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PEERS Founder Fred Burks: How I Became a Presidential Interpreter and White House Insider

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Dear friends,

A series of small miracles led me to the White House, where I eventually served as interpreter for Presidents Bill Clinton and George W. Bush. I was amazed that it all happened pretty much without even trying. I later became a whistleblower as the result of this important work and even ended up on the front page of the Wall Street Journal.

But before beginning the story, it's important to mention that since age 19, I have been deeply committed to doing what's best for all and to opening fully to divine guidance in my life. The chain of small miracles that led me to the White House is only one example of the many amazing miracles I've experienced since embracing these empowering life intentions.

"You've got to go with me, Fred, or I'll never fulfill my dream of living in Japan," John exclaimed with frustration. In 1979, I was an energetic 21-year-old college student living in a fun dormitory on the beautiful campus of UC Santa Cruz in California. One calm autumn evening, my roommate, John, asked me to go with him to a meeting put on by Volunteers In Asia (VIA). VIA is a non-profit educational exchange organization that sends college undergrads to Asia to experience life in a foreign culture while teaching English there.

Besides being very busy with studies that evening, I wasn't at all interested in leaving college or living overseas. At first, I told John I just didn't have time. But after several sincere appeals, I had to agree that John was shy and that there was no way he would go alone. Only because I knew it might really change his life, I reluctantly agreed to accompany him.

At the meeting, VIA volunteers recently returned from teaching English in Asia excitedly shared colorful slides and fascinating stories about their transformative cross-cultural experiences in Asia. I was surprised to soon find myself captivated and even infected by their incredible vibrance and passion. Their vivid descriptions were filled with enthusiasm, joy, and powerful awakenings.

The lives of these young adventurers had clearly been dramatically enriched by their rich journeys. The end result was that though John never went to Japan, I, having been dragged most reluctantly to this meeting, ended up going to live in Asia as a volunteer English teacher!

On applying to VIA for a volunteer position, I requested Japan as my first choice, as I had to pay my own plane fare and Japan was the least expensive of the countries served. But I told them that I would go anywhere they sent me if the few available Japanese positions filled. They chose Indonesia for me, which at the time I didn't even realize was a country. I had thought it was a small group of islands somewhere in the Pacific. I fully trusted, though, that I was being guided to the right place for me.

In Indonesia, I lived for the entire year of 1981 on the west side of the vast island of Borneo with the warmest, most wonderful Muslim family in the world. As my newly adopted father was an MD, he supported his parents and a couple siblings and in-laws and their children, so that in all, we had an extended family of 20 people living under one roof! My adopted mother there was one of the kindest, most saintly women I've ever met. I had countless amazingly rich experiences with this gentle, loving family and the warm, welcoming people of Indonesia.

Even with all of the constant activity of my large, adopted family and home, for the entire year abroad I found myself studying the Indonesian language like a maniac – two to three hours almost every day. I knew that language was crucial to diving into the culture, but I was way overboard in how much I studied. I made over 6,000 flash cards and even memorized every word in a couple small dictionaries. Yet somehow, I sensed there was a greater reason for it all. By the end of my year there, I was quite fluent.

In early 1986, five years after my time in Indonesia, I had just come back home from two intense years of teaching English at a college in communist China, again as a VIA volunteer. My time in China was filled with rich, sometimes challenging adventures quite different than Indonesia. Living in Wuhan (a city of six million about which few have ever heard), I had been the first foreigner in the city to be allowed to live together with local Chinese in a teachers dormitory. I managed to become fluent in Chinese, too. Yet now that I was back home, it was time to finally look for some income-producing work to feed my nearly empty bank account.

A VIA friend of mine told me about an interesting job as a language interpreter taking influential foreign visitors on one-month study tours of the U.S. for the Department of State. I had never seriously considered being an interpreter, but this sounded quite interesting. They just happened to be interviewing near my home a month after I heard about the job. So thanks to all those hours studying like a maniac in Indonesia, I ended up with a great job as an Indonesian interpreter where I was paid to travel and study all over the U.S. with my distinguished Indonesian guests!

By the end of my first month in this fascinating new job, I realized I was a natural at interpreting. I was soon whispering simultaneously into the ears of my Indonesian visitors as our American hosts conversed with them. I saw that if I was willing to study more, I could become a really good simultaneous interpreter and possibly even interpret for top government officials some day. After opening to divine guidance, however, I became clear that I wanted to focus my time and energy on other, more meaningful matters. I chose not to spend too much time on language skills, and was perfectly content to continue as a low-level interpreter.

In 1992 (six years later), now working only part time as an interpreter and part time with cancer patients as a registered nurse, I took an assignment as the administrative interpreter supporting two simultaneous interpreters at a government-sponsored seminar in Washington, DC. Because of the intense concentration needed, simultaneous interpreting requires two interpreters who switch off every 20 to 30 minutes. As the logistical support interpreter, I was out running errands for a few of the visitors when the seminar started.

