'There
was a ceasefire, which was very hard-won, and that ceasefire was
destroyed by the action of the Americans bombing, apparently by
mistake, although some people say not by mistake, but it was our
bombing of the Syrian troops that destroyed that ceasefire'
After our
call
to independent media for a 'counter-debate' with the US third
parties, the independent news network Democracy
Now! made a first revolutionary step to break the
US bipartisan debate monopoly.
Amy Goodman
of Democracy Now! explains again the process, in this second
presidential debate: “We spend the rest of today’s show airing
excerpts of the Donald Trump-Hillary Clinton debate and give Green
Party presidential candidate Jill Stein a chance to respond to the
same questions posed to the major-party candidates. Again, Dr. Stein
and Libertarian presidential candidate Gary Johnson were excluded
from the debate under stringent rules set by the Commission on
Presidential Debates, which is controlled by the Democratic and
Republican parties. We invited both Stein and Johnson to join us on
the program; only Stein took us up on the offer.”
In this last
part of the second debate, Jill Stein, again, was the only
presidential candidate that told the whole truth to the American
people without hesitation.
Concerning
the Syrian mess and the Russian intervention, Hillary Clinton showed
again why she is the most dangerous to be the next US president. She
avoided again to admit the huge responsibility of the US intervention
and their allies in Libya and the Middle East which created absolute
chaos. She blamed again the Russians, although - as Jill Stein stated
very correctly - it was the US that destroyed the hard-won ceasefire
in Syria. Hillary showed again her absolute devotion to the
neocon/neoliberal agenda, therefore, start a war with Russia. She
showed again how dangerous she is.
On the
contrary, Jill Stein stated very clearly that war with Russia is out
of question.
Key
points:
She [Hillary Clinton] has concurrently this Clinton
Foundation business, where she is granting special favors, special
partnerships, special government contracts, weapons deals, etc., to
Clinton Foundation donors. So, there’s just a lot here that
represents how the economic and political elite are very much
represented, I think, by both of these candidates, and underscores
why it’s really important for us to exercise our power in a
democracy. We have a right to know who we can vote for, as well
as a right to vote.
Syria is a disaster, and it’s a very complicated
disaster. It is a civil war. It is a proxy war among many nations. It
is a pipeline war also between Russia and the Gulf states, who are
competing to run their pipelines with fracked gas into Europe across
Syria. So, this is a very complicated situation, and there is a
hornets’ nest, a real circular firing squad of alliances here
that’s, you know, extremely, extremely complicated.
To present a no-fly zone here as a solution is
extremely dangerous. A no-fly zone means we are going to war with
Russia, because it means we will be shooting down planes in the sky
in order to create this no-fly zone, which is where Russia has a
commitment to defending the Assad government. So, remember, there was
a ceasefire, which was very hard-won, and that ceasefire was
destroyed by the action of the Americans bombing, apparently by
mistake, although some people say not by mistake, but it was our
bombing of the Syrian troops that destroyed that ceasefire.
We need to redouble our efforts here. And we need to
acknowledge that war with Russia is not an option. There are 2,000
nuclear weapons on hair-trigger alert. And who was it that dropped
out of the nuclear arms control? That was George Bush. That was our
part, the U.S., in allowing the nuclear arms race to re-engage.
Mikhail Gorbachev, the former premier of the Soviet Union, said last
week that we are now at a more dangerous period regarding nuclear war
than we have ever been. So, it’s really important for the
warmongers in the Democratic and Republican parties to be cooling
their jets now and for us to be moving forward towards a weapons
embargo and a freeze on the funding of those countries that are
continuing to fund terrorist enterprises.
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