ARE MANY ABSURDITIES CONCERNING TRUMP’S PROPOSED WALL ON MEXICO – BUT NEVER MENTIONED IN ALL THE ARGUMENTS IS A KEY AND SHAMEFUL REASON WHY A WALL WAS NEVER BUILT IN THE PAST
JOHN CHUCKMAN COMMENT: AN ANECDOTE ABOUT THE SOCIAL-MEDIA GENERATION
JOHN CHUCKMAN COMMENT: ONE OF TRUMP’S MOST ABSURD STATEMENTS – A VIEW UNFORTUNATELY SHARED BY THE ENTIRE AMERICAN GOVERNMENT
JOHN CHUCKMAN COMMENT: A FEW THOUGHTS ON CANADA’S JUSTIN TRUDEAU – AN AUTHOR ERRS IN REFERRING TO THE ADORATION IN WHICH HE IS HELD
JOHN CHUCKMAN COMMENT: THE ROLE AND EFFECTS OF MONOPOLIES AND NEAR-MONOPOLIES TODAY IN AMERICA
JOHN CHUCKMAN COMMENT: FRANCE’S PRESIDENT MACRON AND LES GILETS JAUNES – HOW NOT TO GOVERN A COUNTRY – AND AN INTERESTING ASIDE ON CIA AND TACTICS IT HAS OFTEN USED
JOHN CHUCKMAN COMMENT: A REMARKABLE DULL LITTLE PHOTOGRAPH OF GEORGE H W BUSH …WITH EXPLOSIVE SUGGESTIONS
JOHN CHUCKMAN COMMENT: WHAT AMERICA’S NEOCONS REPRESENT FOR ARMS-CONTROL AGREEMENTS SUCH AS THE INF WITH RUSSIA – AND HERE’S THE DEADLY WEAKNESS IN TRUMP’S PSYCHOLOGY THAT HAS ALLOWED NEOCONS TO VIRTUALLY TAKE-OVER HIS GOVERNMENT
JOHN CHUCKMAN COMMENT: COURT HEARING OVER AMERICAN EXTRADITION REQUEST WHICH CAUSED CANADA TO ARREST CHINESE HUAWEI EXECUTIVE MENG WANZHOU – AMERICAN GOBBLEDYGOOK SANCTION LAWS SHOULD BE ENFORCEABLE ONLY IN AMERICA
JOHN CHUCKMAN COMMENT: A HIGH-LEVEL MYSTERY IS EMERGING IN WASHINGTON – THE ACTIVITIES OF THE CIA AND OF A GROUP OF SENATORS CONCERNING SAUDI ARABIA’S BUTCHER CROWN PRINCE – WHAT ARE THEY TRYING TO ACHIEVE?
JOHN CHUCKMAN COMMENT: THE ATLANTIC COUNCIL IS OFTEN CITED IN THESE DAYS OF RUSSOPHOBIA AS AN AUTHORITY – BUT IT IS ONLY JUST LIKE ALL THE OTHER AMERICAN AND AMERICAN-INSPIRED THINK-TANKS
JOHN CHUCKMAN COMMENT: THE AMERICAN CONSTITUTION HAS NOT IN FACT STOOD THE TEST OF TIME WELL – ITS POSITION TODAY MUCH RESEMBLES THAT OF A DUSTY OLD PARCHMENT ON DISPLAY IN A MUSEUM CABINET
JOHN CHUCKMAN COMMENT: CANADA ARRESTS CHINESE EXECUTIVE OVER EXTRADITION REQUEST RELATED TO AMERICA’S HIGH-HANDED TRADE SANCTIONS AGAINST IRAN – IN FOREIGN AFFAIRS TODAY CANADA STANDS PRETTY MUCH FOR NOTHING
JOHN CHUCKMAN COMMENT: THE RECENT CANONIZATION OF GEORGE H W BUSH – A MAN NEITHER THE PRESS NOR THE PUBLIC ESPECIALLY LIKED WHEN HE WAS IN OFFICE – AN UNGRACIOUS MAN TOO AND ONE WITH SOME DARK BACKGROUND
JOHN CHUCKMAN COMMENT: MORE ON THE STRANGE PHENOMENON OF TRUMP AND AMERICA’S NEOCONS – A MAN WHO IMAGINES HIMSELF A GREAT LEADER LEADING NOTHING AND HE STILL HAS PATHETIC FOLLOWERS WHO THINK HE’S FIGHTING A GREAT BATTLE FOR THEM
JOHN CHUCKMAN COMMENT: LITTLE-KNOWN GEORGE SOROS-FUNDED CENTRAL EUROPEAN UNIVERSITY PUSHED OUT OF BUDAPEST BY HUNGARY’S PRIME MINISTER VIKTOR ORBAN – MICHAEL IGNATIEFF’S ASSOCIATION
JOHN CHUCKMAN COMMENT: THE GUARDIAN NEWSPAPER’S CHEAP ASSAULT ON JULIAN ASSANGE WAS NOTHING OUT OF THE ORDINARY – TODAY IT WORKS AS A HATE SHEET FOR OPPONENTS OF AMERICAN EMPIRE – A CLOSET-NEOCON PUBLICATION
JOHN CHUCKMAN COMMENT: THE DEATH OF GEORGE H W BUSH – WHAT HIS PRESIDENCY REALLY TOLD US ABOUT AMERICA IN THE LATE 20TH CENTURY – AND A LINK TO AN INTRIGUING VIDEO CONCERNING THE KENNEDY ASSASSINATION
JOHN CHUCKMAN COMMENT: FACTS FROM AMERICA’S VIOLENT CRIMINAL JUSTICE SYSTEM – AND IT IS JUST NOT POSSIBLE TO BE THE MURDEROUS MR. HYDE ABROAD AND THE GOODLY DR. JEKYLL AT HOME – AMERICA IS A VIOLENT SOCIETY CONSISTENTLY
JOHN CHUCKMAN COMMENT: THE PSYCHOLOGY OF CLIMATE CHANGE – AN ARTICLE’S TITLE WHICH SHOULD IMMEDIATELY SIGNAL CAUTION WARNINGS
JOHN CHUCKMAN COMMENT: CNN FIRES AN ACADEMIC COMMENTATOR FOR HIS MAKING SOME COMPLETELY ACCURATE STATEMENTS ABOUT ISRAEL AND PALESTINE AT ANOTHER VENUE – THIS FROM A NETWORK ALWAYS GOING ON ABOUT TRUTH AND FAKE NEWS AND CENSORSHIP
JOHN CHUCKMAN COMMENT: ACCEPTING MYTH AS FACT – EVEN IN OUR SCIENTIFIC AGE IT IS DONE OFTEN AND WITHOUT BEING QUESTIONED DESPITE ITS DANGER – PERHAPS THE MOST PUBLICIZED EXAMPLE IS THE NOTION OF MODERN JEWISH PEOPLE HAVING RETURNED TO AN ANCESTRAL HOME IN ISRAEL
JOHN CHUCKMAN COMMENT: MR TRUMP AND MR COHEN AND THE G-20 – TRUMP HAS BECOME SO ABSURD HE DOESN’T EVEN KNOW IT WHEN HE QUESTIONS HIS OWN JUDGMENT IN PUBLIC
JOHN CHUCKMAN COMMENT: HOW A GENUINE FACT USED IN ISOLATION CAN BE PROPAGANDA JUST AS SURELY AS A COMPLETELY MADE-UP TALE – A BIT MORE ON RUSSIA AND UKRAINE IN THE KERCH STRAIT
JOHN CHUCKMAN COMMENT: UNAVOIDABLE FLAWS IN OUR PRESS – GOVERNMENT-PRESS RELATIONSHIP IN THE WEST – AMERICA’S BASIC STRUCTURAL PROBLEM IS PLUTOCRACY AND ITS EMPIRE AND NOT “GLOBALISM” – MYTH OF TRUMP BATTLING INSIDERS
JOHN CHUCKMAN COMMENT: SOME RUSSIANS DO SOUND A BIT LIKE 1980s REPUBLICANS WITH TALK ABOUT “FAMILY VALUES” – AND DISPARAGING TALK ABOUT “GLOBALISM” RESEMBLES AMERICA’S CONTEMPORARY ALT-RIGHT
JOHN CHUCKMAN COMMENT: SOME FUNDAMENTALS ABOUT THE AMERICAN EMPIRE AND THE NEW FERVENT SERVANT IT HAS IN TRUMP – A WORD ON TRUMP’S GAME WITH HIS SUPPORTERS
JOHN CHUCKMAN COMMENT: MORE NONSENSE ABOUT RUSSIA AND UKRAINE IN THE KERCH STRAIT – IF YOU LOOK AT THE BASIC FACTS RUSSIA BEHAVED WELL
JOHN CHUCKMAN COMMENT: CIA DIRECTOR BLOCKED FROM SENATE BRIEFING ABOUT SAUDI ARABIA – THE LONG-ESTABLISHED CIA PRACTICE ON TESTIFYING
JOHN CHUCKMAN COMMENT: THE RUSSIAN-UKRAINIAN COMMOTION NEAR CRIMEA – IT HAS NOTHING TO DO WITH “RUSSIAN AGGRESSION” – IT IS ABOUT SOMETHING FAR HUMBLER AND DOWNRIGHT EMBARRASSING – THE UTTER INCOMPETENCE OF THE CURRENT GOVERNMENT OF UKRAINE
JOHN CHUCKMAN COMMENT: THE BEST “COMIC BOOK” MOVIE EVER MADE TURNS THIRTY
JOHN CHUCKMAN COMMENT: A NEW ART INSTALLATION IN CHICAGO COMMEMORATES AMERICAN LOSSES IN VIETNAM – A READER ASKS WHAT ABOUT VIETNAMESE LOSSES? – INDEED AND THAT TSUNAMI OF GRISLY DEATHS REDUCES AMERICAN LOSSES TO A MERE FOOTNOTE – AMERICA’S GENUINE HOLOCAUST IN SOUTHEAST ASIA
JOHN CHUCKMAN COMMENT: RE-CREATED ISRAEL HAS NEVER MADE A GREAT DEAL OF SENSE – BUT WE CAN LIVE WITH IT IF IT JUST ACCEPTS THE RULE OF LAW AND THE SAME RULES GOVERNING ALL NATIONS – DANGERS IN THE TERM “JEWISH STATE” AND IN ADVOCATING NEW LAWS VIOLATING WESTERN RIGHTS AND TRADITIONS
JOHN CHUCKMAN COMMENT: MOOSE-BRAIN RECEIVES A DEADLY SHOT RIGHT BETWEEN THE EYES FROM AMERICAN POLITICIAN TULSI GABBARD
JOHN CHUCKMAN COMMENT: PATRIOTISM AND NATIONALISM – MUCH LIKE RELIGION IN BLINDLY PRAISING THE INSUPPORTABLE – NATIONS LIKE PEOPLE COME IN ALL TYPES AND MANY HARDLY DESERVE PRAISE – PATRIOTISM IS A TOOL USED BY THOSE SEEKING POWER – AND YOU JUST CANNOT EXCLUDE FASCISM FROM THIS SUBJECT – WHAT HISTORIES OF AMERICA AND ISRAEL VIVIDLY TELL US
JOHN CHUCKMAN COMMENT: PRESS ECHOES THE MOST EGREGIOUS WASHINGTON PROPAGANDA ABOUT AMERICA LOSING THE NEXT BIG WAR – EVEN IF IT WERE TRUE THE OBVIOUS CONCLUSIONS ARE IGNORED – RUSSOPHOBIA RESEMBLES A NEW FORM OF BRAIN CANCER
JOHN CHUCKMAN COMMENT: AMERICA’S DESTRUCTIVE HOLD ON EUROPE
JOHN CHUCKMAN COMMENT: WHY AMERICA CAN’T WIN ANY WARS DESPITE SPENDING MORE ON ITS MILITARY THAN THE REST OF THE PLANET – THE RAW TRUTH ABOUT THE NATURE OF AMERICAN WARS SINCE WWII – NEW YORK TIMES ANECDOTE
JOHN CHUCKMAN COMMENT: PLAYING THE ESTABLISHMENT’S GAME BY DEMONSTRATING THIS OR THAT PAST DISHONESTY AS WITH INTELLIGENCE AND THE IRAQ INVASION – WHERE EMPIRE IS CONCERNED POLITICIANS AND AGENCIES AND PRESS ARE ALL COMPLICIT AND UTTERLY DISHONEST – MANUFACTURING TRUTH IN AMERICA
JOHN CHUCKMAN COMMENT: A FREE PRESS – USELESSNESS OF POLITICAL SERMONS ON THE SUBJECT – THE HYPOCRISY SO OFTEN DISPLAYED BY THE PRESS ITSELF – THE CASE OF CBC – NOTHING LIKE THE GROTESQUERIES OF THE GUARDIAN BUT HYPOCRISY JUST THE SAME
JOHN CHUCKMAN COMMENT: A NOTICEABLE CHANGE IN THE CONTENT OF THE SPUTNIK INTERNET SITE
JOHN CHUCKMAN COMMENT: HOW THE MIGHTY ARE FALLEN – THE NORWEGIAN WARSHIP IN AMERICA’S BIG POINTLESS WAR GAMES IS NOW VIRTUALLY UNDERWATER – A FITTING EPITAPH TO ARROGANT STUPIDITY – AMERICA NEEDS TO “GET A LIFE”
JOHN CHUCKMAN COMMENT: BRITAIN’S PRIME MINISTER BRAGS OF RUSSIAN INTELLIGENCE BEING DEGRADED AFTER SKRIPAL AFFAIR – BUT WASN’T THAT THE POINT OF THE ENTIRE EFFORT BY THERESA MAY WHO NEVER PRODUCED A COHERENT EXPLANATION OR PROOF OF WHAT SHE CLAIMED HAPPENED?
JOHN CHUCKMAN COMMENT: MORE ON THE TRUMP PRESS CONFERENCE-JIM ACOSTA AFFAIR – IT DID NOT REALLY GO TO THE HEART OF PRESS FREEDOM IN AMERICA WHICH IS IN A DISMAL STATE ANYWAY – AMERICA LOVES A FOOD FIGHT WITH LOFTY-SOUNDING WORDS – JOURNALISM AND EMPIRE SIMPLY DO NOT MIX – CNN’S OWN QUITE DOUBTFUL RECORD
JOHN CHUCKMAN COMMENT: JUSTIN TRUDEAU’S REMARKS ABOUT ATTACKS ON MEDIA AND THE RISE OF NATIONALISM – HE GLOSSED OVER WHAT IS IMPORTANT IN BOTH CASES
JOHN CHUCKMAN COMMENT: NATO’S GIANT WAR GAMES NEAR RUSSIA EXPERIENCE PROBLEMS WITH THEIR GPS SYSTEMS – A CLEVER DEMONSTRATION BY RUSSIA OF WHAT A HOSTILE NATO MIGHT FACE?
JOHN CHUCKMAN COMMENT: OIL TANKER MAKES SHORT WORK OF MODERN NORWEGIAN WARSHIP DURING NATO’S GIGANTIC EXERCISES MEANT TO INTIMIDATE RUSSIA – MAYBE RUSSIA SHOULD BUILD A FLEET OF TANKERS TO USE AGAINST NATO
JOHN CHUCKMAN COMMENT: AMERICA’S WAY OF CLEANING UP ITS ACT IN YEMEN – WE’LL STOP REFUELING THE SAUDI PLANES BLOWING UP WOMEN AND CHILDREN
JOHN CHUCKMAN COMMENT: WHAT IS WRONG WITH AMERICA TODAY? “TRUTH IS FOR DREAMERS AND LOSERS”
JOHN CHUCKMAN COMMENT: DONALD TRUMP’S PRESS CONFERENCE FLYING CIRCUS – DANGEROUS NEAR-LUNATIC ANTICS RECORDED FOR ALL TO SEE – AND THIS IS A MAN TO DEAL WITH HEADS OF STATE? TO CHART AMERICA’S ROLE IN THE WORLD?
JOHN CHUCKMAN COMMENT: AN ELECTION OUTCOME WHICH CHANGES ALMOST NOTHING – DESPITE THE WORLD’S FACING TERRIBLE AMERICAN-INDUCED PROBLEMS AND HAVING A GENUINELY OBSCENE MAN AS PRESIDENT – AN AMERICAN POLITICAL SYSTEM INCAPABLE OF MEANINGFUL RESPONSE
JOHN CHUCKMAN COMMENT: POSSIBLE HISTORIC TURNING POINT COMING IN AMERICA’S EFFORTS TO IMPOSE HARSH SANCTIONS ON IRAN AND TO SAVE THE BLOODY CROWN PRINCE OF SAUDI ARABIA
JOHN CHUCKMAN COMMENT: WRITER SAYS THE WEST IS FAILING JULIAN ASSANGE – YES BUT IT IS ALMOST THE CASE UNIVERSALLY THAT THOSE WHO SPEAK TRUTH TO POWER ARE MADE TO SUFFER FOR DOING SO – THAT’S JUST HOW HUMAN SOCIETY WORKS
JOHN CHUCKMAN COMMENT: “RIGHTING THE WRONGS OF THE PAST” BY NOT HONORING SOMEONE (AS WAS JUST THE CASE IN BRITAIN WITH ROALD DAHL) HAS A NICE SOUND TO IT – BUT IT IS TRULY AN IMPOSSIBLE TASK – AND THERE ARE SO MANY DARK LITTLE CORNERS IN SO MANY HISTORICAL AND ARTISTIC LIVES THAT WE WOULD HAVE TO TOSS A HUGE NUMBER OF IMPORTANT ONES EVEN TO ATTEMPT THE TASK
JOHN CHUCKMAN COMMENT: ISRAEL’S EMBRACE OF THE NEW FAR-RIGHT LEADERS COMING UP IN THE WORLD – IT SHOULD COME AS NO SURPRISE – THIS “DEMOCRACY” HAS REJECTED DEMOCRATIC MOVEMENTS IN ITS REGION SINCE THE BEGINNING AND LONG EMBRACED KINGS AND TYRANTS
JOHN CHUCKMAN COMMENT: RUSSIA-GATE MAKES AMERICA LOOK JUST PLAIN DUMB – AND THAT’S ASIDE FROM MANY OTHER CONSEQUENCES AND DANGERS – THE WORLD DOESN’T LAUGH AS IT SHOULD BECAUSE OF THE ARMIES OF KNUCKLE-DRAGGERS AND THUGS AT THE PENTAGON AND CIA PLUS A SET OF POLITICIANS WHO THREATEN OR SANCTION EVERY TIME THEY OPEN THEIR UTTERLY CORRUPT MOUTHS
JOHN CHUCKMAN COMMENT: THE FULL IMPACT OF TRUMP’S THOUGHTLESS SANCTIONS CONCERNING IRAN MAY BE FAR DIFFERENT THAN EXPECTED – HUNDREDS OF MILLIONS MUST FEAR THREATS TO FILL TRUMP’S 2020 CAMPAIGN COFFERS – IT MAY MARK A PRECIPITOUS NEW DECLINE IN AMERICA’S POSITION
JOHN CHUCKMAN COMMENT: ARTICLE ON AMERICAN PATRIOTS NOT EVEN KNOWING WHO THE REAL ENEMIES ARE – AMERICA’S STAGE-SHOW NATIONAL POLITICS WITH TWO PARTIES CAPABLE OF DOING NOTHING – THE REALITIES OF THE AMERICAN-ISRAEL RELATIONSHIP AND INHERENT INSTABILITIES LIKE THE EMBRACE OF SAUDI ARABIA AND ITS BUTCHER CROWN PRINCE
JOHN CHUCKMAN COMMENT: THE TEMPLE SLAUGHTER IN PITTSBURGH AND SHAMEFUL EFFORTS TO EXPLOIT IT – IDEA OF “WIDESPREAD ANTI-SEMITISM” GROSSLY ABUSED – V.P. MIKE PENCE’S COLOSSAL BLUNDER BRINGING A “CHRISTIAN RABBI” TO PITTSBURGH TO PRAY FOR REPUBLICANS TO WIN
JOHN CHUCKMAN COMMENT: THE SAD STATE OF JOURNALISM – REALITIES OF CORPORATE PRESS AND BROADCASTERS – THE IMPORTANCE OF ALTERNATIVE PRESS BUT THE FEEBLE POSITION IT IS IN FOR REAL INFLUENCE – OURS IS NEITHER AN ORWELL NOR A HUXLEY WORLD BUT SOMETHING MUCH STRANGER
JOHN CHUCKMAN COMMENT: BLOOD-SOAKED AMERICAN ALLY SAUDI ARABIA – ACTUAL DEATH TOLL IN YEMEN – ONLY CIRCUMSTANCES WHERE WASHINGTON ATTACKS TYRANTS – COMPARE THE GLARING HYPOCRISY OF THE KHASHOGGI AND SKRIPAL AFFAIRS – AN UPSIDE-DOWN WORLD WHERE POWER AND MONEY ALWAYS TRUMP PRINCIPLE
JOHN CHUCKMAN COMMENT: WIKILEAKS HAS EXPOSED A GOOD DEAL OF BRITISH-UNITED STATES COMPLICITY – WHY ASSANGE IS SO HATED EVEN THOUGH THE TWO GOVERNMENTS KEEP THEIR PUBLIC RHETORIC QUITE LOW – NATURE OF SECRETS
JOHN CHUCKMAN COMMENT: AN IMPORTANT PART OF THE REASON WHY AMERICAN-RUSSIAN RELATIONS HAVE HIT ROCK BOTTOM
JOHN CHUCKMAN COMMENT: THE “NATURAL” MARRIAGE OF GERMANY AND RUSSIA – BOTH COULD BENEFIT IMMENSELY BY A CLOSE RELATIONSHIP – BUT THIS IS AN IDEA WASHINGTON LOATHES AND IT WILL DO EVERYTHING IN ITS POWER TO PREVENT
JOHN CHUCKMAN COMMENT: ON CLIMATE CHANGE AND SOCIETY’S APPROACH TO THE PROBLEMS IT REPRESENTS
JOHN CHUCKMAN COMMENT: THE “PIPEBOMB” AFFAIR AND THE PROMINENT ROLE OF LUNACY IN AMERICA
JOHN CHUCKMAN COMMENT: SAUDI ARABIA REALLY HAS ONE KEY PROBLEM GENERATING VARIOUS THREATS TO ITS STABILITY – ITS CLOSE ASSOCIATION WITH ISRAEL AND THE UNITED STATES – MY ANSWER TO SOMEONE TELLING AMERICANS TO STOP TALKING AND JUST VOTE
JOHN CHUCKMAN COMMENT: SAUDI ARABIA’S KILLER CROWN PRINCE MAKING HIS FIRST POST-KHASHOGGI SPEECH – WHY I AM REMINDED OF SOLZHENITSYN’S GULAG ARCHIPELAGO
JOHN CHUCKMAN COMMENT: THE UNFORTUNATE TIMING OF THE LATEST CARAVAN OF REFUGEES HEADING TOWARDS THE AMERICAN BORDER – APPEAL TO AMERICAN XENOPHOBIA LIKELY TRUMP’S STRONGEST POLITICAL ASSET AND IT MAY HELP HIM SURVIVE MIDTERM CONGRESSIONAL ELECTIONS
JOHN CHUCKMAN COMMENT: A VERY SAD EVENT – THE RECENT WOMEN’S DEMONSTRATION AGAINST THE PENTAGON – WHAT IT REALLY TELLS US – AMERICA NOW EVERYTHING THE JACK-BOOTED STATES OF THE 1930s WERE – ONLY JACK-BOOTS ARE OUT OF STYLE
JOHN CHUCKMAN COMMENT: WHY TRUMP DOES NOT CONTROL THE AMERICAN MILITARY – THE CIA’S ROLE – KENNEDY’S ASSASSINATION – DRUG-DEALING AND OTHER OFF-THE-BOOKS MONEY-MAKERS FOR CIA SUPPORTING PROGRAMS NO POLITICIAN EVEN KNOWS ABOUT – A VERY THREATENING NATION
JOHN CHUCKMAN COMMENT: TURKEY’S ERDOGAN SPEAKS OF THE KHASHOGGI MURDER WITH LESS THAN THE FULL DISCLOSURE HE PROMISED – LACK OF WESTERN RESPONSE TO A PUBLICLY-CONDUCTED ATROCITY – AMERICA’S PIVOTAL ROLE IN THE RESPONSE
JOHN CHUCKMAN COMMENT: THE THINGS NIKKI HALEY AND DONALD TRUMP SAY SHOW VIVIDLY HOW DEGRADED AMERICAN POLITICS HAVE BECOME – NO ETHICS OR DECENCY – I SUSPECT IT HAS SOMETHING TO WITH A NATION BUSY IN THE BUSINESS OF KILLING PEOPLE ALL THE TIME
JOHN CHUCKMAN COMMENT: HUMAN SEXUAL IDENTITY AND ALL THE IGNORANCE WE HAVE ABOUT IT – AN INTERESTING ARTICLE ABOUT TRANSGENDER IDENTICAL TWINS
JOHN CHUCKMAN COMMENT: IS SOMETHING BIG ABOUT TO BREAK IN SAUDI ARABIA? – WE HAVE THE MOST FASCINATING BIT OF DIRTY WORK IN YEARS REVEALING FLAT-FOOTED LIES AND HYPOCRISY FROM THE UNITED STATES – IT’S ALL WORKADAY STUFF FOR THEM BUT THEY USUALLY KEEP IT HIDDEN
JOHN CHUCKMAN COMMENT: THE ISRAELI-SAUDI DE FACTO ALLIANCE – WHAT THE MURDEROUS CROWN PRINCE REPRESENTS FOR AMERICA – RE-MAKING THE PLANET AND HITLER’S WILLING HELPERS
JOHN CHUCKMAN COMMENT: HERE IS WHAT THE TURKS KNOW ABOUT THE KHASHOGGI MURDER – THERE REALLY CANNOT BE A DOUBT THAT THIS WAS PLANNED TO HAPPEN EXACTLY AS IT DID AND NO DOUBT AUTHORITY CAME FROM THE TOP – TRUMP IS TRYING TO LIE HIS WAY THROUGH BUT IT WILL BE HARD IN VIEW OF THIS EVIDENCE – AND WHERE’S THERESA MAY’S VOICE?
JOHN CHUCKMAN COMMENT: ONE MORE REMINDER OF THE BIZARRE STRANGELOVIAN WORLD IN WHICH WE NOW LIVE – “CERTIFICATES OF APPRECIATION” FOR MASS MURDER – YES, I KID YOU NOT
JOHN CHUCKMAN COMMENT: WHAT IS REALLY GOING ON IN SAUDI ARABIA AND TURKEY WITH THE APPARENT BRUTAL MURDER OF JOURNALIST JAMAL KHASHOGGI INSIDE A SAUDI CONSULATE IN TURKEY? – TRUTH AND JUSTICE UNDER AMERICAN EMPIRE – IF SOMETHING SERVES THE EMPIRE IT SERVES GOD
JOHN CHUCKMAN COMMENT: HOW THE “RUSSIA HOAX” IS USED AND ABUSED ON ALL SIDES – NEITHER AMERICA’S PRESS NOR ANY POLITICIAN SEEKS TRUTH ABOUT THE NATION’S PROBLEMS BECAUSE THEY ARE JUST TOO DARK AND UGLY AND BASIC TO FACE
JOHN CHUCKMAN COMMENT: THE DISAPPEARANCE OF A SAUDI JOURNALIST WHO WORKED FOR THE WASHINGTON POST WHILE VISITING A SAUDI CONSULATE IN TURKEY TELLS US SOMETHING IMPORTANT ABOUT THE BRAVE NEW WORLD AMERICA IS BUSY CREATING
JOHN CHUCKMAN COMMENT: A WRITER SAYS WE CAN BE HOPEFUL ABOUT PALESTINE – I WISH IT WERE SO – BUT I SEE NO REASON FOR OPTIMISM – QUITE THE OPPOSITE WHEN YOU APPRECIATE THE ACTUAL BEHAVIOR OF ISRAEL AND AREN’T BLINDED BY IDEOLOGY AND FANCIFUL MYTHS
JOHN CHUCKMAN COMMENT: AMERICAN POLITICS’ CONSTANT TOYING WITH ADVERTISING SLOGANS AVOIDS DEALING WITH REALITY – AMERICAN DREAM AND MAKE AMERICA GREAT AGAIN ARE FANTASIES – HERE’S A FEW HARD REALITIES – A NEW GREAT DEPRESSION?
JOHN CHUCKMAN COMMENT: AMERICA’S UNMISTAKABLE RELATIVE ECONOMIC DECLINE – THE HOPELESS AND DANGEROUS ASSAULTS OF TRUMP AND THE AMERICAN ESTABLISHMENT ON THE WORLD – A CLEAR DRIFT TOWARDS FASCISM – IMPOVERISHMENT THROUGH DEPRESSION MIGHT MAKE IT DECISIVE
JOHN CHUCKMAN COMMENT: A LIST OF REASONS TO DOUBT THE OFFICIAL STORY OF 9/11 IS INTERESTING BUT IT MISSES SOME VITAL POINTS – I THINK YOU CAN ONLY REJECT THE OFFICIAL STORY OF 9/11 IF YOU INFORM YOURSELF EVEN A LITTLE
JOHN CHUCKMAN COMMENT: PUTIN’S CHARMING CUSTOM OF HAVING VERY LARGE FAMILIES TO DINNER – BUT THE INEVITABILITY OF POPULATION DECLINE IN ADVANCING NATIONS – LONG-TERM REALITIES OF DEMOGRAPHIC TRANSITION
JOHN CHUCKMAN COMMENT: GOOD CRITICAL REVIEW OF NEW BOOK “PREVENTING PALESTINE” – I THINK THE UNDERLYING PROBLEM IS ALMOST NEVER DISCUSSED – AMERICA IS JUST TOTALLY UNFIT TO BRING PEACE – IT AIMS ONLY TO KEEP A MIDEAST COLONY AND ITS POLITICAL SYSTEM IS CUSTOM-DESIGNED TO GUARANTEE THAT
JOHN CHUCKMAN COMMENT: WRITER ACCUSES NEW YORK TIMES AND SECURITY AGENCIES OF TRYING TO DRIVE TRUMP INSANE LIKE IAGO WHISPERING IN OTHELLO’S EAR – AT THIS POINT WHO CARES? – TRUMP BROUGHT IT ON HIMSELF AND HE IS A DISASTER – AMERICA’S CONSTITUTION? IT HAS BEEN DEAD ON ITS FEET FOR DECADES
JOHN CHUCKMAN COMMENT: AUTHOR SAYS 9/11 WAS AN OPERATION BY ISRAEL – I DON’T KNOW BUT IF ISRAEL WAS INVOLVED I KNOW TO A CERTAINTY SO WAS THE CIA – REVIEW OF SOME DARK CHAPTERS IN RECENT AMERICAN HISTORY WITH NO EXPLANATIONS – WHAT HAPPENS WITH THE DIRTY WORKS OF EMPIRE
JOHN CHUCKMAN COMMENT: AUTHOR ASKS FAIR QUESTION: WILL SAUDI ARABIA BECOME NEXT FAILED STATE? – BUT WHEN HE MENTIONS POTENTIAL THREAT FROM ISIS OR AL QAEDA HE LITERALLY BABBLES – WHAT ISIS REALLY IS – THE PURPOSES AND NATIONS IT SERVES FAITHFULLY – ATTACK ON AN IRANIAN MILITARY PARADE AND A GLARING TRUTH REVEALED IN IRAN’S REPRISAL – THE FOLKS WHO GAVE YOU OVER A HALF MILLION DEAD IN SYRIA
JOHN CHUCKMAN COMMENT: BILL CLINTON’S “IT’S THE ECONOMY, STUPID” AND THE RATIONALITY OF VOTERS CALLED INTO QUESTION BY RECENT DEFEAT OF A GOVERNMENT IN CANADA’S PROVINCE OF QUEBEC WHICH HAS PRESIDED OVER A VERY HEALTHY ECONOMY
JOHN CHUCKMAN COMMENT: WHY MODERN PRESIDENTS CANNOT SET AMERICAN FOREIGN POLICY EVEN IF THEY WANT TO DO SO – FOUNDING OF AMERICAN EMPIRE AFTER WW II – THE NEEDS ALL EMPIRES SHARE WHETHER AMERICAN OR SOVIET – CREATION OF CIA – IMPORTANT NOTE ON KENNEDY ASSASSINATION
JOHN CHUCKMAN COMMENT: MY DEFINITIVE POINTS AGAINST THE ONGOING SHABBY EFFORT TO CONFLATE CRITICISM OF ISRAEL’S BEHAVIOR WITH THE PREJUDICE OF ANTI-SEMITISM – THOSE TWO THINGS ARE NO MORE THE SAME THAN ARE CHALK AND CHEESE – AND THE SERIOUS DANGERS OF INSISTING THAT THEY ARE
JOHN CHUCKMAN COMMENT: THE NEW CANADA-UNITED STATES-MEXICO TRADE AGREEMENT – A FEW THOUGHTS FOR THOSE DISAPPOINTED IN ITS TERMS
JOHN CHUCKMAN COMMENT: TRUMP CHAIRS THE UN SECURITY COUNCIL AND MAKES AN ASS OF HIMSELF – BUT THERE IS NOTHING FUNNY ABOUT AMERICA’S CLEAR DRIFT TOWARDS FASCISM – TRUMP’S APPOINTMENTS FROM HELL – AMERICA’S RECORD OF GENUINE INTERFERENCE IN THE POLITICS OF OTHER COUNTRIES
JOHN CHUCKMAN COMMENT: BELLINGCAT’S CLAIMS ABOUT A GRU COLONEL AND THE SKRIPAL AFFAIR – REMEMBER WHAT BELLINGCAT IS – JUST A FRONT ORGANIZATION FOR BRITISH SECURITY SERVICE MI6 – NO SUBSTITUTE FOR EVIDENCE
JOHN CHUCKMAN COMMENT: CANADA HELPING JOHN BOLTON’S DIRTY WORK AGAINST VENEZUELA – RECALLING JUSTIN TRUDEAU’S BRAVE FATHER WHO STOOD UP TO AMERICA OVER CUBA – I AM ASHAMED OF SON JUSTIN’S BEHAVIOR IN A SIMILAR MATTER
JOHN CHUCKMAN COMMENT: SAUDI ARABIA SEEKS AN APOLOGY FROM CANADA – CHRYSTIA FREELAND SAYS CANADA ALWAYS STANDS UP FOR HUMAN RIGHTS – OH SURE – THE SAUDIS ARE DISGUSTING BUT FREELAND REMINDS ME OF THE UGLY HYPOCRITES IN OFFICIAL WASHINGTON
JOHN CHUCKMAN COMMENT: SOME INSIGHTS INTO PUTIN AND HOW HE HANDLES THE MANY DIFFICULTIES THROWN AT HIM BY AMERICA – A FEW WORDS ON THE NATURE OF TRUTH AND THE DANGEROUS WORLD INTO WHICH WE HAVE BEEN HURLED – AMERICA’S COMPLETE POLITICAL FAILURE
JOHN CHUCKMAN COMMENT: ON THE HATRED OF RUSSIA – ITS BACKGROUND AND THE PURPOSES IT SERVES – ON THE DISHONESTY OF OUR PRESS IN SERVING THOSE PURPOSES AND THE IMPORTANCE OF FOREIGN AND INDEPENDENT NEWS SOURCES – PLUS THE ANSWER TO THE QUESTION: WHY IS THERE SO MUCH DISHONESTY TODAY?
