Vengeful In Defeat: Hillary Clinton Fantasises About WikiLeaks
The Hillary Clinton mope tour, which should have reached a high water mark, has gone global. It entails drumming up her credentials (immaculate, we are told, but unnoticed), and pouring…
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Hillary Clinton’s Lament
“I’m back to being an active citizen and part of the resistance.” Hillary Clinton, May 2, 2017 Predictability in these tumultuous times will get you removed from office, or render…
No Soul-Searching By Liberals And US Presstitutes After Clinton’s Defeat
So-called liberals and leftists in the US and around the world, are now wailing and gnashing their teeth in reaction to Hillary Clinton’s crushing defeat. They are, however, the first…
What Happened In This Election?
Brushing away the extreme claims and rhetoric of much election analysis, there are some observations which deserve attention. These unfortunately mostly provide hard lessons and not a lot of encouragement…
The Panic Train: Fear Before The Elections In Trump’s America
San Francisco: Coming into San Francisco, and a note of spellbinding terror can be sensed. Donald Trump haunts the political landscape with a menace that has become a caricature of terror…
Hillary Clinton – Mrs Strangelove?
Hillary Clinton's fears concerning her rival candidate appear to be justified. At present she seems to be the most likely future president, and there is good reason for asking the…
The FBI Can’t Actually Investigate A Candidate Such As Hillary Clinton
The power above the U.S. Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI) is the U.S. Attorney General, and, above that person, the U.S. President. That’s whom the FBI actually serves — not…
Will The American Political Nightmare End With The Election?
In a few days the election, and what to many Americans is a political nightmare, will be over. But will it? Who can imagine Trump graciously disappearing from the…
Inside The Invisible Government: War, Propaganda, Clinton And Trump
The American journalist, Edward Bernays, is often described as the man who invented modern propaganda. The nephew of Sigmund Freud, the pioneer of psycho-analysis, it was Bernays who coined the…
10 Days In October
Playing off of John Reed's classic work about the Russian Revolution, I picked my title because of something that was whispered to me today by folks on the inside, who…
Hillary, Trump, Sartre And Existentialism
In the US, the political system has now disgorged two candidates the citizenry cannot be less enthusiastic about. Driven by ambition more than a love of the people or a…
Because Of Hillary Clinton, Emergency, Contraception Is Banned In Honduras
Of course, one of Hillary Clinton’s proudest claims is that as the U.S. Secretary of State she championed reproductive choice throughout the world. She championed it in words, but…
Nobel Confusion: Ramos-Horta, Trump And World Disorder
History should tell us that writing scolding, even scornful letters, to electorates as part of a conversation for persuasion do not work. They are even less effective when coming from…
Dr Jill Stein Green Party Alternative To Xenophobic Maverick Donald Trump And Serial War Criminal Hillary Clinton
For humane, anti-racist, pro-peace, pro-environment, pro-human rights American voters the Green Party candidate Dr Jill Stein ticks all boxes. However, as controversially argued over the Ralph Nader Green Party candidacy…
An Alternate Narrative On Hillary Clinton And Donald Trump
Elections in the United States are far and away the most expensive in the entire world. In 2012, the Federal Election Commission reported that $7 billion was spent on the…
Hillary Clinton Wants To Do This Again — Now To Syria
Secretary of State Hillary Clinton (and President Obama — and some NATO partners) did it previously to Libya, and here was the result (as discussed by the retired British career diplomat…
Normalising The Brutal: Trump, Clinton And Second Presidential Debate
There is no getting away from the degradation that is taking place, on colossal scale, in US presidential politics. The sense of two dysfunctional candidates beating each other over the…
Hillary Clinton, The Queen Of Flip-Floppery, On Genocide
Few people can honestly dispute that Democratic Presidential nominee Hillary Rodham Clinton (HRC) is the Queen of…
Trump and Hillary: The Tragedy Of The Great American Soap Opera
