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We cannot keep publishing without your help. We rely on you to help us pay our monthly expenses. So please Donate Monday ‘Print the money’: Trump’s ‘reckless’ proposal echoes Franklin and Lincoln By Ellen Brown “Print the money” has been called crazy talk, but it may be the only sane solution to a $19 trillion federal debt that has doubled in the last 10 years. The solution of Abraham Lincoln and the American colonists can still work today. The great leap backward: America’s illegal wars on the world By Luciana Bohne Can we face it in this election season? America is a weapons factory, the White House a war room, and the president the manager of the neoliberal conspiracy to recolonize the planet. It exports war and mass poverty. On the economic front, usurious neoliberalism; on the military front, illegal wars. These are the trenches of America’s battle for world domination in the 21st century. Kill TTIP now By Paul Craig Roberts In his May 9, 2016, speech to European medical professionals, Michael Hudson points out that the result of TTIP for Europe will be the privatization of health care systems with the associated much higher costs. The ghosts of ’68 haunt the election of 2016 A slender, long-forgotten work of fiction foresees the rage and frustration of Donald Trump's America. By Michael Winship Watching the mad, mad, mad, mad world that is the 2016 presidential campaign, I was trying to remember a presidential campaign that was as jaw-dropping, at least in my lifetime, and easily settled on 1968. The show must go on By Missy Comley Beattie I thought I’d write about it. And then I thought I’d write about something else. And of course today there’s another something. There always is. By the end of this piece, I may be chasing a tangent that’s unrelated to the paragraph following this one. Tuesday European Union, not Brexit, threatens peace and stability By Stephen Lendman Britain’s David Cameron has it backwards, warning Brexit threatens continental peace—calling support for the move “reckless and irresponsible,” risking Britain’s economic stability, leaving it “permanently poorer.” Evolution, revolution and the troglodyte eruption By Ben Tanosborn Finally, after three-plus decades of unmitigated adventurism, both domestic and global, the [economic] chickens are coming home to roost in this 2016 presidential election. And this time around we can indisputably state that “the economy matters.” And it matters much more than at any other time in our nation’s history. Why? Why Trump can lie and no one seems to care The GOP candidate gets away with outrageous, contradictory statements because the mainstream media and the public let him. By Neal Gabler Donald Trump is a serial liar. Okay, to be a bit less Trumpian about it, he has trouble with the truth. If you look at Politifact, the Pulitzer Prize-winning site that examines candidates’ pronouncements for accuracy, 76 percent of Trump’s statements are rated either “mostly false,” “false,” or “pants on fire,” which is to say off-the-charts false. By comparison, Hillary Clinton’s total is 29 percent. Zionist Israel hides its crimes behind its smears of truth-tellers By Paul Craig Roberts Several years ago two very distinguished American scholars wrote a book, ‘The Israel Lobby.’ Obscured American: Noam the straying Hasid By Linh Dinh Last year in Leipzig, Germany, I met a young woman who had just returned from Chicago, where her family lived in tony Lincoln Park. She had also studied at Williams College in Massachusetts, where tuition alone was near $50,000. Germany was too white, she complained, and she was ashamed of the anti-immigrant attitude shown by many of her countrymen. For Christmas, she went to Palm Springs, California. Though only in her mid-twenties, she had traveled to dozens of countries. Wednesday Organized misery is fascism By John Stanton Just about one half of the year 2016 is in the world’s history books. The 16th year of the 21st Century, a century that was supposed to usher in a new era of democracy, opportunity, “green thinking,” and income for all, has thus far been a bust for much of the citizens of the world. Some 40.8 million displaced people roam the continents of the world due to the effects of climate change and the fallout from varying degrees of conflict/war ranging from the War on Terror and War on Drugs, to covert-overt regime changes in Brazil, Ukraine, Egypt, Paraguay, Iraq, Libya and Honduras. Syria remains a work in progress. Soros not the first to stir up ethnic nationalism inside Russia By Wayne Madsen Although global hedge fund mogul George Soros and his non-governmental organizations (NGOs) have attempted to stir up ethnic nationalism inside the Russian Federation since the end of the Cold War, the Central Intelligence Agency (CIA) began such troublemaking as early as 1953. Lesser of two evils vote is counterproductive and morally corrupt By Carmen Yarrusso There’s probably never been a US presidential election where both likely nominees are more despised by more people. Millions on both sides plan to vote for the least despicable candidate. Do you need more proof our political system is corrupt to the core? The art of the double-dealing megalomaniac By Walter Brasch Savannah State University in Georgia will offer a three-credit course this summer, “The Trump Factor in American Politics.” The professor is Dr. Robert Smith, who says the students will read Trump’s policy statements and excerpts from Trump’s books, and then discuss his political philosophies. When saying ‘I’m sorry’ is not enough By Dave Alpert It’s getting more and more difficult for me to look in the mirror, for what do I see? Thursday Canada’s Saudi arms sales: ‘Don’t be a sucker’ By Eric Walberg The sale of weaponized Light Armoured Vehicles (LAVs) to Saudi Arabia has raised a heated debate in Canada, pitting so-called realists against people who expect trade to be conducted according to a minimum set of moral values. Outgoing Conservative Prime Minister Stephen Harper’s swan song was the $15-billion arms deal with Saudi Arabia, which Harper boasted would provide 3,000 jobs. George Soros, billionaire progressive . . . really? By Dave Alpert For many years, George Soros has been playing the role of philanthropist and billionaire with a heart and a conscience. But, let us not be fooled. Let us take a closer look at this man who has been very politically active. Shame on the U.S. Supreme Court for making a mockery of the First Amendment By John W. Whitehead Shame on the U.S. Supreme Court for making a mockery of the First Amendment. ‘Astral City’ By Philip A Farruggio One should view Wagner DeAssis’s 2011 Portuguese film “Astral City” . . . especially great for those of us who dissent against injustice. Isn’t that a contradiction some would ask? Perhaps, if dissent is meant to be the sole possession of atheists, agnostics and 100% humanists. Yet, for those of us who study the teachings of many religions, especially Christianity, Hinduism and Buddhism to name but a few, maybe belief in a spiritual universe and the need to speak out against injustice does in fact go ‘hand in hand’. And the TSA incompetence beat goes on . . . By Lisa Simeone As I wrote earlier this month, TSA incompetence and stupidity—combined with American populace passivity—are causing thousands of people to miss their flights. The amount of time travelers are supposed to allow to get through airport security keeps ballooning—from one hour to two hours to, now, three hours before their flights. And that’s for domestic flights, mes amis, not just international ones. Friday What about violence from the Clinton campaign? By Michael Collins Some roughhousing at a Democratic Party convention in Nevada over the weekend shocked party leaders and the mainstream media. The official custodians of propriety demand that Sanders control his followers and denounce their actions. The double standard on this issue is simply appalling since the Clinton campaign represents failed policies that got 350,000 killed and future plans (the “no fly zone” for Syria) that will cost even more lives. CIA: Undermining and Nazifying Ukraine since 1953 By Wayne Madsen The recent declassification of over 3,800 documents by the Central Intelligence Agency provides detailed proof that since 1953 the CIA operated two major programs intent on not only destabilizing Ukraine but Nazifying it with followers of the World War II Ukrainian Nazi leader Stepan Bandera. The ADL and the Armenian Genocide: It’s not over until it’s over By David Boyajian In mid-May, on the Anti-Defamation League’s blog, CEO Jonathan Greenblatt said that the ADL now “unequivocally” acknowledges the Armenian Genocide committed by Turkey. Curiously, he doesn’t mention Turkey. The ADL, he added, “would support U.S. acknowledgment of the Armenian Genocide.” Roots of the conflict: Palestine’s Nakba in the larger Arab ‘catastrophe’ By Ramzy Baroud On May 15th of every year, over the past 68 years, Palestinians have commemorated their collective exile from Palestine. The ethnic cleansing of Palestine to make room for a ‘Jewish homeland’ came at a price of unrelenting violence and perpetual suffering. Palestinians refer to that enduring experience as ‘Nakba,’ or ‘Catastrophe. Trump and Kissinger discuss realpolitik By Stephen Lendman In November, US voters get to choose between two deplorable business as usual presidential aspirants—a billionaire demagogue v. a war criminal/Wall Street tool, both hugely anti-populist.
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RSN: Leaked TTIP Documents Cast Doubt on EU-US Trade Deal

