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by Eric D. Graham #TheRapProfessor. If you like what you are learning ($JeffreyBarnes)
NORTH CAROLINA (BASN)—In a political year, the conversation in the country has been about God, Gangs, Gays, and Guns.
And while the American people debated whether Mormonism was a cult, or whether same sex marriage should be legal, or if gangs should be considered terrorists, or whether government gun control laws are against the Second Amendment, the New Jersey Nets offically became the Brooklyn Nets.
“Not everyone, in their lifetime gets to witness a project that changes the face and the destiny of the city, “ Nets owner and Russian billionaire Mikhail Prokhorov told news reporter at a ribbon cutting ceremony last Friday. Yes, the Nets have finally moved to Brooklyn.
And with the Nets, being the heart beat of Brooklyn, some hip-hop heads have even suggested the Nets are not America’s team like the Dallas Cowboys, but Hip-Hop’s team.
The label of being Hip Hop’s first team, of course, has something to do with partial owner Shawn Carter aka Jay-Z’s involvement in the team’s marketing stragedy, which is displayed at center court of the Barclay Center in the form of a large “B” logo as well as in the classic black and white new Nets’ uniforms.
Jay-Z’s influence in connecting the Nets to the Hip-Hop community was also visually and vocally expressed in Carter’s week long concerts held at the state-of-the-art, $1 billion, 18,200 seat Barclays Center, which he cleverly allowed the final show to be streamed live on YouTube.
Jigga’s street savvy and style in branding Brooklyn can also be seen an 11 ultra-exclusive, high-end suites called The Vault, which cost around $550,000 at year, that include eight seats, access the the Barclays Center champagne bar and use of 24/7 concierge service as well as in his 40/40 restuarant Club & Restuarant, which is located above the main entrance of the colsieum.
Along with this, Jay-Z’s Rocawear appeal store will also open in the Barclays Center as well. With Jay’s successful transcition from a hustler to rapper to successful businessman, some still question his overall power with the Nets as well as his status of being called a partial owner, which according to the New York Times, he only owns one-fifteenth of one percent of the former New Jersey Nets team. The Brooklyn-born rap mogul, however, didn’t shy away from his critics and addressed the issue head on, as if, it was a part of some rap battle during the third night of his eight sold out performances at the Barclay Center.
“I look out here and see how far we’ve come. Still got a long way to go because everybody wants to diminish your accomplishements,”Jay-Z said to a sold out crowd.
“I look in the paper and I see ‘he only owns 1/15th of…first of I don’t know where they get that number from. But I’m cool with it. I know it’s not about me it’s about y’all.” said the 42-year old enternanuer. “They know if you see me standing here, they know it’s possible to achieve great things and will continue to do so. Don’t let anybody diminish your accomplishments. It’s our m*********g time now.”
After answering his critics, Hov fittingly went into one of his most controversial songs called “99 Problems.”
But while Jay-Z claims not to have any problems, the Nets may have a few, especially with a projected starting five, which consists of Deron Williams, Joe Johnson, Gerald Wallace, Chris Humphries, and center Brook Lopez.
Oddly enough, some NBA analysts think the Nets are the best team in New York, even without acquiring Dwight Howard.
Shockingly, the Nets high expectations maybe shattered by a Knicks’ team, who made the playoffs last year, as Carmelo Anthony, Amar’e Stoudmaire, and JR Smith join forces with veterans like Jason Kidd, Rasheed Wallace, and Marcus Camby this season.
As the Manhattan-Brooklyn rivalry heats up, I suggets the Nets ulitize the Brick City rapper RedMan’s (government name Reggie Noble) hit single “Time 4 Sum Aksion” which has the chants of “Go Brooklyn” in the background and starts off with ‘Let’s get ready to rumble’ as the team’s official theme song.
If Mike Tyson could use it while entering the ring before knocking out opponents, the Brooklyn Nets should use it while they dribble on the court as well. Note: To the Brooklyn Nets’ if you do decide to use this song, I would love to be paid a consultant fee, or become a part of your marketing team. If Jay-Z can do it, so can I. I am Hustler baby.
