Trump, Mair and The Gods That Failed

Published on In The Half Light, by PaulOC, Nov 9, 2016.

The election of Donald Trump as President of the United States, much like the Brexit vote in the UK earlier this year, has been greeted by mainstream commentators with a mixture of vapid incomprehension and shrill, moralistic denouncement. The emptiness of these responses reflect a central problem for liberals, centrists, so-called ‘leftists’ and others in advanced capitalist countries, namely that their gods have failed them. Capitalist development and competition, wedded to (and notionally tempered by) limited, representative democracy and consensus politics have all proven inadequate to the historical tasks before them. Continuer la lecture de « Trump, Mair and The Gods That Failed »

Cyber-warfare: Five Major Russian Banks Repel Massive DDoS Attack

Published on Global Research.ca, by RT News, Nov 10, 2016.

At least five Russian major banks came under a continuous hacker attack, although online client services were not disrupted. The attack came from a wide-scale botnet involving at least 24,000 computers, located in 30 countries.   Continuer la lecture de « Cyber-warfare: Five Major Russian Banks Repel Massive DDoS Attack »

A new world is born with Trump's foreign policy and the UK is left behind

Published on The Independent.co.uk, by Kim Sengupta, Nov 9, 2016.

On some areas of geopolitics the UK is now out of step with the new White House, particularly when it comes to Russia’s role in Syria.

It has been a paradox of the US election that Donald Trump, the right-wing populist, was seen as a dove on foreign and defence policy while Hillary Clinton, the liberal sophisticate, was regarded as a hawk … (no, it’s not a paradox, this chaos is wanted, so people may be better misleaded … and the UK goes it’s own way with Brexit, but mainstream media and the establishment are unable to recognize it … because it’s the people who decide (called populism) and not the elites – Heidi). Continuer la lecture de « A new world is born with Trump's foreign policy and the UK is left behind »

Now We Can Finally Get to Work

Published on Let’s Try Democracy, by David Swanson, Nov 9, 2016.

Dear Democrats, are you finding yourselves suddenly a bit doubtful of the wisdom of drone wars? Presidential wars without Congress? Massive investment in new, smaller, « more usable » nuclear weapons? The expansion of bases across Africa and Asia? Are you disturbed by the wars in Afghanistan, Iraq, Syria, Libya, and Yemen? Can total surveillance and the persecution of whistleblowers hit a point where they’ve gone too far? Is the new Cold War with Russia looking less than ideal now? How about the militarization of U.S. police: is it time to consider alternatives to that?   Continuer la lecture de « Now We Can Finally Get to Work »

Trump's victory speech

I will not let you down, 19.43 min, uploaded by RT, Nov 9, 2016.

(My comment: now I want Trump make peace with Russia. The gurus of the US-establishment were beginning to push us Europeans into a war with Russia, possibly ending in an atomic war, having nothing to f… about our lifes here (like in Ukraine). Clinton and all our mainstream media here were totally devoted to their lies. I hope this tendency begins to be reversed. For the rest, once this humanity will survive for the moment, let’s make the best with the reality – Heidi).