When I came back a few hours later, the group was on a break. As soon as he saw me, Dan, one of the interpreters, grabbed me and franticly asked, "Can you do any simultaneous interpreting?" The other interpreter had fallen ill and had to go home.

Dan had been interpreting simultaneously for almost three hours without a break, which is almost unheard of. So even though I wasn't officially qualified, I stepped in, did great, and finished out the remainder of the week-long seminar as a simultaneous interpreter. On hearing about this, my boss at the State Department called me in to congratulate me. At his suggestion, I took and passed the test to become officially qualified as a simultaneous interpreter.

It turns out that Indonesian interpreters are in great demand – especially simultaneous Indonesian interpreters. Indonesia is the fourth largest country in the world (population 220 million), yet very few Americans ever learn Indonesian (the national language). So in 1995, three years after qualifying as a simultaneous interpreter, out of the blue I received a call from the State Department asking me to travel to Copenhagen to interpret for Vice President Al Gore at a UN Conference! Even though I wasn't officially qualified for high level interpreting, they couldn't find anyone else. So I went, had a great time, and shortly thereafter qualified at the State Department's highest level.

Before my resignation due to excessive secrecy nine years later in 2004, I had interpreted for President Bill Clinton, President George W. Bush, Vice Presidents Gore and Cheney, Secretaries of State Albright and Powell, and numerous other presidents and officials from many countries. Whenever present in high-level meetings, I did my best to open to divine guidance, and to send out lots of love, support, and wishes for what's best to all present.

At key summit meetings, I even invited many friends to take a moment in silence and join me in inviting our world leaders to open to what is best for all who share our world. I have no doubt that this is why I was led to this fascinating work. And after witnessing undeniable deceit and manipulation towards the end of my State Department career, I was eventually led to become a whistleblower, even finding my whistleblowing activity reported on the front page of the Wall Street Journal. That's another fascinating story you can read about here.

It's pretty amazing that without putting any effort in that direction, I ended up as the State Department's top Indonesian interpreter. It's even more amazing when you remember that I did not choose Indonesia and was dragged most reluctantly to that first VIA meeting years ago! There are many more little miracles to this story that, for reasons of space, I didn't include. For me, all of this shows that the more I open to divine guidance and to what's best for all, the more filled with miracles my life becomes. I give thanks for these many miracles and for all that I have been given. And thank you, my friends, for reading and sharing in this piece of my life.

With very best wishes,
Fred Burks
Former language interpreter for Presidents Bush and Clinton

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More on My Interpreting Adventures