JOHN CHUCKMAN COMMENT: CHICAGO’S OBAMA PRESIDENTIAL CENTER IS A POORLY CONCEIVED PROJECT IN TERMS OF LOCATION, LOOKS, AND PURPOSE – A STERILE SUBURBANISH CORPORATE HEADQUARTERS-TYPE BUILDING TO BE PLUNKED DOWN ON TWENTY ACRES OF A MORE-THAN CENTURY-OLD PARK – IT IS TO OFFER FACILITIES FOR YOGA, BASKETBALL, A TEST KITCHEN, AND PARKING – AND, OH YES, A DIGITAL ARCHIVE, NOT THE ORIGINAL PAPERS SCHOLARS WOULD WANT TO SEE
JOHN CHUCKMAN COMMENT: A COMMENT RIGHTLY ASKS: WITH TRUMP DOING EVERYTHING THE ESTABLISHMENT WANTS WHY DO THEY STILL WANT TO GET RID OF HIM? – I THINK THESE ARE THE ESSENTIAL REASONS
JOHN CHUCKMAN COMMENT: MISCONCEPTIONS ABOUT THE NEW YORK TIMES – SETTING THE RECORD STRAIGHT – IT SIMPLY AIN’T WHAT IT PRETENDS TO BE
JOHN CHUCKMAN COMMENT: BRITISH GOVERNMENT ANNOUNCES “TERROR ATTACK” TRAINING FOR THE PUBLIC – A USELESS CONCEPT EXCEPT FOR ITS PSY-OP VALUE IN HYPING THE PUBLIC ABOUT ALMOST NON-EXISTENT TERROR
JOHN CHUCKMAN COMMENT: A FRENCH COURT USES DISCREDITED OLD SOVIET TACTIC AGAINST POLITICIAN MARINE LE PEN – ORDERING HER FOR A MENTAL EXAM – WE SEE MANY UGLY ACTS NOW AS SIDE-EFFECTS OF AMERICA’S NEW DRIVE FOR GLOBAL DOMINANCE
JOHN CHUCKMAN COMMENT: HILLARY CLINTON IN INTERVIEW CONTINUES EXPANDING ON FANTASIES ABOUT WHAT DEFEATED HER – “THEY WANTED ME OUT OF THE WAY” – “THEY”? THAT’S THE WAY PEOPLE WITH PARANOIA TALK
JOHN CHUCKMAN COMMENT: BRITAIN’S THERESA MAY ACCUSES EU OF SHOWING “US” NO RESPECT AFTER HER PREDICTABLE DEFEAT FOR BREXIT PROPOSALS THEY HAD ALREADY SIGNALLED WOULDN’T BE ACCEPTED – SHE STARTS TO GROW AS DELUSIONAL AS HILLARY CLINTON EXPLAINING WHY SHE LOST THE ELECTION
JOHN CHUCKMAN COMMENT: TRUMP IMPOSES SANCTIONS ON CHINA FOR THE MERE ACT OF BUYING SOME RUSSIAN PLANES AND MISSILES – THE WORLD’S BULLY ONLY GROWS WORSE
JOHN CHUCKMAN COMMENT: THE SERENA WILLIAMS CARTOON CONTROVERSY – I DON’T SEE IT – HER BEHAVIOR WAS REALLY UGLY – SO IN THE TRADITIONS OF CARICATURE SHE RECEIVED UGLY TREATMENT – IT JUST WAS NOT OUTSIDE NORMAL BOUNDS
JOHN CHUCKMAN COMMENT: SHOOT-DOWN OF RUSSIAN PLANE IN SYRIA – RUSSIAN DEFENSE MINISTER AND PUTIN SAY DIFFERENT THINGS – WHY THEY ARE BOTH RIGHT – ISRAEL’S UTTER LAWLESSNESS YET AGAIN
JOHN CHUCKMAN COMMENT: A LIST OF MEDIA COMPANIES WHO HAVE ENDED READER COMMENTS – OBSERVATIONS AROUND THE PHENOMENON – THEN THERE ARE “GUARDIAN GAMES” – ALSO NOTE COMMENTS AT MANY SITES NOW CONSOLIDATED UNDER ONE PROVIDER
JOHN CHUCKMAN COMMENT: SMARMY U.S. POLITICIAN MARCO RUBIO ATTACKS VENEZUELA’S MADURO OVER EATING A TURKISH CHEF’S STEAK DINNER – LEADERS IN ALL ORGANIZATIONS EVERYWHERE ARE INSULATED FROM THE WORST OF SOCIETY – THAT’S JUST WHAT HUMANS DO – IT HAS NOTHING TO DO WITH SOCIALISM
JOHN CHUCKMAN COMMENT: PUTIN AND JAPAN’S ABE AND THE KURILE ISLANDS – THE DEEP QUESTION OF WHY JAPAN, AN ANCIENT AND PROUD COUNTRY, HAS BEEN SO SUBSERVIENT TO THE UNITED STATES SINCE WWII
JOHN CHUCKMAN COMMENT: AN ARTICLE ASKS ABOUT LIFE AFTER ABBAS – THE TRUTH ABOUT ABBAS AND WHY IT IS HARD TO GET GOOD LEADERSHIP FOR THE PALESTINIANS
JOHN CHUCKMAN COMMENT: EVEN ON THE CBC WE GET AMERICAN PROPAGANDA – VENEZUELA’S MADURO AND CHINA
JOHN CHUCKMAN COMMENT: ONTARIO’S PREMIER DOUG FORD AND USING THE “NOTWITHSTANDING” CLAUSE OF THE CONSTITUTION ON A TRIVIAL MATTER – THE RECORD OF DOUG AND HIS LATE BROTHER ROB IS JUST TOTALLY SHABBY
JOHN CHUCKMAN COMMENT: THE ABSURD SAGA OF RUSSIA’S “PUSSY RIOT” – MEANINGLESS NOISE AND STUNTS TREATED AS WORTHY PROTEST BY OUR PRESS ONLY BECAUSE OF GOVERNMENT-INDUCED RUSSOPHOBIA
JOHN CHUCKMAN COMMENT: ISRAEL’S DIRECT INTERFERENCE IN THE INTERNAL AFFAIRS OF BRITAIN – THE TWO REASONS JEREMY CORBYN IS SO HATED BY ISRAEL’S LEADERS TELLS US A LOT, AND NOT VERY PLEASANT, ABOUT THEM
JOHN CHUCKMAN COMMENT: SERIOUS RENEWED THREAT OF WAR BETWEEN RUSSIA AND THE UNITED STATES IN SYRIA – WHAT IS BEHIND THIS AND IS NEVER MENTIONED IN OUR PRESS – TRUMP “THE STRONG MAN” HAS BEEN SHOWN TO BE PATHETICALLY WEAK CONSISTENTLY
JOHN CHUCKMAN COMMENT: UKRAINE AND RUSSIA AND THE DONBASS – HOW THE SITUATION NOW STANDS – PUTIN HAS DONE A TRUE STATESMAN’S JOB WITH THE MESS DUMPED ON HIM BY AMERICA’S ENGINEERED COUP – HIS OVERALL POSITION IS UNASSAILABLE – FUTURE POSSIBILITIES
JOHN CHUCKMAN COMMENT: ISRAEL’S HATRED OF LIBERALS AND THE LEFT – AND THE WAY HISTORY SOMETIMES ENDS UP TURNED ON ITS HEAD – CORBYN AND NETANYAHU
JOHN CHUCKMAN COMMENT: TRUMP’S FUMING OVER NEW YORK TIMES OP-ED – WHY I THINK THE WHITE HOUSE WON’T BE ABLE TO IDENTIFY ITS AUTHOR
JOHN CHUCKMAN COMMENT: THE SKRIPAL AFFAIR DRAMATICALLY RETURNS WITH SUPPOSED SURVEILLANCE PHOTOS OF THE WOULD-BE ASSASSINS – JUST ONE VERY SERIOUS PROBLEM WITH A PAIR OF THE PHOTOS: THEY APPEAR TO BE FRAUDS – REVIEW OF THE MANY QUESTIONS IN THE CASE AND GOVERNMENT ASSERTIONS MADE WITH ABSOLUTELY NO PROOF
JOHN CHUCKMAN COMMENT: THE LUNATIC HUNT FOR RUSSIAN “TROLLS” SHOULD TELL US SOMETHING – IT REALLY ISN’T FAR FROM SCHOLASTIC INVESTIGATIONS INTO THE NUMBER OF ANGELS THAT FIT ON THE HEAD OF A PIN
JOHN CHUCKMAN COMMENT: ISRAEL HANDS OVER MAIL TO PALESTINIANS IT HAS HELD BACK FOR 8 YEARS
JOHN CHUCKMAN COMMENT: HOW JOHN MCCAIN SAW HIS ROLE AS A UNITED STATES SENATOR – SOME INTERESTING TIDBITS – NOTES ON THE WAY VLADIMIR PUTIN DEALS WITH AMERICA’S NOW QUITE REGULAR PROVOCATION
JOHN CHUCKMAN COMMENT: ANOTHER “TRUMP’S PLAN IS SUCCESSFULLY PROCEEDING” TYPE OF ARTICLE – BUT ANY ASSOCIATION OF TRUMP WITH A PLAN IS NOT TO BE TAKEN SERIOUSLY – AGAIN HIS WEAK POSITION IN THE AMERICAN POWER ESTABLISHMENT
JOHN CHUCKMAN COMMENT: AN EXCELLENT EXAMPLE OF CORPORATE PRESS PROPAGANDA – RUSSOPHOBIA TUCKED NEATLY INTO A POP SCIENCE “WHAT IF THIS HAPPENED?” KIND OF ARTICLE
JOHN CHUCKMAN COMMENT: AN ARTICLE ASKS WHETHER TRUMP IS LOSING HIS MIND OR IS JUST A LIAR – MY RESPONSE
JOHN CHUCKMAN COMMENT: A FORMER BRITISH AMBASSADOR WRITES ON THE UNHOLY MARRIAGE OF FACEBOOK AND THE ATLANTIC COUNCIL – FREE SPEECH UNDER ATTACK AS WASHINGTON’S NEW AGGRESSION FOR EMPIRE IS PROTECTED – ROLE OF THINK TANKS – EXPLOITING MARKET-DOMINATING OUTFITS LIKE FACEBOOK WHICH SHOULD IN FACT FACE ANTI-TRUST ACTION
JOHN CHUCKMAN COMMENT: BRITISH RABBI JONATHAN SACKS IS AT IT AGAIN COMPARING JEREMY CORBYN TO ENOCH POWELL – NOW ADDING THE THREAT OF JEWS LEAVING BRITAIN – TIRESOME MUCH-REPEATED AND DISHONEST STUFF JUST AS SEVERAL COMMENTS TO WHICH I RESPOND – THE DECENT GILAD ALTZMON A JEW AND A HUMANIST IS ALSO CALLED “ANTI-SEMITIC”
JOHN CHUCKMAN COMMENT: ON USE OF THE TERM “WORKING CLASS” IN AMERICAN POLITICS – IT WENT THE SAME WAY AS “CITIZEN”
JOHN CHUCKMAN COMMENT: SOME MISCELLANEOUS INTERESTING FACTS CONCERNING AMERICA AND CANADA AND THE MILITARY – RESPONSE TO A READER OF AN ARTICLE BY DAVID BERCUSON
JOHN CHUCKMAN COMMENT: TRUMP AND FOREIGN POLICY – HERE’S A MAN MAKING LOTS OF NOISE AND PRETENDING TO BE IN CHARGE – BUT ON ALL REALLY IMPORTANT MATTERS HE IS NOT IN CHARGE ANY MORE THAN OBAMA WAS
JOHN CHUCKMAN COMMENT: A BIT MORE ON JOHN MCCAIN’S LEGACY – THE COMMON PRACTICE OF PRAISING FAMOUS PEOPLE FOR BEING WHAT THEY IN FACT WERE NOT – AMERICA’S MANUFACTURED HERO
JOHN CHUCKMAN COMMENT: BRITAIN’S WITCH-HUNT CONTINUES – VETERAN LABOUR PARTY MEMBER SHOWILY RESIGNS – RESPECT FOR DEMOCRATIC PROCESS IGNORED AS A SMALL MINORITY DRIVES TO IMPOSE ITS WILL – REPLICATING THE REPULSIVE BEHAVIOR OF DONALD TRUMP
JOHN CHUCKMAN COMMENT: THE CULTURE OF COMPLAINT IN AMERICAN POLITICS – NOISE FOR THE SAKE OF NOISE – STRUTTING AND POSING FOR THE SAKE OF STRUTTING AND POSING
JOHN CHUCKMAN COMMENT: CALLING TRUMP A NARCISSIST AND TALKING TO A PSYCHOLOGIST ABOUT HIM IS JUST ABOUT AS HOPELESS AS TRUMP’S OWN BLUBBERING – NARCISSISTS DOMINATE WASHINGTON WITH A GOOD MANY SOCIOPATHS THROWN IN
JOHN CHUCKMAN COMMENT: HARD TO SEE ANY DIFFERENCE IN BURMA’S TREATMENT OF ROHINGYA PEOPLE AND ISRAEL’S TREATMENT OF THE PEOPLE OF GAZA – YET THE PRESS AND POLITICIANS WRING THEIR HANDS OFTEN OVER BURMA
JOHN CHUCKMAN COMMENT: IS CANADA’S COMMISSIONER OF ELECTIONS JOINING THE ELECTION-INTERFERENCE NOISE COMING FROM THE MADHOUSE WE CALL THE UNITED STATES? – A WORD ABOUT A FAVORITE CURRENT JARGON WORD (“TROLLS”) USED TO THE POINT OF BEING MEANINGLESS ALREADY
JOHN CHUCKMAN COMMENT: THE GOOP EMPIRE AND OTHER WELLNESS MUMBO-JUMBO FROM THE MILLENNIALIST GENERATION – SOME REASONS WHY THIS KIND OF NONSENSE GOES ON
JOHN CHUCKMAN COMMENT: “THE NEW COLD WAR FLOPS” CLAIMS A SILLY ARTICLE BASED ON POLLS – THE REALITIES OF THE AMERICAN PEOPLE AND THE WARS INTO WHICH THEIR LEADERS DRAG THEM – WHY POLLS DON’T MATTER
JOHN CHUCKMAN COMMENT: JOHN MCCAIN DIES – IT IS DESERVING IN HIS CASE THAT AN EXCEPTION BE MADE OF THE TRADITIONAL “NOTHING BUT GOOD SAID ABOUT THE DEAD”
JOHN CHUCKMAN COMMENT: I DO GET WEARY OF COMMENTING ON ATTEMPTS TO LYNCH JEREMY CORBYN – BUT WE SEE A NEW OUTRAGE EVERY FEW DAYS AND WE HAVE SO VERY FEW TRULY DECENT POLITICIANS – THE GUARDIAN NEWSPAPER SERVES ALMOST AS LEADER AND PUBLICIST FOR A HOWLING MOB
JOHN CHUCKMAN COMMENT: AN AMERICAN JOURNALIST (NASH RIGGINS) MAKES A SERIES OF TRULY SILLY CLAIMS WHILE BUSY EXPRESSING HIS MORAL OUTRAGE OVER TRUMP – TRUMP IS A LOWLIFE BUT HE’S ONLY ONE IN A SERIES OF LOWLIFE MODERN AMERICAN PRESIDENTS – IT’S JUST THE KIND OF LEADERS PLUTOCRACY AND EMPIRE AND CORRUPTION PRODUCE
JOHN CHUCKMAN COMMENT: THEY’RE STILL BUSY PUSHING THE DARK FAIRY TALE OF ASSAD USING CHEMICAL WEAPONS – JUST SOME OF WHY THIS CHARGE IS FALSE – THAT IS APART FROM A COMPLETE LACK OF EVIDENCE
JOHN CHUCKMAN COMMENT: WHY THE F-35 WOULD BE A TERRIBLE CHOICE FOR CANADA – DO PEOPLE EVEN HAVE AN INKLING OF HOW COSTLY THIS THING IS TO FLY? OR THAT IT DOESN’T EVEN DO WHAT IT WAS SUPPOSED TO DO? PENTAGON PRESSURE
JOHN CHUCKMAN COMMENT: “CULTURAL APPROPRIATION” IS ONE OF THE ENDURING BITS OF ABSOLUTE NONSENSE LANGUAGE IN OUR TIME
JOHN CHUCKMAN COMMENT: VIENNA CHOSEN AS “MOST LIVABLE CITY IN THE WORLD” – JUST A FEW BRIEF MEMORIES OF MY WEEK THERE LONG AGO – A DELIGHTFUL PLACE
JOHN CHUCKMAN COMMENT: NEW DELIBERATELY-INDUCED RELIGIOUS TENSIONS THREATEN TO FIRE UP THE HOSTILITIES IN UKRAINE – THE SAD RECORD OF THE CURRENT INCOMPETENT GOVERNMENT OF UKRAINE AND OF AMERICA’S EFFORTS TO KEEP IT AFLOAT
JOHN CHUCKMAN COMMENT: AN ARTICLE ASKS WHETHER AMERICA IS A REPUBLIC OR DEMOCRACY – THE HISTORICAL FACTS ARE CLEAR AS IS THE CURRENT REALITY OF AMERICAN PLUTOCRACY AND AGGRESSION AND WORLD EMPIRE
JOHN CHUCKMAN COMMENT: AN INTERESTING UNINTENDED CONSEQUENCE OF AMERICA’S NEW ABUSIVE BEHAVIOR IN TRADE – CHINA AND RUSSIA
JOHN CHUCKMAN COMMENT: FORMER UN SECRETARY-GENERAL KOFI ANNAN DIES – SOME REFLECTIONS ON WHAT HAS HAPPENED WITH THE UN
JOHN CHUCKMAN COMMENT: THE PROBLEMS OF VENEZUELA TREATED BY A MAINLINE COLUMNIST IN IDENTICAL FASHION TO WHAT I’VE SEEN FROM THE ALT-RIGHT – HE’S SAYING HERE’S WHAT THE LEFT DOES TO A COUNTRY – LEAVING OUT THE CIA’S FURIOUS EFFORTS AT DAMAGING VENEZUELA
JOHN CHUCKMAN COMMENT: ONE OF BRITAIN’S WORST HACK COLUMNISTS ACTUALLY INVENTS A STRANGE NEW LINE OF ATTACK ON CORBYN SAYING HE CAN’T WIN AN ELECTION NOW BECAUSE HE HAS “LOST BEING RELAXED” – THE PUBLIC AND RECOGNIZING POLITICAL CHARACTER
JOHN CHUCKMAN COMMENT: POSTED TO AN ARTICLE ABOUT CORBYN’S COMING OUT STRONGER THAN EVER AFTER HIS CURRENT TRIALS, SOMEONE WHO DISLIKES CORBYN MAKES AN ODD COMMENT ADMIRING JIMMY CARTER – BUT JIMMY CARTER AND JEREMY CORBYN SHARE MANY QUALITIES
JOHN CHUCKMAN COMMENT: 12 FORMER CIA DIRECTORS SPEAK AGAINST TRUMP’S TREATMENT OF FORMER DIRECTOR BRENNAN – REMINDER OF WHAT THE CIA ACTUALLY DOES – WASHINGTON SINKS INTO DARK COMEDY JUST AS IT BUSIES ITSELF THREATENING AND TRYING TO MANAGE THE PLANET – IT CANNOT EVEN MANAGE ITS OWN AFFAIRS
JOHN CHUCKMAN COMMENT: RESPONSE TO A SATIRICAL TAKE ON THE JEREMY CORBYN ATTACKS – BUT THERE IS NO HUMOR IN NETANYAHU’S EFFORT AT DIRECT INTERFERENCE IN BRITISH POLITICAL AFFAIRS – NOTES ON NETANYAHU’S OUTRAGEOUS BEHAVIOR AT THE PARIS CHARLIE HEBDO PARADE
JOHN CHUCKMAN COMMENT: A BRITISH PAPER ACTUALLY RUNS A COLUMN DEFENDING JEREMY CORBYN (I CAN’T IMAGINE WHAT CAME OVER THEM) FROM THE CALUMNIES OF A SPECIAL INTEREST LOBBY – THE IMMENSELY IMPORTANT DIFFERENCE BETWEEN CRITICISM OF ISRAEL AND ANTI-SEMITISM – OUR WESTERN VALUES
JOHN CHUCKMAN COMMENT: A USS LIBERTY SURVIVOR ALSO ILLEGALLY ARRESTED IN ISRAEL’S LATEST PIRACY ON THE HIGH SEAS TELLS HIS STORY – THE GREAT AND ENDURING MYSTERY OF ISRAEL’S 1967 ATTACK ON AN AMERICAN SHIP – SOME MOTIVES FOR ISRAEL ARE CLEAR – MOTIVES FOR DEVIOUS LYNDON JOHNSON REMAIN A DEEP MYSTERY – SIX DAY WAR FACTS
JOHN CHUCKMAN COMMENT: BRITISH PRESS TRIES YET ANOTHER TACTIC – EDITORIAL SAYS CORBYN NEEDS TO CLEARLY STATE HIS VIEWS ON ISRAEL – A BRITISH NEWSPAPER DOESN’T KNOW THE VIEWS OF A VETERAN BRITISH POLITICIAN? – SEEMS ODD – AND WHY ARE VIEWS ON ISRAEL MORE FEATURED THAN THOSE ON 200 OTHER NATIONS?
JOHN CHUCKMAN COMMENT: THE AMERICAN RIGHT-WING’S FAVORITE FAIRY TALE REPEATED – ABOUT TRUMP AS A GENERAL ON A WHITE HORSE READYING TO CHANGE THE WHOLE WORLD ORDER AND BRING PEACE – IT’S AMAZING HOW BLIND IDEOLOGUES ARE
JOHN CHUCKMAN COMMENT: WHY EVIDENCE DOESN’T MAKE THE “RUSSIA-GATE” STUFF GO AWAY IN WASHINGTON – AND ALMOST NO ONE WILL EVEN SPEAK TO THE MAN WHO KNOWS THE TRUTH ABOUT RUSSIAN “HACKING”
JOHN CHUCKMAN COMMENT: MORE RIGHT-WING STUFF ABOUT LIBERALS AND WHAT BAD STUFF THEY DO – BUT THERE ARE NO LIBERALS IN WASHINGTON – ONLY TWO MILITARY-IMPERIAL PARTIES WITH DIFFERENT SOCIAL-ISSUES LANGUAGE
JOHN CHUCKMAN COMMENT: SEN RICHARD BURR (A FAN OF TORTURE) OVERSAW THE APPROVAL OF GINA HASPEL AT CIA WHOM WE NOW KNOW PERSONALLY ENGAGED IN TORTURE – A TEMPLATE FOR THE WAY WASHINGTON WORKS WITH POLITICAL THEATER
JOHN CHUCKMAN COMMENT: CANADIAN RIGHT-WING POLITICIAN COMMENTS ON “EXTREME MULTICULTURALISM” – THE TENSIONS OF LARGE MIGRATIONS WILL ONLY GROW IN THE WEST – AND THE DANGER OF THE RIGHT IN EXPLOITING THEM – UNAVOIDABLE CONFLICTS AHEAD?
JOHN CHUCKMAN COMMENT: CANADIAN JOURNALIST ASSAULTED AT TORONTO “PEACE PARADE” – AN ATMOSPHERE OF UNFAIRNESS AND HATE AND ENTITLEMENT HAS SETTLED DOWN OVER MUCH OF THE WESTERN WORLD
JOHN CHUCKMAN COMMENT – AN ATLANTA SCHOOL ENDS THE MORNING PLEDGE OF ALLEGIANCE – IT’S ABOUT TIME – WHAT A DARK PRACTICE THIS HAS LONG BEEN FORCING PEOPLE TO RECITE PLEDGES – THE STUFF OF CULTS AND TOTALITARIAN STATES – BUT LOOK OUT FOR THE PICK-UP TRUCKS FULL OF LOCKED-AND-LOADED PATRIOTS HEADED THEIR WAY
JOHN CHUCKMAN COMMENT: THE CORBYN HATE FEST HITS RECORD LOW – AN ARTICLE SPEAKS OF HOLOCAUST-DENIAL WITH A BIG PHOTO OF AUSCHWITZ AND TELLS US THIS IS WHY BRITISH JEWS ARE SO SCARED – WHAT DOES ANY OF THAT HAVE TO DO WITH A DECENT MAN NAMED CORBYN? AND WHY IS IT EVEN PUBLISHED?
JOHN CHUCKMAN COMMENT: AMERICA SINKS FURTHER INTO BEING LITTLE MORE THAN AN ARMED PLUTOCRACY – LEGISLATION PROPOSED TO GIVE THE UNBALANCED TRUMP POWER TO START A WAR – JUST LOOK AT WHAT THAT MANIAC IS DOING IN IRAN UNDER THE INFLUENCE OF ONE OF AMERICA’S WEALTHIEST MEN
JOHN CHUCKMAN COMMENT: AN AFFECTING AND PERSONAL STORY OF ISRAEL’S TREATMENT OF THE GAZA-BOUND FLOTILLA – IGNORED OF COURSE BY OUR MAINLINE PRESS AND BY OUR POLITICIANS – BUT THEY ALREADY IGNORED PUBLIC MASS MURDER
JOHN CHUCKMAN COMMENT: THE CANADA-SAUDI DISPUTE – BADLY HANDLED BY CANADA’S INEPT AND PREJUDICED CHRYSTIA FREELAND AND HER TOUCHY-FEELY BOSS TRUDEAU – THEY DON’T SAY A WORD ABOUT OUTRIGHT HORRORS WE SEE BUT PICK A FIGHT OVER SOMETHING SMALL – EARLIER THEY SOLD $15 BILLION WORTH OF ARMS TO THE SAME SAUDIS TO HELP KILL WOMEN AND CHILDREN IN YEMEN AND SUPPRESS THEIR OWN PEOPLE
JOHN CHUCKMAN COMMENT: THE TRULY DANGEROUS TENDENCY OF OUR MAINLINE PRESS AND INTERNET TECH GIANTS/MEDIA TO BRING US SERIOUS CENSORSHIP DISGUISED AS PROTECTION FROM SCOUNDRELS – THE CASE OF ALEX JONES – “I DON’T AGREE WITH A WORD YOU SAY BUT I’LL DEFEND TO THE DEATH YOUR RIGHT TO SAY IT” – NOW THAT SUMS UP FREE SPEECH
JOHN CHUCKMAN COMMENT: SOME SENATORS PUSHING FOR MUCH HARSHER SANCTIONS AGAINST RUSSIA – WHO IS ULTIMATELY BEHIND ALL THE ANTI-RUSSIAN NONSENSE? – MOTIVES IN PROMOTING IT – OUTCOME IN UKRAINE GAVE NEOCONS NEW ARGUMENTS – THE PECULIAR CASE OF SENATOR LINDSAY GRAHAM
JOHN CHUCKMAN COMMENT: DECENT JEREMY CORBYN JUST CANNOT WIN – SMALL UNFAIR MINORITY KEEPS UP THE NAME-CALLING AND MAKING DEMANDS AS IT GETS REGULAR SUPPORT FROM MAINLINE PRESS – NOW CORBYN IS SAID TO “ACKNOWLEDGE” LABOUR PARTY HAS A “REAL PROBLEM” WITH ANTI-SEMITISM – IF TRUE, WHERE WAS IT ALL IN TONY BLAIR’S DAY? – DID IT JUST SUDDENLY SPRING TO LIFE?
JOHN CHUCKMAN COMMENT: YOUNG PEOPLE FORGETTING TERRIBLE PAST EVENTS – RUSSIAN DECLINING POPULATION DURING COLLAPSE OF SOVIET UNION – ROLE OF ALCOHOL IN HISTORICAL EVENTS – WHY PUBLIC EDUCATION CAN’T DO MUCH ABOUT FORGETFULNESS OF THE TERRIBLE PAST
JOHN CHUCKMAN COMMENT: REFERENCE TO AMERICA’S CURRENT INABILITY TO HAVE INTELLIGENT POLITICAL DISCUSSION – IN FACT IT IS AN ILLUSION TO THINK THINGS WERE EVER MUCH DIFFERENT – HIGHLIGHTS OF AN EXTREMELY BRUTAL HISTORY – ADDED RESPONSE TO A LONG AND ANGRY COMMENT – SERIOUS MISUSE OF STATISTICS AND POINTS ON TRUMP
JOHN CHUCKMAN COMMENT: STILL MORE NOISY EFFORTS TO DESTROY JEREMY CORBYN – EVERY INSIGNIFICANT WORD JUMPED ON – THE EFFORTS OF BRITAIN’S RELATIVELY SMALL ISRAEL LOBBY TO DESTROY A POLITICIAN START RESEMBLING STALINISM
JOHN CHUCKMAN COMMENT: YES IT’S FAIR TO CALL HILLARY EVIL BUT THAT DOESN’T MAKE TRUMP A SAINT – THE CHOICE OFFERED VOTERS JUST HIGHLIGHTED THE UGLY REALITY OF AMERICA’S POLITICAL SYSTEM
JOHN CHUCKMAN COMMENT: EMPIRE CORRUPTS ALL THE PRINCIPLES OF ECONOMICS AS WELL AS PRINCIPLES OF ETHICS AND GOOD GOVERNMENT – THERE IS NOTHING GOOD TO SAY ABOUT EMPIRE, AND THE AMERICAN ONE IS NO EXCEPTION
JOHN CHUCKMAN COMMENT: THE KENNEDY ASSASSINATION AND A DOCUMENTARY IN WHICH A MAN CLAIMS HE FIRED THE FATAL SHOT FROM THE GRASSY KNOLL – I WAS INTERESTED ENOUGH TO WATCH BUT IT IS A CLEAR FRAUD – AGAIN, IMPORTANT CLUES TO THE TRUTH
JOHN CHUCKMAN COMMENT: BRITISH GOVERNMENT TAKES “SAFETY MEASURES” FOR MOURNERS AT THE FUNERAL OF AMESBURY WOMAN SAID TO HAVE DIED FROM NOVICHOK EXPOSURE – A WORD ON THERESA MAY’S GOVERNMENT
JOHN CHUCKMAN COMMENT: TRUMP THREATENS TO CLOSE DOWN GOVERNMENT – THE AMERICAN VERSION OF THE REICHSTAG FIRE – RESPONSES TO BRITISH READERS ASKING ABOUT HIS AUTHORITY AND PUBLIC SUPPORT
JOHN CHUCKMAN COMMENT: THE “WHITE HELMETS” CONTROVERSY – BUT THERE IS NO REAL CONTROVERSY – THE WHITE HELMETS ARE A FRAUD – ONE UGLY PIECE OF WHAT AMERICA AND ISRAEL AND FRIENDS HAVE BEEN DOING TO REDUCE SYRIA TO A BLOODBATH
JOHN CHUCKMAN COMMENT: THERE ARE NO LIBERALS WHO LEAD EITHER PARTY IN AMERICA – THE GHASTLY TOLL OF DEATH AND DESTRUCTION FROM AMERICA’S LEADERS SINCE WWII – A TOLL GREATER THAN THE HOLOCAUST
JOHN CHUCKMAN COMMENT: YET AGAIN A LOWLIFE ATTACK ON BRITAIN’S THOROUGHLY DECENT JEREMY CORBYN – THIS TIME BY THREE JEWISH PAPERS WHO ON THE SAME DAY USE TRUE MASS-KILLER NETANYAHU’S TWISTED “EXISTENTIAL THREAT” PHRASE
JOHN CHUCKMAN COMMENT: THE DANGEROUS IRRATIONALITY OF NATIONALISM – ESPECIALLY THE EXTREME FUNDAMENTALIST RELIGIOUS FORMS OF IT WE FIND IN THE “PATRIOTISM” OF AMERICA AND ISRAEL
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
JOHN CHUCKMAN COMMENT: TRUMP IS OUT-MANEUVERING HIS ENEMIES ON RUSSIA? OFFICIAL U.S. RUSSOPHOBIA IS EPIDEMIC – IT SERVES REAL INTERESTS – TRUMP DOES NOT HAVE LEVERAGE – HE CAN’T EVEN BUILD HIS SILLY WALL – A BIG EFFORT FOR RUSSIA COULD ADD MOMENTUM FOR GETTING RID OF HIM
JOHN CHUCKMAN COMMENT: A RUSSIAN POLITICIAN SPEAKS OF AMERICA’S PRESS BEING LIBERAL (MAKING HIM SOUND LIKE AMERICA’S RIGHT WING HAS SOUNDED FOR AGES) AND SOMEHOW ASSOCIATES THAT WITH ITS BEING RUSSOPHOBIC – DOES ANYONE IN EITHER COUNTRY UNDERSTAND ANYTHING ABOUT THE OTHER?
JOHN CHUCKMAN COMMENT: THE INTERESTING CASE OF SOUTH AFRICAN FARMERS SEEKING TO SETTLE IN RUSSIA – GENERAL NOTES ON THE NEED FOR RUSSIA TO HAVE A GOOD IMMIGRATION PROGRAM – DEMOGRAPHIC TRANSITION
JOHN CHUCKMAN COMMENT: THERE ARE TOO MANY TODAY BLAMING EITHER ONE PARTY OR A NEWSPAPER FOR DARK EVENTS WE SEE – BUT THE ROOT OF THE PROBLEM IS AMERICA’S ESTABLISHMENT WHICH INCLUDES BOTH PARTIES AND ALL ITS PRESS – NOTES ON PAST GAMES PLAYED BY THE NEW YORK TIMES
JOHN CHUCKMAN COMMENT: “COLD WAR II CALLED OFF” WRITES PAT BUCHANAN – HERE’S WHY THAT IS SO SADLY WRONG – TRUMP JUST DOES NOT HAVE THE POWER TO BLUNT THE ESTABLISHMENT’S DRIVES – AND THIS MORNING’S PRESS IS FULL OF SENSATIONAL CHARGES OF “TREASON” AGAINST A SITTING PRESIDENT
JOHN CHUCKMAN COMMENT: WHY I THINK TRUMP IS GOING TO HELSINKI – ANALYSIS OF TRUMP’S WEAK POSITION IN WASHINGTON – THE REASONS RUSSO-PHOBIA CANNOT BE DISLODGED IN WASHINGTON – ALL THE POWERFUL ACTORS SUPPORT IT FOR A VARIETY OF REASONS – WHAT THE SUBTLE PUTIN IS DOING WITH TRUMP
JOHN CHUCKMAN COMMENT: I AGREE WITH THE VIEW HELSINKI IS LIKELY TO BE A DAMP SQUIB – STILL IT IS IMPORTANT TO MEET – TALKING WITH FRIENDS OR OPPONENTS IS ALWAYS GOOD
JOHN CHUCKMAN COMMENT: SILLY PROPAGANDA IN GUARDIAN CALLS HELSINKI AN “UNHOLY ALLIANCE” – WHY THAT IS RIDICULOUS – AND WAR ON IRAN – GUARDIAN AGAIN SUSPENDS ME FROM COMMENT AFTER THIS ONE – FREE SPEECH AND INFORMED THOUGHT INDEED!
JOHN CHUCKMAN COMMENT: THE AMESBURY INCIDENT IN BRITAIN – ALMOST MORE BIZARRE THAN THE ORIGINAL SALISBURY “NOVICHOK” INCIDENT
JOHN CHUCKMAN COMMENT: HOW AMERICAN FOOTBALL RESEMBLES THE ARENA SPECTACLES OF ANCIENT ROME ONLY THEY DON’T KILL THE PLAYERS, JUST INJURE THEM – BUT THAT COULD CHANGE GIVEN DEVELOPMENTS IN AMERICA
JOHN CHUCKMAN COMMENT: THERE’S EFFECTIVELY ONLY ONE POLITICAL PARTY IN THE UNITED STATES WHEN IT COMES TO KEY MATTERS AND IT WINS EVERY ELECTION AS SURELY AS DID THE COMMUNIST PARTY IN THE USSR
JOHN CHUCKMAN COMMENT: TRUMP WALK AWAY FROM NATO? WHY IT WILL NOT HAPPEN EVEN IF HE HAS THE AUTHORITY WHICH IS NOT CLEAR – NATO’S CHANGED PURPOSES SERVE AMERICAN INTERESTS SO WHY SHOULDN’T IT PAY? – THE HOPE EUROPE WILL SEEK NEW DIRECTIONS AFTER BEING BULLDOZED BY IGNORAMUS TRUMP
JOHN CHUCKMAN COMMENT: THE FIRST DOCUMENTS IN THE KENNEDY ASSASSINATION RECORDS RELEASE TO GIVE US SOME GENUINE INFORMATION ABOUT WHAT HAPPENED
JOHN CHUCKMAN COMMENT: SNEERING OVER VENEZUELA’S SUPPOSED ECONOMIC IRRESPONSIBILITY – THE REAL PROBLEM FOR VENEZUELA IS THE CIA – AND IF YOU WANT TO SEE REAL ECONOMIC IRRESPONSIBILITY JUST LOOK AT AMERICA WHERE IT IS TRULY MONUMENTAL
JOHN CHUCKMAN COMMENT: “ORIGINAL INTENT” AND AMERICA’S SUPREME COURT – THE CONCEPT IS PART OF THE CREED OF AMERICA’S CIVIC RELIGION – AND THE SUPREME COURT HAS ALWAYS BEEN CONSERVATIVE, ONLY VARYING IN DEGREE – AN IMPORTANT EFFECT OF THIS FACT ON THE VERY NATURE OF AMERICAN GOVERNMENT
JOHN CHUCKMAN COMMENT: A FEW WORDS ON THE CURRENT FAD OF TRASHING PLASTICS – WHICH ARE IN FACT VALUABLE USEFUL MATERIALS – WHO SHOULD BE BLAMED FOR PROBLEMS BLAMED ON PLASTICS?
JOHN CHUCKMAN COMMENT: A BIG NEW DEAL COMING FROM RUSSIAN-AMERICAN SUMMIT? I TEND TO DOUBT IT – AND HERE ARE SOME COMMENTS ON AMERICA’S GENERAL LACK OF DEPENDABILITY IN INTERNATIONAL AFFAIRS
JOHN CHUCKMAN COMMENT: HIDDEN REASONS FOR ANGELA MERKEL’S DECLINE AS A FORCE IN EUROPE – THEY REVEAL MUCH ABOUT AMERICA AND PROVIDE A SERIOUS WARNING OF THE BRAVE NEW WORLD WE ENTER – PLUS WHAT TRUMP TRULY REPRESENTS
JOHN CHUCKMAN COMMENT: A PIECE BY JUSTIN RAIMONDO ABOUT TRUMP AND PEACE SCREAMS AT US JUST WHAT KIND OF A CLOUD-CUCKOO-LAND AMERICA HAS BECOME – “WAR IS PEACE” SAID WITH A BIG GRIN – I THINK WE REALLY ARE ON THE ROAD TO HELL
JOHN CHUCKMAN COMMENT: WHAT REALLY DRIVES THE FALSE AND MALICIOUS LINKING OF LIBERALS TO ANTI-SEMITISM ? – ORIGINS AND TRUE NATURE OF AMERICA’S VERY STRANGE RELATIONSHIP WITH ISRAEL – SOME PARALLELS BETWEEN AMERICA AND ISRAEL
JOHN CHUCKMAN COMMENT: DO ALIENS EXIST? – ALMOST CERTAINLY – BUT WHAT INTEREST WOULD TRULY ADVANCED CIVILIZATIONS HAVE IN US? WE STILL RESEMBLE CHIMPANZEES WHO MARCH OUT REGULARLY IN GROUPS TO SLAUGHTER NEIGHBORING CHIMPS
JOHN CHUCKMAN COMMENT: SOMETIMES YOU SIDE WITH THE DEVIL – THE CASE OF TURKEY’S ELECTION AND ERDOGAN – PICKING YOUR BATTLES AND ALLIES STRATEGICALLY IN THE MURKINESS OF WORLD AFFAIRS
JOHN CHUCKMAN COMMENT: ACTUALLY TALKING TO THE PEOPLE YOU ALWAYS TALK ABOUT – HERE, IRAN – WHAT REAL JOURNALISM WOULD DO – FACT THAT YOU NEVER SEE THAT IN AMERICA’S CORPORATE PRESS SHOULD ITSELF RAISE QUESTIONS BUT IT DOESN’T
JOHN CHUCKMAN COMMENT: THE HORRIBLE PEOPLE LEADING THE UNITED STATES TODAY – AND THAT ISN’T JUST TRUMP – ARE DRIVING THE WORLD TOWARDS DESTRUCTION OF MANY INTERNATIONAL INSTITUTIONS AND RELATIONSHIPS AND LIKELY TOWARDS ECONOMIC DEPRESSION
JOHN CHUCKMAN COMMENT: WHY EVEN THE WORST NEW LAWS CANNOT BE “UNCONSTITUTIONAL” IN ISRAEL – AS THE NEW LAW TO BAN FILMING ISRAELI SOLDIERS
JOHN CHUCKMAN COMMENT: WORLD’S REAL “ROCKET MAN,” THE NOISY FOOL IN THE OVAL OFFICE, ORDERS A WHOLE NEW BRANCH OF THE U.S. ARMED FORCES CREATED WITHOUT A DIME IN HIS POCKET
JOHN CHUCKMAN COMMENT: PUTIN’S REAL QUALITIES AND STRENGTHS – RUSSIA’S PUTIN AND CHINA’S ZI HAVE HISTORIC DESTINIES – NO ONE ELSE CAN BLUNT AMERICA’S RAGING HORMONAL URGE TO DOMINATE THE EARTH
JOHN CHUCKMAN COMMENT: COLUMN ON POLITICAL POPULISM DOING WELL OWING TO PEOPLE’S SENSE OF INSECURITY – YES BUT OTHER THINGS ARE AT WORK – OUR GOVERNMENTS LIE FULL TIME AND SEEM INCOMPETENT
JOHN CHUCKMAN COMMENT: TRANSSEXUALS IN THE MILITARY – THE IGNORANCE DOESN’T STOP – HERE ARE SOME OF THE BASIC FACTS OF HUMAN SEXUAL IDENTITY – THEY SHOULD HELP WITH THE IGNORANCE
JOHN CHUCKMAN COMMENT: IN A DISCUSSION ON AMERICAN-RUSSIAN RELATIONS THE GORBACHEV-REAGAN ERA IS CITED – BUT AMERICA HAS CHANGED SO IMMENSELY SINCE THEN, IT IS USELESS TO CITE – SUMMARY OF AMERICAN CHANGES
JOHN CHUCKMAN COMMENT: A REPORT SAYS BITCOIN GROWTH INVOLVED FRAUD AND MANIPULATION – HAS CIA BEEN BEHIND THIS TO MAKE OFF-THE-BOOKS PROFITS AS IT DID WITH DRUGS AND GUNS AND COUNTERFEITING?
JOHN CHUCKMAN COMMENT: MORE ON THE MOST TERRIBLE EVENT IN HUMAN HISTORY – HITLER’S INVASION OF RUSSIA – QUESTIONS AROUND STALIN’S COMPETENCE IN LEADING
JOHN CHUCKMAN COMMENT: HERE’S THE CLEAREST CASE OF OUR PRESS WORKING OVERTIME AS PROPAGANDISTS INSTEAD OF AS JOURNALISTS – THE GUARDIAN IS BACK WITH YET MORE TRUCK-LOADS OF RUSSOPHOBIC HATRED
JOHN CHUCKMAN COMMENT: SMALL AMAZING THINGS DO SOMETIMES HAPPEN – PRESIDENT ASSAD GIVEN SPACE IN ONE BRITISH PAPER TO EXPLAIN TRUTHS ABOUT SYRIA’S WAR AND THE PHONY WHITE HELMETS
JOHN CHUCKMAN COMMENT: NATO SHOULD HAVE BEEN LONG OBSOLETE – HERE’S HOW AND WHY AMERICA HAS RE-INVENTED IT GIVING NATO A SORT OF GEO-POLITICAL MAKE-OVER TO SERVE NEW AMERICAN INTERESTS
JOHN CHUCKMAN COMMENT: AMERICAN HOMELAND SECURITY IS MAKING A LIST OF ALL BLOGGERS – HERE’S A GOOD MEASURE OF HOW FAR AMERICA HAS TRAVELED INTO DARKNESS OVER RECENT DECADES
JOHN CHUCKMAN COMMENT: AMERICAN BLUBBERING ABOUT A GANG LIKE MS-13 WHILE AMERICA’S OWN TROOPS HAVE DONE THE SAME THINGS A THOUSAND TIMES OVER IN A DOZEN LANDS
JOHN CHUCKMAN COMMENT: ARTICLE ON THE MISUSE OF HISTORY AS PROPAGANDA – YES, BUT THE PROBLEM IS DEEPER – THE ROT IS IN THE BLOODY PURSUIT OF EMPIRE WHILE PRETENDING TO BE A DECENT SOCIETY – LIES IN JOURNALISM, LIES IN HISTORY, LIES IN POLITICS, WITHOUT EXCEPTION
JOHN CHUCKMAN COMMENT: REFLECTIONS ON WINSTON CHURCHILL AND THE NATURE OF HISTORY AS WE RECEIVE IT IN BOOKS – RESPONSE TO AN IMPRESSIVE VIDEO PRESENTATION BY THE AUTHOR OF THE BOOK, “CHURCHILL’S WAR”
JOHN CHUCKMAN COMMENT: THE REALITIES OF THE BRITISH-ISRAELI RELATIONSHIP – SAME PATTERN AS THE AMERICAN-ISRAELI ONE AND THE FRENCH-ISRAELI ONE – NO WONDER THE MIDEAST BURNS – IMPOSSIBILITY OF FAIRNESS OR ETHICAL POLICY HERE – A WORD ON TERROR
JOHN CHUCKMAN COMMENT: ON TRUTH AND OUR PRESS AND MEDIA – THE NEW AND PRETENTIOUS NONSENSE OF FACT-CHECKING BY THE SAME PRESS AND MEDIA – ONLY WAY TO GET SOME TRUTH
JOHN CHUCKMAN COMMENT: WHEN BULLIES SPEAK: VERY UNWELCOME WORDS, INTERFERING IN GERMANY’S INTERNAL AFFAIRS, BY AMERICA’S NEW AMBASSADOR THERE, RICHARD GRENELL, ARE FOLLOWED BY TOTAL IGNORANCE FROM STATE DEPARTMENT SPOKESPERSON HEATHER NAUERT
JOHN CHUCKMAN COMMENT: COMMENT ON THE WORK OF SCOTTISH ARCHITECT CHARLES MACKINTOSH
JOHN CHUCKMAN COMMENT: THE MANY CONTRADICTIONS THAT ARE PART OF AMERICAN SOCIETY – SOMETHING NOT ALWAYS APPRECIATED BY OUTSIDE OBSERVERS AND NOT ALWAYS APPRECIATED BY AMERICANS THEMSELVES
JOHN CHUCKMAN COMMENT: AGAIN PUTIN DISPLAYS HIS REMARKABLE QUALITIES IN AN INTERVIEW WITH AUSTRIAN TELEVISION – THE WEST HAS NO LEADER WITH THIS SET OF SKILLS
JOHN CHUCKMAN COMMENT: ON THE MOST TERRIBLE EVENT IN HUMAN HISTORY, HITLER’S INVASION OF RUSSIA – AUTHOR ASKS WAS HITLER’S INVASION REALLY TO FOIL AN ATTACK BY STALIN, PROVING ONLY HOW LITTLE HE UNDERSTANDS HIS SUBJECT
JOHN CHUCKMAN COMMENT: MORE ON THE “HATE PUTIN” CAMPAIGN OF MAINLINE WESTERN PUBLICATIONS – A VIVID DEMONSTRATION WITH A SERIES OF MAGAZINE COVERS FROM THE ECONOMIST AND TIME
JOHN CHUCKMAN COMMENT: BRITAIN’S NEW HOME SECRETARY OFFERS FATUOUS WORDS ON THE THREAT OF TERROR – HERE ARE SOME HARD TRUTHS ABOUT THE NATURE EXTENT AND CAUSES OF TERROR
JOHN CHUCKMAN COMMENT: U.S. SECRETARY OF DEFENSE JAMES MATTIS SHOOTS HIS MOUTH OFF AGAIN, DEMONSTRATING THE WORST AMERICAN ARROGANCE – KIM, YOU REALLY MIGHT BE SAFER WITH YOUR WARHEADS!
JOHN CHUCKMAN COMMENT: TRUMP’S DESTRUCTIVENESS TO TRADE – BUT HIS CONCERN MAY BE POLITICS FOR HIS BASE AND NOT ECONOMICS – HOW TRUMP NOW WELL SERVES AMERICA’S ESTABLISHMENT – GLIMMER OF FUTURE WORLD HOPE IN ALL THIS U.S. CHAOS?
JOHN CHUCKMAN COMMENT: POLITICAL COMEDIAN MICHELLE WOLF DOES AN INTERVIEW
JOHN CHUCKMAN COMMENT: THE MANY STUPIDITIES OF SANCTIONS AND HOW THEY ARE USED – ALONG WITH BOMBING PEOPLE THEY HAVE BECOME FAVORITE ACTIVITIES FOR AMERICA’S POWER ESTABLISHMENT – BUT WHY DO ORDINARY AMERICANS NOT OPPOSE THEM?
