Sunday, October 15, 2017

Robert Parry — How Netanyahu Pulls Trump’s Strings

If indeed Clinton were right that Trump was Putin’s “puppet,” then he would have agreed to negotiations to address the North Korean crisis; would have accepted constructive diplomacy toward Iran; and would have ended all U.S. support for the Syrian militants and encouraged a quick end to the bloodletting.
Instead, Trump is moving in opposite directions, lining up with Netanyahu and the neocons, whom some European allies refer to as “America’s Israeli agents.” Although dressing up his capitulation to Netanyahu in tough-guy phrasing, Trump is doing what most U.S. politicians do – they grovel before Bibi Netanyahu.
And, if you have any doubts about that reality, you can watch how often both Republicans and Democrats jump to their feet when Netanyahu addresses a joint session of Congress, an honor that he has received three times, tying him with British Prime Minister Winston Churchill.
Those moments of American humiliation – as almost all 535 members of Congress act like puppets on invisible strings – represent the actual subservience of the U.S. government to a foreign power. And that power is not Russia.
President Trump is just the latest American politician to have his strings yanked by Israeli Prime Minister Netanyahu.
Consortium News
How Netanyahu Pulls Trump’s Strings
Robert Parry

Also
By offering a propagandistic tirade on Iran’s role in the Mideast – a classic neocon screed – President Trump has demonstrated his inability to bring any fresh or honest thinking to the regional crises, as Kathy Kelly explains.
Trump Ignores Israeli/Saudi Abuses

Also
Sooner or later, I see a blowup coming between Trump and Netanyahu, and the U.S. President's brief moment of candor with the UN Secretary General should be lodged in the back of your mind, as it is in mine.
Sic Semper Tyrannis 

9 comments:

Kaivey said...

Some of the powerful Right have caught on, and they're angry. They want their country back which they say has been hijacked by the Israelis and the Neocons. They are staunch Republicans and they hate Hilary and the Neocons, both left and right - and Bush. They seem to be good people, but very conservative. Charles Ortel is one of them. They like Putin.

I've been watching their videos over the last few days but they are like watching paint dry as they take ages to get around to discussing interesting points, but it's like a fly on a wall where they have these casual discussions and that's quite interesting.



I'm trying to sort out a good video for this site but they are not riveting, like a Richie Allen show.

They seem to be revolutionary and maybe they will gain momentum and boot out the evil in Washington as they are powerful people in high places. I was quite impressed, but they do seem to be conspiracy theorists, which makes some of their stuff difficult to post here because us liberals like facts. Except the Neocon liberals, though, they make up all sorts of lies about Russia.

MRW said...

Pam and Russ Martens were the first I knew to report on Charles Ortel's investigation into the Clinton Foundation. http://wallstreetonparade.com/?s=charles+ortel. Ortel was excellent.

MRW said...

From Ortel's website. http://charlesortel.com/tag/Clinton%20Foundation

Matt Franko said...

The authors do not understand the concept of "get even".... it's not even with Iran...

MRW said...

Ortel on youtube: Charles Ortel on The Clinton Foundation Cartel, Frank Guistra and the Canadian Connection. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Funo6NLfpPU. I doubt anyone will listen to this but it's fascinating.

MRW said...

This youtube is revelatory (and I listened to it at the time): Clinton Foundation Is The "Largest Unprosecuted Charity Fraud Ever". https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pWmiZ-uWcfM

MRW said...

Listen to the ten minutes starting at 33:00 in the Charles Ortel on The Clinton Foundation Cartel, Frank Guistra and the Canadian Connection. youtube.

Tom Hickey said...

The authors do not understand the concept of "get even".... it's not even with Iran...

That's right , Matt. To get even Iran would have to overthrow the US government as the US did to the democratically elected Mossaddegh, replacing him with the tyrannical Shah who was a US puppet.

Now the US wants to repeat the move.

Kaivey said...

Over period of about a month a few months back I listened to video after video of Charles Ortel. I put one video out here. I never got bored listening to him, an amazing guy.