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Coronavirus vs. the Mass Surveillance State: Which Poses the Greater Threat? Important according to Google magic. Click to teach Gmail this conversation is not important. Inbox x PEERS emaillist@peerservice.org via aweber.com  4:04 AM (3 hours ago) to me Join the 14,234 informed, caring subscribers to this list (two emails/week) Subscribe here The Mission of WantToKnow.info: To provide our readers with reliable, verifiable information on major cover-ups, and to serve as a call to work together for the good of all This message is also available online at this link. We're US $9,100 in the red for the year. Please support this important work by making a donation. Fighting the coronavirus epidemic has given China the perfect excuse for unleashing the full force of its surveillance and data collection powers. The problem, as Eamon Barrett acknowledges in Fortune magazine, is what happens after: “Once the outbreak is controlled, it’s unclear whether the government will retract its new powers.” Dear friends, The below article by esteemed Constitutional attorney and author John W. Whitehead raises serious questions about how the Coronavirus is being handled. China has taken near-complete control over its citizenry. How will other countries respond to this and future threats? How much are we willing to give up our freedoms for safety offered by those who rule us? Remember that fear, polarization, and secrecy are means used by the power elite of our world to get those they rule to willingly submit to their control. How much are you living in fear? How much have you succumbed to the intense polarization going on? Read this article and consider how much you are willing to surrender to dictates of those who govern and their mandates based on "national security" which continually erode our privacy and freedom? With best wishes for a transformed world, Fred Burks for PEERS and WantToKnow.info White House interpreter and whistleblower Note: The original article can be found on this webpage. Explore how the Coronavirus is being exploited through excessive fear mongering in this well researched essay. Coronavirus vs. the Mass Surveillance State: Which Poses the Greater Threat? By John W. Whitehead March 03, 2020 Emboldened by the citizenry’s inattention and willingness to tolerate its abuses, the government has weaponized one national crisis after another in order to expands its powers. The war on terror, the war on drugs, the war on illegal immigration, asset forfeiture schemes, road safety schemes, school safety schemes, eminent domain: all of these programs started out as legitimate responses to pressing concerns and have since become weapons of compliance and control in the police state’s hands. It doesn’t even matter what the nature of the crisis might be – civil unrest, the national emergencies, unforeseen economic collapse, loss of functioning political and legal order, purposeful domestic resistance or insurgency, pervasive public health emergencies, and catastrophic natural and human disasters – as long as it allows the government to justify all manner of government tyranny in the so-called name of national security. Now we find ourselves on the brink of a possible coronavirus contagion. I’ll leave the media and the medical community to speculate about the impact the coronavirus will have on the nation’s health, but how will the government’s War on the Coronavirus impact our freedoms? For a hint of what’s in store, you can look to China – our role model for all things dystopian – where the contagion started. In an attempt to fight the epidemic, the government has given its surveillance state apparatus – which boasts the most expansive and sophisticated surveillance system in the world – free rein. Thermal scanners using artificial intelligence (AI) have been installed at train stations in major cities to assess body temperatures and identify anyone with a fever. Facial recognition cameras and cell phone carriers track people’s movements constantly, reporting in real time to data centers that can be accessed by government agents and employers alike. And coded color alerts (red, yellow and green) sort people into health categories that correspond to the amount of freedom of movement they’re allowed: “Green code, travel freely. Red or yellow, report immediately.” Mind you, prior to the coronavirus outbreak, the Chinese surveillance state had already been hard at work tracking its citizens through the use of some 200 million security cameras installed nationwide. Equipped with facial recognition technology, the cameras allow authorities to track so-called criminal acts, such as jaywalking, which factor into a person’s social credit score. Social media credit scores assigned to Chinese individuals and businesses categorize them on whether or not they are “good” citizens. A real-name system – which requires people to use government-issued ID cards to buy mobile sims, obtain social media accounts, take a train, board a plane, or even buy groceries – coupled with social media credit scores ensures that those blacklisted as “unworthy” are banned from accessing financial markets, buying real estate or travelling by air or train. Among the activities that can get you labeled unworthy are taking reserved seats on trains or causing trouble in hospitals. That same social credit score technology used to identify, track and segregate citizens is now one of China’s chief weapons in its fight to contain the coronavirus from spreading. However, it is far from infallible and a prime example of the difficulties involved in navigating an autonomous system where disembodied AI systems call the shots. For instance, one woman, who has no symptoms of the virus but was assigned a red code based on a visit to her hometown, has been blocked from returning to her home and job until her color code changes. She has been stuck in this state of limbo for weeks with no means of challenging the color code or knowing exactly why she’s been assigned a red code. Fighting the coronavirus epidemic has given China the perfect excuse for unleashing the full force of its surveillance and data collection powers. The problem, as Eamon Barrett acknowledges in Fortune magazine, is what happens after: “Once the outbreak is controlled, it’s unclear whether the government will retract