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John Pilger Raises a Question: Has There Ever Been a Government More Evil Than Washington?

The Coming War on China by John Pilger

http://www.counterpunch.org/2016/12/02/the-coming-war-on-china/

Years ago when I was staff associate, House Defense Appropriations Subcommittee, a tutorial was provided on the destructive power of the Soviet ICBM SS-18, known as Satan. Employing hyperbole, the lecturer said that one SS-18 on Washington would kill everone from Boston to Atlanta.

Via Jesse's Cafe Americain blog,

"This whole 'red scare' thing has become so thoroughly ridiculous, so blatantly propagandist and overblown, so pervasively passed around by mainstream media outlets without serious investigation, so obviously picked up off a shelf in ad hoc convenience, and so completely hypocritical by the professional elite, that I am tempted to write it off and forget about it. But I should probably be deeply troubled for other reasons.

 

Following disappointing results from the initial recount efforts in Pennsylvania, CBS reports Jill Stein's Green Party is dropping its court case seeking a statewide recount of Pennsylvania’s Nov. 8 presidential election, blaming a lack of funds.

A new study has revealed that almost all US patient advocacy groups are funded and led by the drug industry Patient advocacy groups are supposed to be unbiased and  independent authorities championing the public interest with regard to drug and medical issues before the FDA. They claim to represent the true voice of constituents, untainted by special interest bias.

A federal court in Wisconsin has denied an emergency halt to the recount of the presidential vote. Two pro-Trump political action committees, the Great America PAC and Stop Hillary PAC filed a lawsuit and a request in federal court in Madison on Friday for a temporary restraining order seeking to stop the voter recount.