JOHN CHUCKMAN COMMENT: THE ROSEANNE BARR CONTROVERSY KEEPS SWIRLING AROUND – BUT I CAN ONLY SEE GREAT IRONY IN THIS NON-NEWS TEMPEST
JOHN CHUCKMAN COMMENT: ON THE NIGHTMARISH REALITIES OF JOURNALISM TODAY – HARSH LIMITS THAT AREN’T JUST MATTERS OF CHOICES MADE BY EDITORS – WHY WE CAN LEARN ALMOST NOTHING ON MANY SUBJECTS FROM OUR PRESS
JOHN CHUCKMAN COMMENT: CANADA’S GOVERNMENT SET TO BUY TRANS MOUNTAIN PIPELINE TO ASSURE ITS EXPANSION FOR CRUDE EXPORTS TO ASIA – A PRIVATE PROJECT LONG HELD-UP IN GREEN CONTROVERSY
15261
JOHN CHUCKMAN COMMENT: TRUMP AND IVANKA SHARE FAMILY VALUES? – I DON’T THINK SO – BUT THEY VERY MUCH DO SHARE ONE THING AND IT IS TRULY BIZARRE AND CREEPY – A WORD ON THAT PHRASE “FAMILY VALUES”
JOHN CHUCKMAN COMMENT: ARTICLE SAYS SKYSCRAPERS WRECK CITIES – I DON’T AGREE – BUT IT’S ALL IN HOW IT’S DONE – LONDON’S JUST PLAIN AWFUL CONTEMPORARY BUILDINGS
JOHN CHUCKMAN COMMENT: TRUMP AS A DANGEROUS REVOLUTIONARY – MARRIED TO A NOW ANGRY AND HYPER-AGGRESSIVE AMERICAN POWER ESTABLISHMENT – A TRILLION DOLLARS A YEAR FOR DEATH AND DESTRUCTION
JOHN CHUCKMAN COMMENT: AMY CHUA SPEAKS ON TRIBALISM AND THE AMERICAN POLITICAL SYSTEM – GOOD STUFF AS FAR AS IT GOES – BUT THERE ARE LARGER MORE PROFOUND THINGS SHE IGNORES – STATE OF AMERICA’S RULING CLASS – WHY THEY HATE RUSSIA
JOHN CHUCKMAN COMMENT: ARTICLE ASKS WHAT YOU WOULD DO IF YOU WERE KIM JONG-UN ? – AT LEAST I KNOW WHAT I WOULD NOT DO
JOHN CHUCKMAN COMMENT: HOW LOW WILL AMERICA GO? ASKS AN ARTICLE – YES INDEED – A LESSON ON AMERICA’S FOUNDING AND CONSTITUTION FOR AN AMERICAN WHO CLEARLY DOESN’T UNDERSTAND THEM IN HIS SMUG COMMENTS – NOTE ON TRUMP
JOHN CHUCKMAN COMMENT: OBAMA IS WIDELY REGARDED AS A LIBERAL – BUT NOTHING COULD BE MORE FALSE – HERE’S HIS BLOODY RECORD ABROAD AND HIS DO-NOTHING ONE AT HOME – DO-NOTHING EXCEPT FOR MASSIVE SPYING THAT IS – BRUTAL EMPIRES DON’T HAVE LIBERALS
JOHN CHUCKMAN COMMENT: AN ARTICLE ON PARTS OF THE LAST CENTURY OF AMERICAN HISTORY RAISES THOUGHTS OF THE DEADLY MIX OF INGREDIENTS FOR WAR BREWING NOW IN AMERICA’S ESTABLISHMENT – NOTE ON KENNEDY ASSASSINATION
JOHN CHUCKMAN COMMENT: LATEST INSTALLMENT OF THE YEARS-LONG FOOT-DRAGGING INVESTIGATION INTO THE DOWNING OF FLIGHT MH-17 OVER UKRAINE RAISES OLD CONCERNS
JOHN CHUCKMAN COMMENT: ART CRITIC WAXES NOSTALGIC ON SENTIMENTAL AMERICANA PICTURES – AMERICA’S HISTORY IS NOT GOLDEN BEAMS OF LIGHT BUT A POUNDING FIST ON THE TABLE – THE SOVIETS HAD SIMILAR QUALITY PROPAGANDA – NOTE ON FDR AND LYNCHINGS
JOHN CHUCKMAN COMMENT: BALTIC STATES ASK FOR MORE NATO TROOPS – A POINTLESS EXPENSE FOR ALL CONCERNED – ALL THE BORED TROOPS WITH NOTHING TO DO WILL MAKE LOTS OF BAR FIGHTS AND BUSY BROTHELS
JOHN CHUCKMAN COMMENT: JUSTIN TRUDEAU GIVES ANOTHER HINT OF NAIVETE ABOUT DONALD TRUMP – SO WE HAVE THE RECKLESS MET BY THE INEFFECTUAL – ODDS ON NAFTA’S FUTURE DON’T LOOK TOO GOOD – WORDS ON TRUMP’S REAL NATURE
JOHN CHUCKMAN COMMENT: AMERICAN HI-TECH INTERNET COMPANIES ALL MORPHING INTO TOOLS OF THE DARK STATE – SCANDAL OVER WIKIPEDIA COMES AS NO SURPRISE – AND RISKY PROMOTER ELON MUSK JOINS THE PHONY “HERE’S THE TRUTH” CROWD
JOHN CHUCKMAN COMMENT: WWII A REVOLUTIONARY TURNING POINT FOR AMERICA – WITH THAT GOLDEN ERA OVER RAW UGLY AGGRESSION IS BECOMING AMERICA’S FACE TO THE WORLD
JOHN CHUCKMAN COMMENT: PRESSURE BEING PUT ON OXFORD TO ACCEPT MORE MINORITY STUDENTS – BUT OXFORD’S JOB IS ACADEMIC QUALITY NOT SOCIAL ENGINEERING – PRESS’S JOB IS TO PROVE WHAT YOU HAVE NOT, CLAIMS OF UNFAIRNESS
JOHN CHUCKMAN COMMENT: HOW DO YOU WRITE AN ARTICLE ABOUT A SUBJECT IGNORING ITS SINGLE MOST IMPORTANT FACT? – JUST ASK NATALIE NOUGAYREDE AT THE GUARDIAN – SHE’S VERY EXPERIENCED AT IT – EUROPE AND AMERICA
JOHN CHUCKMAN COMMENT: VENEZUELA’S PRESIDENT MADURO FIGHTS BRAVELY FOR HIS DEMOCRACY IN THE FACE OF POWERFUL ENEMIES TRYING TO KILL IT – THE CIA IS VERY BUSY THERE WORKING WITH THE EXTREME RIGHT WING
JOHN CHUCKMAN COMMENT: TRUMP MAY NOT ATTEND THE KOREA SUMMIT AFTER ALL – VALUE OF HIS “PROMISES” FOR KIM OF NORTH KOREA – IF AMERICA WOULD ONLY GET OUT OF THE WAY IN KOREA THE KOREANS COULD SOLVE IT ALL
JOHN CHUCKMAN COMMENT: SAD EFFORTS STILL TO DEFEND AND SUPPORT TRUMP – TRUMP IN FACT JOINED “CLUB SWAMP” IN HIS FIRST WEEK AS A GOLD CARD LIFETIME MEMBER – AN ENTIRELY SHABBY AND COWARDLY MAN
JOHN CHUCKMAN COMMENT: ON THE CHARACTER OF FRANCE’S PRESIDENT EMMANUEL MACRON AND OF FRANCE’S ENTIRE MODERN POLITICAL SYSTEM
JOHN CHUCKMAN COMMENT: MEGHAN MARKLE AND FEMINISM – AN ARTICLE OF THE KIND OF UNTHINKING FLUFF THE GUARDIAN STUFFS ITS PAGES WITH – A WORD ABOUT GENUINE FEMINISM
JOHN CHUCKMAN COMMENT: ABSURD LENGTHS TO WHICH OUR PRESS GOES TO ATTACK RUSSIA – BRITAIN’S GUARDIAN HOLDS “HATE RUSSIA DAY” TODAY – SOME OF ITS STUFF IS SO HAM-FISTED IT READS LIKE 1959 PRAVDA ATTACKING “AMERICAN RUNNING DOGS”
JOHN CHUCKMAN COMMENT: IN 20 YEARS ALL THE RECOVERABLE GOLD WILL HAVE BEEN MINED SAYS AN ARTICLE – WHY THAT IS JUST SILLY – HOW TECHNOLOGY AND RESOURCES WORK TOGETHER OVER TIME
JOHN CHUCKMAN: ON SUPPORT FOR RT BROADCASTING – EVEN IF RT WEREN’T DOING WHAT IT DOES OUR WESTERN MEDIA HAVE THOROUGHLY DISCREDITED THEMSELVES IN THIS ERA OF AMERICAN HYPER-AGGRESSION
JOHN CHUCKMAN COMMENT: BLACK AMERICAN CONSERVATIVE CANDACE OWENS IS OKAY ON RUSSIA HYSTERIA – BUT OVERALL SHE RESEMBLES BARRY GOLDWATER IN 1962 – THERE IS A ROLE FOR GOVERNMENT INCREASINGLY TOO IN A GLOBALIZED WORLD
JOHN CHUCKMAN COMMENT: DOES THE NORTH AMERICAN FREE TRADE AGREEMENT HAVE A FUTURE? – AMERICA’S “TRADE CZAR” CONTRADICTS AND HUMILIATES TRUDEAU WITH HARD WORDS – AMERICA IS TODAY A FAR MEANER PLACE WITH WHICH TO WORK
JOHN CHUCKMAN COMMENT: THE SCANDAL THAT NEVER STOPS GIVING – EVERYTHING THAT IS BUT SOME TRUTH – NEW DISINFORMATION PROVIDED ON THE BRITISH SKRIPAL “POISONING” AFFAIR – IMPLAUSIBILITIES OF THE AFFAIR FROM BEGINNING TO END
JOHN CHUCKMAN COMMENT: SYRIA’S AIR DEFENSE SYSTEMS AGAINST ISRAELI ATTACKS – QUESTION OF RUSSIAN S-300 ANTI-AIRCRAFT MISSILES – TODAY’S ENTIRE SYRIA-RUSSIA-IRAN-ISRAEL RELATIONSHIP IS “A RIDDLE WRAPPED IN A MYSTERY INSIDE AN ENIGMA”
JOHN CHUCKMAN COMMENT: EUROPE’S NEED TO STAND UP TO HYPER-AGGRESSIVE AMERICA – THAT’S NOT DIVORCE JUST A RESPECTFUL RELATIONSHIP – TRUMP’S APPOINTMENTS LITERALLY FROM HELL
JOHN CHUCKMAN COMMENT: THE GUARDIAN SEEMS LIKE THE DAILY TELEGRAPH WITH A SPLASHY MAKE-OVER BUT STILL THE SAME STUFF – AND ITS NOT JUST IN ALL THE HARRY AND MEGHAN PROMOTION
JOHN CHUCKMAN COMMENT: HOW LONG CAN YOU “NOT BE STEPHEN HARPER” AS YOUR CHIEF MERIT? – CANADA’S JUSTIN TRUDEAU IS A BIG DISAPPOINTMENT AND NOT JUST FOR HIS MANY APOLOGIES
JOHN CHUCKMAN COMMENT: EVEN THE RECIPES SECTION OF THE NEWSPAPER GETS TURNED INTO HARRY AND MEGHAN PUBLIC RELATIONS
JOHN CHUCKMAN COMMENT: WITH AMERICA’S GORILLA IN DESIGNER CLOTHES (NIKKI HALEY) MASS MURDER BECOMES “RESTRAINT” – TRUMP’S RECENT HIRES ALL ARE THE KIND OF FOLKS WHO WOULD HAVE HAPPILY SERVED THE FUHRER IF BORN EARLIER IN GERMANY
JOHN CHUCKMAN COMMENT: ASTOUNDING STUFF ABOUT THE DEATH OF STALIN AND CHURCHILL FROM AN EXPERT ON OLD SOVIET ARCHIVES – NOTE ON CHURCHILL’S TARTED-UP REPUTATION IN THE WEST – NOTE ON HOW WE ARE STILL GOVERNED
JOHN CHUCKMAN COMMENT: LABOUR PARTY OFFICIAL SAYS A TRUTH WE SO RARELY HEAR – SYRIA’S ASSAD HAS POPULAR SUPPORT – SOME FACTS – I COMPARE SUPPORT FOR ISRAEL’S GOVERNMENT IF YOU COUNT ALL THE RESIDENTS LIVING UNDER IT
JOHN CHUCKMAN COMMENT: WITH ITS ELECTION COLUMNIST SAYS IRAQ IS SHAKING OFF “INTERVENTION” – HIS WORD FOR AN “INVASION” WHICH KILLED A MILLION – COUNTRY IS STILL OCCUPIED AND CIA BUILT ITSELF A FORTRESS
JOHN CHUCKMAN COMMENT: TRULY SHABBY CLOSET-TORY GUARDIAN NEWSPAPER IS AT IT AGAIN – THIS TIME SMEARING ANOTHER OF OUR MOST HONORABLE MEN – JULIAN ASSANGE
JOHN CHUCKMAN COMMENT: THERE’S NOTHING “CONTROVERSIAL” ABOUT PUTIN’S NEW BRIDGE TO CRIMEA – IT’S A BOON AND AN ENGINEERING MARVEL – TRUMP GRIMACES AND THREATENS – PUTIN BUILDS USEFUL NEW THINGS
JOHN CHUCKMAN COMMENT: YET ANOTHER TIRESOME STAR WARS SHOOT-‘EM-UP – I WONDER DOES THE PENTAGON PAY A SUBSIDY THE WAY IT DOES TO NFL TO HAVE PLAYERS ON FIELD FOR ANTHEM? IT HELPS RECRUITING
JOHN CHUCKMAN COMMENT: REMARKABLE NEST OF EGGS DINOSAUR DISCOVERY IN CHINA
JOHN CHUCKMAN COMMENT: TRULY MEDIOCRE MODIGLIANI NUDE – TRULY LITTLE MORE THAN AN ADVERTISING POSTER – FETCHES LESS THAN ANTICIPATED BUT FAR MORE THAN ITS VALUE
JOHN CHUCKMAN COMMENT: FEARS THE NEW GOVERNMENT OF ECUADOR IS NEGOTIATING WITH BRITAIN ABOUT HANDING OVER JULIAN ASSANGE – THE HIGH PRICE TO BE PAID FOR HONESTY
JOHN CHUCKMAN COMMENT: SHOULD TRUMP HAVE MOVED THE EMBASSY? – IN ONE DAY’S GRISLY WORK ISRAEL’S ARMY SHOOTS 2,400 PEOPLE KILLING 58 INCLUDING 6 KIDS WHILE IVANKA SMILES AND TWIRLS FOR THE CAMERAS
JOHN CHUCKMAN COMMENT: SARAH ABDALLAH IS A RATHER REMARKABLE YOUNG WOMAN WHO TWEETS OUT ACCURATE OBSERVATION ABOUT WHAT GOES ON IN SYRIA – NATURALLY ESTABLISHMENT PRESS ATTACKS HER
JOHN CHUCKMAN COMMENT: COULD GERMANY’S CHANCELLOR MERKEL WORK WITH PRESIDENT PUTIN TO SAVE THE IRAN NUCLEAR AGREEMENT? – NOTE ON JEWS IN MODERN GERMANY
JOHN CHUCKMAN COMMENT: BRITISH ACADEMIC COMPARES TRUMP’S LEADERSHIP TO BORIS YELTSIN’S WITH GOOD POINTS – I ADD SOME TOUGH OBSERVATIONS ON TRUMP’S NATURE AND WHAT HE IS ACHIEVING AND WHY
JOHN CHUCKMAN COMMENT: BRITISH ARMS INDUSTRY CYNICISM – THE ACCIDENTAL DISCOVERY BRITAIN IS USING THERMOBARIC BOMBS FROM ITS DRONES IN SYRIA – AND ALL THAT TALK ABOUT ASSAD’S DREADFUL WAYS!
JOHN CHUCKMAN COMMENT: TWO PEAS IN A POD – ISRAEL AND SAUDI ARABIA – WHAT THEY HAVE IN COMMON AND IT’S A WHOLE LOT MORE THAN YOU MIGHT THINK
JOHN CHUCKMAN COMMENT: PRESS DROWNS PEOPLE IN MEGHAN AND HARRY TREACLE – THERE IS A LESSON HERE ABOUT PRESS ABILITY TO SUSTAIN ILLUSIONS – CRITICAL TO EVENTS IN SYRIA RUSSIA AND SALISBURY
JOHN CHUCKMAN COMMENT: CLAIM MADE THAT ISRAEL HAS NO REAL DESIRE FOR WAR WITH IRAN – I SERIOUSLY DOUBT THAT AND IT ALL DEPENDS WHAT YOU MEAN BY “WAR”
JOHN CHUCKMAN COMMENT: NEW LEADER OF HAMAS WARNS OF HUMAN CATASTROPHE COMING – NOT A THREAT JUST A TERRIBLE FACT MUCH RESEMBLING WHAT HAPPENED IN RUSSIA WITH COLLAPSE OF USSR
JOHN CHUCKMAN COMMENT: TRUMP’S BULLYING AND THE PRESENT AMERICAN PURPOSES FOR NATO – EUROPE REALLY NEEDS TO WORK TOWARDS ITS INDEPENDENCE
JOHN CHUCKMAN COMMENT: AMERICAN DIVISION OF WEALTH – HOW YOU CONVERT A SOMEWHAT DEMOCRATIC GOVERNMENT INTO PLUTOCRACY – U.S. NATIONAL GOVERNMENT HAS SIMPLY IGNORED A BASIC RESPONSIBILITY FOR YEARS
JOHN CHUCKMAN COMMENT: “STUDY” ON “CONSPIRACY THEORY” AND BELIEF IN CLIMATE CHANGE – TRUTH IS THAT THERE ARE GENUINE CONSPIRACIES AND THERE IS CLIMATE CHANGE BUT IT’S NOT CLEAR WE CAN HELP
JOHN CHUCKMAN COMMENT: RUSSIAN VICTORY DAY PARADE IGNORANTLY CALLED “DEFIANT” – RUSSIA’S WWII EXPERIENCE HAS NO PARALLEL IN ALL HUMAN HISTORY DWARFING AMERICAN AND FRENCH AND BRITISH LOSSES – NOW AMERICA AGAIN THREATENS IT
JOHN CHUCKMAN COMMENT: ON HUMAN DEPRAVITY – WE COMFORT OURSELVES WITH THE THOUGHT OF ITS BEING PART OF THE MAKE-UP ONLY OF CERTAIN TWISTED GROUPS – BUT A GLANCE AT THE WORLD’S EVENTS SHOWS HOW VERY WRONG THAT IDEA IS
JOHN CHUCKMAN COMMENT: WHAT A WAY TO RUN THE WORLD’S MOST CONSEQUENTIAL GOVERNMENT – TRUMP WITHDRAWS FROM THE IRAN NUCLEAR TREATY WHILE BLUBBERING CHILDISH DRIVEL – WHAT INSPIRED HIS UTTERLY INSANE ACT?
JOHN CHUCKMAN COMMENT: CHINA-AMERICA RIVALRY – ISSUE OF AMERICA’S ECONOMICALLY-BACKWARD POLICIES – YOU CAN’T BOMB YOUR WAY TO PROSPERITY – “AMERICAN DREAM” GONE – TRUMP’S EFFORT TO MAKE IT 1952 AGAIN DOOMED
JOHN CHUCKMAN COMMENT: TIRESOME ANTI-PUTIN PROPAGANDA JUST NEVER STOPS – EDITORS ASSUME READERS ARE IGNORANT – IN SOME WAYS RUSSIA DOES COMPARE FAVORABLY TO AMERICA OR ISRAEL – JAILS AND STATE VIOLENCE
JOHN CHUCKMAN COMMENT: SOME VERY DARK THOUGHTS OF WHERE AMERICA IS GOING IN ITS RELATIONS WITH RUSSIA AND IRAN – I DO THINK WE LIVE IN DANGEROUS TIMES AND THEY ARE DELIBERATELY MANUFACTURED
JOHN CHUCKMAN COMMENT: 35 YEARS SINCE THE INFAMOUS FRAUD OF THE HITLER DIARIES CAUGHT AN EMINENT PROFESSOR IN EMBARRASSING ERRORS – WHICH REMINDS ME OF DEVELOPMENTS IN TWO CURRENT FRAUDS – BOTH FAR MORE DEADLY
JOHN CHUCKMAN COMMENT: MAHMOUD ABBAS’S RECENT CONTROVERSIAL COMMENT CONCERNING ISRAEL PUT INTO SOME PERSPECTIVE – SOMETHING THE PRESS COULD NOT CARE LESS ABOUT
JOHN CHUCKMAN COMMENT: NO-FOOD POLICY FOR THE “ROYAL WEDDING” – SEEMS FITTING ENOUGH TO ME CONSIDERING THE NATURE OF THE EVENT – THIS WILL BE ALMOST A PARODY OF A WEDDING AND ON A BIG SCALE
JOHN CHUCKMAN COMMENT: COMMUNICATIONS DIRECTOR FOR HILLARY’S CAMPAIGN MAKES RATHER ASININE STATEMENT ABOUT WHY SHE LOST – AMERICANS REALLY DO BELIEVE IF JUST USE THE RIGHT MUMBO-JUMBO YOU CAN SELL MANURE AS PATE
JOHN CHUCKMAN COMMENT: ARTICLE ON ISRAELI INFLUENCE ON INTERNET SITES – MY OBSERVATIONS OF THE SAME THING IN OUR MAINLINE PRESS – THE DEGREE OF CENSORSHIP AND EFFORT TO INFLUENCE IS ASTONISHING
JOHN CHUCKMAN COMMENT: YET ANOTHER ARTICLE BEMOANING THE INACTION OF “THE WEST” IN SYRIA – BUT IT IS PRECISELY THE OPPOSITE – “THE WEST” IS ENTIRELY RESPONSIBLE FOR THIS HORROR
JOHN CHUCKMAN COMMENT: MOST POWERFUL MANIAC ON THE PLANET MAKES OUTRAGEOUS NEW CHARGES AGAINST IRAN – NETANYAHU OF THE PASSOVER MASSACRE AND OF A HIDDEN NUCLEAR ARSENAL ACCUSES IRAN OF A NEW SIN – PRESIDENTS OF 2 COUNTRIES TOLD US WHAT A COMPLETE LIAR HE IS
JOHN CHUCKMAN COMMENT: SCATHING LINES FROM COMEDIAN MICHELLE WOLF AT THE WHITE HOUSE CORRESPONDENTS’ DINNER – SURPRISED SHE MADE IT TO THE PLATFORM – THE GREAT ORANGE ONE IS NOT PLEASED
JOHN CHUCKMAN COMMENT: AN INTERESTING ODDITY – THE DISCOVERY OF SOME PRIMITIVE ARTWORK FROM PRISONERS OF WAR DURING THE SEVEN YEARS WAR – FOUND IN A BRITISH CASTLE USED AS A PRISON
JOHN CHUCKMAN COMMENT: PERFECT EXAMPLE OF THE KIND OF LAUGHABLE RUBBISH THE GUARDIAN FILLS SPACE WITH – ON PROSTITUTION: “THE INSIDE OF A WOMAN’S BODY IS NOT A WORKPLACE”
JOHN CHUCKMAN COMMENT: JUST WHO IS IT STRAINING TO REASSERT AMERICAN GLOBAL SUPREMACY EMPHASIZING THE MILITARY? – TRUMP’S ODD SET OF SKILLS CAUSED HIM TO JOIN THE CLUB BUT HE DID NOT START THIS – SOME HISTORY – THIS WILL NOT END WELL
JOHN CHUCKMAN COMMENT: IMPLAUSIBLE SPECULATION AS MORE KENNEDY ASSASSINATION FILES (STILL INEXPLICABLY EXCLUDING MANY) ARE RELEASED – THE ABSURDITY OF POINTING TO OSWALD MAINTAINED
JOHN CHUCKMAN COMMENT: ISRAEL’S WEEK-LONG PASSOVER MASSACRE – VICTIM TOTAL IS STILL RISING – ISRAEL’S BRIEF HISTORY PROVES ONLY WHAT A GHASTLY FAILURE YOU GET WHEN YOU MADLY PURSUE THE WRONG OBJECTIVES
JOHN CHUCKMAN COMMENT: NOBEL PEACE PRIZE FOR TRUMP? – IT WOULD BE THE FIRST MONTY PYTHONESQUE PEACE PRIZE AWARD – WORTHY CANDIDATES – A RATHER GRIM HISTORY FOR THIS LARGELY MEANINGLESS PRIZE
JOHN CHUCKMAN COMMENT: FRANCE’S MADAME MACRON SAYS MELANIA TRUMP IS “REALLY FUN” – IT SURE DOES NOT SHOW IN PHOTOS – MELANIA RESEMBLES THE BRIDE STATUE ON TOP OF A VERY COSTLY WEDDING CAKE
JOHN CHUCKMAN COMMENT: INEFFECTUAL OWEN JONES IN THE GUARDIAN ON TRUMP’S COMING VISIT TO BRITAIN – BIGOTRY IS THE SMALLEST FAULT TO BE FOUND IN TRUMP
JOHN CHUCKMAN COMMENT : GERMANY RUSSIA AMERICA AND CHINA’S GREAT SILK ROAD PROJECT – CAN ANGELA MERKEL RISE TO THE CHALLENGE AND HELP GERMANY REGAIN GREAT POWER STATUS? U.S. ABUSE OF GERMANY
JOHN CHUCKMAN COMMENT: ANOTHER WAR IN THE MIDDLE EAST? ONE WITH IRAN NOW BEING CONSTRUCTED – TRUMP SIMPLY DOING SOMEONE ELSE’S DIRTY WORK – SOME LEADER
JOHN CHUCKMAN COMMENT: AS THEY USED TO SAY ON MONTY PYTHON “AND NOW FOR SOMETHING COMPLETELY DIFFERENT” – PRINCE HARRY’S ROYAL WEDDING – GOD HERE’S A REAL FLYING CIRCUS
JOHN CHUCKMAN COMMENT: AT THE HEART OF AMERICAN HOSTILITY TO RUSSIA – RUSSIA SEEN AS A BARRIER TO THE WORLD DOMINATION AMERICA NOW PURSUES – UKRAINE AND SYRIA MANUFACTURED CRISES – SAD FATE OF OUR INTERNATIONAL ORGANIZATIONS
JOHN CHUCKMAN COMMENT: AFTER WEEKS OF GUARDIAN HYPE ABOUT NON-EXISTENT CHEMICAL WEAPONS ONE OF ITS DRONE WRITERS ASKS WHETHER THEY ARE SO MUCH WORSE THAN OTHER WEAPONS – AND AMERICA’S MOST DISTURBING AND COSTLY WEAPONS PROGRAM ON EARTH
JOHN CHUCKMAN COMMENT: MACRON’S VISIT TO TRUMP – COLUMNIST ASKS WHETHER IT WILL “PAY OFF”?
JOHN CHUCKMAN COMMENT: ARROGANCE AND VIOLENCE ALMOST WITHOUT LIMIT TODAY FROM ISRAEL – “DEFENSE” MINISTER CLAIMS OTHERS NOT ALLOWED TO DEFEND THEMSELVES
JOHN CHUCKMAN COMMENT: AGAIN AMERICA POMPOUSLY ACCUSES CHINA OF HUMAN RIGHTS ABUSE – AS BEFORE CHINA RESPONDS WITH AN AMERICAN LIST – STATE DEPARTMENT INSISTS ON CASTING AMERICA WITH JIMMY STEWART IN THE ROLE OF KING KONG
JOHN CHUCKMAN COMMENT: WHAT AMY GOODMAN’S DEMOCRACY NOW ACTUALLY REPRESENTS – REAL LIBERALISM (DEFINED HERE) IS ABOUT AS SCARCE AS TRUTH OR DECENCY IN AMERICA
JOHN CHUCKMAN COMMENT: HEAD OF OPCW REVEALS THERE WAS NO MATERIAL THAT CAN BE IDENTIFIED AS RUSSIAN INVOLVED IN SKRIPAL AFFAIR – NOTORIOUS BRILLIANT PRANKSTERS GET HIM ON THE PHONE THINKING IT IS THE LEADER OF POLAND CALLING HIM
JOHN CHUCKMAN COMMENT: POPE GIVES 3000 ICE CREAMS TO THE POOR OF ROME – THIS HAS TO BE ONE OF THE APPALLING PUBLIC RELATIONS STUNTS EVER
JOHN CHUCKMAN COMMENT: PIECE ABOUT CANADA’S UNPLEASANT FOREIGN MINISTER CHRYSTIA FREELAND – YES SHE IS UNPLEASANT AND HER BOSS JUSTIN TRUDEAU ALSO HAS PROVED LESS-THAN-PALATABLE – A WORD ON WHAT CANADA IS TODAY
JOHN CHUCKMAN COMMENT: A WRITER’S ANALYSIS OF THE LAST MISSILE ATTACK ON SYRIA – A GENUINELY BIZARRE EVENT – WHERE THE PENTAGON IS HEADED FOR THE FUTURE – AND IT IS A TERRIFYING VISION – WHY WE NEED TO BE GLAD FOR RUSSIA AND CHINA
JOHN CHUCKMAN COMMENT: SOMEONE WHO KNEW SYRIA WRITES OF SEEING PHOTOS OF WHAT HAS HAPPENED – I THINK THEN OF THE FIRE-BOMBING OF DRESDEN IN WWII – AN UNPARALLELED HORROR DONE BY SOME OF THE SAME ACTORS AT WORK IN SYRIA
JOHN CHUCKMAN COMMENT: FRANCE’S MACRON SAYS SOMETHING ABOUT SYRIA WHICH MAKES ME THINK OF GEORGE ORWELL – PERHAPS WRITING AGAINST ABUSE OF POWER AND TERROR HAS ALWAYS BEEN A WASTE OF TIME – IT JUST KEEPS COMING BACK IN NEW FORMS
JOHN CHUCKMAN COMMENT: THE USE OF SKIN-LIGHTENING CREAMS BY PEOPLE OF COLOR DISCUSSED IN AN ARTICLE – I OFFER A LITTLE HISTORY AND COMPARABLE SITUATIONS
JOHN CHUCKMAN COMMENT: MELANIA TRUMP PHOTOGRAPHED SMILING WITH BUSHES AT BARBARA’S FUNERAL – I OFFER AN EXPLANATION – A WORD ON WHAT OLD BARBARA WAS REALLY LIKE AND IT WAS NOT A SWEET OLD GRANNY
JOHN CHUCKMAN COMMENT: RUSSIA’S ANTI-SHIP MISSILES AND AIRCRAFT CARRIERS – THINGS HAVE INDEED CHANGED BUT SINKING AN AIRCRAFT CARRIER OUTSIDE OF A LARGER WAR WOULD ONLY START A WAR – AMERICA’S PROBLEM IS UNEQUALED CORRUPTION AND ARROGANCE – BUT EVENTS ARE CATCHING-UP – THEN WE’LL SEE AIRCRAFT CARRIERS START TO DISAPPEAR
JOHN CHUCKMAN COMMENT: RESPONSE TO FAIRLY BACKWARD RELIGIOUS VIEW OF HOMOSEXUALITY – WOULD YOU HAVE THE CATHOLIC CHURCH TEAR DOWN THE SISTINE CHAPEL BECAUSE MICHELANGELO WAS HOMOSEXUAL?
JOHN CHUCKMAN COMMENT: THE INDEPENDENT NEWSPAPER USES YET ANOTHER “PUSH POLL” TO INDIRECTLY ATTACK JEREMY CORBYN
JOHN CHUCKMAN COMMENT: IS SALISBURY SAFE AFTER SKRIPAL AFFAIR? – OF COURSE – U. K. GOVERNMENT BEHAVIOR PARALLELS AMERICA’S FOLLOWING THE KENNEDY ASSASSINATION – A COMMENTER RAISES THE CASE OF DR. KELLY’S KILLING BACK AT THE TIME OF THE IRAQ INVASION
JOHN CHUCKMAN COMMENT: THE INDEPENDENT SAYS SOME OF THE THINGS IN THE STEELE DOSSIER HAVE TURNED OUT TRUE – BUT THAT’S ALWAYS TRUE OF PROPAGANDA – EVERYONE ASSOCIATED WITH THIS JUST STINKS
JOHN CHUCKMAN COMMENT: THE COMEY -TRUMP MEMOS – A GUARDIAN EDITOR SAYS THEY SHOW COMEY NO BETTER THAN TRUMP – NO THEY SHOW WHAT IT IS ALWAYS LIKE AT THE CENTER OF A HUGE THROBBING EMPIRE – A SUBTLE EFFORT TO SOFTEN WORDS ABOUT TRUMP
JOHN CHUCKMAN COMMENT: AMERICA’S DEMOCRATS LAUNCH LAWSUIT AGAINST TRUMP AND RUSSIA AND WIKI-LEAKS OVER ELECTION – HILARIOUS – THIS IS A COUNTRY FIT TO DOMINATE THE EARTH? THEY CAN’T MANAGE THEIR OWN AFFAIRS – A FEW FACTS
JOHN CHUCKMAN COMMENT: ABBY MARTIN’S INTERVIEW WITH MAX BLUMENTHAL THAT GOOGLE BLOCKED IN 28 COUNTRIES – SEARING TRUTHS ABOUT ISRAEL’S TREATMENT OF PALESTINIANS PRESENTED CALMLY AND WITH GREAT COMMAND OF FACTS
JOHN CHUCKMAN COMMENT: THE INCOMPARABLE FOREIGN MINISTER SERGEY LAVROV GIVES A LENGTHY INTERVIEW BREATHTAKING IN ITS DISPLAY OF KNOWLEDGE AND TOUCHING ON MANY ISSUES
JOHN CHUCKMAN COMMENT: WHAT THE REAL DANGER OF IRAN IS FOR ISRAEL – BUT WOULD NEVER KNOW IT FROM ALL THE STORM OF FALSE CLAIMS IN ISRAEL
JOHN CHUCKMAN COMMENT: SOME SENSE FROM BRITAIN – LORD GREEN SAYS BRITAIN SHOULD MOVE TOWARDS FRIENDSHIP WITH ASSAD – NOTE ON ASSAD’S FRENCH LEGION OF HONOR IN RESPONSE TO AN OBTUSE COMMENT
JOHN CHUCKMAN COMMENT: THE “RUSSIAN THREAT” NONSENSE RESEMBLES A MOVIE MONSTER THAT WON’T DIE – MORE THIRD-RATE ACTING PERFORMANCES FROM THE BRITISH GOVERNMENT
JOHN CHUCKMAN COMMENT: AN AMAZING SEGMENT OF A SHOW I HAD NOT HEARD OF CALLED THE JIMMY DORE SHOW – FEATURING A PROFESSOR JEFFREY SACHS I HAD NEVER HEARD OF SPEAKING ON MSNBC THE PLAIN TRUTHS ON SYRIA – I’M STUNNED IT EVER GOT ON AIR
JOHN CHUCKMAN COMMENT: DO NOT CANCEL IRAN NUCLEAR AGREEMENT – EUROPEAN PARLIAMENTARIANS SEND AN OPEN LETTER TO CONGRESS – INDEED AND THERE IS ONLY ONE COUNTRY PUSHING HARD FOR THE CANCELLATION – THE SAME ONE SHOOTING UNARMED DEMONSTRATORS IN GAZA
JOHN CHUCKMAN COMMENT: IS SENATOR LINDSEY GRAHAM BEING BLACKMAILED? VERY LIKELY CONSIDERING HIS EXTREME AND ALMOST LAUGHABLE BEHAVIOR – SOME HISTORY OF “HONEY TRAPS”
JOHN CHUCKMAN COMMENT: AGE OF MASS MIGRATIONS – INDEED IT IS AND HERE’S WHY – AMERICA’S REACTION ONLY ENHANCES ITS REPUTATION FOR BRUTALITY
JOHN CHUCKMAN COMMENT: DEATH OF BARBARA BUSH – I AGREE WITH ROGER STONE THAT SHE WAS ONE NASTY PIECE OF WORK – IT DOES RUN IN THE FAMILY THAT CLAWED ITS WAY TO THE TOP
JOHN CHUCKMAN COMMENT: UPCOMING NASTY ONTARIO ELECTION – RUN TRULY BAD CANDIDATES AND THIS IS WHAT YOU GET – IN FORMER YEARS THIS KIND OF STUFF DID NOT HAPPEN IN CANADA
JOHN CHUCKMAN COMMENT: COMEY’S BOOK A PLEA FOR DECENCY? – A SIMPLISTIC STATEMENT – NATURE OF AMERICA’S POLITICAL ESTABLISHMENT ALLOWS LITTLE OF THAT – WHAT COMEY REVEALS ABOUT HIMSELF – ALL WRAPPED UP IN THE GUARDIAN’S USUAL CENSORSHIP AND ITS OWN BAD TASTE
JOHN CHUCKMAN COMMENT: ROBERT FISK CHECKS OUT FACTS AT DOUMA SYRIA – MAINLINE JOURNALISM’S COMPLETE IRRESPONSIBILITY – PHONY WHITE HELMETS – BOMBING WITH NO PROOF – I OFFER A BRIEF RECORD OF “THE WEST’S” RUN-UP TO PAST WARS – LIES NEVER DIE AND ARE RECYCLED
JOHN CHUCKMAN COMMENT: THE GREAT ORANGE ONE’S “LOCKED AND LOADED” AMOUNTS TO AN INVITATION FOR TERRORISTS TO STAGE MORE FAKE GAS ATTACKS – IF SO RUSSIA MAY HAVE TO CHANGE ITS POSITION IN SYRIA – ISRAEL’S GAZA MASSACRE IGNORED?
JOHN CHUCKMAN COMMENT: CBC NEWS SWIMS IN THE MUCK WITH THE CORPORATE PRESS – IDIOT ARTICLE ON A “SUSTAINED RESPONSE” TO SYRIA – THE NEOCON GOAL GIFTED TO AMERICA – 9/11 QUESTIONS AS PERTINENT AS EVER
JOHN CHUCKMAN COMMENT: OUR LAD SEEMS TO BE GETTING IT – THE ALBERTA-BC PIPELINE IS IN CANADA’S NATIONAL INTEREST – THAT SAYS IT ALL – NOTELY ACTS LIKE A LEADER – RESPONSE TO A COMMENT: HOW ABOUT GOING BACK TO THE 18TH CENTURY?
JOHN CHUCKMAN COMMENT: THE MISSILE ATTACK ON SYRIA – MORE ON THE RELATED SKRIPAL POISONING AFFAIR IN BRITAIN – AND REFLECTIONS ON THE KIND OF WORLD INTO WHICH WE HAVE BEEN THRUST – NO RULE OF LAW – NO ETHICS OR MORALITY – JUST MIGHT MAKES RIGHT
JOHN CHUCKMAN COMMENT: RUSSIA TODAY SIMPLY HAS MORE CREDIBILITY THAN BRITAIN IN AFFAIRS LIKE SYRIA – HERE’S WHY – SOME HISTORY OF LYING ABOUT CHEMICAL WEAPONS AND NOT EVEN INCLUDING OUR IRAQ EXPERIENCE
JOHN CHUCKMAN COMMENT: THE GUARDIAN’S WORST PROPAGANDIST AT IT AGAIN – JONATHAN FREEDLAND SAYS WE SHOULD MAKE SYRIA’S ASSAD PAY – PAY FOR WHAT? – GUARDIAN EDITORS HAVE NO TOLERANCE FOR SUCH HONEST RESPONSES
JOHN CHUCKMAN COMMENT: THE ROT IN AMERICA CONTINUES – THINK-TANK HACK MICHAEL RUBIN SAYS IT’S TIME TO ASSASSINATE SYRIA’S ASSAD – HERE’S ADVOCACY OF MURDER POSING AS SCHOLARSHIP – ANYTHING FOR ISRAEL
JOHN CHUCKMAN COMMENT: MACRON HAS PROOF – FRANCE’S SECOND-WORST PRESIDENT EVER ASKS FOR OUR TRUST ON SYRIA – MACRON FORGETS WE ALL HAVE PROOF OF HIS OWN LAW-BREAKING
JOHN CHUCKMAN COMMENT: CANADA’S BOY-WONDER PRIME MINISTER JUSTIN TRUDEAU BACK IN ACTION – FLYING FROM PERU AND BACK ON A BIZARRE CONTINENTAL ODYSSEY TO SAY A FEW WORDS BACK HOME
JOHN CHUCKMAN COMMENT: TODAY’S INFORMATION WARS? FAR WORSE THAN THAT – WHAT IS REQUIRED FOR ANYONE WANTING TO BE INFORMED IN THIS CHAOS – GUARDIAN’S UNBLINKING CENSORSHIP AND PROTECTION OF HOBBY HORSE NEWS TOPICS LIKE SYRIA AND THE SKRIPAL AFFAIR
JOHN CHUCKMAN COMMENT: PUTIN SAYS WORLD IS PLUNGING INTO CHAOS – IT COULDN’T BE BETTER SAID
JOHN CHUCKMAN COMMENT: AMERICA’S IMBECILIC FRONT MAN FOR THE DEEP STATE – OTHERWISE KNOWN AS DONALD TRUMP
JOHN CHUCKMAN COMMENT: RUSSIA’S LITTLE REMINDER TO ALL THOSE AMERICAN SHIPS LOADED WITH CRUISE MISSILES HEADING TOWARDS SYRIA
JOHN CHUCKMAN COMMENT: ISRAELI SNIPERS SHOOTING UNARMED PEOPLE IN GAZA IS NOT A “CLASH” OR ANYTHING ELSE OUR BIASED PRESS CALLS IT – IT IS MURDER BY AMBUSH
JOHN CHUCKMAN COMMENT: CANADA’S CBC NO BETTER THAN THE CORPORATE PRESS AT TELLING US ABOUT WHAT IS REALLY HAPPENING IN THE WORLD
JOHN CHUCKMAN COMMENT: MY CORRECTION TO A GUARDIAN EDITORIAL ABOUT CHERISHING AND DEFENDING THE BBC – NEWS AT BBC NO LONGER WORTH READING
JOHN CHUCKMAN COMMENT: IN AN ISRAEL AND IRAN ARTICLE WE FIND GUARDIAN CENSORSHIP AT WORK AGAIN – WHO IS THE REAL THREAT TO PEACE AND STABILITY – THERE IS NO QUESTION
JOHN CHUCKMAN COMMENT: THE MARK ZUCKERBERG SHAM – NOT JUST THE RECENT CONGRESSIONAL HEARING BUT THE ENTIRE BUSINESS OPERATIONS OF FACEBOOK
JOHN CHUCKMAN COMMENT: IS THIS THE FINAL OUTCOME OF THE SKRIPAL AFFAIR? FATHER AND DAUGHTER GO TO AMERICA WITH IDENTITY CHANGE? – WAS THE PURPOSE OF THIS BRITISH FRAUD TO HELP PREPARE THE GROUND FOR U.S. ATTACK ON SYRIA?
JOHN CHUCKMAN COMMENT: SAD TO SEE GLENN GREENWALD JOIN IN THE RUN-UP TO ATTACKING SYRIA – IT IS JUST SO SIMPLE: WHERE IS THE PROOF? WE ALL UNDERSTAND PROOF – BUT EVEN PROOF WOULDN’T JUSTIFY AMERICA (KILLER OF MILLIONS IN RECENT DECADES) TO PLAY GOD AGAIN
JOHN CHUCKMAN COMMENT: THE PROPAGANDA DRIVE ON SYRIA KEEPS ROLLING ALONG – HERE ARE BASIC FACTS NOT ALLOWED TO APPEAR IN EVEN A SO-CALLED PROGRESSIVE NEWSPAPER LIKE GUARDIAN
JOHN CHUCKMAN COMMENT: THE HORRORS OF GAZA – THE MOST IGNORED MONSTROUS ABUSE ON THE PLANET BY OUR PRESS AND GOVERNMENTS
JOHN CHUCKMAN COMMENT: THE GUARDIAN KEEPS PLUGGING FOR A NEW “CENTRIST” PARTY – HERE’S MY SUGGESTION FOR ITS NAME AND MOTTO SINCE THE PLOT FOR CREATING IT UNDOUBTEDLY INCLUDES TONY BLAIR
JOHN CHUCKMAN COMMENT: WHEN STUNTS ARE BESTOWED WITH THE DESCRIPTION “EXTRAORDINARY SCULPTURES” – CHRISTO AND HIS BUILDING-WRAPPING
JOHN CHUCKMAN COMMENT: DOES THE QUEEN DESERVE A NOBEL PEACE PRIZE? – JUST ASKING THE QUESTION SHOWS THE FANTASY WORLD WE LIVE IN AND HIGHLIGHTS THE EMPTINESS OF THE PRIZE
JOHN CHUCKMAN COMMENT: PURE MANUFACTURED NEWS FROM CIA WITH “GAS ATTACK” IN SYRIA’S EASTERN GHOUTA – THE SPOOKS DO SEEM A BIT RETARDED IN YET AGAIN USING THIS PLOY SO WASHINGTON CAN BOMB SYRIA
JOHN CHUCKMAN COMMENT: SOME RELATIONSHIPS BETWEEN THE TERRIBLE CONCENTRATION OF WEALTH TAKING PLACE IN SOCIETIES AND AMERICA’S HYPER-AGGRESSIVE DRIVE FOR WORLD DOMINANCE
JOHN CHUCKMAN COMMENT: THE ROLE OF LIES IN AMERICA’S PATH TO DOMINANCE
JOHN CHUCKMAN COMMENT: WILL THE BRITISH GOVERNMENT FALL OVER THE LIES AND HYPOCRISY OF THE SKRIPAL AFFAIR? – I DOUBT IT – IF IT DOES IT WON’T BE OVER THE LIES BUT JUST THE INCOMPETENCE OF BEING CAUGHT
JOHN CHUCKMAN COMMENT: NIKKI HALEY OFFERS HER MOST LUNATIC REMARKS YET MAKING IT CLEAR TO ALL THAT AMERICAN DIPLOMACY SIMPLY DOES NOT EXIST ANYMORE – TRUMP’S PARALYSIS
JOHN CHUCKMAN COMMENT: TRUMP’S SICK WORDS ABOUT A DRONE STRIKE – BUT THEY REALLY ARE NO SICKER THAN THE ENTIRE MURDER PROGRAM BY A COUNTRY ALWAYS PRETENDING TO RIGHTS AND RULE OF LAW
JOHN CHUCKMAN COMMENT: A PERFECT EXAMPLE OF CORPORATE PRESS PROPAGANDA – MAKING LIGHT OF BORIS JOHNSON’S CRIMINAL BEHAVIOR – GUARDIAN TO THE RESCUE OF BRITAIN’S GOVERNMENT FOR ITS GUTTER LIES ABOUT SOMETHING WHICH DID NOT HAPPEN – FURTHER DEVELOPMENT
JOHN CHUCKMAN COMMENT: EVEN ASSHOLES DO GET IT RIGHT ONCE IN A WHILE – THE CASE OF THOMAS FRIEDMAN AND A CONSTITUTIONAL CRISIS OVER TRUMP
JOHN CHUCKMAN COMMENT: IF JOHN BOLTON IS A CERTIFIED LUNATIC – AS INDEED HE IS – WHY DID TRUMP APPOINT HIM ALONG WITH QUITE A GANG OF SICKOS AND INTELLECTUAL TRASH?