its new powers.” The lesson for the ages: once any government is allowed to expand its powers, it’s almost impossible to pull back. Meanwhile, here in the U.S., the government thus far has limited its coronavirus preparations to missives advising the public to stay calm, wash their hands, and cover their mouths when they cough and sneeze. Don’t go underestimating the government’s ability to lock the nation down if the coronavirus turns into a pandemic, however. After all, the government has been planning and preparing for such a crisis for years now. The building blocks are already in place for such an eventuality: the surveillance networks, fusion centers and government contractors that already share information in real time; the government’s massive biometric databases that can identify individuals based on genetic and biological markers; the militarized police, working in conjunction with federal agencies, ready and able to coordinate with the federal government when it’s time to round up the targeted individuals; the courts that will sanction the government’s methods, no matter how unlawful, as long as it’s done in the name of national security; and the detention facilities, whether private prisons or FEMA internment camps, that have been built and are waiting to be filled. Now all of this may sound far-fetched to you now, but we’ve already arrived at the dystopian futures prophesied by George Orwell’s 1984, Aldous Huxley’s Brave New World, and Philip K. Dick’s Minority Report. It won’t take much more to push us over the edge into Neill Blomkamp’s Elysium, in which the majority of humanity is relegated to an overpopulated, diseased, warring planet where the government employs technologies such as drones, tasers and biometric scanners to track, target and control the populace. Mind you, while these technologies are already in use today and being hailed for their potentially life-saving, cost-saving, time-saving benefits, it won’t be long before the drawbacks to having a government equipped with technology that makes it all-seeing, all-knowing, and all-powerful – – helped along by the citizenry – far outdistance the benefits. On a daily basis, Americans are relinquishing (in many cases, voluntarily) the most intimate details of who we are – their biological makeup, our genetic blueprints, and our biometrics (facial characteristics and structure, fingerprints, iris scans, etc.) – in order to navigate an increasingly technologically-enabled world. Consider all the ways you continue to be tracked, hunted, hounded, and stalked by the government and its dubious agents: By tapping into your phone lines and cell phone communications, the government knows what you say. By uploading all of your emails, opening your mail, and reading your Facebook posts and text messages, the government knows what you write. By monitoring your movements with the use of license plate readers, surveillance cameras and other tracking devices, the government knows where you go. By churning through all of the detritus of your life – what you read, where you go, what you say – the government can predict what you will do . By mapping the synapses in your brain, scientists – and in turn, the government – will soon know what you remember. By mapping your biometrics – your “face-print” – and storing the information in a massive, shared government database available to bureaucratic agencies, police and the military, the government’s goal is to use facial recognition software to identify you (and every other person in the country) and track your movements, wherever you go. And by accessing your DNA, the government will soon know everything else about you that they don’t already know: your family chart, your ancestry, what you look like, your health history, your inclination to follow orders or chart your own course, etc. Of course, none of these technologies are foolproof. Nor are they immune from tampering, hacking or user bias. Nevertheless, they have become a convenient tool in the hands of government agents to render null and void the Constitution’s requirements of privacy and its prohibitions against unreasonable searches and seizures. The ramifications of a government – any government – having this much unregulated, unaccountable power to target, track, round up and detain its citizens is beyond chilling. Imagine what a totalitarian regime such as Nazi Germany could have done with this kind of unadulterated power. Imagine what the next police state to follow in Germany’s footsteps will do with this kind of power. Society is rapidly moving in that direction. We’ve made it so easy for the government to watch us. Government eyes see ... what you read, how much you spend, where you go, with whom you interact, when you wake up in the morning, what you’re watching on television and reading on the internet. [You are] being monitored, mined for data, crunched, and tabulated in order to form a picture of who you are, what makes you tick, and how best to control you when and if it becomes necessary to bring you in line. Chances are, as the Washington Post has reported, you have already been assigned a color-coded threat assessment score – green, yellow or red – so police are forewarned about your potential inclination to be a troublemaker depending on whether you’ve had a career in the military, posted a comment perceived as threatening on Facebook, suffer from a particular medical condition, or know someone who knows someone who might have committed a crime. In other words, you’re most likely already flagged in a government database somewhere. The government has the know-how. Indeed, for years now, the FBI and Justice Department have conspired to acquire near-limitless power and control over biometric information collected on law-abiding individuals, millions of whom have never been accused of a crime. Going far beyond the scope of those with criminal backgrounds, the FBI’s Next Generation Identification database (NGID), a billion dollar boondoggle that is aimed at dramatically expanding the government’s ID database from a fingerprint system to a vast data storehouse of iris scans, photos searchable with face recognition technology, palm prints, and measures of gait and voice recordings alongside records of fingerprints, scars, and tattoos. Launched in 2008, the NGID is a massive biometric database that contains