War.
Is bloody.
And, deadly.
It produces ten thousand tears.
And a town full of tombstones.
Plus, we all know that wars are easy to start.
And difficult to end.
Despite all of that,during a recent speech at the United Nations on September 27, Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu of Israel tried desperately to convince the United States that war was the only option, especially if Iran is allowed to develop its nuclear program by showing a poor drawing of a nuclear bomb.
Netanyahu's elementary illustration actually seemed like a déjà vu' episode of Colin Powell's notorious presentation that convinced the world that Iraqi had weapons of mass destruction in 2003, which turned out to be a lie.
"Given this record of Iranian aggression without nuclear weapons, just imagine an Iran with nuclear weapons. Who among you would feel safe in the Middle East? Who'd be safe in Europe? Who'd be safe in America? Who'd be safe anywhere?" Netanyahu said.
Despite Nethanyu's paranoia that a nuclear Iran would lead to the destruction of Israel, the United States, and the rest of the world, the US still thinks it's a bad idea.
WAR IS A NECESSARY EVIL
And while Israel tries to conjure up more propaganda against Iran, the US must ask itself these two important questions before joining Israel down the road of no return.
1. Is war with Iran really necessary?
2. And if Israel decides to go to war, will they inform the US in advance.
With these two questions lingering in the mind of President Obama, he, in effect, must understand that going to war with Iran, would impact the energy markets, affect the global economy, increase gas prices astronomically within the US, increase terrorism as well as produce retaliation through strategic "missile strikes" in Iraq as well as in the Persian Gulf.
The war with Iran also would make war in Afghanistan impossible to fight.
President Jimmy Carter's former national security adviser Dr. Zbigniew Brzezinski confirmed this during a recent interview, when he said:
"The use of military force against Iran would be extremely problematic given the dispersal of Iran’s nuclear sites throughout the country and their proximity to urban centers. Since the US would be blamed for any Israeli strike, we should make it clear to Israel that American interests would be adversely affected by such a move." Brzezinski explained.
"Kremlin strategists would surely relish the thought of a US deeply bogged down in a war with Iran, which would trigger a dramatic spike in the price of oil, a commodity in plentiful supply in Russia.
"Involving the Iranians in a military conflict would make our task in Afghanistan absolutely impossible. It would probably reignite the conflict in Iraq, would set the Persian Gulf ablaze, would increase the price of oil twofold, threefold, fourfold, and Americans will be paying five, six dollars a gallon at the gas stations. Europe will become even more dependent on Russia for energy. So what is the benefit to us?"
APOCALYPTIC END IN THE MIDDLE EAST
Brzezinski, who was the director of the Trilateral Commission from 1973 to 1976, also stated that while a nuclear Iran is a bad thing, it is not apocalyptic. Plus, he believed it wouldn't lead to World War III as Israeli PM Benjamin Netanyahu suggested at the U.N. General Assembly.
"Iran is not suicidal. It is not seeking to end itself, in a mass of Armageddon. Their goal is to keep their revolutionary idea alive."Brzezinski said.
Brzezinski, in effect, gave three clear reason why he felt it didn't pose an imminent threat to the national security of the US or Israel.
"First, the United States has the biggest defense budget in the world. Plus, the arms race is only with itself. Three, a former Mossad agency agreed that Iran's nuclear capabilities would not threaten the balance of power against Israel.Because, Israel has the best military in the Middle East. Plus, Israel has a deadly air force."
MULTI-DIMENSIONAL GAME OF CHICKEN
With that said, Barbara Slavin, senior fellow at the Atlantic Council's South Asia Center, believes that Israel, Iran and America are playing a multi-dimensional game of chicken.
And instead of having a full scale war, Israel along with US backing will more than likely continue to utilize sanctions, covet action or shadow wars, which includes assassinations, sabotage, and cyber attacks in order to retard the Iranians nuclear programs.