JOHN CHUCKMAN COMMENT: ONE-SIDED GUARDIAN PIECE ON SERBIA BRINGS TO MIND BILL CLINTON’S NASTY WAR THERE – WAR CRIMES TRIBUNAL ONLY GOES AFTER NON-AMERICANS – CLINTON’S OWN DARK RECORD
JOHN CHUCKMAN COMMENT: THE TERRIBLE PLIGHT OF EGYPT’S FIRST ELECTED PRESIDENT – HE COULD DIE IN PRISON – HOW THE MIDDLE EAST’S SELF-DECLARED “ONLY DEMOCRACY” REGARDS DEMOCRATIC NEIGHBORS
JOHN CHUCKMAN COMMENT: A FEW WORDS ON A NEW BIOGRAPHY OF QUEEN ELIZABETH I
JOHN CHUCKMAN COMMENT: PORTON DOWN LABS OFFICIAL CONTRADICTS BRITAIN’S FOREIGN MINISTER ABOUT NERVE AGENT – HIGHLIGHTS OF WHAT APPEARS TO BE A MANUFACTURED BRITISH SCANDAL AND BIG QUESTIONS LEFT UNANSWERED
JOHN CHUCKMAN COMMENT: ANOTHER GAZA MASSACRE BY ISRAEL – THE MODERN RE-CREATION OF ISRAEL HAS SADLY PROVED A PRETTY INGLORIOUS CHAPTER IN HISTORY – RECORD OF EVENTS BEHIND ALL THAT BLOODSHED
JOHN CHUCKMAN COMMENT: SILLY TO CRITICIZE GERMANY’S SIGNING A BIG NEW GAS DEAL WITH RUSSIA AFTER GERMANY’S FORMAL NOD TO BRITAIN’S DUBIOUS ACCUSATIONS ABOUT RUSSIA IN THE SKRIPAL POISONING
JOHN CHUCKMAN COMMENT: CORBYN-HATERS TURN FROM ACCUSATIONS OF ANTI-SEMITISM TO CRITICIZING HIM FOR ATTENDING A PASSOVER SEDER – IT JUST DOESN’T GET MORE TWISTED
JOHN CHUCKMAN COMMENT: JUSTIN TRUDEAU’S SLUMP IN POLLS IS NOT SURPRISING DESPITE HIS PERSONAL CHARM – A FAIRLY INEFFECTIVE CANADIAN GOVERNMENT IS WIDELY PERCEIVED
JOHN CHUCKMAN COMMENT: CANADA’S FOREIGN MINISTER HEADS TO WASHINGTON FOR TALK ON NAFTA – WHAT ANY AMERICAN MOVEMENT ON DEMANDS MEANS
JOHN CHUCKMAN COMMENT: NAIVE COLUMN IN THE GUARDIAN SPEAKS OF PRESS STANDARDS AND “VITAL BOND OF TRUST” THAT MUST BE WON BACK – WHY THIS IS NONSENSE – SOME BASIC FACTS ABOUT JOURNALISM IN TODAY’S WORLD
JOHN CHUCKMAN COMMENT: BRITAIN’S SKRIPAL AFFAIR JUST GETS WEIRDER
JOHN CHUCKMAN COMMENT: COLUMNIST WRITES OF BRITISH JUSTICE SYSTEM BEING IN DISARRAY – CERTAINLY THE BRITISH SENSE OF JUSTICE IS VERY MUCH IN DISARRAY FOR REASONS THE WRITER NEVER TOUCHES – SKRIPAL AND CORBYN CHARACTER ASSASSINATIONS
JOHN CHUCKMAN COMMENT: ATTACKS ON CORBYN CONTINUE WITH AN UGLY SLUR TWEETED BY “LORD” SUGAR – DEBASED LEVEL OF BRITISH POLITICS – RELATIONSHIP OF ATTACKS WITH THERESA MAY’S ATTACKS ON RUSSIA AND PUTIN
JOHN CHUCKMAN COMMENT: DOES THE WEST REALLY BELIEVE IT CAN BREAK OR DESTROY RUSSIA? NO BUT IT IS VERY MUCH TRYING TO HURT OR HOBBLE IT – WHY?
JOHN CHUCKMAN COMMENT: DARK APPOINTMENTS IN WASHINGTON – SERIOUS CHARGES WITH NO LOGIC OR EVIDENCE AGAINST RUSSIA – WHO’S IN CHARGE IN WASHINGTON? – RECORD OF RECENT AMERICAN PRESIDENTS
JOHN CHUCKMAN COMMENT: PERHAPS THE NEW COLD WAR STARTED BY AMERICA AGAINST RUSSIA IS MORE DANGEROUS ALREADY THAN THE OLD ONE
JOHN CHUCKMAN COMMENT: RUSSIA’S APPROACH TO THE SKRIPAL AFFAIR – THE IMPORTANCE OF THE NEW RUSSIAN MEDIA TODAY
JOHN CHUCKMAN COMMENT: THOUSANDS OF JEREMY CORBYN SUPPORTERS SIGN LETTER SAYING RECENT PHONY ANTI-SEMITISM PROTEST WAS THE WORK OF A POWERFUL SPECIAL INTEREST GROUP
JOHN CHUCKMAN COMMENT: MURDER INCORPORATED USES TANKS ON GAZA PROTESTERS APPROACHING FENCE – MEANING OF “PEACE” BETWEEN A CAMP INMATE AND HIS GUARDS? – ISRAEL’S CONSTANT EFFORT TO INFLUENCE OUR GOVERNMENTS MAKE RUSSIA CHARGES OF ELECTION INFLUENCE LOOK SILLY
JOHN CHUCKMAN COMMENT: WORTHY MARY DEJEVSKY QUOTE ON BRITISH DIPLOMACY IN SKRIPAL AFFAIR – DANGER IN BREXIT FOR BRITAIN IS IN ITS BECOMING THE 51ST STATE
JOHN CHUCKMAN COMMENT: ARE WE HEADED FOR WAR WITH RUSSIA? WHY NO ONE SEEMS EVEN TO CARE
JOHN CHUCKMAN COMMENT: DISHONESTY AND PREJUDICE PASSING AS A DEMAND FOR JUSTICE – YET ANOTHER BRITISH WAVE OF “GET CORBYN OVER ANTI-SEMITISM” FROM THE LOBBY WHICH JUST HATES HIM
JOHN CHUCKMAN COMMENT: EUROPE PLAYS GAMES WITH TALES OF POISONING WHERE THERE IS NO POISONING – WHY? IN OUR BIZARRE NEW WORLD SOMETHING IS TRUE IF AMERICA SAYS IT IS – PROOF? “I DON’T NEED NO STINKIN’ PROOF!”
JOHN CHUCKMAN COMMENT: JULIAN ASSANGE CALLED A HERO – I AGREE BUT IBSEN’S “AN ENEMY OF THE PEOPLE” SHOWED US HOW THE ESTABLISHMENT TREATS HEROES
JOHN CHUCKMAN COMMENT: YET ANOTHER ROUND OF ATTACKING JEREMY CORBYN FOR SUPPOSED ANTI-SEMITISM IN THE LABOUR PARTY – IT’S BECOME A SICKENINGLY REGULAR PRACTICE AT THE GUARDIAN AND THE INDEPENDENT
JOHN CHUCKMAN COMMENT: AMERICA MAKING “SHITHOLES” OF EVERYTHING IT TOUCHES
JOHN CHUCKMAN COMMENT: WHEN WILL THE SUFFERING OF THE WAR IN YEMEN END?
JOHN CHUCKMAN COMMENT – THE JOE BIDEN SAGA – AMERICA’S ABSOLUTE POVERTY OF CHOICE IN ITS ELECTIONS – A CHOICE BETWEEN A SMILING KILLER AND A SCOWLING KILLER SUMS UP AMERICAN DEMOCRACY
JOHN CHUCKMAN COMMENT: IRAN CONSIDERS TURNING TO RUSSIA AND CHINA WITH TRUMP’S LATEST HELLISH APPOINTMENTS – ISRAEL AND AMERICA JUST WILL NOT LEAVE A PEACEFUL IRAN ALONE
JOHN CHUCKMAN COMMENT: MANUFACTURED EVENTS IN SALISBURY ARE A RESPONSE TO RECENT EVENTS IN SYRIA – PLUS A FASCINATING REPORT ABOUT DOCTOR WHO FOUND THE DAUGHTER AND TREATED HER – NO SIGN OF CHEMICALS LIKE NOVICHOK
JOHN CHUCKMAN COMMENT: WHAT “THE AMERICAN DREAM” WAS REALLY ABOUT – WHY “MAKE AMERICA GREAT AGAIN” IS JUST SILLY – LIVING IN A DREAM FROM 1954 REPRESENTS HUGE DANGERS TO THE WORLD
JOHN CHUCKMAN COMMENT: TRUMP’S NEW APPOINTMENTS STRAIGHT FROM HELL – MAYBE NOW HIS PATHETIC TRUE BELIEVERS WILL REALIZE WHAT A FRAUD HE IS – I FEAR FOR OUR FUTURE
JOHN CHUCKMAN COMMENT: NEW FILM ON WATERGATE’S “DEEP THROAT” (MARK FELT) APPEARS VERY SHORT ON HISTORY – OBSERVATIONS ON THE WATERGATE SCANDAL AND NIXON IMPEACHMENT – WHO WAS REALLY DOING WHAT
JOHN CHUCKMAN COMMENT: THE PUREST ANTI-RUSSIAN PROPAGANDA PUBLISHED IN GUARDIAN – AND CRITICAL COMMENT REMOVED – JUST COMPARE AMERICAN TO RUSSIAN MILITARY FACTS AND COMPARE THE LANGUAGE OF THEIR GOVERNMENTS
JOHN CHUCKMAN COMMENT: BRITISH RECORD OF MISLEADING THE WORLD – THE GUTTER-LEVEL INSULT BY FOREIGN MINISTER BORIS JOHNSON ABOUT HITLER – WHAT RUSSIA SUFFERED FROM HITLER IS UNIMAGINABLE FOR MOST
JOHN CHUCKMAN COMMENT: UNHAPPY ANNIVERSARY OF WARS ON LIBYA AND IRAQ – BOTH BUILT ON LIES AND DECEPTION – THE ONLY CAUSE FOR THE MIDDLE EAST BEING ON FIRE – TRUMP’S DEMONSTRATED COWARDICE HERE – GREAT DANGER AHEAD
JOHN CHUCKMAN COMMENT: GUARDIAN ANTI-PUTIN PROPAGANDA PIECE – WHY NO DEMONSTRATIONS AGAINST PUTIN’S REELECTION AS IN 2012 ? – ANSWERS BOTH SATIRICAL AND FACTUAL TO NONSENSE
JOHN CHUCKMAN COMMENT: BRITISH PRESS JUST WON’T GIVE UP SUPPORTING THEIR RECKLESS PRIME MINISTER’S CLAIMS – EVEN PAPERS POLITICALLY OPPOSED TO HER – HERE’S A TRIVIAL EFFORT FROM ONE
JOHN CHUCKMAN COMMENT: THE GUARDIAN ON BRITAIN’S WEAKENED INTERNATIONAL STANDING WITH BREXIT – WHAT INTERNATIONAL STANDING? WITH A PRIME MINISTER AND FOREIGN MINISTER ACTING LIKE NAME-CALLING CHILDREN?
JOHN CHUCKMAN COMMENT: SILLY OLD BERNIE SANDERS SPOUTING AGAIN – INEQUALITY – I JUST ASK HIM TO LOOK AT THE REALITY OF HIS COUNTRY AND ITS POLITICIANS INCLUDING HIMSELF
JOHN CHUCKMAN COMMENT: SAUDI CROWN PRINCE SALMAN CALLED “CHARMING” ON U.S. VISIT – THAT’S LIKE CALLING RICHARD III CHARMING – HOW MONSTERS GET TO BE CHARMING IN OUR CORPORATE PRESS
JOHN CHUCKMAN COMMENT: ISRAELI SOLDIER WHO KILLED A WOUNDED PALESTINIAN ON THE GROUND HAS FLIMSY SENTENCE REDUCED – WHAT DID THE PALESTINIANS EVER DO TO DESERVE SUCH TREATMENT?
JOHN CHUCKMAN COMMENT: THE COMING OF INTELLIGENT ROBOTS – WILL THEY KILL US OFF?
JOHN CHUCKMAN COMMENT: THE GAME OF “VIOLATING COMMUNITY STANDARDS” ON COMMENT SECTIONS – FURTHER WORDS ON THE GUARDIAN AND WHAT IT REPRESENTS TODAY – CERTAINLY NOT THE LEFT
JOHN CHUCKMAN COMMENT: THE DEEP STATE AND TRUMP – TODAY THEY ENJOY A “BROMANCE” AS FELLOW SWAMP DWELLERS – TRUMP’S PATHETIC FOLLOWERS JUST DO NOT GET IT
JOHN CHUCKMAN COMMENT: NATURE OF TRUMP’S THINKING IN TRADE AND WAR – FROM THE GUT – HE SEEMS NOW SUPPORTED BY DEEP STATE BECAUSE THEY GET WHAT THEY WANT – HE IS VERY DANGEROUS
JOHN CHUCKMAN COMMENT: RUSSIA IS NOT THE ENEMY SAYS A BREXIT SUPPORTER – FIRST PART IS RIGHT BUT A HUGE DILEMMA NOW ARISES OVER ACTUALLY LEAVING EU – AMERICA’S DISTORTION OF THE POLITICAL SPACE
JOHN CHUCKMAN COMMENT: FIFTIETH ANNIVERSARY OF AMERICA’S MY LAI MASSACRE IN VIETNAM – REFLECTIONS ON THAT WAR AND WHAT IT WAS ABOUT – LACK OF ANY LESSONS LEARNED FROM AMERICA’S MEANINGLESS SLAUGHTER
JOHN CHUCKMAN COMMENT: SOME FACTS ABOUT THE NERVE AGENT NOVICHOK WHOSE USE IS FALSELY CLAIMED TO PROVE RUSSIA ATTACKED AN EX-SPY IN BRITAIN – IRRESPONSIBLE UK GOVERNMENT APES THE “TONY BLAIR APPROACH” – NOTE ON TRUMP’S COMPARATIVE QUIET
JOHN CHUCKMAN COMMENT: BORIS JOHNSON – BRITAIN’S FOREIGN MINISTER AND LONG FAMOUS AS AN AMBITIOUS BUFFOON – OUTDOES HIMSELF WITH HIS PUBLIC LIBEL OF PUTIN – “GOING ONE BETTER” AND MAKING HIMSELF PATHETIC
JOHN CHUCKMAN COMMENT: CANADA’S GLOBE AND MAIL JUMPS ON CIA’S PROPAGANDA BANDWAGON FOR A RIDE – SOME HISTORY AND PERSONAL EXPERIENCE OF AMERICAN ATTACKS ON RUSSIAN GAS IN THE EU – WHY IS IT SO?
JOHN CHUCKMAN COMMENT: RUSSIA’S LAVROV SAYS OF COURSE BRITISH DIPLOMATS WILL BE EXPELLED – WHAT BRITAIN’S RECKLESS THERESA MAY IS ACTUALLY DOING STINKS TO HIGH HEAVEN
JOHN CHUCKMAN COMMENT: BERNIE SANDERS AT IT AGAIN – ON CORPORATE PRESS IGNORING THE RISE OF OLIGARCHY – THE MAKE-BELIEVE HERO OF AMERICA’S MAKE-BELIEVE LEFT – HIS OWN RECORD
JOHN CHUCKMAN COMMENT: WOMAN WRITES AUNG SAN SUU KYI SHOULD BE ASHAMED OF WHAT SHE SAW OF THE ROHINGYA IN BANGLADESH – YES BUT SHE AIMS AT THE WRONG TARGET – UN GUTTED AND NOBEL PEACE PRIZE A JOKE – NO ETHICS AND NO HEROES
JOHN CHUCKMAN COMMENT: NOT HARD TO SEE FAR MORE PLAUSIBLE EXPLANATIONS THAN THERESA MAY’S HYSTERICAL ACCUSATIONS OVER SPY-POISONING – A NUMBER OF STRONG CANDIDATES AS CULPRIT
JOHN CHUCKMAN COMMENT: BRITAIN’S THERESA MAY SEEKS INTERNATIONAL CONFIRMATION OF HER IMPLAUSIBLE ACCUSATIONS OVER THE POISONING OF AN EX-RUSSIAN SPY – HERE’S WHAT THAT MEANS IN TODAY’S WORLD AND WHAT IT IS WORTH
JOHN CHUCKMAN COMMENT: TRUMP AND TRUDEAU AND THE NAFTA TRADE TALKS – THE STRENGTH OF TRUMP’S IRRATIONAL APPROACH WHEN HE HEADS THE LARGEST ECONOMY
JOHN CHUCKMAN COMMENT: BRITAIN’S THERESA MAY ACTS AGAINST RUSSIANS WITH ABSOLUTELY NO EVIDENCE – NOW WHY WOULD SHE DO THAT?
JOHN CHUCKMAN COMMENT: IS THE LUNATIC TEAM OF TRUMP AND NETANYAHU PREPARING FOR WAR WITH IRAN?
JOHN CHUCKMAN COMMENT: THE REAL DANGER REPRESENTED BY THE REX TILLERSON FIRING – TRUMP EMBRACING NETANYAHU’S SICK DESIRE FOR WAR WITH IRAN?
JOHN CHUCKMAN COMMENT: THERESA MAY ATTACKS RUSSIA WITH NO EVIDENCE – ASSASSINATIONS MAKE GOOD PROPAGANDA BECAUSE MOST PEOPLE ARE APPALLED BY THEM – A RAIN OF DUMB COMMENTS ON PUTIN
JOHN CHUCKMAN COMMENT: OBSERVATIONS ON THE FILM 2001 REACHING 50 YEARS OLD – WHY STANLEY KUBRICK ITS GREAT DIRECTOR WAS NOT LIKED BY THE AMERICAN ESTABLISHMENT
JOHN CHUCKMAN COMMENT: A TRULY FASCINATING NEW BIT IN THE WHOLE TRUMP-AND-THE-RUSSIANS AMERICAN POLITICAL PAGEANT – RAZOR-SHARP QUESTION FROM MEGYN KELLY PUT TO PRESIDENT PUTIN SUGGESTS REAL POSSIBILITIES
JOHN CHUCKMAN COMMENT: THE REAL REASON FOR PUTIN’S “NEW WEAPONS” SPEECH – TO REACH THE PEOPLE WHO ACTUALLY MAKE U. S. DECISIONS – A PRIVILEGED GROUP INSULATED FROM ITS PEOPLE AND WHO KEEP ITS PEOPLE INSULATED FROM THE WORLD
JOHN CHUCKMAN COMMENT: GOOGLE ADMITS WORKING FOR CIA’S EXTRAJUDICIAL KILLING PROGRAM – “DO NO EVIL” WENT THE SAME WAY AS “THE BILL OF RIGHTS” – ETHICS OF BIG AMERICAN HI-TECH COMPANIES AS LOW AS THOSE OF AMERICA HERSELF
JOHN CHUCKMAN COMMENT: MORE THOUGHTS ON THE EX-SPY’S ATTEMPTED KILLING IN BRITAIN – THE PRESS’S LACK OF IMAGINATION FROM THE START – JUST SOME OF THE POSSIBLE CAST OF CHARACTERS
JOHN CHUCKMAN COMMENT: TWELVE STANDING OVATIONS FOR NIKKI HALEY AT A CONFERENCE FOR THE SPECIAL INTEREST LOBBY SHE REPRESENTS – HERE’S A “WHAT IF” – WHAT IF EVERY COUNTRY BEHAVED THE WAY ISRAEL DOES? WE’D HAVE WORLDWIDE CHAOS
JOHN CHUCKMAN COMMENT: IN MOST COUNTRIES A MILITARY LEADER WHO GAVE ECONOMIC ADVICE WOULD BE IGNORED OR LAUGHED AT – BUT NOT IN AMERICA
JOHN CHUCKMAN COMMENT: TALK OF A WAVE FOR DEMOCRATS IN 2018 MIDTERM ELECTION IS PREMATURE – REPUBLICANS DOING ALL THEY CAN TO SECURE FUNDS AND FAVORABLE PRESS – DEMOCRATS’ BANK ACCOUNT IS LOW
JOHN CHUCKMAN COMMENT: GREAT INTELLECT DOES NOT PREVENT YOUR BEING POSSESSED BY FOOLISH IDEAS – HAWKING AND KAKU ON MARS – PAST EXAMPLES OF NEWTON AND EINSTEIN
JOHN CHUCKMAN COMMENT: A FEW THOUGHTS ON THE DISCOVERY THAT FORMER RUSSIAN SPY IN BRITAIN WAS POISONED BY A NERVE AGENT – WHO HAS SUCH STUFF? – SOME HISTORY
JOHN CHUCKMAN COMMENT: JUMPING TO CONCLUSIONS OVER AN ILL RUSSIAN SPY IN BRITAIN – PRESS AND GOVERNMENT ARE HIGHLY SELECTIVE ABOUT WHICH CASES THEY CHOOSE TO PAY ATTENTION AND PUBLICIZE
JOHN CHUCKMAN COMMENT: PUTIN IN AN INTERVIEW REJECTS THE IDEA OF A NEW COLD WAR – BUT IT SURE LOOKS LIKE POWERFUL AMERICAN INTERESTS WANT ONE – COMPLICATIONS TO GOOD RELATIONS FROM NEOCONS AND ISRAEL
JOHN CHUCKMAN COMMENT: TRULY INSINCERE WORDS ABOUT A THREAT TO LIBERAL DEMOCRACY – WORDS THAT SERVE A DIFFERENT AGENDA THAN THEY CLAIM – THE AGENDA OF KEEPING TODAY’S ELITES ELITE
JOHN CHUCKMAN COMMENT: MORE ON IVANKA AND JARED ON THEIR WAY OUT OF OVAL OFFICE – WE CAN HOPE SO – BUT THE TRUMP FAITHFUL MISS THE POINT COMPLETELY – ARE THEY REALLY THAT HOPELESSLY DUMB? SEEMS SO
JOHN CHUCKMAN COMMENT: TRUMP CALLS GEORGE BUSH’S IRAQ DECISION THE WORST EVER – TRUE BUT SO WHAT? – TRUMP IS DOING EXACTLY THE SAME THING ON AN EVEN GRANDER SCALE
JOHN CHUCKMAN COMMENT: YET ONE MORE TIME – UNSUPPORTED CHARGES OF ANTI-SEMITISM IN BRITAIN’S LABOUR PARTY – WHY? HERE’S THE REAL REASON
JOHN CHUCKMAN COMMENT: PALACE INTRIGUE IN THE WHITE HOUSE? – NO JUST EVIDENCE OF DONALD TRUMP’S SHEER INCOMPETENCE AND COWARDICE
JOHN CHUCKMAN COMMENT: STEVE BANNON SAYS CHINA PERSIA AND TURKEY ARE FORMING A NEW AXIS OPPOSED TO “CHRISTIAN WEST” – PURE GOBBLEDYGOOK DRIZZLED WITH PREJUDICE
JOHN CHUCKMAN COMMENT: PUTIN’S DEFENSE SPEECH MISINTERPRETED OVER AND OVER BY PRESS – WITHOUT DOUBT DELIBERATELY – THE GUARDIAN DID TWO INACCURATE ARTICLES THE FIRST DAY – CONTEXT IS EVERYTHING
JOHN CHUCKMAN COMMENT: A SOBERING STATEMENT FROM PRESIDENT PUTIN – HE WANTS TO BE SURE THE MEN WORKING HARD IN WASHINGTON TO CREATE A NEW COLD WAR UNDERSTAND WHAT THEY ARE DOING
JOHN CHUCKMAN COMMENT: THE MATTER OF TRUMP’S SELF-DECLARED BRAVERY – A COMEDIAN’S BRILLIANT LINE ABOUT IT – A DETAILED RECORD OF TRUMP’S ACTUAL LIFELONG COWARDICE
JOHN CHUCKMAN COMMENT : NOTHING SPEAKS MORE PLAINLY TO TRUMP’S DANGEROUS INCOMPETENCE THAN THE TALE OF JARED KUSHNER’S HIGHEST-LEVEL SECURITY CLEARANCE (NOW REMOVED) – WHY WAS JONATHAN POLLARD EVER JAILED?
JOHN CHUCKMAN COMMENT: ALL THE TALK OF HORROR IN EAST GHOUTA AND NOT A WORD OF BLAME WHERE IT REALLY BELONGS – WHAT WOULD BRITAIN DO WITH GANGS OF HEAVILY-ARMED MERCENARIES DROPPED INTO A BRITISH CITY?
JOHN CHUCKMAN COMMENT: BRITAIN’S FOREIGN MINISTER JOINS THE STREAM OF LIES ABOUT SYRIA WITH EVENTS IN EAST GHOUTA – LYING FOR THE AMERICAN-ISRAELI-SAUDI ARABIAN AXIS OF TERROR IN THE MIDEAST
JOHN CHUCKMAN COMMENT: MASS MURDER TALKED ABOUT AS “A DIVERSION” – THE PATHETIC STATE OF AMERICAN POLITICAL DISCUSSION – PERHAPS ALL THE CRAZINESS REFLECTS GENUINE FEELINGS OF POWERLESSNESS
JOHN CHUCKMAN COMMENT: WHY THE OFTEN-HEARD EXPRESSION “WE’RE BURNING THROUGH OUR RESOURCES” MAKES VERY LITTLE SENSE
JOHN CHUCKMAN COMMENT: U.S. ARMY’S ILLEGAL MANUFACTURE OF BIO-WEAPONS – AMERICA IS A QUASI-FASCIST STATE – PRESIDENTS HAVE LITTLE MORE ABILITY TO CHANGE THINGS THAN THE QUEEN OF ENGLAND DOES IN BRITAIN
JOHN CHUCKMAN COMMENT: FREE SPEECH DOES INDEED MATTER – BUT AMONG ITS OPPONENTS TODAY WE FIND MAINLINE NEWS ORGANIZATIONS
JOHN CHUCKMAN COMMENT: MOSCOW IS BUILDING A LOT OF CHURCHES – A FEW THOUGHTS
JOHN CHUCKMAN COMMENT: ELECTRIC CARS BEING HYPED AGAIN – IGNORING THEIR CURRENT INABILITY TO DO MOST OF THE JOBS FOR WHICH WE USE CARS AND TRUCKS IN THE FIRST PLACE
JOHN CHUCKMAN COMMENT: AMERICA’S FUN WITH GUNS IS NURSERY SCHOOL FOR THE KILLERS SENT ABROAD – IT’S UNPATRIOTIC TO WHINE OVER SOME COLLATERAL DAMAGE AT HOME – WHY I SUPPORT TRUMP’S BRAINLESS PROPOSAL FOR ARMING TEACHERS
JOHN CHUCKMAN COMMENT: THE WAR IN AFGHANISTAN WAS NONSENSE FROM THE VERY START – SUMMARY OF AMERICA’S ACHIEVEMENTS THERE
JOHN CHUCKMAN COMMENT: JONATHAN FREEDLAND DIPS HIS OAR INTO MOVIE CRITICISM – “THE POST” SHOULD BE BEST PICTURE? – SPIELBERG AS A DIRECTOR – KATHERINE GRAHAM AS A HUMAN – WASHINGTON POST AS A PROPAGANDA OUTLET
JOHN CHUCKMAN COMMENT: THE GUARDIAN’S JONATHAN FREEDLAND ON SYRIA – MORE MOCK HORROR CLAIMS ACTUALLY AIMED AT INCREASING THE AMOUNT OF HORROR – THE REAL CAUSE IS ALWAYS AVOIDED OR LIED ABOUT IN OUR PRESS
JOHN CHUCKMAN COMMENT: HOW USING QUOTES FROM FAMOUS HISTORICAL FIGURES CAN BE SOMETIMES MISLEADING – WHAT THEY SAID WAS NOT ALWAYS HOW THEY LIVED – ORWELL AND JEFFERSON
JOHN CHUCKMAN COMMENT: ARTICLE ON HOW LOCAL AMERICAN GOVERNMENTS USED TO USE INFRASTRUCTURE PROJECTS TO REINFORCE SEGREGATION – TRUE BUT IT LEAVES OUT SOME UNPLEASANT DETAILS
JOHN CHUCKMAN COMMENT: GUARDIAN FRONT-PAGE GLOP – HERE ARE WORDS ABOUT “WOMEN PUSHING BACK IN TELLING THEIR STORIES” – THIS IS THE FEEBLE STUFF A NOW REMARKABLY-ESTABLISHMENT NEWSPAPER USES TO CLAIM ITSELF AS STILL ON THE LEFT
JOHN CHUCKMAN COMMENT: UGH, SILLY OSCAR TALK AGAIN – THE PRESS NEVER TIRES OF THIS ANNUAL HOLLYWOOD SELF-PROMOTION SCHEME HAVING ALMOST NO RELATIONSHIP TO MERIT
JOHN CHUCKMAN COMMENT: AMONG THE PITIFUL TRENDS IN MODERN ELEMENTARY EDUCATION IS DISDAIN FOR LEARNING TIMES TABLES – HERE’S A BRITISH JOURNALIST PRAISING SUCH NONSENSE
JOHN CHUCKMAN COMMENT: THE GUARDIAN’S DEVOTION TO OFFERING CHEAP QUICK SELF-HELP ARTICLES BY PEOPLE PROMOTING THEIR OWN BUSINESSES INSTEAD OF NEWS – THE CASE OF OFFICE POLITICS
JOHN CHUCKMAN COMMENT: A FEW REFLECTIONS ON THE DEATH OF REVEREND BILLY GRAHAM
JOHN CHUCKMAN COMMENT: ARGUING UTTERLY WITHOUT LOGIC ABOUT GUN CONTROL IN AMERICA – MOST PITIFUL OF ALL IS THE “PATRIOTS-VERSUS-TYRANTS” NONSENSE – TAKE A LOOK AT AMERICA’S REALITY
JOHN CHUCKMAN COMMENT: THE RUSSIAN ELECTION-INTERFERENCE REALITY-TV SHOW CONTINUES WITH SILLY MUELLER CHARGES – THE REAL ISSUES HERE HAVE LITTLE TO DO WITH POLITICS AND ARE FAR MORE OMINOUS
JOHN CHUCKMAN COMMENT: ONE OF MY MOST ADMIRED PEOPLE COVER THEMSELVES WITH SHAME UNDER AMERICAN INFLUENCE – DUTCH F. M. RESIGNS OVER HIS LIE ABOUT HEARING PUTIN MAKE THREATS – THE DIRTY INVESTIGATION OF FLIGHT MH-17
JOHN CHUCKMAN COMMENT: ISRAEL’S WAR WITH BDS CONTINUES – PEACEFUL PROTEST AGAINST OPPRESSIVE GOVERNMENT IS GREETED WITH MORE OPPRESSION – THE CASE OF EFFORTS TO CANCEL THE SINGER LORDE’S SHOW – REALITIES OF GAZA SUMMARIZED IN RESPONSE TO PAID ISRAELI COMMENTS
JOHN CHUCKMAN COMMENT: THE ISRAEL LOBBY AS WITH ALL OF WASHINGTON’S LOBBIES AND CORRUPT CAMPAIGN-FINANCING IS A SELF-INFLICTED WOUND BY AMERICA’S OWN POLITICIANS WHO HAVE NO INCENTIVE FOR CHANGE
JOHN CHUCKMAN COMMENT: THE ILLUMINATI, DEEP STATE, WHATEVER – JUST NEW NAMES FOR THE ANCIENT AND ENDURING RULE OF WEALTH – WE IN FACT HAVE THE TRAPPINGS OF DEMOCRACY BUT NOT DEMOCRACY
JOHN CHUCKMAN COMMENT: THE SILLINESS OF MOVIE ACTORS GIVING POLITICAL ADVICE – YET THE MOST DANGEROUS THING BY FAR AMERICA HAS DONE IS JUST IGNORED BY OPINIONATED ACTORS AND ALL OF THE CONGRESS – NUCLEAR POSTURE REVIEW
JOHN CHUCKMAN COMMENT: ADVOCATING INTERNET CENSORSHIP IS ALWAYS DANGEROUS – AND OFTEN ADVOCATED BY PEOPLE YOU WOULD NOT TRUST TO ENTER THE FRONT DOOR OF YOUR HOME – REAL PROBLEMS LIKE FACEBOOK’S SMARMY ETHICS IGNORED
JOHN CHUCKMAN COMMENT: WHAT ISRAEL’S “FEAR” OF IRAN IS REALLY ABOUT – DISQUIETING PARALLEL WITH NAZI GERMANY’S PROPAGANDA ABOUT RUSSIA BEFORE ATTACKING IT IN HISTORY’S GREATEST SLAUGHTER – AND WHEN WILL THE MIDDLE EAST STOP PAYING THE PRICE FOR WHAT GERMANY DID TO ANOTHER GERMANIC PEOPLE?
JOHN CHUCKMAN COMMENT: AMERICA’S FORMER PRESIDENT MONKEY-BRAIN SPEAKS OUT ON RUSSIAN ELECTION MEDDLING
JOHN CHUCKMAN COMMENT: A PALESTINIAN PEACE NEGOTIATOR WISELY TELLS NIKKI HALEY TO “SHUT UP” – AMERICA SUPPORTING DICTATORS AND AGGRESSION
JOHN CHUCKMAN COMMENT: AMERICA’S “BEVERLY HILLBILLIES” PRESIDENT ASKS FOR A BIG MILITARY PARADE IN WASHINGTON
JOHN CHUCKMAN COMMENT: I AM AMAZED AT HOW SOME AMERICANS GET SO WORKED UP ONLY NOW ABOUT AN FBI THAT HAS ALWAYS BEEN POLITICAL AND CORRUPT – AMERICA’S STASI
JOHN CHUCKMAN COMMENT: MORE ON TRUDEAU’S DREADFUL APPOINTMENT OF CHYSTIA FREELAND AS FOREIGN MINISTER – NAZI AND AMERICAN IMPERIAL CONNECTIONS WITH AN UGLY MOUTH
JOHN CHUCKMAN COMMENT: TERRIFIC EXAMPLE OF REALLY DUMB WRITING TO DEFEND AMERICAN PROPAGANDA INTERESTS – THE TWO KOREAS SHOULD SOLVE THEIR PROBLEMS WITHOUT INTERFERENCE
JOHN CHUCKMAN COMMENT: TONY BLAIR SAID TO HAVE WARNED DAVID CAMERON ABOUT “DEEP STATE” – BUT WHAT HE MEANT BY THAT WAS JUST THE CIVIL SERVICE – BLAIR AND CAMERON LOYAL SERVANTS OF THE GENUINE DEEP STATE
JOHN CHUCKMAN COMMENT: AMERICA’S SECRETARY OF STATE EXPORTING HOT AIR TO MEXICO – “RUSSIAN MEDDLING” – AMERICA’S IS A GOVERNMENT OF CHAOS
JOHN CHUCKMAN COMMENT: GUARDIAN ATTACKS A PROFESSOR FOR EXACTLY WHAT IT DOES REGULARLY – ESPOUSE “PSEUDO-THEORIES” AND “PSEUDO-FACTS” – TRUTH IN THE PRESS IS RARE STUFF
JOHN CHUCKMAN COMMENT: WASHINGTON’S PRIORITIES ARE NOT ABOUT RESPONSIBLE GOVERNMENT – PLUTOCRACY AND SPECIAL INTERESTS AND EXPLODING NATIONAL DEBT – TRUMP JUST A PART OF “THE SWAMP”
JOHN CHUCKMAN COMMENT: ELON MUSK IS IMAGINATIVE BUT MANY OF HIS PROJECTS ARE GOING TO FAIL – A MAN WHO KNOWS HOW TO PROMOTE HIMSELF – TESLA IS ALREADY CRASHING
JOHN CHUCKMAN COMMENT: A PRETTY UNPLEASANT TOTALLY BLACK BUILDING AT THE KOREAN OLYMPICS – WE SEE THE ARCHITECTURE OF TYRANTS TOO OFTEN AT WORLD FAIRS AND EVENTS
JOHN CHUCKMAN COMMENT: TYPICAL OF AMERICAN POLITICAL CHAOS IS THE NOISE OVER THE “NUNES MEMO” WHICH TELLS US VERY LITTLE – THE FBI HAS ALWAYS BEEN POLITICAL AND CORRUPT – TRUMP BEING RE-ELECTED IN 2020?
JOHN CHUCKMAN COMMENT: IN DISCUSSING PUTIN’S COMING ELECTION WE GET THE INEVITABLE AND UTTERLY IGNORANT COMPARISON WITH HITLER’S POPULARITY – THE FACTS ABOUT HITLER’S RISE TO POWER
JOHN CHUCKMAN COMMENT: PEOPLE TRYING TO CONTROL THE RELIGIOUS DRESS OF OTHERS – A COMPLETELY INAPPROPRIATE THING TO ADVOCATE AIMED REGULARLY ONLY AT MUSLIMS – THE CASE OF THE HIJAB
JOHN CHUCKMAN COMMENT: GENUINE PHILANTHROPY VERSUS THE AMERICAN FOUNDATION MODEL – THE CASE OF BILL GATES WHOSE LIFE SUGGESTS ANYTHING BUT A GENEROUS SPIRIT
JOHN CHUCKMAN COMMENT: AMERICA’S NEW NUCLEAR POSTURE REVIEW – AMERICA DECLARES ITSELF GOD’S CHOSEN – SUMMARY OF AMERICA’S DEADLY RECORD AND ITS UNFITNESS TO HANDLE SUCH POWER – THE TRUTH ABOUT TRUMP
JOHN CHUCKMAN COMMENT: TAKING DOWN A VICTORIAN PAINTING OF WATER NYMPHS – THE KIND OF INEPT STUFF OFFICIALS DO WHILE REAL CRIMES INVOLVING HUMAN SEXUALITY GO UNTOUCHED AS ALWAYS
JOHN CHUCKMAN COMMENT: MIKE PENCE IN ISRAEL – MIXING ANCIENT MUMBO-JUMBO WITH MODERN IMPERIALISM AND NUCLEAR WEAPONS
JOHN CHUCKMAN COMMENT: AMERICAN ANTI-MISSILE TEST FAILS – THERE IS MAINLY A HISTORY OF FAILING – WHY THE SYSTEM IS NOT USED IN A REAL PUBLIC SITUATION
JOHN CHUCKMAN COMMENT: STATE OF THE UNION SPEECH – ANECDOTE ABOUT THOMAS JEFFERSON WHO REFUSED TO GIVE ONE – A STRANGE AND DISTURBING MAN WHEN YOU KNOW HIM
JOHN CHUCKMAN COMMENT: ARTICLE ASKS WHAT’S WRONG WITH LIBERAL JEWS? – ANSWER REALLY IS THAT THERE ARE NONE ANYMORE – NO ROOM FOR HUMAN VALUES AND PRINCIPLES IN THE WORK OF BRUTAL EMPIRE – ISRAEL AND AMERICA TODAY HATE LIBERALS
JOHN CHUCKMAN COMMENT: TRUMP’S STATE OF THE UNION SPEECH – HE SHOULD HAVE BEEN LAUGHED OUT OF THE ROOM – A WORD ON FOREIGN AID
JOHN CHUCKMAN COMMENT: REDESIGNING BRITAIN’S ARMED FORCES WHILE IGNORING THE ELEPHANT IN THE ROOM ? – THE GIGANTIC WASTE OF TRIDENT NUCLEAR MISSILE SUBS
JOHN CHUCKMAN COMMENT: UNINFORMED SILLINESS (OR PERHAPS PROPAGANDA) FROM THE GUARDIAN ABOUT ENDANGERED WESTERN DEMOCRACIES – WHAT DEMOCRACIES?