more than 100 million fingerprints and 45 million facial photos gathered from a variety of sources ranging from criminal suspects and convicts to daycare workers and visa applicants, including millions of people who have never committed or even been accused of a crime. In other words, innocent American citizens are now automatically placed in a suspect database. For a long time, the government was required to at least observe some basic restrictions on when, where and how it could access someone’s biometrics and DNA and use it against them. That is no longer the case. The information is being amassed through a variety of routine procedures, with the police leading the way as prime collectors of biometrics for something as non-threatening as a simple moving violation. The nation’s courts are also doing their part to “build” the database, requiring biometric information as a precursor to more lenient sentences. And of course Corporate America (including Google, Facebook, Amazon, etc.) has made it so easy to use one’s biometrics to access everything from bank accounts to cell phones. We’ve made it so easy for the government to target, identify and track us. Add pre-crime programs into the mix with government agencies and corporations working in tandem to determine who is a potential danger and spin a sticky spider-web of threat assessments, behavioral sensing warnings, flagged “words,” and “suspicious” activity reports using automated eyes and ears, social media, behavior sensing software, and citizen spies, and you having the makings for a perfect dystopian nightmare. This is the kind of oppressive pre-crime and pre-thought crime package foreshadowed by George Orwell, Aldous Huxley and Phillip K. Dick. Remember, even the most well-intentioned government law or program can be – and has been – perverted, corrupted and used to advance illegitimate purposes once profit and power are added to the equation. In the right (or wrong) hands, benevolent plans can easily be put to malevolent purposes. Surveillance, digital stalking and the data mining of the American people add up to a society in which there’s little room for indiscretions, imperfections, or acts of independence. This is the creepy, calculating yet diabolical genius of the American police state: the very technology we hailed as revolutionary and liberating has become our prison, jailer, probation officer, Big Brother and Father Knows Best all rolled into one. It turns out that we are Soylent Green. The 1973 film of the same name, starring Charlton Heston and Edward G. Robinson, is set in 2022 in an overpopulated, polluted, starving New York City whose inhabitants depend on synthetic foods manufactured by the Soylent Corporation for survival. Heston plays a policeman investigating a murder, who discovers the grisly truth about the primary ingredient in the wafer, soylent green, which is the principal source of nourishment for a starved population. “It’s people. Soylent Green is made out of people,” declares Heston’s character. “They’re making our food out of people. Next thing they’ll be breeding us like cattle for food.” Oh, how right he was. Soylent Green is indeed people or, in our case, Soylent Green is our own personal data, repossessed, repackaged and used by corporations and the government to entrap us. Without constitutional protections in place to guard against encroachments on our rights when power, technology and militaristic governance converge, it won’t be long before we find ourselves, much like Edward G. Robinson’s character in Soylent Green, looking back on the past with longing, back to an age where we could speak to whom we wanted, buy what we wanted, think what we wanted, and go where we wanted without those thoughts, words and movements being tracked, processed and stored by corporate giants such as Google, sold to government agencies such as the NSA and CIA, and used against us by militarized police with their army of futuristic technologies. We’re not quite there yet. But that moment of reckoning is getting closer by the minute. In the meantime, we’ve got an epidemic to survive, so go ahead and wash your hands. Cover your mouth when you cough or sneeze. And stock up on whatever you might need to survive this virus if it spreads to your community. We are indeed at our most vulnerable right now, but as I make clear in my book Battlefield America: The War on the American People, it’s the American Surveillance State – not the coronavirus – that poses the greatest threat to our freedoms. ABOUT JOHN W. WHITEHEAD Constitutional attorney and author John W. Whitehead is founder and president of The Rutherford Institute. His book Battlefield America: The War on the American People is available at amazon.com. Whitehead can be contacted at johnw@rutherford.org. John W. Whitehead’s weekly commentaries are available for publication to newspapers and web publications at no charge. Please contact staff@rutherford.org to obtain reprint permission. Note: The original article can be found on this webpage. Explore how the Coronavirus is being exploited through excessive fear mongering in this well researched essay. What you can do: Contact your media and political representatives to inform them of this important information on the Coronavirus. Urge them to study and bring publicity to this important topic. Invite them to read this article and explore the links included. Explore our excellent Health Information Center filled with reliable resources and links to key revealing health videos, essays, news articles, and much more. Explore inspiring ideas on how we can work together to create a new paradigm. Learn more about major health cover-ups which put your health at risk and other ways to improve your health in this lesson from the free Insight Course. Spread this news to your friends and colleagues, and bookmark this article on key social networking websites using the "Share" icon on this page, so that we can fill the role at which the major media is sadly failing. Together, we can make a difference. Finding Balance: WantToKnow.info Inspiration Center WantToKnow.info believes it is important to balance disturbing cover-up information with inspirational writings which call us to be all that we can be and to work together for positive change. For an abundance of uplifting material, please visit our Inspiration Center.

