It HAS happened here

[Thomas Eckhardt]

Speaking of mafia style politics:

'In early 2002, a year before the invasion of Iraq, the Bush 
administration was putting intense pressure on Bustani to quit as 
director-general of the OPCW — despite the fact that he had been 
unanimously re-elected to head the 145-nation body just two years 
earlier. His transgression? Negotiating with Saddam Hussein’s Iraq to 
allow OPCW weapons inspectors to make unannounced visits to that country 
— thereby undermining Washington’s rationale for regime change.

(...) [John] Bolton — then serving as under secretary of state for Arms 
Control and International Security Affairs — arrived in person at the 
OPCW headquarters in the Hague to issue a warning to the organization’s 
chief. And, according to Bustani, Bolton didn’t mince words. “Cheney 
wants you out,” Bustani recalled Bolton saying, referring to the 
then-vice president of the United States. “We can’t accept your 
management style.”

Bolton continued, according to Bustani’s recollections: “You have 24 
hours to leave the organization, and if you don’t comply with this 
decision by Washington, we have ways to retaliate against you.”

There was a pause.

“We know where your kids live. You have two sons in New York.”'

https://theintercept.com/2018/03/29/john-bolton-trump-bush-bustani-kids-opcw/






Am 07.11.2018 um 17:16 schrieb Jochen Stremmel:
> Nice reading:
> 
> Still at the United Nations, President Trump, in his first press conference
> in 587 days, takes on the persona of a mafia don: ‘I told a number of
> countries over the last few days, I said, listen, you’re a very rich
> country. We protect you. Without our protection, you would have real
> problems. You would have real problems. I said you should reimburse us for
> this protection.’
> https://www.lrb.co.uk/v40/n20/eliot-weinberger/ten-typical-days-in-trumps-america
> 
> 
> Am Mi., 7. Nov. 2018 um 16:30 Uhr schrieb Joseph Tracy <brook7 at sover.net>:
> 
>> OOps here is the interview link:
>> https://theintercept.com/2018/11/07/chris-hedges-on-elections-christian-fascists-and-the-rot-within-the-american-system/
>> <
>> https://theintercept.com/2018/11/07/chris-hedges-on-elections-christian-fascists-and-the-rot-within-the-american-system/
>>>
>>> On Nov 7, 2018, at 10:25 AM, Joseph Tracy <brook7 at sover.net> wrote:
>>>
>>> One of the things Hedges talks about and many who try to understand US
>> politics don’t get is the active crushing of the radical reformist
>> movements that have existed as major forces in US politics since WW1 . The
>> major tactic by both parties and even the major unions was to label these
>> activists as communists and end individual carreers and networks of
>> support. This was sweeping and effective and the purge lasted for decades
>> attacking, framing, and sometimes killing movement leaders.
>>> Also, anytime a major leader begins to question our imperialist wars
>> they go unsupported and often vilified by their party or get killed in
>> questionable circumstances. Whether or not this violence is the result of
>> CIA, FBI etc. or is just weirdly circumstantial is irrelevant to the result
>> of empowering the corporate corruption of politics and the ever growing bi
>> partisan support for wars that put the country deep in debt to banks, are
>> riddled with war crimes and are massive failures in bringng peace or
>> stability.
>>>
>>>
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