JOHN CHUCKMAN COMMENT: PRETENDING OSCARS AND OTHER AWARDS COULD EVER REFLECT DARING OR QUALITY – THE NATURE OF SELF-PROMOTING BUREAUCRACIES
JOHN CHUCKMAN COMMENT: HEY AMERICA WHY DON”T YOU TRY DOING SOMETHING WORTHWHILE IN THE WORLD LIKE CHINA’S SILK ROAD INSTEAD OF ALL THAT KILLING? – MORE PENTAGON WHINING ABOUT A RUSSIAN FIGHTER TURNING A SPY PLANE
JOHN CHUCKMAN COMMENT: A NEW BOOK REVEALS THE APPALLING RECORD OF ISRAEL’S USE OF ASSASSINATION – ONLY ADDING TO THE DREARY WEIGHT OF EVIDENCE WE ALREADY HAVE OF CONTEMPT FOR LAW RESEMBLING THE MAFIA’S
JOHN CHUCKMAN COMMENT: MORE ON HOLOCAUST MEMORIAL DAY – DANGER THE FAR RIGHT? – THE DANGER IS OUR IGNORING TOLERANCE AND DECENCY – ALSO RUSSIA’S UNBELIEVABLE AND FORGOTTEN WW II LOSSES AND OUR TREATMENT OF RUSSIA EVER SINCE
JOHN CHUCKMAN COMMENT: ON HOLOCAUST MEMORIAL DAY – WHAT WE REALLY NEED TO REMEMBER – WHY YOU CANNOT ACTUALLY REPEAT HISTORY – EXTREMISTS OF EVERY KIND – THE MASS KILLING OF THE NEOCON WARS
JOHN CHUCKMAN COMMENT: NONSENSE ABOUT THE FBI AND TRUMP FROM A GUARDIAN WRITER – THE FBI HAS BEEN INVOLVED IN INAPPROPRIATE ELECTION BEHAVIOR – BUT THAT’S NOTHING NEW FOR THIS SHABBY OUTFIT
JOHN CHUCKMAN COMMENT: MORE AMERICAN INSANITY OVER THE SIMPLE GESTURE OF KNEELING FOR THE NATIONAL ANTHEM – “THOSE WHOM THE GODS WISH TO DESTROY THEY FIRST MAKE MAD”
JOHN CHUCKMAN COMMENT: A FEW BRAVE ISRAELI PILOTS WON’T FLY REFUGEES OUT – RESPONSE TO A BLIND CHARGE ABOUT HOW IRRATIONAL COMMENTS BECOME AT THE MENTION OF ISRAEL – WHY ISRAEL DISTURBS
JOHN CHUCKMAN COMMENT: WHAT IS MIKE PENCE DOING IN ISRAEL? – HERE IS HOW THE AMERICAN ISRAEL LOBBY WORKS AND WHAT IT WORKS TOWARDS
JOHN CHUCKMAN COMMENT: A GENUINE AMERICAN GROTESQUE IN “RUSSIA EXPERT” MICHAEL MCFAUL – AND THE NATURE OF ALL THOSE AMERICAN PRIVATE “INSTITUTES” PASSING FOR ACADEMIC INSTITUTIONS
JOHN CHUCKMAN COMMENT: AN ARTICLE ABOUT INSIDE A CONTROL CENTER FOR AMERICA’S INDUSTRIAL -SCALE EXTRAJUDICIAL KILLING – IT AIN’T WAR IT IS ORGANIZED MURDER
JOHN CHUCKMAN COMMENT: PREACH AGAINST LEFT-HANDEDNESS – THAT IS WHAT CHURCHES AND ORGANIZATIONS EFFECTIVELY DO WHEN THEY GO ON ABOUT HOMOSEXUALITY
JOHN CHUCKMAN COMMENT: WRITER CALLS LYNDON JOHNSON A POLITICAL HERO – IN FACT HE WAS THE MOST DEMONIC MAN EVER IN THE OVAL OFFICE – DESPITE LOTS OF COMPETITION
JOHN CHUCKMAN COMMENT: TRUMP AND THAT BOOK – THE SILLY ATTEMPTS OF TRUMP STALWARTS TO ATTACK WHAT IS ESSENTIALLY AN HONEST BOOK DOCUMENTING TRUMP’S WEIRD CHARACTER
JOHN CHUCKMAN COMMENT: ONE OF THE IMPACTS OF TECHNOLOGY MAY BE INCREASING THE GAP IN PAY BETWEEN MEN AND WOMEN – AN INTERESTING OBSERVATION BUT BADLY PHRASED
JOHN CHUCKMAN COMMENT: GENERALS RESTARTING THE NUCLEAR ARMS RACE WHILE TRUMP GLEEFULLY TWEETS – OBSERVATIONS ON LEVELS OF SPENDING BY THE PENTAGON AND THE CIA
JOHN CHUCKMAN COMMENT: ANOTHER “HOW HOW GRAND THINGS WOULD BE IF ONLY TRUMP WERE GONE” WRITER COMPLETELY MISSES THE CURRENT REALITIES OF AMERICA
JOHN CHUCKMAN COMMENT: ANOTHER HOPEFUL CLEAN-ENERGY DREAMER – THIS ONE SAYING HYDROGEN-POWERED CARS ARE THE FUTURE
JOHN CHUCKMAN COMMENT: AN ACTOR DOING SHAKESPEARE’S JULIUS CAESAR SEES COMPARISONS WITH TRUMP
JOHN CHUCKMAN COMMENT: AN AMERICAN PROFESSOR OFFERS A RECORD-SETTING DUMB ARTICLE ABOUT TRUMP AND AMERICA AND THE MAINSTREAM PRESS
JOHN CHUCKMAN COMMENT: TRUMP-STYLE POPULISM GIVES MURDEROUS LEADERS FREE REIN SAYS REPORT – IT JUST DOES NOT GET MORE DANGEROUSLY SILLY AND IGNORANT THAN THIS – AMERICA’S RECORD
JOHN CHUCKMAN COMMENT: WHY TRUMP CONTINUES HIS ANTI-IRAN CAMPAIGN WHICH RISKS DESTABILIZING THE MIDDLE EAST
JOHN CHUCKMAN COMMENT: SOME COMPARISONS BETWEEN THE OLD BRITISH EMPIRE AND TODAY’S AMERICAN ONE
JOHN CHUCKMAN COMMENT: POLL SHOWS JOE BIDEN FAR MORE POPULAR THAN OPRAH WINFREY AS 2020 DEMOCRATIC CANDIDATE – HOPELESS STATE OF AMERICAN POLITICS
JOHN CHUCKMAN COMMENT: PRESIDENT ABBAS MAKES A SPEECH ANGERING MANY ISRAELIS – BUT WHAT HE SAID WAS ONLY THE KERNEL OF A TRUTH ABOUT MODERN ISRAEL ALWAYS IGNORED BY OUR PRESS AND POLITICS
JOHN CHUCKMAN COMMENT: A WRITER CLAIMS NUCLEAR DETERRENCE IS A MYTH – WHY I THINK HE IS WRONG ALTHOUGH I WISH I COULD AGREE
JOHN CHUCKMAN COMMENT: SOME THOUGHTS ON THE GUARDIAN’S NEW LOOK AND TABLOID FORMAT
JOHN CHUCKMAN COMMENT: THE GUARDIAN’S SPECIAL PLACE FOR STEVEN SPIELBERG (AKA THE P. T. BARNUM OF FILM)
JOHN CHUCKMAN COMMENT: FORMER RIGHT-HAND MAN SPEAKS OF OBAMA’S REMARKABLE “SERENITY” – BUT THERE IS A FAR MORE REALISTIC AND FAR LESS EXALTED INTERPRETATION
JOHN CHUCKMAN COMMENT: TRUMP’S “SHITHOLE” REMARK – FOR AN AMERICAN GOVERNMENT WHICH COMMITS COUNTLESS CRIMES AND IS MIRED IN CORRUPTION HERE IS THE FINAL CORRUPTION EVEN OF SPEECH FILLED WITH CONTEMPT FOR OTHERS
JOHN CHUCKMAN COMMENT: PSYCHIATRISTS PROMOTING THE IDEA OF TRUMP AS A SECURITY RISK PLAY A DANGEROUS GAME – ON MY FAVORITE CBC RADIO SCIENCE SHOW ONE OF THEM MAKES A BAD IMPRESSION AND AN OBVIOUS ERROR
JOHN CHUCKMAN COMMENT: NEW DISCOVERY OF LARGE SUBSURFACE ICE SHEET ON MARS – BUT ENTHUSIASM OVER ITS IMPLICATION FOR FUTURE ASTRONAUTS IS A BIT SILLY
JOHN CHUCKMAN COMMENT: YET AGAIN AN AMERICAN SOLDIER VIDEOED COMMITTING AN ATROCITY IN AFGHANISTAN – BORED PSYCHOPATHS LIKE URBAN GANGS WITH GUNS DUMPED INTO SOMEONE ELSE’S HOME
JOHN CHUCKMAN COMMENT: PUTTING A FOOTPRINT ON MARS IN 15 YEARS? LIKELY THE MOST WASTEFUL PROPOSED SCIENCE PROJECT WE COULD IMAGINE
JOHN CHUCKMAN COMMENT: THE DREADFUL PLANS FOR OBAMA’S PRESIDENTIAL “LIBRARY” IN CHICAGO – THIS WILL BE AN ALMOST POINTLESS INSTITUTION AND AN ENDURING EYESORE – PERHAPS SYMBOLIC OF THIS STRANGE MAN
JOHN CHUCKMAN COMMENT: STUPID WORDS FROM A STUPID PUBLICITY-SEEKING ACTOR ABOUT A STUPID PRESIDENT STUPIDLY PUBLISHED IN THE INDEPENDENT
JOHN CHUCKMAN COMMENT: ULTRA-ORTHODOX COMMUNITY TO MOVE FROM LONDON TO COAST OF ESSEX – SOME OBSERVATIONS ABOUT SUCH COMMUNITIES AND THE PROBLEMS WHICH CAN FOLLOW THEM
JOHN CHUCKMAN COMMENT: HERE IS HUMAN RIGHTS PORNOGRAPHY FROM THE GUARDIAN IN THE GUISE OF LIGHT HUMAN INTEREST STORY FROM SAUDI ARABIA
JOHN CHUCKMAN COMMENT: CALL IT PROPAGANDA OR JOURNALISTIC PORN OR JUST FAKE – HERE IS A GUARDIAN EXAMPLE OF APPALLING WORDS WHICH SHOULD NEVER HAVE BEEN PUBLISHED
JOHN CHUCKMAN COMMENT: THE GOLDEN GLOBE SPECTACLE – ALMOST A PERFECT ALLEGORY FOR AMERICA’S BIZARRE AND VIOLENT CHARACTER – MURDEROUS MR. HYDE AND THEN A BRIEF SMILE FROM A KINDLY DR. JEKYLL
JOHN CHUCKMAN COMMENT: HERE IS HOW CHEAP SCARE PROPAGANDA WORKS: TAKE A GRAIN OF TRUTH ABOUT YOUR TARGET AND TELL IT MINUS ALL PERSPECTIVE OR CONTEXT – THE CASE OF NATO AND RUSSIAN WAR GAMES
JOHN CHUCKMAN COMMENT: AMERICA’S CLOWN AMBASSADOR AT THE UNITED NATIONS – BUT WHAT ELSE WOULD THE FIRST CLOWN PRESIDENT APPOINT?
JOHN CHUCKMAN COMMENT: WE DISCOVER WHY TRUMP EATS MCDONALD’S HAMBURGERS – WHAT TRUMP REALLY IS – REFLECTIONS ON AMERICA’S CURRENT POLITICAL SYSTEM
JOHN CHUCKMAN COMMENT: ON CLEOPATRA’S NOSE AND CONCEPT OF BEAUTIFUL-UGLY – WHY THE GUARDIAN PUBLISHES SO MUCH EMOTIONAL SLUSH
JOHN CHUCKMAN COMMENT: BACK TO 1970’S HIPPIES – NEW DIRECTOR OF BRITISH SHAKESPEARE’S GLOBE THEATRE WANTS PLAYS PUT ON DEMOCRATICALLY – THAT AIN’T HOW CREATIVE ARTS WORK
JOHN CHUCKMAN COMMENT: ADDITIONAL ANALYSIS OF THE AMERICAN-ISRAELI RELATIONSHIP – MORE ON THE TRUE NATURE OF TODAY’S ISRAEL AND ITS FUTURE PROSPECTS – A COLONY MUCH LIKE FRANCE’S ALGERIA
JOHN CHUCKMAN COMMENT: FRANCE’S PRESIDENT MACRON AND FAKE NEWS – THE IMPORT OF A SHABBY AMERICAN IDEA BY A RATHER SHABBY PRESIDENT OF FRANCE
JOHN CHUCKMAN COMMENT: JAPAN’S PRIME MINISTER ABE MAKING OMINOUS PRONOUNCEMENTS ABOUT DANGER FROM NORTH KOREA – WHAT THIS MIGHT SIGNAL
JOHN CHUCKMAN COMMENT: NETANYAHU’S EFFORTS TO GET RID OF AFRICAN MIGRANTS IN ISRAEL
JOHN CHUCKMAN COMMENT: A COLUMNIST SAYS HE DOESN’T KNOW WHY PEOPLE DON’T VOTE – HERE’S JUST A PARTIAL LIST OF REASONS
JOHN CHUCKMAN COMMENT: NEVER MIND IRAN – THERE’S A VAST AND TERRIBLE HISTORY OF RIOTS AND QUELLING RIOTS IN AMERICA’S PAST
JOHN CHUCKMAN COMMENT: FURTHER TO TRUMP’S DUMB COMMENTS ON IRAN – PERSPECTIVE ON NUMBERS IN PRISONS – AMERICA VERSUS IRAN OR ANYWHERE
JOHN CHUCKMAN COMMENT: TRUMP’S JUST PLAIN DUMB COMMENTS ON DEMONSTRATIONS IN IRAN – WHY HE MAKES THEM AND WHY THE DEMONSTRATIONS ARE HAPPENING
JOHN CHUCKMAN COMMENT: THE USE OF LANGUAGE BY SOME GUARDIAN NEWSPAPER WRITERS IS TIRESOME AND RATHER OFFENSIVE – THE CASE OF “TOXIC MASCULINITY”
JOHN CHUCKMAN COMMENT: WHAT IS DEEPLY AILING THE UNITED STATES AND WHY IT IS UNLIKELY ANY ELECTION OR NEW LEADER CAN CHANGE IT
JOHN CHUCKMAN COMMENT: TRUMP-HUNTING – BUT WHO CARES WHETHER THIS PATHETIC MAN IS REMOVED FROM OFFICE NOW? – HIS RECORD OF JUST ONE YEAR IS APPALLING – LIAR OR COWARD? – I’M PRETTY SURE IT’S COWARD – WHY?
JOHN CHUCKMAN COMMENT: THE TIRESOME INCLUSION OF FACEBOOK IN DISCUSSION OF TECHNOLOGY OR INNOVATION – IN FACT THE FACE OF BIG BROTHER IN A GREY T-SHIRT WITH A BLAND SMILE
JOHN CHUCKMAN COMMENT: THE GUARDIAN NEWSPAPER PROVES THE WOMEN’S CHRISTIAN TEMPERANCE MOVEMENT HAS STILL NOT DIED
JOHN CHUCKMAN COMMENT: ARTICLE SAYS IT WAS A GOOD YEAR FOR ISRAEL – AMERICA’S DANGEROUSLY-ENTANGLED RELATIONSHIP WITH ISRAEL IS LARGELY SELF-INFLICTED THROUGH FINANCE AND LOBBYING LAWS – SOME KEY HISTORY IN THE RELATIONSHIP
JOHN CHUCKMAN COMMENT: AMERICA’S ISIS PROPAGANDA CONTINUES – ISIS IS JUST AMERICA’S NEW WAY TO FIGHT ITS UGLY COLONIAL WARS – THE METHOD WAS DISCOVERED USING OTHER ACTORS IN AFGHANISTAN – NOW IT RETURNS THERE WITH A TWIST
JOHN CHUCKMAN COMMENT: THE PROBLEM IS NOT TRUMP, IT IS THE TRUMP IN ALL AMERICANS – AN ACCURATE OBSERVATION FROM AN UNEXPECTED SOURCE – BUT THERE IS NO SOLUTION
JOHN CHUCKMAN COMMENT: MORE ON NORTH KOREA AND NUCLEAR WEAPONS – WHAT DEITY DECLARED WHO SHOULD AND SHOULD NOT HAVE THEM? THE ELEPHANT IN THE ROOM: ISRAEL
JOHN CHUCKMAN COMMENT: THE MUELLER INVESTIGATION AND ITS REAL PURPOSES – A SUCCESS JUDGED IN THOSE TERMS – TRUMP’S TRULY SICKENING EFFORTS FOR HIS BASE AND TO WIN OVER ELITES: APING GEORGE BUSH
JOHN CHUCKMAN COMMENT: NOTE ON NEW RUSSIAN HIGH-SPEED TRAINS – PUTIN’S REMARKABLE ATTENTION TO DETAIL IN HIS COUNTRY – NOTE ON AMERICA’S LONG-DISTANCE RAIL VERSUS HIGHWAY
JOHN CHUCKMAN COMMENT: ANOTHER DUMP-TRUCK LOAD OF FILL ON MEAGHAN MARKLE AND LOOPY PRINCE HARRY’S UPCOMING WEDDING – IS IT POSSIBLE SHE IS JUST AS BONKERS AS HE IS? – PICKING A DRESS FROM ISRAEL AT THIS TIME?
JOHN CHUCKMAN COMMENT: GUARDIAN EDITORIAL SAYS IDEA OF “HERESY” WAS LEFT BEHIND BY REFORMATION – HOW VERY WRONG – HERESY YOU HAVE WITH YOU ALWAYS – ONLY THE DETAILS CHANGE
JOHN CHUCKMAN COMMENT: WHERE TRUMP’S ODD AND COWARDLY PSYCHOLOGY IS TAKING US IN AN AMERICA WHOSE ESTABLISHMENT ALREADY WAS WORKING OVERTIME TO INTIMIDATE THE WORLD
JOHN CHUCKMAN COMMENT: SOME THOUGHTS AND PERSPECTIVE ON THE SEARCH FOR ALIEN LIFE IN SPACE
JOHN CHUCKMAN COMMENT: AMERICA’S EXTRAJUDICIAL KILLING PROGRAM EXPANDS IN TIME FOR THE HOLIDAYS – GOOD GOD AMERICA HAS FALLEN INTO ONE OF THE LOWER PITS OF HELL
JOHN CHUCKMAN COMMENT: BORIS JOHNSON IN RUSSIA – LIKE SENDING AN INSULTING CHILD TO SPEND SOME TIME WITH REAL ADULTS
JOHN CHUCKMAN COMMENT: AMERICA’S WANNABE PRINCESS AND HER UNBALANCED USELESS PRINCE FIANCE – MONARCHY COMES TO RESEMBLE A MONTY PYTHON SKIT
JOHN CHUCKMAN COMMENT: HOW TO WRITE AN ILLOGICAL ARTICLE – NATALIE NOUGAYREDE BEGS THE QUESTION ON SO-CALLED EUROPEAN ANTI-SEMITISM – AMAZINGLY MY COMMENT IS NOT REMOVED – OTHER HATREDS ACTIVELY NOW PROMOTED BY THE PRESS
JOHN CHUCKMAN COMMENT: FLAKY NOTIONS AT THE GUARDIAN ABOUT THE LATEST STAR WARS FILM AS “CHAMPION OF THE GRASSROOTS” – THE REALITY FOR THE ENTIRE SERIES IS VIRTUALLY THE OPPOSITE – IT IS THE PUREST AMERICAN IMPERIAL PROPAGANDA
JOHN CHUCKMAN COMMENT: A GREAT MANY MODERN PHDs BEAR NO RESEMBLANCE TO JEAN-PAUL SARTRE’S CONCEPT OF AN INTELLECTUAL – THEY ARE PRODUCTS OF A FACTORY SYSTEM
JOHN CHUCKMAN COMMENT: MY EXPLANATION TO RUSSIAN PEOPLE OF JUSTIN TRUDEAU’S UNFRIENDLY ACTS – HE IS WEAKER THAN HIS FATHER – BUT THE AMERICA WITH WHICH HE DEALS IS INSANELY VIOLENT AS NEVER BEFORE
JOHN CHUCKMAN COMMENT: OH WILL THE TIRESOME NONSENSE OF STAR WARS EVER END – BUT THE SERIES HAS ONE TRUTH IN DARTH VADER AS SYMBOL FOR AMERICA TODAY
JOHN CHUCKMAN COMMENT: AMERICAN SLUMS AND SQUALOR CAN SHOCK EUROPEANS – BUT IT AIN’T NEW AND IT AIN’T TRUMP – WASHINGTON FOR DECADES HAS IGNORED ITS PEOPLE WHILE IT SPENDS TIME AND RESOURCES ON KILLING FOR EMPIRE
JOHN CHUCKMAN COMMENT: NEW PHONY BOOK ON TRUMP AND RUSSIA – WHAT’S REALLY GOING ON WITH ALL THE MUMBO-JUMBO INSANITY IN AMERICA? THE REAL TARGET AIN’T TRUMP – NEOCONS AND RUSSIA
JOHN CHUCKMAN COMMENT: THE IDEA OF SURVEILLANCE THAT NEVER ENDS – IN AMERICA THAT’S NOT A THREAT BUT A PROMISE – MORE DARK STUFF FOR YOUR CHILDREN’S FUTURE – A DRIVE TO CONTROL EVERYTHING – IKE’S WARNING
JOHN CHUCKMAN COMMENT: FURTHER THOUGHTS ON THE KENNEDY ASSASSINATION – SOMEONE SUGGESTS THE INVOLVEMENT OF ISRAEL – A REAL POSSIBILITY – BUT CIA STILL IS INVOLVED
JOHN CHUCKMAN COMMENT: SOMEONE WRITES “INEQUALITY IS NOT INEVITABLE” – THEY ARE WRONG BUT THERE IS STILL AN IMPORTANT ROLE FOR GOVERNMENT
JOHN CHUCKMAN COMMENT: PERSPECTIVE ON THE LOSS OF TRUMP’S CHOICE ROY MOORE IN ALABAMA’S SPECIAL SENATE ELECTION – A LOSS RICH WITH IMPLICATIONS
JOHN CHUCKMAN COMMENT: ANOTHER “DEEP STATE IS AFTER TRUMP” PIECE – THE ALT-RIGHT IS LOADED WITH THIS SILLINESS – WHY WOULD YOU BE AFTER SOMEONE WHO GIVES YOU EVERYTHING?
JOHN CHUCKMAN COMMENT: TRUMP SEEN AS A THREAT TO THE JUDICIAL SYSTEM – BUT THE WRITER IS WARNING US 50 YEARS TOO LATE
JOHN CHUCKMAN COMMENT: ROBERT MUELLER IS HOT ON TRUMP’S TRAIL? A MUCH EXAGGERATED NOTION – BUT I DO THINK OTHER EVENTS MIGHT WELL FINISH TRUMP
JOHN CHUCKMAN COMMENT: THE GUARDIAN DOES ONE OF ITS FEEBLE SEE-HOW-LIBERAL-WE-ARE STUNTS WHILE IGNORING HORRENDOUS OTHER ABUSES
JOHN CHUCKMAN COMMENT: LONDON’S REDOUBTABLE OLD SIMPSON’S IN THE STRAND REDOES THE MENU – LIKE CHURCHILL IN A BEANIE INSTEAD OF A HOMBERG
JOHN CHUCKMAN COMMENT: NOAM CHOMSKY ON THE EFFECT OF ANTIFA ON THE FAR RIGHT IN FACT MIRRORS THE EFFECT OF NOAM CHOMSKY HIMSELF ON ISRAEL’S ABUSE AND CRIME
JOHN CHUCKMAN COMMENT: SERIOUS STUPIDITY OVER THE MATTER OF SEXUAL HARASSMENT – AN EFFORT TO CONFLATE VIOLENT CRIMES AND NASTY MISDEMEANORS WITH THE EMPTY CONCEPT OF HATE-CRIME TOSSED IN
JOHN CHUCKMAN COMMENT: ONLINE ABUSE AN EXCUSE FOR SUPPRESSING FREE SPEECH – GUARDIAN PREACHER OWEN JONES EMBRACES THE CAUSE – GUARDIAN EDITORS DELETE CRITICISM
JOHN CHUCKMAN COMMENT: OBAMA WARNS ABOUT HITLER AND RACISM AND TRUMP – THE HYPOCRITE PREACHER BACK IN FULL FORM – STILL AMERICA’S HISTORY OF HUMAN RIGHTS IS VERY DARK – WHY THERE CAN BE NO RETURN TO “FOUNDING PRINCIPLES”
JOHN CHUCKMAN COMMENT: AMERICA’S LARGE-SCALE AIR DRILLS IN KOREA – EVENTS EASILY CONFUSED OR USED AS AN OPENING FOR AN ATTACK – AMERICA’S FRIGHTENING IDEA OF DIPLOMACY
JOHN CHUCKMAN COMMENT: THE MYTH OF PRECISION AIR STRIKES – YET AMERICA HAS ITS REASONS TO KEEP THE MYTH ALIVE
JOHN CHUCKMAN COMMENT: WHY LIBERALISM ISN’T VERY LIBERAL ANYMORE – ESSENCE OF TRUE LIBERALISM
JOHN CHUCKMAN COMMENT: AMERICA HAS REACHED THE STAGE WHERE ALMOST ANYTHING GOES IN POLITICS – THE CASE OF GENERAL FLYNN
JOHN CHUCKMAN COMMENT: MY LETTER TO JUSTIN TRUDEAU, CANADA’S PRIME MINISTER – WHAT A DISAPPOINTMENT HIS GOVERNMENT IS
JOHN CHUCKMAN COMMENT: WHY TALK OF CORRUPTION IN WASHINGTON’S GOVERNMENT IS BESIDE THE POINT – AND IT IGNORES THE REAL PROBLEM
JOHN CHUCKMAN COMMENT: ON THE POSSIBLE REPLACEMENT AS SECRETARY OF STATE OF REX TILLERSON WITH MIKE POMPEO
JOHN CHUCKMAN COMMENT: BRITISH TALK ABOUT DITCHING THE “SPECIAL RELATIONSHIP” – BUT IN FACT THERE NEVER WAS SUCH A RELATIONSHIP FROM AMERICA’S POINT OF VIEW
JOHN CHUCKMAN COMMENT: THE PROBLEM WITH HILLARY’S OFTEN-QUOTED LINE ABOUT HER HAVING WISHED SHE SAID TO TRUMP IN THE DEBATES “BACK OFF, YOU CREEP”
JOHN CHUCKMAN COMMENT: THE POINTLESSNESS OF FOLLOWING TRUMP’S “TWEETS” – LIKE KEEPING AN EAR TO THE GROUND NEAR A CATTLE RANCH
JOHN CHUCKMAN COMMENT: OBAMA’S UNWARRANTED ARROGANCE PUT ON DISPLAY OVER CLIMATE CHANGE – BUT HE IS RIGHT ON ONE DETAIL
JOHN CHUCKMAN COMMENT: CAN PRINCE HARRY AND MEGHAN MAKE BRITAIN WHOLE AGAIN? – IDIOTIC STUFF FROM BRITAIN ABOUT THE BORING MARRIAGE OF A LOOPY PRINCE AND AN AMBITIOUS AMERICAN ACTRESS
JOHN CHUCKMAN COMMENT: SOME PERSPECTIVE ON NORTH KOREA’S REMARKABLE ACHIEVEMENT OF BUILDING AN ICBM – WHY AMERICA CANNOT SHOOT DOWN SUCH MISSILES WITH ANY CERTAINTY DESPITE CLAIMS
JOHN CHUCKMAN COMMENT: THE ROLE OF MENTAL DISORDERS IN KILLINGS
JOHN CHUCKMAN COMMENT: AUTHORITATIVE REPORT OF HILLARY CLINTON HAVING SOLD NERVE GAS TO TERRORISTS IN SYRIA – A PARTIAL LIST OF AMERICA’S BULLYING – MAYBE NOW WORSE THAN EVER
JOHN CHUCKMAN COMMENT: HOW TO IMPERISH YOUR NATION BY POLITICAL ACTS IN A TIME WHEN ECONOMIES NEED ALL THE HELP THEY CAN GET – EU LEAVING PENALTIES AND AMERICA’S SANCTIONS AGAINST RUSSIA
JOHN CHUCKMAN COMMENT: EUROPE’S EVER-BUOYANT PROPAGANDIST NATALIE NOUGAYREDE IS AT IT AGAIN ON RUSSIA – GUARDIAN’S EDITORS ARE AT IT AGAIN DELETING CRITICAL COMMENTS ON HER
JOHN CHUCKMAN COMMENT: ONCE AGAIN THE MUCH-REPEATED FALSE ARGUMENT ABOUT “THE PROPORTION” OF YOUNG BLACK MEN ARRESTED – IN PROPORTION TO WHAT? IS THE ISSUE
JOHN CHUCKMAN COMMENT: IF AMERICA STARTED ADMITTING ITS CRIMES AS IN SYRIA WHERE WOULD IT STOP? – THE NATURE OF IMPERIAL GOVERNMENT
JOHN CHUCKMAN COMMENT: TITLE OF A COLUMN “AMERICAN MIND MELTS AWAY” IS FUNNY IN LIGHT OF RECENT EVENTS BUT IT MISSES REALITY
JOHN CHUCKMAN COMMENT: BRITISH WRITER ASKS DO WE WANT MARK ZUCKERBERG RUNNING THE WORLD? – OF COURSE NOT, BUT THE QUESTION HIDES A GREAT MANY TRUTHS
JOHN CHUCKMAN COMMENT: WORLD’S MOST BORING COMING EVENT BEING HYPED IN BRITAIN – LOOPY PRINCE THICK AS A TREE TO MARRY INSANELY AMBITIOUS AMERICAN WHO HAS BEEN AROUND THE BLOCK MORE THAN A FEW TIMES
JOHN CHUCKMAN COMMENT: THE ABSOLUTE NONSENSE OF SUGGESTING THAT 54 YEARS AFTER KENNEDY’S ASSASSINATION SIMILAR CIRCUMSTANCES NOW WORK AGAINST TRUMP – WHY KENNEDY ACTUALLY DIED – WHY TRUMP WON’T
JOHN CHUCKMAN COMMENT: IN RESPONSE TO A FILM REVIEW, WHY I WON’T BE GOING TO SEE “DARKEST HOUR” ABOUT WINSTON CHURCHILL AND STARRING GARY OLDMAN
JOHN CHUCKMAN COMMENT: ON TIME MAGAZINE’S “PERSON OF THE YEAR” DISTINCTION AFTER ALL THE SILLINESS ON ALL SIDES ABOUT TRUMP SUPPOSEDLY TURNING IT DOWN
JOHN CHUCKMAN COMMENT: TRYING TO MAKE ANY SENSE OF SINAI MOSQUE ATTACK IS DIFFICULT IF YOU SAY IT WAS BY ISIS – REPRISAL AIR STRIKES AS BRAVADO AND P.R.
JOHN CHUCKMAN COMMENT: MORE ON ISIS (DAESH) – SURPRISE AT AMERICANS OBSERVED ALLOWING ISIS FORCES TO ESCAPE ONLY SHOWS THE CONTINUING IGNORANCE ABOUT WHAT ISIS IS – WE LITERALLY SWIM IN A SEA OF AMERICAN-ISRAELI PROPAGANDA
JOHN CHUCKMAN COMMENT: SEYMOUR HERSH CONFIRMS HILLARY CLINTON AND NERVE GAS SUPPLY TO SYRIAN TERRORISTS – ANOTHER CONCISE RUNDOWN ON WHY CALLING AMERICA THE WORLD’S NUMBER ONE TERRORIST IS SIMPLY NO EXAGGERATION AT ALL
JOHN CHUCKMAN COMMENT: “THE AMERICAN DREAM” IS AN ADVERTISING SLOGAN COMING TO THE END OF ITS USEFUL LIFE – LIKELY NEVER WAS A SLOGAN MORE ABUSED AND UNWARRANTED
JOHN CHUCKMAN COMMENT: THE GUARDIAN KEEPS PROMOTING ITS IMAGINED BILBAO EFFECT – A FAR MORE MODEST AND FITTING BUILDING IN SASKATOON IS DRAGGED INTO THE IDEA – WHAT GUGGENHEIM BILBAO REALLY IS
JOHN CHUCKMAN COMMENT: THE MISTAKES ARCHITECTS REPEAT ON SOME LARGE PROJECTS – LONDON’S NEW FRANCIS CRICK INSTITUTE IS CALLED TOO NOISY TO CONCENTRATE
JOHN CHUCKMAN COMMENT: TRUMP, BASKETBALL, CHINA, SHOPLIFTING, AND MISUSING INFLUENCE – A TIDY SMALL EXAMPLE OF AMERICAN CORRUPTION FROM TOP TO BOTTOM
JOHN CHUCKMAN COMMENT: MICHELLE OBAMA JUMPS ON THE SEX ABUSE BANDWAGON – THE WOMAN WILL SAY ANYTHING FOR A MOMENT AT THE MIC – BUT HER HISTORY SHOULD SHAME HER
JOHN CHUCKMAN COMMENT: JOE BIDEN AS TELEVANGELIST AND AS LIFELONG PHONY POLITICIAN UTTERLY WITHOUT PRINCIPLES – NO ONE IN WASHINGTON GIVES A DAMN ABOUT ORDINARY PEOPLE – NO ONE – AND IT SICKENS YOU WHEN THEY PRETEND
JOHN CHUCKMAN COMMENT: SILLY ARTICLE ABOUT PEOPLE BELIEVING IN FLAT EARTH TURNS INTO JUST MORE CORPORATE PRESS PROPAGANDA AGAINST THE INTERNET AND FREEDOM THERE – LUDDISM FROM THE GUARDIAN
JOHN CHUCKMAN COMMENT: WHY ARE THE GUARDIAN AND THE NEW YORK TIMES PORTRAYING THE NEW SAUDI TYRANT CROWN PRINCE AS A VISIONARY REFORMER? – THE HEART OF THE MATTER
JOHN CHUCKMAN COMMENT: REPORT THAT AMERICANS ARE KILLING THIRTY TIMES THE CIVILIANS THEY CLAIM IN FIGHTING ISIS – AMERICAN RECORD OF KILLING CIVILIANS IN COLONIAL WARS
JOHN CHUCKMAN COMMENT: ON HEARING AN HOUR’S WORTH OF AMERICAN DISINFORMATION ABOUT UKRAINE FROM NATO “EXPERTS” ON CBC RADIO – COMPLETELY INAPPROPRIATE
JOHN CHUCKMAN COMMENT: MORE CRAP ABOUT THE SAUDIS AND 9/11 – THIS TIME FROM A RETIRED FBI AGENT
JOHN CHUCKMAN COMMENT: THE STRANGE BUSINESS OF POLICE AND OFFICIALS IN NEVADA GIVING POOR INFORMATION ON A MASS MURDER – WHY THE SECRECY?
JOHN CHUCKMAN COMMENT: AL GORE IS LITERALLY ONE OF AMERICA’S GREATEST HYPOCRITES – AND A GOOD OLD-FASHIONED AMERICAN HUCKSTER
JOHN CHUCKMAN COMMENT: VAPID STUFF ON THE NEW VOGUE MAGAZINE – ON COUNTING THE NUMBER OF KINDS OF FACES ANYWHERE – GUARDIAN’S FIXATION NOW WITH DOING SO
JOHN CHUCKMAN COMMENT: POLITICS IN THE CLOUDCUCKOOLAND WE CALL THE PRESS – GEORGE CLOONEY “SAVING AMERICA”? – THE BRUTAL REALITIES OF TODAY’S AMERICA, A PLACE NO ONE CAN SAVE
JOHN CHUCKMAN COMMENT: YET MORE UNINFORMED STUFF ABOUT ISIS (DAESH) – WE GET A CONSTANT FLOW OF NONSENSE – WHAT ISIS REALLY IS – WHY THE PRESS WORKS TO CONFUSE US
JOHN CHUCKMAN COMMENT: PRESS PROPAGANDA – CHARGING CORBYN WITH “COZYING UP” TO “REPRESSIVE REGIME” IN IRAN – CASE OF A JAILED WOMAN NO ONE KNOWS ANYTHING ABOUT BUT THAT DOESN’T STOP THE PRESS
JOHN CHUCKMAN COMMENT: WHAT AMERICA REALLY THINKS OF EUROPE – OFFERED IN EXPLANATION TO THE LATEST FROM ONE OF EUROPE’S WORST AND MOST INEFFECTUAL COLUMNISTS, MS. NATALIE NOUGAYREDE
JOHN CHUCKMAN COMMENT: CANADA’S POSITION UNDER JUSTIN TRUDEAU COMPARES VERY UNFAVORABLY TO THAT UNDER HIS FATHER – BUT WE ARE IN A FAR MORE DANGEROUS ERA OF AMERICAN BEHAVIOR – HERE’S WHY
JOHN CHUCKMAN COMMENT: MORE ON POPPIES AND REMEMBERING WHAT IS BEST FORGOTTEN – AND THE NONSENSE OF “NEVER AGAIN” WHEN IT COMES TO VIOLENCE
JOHN CHUCKMAN COMMENT: ON MISSING THE JOKES OF A VERY STRANGE ENTERTAINER
JOHN CHUCKMAN COMMENT: TRUMP’S RIDICULOUS REMARK ON WHAT IS HAPPENING IN SAUDI ARABIA – WE HAVE A PALACE COUP COVERING ITSELF IN A MANTLE OF ANTI-CORRUPTION – A NEW SAUDI-ISRAEL REGIONAL AXIS EMERGES
JOHN CHUCKMAN COMMENT: CONGRESS SPLIT OVER IDEA THAT CRITICISM OF ISRAEL IS ANTI-SEMITISM – WHY THIS KIND OF LUNACY CANNOT BE IMPOSED ON PEOPLE – PAINTING THE ROSES RED AND MAKING IT A CRIME TO SAY THEY ARE IN FACT NOT RED
JOHN CHUCKMAN COMMENT: WHAT SAUDI ARABIA IS REALLY UP TO – BRIEF HISTORY OF A REVOLUTION AND THE CURRENT EFFECTIVE COUP OF THE NEW CROWN PRINCE – HE’S ISRAEL’S MAN
JOHN CHUCKMAN COMMENT: WEARING POPPIES AND REMEMBERING HORRIBLE THINGS AND THE ILLUSION OF NEVER FORGETTING
JOHN CHUCKMAN COMMENT: CLAIM MADE FOR MOST DESTRUCTIVE AMERICAN PRESIDENT EVER IS WRONG – THAT DISTINCTION GOES TO LYNDON B. JOHNSON WITHOUT QUESTION
JOHN CHUCKMAN COMMENT: HOW OVERPOPULATION WILL BE DEALT WITH IN THE LONG RUN
JOHN CHUCKMAN COMMENT: THE PERSISTENT MYTH OF OBAMA AS “A PEOPLE’S MAN” KEPT ALIVE BY A CALCULATING CORPORATE PRESS – THE GUARDIAN TREATS A BOOK OF OFFICIAL PHOTOS AS AN AFFECTIONATE MEMORY TO LINGER OVER
JOHN CHUCKMAN COMMENT: AS IF ANY WERE NEEDED, BUT WE HAVE YET ONE MORE CONFIRMATION OF THE AMERICAN ORIGINS OF ISIS (DAESH) – A PUTRID BREW OF LIES AND MURDER BY AMERICA AND ITS MIDEAST COLONY
JOHN CHUCKMAN COMMENT: SOMETHING BIG IS HAPPENING IN DEMOCRATIC PARTY – REVOLT AGAINST HILLARY BEFORE SHE RUINS ANOTHER ELECTION – BRAZILE AND WARREN HAVE NOTHING TO DO WITH PRINCIPLES
JOHN CHUCKMAN COMMENT: GUARDIAN PROVIDES AN EXCELLENT EXAMPLE OF CIA DISINFORMATION OFFERED AS NEWS AND ANALYSIS – PUTIN AND THE RUSSIAN REVOLUTION
JOHN CHUCKMAN COMMENT: SCIENTIST STEPHEN HAWKING’S LATE-LIFE SECOND CAREER AS TENT-PREACHER – ROBOTS AND OUR FUTURE
JOHN CHUCKMAN COMMENT: GUARDIAN’S SIMON TISDALL BLUBBERS ABOUT TRUMP SEEKING APPROVAL OF DESPOTS IN ASIA – TISDALL MIGHT TRY LOOKING AT HIS OWN GOVERNMENT’S BEHAVIOR
JOHN CHUCKMAN COMMENT: PRESS PICKS UP ON CIA MEMO IN RELEASED DOCUMENTS SAYING THERE WAS NO CONNECTION BETWEEN OSWALD AND CIA – EXACTLY WHY THIS IS SUCH A DISHONEST CLAIM – AND WHY JFK DIED
JOHN CHUCKMAN COMMENT: DR. DAVID KELLY’S BODY MOVED – REMINDING US OF EVENTS AROUND THE IRAQ WAR INCLUDING HIS LIKELY MURDER – A MAN WHO KNEW TOO MUCH
JOHN CHUCKMAN COMMENT: AMERICA DESCENDING INTO MADNESS – FACEBOOK AND SO-CALLED RUSSIAN ADS – INFLUENCING OTHERS? JUST THINK OF AMERICA’S 2 MILLION OR SO KILLINGS IN THE MIDDLE EAST
JOHN CHUCKMAN COMMENT: “CULTURAL APPROPRIATION” AND OTHER MEANINGLESS SLOGANS – A DECAY IN LANGUAGE OR A DECAY IN THINKING?
JOHN CHUCKMAN COMMENT: THE GUARDIAN OFFERS AN IMPOVERISHED LIST OF KENNEDY ASSASSINATION BOOKS – I OFFER A FEW OF THE BEST ALTHOUGH A COUPLE OF THEM ARE NOW HARD TO GET
JOHN CHUCKMAN COMMENT: HERE’S AN ADDITIONAL BATCH (ALTHOUGH STILL NOT ALL) OF THE REASONS THAT KENNEDY’S ASSASSINATION HAD TO BE A CONSPIRACY – NOW WITH A FURTHER BATCH ADDED
JOHN CHUCKMAN COMMENT: BRITISH SCRIBBLER JONATHAN FREEDLAND CHIMES IN WITH HOW “CONSPIRACY THEORIES” DISTRACT US FROM REAL THREATS – ALMOST THE OPPOSITE IS TRUE
JOHN CHUCKMAN COMMENT: RELEASE OF SECRET JFK FILES – “WHY WAS THIS JUNK EVER SECRET?” IS THE QUESTION TO ASK – I OFFER JUST SOME OF THE REASONS THE KILLING HAD TO BE A CONSPIRACY HERE
JOHN CHUCKMAN COMMENT: SECRET JFK FILES RELEASE – WHY WAS THIS JUNK EVER SECRET? IS WHAT TO ASK – I OFFER JUST SOME OF THE REASONS THE KILLING HAD TO BE A CONSPIRACY
JOHN CHUCKMAN COMMENT: AS TRUMP TURNS BACK ON THE WORLD STAGE IS SET FOR XI’S CHINA – WASHINGTON RESEMBLES A LUNATIC ASYLUM TODAY AND NOT JUST TRUMP
JOHN CHUCKMAN COMMENT: TRUMP PROVIDES A CONTINUING SPECTACLE OF COWARDICE – RATHER THAN STAND UP TO THE ISRAEL LOBBY HE LIES AND APPOINTS INCOMPETENTS AND ENDANGERS PEACE OVER IRAN
JOHN CHUCKMAN COMMENT: BACK TO THE DISCREDITED DOSSIER AND WHO FUNDED IT – CIA DISINFORMATION TACTICS AS PART OF AMERICAN “DEMOCRACY”
JOHN CHUCKMAN COMMENT: THE NEW YORK TIMES AND ITS NASTY LITTLE GAMES – WARS AND ATTACKING PEOPLE AND APOLOGIZING
JOHN CHUCKMAN COMMENT: COLUMN-SCRIBBLER JONATHAN FREEDLAND DEMONSTRATES WHAT A SEA OF HYPOCRISY READERS ARE PITCHED INTO
JOHN CHUCKMAN COMMENT: OUR COMPLETE IGNORANCE OF WHAT POWERFUL PEOPLE DO TO THE WEAK – WEINSTEIN-STYLE SEXUAL CRIME AND ABUSE IS ONLY THE TIP OF AN ICEBERG
JOHN CHUCKMAN COMMENT: AMERICA RUNNING FULL-SPEED BACKWARDS TOWARDS THE 1930s – RELIEF WORK AND THE UN
JOHN CHUCKMAN COMMENT: RIGHT WING WEAPONIZING OF THE INTERNET? BUT IT HAS ALREADY BEEN DONE BY CIA AND FBI WITH OUTFITS LIKE FACEBOOK AND WIKIPEDIA AND GOOGLE – MORE SCAREMONGERING FOR MORE CONTROL
JOHN CHUCKMAN COMMENT: SOME REALLY INTERESTING HISTORICAL STUFF ON THE ASSASSINATION OF JOHN KENNEDY
JOHN CHUCKMAN COMMENT: THE UPCOMING RELEASE OF CIA DOCUMENTS ON THE KENNEDY ASSASSINATION – DON’T EXPECT MUCH – AND ALREADY IMPORTANT ONES HAVE GONE MISSING
JOHN CHUCKMAN COMMENT: GUARDIAN COLUMN ON THE UGLY HANDIWORK OF ISIS (DAESH) IN IRAQ’S MOSUL IGNORES THE REAL STORY OF MODERN IRAQ – THANK YOU, AMERICA, FOR TWENTY YEARS OF HORROR
JOHN CHUCKMAN COMMENT: CIA URGES DELAY OF FINAL RELEASE OF JFK RECORDS – GEE I WONDER WHY ? – LYING AND KILLING FOR A LIVING IN THE GOOD OLD USA
JOHN CHUCKMAN COMMENT: NEW RELEASE OF OLD SECRET PAPERS SHOWS CIA KNEW AND SUPPORTED 1960s MASS SLAUGHTER IN INDONESIA – AMERICA’S ACTUAL RECORD IN POSTWAR GENOCIDES
JOHN CHUCKMAN COMMENT: MORE CRAP DROPPED FROM ON HIGH – MI-5 CHIEF WARNS OF ACCELERATED JIHADI ACTIVITY – THE REAL TRUTHS ABOUT WHAT WE CALL INTERNATIONAL TERROR
JOHN CHUCKMAN COMMENT: IRAQ’S OCCUPYING KIRKUK FROM ITS SEPARATIONIST KURDS – PRESS MISREPRESENTATION OF THE KURDS – AMERICAN AND ISRAELI PLOTS ENDED
JOHN CHUCKMAN COMMENT: THE IMPORTANT CASE OF AL-JAZEERA’S DOCUMENTARY ON THE BRITISH ISRAEL LOBBY INCLUDING AN UNDER-COVER JOURNALIST GETTING REVEALING AND EMBARRASSING TRUTHS
JOHN CHUCKMAN COMMENT: THE CONCEPT OF “ANTI-SEMITISM WEAPONIZED” – THE CASE OF BRITAIN’S CORBYN – SUMMARY OF WHAT IS KNOWN OF THE ETHNIC ORIGINS OF CONTEMPORARY ISRAELIS
JOHN CHUCKMAN COMMENT: COMPLAINTS ABOUT DIVERSITY AT OXBRIDGE LITTLE MORE THAN A KIND OF REVERSE-PREJUDICE SEEKING TO REPLACE ACADEMIC ACHIEVEMENT WITH DIVERSITY FOR ADMISSIONS
JOHN CHUCKMAN COMMENT: ONE MORE FEEBLE PSYCHOLOGIST WRITES OF TRUMP’S MENTAL HEALTH – BUT THE FACT IS AMERICA’S ENTIRE NATIONAL LEADERSHIP HAS SERIOUS AND DANGEROUS MENTAL PROBLEMS
JOHN CHUCKMAN COMMENT: NATO’S OFFICIALS AND GENERALS – BIG TITLES AND SALARIES TO DISGUISE THE FACT THAT EUROPE IS OCCUPIED …BY AMERICA
JOHN CHUCKMAN COMMENT: AMERICAN POLITICS’ CURRENT P. T. BARNUM, RAND PAUL, ATTACKING THE PSYCHOPATH JOHN MCCAIN FOR BEING “A FAKE CONSERVATIVE”
JOHN CHUCKMAN COMMENT: SAUDI ARABIAN WOMEN CAN DRIVE – WOW BIG ADVANCE – NOW WHY DON’T THE SAUDIS STOP KILLING SHIA WOMEN IN SAUDI ARABIA AND OTHER WOMEN IN YEMEN?