For many onlookers who reside outside the US, the run-up to that country’s presidential election appears to be some kind of made-for-TV soap opera. Amid evidence of rigging, it seems Bernie…
Janus Faced On Banking And Finance: Hillary Clinton’ Economic World View
“So we have two Hillary Clintons, which says we have a person who is a liar.” Rudy Giuliani, The Guardian, Oct 9, 2016 Again, WikiLeaks made its sniping foray into…
Hillary Laughed ‘I Came He Died’
As Sec. of State Clinton oversaw US wars for regime change that continue in Somalia, Afghanistan, Iraq, Libya, Syria and Yemen, and now threatens Russia and China. Her opponent says…
Hillary’s Boast On Iran Sanctions Reveal Her Criminal Mentality
During the first presidential debate, on Monday evening, September 26, Democratic front runner Hillary Clinton boasted of her support for tough sanctions on Iran: I spent a year and…
Trump, Clinton And The Dictator Question
Righteousness is rarely endearing, and when concocted in a brew of hypocrisy, it becomes noxious. US political campaigning tends to overflow in it, a mixture of rights, noisily championed liberties…
The Debates Of Loathing: Trump And Clinton At Hofstra
It really doesn’t matter that these two creatures loathed and feared in varying degrees should even be conducting a debate. What, after all, is there to dispute? Both Hillary Clinton…
Clinton-Trump Debate: A Degrading Spectacle
The first debate between Hillary Clinton and Donald Trump was a political and cultural abomination. It demonstrated, in both style and substance, the thoroughgoing decay of American capitalist society over…
U.S. Public Don’t Care If Politicians Lie
Everybody knows that both Hillary Clinton and Donald Trump are inveterate liars; but, do Americans really care? The vast majority of us care only as partisans in politics, not…
FBI’s Fake ‘Investigation’ of Hillary’s Emails
On September 17th, U.S. President Barack Obama, the boss of the U.S. Government’s Executive Branch — including of federal investigations and prosecutions (including of FBI decisons not to investigate, and…
Clinton Campaign In Crisis Over Plunging Support Among Younger Voters
The campaign of Democratic presidential candidate Hillary Clinton is responding to poll numbers and other indications of declining support among younger voters by deploying its most prominent surrogates to college…
Both Ms. Clinton And I Got Burned Out – For Very Different Reasons
Yesterday I watched Ms. Clinton on television screen, stumbling towards her van, after attending a ceremony at the WTC in New York City. She had to be grabbed by both…
Ms. Clinton, Stop Russian ‘Bear Hunting’!
It is now September 2016, just two months before the Presidential elections, and both political camps have already managed to disgust a great number of the US voters, by offering…
Can Trump Win?
In July, the Caine Prize for African Writing was awarded to Lidudumalingani Mgombothi. The 10,000 pounds sterling award recognizes African writers for short stories written in English. His story, "Memories…
Hillary Clinton Must Be Indicted
The Democratic candidate for the US Presidency, Hillary Clinton, is scandal-ridden. The life of the Clintons is a mere scandal starting way back with "Whitewater".[1] To call her "crooked Hillary"…
Heading Toward The Abyss With Hillary And Trump
The media battle between Republican candidate Donald Trump and Democratic candidate Hillary Clinton has sidetracked the impact of an unusual congressional campaign and diluted its essential meaning -- voter dissatisfaction.…
Hillary Clinton’s Extreme End Game
The loathsome two are moving into full view, mustering weapons and taking aim at each other in a US election campaign that continues to be filled with colourful missives. But…
Despots “Donate” To Clinton Foundation, Receive Weapons From Hillary: Leaked Docs
Newly leaked documents provide further details on what Harpers magazine calls the Clinton family’s “slush fund”, the Clinton Foundation. As Secretary of State (the US government position chiefly responsible for…
Leftists For Trump
I am a leftist for Trump. As an alumni of “Leftists for Bush” and living these past 10 years in the Horn of Africa, I cant help myself. I am…
HuffPo Goes Haywire Against Russia, For Hillary
As part of their campaign for Hillary Clinton to become President, Huffington Post bannered their home-page on the night of Tuesday August 16th, "TRUMP BRINGS KREMLIN APOLOGIST TO INTEL BRIEFING!”, and linked…
Hilary Clinton – History Repeats Itself?