Despite these remedies to prevent war, the US still fears that Israel may not consult with them before deciding to take military action.
Why? Because, historically, Israel has a past of striking against its "enemies" without consulting with the US. They did it in Bagdad in 1981. Tunisia in 1985, Tunisia in 1988 and Syria in 2007.
UNBREAKABLEBOND WITH ISRAEL
This was made evident when Obama described the US bond with the Jewish state as“unbreakable today, unbreakable tomorrow, unbreakable forever...”
But Obama's friendship with Israel is going to be tested more and more as they continue to promote war with Iran.
As a result, some rumors have suggested that he has become increasing "unfriendly" toward Israel and to Jewish interest, especially with the perceived threat from Iran, which he quickly denied in front of the American Israel Public Affairs Council (AIPAC)
“As president I will never compromise when it comes to Israel’s security,” Obama said.
This, however, wasn't just political rhetoric. Because, just last week, in a public signing ceremony,Obama backed up his words by signing a $70 million military aid deal for Israel.
“Let me be clear,” President Obama said, “Israel’s security is sacrosanct. It is non-negotiable. The Palestinians need a state that is contiguous and cohesive and that allows them to prosper. But any agreement with the Palestinian people must preserve Israel’s identity as a Jewish state, with secure, recognized and defensible borders. Jerusalem will remain the capital of Israel, and it must remain undivided,” he added.
Obama's tough talk, however, was only done in effort to secure the Jewish vote. Because, he is quite aware of the power AIPAC can have on a presidential election as well as on US foreign-policy.
“Special interest lobbies have become overly influential in US politics. Thanks to their access to Congress, a variety of lobbies — some financially well endowed, some backed by foreign interests — have been promoting, to an unprecedented degree, legislative intervention in foreign-policy making. Promoted by lobbies, Congress not only actively opposes foreign policy decisions but even imposes some on the president. The pending legislation on sanctions against Iran is but one example. Such congressional intervention makes it more difficult to ensure that US — not foreign — interests are the point of departure." said Bryzenzski, who has authored several books, which include America and the World: Conversations on the Future of American Foreign Policy and The Choice: Global Domination or Global Leadership (Basic Books, 2004).
THE ISRAEL LOBBY AND U.S. FOREIGN POLICY
The power and influence of the AIPAC on the US foreign policy, in fact, was explored and dissected by J.Mearsheimer, a political science professor at the University of Chicago and Stephen M.Walt, the academic dean at John F.Kennedy School of Government at Harvard University, who co-authored the book THE ISRAEL LOBBY AND U.S. FOREIGN POLICY in 2006.
Here is an excerpt from the book:
This situation is deeply worrisome, because the Lobby's (AIPAC) influence causes trouble on several fronts. It increases the terrorist danger that all states face—including America's European allies. By preventing U.S. leaders from pressuring Israel to make peace, the Lobby has also made it impossible to end the Israeli-Palestinian conflict.
This situation gives extremists a powerful recruiting tool, increases the pool of potential terrorists and sympathizers, and contributes to Islamic radicalism around the world.
Furthermore, the Lobby’s campaign for regime change in Iran and Syria could lead the United States to attack those countries, with potentially disastrous effects. We do not need another Iraq.
At a minimum, the Lobby’s hostility toward these countries makes it especially difficult for Washington to enlist them against al Qaeda and the Iraqi insurgency, where their help is badly needed.
There is a moral dimension here as well.
Thanks to the Lobby, the United States has become the de facto enabler of Israeli expansion in the occupied territories, making it complicit in the crimes perpetrated against the Palestinians. This situation undercuts Washington’s efforts to promote democracy abroad and makes it look hypocritical when it presses other states to respect human rights. U.S. efforts to limit nuclear proliferation appear equally hypocritical given its willingness to accept Israel’s nuclear arsenal, which encourages Iran and others to seek similar capabilities.
Moreover, the Lobby’s campaign to squelch debate about Israel is unhealthy for democracy. Silencing skeptics by organizing blacklists and boycotts—or by suggesting that critics are anti-Semites—violates the principle of open debate upon which democracy depends.