JOHN CHUCKMAN COMMENT: AMERICAN RUSSIAN EXPERT STEPHEN COHEN ON WHY COLD WAR 2.0 IS MORE DANGEROUS THAN THE ORIGINAL – WHAT I THINK HAS HAPPENED SINCE JOHN KENNEDY’S MURDER TO ENABLE THIS DANGEROUS INSANITY TO HAPPEN
JOHN CHUCKMAN COMMENT: THOSE WHOM THE GODS WOULD DESTROY THEY FIRST MAKE MAD – AMERICA’S NFL FOOTBALL-KNEELING LUNACY AND ITS RUSSIAN DEMON-POSSESSION CRAZE
JOHN CHUCKMAN COMMENT: THE KIND OF ADULATION HILLARY CAN STILL INSPIRE FROM SOME WOMEN IS SAD GIVEN JUST A PORTION OF HER ACTUAL RECORD OF BEHAVIOR
JOHN CHUCKMAN COMMENT: OLIGARCHS OR PLUTOCRATS AND WESTERN DEMOCRACY – THE SAD STATE OF OUR “DEMOCRACIES”
JOHN CHUCKMAN COMMENT: DOES ISRAEL WANT PEACE? – I THINK THE ANSWER HAS BEEN IN FOR A LONG TIME – PALESTINIANS CAN VOTE? – ISRAEL HAS PEACEFUL RELATIONS WITH ALL NEIGHBORS EXCEPT PALESTINIANS?
JOHN CHUCKMAN COMMENT: AN OTHERWISE INTERESTING INCIDENT GIVEN A BIZARRE TWIST BY AMERICA’S INSANE ATMOSPHERE OF RUSSOPHOBIA – THE RETURN OF BLACK HELICOPTERS
JOHN CHUCKMAN COMMENT: WHAT’S A “CARNIVAL AGAINST HATRED”? – CONFUSION IN BRITAIN OVER TRUMP AND AMERICA – HE’S BAD BUT NO MORE THAN THE REST OF UGLY WASHINGTON
JOHN CHUCKMAN COMMENT: MICHAEL MOORE IS ACTUALLY RIGHT ABOUT SOMETHING – THE 2ND AMENDMENT IS “ANCIENT AND OUTDATED” – HERE’S WHY – AND AMERICA’S “GUN NUTS” ACTUALLY SUPPORT WHAT THEY THINK THEY OPPOSE
JOHN CHUCKMAN COMMENT: A NEW BOOK ON CIA MURDERS OF WESTERN LEADERS PLUS ANOTHER IMPORTANT BOOK LEAD TO MY REEVALUATION OF THE KENNEDY ASSASSINATION
JOHN CHUCKMAN COMMENT: EUROPE’S DESPERATE NEED FOR LEADERSHIP – RIGHT NOW THE EU PRETTY MUCH ACTS AS AMERICA’S HOUSE SERVANT – BUT ITS POTENTIAL IN AN EMERGING WORLD TO COUNTERBALANCE IS GREAT
JOHN CHUCKMAN COMMENT: TURKEY AND SYRIA – BEWARE OF ANY EASY INTERPRETATION OF WHAT ERDOGAN IS DOING IN SYRIA – THIS IS AN UNSTABLE MAN
JOHN CHUCKMAN COMMENT: HARD TO IMAGINE A GROWN INTELLIGENT PERSON WHO REGARDS THE PRESS AS IMPARTIAL – AND FOR THE SIMPLE REASON IT IS NOT AND NEVER HAS BEEN
JOHN CHUCKMAN COMMENT: NAIVE AMERICAN BELIEFS ABOUT JUSTICE AND RULE OF LAW – BUT POWER IS POWER NO MATTER HOW OBTAINED AND IN AMERICA THAT POWER IS NOT WITH OR FROM “WE THE PEOPLE”
JOHN CHUCKMAN COMMENT: SILLY STORY ABOUT COMPARING VIKINGS AND NAZIS – WHAT ACTUALLY WERE THE BARBARIC VALUES HITLER HELD AS PART OF HIS FAITH? – WE SADLY STILL SEE ASPECTS OF THESE VALUES FROM AMERICA AND ISRAEL
JOHN CHUCKMAN COMMENT: GUARDIAN COLUMNIST OFFERS READERS ADVICE FOR USING FACEBOOK – IT IS USELESS ADVICE AND JUST ANOTHER STEP IN THE GUARDIAN’S FLAGRANT PROMOTION OF ALL THINGS ZUCKERBERG
JOHN CHUCKMAN COMMENT: IMPORTANT STATEMENT FROM TURKEY’S ERDOGAN SAYS WEST’S SHADOW IS BEHIND ISIS (DAESH) AND AL-QAEDA – THOSE WHO STUDY AFFAIRS ALREADY KNEW THIS BUT IT IS NICE TO HAVE HIGH-LEVEL CONFIRMATION
JOHN CHUCKMAN COMMENT: THE NOBEL PEACE PRIZE – EVEN HITLER WAS CONSIDERED FOR ONE – THE PRIZE’S SAD RECORD AND HOW IT IS OUT-OF-STEP WITH NOBEL SCIENCE PRIZES – THIS YEAR’S LIMP AND POINTLESS AWARD
JOHN CHUCKMAN COMMENT: TRUMP SAID TO BE READY TO ANNOUNCE DECERTIFYING IRAN NUCLEAR DEAL – NETANYAHU’S TOTALLY CORRUPT INFLUENCE – AND WHAT KIND OF A WORLD DO YOU BUILD THIS WAY?
JOHN CHUCKMAN COMMENT: AMERICA’S BRUTAL DOMESTIC GUN CULTURE – AN EXPLANATION FOR AT LEAST A PART OF ITS ORIGIN – ALSO AMERICA’S PECULIAR PAST EXPERIENCE WITH WAR AND NOW ITS DECADES OF SAVAGE IMPERIAL WAR
JOHN CHUCKMAN COMMENT: TRUMP AS THE MOST AMERICAN OF PRESIDENTS – A CLAIM WHICH SHOULD INFURIATE BOTH HIS SUPPORTERS AND OPPONENTS
JOHN CHUCKMAN COMMENT: TALK OF AN INTERESTING AND OFF-BEAT WOMAN RUNNING FOR PRESIDENT OF EGYPT IS JUST NONSENSE DISINFORMATION SINCE EGYPT IS NO LONGER A DEMOCRACY – HERE’S WHY
JOHN CHUCKMAN COMMENT: COLONIZING MARS – ELON MUSK THE LATEST IN A LIST OF ADVOCATES – WHY THIS IS AN IDEA WHICH REALLY MAKES NO SENSE EXCEPT IN BOYISH FANTASIES
JOHN CHUCKMAN COMMENT: DONALD TRUMP’S PLAN TO OVERHAUL AMERICAN TAXES – MORE FINANCIAL IRRESPONSIBILITY AND MORE CORPORATE CONCENTRATION AND MORE IMPULSE FOR WAR – THE SERIOUS DANGERS TO US ALL THAT THIS REPRESENTS
JOHN CHUCKMAN COMMENT: THREE GUARDS SHOT AT AN ISRAELI SETTLEMENT – WHAT IS BEHIND SUCH ACTS OF VIOLENCE? – A FEW BRIEF NOTES ON THE TRUE EVENTS OF 1948
JOHN CHUCKMAN COMMENT: THE GUARDIAN’S OFFICIAL PHONY-ANTI-SEMITISM ATTACK DOG (AKA JONATHAN FREEDLAND) ROARS BACK INTO ACTION ON CORBYN’S LABOUR PARTY
JOHN CHUCKMAN COMMENT: KEN BURNS’ INSIPID VIETNAM FILM REVIEWED AGAIN IN THE GUARDIAN – MY FURTHER OBSERVATIONS ON AMERICA’S DELIBERATELY-ENGINEERED ASIAN HOLOCAUST
JOHN CHUCKMAN COMMENT: IRAQ’S KURDS – MY DISSECTION OF A PATHETIC ARTICLE BY THE GUARDIAN’S SIMON TISDALL PROMOTING THEIR INDEPENDENCE AND USING THE KIND OF WORDS THE PENTAGON MIGHT SUGGEST
JOHN CHUCKMAN COMMENT: CHARLIE ROSE’S RIDICULOUS INTERVIEW WITH HILLARY CLINTON – WHAT IT REALLY SHOWS US – AMERICA IN A BAD PLACE
JOHN CHUCKMAN COMMENT: A PERFECT BLINDNESS – THE RISE OF GERMANY’S AFD AND ITS REAL CAUSE – MORE RUBBISH ON THE LABOUR PARTY AND ANTI-SEMITISM – WHERE THE REAL NAZIS AND FASCISTS CAME FROM
JOHN CHUCKMAN COMMENT: THE MAN WHO CLAIMED OBAMA WAS GAY AND A MUSLIM DIES – THE IDEA OF HIS ELECTION INFLUENCE IS FANTASY
JOHN CHUCKMAN COMMENT: KEN BURNS DOES THE VIETNAM WAR – THE MASTER OF KITSCH DOCUMENTARIES FOR US PUBLIC TELEVISION TAKES ON HELL – NOT TOO FAR FROM DISNEY DOING THE HOLOCAUST
JOHN CHUCKMAN COMMENT: THE FOUL STENCH OF AMERICAN PATRIOTISM IS EXCEEDED ONLY BY THE SMELL OF THE BURNING FLESH OF THE “HERETICS” CHRISTIANS ROUTINELY USED TO BURN – AMERICAN PATRIOTISM AS AN UNFORGIVING RELIGIOUS CULT
JOHN CHUCKMAN COMMENT: THE “ANTI-AMERICAN” NFL? – GOOD GOD WHAT A NATION OF LUNATICS
JOHN CHUCKMAN COMMENT: IDIOT HILLBILLY NASCARS AND IDIOT TRAILER PARK TRUMP – THIS IS HOW THE WORLD ENDS
JOHN CHUCKMAN COMMENT: MORE DISHONEST ACCUSATIONS OF ANTI-SEMITISM IN CORBYN’S LABOUR PARTY – HERE IS WHAT IS GOING ON – ISRAEL’S IN-YOUR-FACE INTERFERENCE IN THE POLITICS OF OTHERS MAKE CHARGES AGAINST RUSSIA SEEM SILLY
JOHN CHUCKMAN COMMENT: KURD INDEPENDENCE REFERENDUM WHILE IRAQ UNDER AMERICAN OCCUPATION IS COMPLETELY ILLEGITIMATE
JOHN CHUCKMAN COMMENT: BERNIE SANDERS AND AMERICAN UNIVERSAL HEALTH CARE – OPTIMISM COMPLETELY MISPLACED
JOHN CHUCKMAN COMMENT: THE MYSTERIOUS ACTIVITIES OF JOHN MCCAIN ON AMERICAN HEALTHCARE – SOME IN BRITAIN SEE HIM AS A STATESMAN – BUT ARE THEY EVER WRONG
JOHN CHUCKMAN COMMENT: GOOD OLD WASHINGTON POST EARNS FRESH SNEERS AND CONTEMPT – BUT NEW OWNER JEFF BEZOS IS ONLY THE LATEST IN A LONG LINE OF CIA SERVANTS FOR THIS RAG
JOHN CHUCKMAN COMMENT: THE UBER LUDDITES ARE AT IT AGAIN – THIS TIME WE HAVE INSINCERE LONDON MAYOR SADIQ KHAN REMOVING UBER’S LICENSE TO OPERATE
JOHN CHUCKMAN COMMENT: FURTHER THOUGHTS ON TRUMP’S UN SPEECH AND ON TRUMP’S GROVELLING TO THE NEOCONS – HERE IS A MAN OF NO PRIDE AND NO SHAME – ONLY BOASTING AND ARROGANCE AND UNFIT FOR HIS OFFICE
JOHN CHUCKMAN COMMENT: ON THE IDEA OF SENDING MORE BOOKS AND FEWER BULLETS TO AFGHANISTAN – SOME REALITIES BEHIND A SEEMINGLY NICE IDEA
JOHN CHUCKMAN COMMENT: ISIS (DAESH) IS SAID TO BE STEPPING UP ITS ATROCITIES – LET’S NOT FORGET THE ORIGINS OF THIS MERCENARY FORCE POSED AS JIHADIS AND THE DISCONTENT OVER SYRIA OF THOSE WHO SUSTAIN IT
JOHN CHUCKMAN COMMENT: AN ARTICLE ASKS IF TRUMP IS REPEATING GEORGE BUSH’S WORST MISTAKE? – INDEED HE IS BUT IT IS NOT THE MISTAKE NEWSPAPERS WRITE ABOUT
JOHN CHUCKMAN COMMENT: A BRIEF SUMMARY OF FACEBOOK’S CREEPINESS – WHY DO PEOPLE EVEN USE IT? – MAYBE IT IS LIKE ASKING WHY DO PEOPLE STILL SMOKE CIGARETTES
JOHN CHUCKMAN COMMENT: KNOWN LIARS IN POLITICS – A COLUMNIST USES THE CHARGE FAR TOO SELECTIVELY – JUST A BRIEF PEEK UNDER THE CARPET
JOHN CHUCKMAN COMMENT: TRUMP’S WALL – ALL YOU NEED TO KNOW ABOUT THE REALITY – CONTINUED EXPECTATIONS A TELLTALE SIGN OF THE EXTREME NAIVETE OF TRUMP’S DIEHARD SUPPORTERS
JOHN CHUCKMAN COMMENT: FORMER WAFFLE HOUSE WAITRESS REFERRED TO AS “AMERICA’S TOP DIPLOMAT” – RUDENESS AND TRAILER-PARK THOUGHT PASSING FOR DIPLOMACY
JOHN CHUCKMAN COMMENT: THE GREAT SAMUEL JOHNSON AS A “GOOGLE DOODLE” – BUT JOHNSON WAS A SUPREME CRITIC OF AMERICA’S FOUNDING FATHERS AS FEW AMERICANS KNOW
JOHN CHUCKMAN COMMENT: JIMMY CARTER IS RIGHT ABOUT NORTH KOREA AND MANY OTHER THINGS – U.S. NEOCON FANATICS COULDN’T CARE LESS – EVENTS THAT COULD ALTER A SICK AND VIOLENT AMERICAN-ISRAELI AXIS
JOHN CHUCKMAN COMMENT: IRAN’S AYATOLLAH KHAMENEI ADDRESSES TRUMP’S NEW BELLIGERENCE AND PUBLIC DISHONESTY – WHAT IS REALLY GOING ON HERE
JOHN CHUCKMAN COMMENT: AN ARTICLE TELLING HILLARY THAT BENGHAZI ISN’T GOING AWAY – MY OBJECTION TO THE NAVEL-GAZING AMERICAN APPROACH IN ALL ITS CONFLICTS WHEN IT LOSES A FEW LIVES
JOHN CHUCKMAN COMMENT: ABOUT RUSSIAN TANKS PROTECTING THEIR HOMELAND – WHY WOULD ANYONE KEEP PUSHING AGAINST THEIR BORDERS ? – COMMENT TO A VIDEO SHOWING THE T-80 TANK IN ACTION
JOHN CHUCKMAN COMMENT: THE GUARDIAN TRIES TO LOOK OPEN WITH AN ARTICLE ABOUT ISRAEL AND PALESTINE BY CHIEF PROPAGANDIST JONATHAN FREEDLAND AND ACTUALLY ALLOWING (SOME) COMMENTS
JOHN CHUCKMAN COMMENT: A JOURNALIST ASKS WHAT PUTIN REALLY WANTS – WHAT’S HIS “MASTER PLAN” ? – BUT THE TRUTH IS THAT NO STATESMAN HAS BEEN MORE FRANK AND OPEN ABOUT HIS GEOPOLITICAL GOALS
JOHN CHUCKMAN COMMENT: IT ISN’T JUST THE CORPORATE PRESS WHICH IS BENT – THE BBC IS ABOUT AS BAD AS IT COMES
JOHN CHUCKMAN COMMENT: BRITISH POLITICIAN YVETTE COOPER OFFERS A SICKENING NEW APPROACH TO REHABILITATING TONY BLAIR
JOHN CHUCKMAN COMMENT: COMMENTS TO A REVIEW OF HILLARY’S NEW BOOK – “DON’T BLAME ME” IS ONLY A SMALL PART OF THIS POLITICIAN’S DREADFUL AND EMBARRASSING LIFE-LONG RECORD.
JOHN CHUCKMAN COMMENT: ONCE AGAIN IT IS 9/11 AND WE HAVE AMERICANS BLUBBERING ABOUT “NEVER FORGET” – NEVER FORGET WHAT? – THE EVENT HAS NEVER BEEN EXPLAINED
JOHN CHUCKMAN COMMENT: NIKKI HALEY AS A PARODY OF WHAT SHE THINKS SHE IS – AMERICA’S PRINCIPLES TWISTED OUT OF RECOGNITION – NOTE ON THE MEANING OF “GLOBALISM”
JOHN CHUCKMAN COMMENT: HOW THE MAINLINE PRESS WORKS HARD TO SET UP SOMEONE LIKE MARK ZUCKERBERG AS A PRESIDENTIAL CANDIDATE – NOTES ON THE CIA AND AMERICAN PRESIDENTS
JOHN CHUCKMAN COMMENT: MAINLINE NEWSPAPER AND COLUMNIST GETTING BY ON STUFF I’D CALL HATE SPEECH – BUT IN ANY CASE CERTAINLY INAPPROPRIATE – MEANING OF WORDS
JOHN CHUCKMAN COMMENT: REFLECTIONS ON RACE AND BRITISH IDENTITY AND THE MEANING OF ROYALTY – THE NEED TO END AN OBSOLETE AND TEDIOUS INSTITUTION
JOHN CHUCKMAN COMMENT: COMIC BOOK PSYCHOANALYSIS – KING JONG-UN AND TRUMP – IN FACT PERHAPS BOTH JUST FIGUREHEADS
JOHN CHUCKMAN COMMENT: THE SILLY USE OF THE WORD “PATRIOT” IN ANY ARGUMENT ABOUT ANYTHING
JOHN CHUCKMAN COMMENT: A TRUTH ABOUT ALL AMERICA’S DIRTY IMPERIAL WARS IN THE MIDDLE EAST – HOW BILLIONS JUST DISAPPEAR
JOHN CHUCKMAN COMMENT: NETANYAHU’S WIFE TO FACE CORRUPTION CHARGES – THE APPALLING RECORD OF ISRAEL’S LEADERSHIP – SO MUCH CORRUPTION AND KILLING IN SO FEW YEARS – EINSTEIN’S QUOTE
JOHN CHUCKMAN COMMENT: CAN THE U.S. PUSH UKRAINE INTO NATO? – WASHINGTON CAN AT BEST ONLY DELAY AND NOT STOP A NEW MULTI-POLAR WORLD EMERGING
JOHN CHUCKMAN COMMENT: YET ONE MORE “RACIAL BIAS OF THE JUSTICE SYSTEM IS CREATING A SOCIAL TIME BOMB” PIECES – WHAT IS WRONG HERE
JOHN CHUCKMAN COMMENT: HILLARY’S NEW BOOK PITCHED BY A SHILL JOURNALIST – MEANING OF “BESTSELLER” IN THESE CASES – NOTHING TO LEARN FROM HER
JOHN CHUCKMAN COMMENT: AMERICA’S ALT-RIGHT PATHETICALLY STICKS TO A NOTION OF OBAMA AS SOURCE OF ALL EVIL – SUCH LIMITED UNDERSTANDING HELPS THE REAL U.S. EVIL CARRY RIGHT ON WITH ITS WORK – EMPIRE VERSUS A DECENT COUNTRY
JOHN CHUCKMAN COMMENT: ONE OF THE MODERN WORLD’S GENUINE EVIL GENIUSES – TURKEY’S ERDOGAN AND SOME POLITICAL LESSONS HE OFFERS
JOHN CHUCKMAN COMMENT: CHINA’S MAGNIFICENT SILK ROAD PROJECT – A LUDDITE COLUMN IN THE GUARDIAN – SOME CHINA VERSUS U.S. COMPARISONS
JOHN CHUCKMAN COMMENT: JUST HOW DO YOU BECOME A “TOP TERROR ADVISER”? – ISRAEL AND “TERROR” – DEFINING WHO IS A TERRORIST
JOHN CHUCKMAN COMMENT: TRUMP IS A COMPLETE FAILURE – BUT QUOTING OBAMA ON INTERNATIONAL AFFAIRS IS ALMOST CRIMINAL
JOHN CHUCKMAN COMMENT: WRITING COLUMNS ABOUT NOTHING – GREAT EXAMPLE BY AN EXPERT – IDIOCY OF WRITING ANYTHING ABOUT A MOVIE DESIGNED TO GIVE “THE HOTS” TO 12-YEAR OLDS – FEMINISM AND NATURE OF HOLLYWOOD
JOHN CHUCKMAN COMMENT: OBSESSION WITH SKIN BLEACHING – LIGHTNESS HAS ALWAYS BEEN AN OBSESSION IN BLACK COMMUNITIES
JOHN CHUCKMAN COMMENT: UK REPORT ON “DISADVANTAGED” AND UNIVERSITIES – WHAT AMERICA DOES IS HOW NOT TO DO THINGS
JOHN CHUCKMAN COMMENT: AUNG SAN SUU KYI AND NOBEL PEACE PRIZES – AN UNWORTHY PAIR – THE CORRUPTION OF EVERY INTERNATIONAL PROCESS FROM THE UN TO THE PEACE PRIZE FOR U.S. IMPERIAL AIMS
JOHN CHUCKMAN COMMENT: THE AMERICAN RED CROSS AND ITS PAST QUESTIONABLE WORK AS A CHARITY
JOHN CHUCKMAN COMMENT: MARTIN SCORSESE’S ODD TRIBUTE TO THE LATE JERRY LEWIS
JOHN CHUCKMAN COMMENT: QUOTING OBAMA ON TRUMP’S DACA (DREAMER) BLUNDER – “BASIC DECENCY” HAS NO MEANING FROM A MASS MURDERER
JOHN CHUCKMAN COMMENT: THE UTTER PREJUDICED NONSENSE OF EXPRESSIONS LIKE “TOXIC MASCULINITY” – SOME MILLENNIALS GREENS AND PROFESSIONAL FEMINISTS HAVE GONE BACK TO CHRISTIANITY ONLY WITHOUT GOD
JOHN CHUCKMAN COMMENT: WHY DIDN’T AMERICA SHOOT DOWN NORTH KOREAN MISSILE TEST? – OBSERVATIONS ABOUT ANTI-BALLISTIC MISSILE DEFENSE
JOHN CHUCKMAN COMMENT: DID TRUMP LIE ABOUT PUTTING AMERICAN WORKERS FIRST?
JOHN CHUCKMAN COMMENT: UTTERLY UNTHINKING EDITORIAL FROM BRITAIN’S GUARDIAN ON AFGHANISTAN – CORPORATE PRESS ALMOST AS BAD IN BRITAIN AS IN AMERICA – FACTS ABOUT THE AFGHAN WAR
JOHN CHUCKMAN COMMENT: BRITISH MP WRITES OF COLLUDING WITH AMERICAN DRONE TERROR – GOOD POINT BUT I NOTE THE WAY IT IS MADE IS A MEASURE OF AMERICA’S BAD EFFECT ON INTERNATIONAL ETHICS AND MORALS
JOHN CHUCKMAN COMMENT: JAMES MATTIS MAKES LOONY CLAIMS ABOUT RUSSIA WANTING TO RE-DRAW BORDERS – RE-HASHED PENTAGON PROPAGANDA – TRUTH ABOUT UKRAINE
JOHN CHUCKMAN COMMENT: SECOND-RATE COLUMNIST IGNORES AMERICA’S UGLY REALITIES IN HER RUSH TO EXPLOIT CHARLOTTESVILLE AND MAKE YET ANOTHER CLAIM ABOUT FEARFUL JEWISH PEOPLE WANTING TO LEAVE A COUNTRY – SIMPLY RIDICULOUS
JOHN CHUCKMAN COMMENT: MEMORIES OF DIANA DRAGGED OUT BY THE PRESS ON THE ANNIVERSARY OF HER DEATH – THE UNHAPPY TRUTH ABOUT THIS CELEBRITY PRINCESS WHO IS BEST FORGOTTEN
JOHN CHUCKMAN COMMENT: I DON’T THINK IT IS REALLY RIGHT TO CALL HEROIN USE A “SOCIAL ISSUE” – THE REASONS PEOPLE USE DRUGS – AND THE CREEPY GOVERNMENT OUTFITS PROFITING FROM IT
JOHN CHUCKMAN COMMENT: ANOTHER OF THE LESS PERCEPTIVE PIECES ON FEMINISM OFTEN IN THE GUARDIAN – WHEN EVEN EQUALS CAN BE UNEQUAL – A REALITY OF EVERYDAY LIFE
JOHN CHUCKMAN COMMENT: THE QUEEN OF INSIPID POLITICAL COLUMNISTS WRITES ABOUT MACRON BECOMING “SAVIOR” OF FRANCE – YES, MACRON WHO SPENT A SMALL FORTUNE JUST ON MAKE-UP IN HIS FIRST MONTHS
JOHN CHUCKMAN COMMENT: BRITAIN’S INDEPENDENT RUNS A LUNATIC STORY ABOUT WOMEN IN SYRIAN PRISONS – WITH ZERO INVESTIGATION THEIR ONLY SOURCE CAN BE ISRAEL’S MINISTRY OF PROPAGANDA
JOHN CHUCKMAN COMMENT: NETANYAHU’S NONSENSE CLAIMS ABOUT IRAN – MEANWHILE HE HIMSELF RUNS A GANGSTER GOVERNMENT IN ISRAEL
JOHN CHUCKMAN COMMENT: CLAIM TRUMP IS ENDING OBAMA’S “LEGACY”? – I’M NOT ONE WHO EVEN SUPPORTS THE IDEA OF LEGACIES FOR ANY ELECTED OFFICIAL BUT THIS CLAIM IS ABOUT AS SILLY AS IT GETS
JOHN CHUCKMAN COMMENT: CAN ATTACKING STATUES OF HISTORICAL GENERALS AFFECT AMERICA’S RELATIONSHIP WITH THE LIVING GENERALS POISONING IT? – THAT WOULD BE A GOOD OUTCOME
JOHN CHUCKMAN COMMENT: AMERICA’S “PERMANENT ADOLESCENCE” – A FEW OBSERVATIONS
JOHN CHUCKMAN COMMENT: WHY ALL THE AMERICAN NAVY SHIP CRASHES? – I OFFER SUGGESTIONS – IT IS AMUSING TO WATCH A BULLY KEEP STUMBLING – AMAZINGLY THE GUARDIAN’S BUSY REMOVALS EDITOR LETS THIS ONE STAY
JOHN CHUCKMAN COMMENT: PRETENTIOUS ARTICLE ABOUT TOP TEN BOOKS ON DICTATORS – TWO AMERICAN CANDIDATES – IN WHAT IS FREQUENT GUARDIAN PRACTICE MY COMMENT IS PROMPTLY REMOVED
JOHN CHUCKMAN COMMENT: GOING ON ABOUT NAZI REGALIA NOW SEEN IN AMERICA BUT “ONCE HIDDEN AWAY” – GOOD GOD WHERE HAS THE WRITER BEEN HIDING?
JOHN CHUCKMAN COMMENT: EX-DIRECTOR OF CIA IS AT IT AGAIN – FORMER BUREAUCRAT SAYING DISHONEST THINGS TO ATTACK AN ELECTED OFFICIAL – GUARDIAN CENSORSHIP
JOHN CHUCKMAN COMMENT: SHAMEFUL EFFORT BY THE FBI TO DRAG AMERICANS BACK INTO THE COLD WAR – THE ATTACK ON KASPERSKY
JOHN CHUCKMAN COMMENT: IMPOSSIBLE EXAGGERATION OF CHARLOTTESVILLE – WHAT ACTUALLY APPEARS TO HAVE HAPPENED – AMERICA’S OVERWHELMING DAILY BRUTALITY MAKES IT INSIGNIFICANT
JOHN CHUCKMAN COMMENT: THE TOTALLY OVER-HYPED EVENTS OF CHARLOTTESVILLE KEEP BRINGING WEIRD NEW OPINIONS POURING IN FROM ALL OVER
JOHN CHUCKMAN COMMENT: “THE INVENTION OF THE SELF” IS NOT A NEW IDEA – BUT IT IS ACTUALLY A FANTASY SCIENCE TELLS US – PLUS KAFKA ON MODERN ISRAEL
JOHN CHUCKMAN COMMENT: USING QUESTIONABLE POLLS ON QUESTIONABLE TOPICS TO PUSH YOUR POLITICAL CAUSE AND RIDE OVER THE RIGHTS OF OTHERS IN A FREE SOCIETY
JOHN CHUCKMAN COMMENT: “EUROPE IS LOST” A SUPPOSEDLY EDUCATED MAN CLAIMS SEEKING TO PROMOTE MIGRATION TO ISRAEL THROUGH FEARS AND IGNORANCE
JOHN CHUCKMAN COMMENT: IN CASE YOU THOUGHT YOU’D HEARD EVERYTHING STUPID FROM AMERICA, HERE’S A SCHEME FOR PEOPLE TRYING TO BUY YOUTH WITH BLOOD TAKEN FROM TEENAGERS
JOHN CHUCKMAN COMMENT: MANIA OF MONUMENT TOPPLING – TROUBLING FACTS ABOUT MANY OTHER HONORED PAST AMERICANS – BUT BLOODIEST SYMBOL IN AMERICA STILL HONORED
JOHN CHUCKMAN COMMENT: JULIAN ASSANGE POINTS OUT THE HUGE HYPOCRISY AROUND CHARLOTTESVILLE AND OFFICIAL SUPPORT FOR UKRAINE’S NEO-NAZIS – HERE ARE OTHER ASTOUNDING EXAMPLES OF THIS BASIC AMERICAN TRAIT
JOHN CHUCKMAN COMMENT: CONSPIRACIES ARE REAL ENOUGH ESPECIALLY IN AMERICA WHEN STAKES ARE HIGH – BUT THE LABEL “CONSPIRACY THEORY” IS JUST A DIRTY LITTLE GAME TO HELP COVER THEM UP
JOHN CHUCKMAN COMMENT: GOOD GOD PRINCESS DIANA AND THE DARK SUSPICIONS SHE GENERATED ARE IN THE NEWS AGAIN
JOHN CHUCKMAN COMMENT: THE STORY THAT SOME NORTH KOREAN MISSILE ENGINES COME FROM UKRAINE – HARD TO SORT THROUGH ALL THE DISINFORMATION
JOHN CHUCKMAN COMMENT: ARTICLE RIGHTLY CALLS GAZA ONE OF THE GREAT MORAL OUTRAGES OF OUR TIME – WHY OUR PRESS AND POLITICIANS REMAIN MUTE IN THE FACE OF HORROR
JOHN CHUCKMAN COMMENT: DEFENSE SECRETARY MATTIS’S COMMENTS ON “THE GREATEST GENERATION” AND THE NEED FOR AMERICA TO STAY INVOLVED – WHY HE WAS WRONG – MORE FACTS ABOUT THE KOREAN WAR’S REALITY
JOHN CHUCKMAN COMMENT: THE VIOLENCE IN CHARLOTTESVILLE VIRGINIA OVER CIVIL WAR MONUMENTS – A FEW THOUGHTS AND CORRECTIONS TO COMMENTS BY OTHERS
JOHN CHUCKMAN COMMENT: WHY ALL THE DANGEROUS NOISE OVER NORTH KOREA SUDDENLY? – THE NATURE OF LEADERSHIP BOTH FOR POLITICIANS AND NATIONS – AMERICA UNFIT TO LEAD
JOHN CHUCKMAN COMMENT: SIMPLISTIC IDEA THAT “FREE MARKET” MEDICINE SHOULD REPLACE OBAMACARE – AMERICANS ARE VICTIMS OF THEIR OWN POLITICIANS – WHY MODERN MEDICINE CANNOT NOT BE A FREE MARKET
JOHN CHUCKMAN COMMENT: AS TRUMP BELLOWS THAT AMERICA IS “LOCKED AND LOADED” HERE’S A BRIEF HISTORY OF PENTAGON BARBARITIES NOT MANY AMERICANS THEMSELVES UNDERSTAND
JOHN CHUCKMAN COMMENT: GEORGE BUSH AS PRESIDENT – SAME REALITIES GOVERNED OBAMA AND GOVERN TRUMP – WHAT AMERICA HAS BECOME LEAVES NO ROOM FOR INDEPENDENT ELECTED DECISIONS – DRAINING THE SWAMP IS A SICK JOKE
JOHN CHUCKMAN COMMENT: WHAT’S BEHIND HENRY KISSINGER’S STRANGE WORDS ABOUT THE DANGER OF DESTROYING ISIS AND ALLOWING AN IRANIAN RADICAL EMPIRE TO THRIVE?
JOHN CHUCKMAN COMMENT: ISRAEL’S LITTLE-KNOWN 1990s EFFORT TO BUY NORTH KOREA’S MISSILE EXPORT PROGRAM CALLS TO MIND AN EVEN DARKER PAST EFFORT – ISRAEL’S HELPING OLD SOUTH AFRICA BECOME A NUCLEAR POWER
JOHN CHUCKMAN COMMENT: WHAT TRUMP’S COLOSSAL FAILURE PROVES – JUST AS FOR THE SEVERAL PRESIDENTS BEFORE HIM – THE MILITARY-SECURITY-CORPORATE ESTABLISHMENT MAKE IT IMPOSSIBLE TO CHANGE COURSE
JOHN CHUCKMAN COMMENT: THOUGHTS ON THE BIGGEST DINOSAUR EVER FOUND IN ARGENTINA – MARVEL OF EARTH’S “MEMORY” OF ITS OWN PAST AND THE TECHNOLOGY ENABLING US TO READ IT
JOHN CHUCKMAN COMMENT: PROMOTING WAR HYSTERIA – HERE’S A MAINLINE PAPER ASKING WHAT NUCLEAR WAR BETWEEN THE U.S. AND NORTH KOREA MIGHT LOOK LIKE
JOHN CHUCKMAN COMMENT: MORE BRUTALITY IN AMERICA’S EVERYDAY SOCIETY THAN IN ALL THE LURID TALES OF MUSLIM MIGRANTS – YET THE SICK CLAIMS AND FEARS JUST CONTINUE
JOHN CHUCKMAN COMMENT: NIKKI HALEY IS NOT ALONE – A WEIRD ADMIRER OF HERS ATTACKS MY COMMENT AND RECEIVES A FITTING RESPONSE – MY GOD, YOU DO COME ACROSS BIZARRE FOLKS ON BREITBART
JOHN CHUCKMAN COMMENT: ISRAEL WANTS TO COMPLETELY ENTOMB GAZA WITH AN UNDERGROUND WALL – IT SAYS IT FEARS ISIS – BUT ISIS NEVER ATTACKS ISRAEL BECAUSE ISRAEL IS ONE OF ITS FRIENDS AND SUPPORTERS – NOTE ON ISRAEL’S BLOCKADE ISLAND PLAN
JOHN CHUCKMAN COMMENT: ARTICLE ABOUT TRUMP TRYING TO START WAR WITH IRAN SOON – WHY THIS IS A REAL POSSIBILITY – FAILURE IN SYRIA AND THE POLITICAL NEED TO PROPITIATE ISRAEL – THESE ARE DANGEROUS TIMES
JOHN CHUCKMAN COMMENT: THE ATTACK ON VENEZUELA’S GOVERNMENT CONTINUES – YOU CAN’T SORT THROUGH ALL THE PHONY CLAIMS GENERATED BY CIA HACKS – YOU ONLY HAVE TO KNOW A DEMOCRATIC GOVERNMENT IS UNDER ATTACK AND IS DEFENDING ITSELF
JOHN CHUCKMAN COMMENT: LAW AGAINST PEACEFUL VOLUNTARY PROTEST BEING PREPARED IN AMERICA – RAISING THE FUNDAMENTAL ISSUE OF A CAMPAIGN-FINANCE SYSTEM WHICH UNDERWRITES SUCH ABUSIVE LAWS – AMERICA AS A PLUTOCRACY
JOHN CHUCKMAN COMMENT: WHAT TRUMP’S FIRING OF WHITE HOUSE SPOKESMAN SCARAMUCCI REALLY TEACHES US – AND IT SURE AIN’T THE SILLY CLAIM BY COLUMNIST ANDREW BUNCOMBE – TRUMP AND THE RIGHT STUFF
JOHN CHUCKMAN COMMENT: HILLARY CLINTON’S NEW BOOK – COMMENTS ON A PUFF PIECE PROMOTING THE BOOK IN WHICH SHE CLAIMS SHE IS LETTING HER GUARD DOWN
JOHN CHUCKMAN COMMENT: AMERICA’S ALMOST CONSTANT USE OF SANCTIONS HAS BECOME A KIND OF MENTAL ILLNESS – BEHAVING AS THE WORLD’S BULLY WITH LAWLESS DISREGARD FOR THE WELFARE OF OTHERS
JOHN CHUCKMAN COMMENT: THREAT POSED BY NORTH KOREA PUT INTO PERSPECTIVE – WHAT AMERICA DOES TOWARDS THEM AND OTHERS, EVEN ITS FRIENDS
JOHN CHUCKMAN COMMENT: THE LATEST IDIOCY FROM AMERICA’S DYSFUNCTIONAL GOVERNMENT – DANGEROUS NEW SANCTIONS AGAINST RUSSIA AND IRAN – THERE WILL BE SERIOUS CONSEQUENCES AND AN IMPORTANT PART OF WHY THIS GOES ON
JOHN CHUCKMAN COMMENT: LATEST NONSENSE CLAIMS ABOUT NORTH KOREA FROM THE U.S. – COMMENT ALSO ON THE SAD STATE OF DEMOCRACY IN THE WEST
JOHN CHUCKMAN COMMENT: THE ODD CASE OF SCIENTIST RICHARD DAWKINS – HOW INTELLECTUAL ABILITY AND EMOTIONAL GOOD SENSE DO NOT ALWAYS GO TOGETHER – ANOTHER EXAMPLE IN STEPHEN HAWKING
JOHN CHUCKMAN COMMENT: THE LATEST APPALLINGLY IGNORANT RAGE IN THE ALT PRESS – THE IDEA THAT ANTIDEPRESSANT SSRI DRUGS INDUCE MURDER – COMMENTS ON DOCTORS AND MALPRACTICE AND PATIENT DEATHS
JOHN CHUCKMAN COMMENT: SOME PEOPLE FINALLY CRITICIZE THE GENUINELY WEIRD ANGELINA JOLIE FOR SOME OF HER LATEST TWISTED BEHAVIOR – THE “BEAUTIFUL PEOPLE” ARE SOMETIMES LESS THAN BEAUTIFUL
JOHN CHUCKMAN COMMENT: AMERICA’S MILITARIZED AND ALREADY-VIOLENT POLICE INCREASINGLY GET TRAINING FROM ISRAEL’S BRUTAL CAMP GUARDS
JOHN CHUCKMAN COMMENT: CIA DIRECTOR ADMITS U.S. IS TRYING TO OVERTHROW GOVERNMENT OF VENEZUELA – THEY DON’T EVEN TRY TO HIDE THEIR DIRTY WORK NOW
JOHN CHUCKMAN COMMENT: FURTHER SPECULATION ON OBAMA’S BEING CIA IN LIGHT OF REVELATIONS ABOUT ROUTINE VIOLATIONS OF PRIVACY BY NSA AND FBI DURING HIS TERMS
JOHN CHUCKMAN COMMENT: NEW NATIONAL ARCHIVES RELEASE OF KENNEDY ASSASSINATION FILES TELLS US NOTHING – HERE ARE THE FILES THAT REALLY NEED TO BE RELEASED BUT LIKELY NEVER WILL BE – EVIDENCE FOR THE OFFICIAL STORY IS AS WEAK AS IT WAS IN THE DAYS OF THE WARREN COMMISSION
JOHN CHUCKMAN COMMENT: THE BBC’s GREATER-THAN-EVER ROLE IN PROPAGANDA AND OPINION MANIPULATION WITH NOT A SUGGESTION OF JOURNALISM
JOHN CHUCKMAN COMMENT: THE COMPLETE END TO PRIVACY IN AMERICA COMING SOON – AMERICANS WILL RESEMBLE HERDS OF CATTLE WITH STAPLED EARS – BROUGHT TO YOU BY YOUR OWN ESTABLISHMENT – ENJOY!