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FOCUS: Leaked TTIP Documents Cast Doubt on EU-US Trade Deal 
 
Arthur Neslen, Guardian UK 
Neslen writes: "Talks for a free trade deal between Europe and the US face a serious impasse with 'irreconcilable' differences in some areas, according to leaked negotiating texts." 
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Greenpeace says internal documents show US attempts to lower or circumvent EU protection for environment and public health

alks for a free trade deal between Europe and the US face a serious impasse with “irreconcilable” differences in some areas, according to leaked negotiating texts.

The two sides are also at odds over US demands that would require the EU to break promises it has made on environmental protection.

President Obama said last week he was confident a deal could be reached. But the leaked negotiating drafts and internal positions, which were obtained by Greenpeace and seen by the Guardian, paint a very different picture.

“Discussions on cosmetics remain very difficult and the scope of common objectives fairly limited,” says one internal note by EU trade negotiators. Because of a European ban on animal testing, “the EU and US approaches remain irreconcilable and EU market access problems will therefore remain,” the note says.

Talks on engineering were also “characterised by continuous reluctance on the part of the US to engage in this sector,” the confidential briefing says.

These problems are not mentioned in a separate report on the state of the talks, also leaked, which the European commission has prepared for scrutiny by the European parliament.

These outline the positions exchanged between EU and US negotiators between the 12th and the 13th round of TTIP talks, which took place in New York last week.

The public document offers a robust defence of the EU’s right to regulate and create a court-like system for disputes, unlike the internal note, which does not mention them.