The inability of the U.S.Congress to conduct a genuine debate on these vital issues paralyzes the entire process of democratic deliberation. Israel’s backers should be free to make their case and to challenge those who disagree with them. But efforts to stifle debate by intimidation must be roundly condemned by those who believe in free speech and open discussion of important public issues.
Finally, the Lobby’s influence has been bad for Israel. Its ability to persuade Washington to support an expansionist agenda has discouraged Israel from seizing opportunities including a peace treaty with Syria and a prompt and full implementation of the Oslo Accords... that would have saved Israeli lives and shrunk the ranks of Palestinian extremists.
Denying the Palestinians their legitimate political rights certainly has not made Israel more secure,and the long campaign to kill or marginalize a generation of Palestinian leaders has empowered extremist groups like Hamas, and reduced the number of Palestinian leaders who would be both willing to accept a fair settlement and able to make it work. This course raises the awful specter of Israel one day occupying the pariah status once reserved for apartheid states like South Africa.
Ironically, Israel itself would probably be better off if the Lobby were less powerful and U.S. policy were more evenhanded.
While Mearsheimer and Walt made excellent points against AIPAC's influence on US foreign policy, US involvement in Israel's war with Iran should be hot-bedded topic as we prepare for the next up-coming debates between President Obama and Mitt Romney.
1. CREATE AN ALTER EGO. 2. LOVE AND LIKE YOURSELF.
3. REREAD YOUR FAVORITE BOOKS FROM TIME TO TIME.
4.GET PAMPERED
A bad week can be wiped away by a good day at the spa or salon.
5. DREAM THE IMPOSSIBLE DREAM
I am an example of what is possible when girls from the very beginning of their lives are loved and nurtured by people around them. I was surrounded by extraordinary women in my life...who taught me about quiet strength and dignity.-Michelle Obama
6.TALK TO YOUR ELDERS
Have a conversation with a senior citizen or visit a nursing home. You have no idea how much it is appreciated. (And you might learn something.
7. BE WHO YOU ARE AND DON'T CHANGE FOR ANYBODY
7. S-T-R-E-T-C-H AND LEAP
Go beyond your comfort zone.
8. MAKE A SINFUL DESSERT; THEN EAT IT
9. LIGHTEN UP AND LAUGH A LITTLE
Laughter creates space, ease, connection and reveals our true nature.
10. DANCE LIKE NOBODY'S WATCHING
11. BEGIN AGAIN
Life is a serious of chapters in an ongoing story. Characters come and go. Plots thicken and are revealed. Tragedy, comedy, inspiration, and enlightenment await us at the turn of every encounter and experience.
When one chapter ends; another begins. Sometimees we may want to reread a chapter to get clarity or to revisit the sweetness or drama of the story. In life, revisiting or holding on to what "used to be" is called being stuck.
It's the act of repeatedly opening the book to the previous chapter and wondering why the story has not changed. Through endings can be difficult, frightening or sad, the book of life has a way of closing the chapters of our lives that makes revisiting them unproductive or impossible. This isn't necessarily a bad thing, even though it may feel that way. Our lives and our spirits can grow only with the ending of certain chapters. Thankfully, every ending signals a new beginning.
12. FORGET YOURSELF.
Become a mentor, save the environment, rescue a kitten. Love's in need of Love today, and there are more ways than ever to lend a helping hand, websites such as volunteermatch.org can help find an opportunity that's right for you.
13. FACE YOUR FEARS
Become a dragon slayer
Too much agreement between Republicans and Democrats has always been bad news for those at the bottom of America's class and racial totem poles.