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Read More >> Review: Diana Johnstone, Circle in the Darkness: Memoir of a World Watcher (2020) By Eric Walberg Circle in the Darkness is one of the great personal accounts of the anguished decline of our uncivilization, both a riveting eye-witness account of many of the horrors and perfidies, and a primer for students of history and all those struggling to not only dismantle the beast, but to prepare us for what follows it. Read it and weep. And smile at the follies. And shout 'Yes!' as light bulbs flash in your mind. Read More >> Zerlina Maxwell slams double standard for women after Elizabeth Warren's exit. By Egberto Willies MSNBC commentator Zerlina Maxwell did not pull any punches as she admonished an unfair system biased against women. She was speaking about the breaking news that Elizabeth Warren had suspended her campaign for the Democratic nomination for President of the United States. 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Super Tuesday ruined the presidential hopes of Mike Bloomberg, 78, who bowed out with an endorsement of Biden. Either Biden or Sanders, if elected, would be the oldest American entering a first pr... Read More >> My (Brief) Letter to the New York Times By Al Hirschfield A very brief suggestion to the New York Times considering their unwavering opposition to Senator Sanders. Read More >> My Letter about Super Tuesday, Texas Vote Suppression and Bernie's Path Forward, in USA Today 3/5/20 By Stephen Fox "Let's clear away the smoke and mirrors and move forward based on truth, or be prepared to be eviscerated by the GOP's propaganda machine/meat grinder coming to America's political consciousness soon. Occasionally I hear claptrap accusing Sanders of promoting socialism leading to communism in the US. Most sixth-graders would see through this because they know that Congress would limit the legislative agenda of any President." Read More >> Breaking News FDA Adds Boxed Warning to Popular Allergy and Asthma Drug By Martha Rosenberg "Due to the wide availability of alternative safe and effective allergy medicines with long histories of safety, we have reevaluated the risks and benefits of montelukast and have determined it should not be the first choice treatment particularly when allergic rhinitis symptoms are mild," said the FDA this week about the allergy and asthma drug marketed as Singulair. Read More >> Bernie Sanders' Medicare for All Policy Would Likely Increase Wages and Create Jobs, New Economic Analysis Shows The analysis by the Economic Policy Institute posits that Medicare for all "would be unambiguously positive" for the labor market Critics of Medicare for All, which was also endorsed by Senator Elizabeth Warren of Massachusetts, a former Democratic presidential candidate who suspended her presidential campaign on Thursday, have also repeatedly questioned how such a plan would be paid for. They've argued that it would be far too expensi... Read More >> Detroit's Metro Times endorses Bernie Sanders (Circulation 50,000, in a Must Win State with 125 delegates) “Many of the injustices that Sanders has long railed against — the growing chasm between the rich and poor, the hollowing out of the middle class, out-of-control military spending — remain.”  There's another thing Sanders has on his side: math. Sanders has led Trump in nearly every poll, and outperforms most other candidates in the Rust Belt "Blue Wall," which includes Michigan, Wisconsin, a... Read More >> Terrorists' New Chemical Provocation Failed in Idlib By Ahmad Salah It is not the first time that fighters try to stage a provocation to blame government troops for. Read More >> Netanyahu, failing to get a majority for the third time, Lashes at Foes as "Arab Terrorists" and Jewish Terrorist-Lovers By Juan Cole Blue and White leader Benny Gantz refuses to serve in a government of national unity with Netanyahu. Likewise, Avigdor Lieberman's militantly secular Yisrael Beitenu (Israel our Home) party, which fell to only seven seats, refuses to sit in a government with Netanyahu. Read More >> High Noon in the Democratic Party By Philip Kraske The showdown at last between the pragmatists and Bernie. Read More >> Does the Democratic Establishment Really Fear That Bernie CAN Win in November? By Jeff Cohen Mainstream news outlets keep pounding home the same message that the "Democratic establishment" or "Democratic moderates" are worried sick that Bernie Sanders can't beat Trump. They worry about a Trump landslide, and a "down-ballot disaster" in Congressional races. Read More >> The Threat of a Nuclear War Between the US and Russia Is Now at Its Greatest Since 1983 By Scott Ritter When the Commander of NATO says he is a fan of flexible first strike at the same time that NATO is flexing its military muscle on Russia's border, the risk of inadvertent nuclear war is real. Read More >> Trump crisis management by lies, bogus numbers, and superstition By Wayne Madsen Trump's lies about the coronavirus have directly harmed the public safety and security of the United States. His contention that coronavirus would disappear as the warmer spring weather approaches is patently false. Read More >> Latest Articles Universal access to sexual and reproductive health services is a human rights imperative This article in lead up to 2020 International Women's Day (IWD 2020) is based on an interview with a strong voice on gender justice who has spearheaded gender advocacy in several countries in Asia and the Pacific. Read More >> Best News Links from the Web Tulsi Gabbard calls out 'very real' Hinduphobia in US, gets branded 'fascist' as if to prove her point Hawaii Congresswoman Tulsi Gabbard, the sole remaining woman in the Democratic presidential primaries, has been accused of “fascism” and pressured to drop out of the race after she shared a post about hatred ... 