Jorgo Riss, the director of Greenpeace EU, said: “These leaked documents give us an unparalleled look at the scope of US demands to lower or circumvent EU protections for environment and public health as part of TTIP. The EU position is very bad, and the US position is terrible. The prospect of a TTIP compromising within that range is an awful one. The way is being cleared for a race to the bottom in environmental, consumer protection and public health standards.”

US proposals include an obligation on the EU to inform its industries of any planned regulations in advance, and to allow them the same input into EU regulatory processes as European firms.

American firms could influence the content of EU laws at several points along the regulatory line, including through a plethora of proposed technical working groups and committees.

“Before the EU could even pass a regulation, it would have to go through a gruelling impact assessment process in which the bloc would have to show interested US parties that no voluntary measures, or less exacting regulatory ones, were possible,” Riss said.

The US is also proposing new articles on “science and risk” to give firms greater regulatory say. Disputes over pesticides residues and food safety would be dealt with by the UN Food and Agriculture Organisation’s Codex Alimentarius system.

Environmentalists say the body has loose rules on corporate influence, allowing employees of companies such as BASF, Nestle and Coca Cola to sit on – and sometimes lead – national delegations. Some 44% of its decisions on pesticides residues have been less stringent than EU ones, with 40% of rough equivalence and 16% being more demanding, according to Greenpeace.

GM foods could also find a widening window into Europe, with the US pushing for a working group to adopt a “low level presence initiative”. This would allow the import of cargo containing traces of unauthorised GM strains. The EU currently blocks these because of food safety and cross-pollination concerns.

The EU has not yet accepted the US demands, but they are uncontested in the negotiators’ note, and no counter-proposals have been made in these areas.

In January, the EU trade commissioner Cecilia Malmström said [pdf] the precautionary principle, obliging regulatory caution where there is scientific doubt, was a core and non-negotiable EU principle. She said: “We will defend the precautionary approach to regulation in Europe, in TTIP and in all our other agreements.” But the principle is not mentioned in the 248 pages of TTIP negotiating texts.

The European commission has also promised to safeguard environmental laws, defend international standards and protect the EU’s right to set high green benchmarks in future.

But the new leak will not placate critics of the deal, who have pointed to attempts by fossil fuel firms and others to influence its outcome, as a sign of things to come.

The EU negotiators internal note says “the US expressed that it would have to consult with its chemical industry on how to position itself” on issues of market access for non-agricultural goods.

Where industry lobbying in regulatory processes is concerned, the US also “insisted” that the EU be “required” to involve US experts in its development of electrotechnical standards.

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RSN: Polish Minister: We Gave US 'Blow Job'

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FOCUS: Polish Minister: We Gave US 'Blow Job'

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Excerpt: "A Polish news magazine said on Sunday it had obtained a secret recording of Foreign Minister Radoslaw Sikorski, in contention for a senior European Union job, saying that Poland's relationship with the United States was worthless."
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The U.S. can and should lead the world in reducing global warming impacts, increasing energy efficiency and renewable energy! 

From: Editor, ENN
Published June 3, 2014 10:11 AM

EU reacts to Obama's Clean Power Plan

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After the US EPA announced their plan to cut US power plant emissions 30% by 2030, the European Union (EU) reacts, praising the Emission Performance Standard (EPS) for its vision while serving as a "positive signal" to other countries.







''This proposed rule is the strongest action ever taken by the U.S. government to fight climate change," the EU's climate action commissioner, Connie Hedegaard said in a reaction statement. "If implemented as planned, this measure will help the country meet its 2020 emissions target."

2020 emissions targets refer to reductions previously committed to by Obama which are well below the Kyoto Protocol commitments.

Hedegaard saw hope in Obama's announcement for next year's Paris summit which is intended to finalize a successor to the Kyoto deal which expired in 2012. "But for Paris to deliver what is needed to stay below a 2°C increase in global temperature, all countries, including the United States, must do even more than what this reduction trajectory indicates," she said.

The new plan will cap greenhouse gas emissions from 1600 US power stations, even though 600 of them are powered by coal and around half may have difficulty meeting the new standard.

As well as cutting CO2 emissions, the new EPS anticipates a 1.5% annual increase in energy efficiency, and a reduction in particle, sulphur dioxide and nitrogen pollution by more than 25%, according to the US EPA.

The EPA also expects the new rule to cut electricity bills by 8% and avert as many as 6,600 premature deaths, 150,000 asthma attacks in children, and up to 490,000 missed work or school days, saving some $93 billion in the process.

Many European green groups though were energized Obama's move, with 11 heavy-hitters including Greenpeace, WWF Europe and Birdlife putting out a statement calling for reciprocal EU action.

"Europe has long claimed leadership on climate action, but has seen rising emissions from coal power stations due to the low CO2 price and cheaper coal imports," it says. "This is a threat to both Europe's delivery of domestic decarbonisation and to its international influence."

Read more at EurActiv.

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