Back in 1875, Frederick Douglass observed that it took a
war among the whites to free his people from slavery. What then, he wondered, would an era of peace among the whites bring us? He already knew the answer. Louisiana had its Colfax Massacre [5] two years earlier. A wave of thousands upon thousands of terroristic bombings, shootings, mutilations, murders and threats [6] had driven African Americans from courthouses, city halls, legislatures, from their own farms, businesses and private properties and from the voting rolls across the South. They didn't get the vote back for 80 years, and they never did get the land back. But none of that mattered because on the broad and important questions of those days there was at last peace between white Republicans and white Democrats --- squabbles around the edges about who'd get elected, but wide agreement on the rules of the game.
Like Douglass, the shallow talking heads who cover the 2012 presidential campaign on corporate media have noticed out loud the remarkable absence of disagreement between Republican and Democratic candidates on many matters. They usually mention what the establishment likes to call “foreign policy.” But the list of things Republicans and Democrat presidential candidates agree on, from coddling Wall Street speculators, protecting mortgage fraudsters and corporate wrongdoers to preventing Medicare For All to so-called “foreign policy,” “free trade,” “the deficit” “clean coal and safe nuclear power” and “entitlement reform,” is clearly longer and more important than the few points of mostly race and style, upon which they disagree.
15 . Although unemployment is the highest it's been since the Great Depression, the federal government should NOT enact any sort of WPA-style program to put millions of people back to work. Under Democrat Franklin Roosevelt in the 1930s, Depression-era unemployment was tackled head on by direct federal hiring to dig subways, build roads, schools, parks, sewers, recreational facilities and public buildings. Oblivious of this history, Democrat Barack Obama maintains that only the private sector can or should create jobs.
14. Medicare, Medicaid and social security are “entitlements” that need to be cut to relieve what they call “the deficit.”
Republicans have been on record for this since forever, though they claim not to want to mess with the Medicare people already over 65 are getting. One of the first acts of the Obama presidency was to appoint a bipartisan panel stacked with “deficit hawks” like Republican Allan Simpson and Democrat Erskine Bowles to recommend raising retirement ages and cutting back Medicaid, Medicare and social security, and pass a law directing Congress to have an up or down no-amendments vote on its recommendations. Fortunately the “cat food commission”, as it was called, was deadlocked and offered none. But Obama and top Democrats, most recently House Democratic leader Nancy Pelosi continue to express their readiness for some kind of “grand compromise” with Republicans on this issue.
13. Climate change treaties and negotiations that might lead to them should be avoided at all costs.
The differences between them are only style. Democrats admit that climate change exists and is man-made, Republicans say it's a myth. But both ignored the Kyoto protocol and Obama like Bush before him, has worked tirelessly to delay, derail and boycott any actual talks that might lead to constructive international climate change agreements.
12. NAFTA was such a great thing it really should be extended to Central and South America and the entire Pacific rim.
Again, there are differences in style. On the 2008 campaign trail, Obama sometimes mumbled about renegotiating parts of NAFTA, and such. But even before the primaries were done, press reports had him assuring the Canadian government this was only campaign rhetoric, raw meat for the rubes. In four years he has pushed NAFTA-like “free trade” corporate rights agreements with South Korea, most of Central America and is now secretly hammering out something called the Trans-Pacific Partnership Agreement [7].
11. Banksters and Wall Street speculators deserve their bailouts and protection from criminal liability, but underwater and foreclosed homeowners deserve nothing. Well, maybe not exactly nothing. Republicans think underwater homeowners deserve blame for forcing banksters to offer millions of fraudulent high-interest loans were then re-sold to investors around the world.
Democrats think underwater homeowners deserve empty promises of help that never quite arrives for most of the foreclosed, the about-to-be foreclosed, their families and communities. But both agree on free money for banksters and speculators but no moratorium on foreclosures and no criminal investigations of mortgage and securities fraud.
10.Palestinians should be occupied, dispossessed and ignored. Iran should be starved and threatened from all sides.
Cuba should be embargoed, and Americans prohibited from going there to see what its people have done in a half century free of Yankee rule. Black and brown babies and their parents, relatives and neighbors should be bombed with drones in Pakistan, Yemen, Somalia and similar places. The politicians and corporate commentators have a misleading name for this. They call it “foreign policy.” The realistic term for it is global empire.