JOHN CHUCKMAN COMMENT: WILL PUTIN RUN AGAIN FOR PRESIDENT? – ANTI-PUTIN BIAS IN WESTERN PRESS – UNDERSTANDING THE CONVOLUTED RELATIONSHIPS OF ISRAEL AND THE ANTI-PUTIN PRESS WITH NEOCONS AND AMERICAN TERROR IN THE MIDEAST
JOHN CHUCKMAN COMMENT: U.S. KEEPS TRUE TO ITS HISTORY IN AFGHANISTAN WITH NEW CARELESS BOMBING – MEANING OF THE FLAG’S RED STRIPES
JOHN CHUCKMAN COMMENT: CIA DIRECTOR POMPEO INSISTS ON SAYING THINGS THAT REVEAL HIS HOPELESS MINDSET
JOHN CHUCKMAN COMMENT: TERRIBLE EVENT OF A WOMAN KILLED BY A COP TREATED TERRIBLY – BRINGING OUT HATREDS AND THE OLD SOUTHERN CHARM OF LYNCHINGS – AMERICA IS A BRUTALLY VIOLENT COUNTRY
JOHN CHUCKMAN COMMENT: FRANCE’S MACRON SHOWS SIGNS ALREADY OF DISHONEST LEADERSHIP – REPEATING THE PROPAGANDA SLUR EQUATING CRITICISM OF ISRAEL WITH ANTI-SEMITISM – TWO THINGS AS DIFFERENT AS DAY AND NIGHT
JOHN CHUCKMAN COMMENT: THREE YEARS SINCE MH-17 DOWNING AND NO TRUTH? – THAT’S NOTHING WHEN YOU ARE DEALING IN THE WORLD OF DARK OPS
JOHN CHUCKMAN COMMENT: AMERICA’S CHRISTIAN CONSERVATIVES AND DONALD TRUMP – A COLUMNIST GETS IT VERY WRONG
JOHN CHUCKMAN COMMENT: THE SAUDIS AND 9/11 – A FRAUDULENT THEME THAT KEEPS RETURNING
JOHN CHUCKMAN COMMENT: RUSSOPHOBIA FROM LINDSEY GRAHAM NIKKI HALEY AND THE POPE – BUT IT ISN’T JUST RUSSOPHOBIA – UNDERLYING CONNECTIONS – PATHETIC PEOPLE IN HIGH PLACES – POLITICS DEVOID OF ETHICS
JOHN CHUCKMAN COMMENT: THE POINTLESSNESS OF QUOTING ANY CIA DIRECTOR ON ANYTHING – YET THE PRESS KEEPS PLAYING THE GAME AND PEOPLE KEEP BEING BAMBOOZLED
JOHN CHUCKMAN COMMENT: CLOUDED THINKING GETS HELPED ALONG – A KNOW-NOTHING ARTICLE ABOUT QATAR’S SITUATION AND TRUMP – JUST IGNORANCE OR SOMETHING ELSE? – WHAT QATAR’S SITUATION REALLY IS
JOHN CHUCKMAN COMMENT: A STUDY CONFIRMS THAT FEAR OF CRIME IS SUSTAINED BY OPINIONS OF OTHERS OVER FACTS – AND JUST SO FEAR OF TERROR – WHICH IS VIOLENCE WITH A SUPERSTITIOUS NAME – GOVERNMENT’S EXPLOITATIVE ROLE
JOHN CHUCKMAN COMMENT: AMERICA WAS OUT OF STEP WITH THE REST AT THE G-20 – WORLD SAID NOW NOT TO BE LOOKING TO AMERICAN LEADERSHIP – WHY THAT IS A VERY GOOD THING – WORLD DICTATORSHIP AND BLOODY WARS WAGED WITH A BOYISH SMILE
JOHN CHUCKMAN COMMENT: HOLLYWOOD’S PRAISE OF SYRIA’S WHITE HELMETS – WHY DOES HOLLYWOOD FAWN OVER A SHABBY PROPAGANDA OUTFIT POSING AS AN NGO? – HOLLYWOOD AND THE IDF
JOHN CHUCKMAN COMMENT: A FEW THOUGHTS ON THE DOWNING OF FLIGHT MH-17 OVER UKRAINE AND A SHABBY INVESTIGATION OF IT BY THE DUTCH UNDER AMERICAN PRESSURE
JOHN CHUCKMAN COMMENT: COLUMNIST WRITES OF IVANKA’S “PRINCIPLED INTERVENTION” IN SYRIA – WHY THOSE WORDS SHOW COMPLETE IGNORANCE – AND WHY IVANKA ACTUALLY ACTED ON TRIPLE IGNORANCE – NOT PROMISING AT ALL
JOHN CHUCKMAN COMMENT: MORE ON IVANKA TRUMP BEING GIVEN A ROLE AMONG HEADS OF STATE – OTHER AMERICAN EXAMPLES OF PROMINENT PUBLIC IGNORANCE – AND THEN THERE’S JARED
JOHN CHUCKMAN COMMENT: SIR JOHN CHILCOT SAYS TONY BLAIR WAS NOT STRAIGHT WITH THE UK PUBLIC OVER IRAQ INVASION – AN UNDERSTATEMENT I THINK – A WORD ON CRITICS
JOHN CHUCKMAN COMMENT: NEW SUBATOMIC PARTICLE DISCOVERED AT CERN – THE WONDER THAT IS MODERN SCIENCE
JOHN CHUCKMAN COMMENT: A REPORT IN BRITAIN SAYS BLACK TEACHERS FACE “INHERENT RACISM” – WHY I THINK THIS CANNOT BE ACCURATE
JOHN CHUCKMAN COMMENT: OF ATROCITIES AND WAR CRIMES – TRUTH ABOUT THE ATOMIC BOMBING AND SURRENDER OF JAPAN – THE RECORD OF CARELESS OR MALICIOUS DOWNINGS OF CIVILIAN AIRLINERS BY AMERICA’S MILITARY
JOHN CHUCKMAN COMMENT: SOME THINGS TO CONSIDER ON AMERICA’S NATIONAL HOLIDAY JULY THE FOURTH
JOHN CHUCKMAN COMMENT: A NEW REPORT FROM AMERICAN MILITARY INTELLIGENCE REVEALS JUST HOW TWISTED AMERICA’S IMPERIAL VIEW OF THE WORLD HAS BECOME
JOHN CHUCKMAN COMMENT: VYING WITH NIKKI HALEY AMERICA’S PACIFIC ADMIRAL MAKES ONE OF AMERICA’S DUMBEST COMMENTS OF THE YEAR – DANGEROUS WORDS WHICH ACTUALLY PERFECTLY DESCRIBE AMERICA’S COURSE
JOHN CHUCKMAN COMMENT: A WRITER ASKS WHETHER DEMOCRACY CAN SUCCEED – BUT THE QUESTION IS SUCCEED WHERE? AMERICA HAS NEVER BEEN A DEMOCRACY AND MAY BE LESS ONE NOW THAN EVER
JOHN CHUCKMAN COMMENT: SOMETHING ON THE NATURE OF ARMIES – PATRIOTISM AS A FUNDAMENTALIST RELIGION – WHY COUNTRIES DON’T RESIST AMERICAN IMPERIALISM TODAY
JOHN CHUCKMAN COMMENT: CLAIM TRUMP CHEAPENED POLITICAL LANGUAGE – TRUTH IS IT HAD ALREADY TOUCHED BOTTOM – TRUMP JUST ON FOR THE RIDE – E. G. HOW U.S. POLITICIANS TREAT A TRUE WAR CRIMINAL KINDLY
JOHN CHUCKMAN COMMENT: HERE WE GO AGAIN – PREPARATIONS FOR AN AMERICAN ATTACK ON SYRIA BASED ON FANTASY STORIES OF CHEMICAL WEAPONS’ USE – WHAT REALLY DRIVES THE ENTIRE HORROR IN SYRIA ARE ISRAEL’S DEMANDS ON COMPLIANT AMERICAN POLITICIANS
JOHN CHUCKMAN COMMENT: AMERICA AND SYRIA’S KURDS – JUST SOME OF THE RECORD OF AMERICAN TREACHERY IN GETTING WHAT IT WANTS FROM GULLIBLE GROUPS ABROAD
JOHN CHUCKMAN COMMENT: AMERICA’S PERVASIVE AND ENDLESSLY REPEATED FALSE CLAIMS CONTAMINATE EVEN ALTERNATIVE COMMENTARY – THE TRUTH ABOUT SYRIA’S BASHAR AL-ASSAD AND HIS RIGHT TO GOVERN
JOHN CHUCKMAN COMMENT: SOME MAD DOGS OF AMERICAN TELEVISION JOURNALISM ATTACK ONE ANOTHER OVER ONE OF THE MAD DOGS OF ALTERNATIVE JOURNALISM – WHAT BILL O’REILLY AND MEGYN KELLY AND ALEX JONES REALLY REPRESENT
JOHN CHUCKMAN COMMENT: ARE COLLEGE DEGREES BECOMING USELESS?
JOHN CHUCKMAN COMMENT: MORE TROOPS TO AFGHANISTAN? – HERE IS WHY THAT IS JUST STUPID – INDEED WHY EVER SENDING ANY TROOPS THERE IN THE FIRST PLACE WAS STUPID
JOHN CHUCKMAN COMMENT: BANK OF ENGLAND GOVERNOR SAYS BREXIT WILL MAKE BRITAIN WORSE OFF – YES BUT THE MATTER IS MORE COMPLEX THAN THAT STATEMENT IMPLIES
JOHN CHUCKMAN COMMENT: REVIEW OF A NEW BOOK CALLED THE PLOT TO SCAPEGOAT RUSSIA RAISES THOUGHTS ON THE COMPLEX AND WIDESPREAD EFFORTS OF AMERICA’S DEEP STATE – A VAST TERMITE COLONY DESTROYING POLITICAL LEGITIMACY
JOHN CHUCKMAN COMMENT: PUTTING THE THREAT OF TERROR INTO PROPER PERSPECTIVE WITH THE DAY-IN AND DAY-OUT REALITIES OF AMERICA’S OWN BRUTAL VIOLENCE – GOVERNMENT EXPLOITS FEAR TO SUPPRESS FREEDOM
JOHN CHUCKMAN COMMENT: OLIVER STONE’S ASSERTION THAT ISRAEL MEDDLES IN AMERICAN ELECTIONS FAR MORE THAN RUSSIA DOES – HE IS RIGHT OF COURSE – JUST A FEW FACTS
JOHN CHUCKMAN COMMENT: CNN AND THE WORST KIND OF JOURNALISM – ITS RECORD – THE KIND OF DIRTY MERCENARY WAR AMERICA WAGES IN SYRIA – COMPLETE WITH PHONY NGOs TO STAGE VIDEOS FOR CNN TO SHOW
JOHN CHUCKMAN COMMENT: AMERICA’S VAST PROGRAM FOR “DISAPPEARING” PEOPLE IS FOUND MOSTLY UNREPORTED – A COUNTRY WHOSE LEADERS HAVE NO ETHICS NO MORALS AND NO PRINCIPLES AND WHOSE PEOPLE SEEM NOT TO CARE
JOHN CHUCKMAN COMMENT: “TERROR-SUPPORTING” QATAR SUDDENLY SOLD $12 BILLION WORTH OF FIGHTER JETS – TRUMP’S BIZARRE AND DANGEROUS PERFORMANCE IN FOREIGN AFFAIRS – HE SHOULD RESIGN
JOHN CHUCKMAN COMMENT: IRAN’S SUPREME LEADER SAYS AMERICA CREATED ISIS (DAESH) AND THAT ITS WAR ON TERRORISTS IS A FRAUD – JUST ONE MORE VOICE ADDED TO MANY EXPRESSING THIS TRUTH
JOHN CHUCKMAN COMMENT: THE MYTH THAT ANOTHER LABOUR PARTY LEADER WOULD HAVE DONE BETTER THAN JEREMY CORBYN
JOHN CHUCKMAN COMMENT: THE ROLE OF PRIVILEGE IN AMERICAN SOCIETY – IT IS NOTHING NEW FOR LAWS NOT TO BE APPLIED TO THOSE AT THE TOP – U.S. ESTABLISHMENT RESEMBLES FRENCH ARISTOCRACY IN 1750
JOHN CHUCKMAN COMMENT: POLITICAL CORRECTNESS AS A HOPELESS TERM TO EXPLAIN ANYTHING – ESPECIALLY POLITICS AND JEREMY CORBYN
JOHN CHUCKMAN COMMENT: IRISH PRIME MINISTER WARNS BRITAIN’S THERESA MAY ABOUT DOING A DEAL WITH BELFAST’S DEMOCRATIC UNIONIST PARTY – MORE PROOF OF MAY’S GENUINE INCOMPETENCE
JOHN CHUCKMAN COMMENT: ON HILLARY STILL HAVING HER SECURITY CLEARANCE A YEAR AFTER THE FBI SAID SHE WAS CARELESS – THE REAL USE OF SECURITY SECRECY AND CLEARANCES
JOHN CHUCKMAN COMMENT: BRITISH PRESS ATTACKS ON LABOUR PARTY’S JEREMY CORBYN AS A TERROR APOLOGIST – BUT THOSE ATTACKS WERE ONLY THE LATEST AND NOT THE WORST IN A LONG SERIES OF VICIOUS ATTACKS
JOHN CHUCKMAN COMMENT: EX-CIA MAN SAYS ISRAEL NOT WORTH ONE AMERICAN LIFE OR DOLLAR – HE’S RIGHT BUT THE SIMPLE FACT IS AMERICANS ARE GIVEN NO CHOICE
JOHN CHUCKMAN COMMENT: POLITICAL ANALYSIS BY A BRITISH COLUMNIST AS MEANINGLESS FARCE – OBSERVATION ON WHAT PEOPLE IN FACT VOTE FOR
JOHN CHUCKMAN COMMENT: MARTIAL LAW IN BRITAIN? – THE COMMON ATTRIBUTION OF TERROR TO THE WRONG CAUSE – MISUSE OF THE TERM GLOBALISM – NEOCONS AND MIDEAST WARS
JOHN CHUCKMAN COMMENT: WESTERN FOREIGN POLICY AND TERROR – SUPPORTING A FRIEND OR ALLY WHEN HE IS BURNING DOWN PEOPLE’S HOMES – THERESA MAY AND AMERICA
JOHN CHUCKMAN COMMENT: WESTERN PRESS COVERAGE OF RUSSIA – THE TRUTH IS AMERICA’S ESTABLISHMENT SEES RUSSIA THE WAY ROME SAW CARTHAGE
JOHN CHUCKMAN COMMENT: FANTASY NONSENSE ABOUT A LESS POWERFUL WASHINGTON FROM ALT-RIGHT TRUE BELIEVERS
JOHN CHUCKMAN COMMENT: ELECTRIC CARS – THEIR VERY SERIOUS SHORTCOMINGS EVEN TODAY – THEY CANNOT COMPARE TO HYDROCARBON- POWERED VEHICLES WITHOUT NEW TECHNOLOGY
JOHN CHUCKMAN COMMENT: ISRAEL CONFIRMS ITS STATUS AS ONE OF THE WORLD’S MOST TWISTED PLACES – STEALING HOLY PLACES
JOHN CHUCKMAN COMMENT: AMERICA’S TOTAL POLITICAL PARALYSIS – BOTH PARTIES ARE SHIPWRECKS – POLITICS WITHOUT MEANING – BUT MAYBE THAT’S JUST WHAT THE UNELECTED GOVERNMENT WANTS – WAR LOOMS
JOHN CHUCKMAN COMMENT: AUTHORITIES TIPPED OFF NUMEROUS TIMES ABOUT MANCHESTER BOMBER – WHAT THIS EVENT REALLY TELLS US ABOUT POLICE AND THE MILITARY AND DEALING WITH VIOLENCE NOT JUST TERROR
JOHN CHUCKMAN COMMENT: AMERICA CREATES A PROBLEM IN EUROPE THEN IMPOSES ITS SERVICES AND DEMANDS BEING PAID FOR DOING SO – FORGOTTEN ARE 1775 AND BUNKER HILL AS AMERICA BECOMES THE NEW HESSIANS
JOHN CHUCKMAN COMMENT: DIA CHIEF ASSERTS NORTH KOREAN MISSILE STRIKE ON AMERICAN MAINLAND IS INEVITABLE – IT’S REALLY CALLED TELLING OFFICIALS WHAT THEY WANT TO HEAR SO YOU’LL KEEP YOUR JOB
JOHN CHUCKMAN COMMENT: JAMES WATSON WILLIAM SHOCKLEY AND THE OLD IQ DEBATE – CALLING SOMEONE RACIST OR ANOTHER NAME WITHOUT BASIS IS AN AMERICAN TRADITION – TRUMP AND LINCOLN EXPERIENCED IT – WHAT GENUINE PREJUDICE IS
JOHN CHUCKMAN COMMENT: CALL IT “THE DEEP STATE” OR SOMETHING ELSE THIS IS IN FACT WHAT AMERICA IS – YOU CANNOT DISTINGUISH THE TWO – NIKKI HALEY AND ORWELL – AMERICAN DOUBLETHINK AND AMERICAN HISTORY
JOHN CHUCKMAN COMMENT: SOMEONE ASKS WHAT IS WRONG WITH THERESA MAY’S STRATEGY ON TERROR – HERE IS THE SIMPLE AND HONEST ANSWER
JOHN CHUCKMAN COMMENT: HERE IS WHAT YOU NEED TO KNOW TO FIND YOUR WAY THROUGH A DELIBERATELY-CONSTRUCTED MAZE OF CONFUSION ABOUT MODERN TERROR
JOHN CHUCKMAN COMMENT: COVERAGE FOR THE MANCHESTER BOMBING GOES INTO OVERDRIVE SERVING TO BOOST SUPPORT FOR GOVERNMENT’S FILTHY POLICIES – SOME HARD PERSPECTIVE ON THE EVENT
JOHN CHUCKMAN COMMENT: A SMALL NOTE ON DETAILS OF TRUMP’S VISIT TO THE CENTERS OF THREE RELIGIONS
JOHN CHUCKMAN COMMENT: TRUMP SEEN TRYING TO UNITE SAUDIS AND ISRAELIS AGAINST IRAN – I GUESS HE MISSED THE FACT THEY ALREADY ARE – DOES AMERICA WANT ANOTHER BIG MIDEAST WAR ? ISRAEL SURE DOES – SHIA VERSUS SUNNI MUSLIMS
JOHN CHUCKMAN COMMENT: SHAMELESS CALL TO ASSASSINATE A PRESIDENT AND ATTACK OTHERS BY ISRAEL’S THUG GOVERNMENT – AND NOT THE FIRST TIME
JOHN CHUCKMAN COMMENT: EVERYTHING YOU NEED TO KNOW ABOUT A WASHINGTON SPECIAL PROSECUTOR’S APPOINTMENT, THE POSSIBILITY OF IMPEACHMENT, AND WHAT DRIVES THE WHOLE TRULY LUNATIC SPECTACLE
JOHN CHUCKMAN COMMENT: A FEW WORDS ABOUT THE WASHINGTON POST AS A SOURCE – AND WASHINGTON’S POWER ELITES MIMICKING THE CAST OF A 1960s’ BRITISH “CARRY ON” COMEDY
JOHN CHUCKMAN COMMENT: THE TRUMP-RUSSIA CIRCUS ROLLS RIGHT ON WITH ISRAEL NOW SAID TO BE SOURCE OF CLASSIFIED INFORMATION SHARED WITH RUSSIA
JOHN CHUCKMAN COMMENT: AMERICA SET TO SELL $100 BILLION IN WEAPONS TO ONE OF THE MOST BACKWARD GOVERNMENTS ON EARTH – WHY? SOME FACTS ABOUT SAUDI ARABIA
JOHN CHUCKMAN COMMENT: BRITAIN’S JEREMY CORBYN QUOTED AS SAYING BRITAIN HAS NOT FOUGHT A JUST WAR SINCE 1945 – BRAVO – WE HAVE ALMOST NO LEADERS ADMITTING SUCH TRUTHS
JOHN CHUCKMAN COMMENT: BERNIE SANDERS PROVES HIS MEDIOCRITY YET AGAIN ON THE JAMES COMEY FIRING – FACTS MISSING IN NIXON WATERGATE COMPARISONS
JOHN CHUCKMAN COMMENT: CHEAP-TRICK JOURNALIST ATTACKS HONEST POLITICIAN CORBYN BY WRITING ABOUT BRITISH POLITICIANS IN GENERAL NOT BEING UP TO THE JOB
JOHN CHUCKMAN COMMENT: FRANCE’S MACRON BLAMES MISOGYNY FOR TALK OF HIS OLDER WIFE – HE MISSES THE POINT – NOT MISOGYNY BUT FAIR CONCERN OVER PEDOPHILIA AND STUDENT-TEACHER SEX – OUR FIRST MEASURE OF A POLISHED MEDIOCRITY
JOHN CHUCKMAN COMMENT: CORPORATE CONCENTRATION GIVES AN ILLUSION OF CHOICE IN BUYING – MORE IMPORTANTLY IT GIVES AN ILLUSION OF DEMOCRACY IN GOVERNMENT
JOHN CHUCKMAN COMMENT: U.S. AND DICTATORS GET ALONG JUST FINE BUT THEY MUST BE “OUR” DICTATORS – HERE IS A NAIVE JOURNALIST WHO DOESN’T EVEN KNOW HIS SUBJECT
JOHN CHUCKMAN COMMENT: YET ANOTHER WINDBAG AMERICAN GENERAL SOUNDS OFF ABOUT RUSSIA – RUSSIA’S DEFENSE MINISTRY ASKS WHY SUCH BLOWHARDS ARE HIRED – ANSWER GOES TO ROOTS OF AMERICAN CULTURE
JOHN CHUCKMAN COMMENT: AMERICA LOSING WORLD LEADERSHIP – EUROPE COULD REPLACE IT E.U.’S MOGHERINI SAYS – THERE IS SOME TRUTH IN THAT – BUT EUROPE HAS JUST NO LEADERSHIP
JOHN CHUCKMAN COMMENT: CHEAP PRESS TRICK OF COMMISSIONING AN IFFY POLL TO SUPPORT WHAT THEY ADVOCATE REPEATED YET AGAIN WITH CORBYN IN BRITAIN
JOHN CHUCKMAN COMMENT: AMERICA’S STATE DEPARTMENT COOPERATES IN ISRAEL’S NASTY GAME OF CALLING ITS CRITICS NAMES – IN THIS CASE THE CRITICS ARE AMERICA’S OWN CITIZENS
JOHN CHUCKMAN COMMENT: HILLARY’S SHABBY RUSSIA SCRIPT IS RE-CYCLED IN GERMANY – EUROPE’S LEADERS TODAY LITTLE MORE THAN A GANG OF SCHOOL KIDS YELLING AMERICAN SLOGANS
JOHN CHUCKMAN COMMENT: SOMETHING ABOUT NORTH KOREA AND THE UNITED STATES EVERYONE SHOULD READ – UGLY TRUTHS NEVER COVERED BY OUR PRESS
JOHN CHUCKMAN COMMENT: FBI’S JAMES COMEY CALLS RUSSIA GREATEST THREAT ON EARTH – INTERPRETING WORDS FROM A MAN WHO HAS AMPLY PROVED HIMSELF A COMPLETE ASS – SAD HISTORICAL RECORD OF THE FBI
JOHN CHUCKMAN COMMENT: NEW BOOK SAYS WRITER HEMINGWAY WAS A SOVIET SPY – THE PERSPECTIVE WE NEED FOR ALL SUCH CLAIMS ESPECIALLY WHEN WRITTEN BY EX-CIA OFFICIALS AT A TIME OF AMERICA’S SECOND WAVE OF ANTI-RUSSIAN HYSTERIA
JOHN CHUCKMAN COMMENT: WITH PRINCE PHILIP’S COMING RETIREMENT IT WILL BE TIME TO RETIRE THE ENTIRE BRITISH ROYAL FAMILY
JOHN CHUCKMAN COMMENT: TRUMP IS NO LONGER RUNNING THE SHOW – MORE ON THE CIA AND AMERICA’S PRESIDENTS – A DEMOCRATIC SOCIETY CANNOT HAVE A CIA
JOHN CHUCKMAN COMMENT: A FEW OBSERVATIONS ON BRITAIN’S TONY BLAIR AND THE INEFFECTUAL EFFORT TO RECLAIM HIM AS A WORTHY POLITICAL FIGURE
JOHN CHUCKMAN COMMENT: SOME FACTS AND HISTORY CONCERNING AMERICA’S DANGEROUS AND DISHONEST POSITION IN NORTH KOREA – THE PENTAGON AND NUCLEAR WAR
JOHN CHUCKMAN COMMENT: HOW THE SECURITY SERVICES ASSISTED BY THE CORPORATE PRESS TURNED AN ELECTED PRESIDENT INTO A BIZARRE VERSION OF THE DEFEATED CANDIDATE – SO MUCH FOR ELECTIONS IN AMERICA
JOHN CHUCKMAN COMMENT: WIKIPEDIA TAKES UP THE CAUSE OF FIGHTING “FAKE NEWS” – JOINING AMERICA’S OTHER INTERNET GIANTS IN A PHONY CRUSADE FOR WHICH NONE OF THEM IS THE LEAST QUALIFIED
JOHN CHUCKMAN COMMENT: WHAT SO MANY AMERICANS SIMPLY DO NOT UNDERSTAND ABOUT THEIR OWN COUNTRY – PARALLELS OF AMERICA TODAY WITH 16TH CENTURY CHURCH
JOHN CHUCKMAN COMMENT: WHY ISRAEL HATES HAMAS – IT COMES FROM THE SAME PLACE AS ALL ITS OTHER RELATIONSHIPS WITH NEIGHBORS: EXTREME DISCOMFORT WITH REAL DEMOCRACY
JOHN CHUCKMAN COMMENT: THE GUGGENHEIM MUSEUM IN BILBAO OFFERED AS AN EXAMPLE OF GREAT NEW ARCHITECTURE GIVING FRESH LIFE TO TIRED PLACES – WHY THIS IS NOT SO
JOHN CHUCKMAN COMMENT: IN FIFTY YEARS AMERICA’S TWO BOUTS OF MASS KILLING AND DESTRUCTION – HOW THE WEST HAS CHANGED IN ITS REACTIONS OVER THAT TIME
JOHN CHUCKMAN COMMENT: PATRIOT-TYPES WHO DREAM OF REBELLION – MINDS COMICALLY STUCK IN TWO CENTURIES AGO – AND THE COMPLETE AND DEVASTATING FAILURE OF TRUMP TO DO EVEN ONE WORTHWHILE THING
JOHN CHUCKMAN COMMENT: ELECTION ACCUSATION AGAINST LE PEN USING “TERROR FEARS” SILLY – THAT’S ALL WESTERN POLITICIANS HAVE DONE FOR 15 YEARS WHILE THEIR GOVERNMENTS PAY TERRORIST MERCENARIES TO CREATE HELL IN OTHER PLACES
JOHN CHUCKMAN COMMENT: ON AHMADINEJAD BEING BARRED FROM RUNNING AGAIN FOR PRESIDENT OF IRAN – THE REASON FOR ISRAEL’S CONTINUING HOSTILITY TOWARDS IRAN
JOHN CHUCKMAN COMMENT: ISRAEL’S 1967 ATTACK ON INTELLIGENCE SHIP U.S.S. LIBERTY DURING ITS SIX DAY WAR OF CONQUEST – THE ONLY MYSTERY HAS ALWAYS BEEN LYNDON JOHNSON’S BIZARRE REACTION – WHAT HE CREATED
JOHN CHUCKMAN COMMENT: BRITAIN’S PRINCE HARRY – THE PRESS KEEPS TRYING TO GAIN PUBLIC SYMPATHY FOR THIS UNPLEASANT AND UNBALANCED MAN WITH RUBBISH ABOUT SUFFERING FROM THE LOSS OF HIS MOTHER
JOHN CHUCKMAN COMMENT: WE LIVE IN THE MOST DISHONEST AND HYPOCRITICAL AND VIOLENT TIMES – WHY? – HINT: IT HAS NOTHING TO DO WITH RUSSIA OR THE PRESIDENT OF SYRIA – THE DARK FANTASIES OF 1984 SURPASSED BY A NEW GLOBAL REALITY
JOHN CHUCKMAN COMMENT: A PROFESSOR SAYS KIM JONG UN AND DONALD TRUMP ARE BOTH UNSTABLE BULLIES – WHY THE ANALYSIS IS WEAK AND MISSES THE POINT WITH TRUMP
JOHN CHUCKMAN COMMENT: WHY A RUNAWAY EX-SYRIAN GENERAL’S CLAIM ABOUT TONNES OF CHEMICALS IN SYRIA IS GARBAGE – AND ANOTHER TRUE STORY ABOUT CHEMICALS AND SYRIA IS ALWAYS IGNORED BY CORPORATE PRESS
JOHN CHUCKMAN COMMENT: ALL THAT’S FIT TO PRINT ABOUT THE GOOD SHIP NEW YORK TIMES AND ITS GROTESQUE BOW FIGUREHEAD THOMAS FRIEDMAN – NOTE ON PULITZER PRIZES
JOHN CHUCKMAN COMMENT: WHY YOU MIGHT THINK THE MAFIA RUNS AMERICAN FOREIGN AFFAIRS – BUT THE OUTFIT REALLY RUNNING THINGS MAKES THE MAFIA SEEM PIKERS – JUST WHY THINGS ARE AS THEY ARE
JOHN CHUCKMAN COMMENT: TULSI GABBARD IS THAT RAREST OF THINGS: AN AMERICAN POLITICIAN WHO THINKS FOR HERSELF AND IS HONEST – THAT IS WHY SHE CAN HAVE NO SERIOUS POLITICAL FUTURE
JOHN CHUCKMAN COMMENT: PUTIN’S PUT-DOWN OF NATO SUPPORT FOR AMERICAN ILLEGAL BOMBING: “NODDING LIKE BOBBLEHEADS” – SADLY CANADA’S DISAPPOINTING TRUDEAU FITS THE DESCRIPTION PERFECTLY
JOHN CHUCKMAN COMMENT: POSSIBILITY SYRIAN GAS ATTACK WAS A FRAUD – WHITE HELMETS ALWAYS DOUBTFUL ACTORS – ANOTHER POSSIBILITY – INTEGRITY OF CORPORATE JOURNALISM IS NON-EXISTENT TODAY
JOHN CHUCKMAN COMMENT: EVERYTHING YOU NEED TO KNOW ABOUT SYRIA AND AMERICA’S NEW COLD WAR WITH RUSSIA – AS AMERICA’S ESTABLISHMENT FIGHTS TO CONTROL THE EARTH – AN END TO RIGHTS AND FREEDOMS AS WE KNEW THEM IN A BRAVE NEW WORLD
JOHN CHUCKMAN COMMENT: NETANYAHU GIVEN BOX SEAT TO VIEW TRUMP’S BOMBING OF SYRIA – HOW FITTING IS THAT? HE IS ONE OF THE BEGETTERS AND THE MAIN BENEFICIARY OF AMERICA’S HORRORS
JOHN CHUCKMAN COMMENT: FORMER BRITISH AMBASSADOR GIVES ONE OF THE CLEAREST AND MOST CONCISE ASSESSMENTS YOU WILL EVER SEE OF TRUMP’S SITUATION NOW
JOHN CHUCKMAN COMMENT: COMPLETE DEGRADATION OF A SELF-STYLED GREAT NATION WHICH ALLOWS PAID THUGS TO USE POISON GAS TO GIVE IT AN EXCUSE FOR STILL MORE KILLING – THE DARK PLACE WE ARE BROUGHT TO BY TRUMP’S PATHETIC SURRENDER TO THE CIA AND PENTAGON – RUSSIA AND CHINA
JOHN CHUCKMAN COMMENT: ATTACKING PEOPLE WITH FLEETS OF MISSILES BEFORE YOU HAVE ANY FACTS ABOUT WHAT HAPPENED – TRUMP REDUCED TO MEANINGLESS FIGURE – AMERICAN AGGRESSION ON ISRAEL’S BEHALF KNOWS NO BOUNDS
JOHN CHUCKMAN COMMENT: TRUMP’S FRIGHTENING TURNAROUND ON SYRIA – A STRONG SIGNAL ABOUT WHO REALLY RUNS THE SHOW – THE NIGHTMARE WORLD AMERICA IS BUILDING WILL ONLY GET MORE NIGHTMARISH – HERE IS WHAT IS GOING ON
JOHN CHUCKMAN COMMENT: THE POISON GAS ATTACK AT IDLIB SYRIA – FIRST THOUGHTS – THE PRESS’S RELENTLESS DISHONESTY ABOUT SUCH HORRORS
JOHN CHUCKMAN COMMENT: RUSSIA MOVES TO BAN JEHOVAH’S WITNESSES – THE COMPLETE MISINTERPRETATION IN OUR PRESS – THERE ARE GENUINE SECURITY CONCERNS FOR RUSSIA WHERE STRANGERS MOVE AROUND KNOCKING ON DOORS
JOHN CHUCKMAN COMMENT: U.N. AMBASSADOR NIKKI HALEY DISTINGUISHES HERSELF AGAIN BY TELLING EVERYONE “AMERICA IS THE WORLD’S MORAL CONSCIENCE” AND SHE WILL STRIVE TO MAKE THE U.N. A TOOL FOR “AMERICAN VALUES”
JOHN CHUCKMAN COMMENT: TRUMP’S APPOINTMENT OF NIKKI HALEY AT THE UN – JUST ABOUT AS UNTHINKING AND DISHONEST AS OBAMA’S SAMANTHA POWER
JOHN CHUCKMAN COMMENT: SUGGESTIVE NATO WAR GAMES IN GERMANY USING HIRED RUSSIAN-SPEAKERS – DOES THE AGGRESSIVE STUPIDITY EVER STOP?
JOHN CHUCKMAN COMMENT: MIKE FLYNN IMMUNITY AND THE ENTIRE STUPID SPECTACLE OF TRIBAL CHANTS ABOUT RUSSIA AND TRUMP
JOHN CHUCKMAN COMMENT: WHEN AGGRESSION AND THEFT ARE GIVEN SEEMINGLY-HARMLESS NAMES – ONE SMALL DARK CORNER OF AMERICA’S GROWING STATUS AS WORLD BULLY – EMPIRE AND DECENCY CANNOT COEXIST – ISRAEL AS A MINIATURE COPY OF AMERICA’S SITUATION
JOHN CHUCKMAN COMMENT: AMERICA’S POLITICS WITHOUT MEANING – THE FUNDAMENTAL QUESTIONS ABOUT THE COUNTRY’S MODERN STRUCTURE WHICH NO AMERICAN FROM PATRIOT-TYPE TO SELF-PROCLAIMED SOCIALIST DARES RAISE
JOHN CHUCKMAN COMMENT: ISIS THREATENS IRAN FOR A HILARIOUS REASON – WHAT ISIS AND AL-NUSRA REALLY ARE AND THE PURPOSE THEY SERVE – UNDERSTANDING TERROR TODAY – COMPLETE DISHONESTY ABOUT IT BECAUSE IT IS ACTUALLY A TOOL FOR GAIN WHILE ENDING AWKWARD RIGHTS
JOHN CHUCKMAN COMMENT: THE MEANING OF AMERICA’S BOMBING FOUR BRIDGES TO RAQQA SYRIA – JUST MORE PROOF TRUMP IS TOAST IN FOREIGN AFFAIRS – ISRAEL WILL GET AT LEAST PARTLY ITS WAY
JOHN CHUCKMAN COMMENT: AMERICA’S CIVILIAN SLAUGHTER IN MOSUL – JUST AN AMERICAN BOMBING TRADITION – THE PRESS DELAY IN REPORTING – THE SLANT GIVEN WHEN REPORTED – COMPARE CORPORATE PRESS FAKE NEWS AROUND RUSSIA’S EFFORTS IN SYRIA
JOHN CHUCKMAN COMMENT: THE COMING MULTI-POLAR WORLD AND AMERICA’S IMPERIAL DECLINE – A DANGEROUS TIME IN THE MEANTIME MUCH LIKE THE SITUATION IN ISRAEL
JOHN CHUCKMAN COMMENT: HOW GOVERNMENT EXPLOITS MURDER FOR ITS OWN ENDS – THE TRUTH ABOUT THE LONDON INCIDENT – IT WAS NO MORE TERROR THAN JACK THE RIPPER WAS
JOHN CHUCKMAN COMMENT: WHY DO ONE-THIRD OF ISRAEL’S PEOPLE WANT TO LEAVE AS DISCOVERED IN A RECENT POLL?
JOHN CHUCKMAN COMMENT: CORPORATE JOURNALISM’S WAR WITH TRUTH – AND WHERE RUSSIA IS CONCERNED IT SEEMS THERE CAN BE NO SURRENDER
JOHN CHUCKMAN COMMENT: SCRAPING THE BOTTOM OF THE JOURNALISTS’ BARREL – “THE MOST FAILED FIRST 100 DAYS EVER” SAYS A HISTORIAN WHO SHOULD KNOW BETTER – USING PULP FOR NEWS
JOHN CHUCKMAN COMMENT: A CASE OF ASININITY ON BOTH SIDES OF THE ATLANTIC – LONDON MAYOR SADIQ KHAN RESPONDING TO DONALD TRUMP JUNIOR’S SILLY COMMENT
JOHN CHUCKMAN COMMENT: SILLY CLAIM THAT LONDON NEEDS A MUSLIM MAYOR NOW MORE THAN EVER – AND HERE IS WHAT LOGICALLY FOLLOWS FROM THE BRAINLESS IDEA OF ISLAM AS A VIOLENT ANCIENT IDEOLOGY
JOHN CHUCKMAN COMMENT: THE WAR OF RHETORIC BETWEEN TURKEY’S ERDOGAN AND GERMANY’S MERKEL – AND HERE ARE THE ROOTS OF EUROPE’S MAJOR PROBLEMS TODAY
JOHN CHUCKMAN COMMENT: ON FOREIGN STATES INTERFERING IN THE INTERNAL POLITICS AND ELECTIONS OF OTHERS – DETAILS OF THE WORLD’S MOST ACUTE AND TERRIFYING EXAMPLE: ISRAEL AND AMERICA
JOHN CHUCKMAN COMMENT: ANOTHER SERMON ON PREVENTING CLIMATE CHANGE – THE ONLY SENSIBLE COURSE TO PURSUE REGARDING THE REALITY OF CLIMATE CHANGE
JOHN CHUCKMAN COMMENT: MY NOMINATION FOR STUPID STORY OF THE YEAR – GEORGE BUSH’S “ETHICS LAWYER”? – A NOTE ON THE MORONIC USE OF HITLER MUSTACHES
JOHN CHUCKMAN COMMENT: CORPORATE PRESS PROPAGANDA – RUSSIA’S MILITARY EXERCISE IN CRIMEA AND STUFF ABOUT RUSSIAN CRIMINAL FUNDS IN BRITAIN
JOHN CHUCKMAN COMMENT: TILLERSON SPEAKS OF POSSIBLE NUCLEARIZATION OF ASIAN ALLIES – AN IRRESPONSIBLE THREAT – A LIST OF WHAT IT IS ALREADY THAT THREATENS NORTH KOREA
JOHN CHUCKMAN COMMENT: TRUMP SETS A NEW SPEED RECORD FOR TURNING FROM BOLD NOTIONS TO EXECUTIVE COWARDICE SERVING THE SAME OLD TIRED AND DESTRUCTIVE ESTABLISHMENT INTERESTS
JOHN CHUCKMAN COMMENT: ISRAEL THREATENS TO DESTROY SYRIA’S AIR DEFENCES WITHOUT HESITATION – ARROGANCE BEYOND BELIEF – THE MASS MURDER OF THE NEOCON WARS – THE CIVILIZED WORLD TURNED UPSIDE DOWN
JOHN CHUCKMAN COMMENT: A BRAVE WOMAN DEFIES THE UN’S NEW AMERICAN-DRIVEN SECRETARY-GENERAL BY RESIGNING RATHER THAN WITHDRAWING AN HONEST REPORT ON ISRAELI POLICIES – AMERICA HAS REDUCED THE UN TO A PARODY
JOHN CHUCKMAN COMMENT: THE INDEPENDENT OFFERS EXCELLENT EXAMPLE OF THE DISHONESTY OF OUR PRESS – YOU DO NOT HAVE TO LIKE TRUMP TO DISLIKE THIS KIND OF REPORTING ABOUT HIM
JOHN CHUCKMAN COMMENT: QUESTION-BEGGING COLUMN SAYS SYRIA’S REBELS ASK WHETHER SIX YEARS OF REVOLUTION HAVE BEEN WORTH IT – BUT THERE IS NO REVOLUTION IN SYRIA – NOTE ON OUR PRESS’S TREATMENT OF SYRIA
JOHN CHUCKMAN COMMENT: NOW WE KNOW FOR SURE NOTHING WORTH CHANGING WILL CHANGE WITH TRUMP – EXCEPT FOR RANTS ABOUT PRESS AND MIGRANTS YOU MIGHT AS WELL HAVE OBAMA OR EVEN HILLARY – U.S. ELECTIONS JUST DON’T MATTER
JOHN CHUCKMAN COMMENT: TRUMP MEETS SAUDI DEPUTY CROWN PRINCE AND WE HEAR CHARGE OF MEETING MY HUSBAND’S MURDERER FROM A 9/11 WIDOW – BUT SAUDIS HAD NOTHING TO DO WITH IT AND FACTS SUGGESTING INSIDE JOB ARE IGNORED
JOHN CHUCKMAN COMMENT: AMERICAN SECRETARY OF DEFENSE MATTIS SAYS CHANGING CLIMATE AFFECTS SECURITY – THIS IS NOT NEWS – CLIMATE CHANGE IS VERY OLD STUFF – BUT WE STILL CAN’T SAY HUMANITY CAUSED IT OR CAN ALTER IT IF IT DID
JOHN CHUCKMAN COMMENT: MORE ON THE APPOINTMENT OF CHRYSTIA FREELAND AS CANADA’S FOREIGN MINISTER – A FEW OBSERVATIONS ON JUSTIN TRUDEAU AS PRIME MINISTER
JOHN CHUCKMAN COMMENT: THE SHEER LUNACY OF TALKING ABOUT THE PROGRESSIVE AGENDA IN AMERICA – AMERICA HAS BECOME A PLACE WHERE ALMOST ALL POLITICAL STATEMENTS HAVE NO MEANING
JOHN CHUCKMAN COMMENT: REPUBLICAN STEVE KING PROVIDES A PRIZE EXAMPLE OF THE CONFUSED AND INDEED MEANINGLESS RHETORIC OF AMERICAN POLITICS – ON MIGRATION AND BIRTH RATES
JOHN CHUCKMAN COMMENT: BRITAIN’S NEW MONUMENT TO AFGHANISTAN AND IRAQ – WE HAVE FAKE NEWS SO WHY NOT FAKE MONUMENTS? – A TONY BLAIR VISION OF INSPIRATION DEDICATED TO MASS MURDER – A WORD ON THE TWO COUNTRIES INVADED FOR NOTHING
JOHN CHUCKMAN COMMENT: CIA IS THE POWER ESTABLISHMENT’S ARMY OF THUGS – AN OPEN ENEMY OF FREEDOM – IT’S NOT GOING AWAY OR BEING DIMINISHED ANYTIME SOON – TRUMP HAS MADE NO EFFORT TO CHANGE ANYTHING THERE
JOHN CHUCKMAN COMMENT: SUCKED INTO THE SWAMP – THREAT OF FURTHER WAR IN MIDEAST – WHY OTHERS IN THE WORLD GET THE IMPRESSION AMERICANS JUST LOVE WAR AND KILLING – WHAT VIETNAM DID
JOHN CHUCKMAN COMMENT: THE UN AS CELEBRITY ENTERTAINMENT VENUE – KNOW-NOTHING SPEECHES WITH RED CARPETS AND COCKTAILS – APPLAUSE FOR IGNORANCE – BUT THE IGNORANCE SERVES AMERICAN IMPERIAL AIMS IN AN EMASCULATED INSTITUTION – ISIS AND GENOCIDE
JOHN CHUCKMAN COMMENT: THE AGE OF TRUMP AND 21ST CENTURY FASCISM – PEOPLE WHO CANNOT DISTINGUISH BETWEEN ELECTIONS AND FASCISM SHOULD NOT WRITE ARTICLES – REMARKS ON FRANCE’S LE PEN
JOHN CHUCKMAN COMMENT: ABUSING A PROFESSIONAL POSITION – SOME PSYCHIATRY PROFESSORS WANT TRUMP REMOVED – WELL THE CIA ALWAYS DID FIND SOME OF THESE GUYS TO ASSIST IN ITS DARK PROGRAMS AND BLOODSHED
JOHN CHUCKMAN COMMENT: SECOND-RATE REPORTERS USING WORDS THEY DON’T UNDERSTAND – AND TRUMP’S OBAMA ACCUSATIONS PLUS WIKILEAKS’ VAULT 7 OPEN ONE OF THE DARKEST MATTERS OF OUR TIME: THE VERY FUTURE OF DEMOCRATIC GOVERNMENT MAY BE AT RISK
JOHN CHUCKMAN COMMENT: OLD PHONY AND CIA-SHILL DAN RATHER CITED SECOND TIME RECENTLY AGAINST TRUMP – FAKE NEWS FROM ONE OF THE CORPORATE PRESS’S OLD EXPERTS IN FAKERY – THE RECORD ON THE ZAPRUDER FILM
JOHN CHUCKMAN COMMENT: YES OBAMA IS RESPONSIBLE FOR CRIMEA AND THE MESS IN UKRAINE – JUST PART OF HIS RECKLESS FOREIGN POLICY WHICH KILLED HUNDREDS OF THOUSANDS AND LEFT MILLIONS HOMELESS – YET CORPORATE PRESS STILL TREATS HIM AS MR. GOOD GUY
JOHN CHUCKMAN COMMENT: ON THE GREAT MYSTERY OF INTENSE HOSTILITY TOWARDS LIBERALS IN AMERICA – IT MUCH RESEMBLES ISRAEL – MORE ON OBAMA’S PAST AND HIS ALMOST CERTAIN PHONE-TAPPING OF TRUMP
JOHN CHUCKMAN COMMENT: ON QUOTING THE FOUNDING FATHERS – THE NATURE OF AMERICA’S CIVIC RELIGION (A.K.A. PATRIOTISM) AND JUST WHY IT IS SUCH A DANGEROUS FAITH IN TODAY’S WORLD – A FORM OF ULTRA-ORTHODOXY TO HELP THE ESTABLISHMENT KEEP DOING THE AWFUL THINGS IT DOES
JOHN CHUCKMAN COMMENT: THE GO-NOWHERE ARGUMENT REPEATED ABOUT WHO WAS THERE FIRST IN THE HOLY LAND – AN IMPORTANT LIST OF FACTS FOR CLEAR THINKING ABOUT THE EXISTING MESS IN THE MIDDLE EAST
JOHN CHUCKMAN COMMENT: THE PHONY AND OFTEN-REPEATED IDEA OF LEFT VERSUS RIGHT BEING BEHIND TODAY’S POLITICAL PROBLEMS – NO IT IS REALLY BLOCKHEADS ARGUING WHAT THEY DO NOT UNDERSTAND
JOHN CHUCKMAN COMMENT: TRUMP’S CLAIMS OF OBAMA WIRETAPS – SOME SPECULATION ON THE REAL NATURE OF OBAMA’S CHARACTER AND PAST ASSOCIATIONS
JOHN CHUCKMAN COMMENT: A NEW ATTACK BOOK ON EDWARD SNOWDEN – WELL WHO BETTER TO WRITE IT THAN THAT OLD CIA SCRIPTWRITER EDWARD JAY EPSTEIN? AN AUTHOR WITH AN ENTIRE CAREER BUILT ON MANUFACTURING DISINFORMATION
JOHN CHUCKMAN COMMENT: AH THAT FAVORITE BUGBEAR OF CONSPIRACY THEORY RAISED YET AGAIN – NOW TRUMP IS THE CONSPIRACY-THEORY PRESIDENT – ON THE WASHINGTON POST AND JEFF BEZOS AND THE CIA
JOHN CHUCKMAN COMMENT: COLUMNIST SAYS BE PATIENT ABOUT TRUMP’S NOT YET PURGING WASHINGTON’S “POWER MINISTRIES”- I HOPE HE IS RIGHT BUT HERE IS EXACTLY WHY I TEND TO DOUBT IT
JOHN CHUCKMAN COMMENT: YET MORE IGNORANT GOSSIP AND INNUENDO ABOUT TRUMP AND RUSSIA – THIS ALL REMINDS ME OF INSANE PAST AMERICAN CAMPAIGNS AGAINST PROCTER & GAMBLE OR HARRY POTTER CHARGING DEVIL WORSHIP – IT REALLY IS THAT DUMB
JOHN CHUCKMAN COMMENT: MORE IDIOTIC CHARGES OF TRUMP LINKS WITH RUSSIA – WHAT IS REALLY GOING ON
JOHN CHUCKMAN COMMENT: EU PARLIAMENT MAKES ITSELF EVEN MORE RIDICULOUS BY REMOVING SPEECH IMMUNITY FROM MEMBER MARINE LE PEN – BUT LACK OF LEADERSHIP IS WHY WE SEE EU CRUMBLING BEFORE OUR EYES
JOHN CHUCKMAN COMMENT: YOU SIMPLY CANNOT BELIEVE WHAT YOU HEAR FROM ISRAEL – PHONY TERROR CLAIMS AND ISRAEL’S HATRED FOR DEMOCRACY IN ANY OF ITS NEIGHBORS
JOHN CHUCKMAN COMMENT: BERNIE SANDERS CALLS FOR MAJOR OVERHAUL OF DEMOCRATIC PARTY – SHOWING HOW INEFFECTIVE A LEADER HE WOULD HAVE BEEN – NEITHER PARTY CAPABLE OF SERIOUS CHANGE – BUT PARTIES ARE ONLY TOOLS NOT CAUSES – AMERICA’S FUNDAMENTAL FLAW IS ELSEWHERE
JOHN CHUCKMAN COMMENT: SLOGANS AND PARTY PLATFORMS MATTER ALMOST NOT AT ALL – THE TRUE MEASURE OF A POTENTIAL LEADER IS HIS OR HER INTEGRITY
JOHN CHUCKMAN COMMENT: EVERYTHING YOU NEED TO KNOW ABOUT PRESS BIAS, FAKE NEWS, DISHONEST JOURNALISM, TRUE COSTS OF KEEPING YOURSELF INFORMED, AND EVEN THE BIASED NATURE OF THE INFORMATION FROM INTELLIGENCE AGENCIES
JOHN CHUCKMAN COMMENT: SOME IMPORTANT DEFICIENCIES OF THE AMERICAN CONSTITUTION – NO, DEAR PATRIOTS IT WAS NOT IMMACULATELY CONCEIVED AND IS NOT PERFECT – THE PRESIDENT’S ROLE AS COMMANDER-IN-CHIEF AND CONGRESS’S EXCLUSIVE RIGHT TO DECLARE WAR
JOHN CHUCKMAN COMMENT: WRITER CLAIMS THERE ARE SHOCKING NEW POWERS FOR AMERICAN POLICE – I DON’T SEE HOW YOU COULD POSSIBLY MAKE AMERICAN POLICE ANY MORE UNPLEASANT AND THREATENING THAN THEY ALREADY ARE – AMERICA IS JUST AN EXTREMELY BRUTAL PLACE AND ALWAYS READY FOR WAR
JOHN CHUCKMAN COMMENT: NEW HIGH HOMICIDE LEVELS IN SEVERAL AMERICAN CITIES – WHAT IS GOING ON?
