Comments on: A Hidden Agenda: John McCain and the IRI http://www.dissidentvoice.org/2008/07/a-hidden-agenda-john-mccain-and-the-iri/ a radical newsletter in the struggle for peace and social justice Sat, 22 Nov 2008 02:38:30 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.6.1 By: Stanley Lucas http://www.dissidentvoice.org/2008/07/a-hidden-agenda-john-mccain-and-the-iri/#comment-30564 Stanley Lucas Mon, 27 Oct 2008 03:44:32 +0000 http://www.dissidentvoice.org/?p=2264#comment-30564 COHA has been peddling disinformation for years. This “report” on IRI and me is more of the same. The organization can best be described as a fact-free zone. The only thing one can be certain of is its affection for left-wing autocrats and aspiring dictators. Stanley Lucas www.solutionshaiti.blogspot.com COHA Dubious story: http://solutionshaiti.blogspot.com/search?q=coha COHA has been peddling disinformation for years. This “report” on IRI and me is more of the same. The organization can best be described as a fact-free zone. The only thing one can be certain of is its affection for left-wing autocrats and aspiring dictators.

Stanley Lucas
http://www.solutionshaiti.blogspot.com
COHA Dubious story: http://solutionshaiti.blogspot.com/search?q=coha

]]> By: evie http://www.dissidentvoice.org/2008/07/a-hidden-agenda-john-mccain-and-the-iri/#comment-23941 evie Mon, 07 Jul 2008 14:45:47 +0000 http://www.dissidentvoice.org/?p=2264#comment-23941 Hmmm. And Soros' Open Society has donated to Reform Institute, where McCain was once involved, now informally. Will folks never learn, the "left" and "right" work together, one hand washing the other, etc. etc. With Anglo/Euro/US always dicking around with intervention in the politics of other nations - does it ever dawn on anyone that there may be outside operatives intervening and influencing US politics? Or maybe Americans just think they're too smart for anyone to do that. Hmmm. And Soros’ Open Society has donated to Reform Institute, where McCain was once involved, now informally.

Will folks never learn, the “left” and “right” work together, one hand washing the other, etc. etc.

With Anglo/Euro/US always dicking around with intervention in the politics of other nations - does it ever dawn on anyone that there may be outside operatives intervening and influencing US politics? Or maybe Americans just think they’re too smart for anyone to do that.

]]> By: Alex http://www.dissidentvoice.org/2008/07/a-hidden-agenda-john-mccain-and-the-iri/#comment-23932 Alex Mon, 07 Jul 2008 09:55:10 +0000 http://www.dissidentvoice.org/?p=2264#comment-23932 The American or Western Empire is like any other Empire in human history. After all, the human experience is limited and human nature has not changed since the dawn of civilization. All Empires (Rome, Egypt, British, French, Russian, WW2 Germany, WW2 Japan, etc.) throughout history have used the same strong-arm tactics to maintain control. Why would the American Empire be any different? The American or Western Empire is like any other Empire in human history. After all, the human experience is limited and human nature has not changed since the dawn of civilization. All Empires (Rome, Egypt, British, French, Russian, WW2 Germany, WW2 Japan, etc.) throughout history have used the same strong-arm tactics to maintain control. Why would the American Empire be any different?

]]> By: bozhidar balkas http://www.dissidentvoice.org/2008/07/a-hidden-agenda-john-mccain-and-the-iri/#comment-23906 bozhidar balkas Sun, 06 Jul 2008 21:08:10 +0000 http://www.dissidentvoice.org/?p=2264#comment-23906 "hidden agenda by mccain"? regarding single-payer health care, warfare, classful society, (mis)education,(mis) information, etc., one can say that to some people in US and the world it had been clear for a long time that US had waged wars, was (is) a classful society, will continue to wage wars, oppress own cit'ns as well as aliens, deny heath care, etc. it seems to me that the ruling class has made it abundantly clear where it stands on this issues. what was/is hidden ab afgh'n, vietnam, palestine, iraq, syria, nicaragua, panama, and other amer invasions, destabilazations, terrorist acts by cia, threats, etc? thank u “hidden agenda by mccain”?
regarding single-payer health care, warfare, classful society, (mis)education,(mis) information, etc., one can say that to some people in US and the world it had been clear for a long time that US had waged wars, was (is) a classful society, will continue to wage wars, oppress own cit’ns as well as aliens, deny heath care, etc.
it seems to me that the ruling class has made it abundantly clear where it stands on this issues.
what was/is hidden ab afgh’n, vietnam, palestine, iraq, syria, nicaragua, panama, and other amer invasions, destabilazations, terrorist acts by cia, threats, etc?
thank u

]]> By: Jerry D. Rose http://www.dissidentvoice.org/2008/07/a-hidden-agenda-john-mccain-and-the-iri/#comment-23832 Jerry D. Rose Sat, 05 Jul 2008 18:11:45 +0000 http://www.dissidentvoice.org/?p=2264#comment-23832 In the midst of a presidential campaign season it may be relevant to point out what Ms. Hamburger ignores: that the Democratic Party's "loosely affiliated" National Democracy Institute (NDI) is the IRI's counterpart and has been just as closely connected with clandestine operations in Venezuela and elsewhere as is the IRI. What could better symbolize the "Washington Consensus" on an imperialistic foreign policy than the symbiosis in this case of the two supposedly "opposing" parties? This becomes even more clear when we observe http://www.ndi.org/about/bdadv/bdadv.asp that the chairman of the board of NDI is Madeleine Albright, Clinton's Secretary of State, campaigner for Hillary Clinton who has now come across with the rest of the phalanx of Clintonistas to Barack Obama's campaign. You know, change we can believe in. In the midst of a presidential campaign season it may be relevant to point out what Ms. Hamburger ignores: that the Democratic Party’s “loosely affiliated” National Democracy Institute (NDI) is the IRI’s counterpart and has been just as closely connected with clandestine operations in Venezuela and elsewhere as is the IRI. What could better symbolize the “Washington Consensus” on an imperialistic foreign policy than the symbiosis in this case of the two supposedly “opposing” parties? This becomes even more clear when we observe http://www.ndi.org/about/bdadv/bdadv.asp
that the chairman of the board of NDI is Madeleine Albright, Clinton’s Secretary of State, campaigner for Hillary Clinton who has now come across with the rest of the phalanx of Clintonistas to Barack Obama’s campaign. You know, change we can believe in.

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