Ray McGovern: Obama An Empty Shell — Allowing Neocons, Wall Street, and Arms Merchants to Thrive on Proxy War with Russia

04 Inter-State Conflict
Ray McGovern
Ray McGovern

The US-Russia Proxy War in Syria

It does not appear as though Obama has the same degree of control over foreign and defense policy that Putin enjoys in Moscow   . . .   Perhaps the greatest danger from Obama’s acquiescence to the neocons’ new Cold War with Russia is that the neocon hopes for “regime change in Moscow” will be realized except that Putin will be replaced by some ultra-nationalist who would rather risk nuclear war than accept further humiliation of Mother Russia.

ALERT: Free Film Today and Tomorrow, “A Time to Choose” on Environmental Collapse and Alternatives

#Events, 03 Environmental Degradation
Greg Maybury
Greg Maybury

From   Director, Wall Street documentary ‘Inside Job'; Author, ‘Predator Nation'

For 48 hours starting at 9:30 am local time today, people around the world can watch and share Time To Choose, my latest documentary and a project I hope can help the world understand and address our common climate challenge.

Click on Time To Choose for free access 30 Nov – 1 Dec 2015.

Mongoose: Brazil to Sue Samarco Mining for $5.2 Billion Over Dam Burst

03 Economy, 03 Environmental Degradation
Mongoose
Mongoose

The tide is turning. True cost economics is going to come into full force in the next decade.

Brazil to sue Samarco mining firm for $5.2bn over dam burst

“It is not a natural disaster, it is a disaster prompted by economic activity, but of a magnitude equivalent to those disasters created by forces of nature.” She said about 500km (310 miles) of the Rio Doce – one of Brazil's most important rivers – would have to be dredged in parts, vegetation replanted and fresh water springs cleared.

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