JOHN CHUCKMAN COMMENT: COMMENTS ON “COLOR REVOLUTIONS” AND THE NEOCON WARS – AMERICA’S DESCENT INTO MADNESS – DARK AGE AHEAD – ISRAEL’S ROLE – TRUMP DOES NOT APPEAR ABLE TO CHANGE COURSE
JOHN CHUCKMAN COMMENT: IS TRUMP DRAINING THE SWAMP OR DROWNING IN IT? – ONE OF THE NASTIEST PIECES OF WORK IN WASHINGTON (aka JOHN BOLTON) IS SAID TO BE OFFERED A POST – JUST THE LATEST IN A DISTURBING SERIES OF BAD SIGNS
JOHN CHUCKMAN COMMENT: IMAGINE MY SURPRISE AT A CORPORATE JOURNALIST SAYING THE PRESS IS DOING ITS JOB “BRILLIANTLY”- AN EXPLANATION FOR THE SINKING REALITY OF A CORPORATE PRESS INDUSTRY – WHY IT CANNOT CHANGE – BEING SUPPLANTED BY NEW FORMS – FOR BOTH BETTER AND WORSE
JOHN CHUCKMAN COMMENT: POLITICAL TALES FROM RENTOULAND – A PLACE WHERE WINNING BY-ELECTIONS IS BAD SO LONG AS THE PARTY LEADER’S NAME HAPPENS TO BE CORBYN
JOHN CHUCKMAN COMMENT: THE SELECTIVE OUTRAGE OF BERNIE SANDERS AND THE CORPORATE PRESS’S EXPLOITATION OF IT – ANOTHER LIFETIME POLITICIAN COMPLAINING ABOUT RULES HE NEVER WORKED TO CHANGE
JOHN CHUCKMAN COMMENT: TRUMP NAMES SOME PRESS AS ENEMIES OF THE PEOPLE – AN EXAGGERATION CONTAINING A GREAT DEAL OF TRUTH – HERE ARE THE REAL REASONS FOR THIS SITUATION – I WISH HIM WELL BUT CHANGING IT IS A TASK FOR THE GODS
JOHN CHUCKMAN COMMENT: CNN REPRESENTS AN ADVERTISING MEDIUM IN SEARCH OF SOMETHING TO PUT BETWEEN ADS – EXAMPLES FROM THE HISTORY OF THIS GENUINE PIECE OF AMERICAN JUNK CULTURE – WHETHER YOU LIKE TRUMP OR NOT CNN IS TO JOURNALISM WHAT BEYONCE IS TO SERIOUS MUSIC
JOHN CHUCKMAN COMMENT: TONY BLAIR RAISES HIS COWARDLY MURDEROUS VOICE TO SAY THE WILL OF THE PEOPLE CAN STILL STOP BREXIT – AS IT DID TO STOP MASS MURDER IN IRAQ? – BLAIR NEEDS TO SHOW THE SAME KIND OF LEADERSHIP HE DID THERE
JOHN CHUCKMAN COMMENT: A FEW AMERICAN SCIENTISTS QUOTED RIDICULOUSLY BLUBBERING ABOUT TRUMP NOT ACCEPTING SCIENCE AND AMERICA BECOMING TOTALITARIAN UNDER HIM – “ALTERNATIVE FACTS” AND HONEST REPORTING
JOHN CHUCKMAN COMMENT: TIRED OLD ROCK ‘N’ ROLLER BONO LECTURES ON WORLD AFFAIRS – CELEBRITIES NOW QUOTED ON ALMOST ANYTHING BY A PRESS JUST FILLING SPACE
JOHN CHUCKMAN COMMENT: AMERICAN SYSTEM OF COLLEGE EDUCATION HEADED FOR DESTRUCTION?
JOHN CHUCKMAN COMMENT: THE LIKES OF BEYONCE AND LADY GAGA CONSIDERED AS “ARTISTS”
JOHN CHUCKMAN COMMENT: CAN AMERICA GOVERN ITSELF? CAN EVEN A FREIGHT-TRAIN PERSONALITY LIKE TRUMP SUCCEED IN CHANGING THINGS WHICH REALLY MATTER RATHER GETTING BOGGED DOWN IN THINGS WHICH DO NOT? NOT AT ALL SURE
JOHN CHUCKMAN COMMENT: THE UNEASY FUTURE OF SOUTH AFRICA MADE MORE UNEASY BY ITS PRESIDENT’S RECENT STATEMENT
JOHN CHUCKMAN COMMENT: THE GRAMMYS – AN ASININE CIRCUS PERFORMED IN EXPENSIVE EVENING GOWNS
JOHN CHUCKMAN COMMENT: BBC THE TIMES AND THE INDEPENDENT ALL ATTACK RUSSIA’S SPUTNIK AT THE SAME TIME – WE ARE SEEING A WAR IN THE WEST ON FREE THOUGHT AND EXPRESSION – IT’S JUST POORLY DISGUISED AS SOMETHING ELSE
JOHN CHUCKMAN COMMENT: APPLE’S PRETENTIOUS HEAD SAYS FAKE NEWS IS KILLING PEOPLE’S MINDS – BUT THE TRUTH IS THAT THE ENTIRE IDEA OF FAKE NEWS IS ITSELF FAKE
JOHN CHUCKMAN COMMENT: REFLECTIONS ON EDWARD SNOWDEN ON READING STORIES SUGGESTING RUSSIA COULD BE READY TO HAND HIM OVER TO GAIN FAVOR WITH TRUMP
JOHN CHUCKMAN COMMENT: A DISCOURAGING REMARK BY TRUMP ON THE DREARY OLD DRUG WAR
JOHN CHUCKMAN COMMENT: AMERICAN HIGHER EDUCATION SAID TO BE AT RISK – NOT SURE WHAT THAT MEANS BUT AMERICAN COLLEGES AND UNIVERSITIES HAVE HANDED OUT MEANINGLESS DEGREES FOR DECADES
JOHN CHUCKMAN COMMENT: TRUMP’S NEW UN AMBASSADOR BLOCKS APPOINTMENT OF A DISTINGUISHED PALESTINIAN TO A UN JOB WITH CLAPTRAP PROPAGANDA
JOHN CHUCKMAN COMMENT: ANOTHER PHONY ISIS-ATTACKS-ISRAEL STUNT – FUNNY HOW ISIS HAS ENJOYED SO MUCH SUCCESS AGAINST COUNTRIES ISRAEL HATES- BUT ANY SO-CALLED ATTACK ON ISRAEL ALWAYS PROVES A DAMP SQUIB
JOHN CHUCKMAN COMMENT: FRANCE’S MARINE LE PEN SAYS THERE WAS NO RUSSIAN INVASION OF CRIMEA – SHE IS ABSOLUTELY RIGHT – ELSE WHERE ARE THE AMERICAN SPY SATELLITE IMAGES TO SUPPORT THIS CONSTANTLY REPEATED ACCUSATION?
JOHN CHUCKMAN COMMENT: THE ROLE OF AMERICA’S MANY CHARLES KRAUTHAMMER TYPES – DRESSING UP DEATH AND DESTRUCTION AND HATRED TO MAKE THEM ACCEPTABLE – FLACKS FOR NEOCON MASS MURDER
JOHN CHUCKMAN COMMENT: THE LEFT IN THE TRASH CAN OF HISTORY? THE ROLE AND MEANING OF POLITICAL PARTIES – WE SEE A NEW FORM OF BRINGING RELIGION INTO POLITICS BY PEOPLE IDENTIFYING AS ON THE RIGHT
JOHN CHUCKMAN COMMENT: CONTINUING CONFUSION OVER BEING A LIBERAL AND BEING A DEMOCRAT – NOT THE SAME THING – DEMOCRATS ARE JUST PART OF THE THROBBING AMERICAN KILLING ENGINE
JOHN CHUCKMAN COMMENT: TROUBLE IN CHARLOTTESVILLE VIRGINIA OVER REMOVING A STATUE OF ROBERT E. LEE AND RE-NAMING A PARK – YET THE GREATEST REPROBATE IN AMERICAN HISTORY (THOMAS JEFFERSON) CONTINUES TO ENJOY AMERICAN SAINTHOOD
JOHN CHUCKMAN COMMENT: PUTIN ORDERS AIR FORCE TO PREPARE FOR A TIME OF WAR – HE IS WISE TO DO SO – AMERICA AND RUSSIA TODAY – A COMPLETELY UNNECESSARY CONFLICT THANKS TO OBAMA’S WEAK LEADERSHIP
JOHN CHUCKMAN COMMENT: IRAN AND ISRAEL – NETANYAHU IN BRITAIN MAKING INSANE CLAIMS ABOUT IRAN – THE REAL REASON ISRAEL SO HATES IRAN
JOHN CHUCKMAN COMMENT: THERESA MAY WELCOMING THE CRIMINAL NETANYAHU – PALESTINIAN RIGHTS – THE EXISTING SAD STATE OF BRITISH POLITICS
JOHN CHUCKMAN COMMENT: WHO IS A TERRORIST? WHOMEVER AMERICA SAYS IS A TERRORIST – PARALLELS WITH THE COMMUNIST MENACE AND SATAN’S LEGIONS – KEEPING THE MILITARY ENGINE THROBBING
JOHN CHUCKMAN COMMENT: AN ARTICLE ON RUSSIA’S TERRIFIC SPOKESWOMAN MARIA ZAKHAROVA APPEARING ON A VARIETY SHOW – WHY AMERICA SEEMS TO HAVE SUCH DUDS AS ITS SPOKESPEOPLE
JOHN CHUCKMAN COMMENT: BRITAIN’S MICHAEL FALLON AND RUSSIA’S “WEAPONIZING MISINFORMATION”NONSENSE – THERE IS ONLY ONE WAY A CONSCIENTIOUS PERSON CAN TRY KEEPING INFORMED
JOHN CHUCKMAN COMMENT: ON THE NEW YORK TIMES AND ITS SUPPOSED LIBERAL BIAS – THE REALITIES OF THE NEW YORK TIMES – AND OF LIBERALS IN AMERICA – SNOW IN A BLAST FURNACE?
JOHN CHUCKMAN COMMENT: EMILY HILTON WRITES ONE OF THE MORE INSANE COLUMNS I’VE READ IN A WHILE – ABOUT THE “DE-JUDIFICATION” (A TERM THE NAZIS COINED) OF THE HOLOCAUST – SOME REALITIES OF HUMANITY’S VAST CAPACITY FOR ABUSE
JOHN CHUCKMAN COMMENT: TULSI GABBARD VIEWED BY A WRITER AS A POSSIBLE PROGRESSIVE LIKE LINCOLN – AMERICA AND THE NATURE OF POLITICAL PARTIES – LINCOLN WAS NOT A “PROGRESSIVE”
JOHN CHUCKMAN COMMENT: TRUDEAU’S FAILURE IN CANADA TO DELIVER VOTE REFORM – A GENERAL PROBLEM OF HUMANITY GOVERNING ITSELF – WILL TRUMP KEEP WHAT SEEMED HIS IMPORTANT PROMISES? – A MATTER AFFECTING EVERYONE
JOHN CHUCKMAN COMMENT: PRINCE CHARLES NOW MAKING COMPARISONS OF POLITICS TODAY WITH THE DARK DAYS OF THE 1930s – WHY HE IS FACTUALLY WRONG AND WHY HE IS STEPPING OUTSIDE HIS LEGITIMATE ROLE AS A ROYAL
JOHN CHUCKMAN COMMENT: PERHAPS THE EU IS DOOMED – IT IS A SHAME BUT HERE’S THE BASIC REASON – TOO MUCH EMPHASIS BY TRUMP FOLLOWERS ON NATIONAL SOVEREIGNTY COULD ALSO PROVE DANGEROUS – MODERN NATION STATES
JOHN CHUCKMAN COMMENT: THE SLEAZY USE OF A HORRIBLE MASS KILLING TO MAKE A PROPAGANDA POINT – DONE MANY TIMES BY THE PRESS AND RARELY CHALLENGED
JOHN CHUCKMAN COMMENT: TWO EXAMPLES OF YELLOW JOURNALISM’S OLD “THE EXPERTS WARN” TECHNIQUE – EACH USED TO ATTACK TRUMP WITH NO FACTUAL BASIS
JOHN CHUCKMAN COMMENT: PERSPECTIVE ON BRITISH PETITION AGAINST TRUMP’S UPCOMING OFFICIAL VISIT
JOHN CHUCKMAN COMMENT: “REFUGEE SAFE ZONES” HAS A NICE RING TO IT – BUT THE OUTCOME COULD WELL BE LESS THAN NICE – ON “GOING IT ALONE” IN PLACES LIKE SYRIA
JOHN CHUCKMAN COMMENT: GERMAN ACADEMICS PUBLISH OPEN LETTER AGAINST THE WESTERN PRESS’S TREATMENT OF SYRIAN SITUATION – SOME TRUTHS ABOUT THE WESTERN PRESS AND THE HUGE CHANGES NOW UNDERWAY
JOHN CHUCKMAN COMMENT: LOBBYISTS USE THE POPE FOR A PHOTO-OP AND SOUND-BITE PUBLICITY OPPORTUNITY ON THE VERY QUESTIONABLE IDEA OF RISING ANTI-SEMITISM – BLAMING “POPULISM” AND “ISOLATIONISM” – WHAT WE ACTUALLY SEE TODAY
JOHN CHUCKMAN COMMENT: IS CUTTING WASTE IN THE MILITARY ENOUGH ASKS AN ARTICLE – IT ALL DEPENDS ON HOW YOU DEFINE WASTE
JOHN CHUCKMAN COMMENT: A REGISTRY OF MUSLIMS? MADELEINE ALBRIGHT SAYS THE FIRST THING IN HER LIFE WITH WHICH I CAN AGREE – THIS IS A TERRIBLE IDEA BEING TESTED BY TRUMP
JOHN CHUCKMAN COMMENT: JUST WHEN YOU THOUGHT OBAMA DID A LAST SMALL ACT OF GOOD ANALYSIS SHOWS IT TO BE PIDDLING – HIS EARLY PROMISE TRULY TURNED TO ASHES
JOHN CHUCKMAN COMMENT: A FEW WORDS ON THE LATE MUAMMAR GADDAFI – HIS MURDER AND THE DESTRUCTION OF WHAT HAD BEEN A WELL-RUN AND PEACEFUL COUNTRY BEING AMONG THE OUTSTANDING OBAMA-HILLARY ACHIEVEMENTS
JOHN CHUCKMAN COMMENT: LUNATIC EXCESSES IN THE WASHINGTON MARCH – WHILE IGNORING MASS MURDER – AND YET ANOTHER CLAIM THAT HILLARY WAS ELECTED – AMERICA SPINS INTO MEANINGLESS INSANITY
JOHN CHUCKMAN COMMENT: MORE CHARGES OF ANTI-SEMITISM – LIKE RAIN IN VANCOUVER THEY NEVER STOP – THE FAILED ANGELA MERKEL HELD UP AS EXAMPLE OF WHAT TO DO FOR IT
JOHN CHUCKMAN COMMENT: THE UNELECTED HEAD OF A CHURCH STILL RESEMBLING THE 15TH CENTURY WARNS OF THE DANGERS OF “POPULISM” AND THROWS IN “HITLER” WARNING FOR GOOD MEASURE
JOHN CHUCKMAN COMMENT: THE OUTPUT OF THE WORLD’S WORST MAINLINE NEWSPAPER ON TRUMP’S INAUGURATION DAY – BRITAIN’S THE GUARDIAN AND ITS RECENT HISTORY OF COMPLETELY SHABBY JOURNALISM
JOHN CHUCKMAN COMMENT: AN ARTICLE CLAIMS GORILLAS MONKEYS AND OTHER PRIMATES MUST BE SAVED FROM THE EFFECTS OF CLIMATE CHANGE – BUT CHANGE IS ALL EVOLUTION IS ABOUT – A CONTEMPORARY VERSION OF NOAH’S ARK DISGUISED AS SCIENCE
JOHN CHUCKMAN COMMENT: THE STUNNING BEAUTY OF MELANIA TRUMP ON INAUGURATION DAY – WAS MICHELLE’S FRUMPY LOOK AN EFFORT TO MAKE A SOME KIND OF STATEMENT? THE IMPRESSION SHE ACTUALLY GAVE
JOHN CHUCKMAN COMMENT: WHY OBAMA’S LEGACY CAN NEVER BE CHANGED
JOHN CHUCKMAN COMMENT: GOOD EXAMPLE OF UTTERLY CONFUSED THINKING THE PRESS PUBLISHES AS ANALYSIS – BRITAIN AND INDEPENDENCE FROM THE EU AND TRUMP – THE REALITIES OF AMERICA IN EUROPE
JOHN CHUCKMAN COMMENT: THE EMPTY NOTION GOING AROUND THE INTERNET OF AMERICA’S LEFT BECOMING ITS NEW RIGHT – WHAT LEFT? THE ROLE OF THE LEFT IN AMERICAN HISTORY AMOUNTS TO A BUGS BUNNY CARTOON BETWEEN FEATURE FILMS
JOHN CHUCKMAN COMMENT: FRENCH FINANCE MINISTER SAYS TRUMP CRITICISM OF ANGELA MERKEL CANNOT BE ACCEPTED – WHY ON EARTH NOT?
JOHN CHUCKMAN COMMENT: EVERYTHING YOU WANTED TO KNOW ABOUT THE SO-CALLED DOSSIER ON TRUMP AND RUSSIA – WHAT SECRET SERVICES LIKE MI-6 OR CIA ACTUALLY DO FOR A LIVING
JOHN CHUCKMAN COMMENT: SILLY RUPERT CORNWELL SUGGESTS WHAT TRUMP COULD LEARN FROM MARTIN LUTHER KING – IT TURNS OUT UNKNOWN TO THE WRITER THAT THERE ARE ACTUALLY SOME STRONG CONNECTIONS BETWEEN THE TWO
JOHN CHUCKMAN COMMENT: JULIAN ASSANGE SAYS OBAMA IS TRYING TO DELEGITIMIZE TRUMP WITH NONSENSE ABOUT RUSSIAN HACKS – YES AND OBAMA GETS THE PENTAGON’S HIGHEST MEDAL FOR LOYAL SERVICE AS COMMANDER-IN-CHIEF – PENTAGON, CIA, HILLARY, AND OBAMA AS A MAD HATTER’S TEA PARTY
JOHN CHUCKMAN COMMENT: A DANGEROUS DEVELOPMENT TO WATCH – OBAMA SENDS SPECIAL FORCES TO RUSSIAN BORDER IN THE BALTICS
JOHN CHUCKMAN COMMENT: MORE AMERICAN-INFLUENCED CRAP ABOUT THE “ANNEXATION” OF CRIMEA – A CLEAR STATEMENT OF THE HISTORY OF A TOTALLY MISREPRESENTED SITUATION
JOHN CHUCKMAN COMMENT: TRUMP CRITICIZED FOR NOT RESPECTING INTELLIGENCE PROFESSIONALS – THIS IS JUST ANOTHER FORM OF FAKE NEWS – TRUMP IS A REALIST WHO DEMANDS YOU SHOW HIM THE GOODS – IF YOU CAN’T DO THAT YOU GET NO RESPECT
JOHN CHUCKMAN COMMENT: BENDING SCIENCE TO SERVE POLITICAL AIMS BY PREACHING SCIENCE SERMONS TO POLITICIANS PRESUMED IGNORANT – BILL NYE’S NEW PROPAGANDA SERIES
JOHN CHUCKMAN COMMENT: A CHILDISH EFFORT TO DISTINGUISH WARS OF SELF-DEFENSE FROM WARS OF AGGRESSION – AMERICAN HISTORY HAS LOTS OF WARS BUT NOT ONE WAS ABOUT SELF-DEFENSE – EMPIRE MEANS AGGRESSION
JOHN CHUCKMAN COMMENT: BRITAIN’S GUARDIAN ACCUSED OF DISTORTING JULIAN ASSANGE INTERVIEW – EVERYTHING YOU EVER WANTED TO KNOW ABOUT TODAY’S GUARDIAN – ESTABLISHMENT EXEMPLAR OF PRESS BIAS AND FAKE NEWS
JOHN CHUCKMAN COMMENT: COLUMN SAYS OBAMACARE WON’T DIE SWIFTLY FROM REPUBLICANS – OF COURSE IT IS ALREADY VISIBLY DYING – PRESS USE OF TERM “OBAMACARE”AS PROPAGANDA
JOHN CHUCKMAN COMMENT: ALTERNATIVE PRESS CAUGHT UP IN “OBAMA MUST SHOW PROOF”- THIS PLAYS HALFWAY INTO OBAMA’S HANDS – BUT NOTHING HAPPENED TO ELECTION INTEGRITY OR NATIONAL SECURITY – JUST PRIVATE CONVERSATIONS OF PRIVATE PEOPLE MADE PUBLIC – AKA KNOWN AS GOSSIP OR INVESTIGATIVE REPORTING
JOHN CHUCKMAN COMMENT: POLL CLAIMS HALF OF BRITAIN BELIEVES FASCIST VIEWS RISING AFTER TRUMP – HERE’S WHY – ROLE OF BRITISH PRESS – NOTE ON BBC AND THE HABIT SOME HAVE OF DISMISSING THE PRESS AS “LIBERAL” OR “LEFTIE” – YOU JUST COULD NOT BE MORE WRONG
JOHN CHUCKMAN COMMENT: MORE ON OBAMA’S INSANE BEHAVIOR – THE DEMOCRATIC PARTY AND ITS SICK MARRIAGE WITH THE CLINTONS COMING TO AN END – AN INTERESTING SPECULATION ON OBAMA’S MOTIVES
JOHN CHUCKMAN COMMENT: JOHN KERRY CALLS NETANYAHU GOVERNMENT MOST RIGHT WING IN ISRAEL’S HISTORY – AN EXTREME UNDERSTATEMENT – BY ANY DEFINITION WE ARE LOOKING AT FASCISM
JOHN CHUCKMAN COMMENT: NETANYAHU SPEAKS OF DECLARATION OF WAR AND PROCLAIMS ISRAEL WILL NOT ABIDE BY UN RESOLUTION ON ILLEGAL SETTLEMENTS – ISRAEL’S RECORD OF ABIDING BY NOTHING
JOHN CHUCKMAN COMMENT: OBAMA’S BLUBBERING INSANITY ON CLAIMED RUSSIAN HACKING – OBAMA A SICK MAN
JOHN CHUCKMAN COMMENT: PUTIN’S MILD RESPONSE TO OBAMA’S HOSTILE EXPULSION CLAIMED TO HAVE A “CHILLING SUBTEXT” – WHEN IT JUST ISN’T POSSIBLE TO WRITE MORE MEANINGLESS RHETORIC – NOTES ON SAD STATE OF BRITISH PRESS TODAY
JOHN CHUCKMAN COMMENT: TURKEY’S ERDOGAN CLAIMS HARD PROOF OF US-LED COALITION’S SUPPORT OF ISIS – IMPORTANCE OF CRIMINALS LIKE ERDOGAN IN PLEA-BARGAINS TO BRING DOWN EVEN BIGGER CRIMINALS
JOHN CHUCKMAN COMMENT: OBAMA AFTER WEEKS OF PHONY OUTRAGE ABOUT RUSSIAN INTERFERENCE THINKS NOTHING OF RUNNING DOWN THE LEADER OF ONE OF BRITAIN’S TWO MAJOR PARTIES – AN ARROGANT HYPOCRITE IF EVER THERE WAS ONE
JOHN CHUCKMAN COMMENT: COLUMNIST SAYS NETANYAHU’S RESPONSE TO UN RESOLUTION WILL ONLY ISOLATE ISRAEL – A STATE WHICH HAS MADE ITSELF INTO AN INTERNATIONAL JOKE – A VERY DARK JOKE – LEADERSHIP RESEMBLING THE LIKES OF PAPA DOC’S OLD RETINUE
JOHN CHUCKMAN COMMENT: PUBLIC IGNORANCE OF THE NEOCON WARS AND OF MUSLIMS – HOW CORPORATE NEWS WORKS TO NOT INFORM US – A ROLE FOR CIA – DARK CASE OF THE NEW YORK TIMES
JOHN CHUCKMAN COMMENT: NETANYAHU’S GOVERNMENT OF THUGS SAYS IT WILL GO ALL OUT TO RETALIATE FOR “SHAMEFUL” UN RESOLUTION PASSED AGAINST ILLEGAL SETTLEMENTS – INSANE OUTRAGE OVER BEING CAUGHT STEALING HOMES AND TOLD TO STOP
JOHN CHUCKMAN COMMENT: THROWING A BIGGER SPOILED-BRAT FIT THAN HILLARY CLINTON? YES FROM AN ISRAELI MINISTER OVER A MERE AMERICAN ABSTENTION FROM VOTING ON A FAIR AND PROPER UN RESOLUTION – NOTE ON ISRAEL AND USSR
JOHN CHUCKMAN COMMENT: SOMEONE WRITES THAT THERESA MAY SHOULD STOP WORSHIPPING ISRAEL – YES BUT SHE’S ONLY PURSUING WHAT BLAIR AND CAMERON DID TOO: THE BENEFITS OF BRITAIN’S ISRAEL LOBBY
JOHN CHUCKMAN COMMENT: WEAK CALL BY LABOUR PARTY’S JEREMY CORBYN FOR BRITAIN TO SUSPEND “SOME” MILITARY SUPPLIES TO SAUDI ARABIA
JOHN CHUCKMAN COMMENT: THE POSSIBLE ROLE OF CIA IN THE KILLING OF THE RUSSIAN AMBASSADOR TO TURKEY – IT ISN’T ONLY THE TURKS WHO THINK THIS MAY BE THE CASE
JOHN CHUCKMAN COMMENT: ASKING AMERICA TO TRY TO UNDERSTAND RUSSIA MORE IS MUCH LIKE ASKING A GORILLA TO SIT UP STRAIGHT AT THE TABLE
JOHN CHUCKMAN COMMENT: BILL CLINTON SAYS HILLARY COULD NOT PREVAIL OVER FORCES OF BOTH FBI AND RUSSIA – PERHAPS THE MOST IRRESPONSIBLE WORDS EVER FROM A FORMER PRESIDENT – THE CLINTONS READY TO SACRIFICE INTERNATIONAL RELATIONS AND RULE OF LAW FOR PERSONAL BENEFIT
JOHN CHUCKMAN COMMENT: WHY SYRIA HAS BEEN TREATED IN THE HORRIBLE FASHION THAT IT HAS – THE TERRIBLE POLICIES OF THE NEOCONS EMBRACED BY OBAMA
JOHN CHUCKMAN COMMENT: CHRISTMAS AND HANUKKAH FALL ON THE SAME DAY THIS YEAR – BUT THE ORIGINS AND MEANINGS OF THE TWO HOLIDAYS ARE VERY DIFFERENT DESPITE MODERN FESTIVITIES BEING SIMILAR
JOHN CHUCKMAN COMMENT: MISSED IN ALL THE PHONY NOISE ABOUT RUSSIAN HACKING – A SERIOUS INTERNAL THREAT OVERLOOKED IN AMERICA – A THOUGHT-EXPERIMENT ON RUSSIAN HACKING
JOHN CHUCKMAN COMMENT: PRIME EXAMPLE OF PLANTED STORY REPORTED AS NEWS – AND ONE DEPENDING UPON THAT MOST UNRELIABLE OF CHARACTERS BILL CLINTON – AMERICA’S UTTERLY CORRUPT FORMER FIRST FAMILY
JOHN CHUCKMAN COMMENT: POLL FINDS A MAJORITY OF AMERICANS THINK ELECTORAL COLLEGE SHOULD WAIT FOR MORE INFORMATION ON RUSSIAN HACKING – UNTIL THE LAST MOMENT THE PRESS STILL DESPERATELY TRYING TO STOP TRUMP
JOHN CHUCKMAN COMMENT: COMMENTS BY OBAMA CALLING INTO QUESTION NOT JUST HIS DEMONSTRATED FLAWED CHARACTER BUT HIS BASIC INTELLIGENCE
JOHN CHUCKMAN COMMENT: BAN KI-MOON SAYS UN FOCUSES TOO MUCH ON ISRAEL – BUT BAN KI-MOON IS WASHINGTON’S MAN AND A REMARKABLY INEFFECTIVE SECRETARY-GENERAL – 95% OF EARTH’S PEOPLE ARE NOT AMERICANS – UN’S THWARTED PURPOSE OF PEACE UNDER MOON – ISRAEL AS AMERICA’S MIDEAST COLONY
JOHN CHUCKMAN COMMENT: MORE NONSENSE ON THE ELECTORAL COLLEGE ANSWERED – TO KNOW WHAT IT TAKES TO CHANGE AMERICA’S RIGID CONSTITUTION IS TO UNDERSTAND WHY THIS PROVISION STILL GOVERNS ELECTIONS – THE RULES OF THE GAME
JOHN CHUCKMAN COMMENT: FACEBOOK’S THIRD-PARTY “FACT-CHECKING” IS A DISGUISED BOOST TO A NEWS INDUSTRY IN ECONOMIC DECLINE – AND HOW IN GOD’S NAME IS CENSORSHIP-ENFORCING QUASI-MONOPOLISTIC FACEBOOK QUALIFIED TO SAY WHAT IS TRUE? – USING MARKET POWER TO SQUASH THE VIEWS OF OTHERS
JOHN CHUCKMAN COMMENT: RUSSIAN “ACT OF WAR” NONSENSE – HILLARY AND THE ROLE OF SATAN IN HER DEFEAT – OBAMA’S REASONS FOR JOINING HILLARY’S TIRESOME SONG – AND A REALLY INTERESTING SPECULATION: WAS OBAMA AT THE BOTTOM OF IT ALL?
JOHN CHUCKMAN COMMENT: MORE ON “THE RUSSIANS DID IT” – NOW CLAIMED FBI HAS JOINED CIA BUT THIS SEEMS DOUBTFUL – NSA ONLY AGENCY WITH RAW DATA – AND NO ONE QUESTIONS THE INFORMATION ONLY THE SOURCE OF IT – TRYING TO OVERTHROW ELECTIONS BY RUMOR
JOHN CHUCKMAN COMMENT: OBAMA VOWS REVENGE FOR RUSSIAN HACKING – PRETTY SICK STUFF FROM THE WORLD’S MOST POWERFUL MAN – REVENGE OVER UNSUBSTANTIATED ASSERTIONS OF ONE POLITICAL HACK AT CIA?- SHADES OF JOE MCCARTHY WAVING HANDFULS OF BLANK PAPER HE CALLED LISTS OF TRAITORS – OBAMA’S MOTIVES AND HIS LIKELY SICKNESS
JOHN CHUCKMAN COMMENT: IRAN’S SUPREME LEADER KHAMENEI SAYS ISRAEL WILL NOT EXIST IN 25 YEARS – BUT THIS IS NOT A NEW IDEA AND IT DID NOT ORIGINATE WITH KHAMENEI AND IT IS NOT A THREAT – BASIS FOR THE CLAIM
JOHN CHUCKMAN COMMENT: WHITE HOUSE SPOKESMAN JOSH EARNEST ACCUSES TRUMP AND ASSOCIATES OF LUCRATIVE RUSSIAN CONNECTIONS – THIS IS REALLY SICK STUFF COMING FROM SO HIGH A LEVEL – OBAMA AS LOW-LIFE
JOHN CHUCKMAN COMMENT: ON THE CIA’S FALSE RUSSIAN HACKING ACCUSATIONS – THE RECORD OF CIA AS BOTH A FAILED ORGANIZATION AND A VERY POLITICAL ONE – AMAZON’S BEZOS AND WASHINGTON POST – OTHER LINKS
JOHN CHUCKMAN COMMENT: LARRY LESSIG CLAIMS A NUMBER OF ELECTORS MAY NOT VOTE FOR TRUMP – HERE IS A PROFESSOR OFFERING DANGEROUS WISH-FULFILLMENT DREAMS AS FACTS – STUPIDLY TURNING UP THE FIRE ON A SEETHING POT – SOME IMPLICATIONS
JOHN CHUCKMAN COMMENT: THE PHONY CLAIM THAT FBI DIRECTOR COMEY’S LETTER DEFEATED HILLARY – FACTS AND PERSPECTIVE – HILLARY NEVER LOOKS IN THE MIRROR TO SEE HER OWN FAULTS – SHE WOULD HAVE BEEN A TERRIBLE LEADER
JOHN CHUCKMAN COMMENT: TRUMP’S REJECTION OF RUSSIAN INFLUENCE IN ELECTION – WE ARE SEEING A CIA-STYLE DISINFORMATION CAMPAIGN IN THESE MATTERS TO CLOUD THE SIMPLE FACT THAT THE PEOPLE ELECTED TRUMP
JOHN CHUCKMAN COMMENT: MORE ON THE FAKE ISSUE OF FAKE NEWS – THE CORPORATE PRESS’S IRRESPONSIBILITY – JOE MCCARTHY AND HIS LIST OF 200 “COMMIES” IN THE STATE DEPARTMENT – THE UNSUPPORTED COMPLAINTS OF THE MOST CORRUPT PERSON EVER TO RUN FOR PRESIDENT
JOHN CHUCKMAN COMMENT: MORE ON PHONY CLAIMS OF RUSSIAN ELECTION INTERFERENCE – AMERICA’S APPALLING RECORD OF DOING JUST THAT TO OTHERS – THE UNSPOKEN REALITY OF ISRAEL’S INTERFERENCE – AMERICA AS THE WORLD’S GREAT HYPOCRITE
JOHN CHUCKMAN COMMENT: BRITAIN’S FOREIGN SECRETARY BORIS JOHNSON SAYS A FEW HONEST WORDS ABOUT SAUDI ARABIA AND LANDS IN CONTROVERSY – HERE IS EXACTLY WHY: THE MID-EAST’S NEW AXIS OF SAUDI ARABIA ISRAEL AND AMERICA IS NOT TO BE TOUCHED – WORDS ON DEMOCRACY IN THE MID-EAST
JOHN CHUCKMAN COMMENT: JUST IN TIME FOR THE “FAKE NEWS” CONTROVERSY BRITAIN’S MI6 IS REPORTED WARNING THAT RUSSIA AND ASSAD ARE CREATING A NEW GENERATION OF TERRORISTS TO THREATEN US ALL – NOBODY DOES FAKE NEWS LIKE OUR GOVERNMENTS AND PRESS
JOHN CHUCKMAN COMMENT: BERNIE SANDERS IS AT THE PODIUM ATTACKING TRUMP AGAIN – A SAD OLD MAN TRYING TO COVER HIS COMPLETE FAILURE AND HYPOCRISY AND COWARDICE – HE SHOULD HAVE RUN IN ANY PARTY IF HE FELT SO STRONGLY
JOHN CHUCKMAN COMMENT: SCIENTIST SLAMS TRUMP’S NEW ENVIRONMENT CHIEF ON CLIMATE DENIAL – SAYS IT’S LIKE DISPUTING GRAVITY – A CLEARLY FALSE CHARGE – THE ISSUES AROUND CLIMATE CHANGE ARE COMPLEX AND NOT WELL UNDERSTOOD – USING THAT WORD “DENIAL” IS JUST RELIGIOUS INTOLERANCE
JOHN CHUCKMAN COMMENT: THE POINTLESSNESS OF ACCUSING OBAMA OF NOT ACTING IN AGREEMENT WITH THE WORDS OF HIS SPEECHES – SPEECHES WHICH HAVE ABOUT THE SAME WEIGHT AS ADVERTISING JINGLES – I EXPLAIN OBAMA’S APPALLING RECORD ON HIS BEING A COWARD – A COMPLETE COWARD
JOHN CHUCKMAN COMMENT: NEOCON APOLOGIST MARY DEJEVSKY REGRETS THAT ASSAD WILL WIN IN SYRIA – BUT WE CAN BE GLAD THE LONG RECORD OF MASS MURDER BY AMERICAN NEOCONS AT LEAST WILL END PEACEFULLY IN ONE PLACE
JOHN CHUCKMAN COMMENT: WE ENTER AN AGE OF DIGITAL BOOK-BURNING WITH ALL AMERICAN MAJOR HI-TECH INTERNET COMPANIES TRYING TO SUPPRESS FREE SPEECH – MY EXPERIENCE WITH GOOGLE
JOHN CHUCKMAN COMMENT: ON THE WASHINGTON POST’S SAD CLAIM THAT IT HAS DISCOVERED ABOUT 200 ALTERNATE-NEWS INTERNET SITES WORKING AS TOOLS OF RUSSIAN PROPAGANDA – MY GOD THAT NUMBER WAS USED BY SENATOR MCCARTHY
JOHN CHUCKMAN COMMENT: A TRUMP TWEET ABOUT FLAG-BURNING PUNISHMENT HOPEFULLY CAN BE IGNORED – A DUMB AND HOPELESS OLD REPUBLICAN IDEA – AND HOW MANY AMERICANS JUST DO NOT UNDERSTAND WHY MUCH OF THE WORLD REGARDS THEIR FLAG ENTIRELY DIFFERENTLY THAN THEY DO
JOHN CHUCKMAN COMMENT: APOLOGIES TO RUSSIA FOR A NEW POINTLESS SANCTION IMPOSED BY CANADA – BUT IT MUST BE SEEN IN LIGHT OF THE HARSH TRUTH OF CANADA’S CIRCUMSTANCES