Once upon a time, there was a man called James Buchanan. He was a Democrat, a Secretary of State and then the President of the United States. A good friend…
Hillary Clinton Invoked Possible Assassination Of Obama As Reason To Stay In Race in ’08
After Donald Trump’s comment this week that could possibly have been interpreted to be leaning towards brushing with suggesting the assassination or imprisonment of Hillary Clinton, or, more likely, as…
Team Clinton Focuses On The Demise Of Hezbollah
Tel Hara, on the Golan Plain, Syria: The likely next American President, Hilary Clinton is fielding an array of foreign policy advisers, a few being sort of table scraps from…
America’s Oligarchs Support Clinton Almost Unanimously
The results are already in, even before the official campaign-finance final figures will become available after the election. Though a large percentage of the people funding the campaign advertising will…
It Is Not “Ridiculous” To Reject Hillary; It Is Not Undemocratic To Disrupt The DNC
In a post on Aotearoa's The Daily Blog, a supposedly “leftist” blogger, Chris Trotter, took “Bernie's die-hard supporters” to task for being “ridiculous”. He was endorsing Sarah Silverman's words, but…
Humanising Hillary Clinton: The Democratic National Convention
“He [Bill Clinton] wanted people to know the real Hillary.” John Podesta, Jul 28, 2016 Moving beyond idea, beyond type, beyond cardboard cuts, was always going to be a central…
Hillary’s Campaign Director Podesta And Democratic National Committee Were For Bush’s War Against Iraq!
Despite all of the serious flaws demonstrated by successive United States governments that this author has amply documented elsewhere during the past quarter century as a Professor of Law, the…
The Kochs Want Hillary Clinton To Become President
The signs are now clear and unmistakable: On July 25th, CNN headlined "Mike Pence to skip Koch brothers event” and reported that, "GOP vice presidential nominee Mike Pence will not attend the summer…
Undermining Bernie Sanders: The DNC Campaign, WikiLeaks And Russia
Two aspects of Hillary Clinton’s response to the Bernie Sanders campaign have been notable in 2016. One has involved her attempts to “adjust” to his views to make tactical gains.…
Why Hillary Clinton’s Email Case Is Still Not Closed
Normally, when the head of the FBI under one President says something like “no reasonable prosecutor would bring such a case”, as the FBI reported regarding Hillary Clinton's emails, that would be…
Our Political Portraits In 2D
It wouldn’t be strange for a contemporary 2D artist to imagineher sketchbook as a kind of immediate scientific laboratory, a site wherever repeated experiments and knowledge-building practices get drawn…
Hillary Clinton – A Specter Haunting The Entire World
The Democratic presidential candidate, Hillary Clinton, still gets high marks at least in Europe, compared to the Republican candidate Donald Trump, demonized by corporate media because of his outlandish remarks…
Clinton Backs Monsanto’s Case That To Be Anti Monsanto Is To Be Pro Global-Warming
On June 27th, I reported Hillary Clinton’s having privately told GMO industry lobbyists, on 25 June 2014, that the federal government should subsidize GMO firms in order to enable…
The Eel Of History: Hillary Clinton, Emailgate And The FBI
Clinton was spared, even if the FBI recommendation remains just that. It was a textbook outcome pointing to the failures of consistent approaches all too familiar to that of her…
FBI Rejects Criminal Charges Against Hillary Clinton In Email Investigation
FBI Director James Comey announced Tuesday that his agency will not recommend criminal charges against Hillary Clinton for her use of a private email server to handle government communications during…
Queen Of Chaos: The Misadventures Of Hillary Clinton
Veteran journalist Diana Johnstone has given the American people and the world a weak-up call about Hillary Clinton. The author, who has been living in Paris for over 40 years,…
Hillary Clinton’s Email Operation Violated At Least Six U.S. Criminal Laws
This is not an exclusive list, nor does it relate to charges that might possibly be made against Ms. Clinton on grounds other than the unquestionable and basic ground that…
All Opposed To The Blind Fascism Of Hillary’s Lackeys:Let the Dead Bury Their Dead!
Katherine Hoof Illinois—probably your average Hillary supporter. She published a letter to the editor in the Times the very day after Bernie’s piece and titled it“Dear Bernie Sanders: What You…
Here’s Why Hillary Won’t Allow Her Corporate Speeches To Be Published
In a previous report, I indicated "Why Hillary Clinton’s Paid Speeches Are Relevant”, but not what they contained. The present report indicates what they contained. One speech in particular will be…
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