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Daily Headlines   Ways the Corona Virus Will Affect Our Lives-- My take and yours By Rob Kall Corona virus is a massive earthquake that has set off a series of tsunami waves rippling through the world, producing massive effects and disruption. It's going to affect all of us, very soon, in different ways. How has it affected you? How will it change the way we live? Read More >> So What's Wrong With The Present- Day Social Justice Warriors? By Robert De Filippis The SJW's seem to be "woke" to so many social injustices and fail to see they are privileged to be living on the corpse of the dead culture t Read More >> Can multi-party democracy break us out of the "doom loop" of American politics? Optimism in a new brand of democracy, a vibrant explosion of commitment and overtime involvement that is changing things from the bottom up, fueled by the youth and energy of millennials among others, is evident and contagious in this interview of author Lee Drutman. His newly published “Breaking the Two-Party Doom Loop” advocates for a multiparty system that “allows for greater fuildity, actual compromise and more ac... Read More >> 'White, male & 70+ years old'? DNC scorched for shifting debate rules AGAIN, after Tulsi Gabbard meets previous threshol The DNC has changed the qualifying threshold for the next Democratic primary debate, supposedly targeting no one specifically, but ensuring Tulsi Gabbard – the last remaining woman and person of color in the race – is excluded. The DNC simply cannot allow Tulsi on stage as she tells the truth, is honest, they can’t control, and she would literally shred Biden in front of those watching. So much for the Dems to p... Read More >>   Biden Fought to Keep Out All Vietnamese Refugees from the US in 1975 By Stephen Fox The Fall of Saigon~~~~what a time that was! Compassionate people all over the US stepped up to bat to do what we could do especially in Southern California with refugees living in a tent city at Camp Pendleton Marine Base. Joe Biden fought to keep ALL of them out; he didn't want to rescue even one of them. He lost that battle in the Senate Foreign Relations Committee to Gerald Ford. Has Biden really changed at all since then? Read More >>   For a Bernie win, stop dragging Warren supporters through the mud By Erica Etelson As gratifying as it may feel for Bernie supporters to attack Warren and her supporters, doing so will make it impossible for Bernie to win, so knock it off. Read More >>   Coronavirus: Politically Created Panic is the Real Pandemic By Thomas Knapp Rahm Emanuel's Law: "Never let a serious crisis go to waste." Every Politician's Corollary: "Even if you have to manufacture that crisis out of whole cloth." Read More >>   Biden's Campaign wins Mega Support from Big Pharma Executives By Stephen Fox Sanders challenged Biden to stop accepting money from big pharma companies, having himself pledged to reject contributions over $200 from PACs, executives and lobbyists of pharmaceutical and health insurance companies. "If we are going to break the stranglehold of corporate interests over the health care needs of the American people we must confront a Washington culture that is corrupt" putting profit ahead of people's needs." Read More >> "We can't keep polishing the brass while the Titanic is Sinking"~Missouri Times & Arab American News endorse Bernie By Stephen Fox "Missouri voters have been forward-thinking in their choices. In 2018, Missouri repealed the so-called right to work, raised the minimum wage, legalized medical marijuana, and got big money out of politics. It's time to elect a US President who shares these Missouri values and will bring the stubborn dedication of the Missouri mule to enacting them across the country. I support Bernie because he supports us." Read More >> Trump vs. Sanders: A Concise Comparison for Voters (and Why Bernie Wins Hands Down) By Ralph Nader Consider an election where Bernie is up against Trump. The differences are night and day. Start with the all-important issue of character. Trump lies every day, tweeting misinformation and falsifying what is and what is not going on in our country. Read More >> What Lies Hidden Behind the Columbus Myth or How Come We Never Hear About His Second Voyage ? By keith brooks Debunking the Columbus-as-hero myth by examining how his genocidal attacks on the indigenous populations of the Caribbean led to the opening of the African slave trade, Read More >>   When the Billionaire Family Behind the Opioid Crisis Needed PR Help, They Turned to Mike Bloomberg - ProPublica  Fascinating! ProPublica published  this stunning article about the relationship between Michael Bloomberg &the Sackler family -- how they reached out to him for advice about how to handle their poor public relations and the opprobrium they encountered because of their role in the opioid crisis.  The article also goes into detail about Bloomberg's reluctance to let his reporters delve into the private lives of other very rich ... Read More >>   Swiss Scientists Have Recreated the Coronavirus in a Lab; by Emily Mullin at OneZero “A synthetic replica of the virus can help researchers figure out how to stop its spread. Having the virus itself is really critical to designing and testing drugs that can potentially ameliorate the viral infection. Researchers can also use genetic engineering to tweak the virus to see whether certain mutations make it more or less harmful. Safer versions is particularly helpful so that researchers don’t get infected. It ... Read More >>   The Only Column You Need to Read about COVID-19 - Garrison Keillor “If someone on the train coughs, everyone disembarks at the next stop, wipes their face and swigs a little mouthwash or maybe vodka.  In NYC the stores are sold out of hand sanitizer, alcohol, antibacterial wipes, etc. On the subway at rush hour if you stand within 6 inches of 4 different people, they smell nice, like a doctor’s office. They try not to talk or even exhale. They avoid eye contact lest the virus be spread visually... Read More >>   Francisco Ferrer: Secular Martyr By James Haught Few people today remember a crusading reformer, Francisco Ferrer, who was railroaded and executed by Spain's right-wing church-and-government complex. He founded secular "modern schools" that still operate worldwide. Read More >>   Enlivening Your Inner Serpent Power By William T. Hathaway Activating your kundalini gives you powers of higher consciousness. Read More >> Major Detroit Endorsements for Bernie Detroit Action, a grassroots organization that fights for the equality of black and brown Michiganders, announced its endorsement of Sanders, noting his record of standing in solidarity with working class communities of color. “The most important action that we can take right now, is doing whatever it takes to ensure that we elect someone with whom we can truly work to dismantle this oppressive administration,” the g... Read More >> The Iranian Hikers Guide By David Cox During World War II my father was a flight engineer on a US Navy blimp. The Navy used blimps because they could carry radar and stay in the air for twenty-four hours. Because they carried radar, and radar was top secret my father had to get a top security clearance which he did. He knew that we'd broken the German Naval code. Their mission was not to attack the subs but to make sure they were where they were supposed to be Read More >> Coronavirus: The Only Thing Spreading "Exponentially" is Fear By Kit Knightly There are, according to official estimates, fewer people with coronavirus today, than yesterday. That has been true every day