This article is absolutely priceless! It deserves its own comment section.
I was a little bored so while surfing the net I came across this article concerning comments by Director of the CIA John Brennan. Needless to say it brought to mind the old saying…… “Bullshit baffles Brains”.
I will provide the link and a few of my own comments below.
The article can be found here.
http://thehill.com/policy/national-security/cia/311603-cia-head-acting-like-russia-beneath-us
.I don’t actually know where to begin but it is quite obvious that John Brennan was not a “History Major” in the past.
I won’t go into a history of past US involvement in regime change by military or other nefarious means but Iran, Chile and Iraq quickly come to mind.
If Brennan can make statements like those above I have a hard time believing anything that comes from either the CIA or from his mouth!
South Korea
Cuba, Honduras, Nicaragua,
Meddling and supporting right wing governments around the world in order to facilitate the multinational corporate greed. Saudi Arabia? Other regimes in the Middle East.
The Philipines. where’s the country we haven’t tried to meddle in putting average working people and indigemous populations at risk.
Brennan is delusional.
My question is where have we not meddled because of a paranoid Cold War hysteria that just happens to dove tail with corporate take over of natural resources.
United fruit company that grew (grow?) bananas in Central America and brutalized indigenous people in order to make a fortune.
SHAME ON ME!
I got a bit curious after posting the thread and did a bit of research.
I came up with a few links of US involvement in regime change.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/United_States_involvement_in_regime_change
That makes me wonder if the Russians hacked Wikipedia?
https://scholar.google.ca/scholar?q=cia+involvement+in+regime+change&hl=en&as_sdt=0&as_vis=1&oi=scholart&sa=X&ved=0ahUKEwiJgeekyInRAhXry4MKHfz3D-4QgQMIGjAA
Those dam Russians. I guess they got to Google also too.
I wonder if this interview between Ari Melber and Glen Greenwald will get him fired from MSNBC. It is worth a viewing as it is so not like anything that comes from Rachel.
http://www.msnbc.com/msnbc-news/watch/glenn-greenwald-weighs-in-on-election-hacks-838954051793?utm_source=dlvr.it&utm_medium=twitter.
I liked Glenn’s response to Howard Deans comments about The Intercept.
Great interview of Glenn
Then there is this interview by Tucker Carlson which is a miracle: it makes him play the role of journalist.
Incidentally in the Glenn interview which Howard Dean lays the Russia claim on Glenn, this is the same Howard Dean who was on the payroll of a terrorist organization, MEK, that was taken off the terrorist watch list later (congress or some agency). MEK was an organization trying to change government of Iran.
I know I will get slammed, but I will defend Howard Dean. Like Bernie, he’s a NY native. He migrated to Vermont and was eventually elected governor. He got into politics cos his beloved brother went over to SEast Asia during the Vietnam war, and vanished (most likely killed). He’s a true American political moderate, not a lefty liberal like Bernie. Turd Way he ain’t, but he’s a pragmatist and follows his instincts. I worked his campaign back in 2003-4, and have never regretted it. He is the one who showed the way for Barack Obummer to win via the internet. In his off-camera life, he is sick over this tRump bit. Enuff said. Merry Christmas to all fellow TRWers esp. LD and JLD!! 🙂
Merry Christmas orlbucfan! I appreciate hearing your perspective.
I hope you have a great weekend with many good memories!!
I think that with LD’s fine leadership commenters here don’t believe in slamming anyone for expressing an honest opinion.
Thanks for sharing your experience.
I am fascinated by what I have observed (perhaps it’s my perception that is flawed here?) – how many people who rightly or wrongly had the respect of many people in this country, like Barbara Boxer and Gloria Steinem, who were somehow drawn into making vicious and unfair attacks on Bernie supporters in an attempt to defend their candidate Hillary Clinton from any criticism.
It’s fascinating.
I believed in Howard Dean until this presidential campaign. I even thought I understood the “scream” that he was vilified for. When he made it I thought it was a joke on his part to say – hey this isn’t who I am but I’ll play along. But I’m not sure any more.
In any event we each have to make a judgement and I respect your right to your own views and hope I get the same courtesy 🙂
As long as we can have conversations about these things, we’ll all be fine. Thanks for your courage to speak out:)
I liked Howard Dean a lot up until this election season. If Dems had followed his 50-state strategy, they’d be in much better shape politically now, too.
And of course it’s okay to like people we disagree with!
I am astonished by what comes out of Howard Dean’s mouth.
I used to believe that Howard Dean was a reliable thoughtful politician.
I saw his decline begin during the primary when he allowed himself to be turned into a pretzel in order to support Hillary Clinton. He no longer sounded convincing but a mouthpiece.
Even Michael Moore was panicked into a hysterical state of mind for a little while.
He was a passionate supporter of Bernie Sanders. Then when Hillary Clinton became the Democratic nominee and Trump became the Republican nominee Moore sounded like he had been secretly surrounded by Clinton operatives and lambasted for his movie that I think may have referred to Trump’s appeal to people who were hurt during the years when Neoliberals and Neocons had taken over policy. not sure exactly why, but he seemed extremely upset about his own role in what the clinton campaign may have realized was her weakening position in the public mind.
And Howard Dean has not recovered but is getting worse.
I’m not sure what his goal is…..
He did mention his brother was a Bernie supporter.
Maybe he’s doubling down now on his error in not joining his brother…. and his own role in pushing for a deeply flawed candidate who was beaten by a reality show host.
It takes a whole network, including institutions to make facts hold up.
Another institutional fail is the House intelligence report on Edward Snowden.
As Snowden says in a tweet – at a time when the institutions are not credible, doing this makes things worse.
article from NYT
House Report, Evidence Redacted, Ties Snowden to Russian Agencies
The agencies lie. Snowden tells the truth.
And so it goes…..
Snowden is a hero! and moreover I believe that he is one of the most intelligent, civic minded, observers in our public life today.
At a time when our government system hangs in the balance, along with the Earth, we have the dem party and agencies like CIA, FBI, NSA, and military, doing everything they can do to hang onto their budget
and putting out a web of distortion
and and to claim that people like us who hang out here are wallowing in fake news
well, …..
pissed at dems at not getting behind protecting the government and the earth
Don: great reading your comments even if we disagree over Dean. Hope this finds you and yours keeping warm and the faith in Ohio. MERRY CHRISTMAS!!
You’re right about them trying to hang on too the Big Money and power.
The DNC Dems are too busy shoring up the Clinton Machine for a 2020 run too do anything to protect the gov and our earth..they have too keep their blinders on, so they won’t have too take a long hard look at themselves and their failed ideologies.
Even Fox news sees the Emperor has no clothes and is stunned
http://insider.foxnews.com/2016/12/22/mccain-completely-blown-away-some-dems-want-3rd-hillary-run
Hmmm… I found this humorous. Did she get the Freudian wording here?
Not the best quality but a good interview between Glen Greenwald and Jimmy Dore