since February 17th. Read More >> We Are Threatened By More Than Coronavirus: The Deadly Consequences of Wokeness and Identity Politics By Paul Craig Roberts We face more dangers -- perhaps greater ones -- than the coronavirus. Both the US as a community of people and its economy are under dangerous assault by forces of our own making. Read More >> Hotel collapse traps 70 in eastern China Around 70 people were trapped after the collapse of a hotel used as a coronavirus quarantine facility in eastern China on Saturday evening. Footage circulating on microblogging platform Weibo showed rescue workers combing through the building's wreckage in the dark and reassuring a woman trapped under heavy debris as other wounded victims were carried into ambulances. The hotel's facade appeared to have crumbled into the ground, exposi... Read More >>   How Reelection Could Come True:Why This is Probably America's Last Chance to Stay a Free, Democratic Society “The center and the left, split, demoralized, confused, frustrated, fails to turn out in significant enough numbers to support the presumptive nominee. It’s all too easy to see how the center and the left could fracture as a coalition. In fact, they already have, and are. The splitting of the center and left would only be a continuation of an obvious trend… it adds up to the nightmare of a re-election for the demagog... Read More >> A Plea to My Fellow Warren Moms: Your Children Probably Back Bernie and So Should You  When Bernie pitches you, please listen. Here is my cold-blooded calculation. My fellow moms and I will show up in November, no matter who’s on the ticket; I fear the youth are not. If your child is eligible to vote, he or she is much more likely to vote if Bernie is on the ballot. Your choosing Bernie helps your kid choose him later. If your child is too young to vote, think about what he or she most cares about. Climate c... Read More >> Joe Biden today may sound like a normal person By Thomas Farrell Michelle Cottle, a member of the Editorial Board of the New York Times that endorsed two women in the Democratic primary, has stepped out from behind the cover of the Editorial Board to post op-eds with her own byline recently -- most notably "The Resurrection of Joe Biden" (dated March 6, 2020). In delineating certain weaknesses of Joe Biden, Cottle credits Elizabeth Warren with "rhetorical precision" -- that Biden lacks. Read More >> US woefully unprepared: With Looming Coronavirus Pandemic About to Hit the US, It's Time to Think Outside the Box By Dave Lindorff The US health system and employment rules that have most workers without sick leave or sick pay is a disaster when a pandemic strikes. We need free testing, free care for coronavirus-infected people, and should open the VA Health system to care for pandemic victims, writes TCBH! journalist Dave Lindorff Read More >> Latest Articles Evolution Debate is about Honesty Evolution is the basic premise of biology. Nearly all the world's top scientists are convinced that advanced animals evolved from earlier, primitive ones. Yet some religious zealots refuse to accept science. Read More >> Trump Speaks from Underground Bunker Tongue-in-Cheek news reports that President Trump is going after American traitors who conspired with a Ukrainian to create the Coronavirus and destroy the U.S. economy and his reelection bid. Read More >> We need scientists, not politicians, in charge of the coronavirus response Health experts agree that the spread of the coronavirus will likely get worse before it gets better. Donald Trump must stop spreading lies and fear, and leave the science to scientists and health professionals, not politicians. Read More >> Who Made Coronavirus? Was It the U.S., Israel or China Itself? If it is correct that the virus had either been developed or even produced to be weaponized, it would further suggest that its escape from the Wuhan Institute of Virology Lab and into the animal and human population could have been accidental. Read More >>   Progressives Urge Elizabeth Warren to Rally Behind Bernie Sanders After She Drops Out of 2020 Race Senator Warren's decision to end her campaign comes after she failed to perform as well as she had hoped in early primary states and on Super Tuesday, including placing third in her home state of Massachusetts. Warren gave no indication whether she'll endorse either of her former rivals, Sanders or Biden. Read More >> TGIF: Democracy Can't Fix Socialism The difference between socialism and interventionism is not moral but economic and institutional. Whether politicians and bureaucrats direct our behavior directly though government ownership or indirectly through regulation of nominally private arrangements makes little difference morally. Either way, our rights and freedom are violated. Read More >>   What is the essence of interstate strife in Armenia? This article contains the analysis of current internal problems in Armenia. Read More >> Best News Links from the Web Snakes and would-be leaders: Warren Quits her Identity-Politics Campaign as She Drags Sanders' Campaign Dow with Her A long time Bernie Sanders supporter and activist journalist, Laurie Dobson, who is covering the Democratic Primary for ThisCantBeHappening! this year, says Elizabeth Warren has earned the snake emoji now identified with her on Twitter for betraying Sanders, the... Read More >>   The Future Of Abortion Is In The Hands Of John Roberts; By Melissa Jeltsen Medically unnecessary laws regulating abortion have been exposed as dishonest attempts to close clinics. Will the Supreme Court still give them legal cover In 2016, Louisiana had 6 abortion clinics. By 2017, there were 3! Soon, there may be... Read More >> NM Sen. Ortiz y Pino: "Democrat Establishment wouldn't be able to rely on Wall Street, Big Pharma, and corporate donors" Longtime political veteran former NM US Sen. Bingaman, said about Tuesday’s results: “The results yesterday reduced the likelihood that we’ll have a brokered convention. If Biden can maintain his momentum, the momentum that... Read More >> Issues the Donor Class will Prioritize in Controlling the DNC, Unless Warren/Sanders Progressives Unite Even back in 1996, the majority of Americans were turned off by campaign financing. From 24 years ago issues favored by the top ¼ of 1% (Political Donor Class), little has changed. Regardless of party affiliation... Read More >> Coronavirus: South Korea's aggressive testing gives clues to true fatality rate Coronavirus can kill, but experts are still puzzling over how deadly the disease it causes truly is. Seoul’s aggressive screening regime might hold the answer. The more people tested, the more accurate fatality estimates are.  The fatality estimates... Read More >> View Newsletter Archives