9. Africa should be militarized, destabilized, plundered and where necessary, invaded by proxy armies like those of Rwanda, Ethiopia, Burundi or Kenya, or directly by Western air and ground forces, as in Libya. President Georgia Bush announced the formation of AFRICOM, the US military command for the continent which has officially swallowed all US civilian diplomatic presence. But only a black US president, even under the cover of “humanitarian war” could have invaded an African nation and openly dispatched special forces to Central Africa.
8. US Presidents can kidnap citizens of their own or any nation on earth from anyplace on the planet for torture, indefinite imprisonment without trial or murder them and neighboring family and bystanders at will. To be perfectly fair, there are distinctions between Republicans and Democrats here that don't amount to differences.
Republicans Cheney and Bush got their lawyers to say these things were OK and did them. Democrat Obama got Congress to enact “laws” giving these acts a veneer of fake legality, something a Republican probably could not have done.
7. Oil and energy companies, and other mega-polluters must be freed to drill offshore almost everywhere, and permitted to poison land and watersheds with fracking to achieve “energy independence”.
The Republicans say “drill baby drill” but it seems only Democrats can chill out enough supposed “environmentalists” to make this happen. Obama campaigned on restricting offshore drilling four years ago, and reversed himself just before the BP oil disaster in the Gulf. The White House cooperated with BP in lying to the public about the extent of the disaster and has shielded BO from paying anything like the value of actual damages incurred to livelihoods, human lives and the environment.
6. The FCC should not and must not regulate telecoms to ensure that poor and rural communities have access to internet, or to guarantee network neutrality.
Republicans have always been in favor of digital redlining, against network neutrality. Barack Obama claimed on the campaign trail he'd take a back seat to nobody in guaranteeing network neutrality. But he appointed as FCC chair a man who helped write the infamous Telecommunications Act of 1995, which gave away the government-built internet backbone to a handful of immensely powerful
telecoms like AT&T and Comcast, and flatly reversed himself on network neutrality. The Department of Justice was forced to stop the ATT-T-Mobile merger by a storm of public outrage, but approved the Comcast-NBC deal.
5. Of course there really ARE such things as “clean coal” and “safe nuclear energy”.
Again these are things Republicans have always pretended to believe. At the 2008 Democratic convention Democrat Barack Obama joined them, declaring he intended to be the president of “clean coal and safe nuclear energy.”
Obama is building a wave of 33 nuclear plants across the country, the first two in mostly black and poor communities of Georgia and South Carolina where leaky existing nukes are causing cancer epidemics. The people know these things are myths. But Republican and Democratic candidates for office, all the way down to state and county officials seem not to.
4. Immigrants must be jailed and deported in record numbers.
To be really fair, one should note that on this issue Republicans talk a mean game about sending them all back and jailing tens or hundreds of thousands along the way. But only President Obama has walked the walk, deporting over a million immigrants in his term in office, often with little or no due process and after housing many for months in atrocious privatized immigration prisons.
3. No Medicare For All.
Forget about it eliminating the Medicare age requirement so that all Americans would qualify.. Republicans never wanted Medicare even for seniors, let alone everybody. Six or seven years ago Illinois State Senator Obama was telling audiences that if they elected Democrats to Congress, the Senate and the White House, they'd get single payer health care. But once in office he excluded Medicare for All from the proposals on the table, and enacted a national version of Massachusetts RomneyCare, requiring everybody to purchase private health insurance or be penalized.
2. No minimum wage increases for you, no right to form a union, no right to negotiate or strike if you already have a union, and no enforcement or reform of existing labor laws.
Again, Republicans have always opposed minimum wage laws. Obama promised to boost the minimum wage his first two years in office, while he still had majorities in the House and Senate. But he didn't do this, or pass legislation beefing up the right to organize unions, which has been eroded under Democrat and Republican administrations alike.
The 40 year war on drugs must continue, and even mention of the prison state is unthinkable. There are 2.3 million people in US prisons and jails today, a per capita total that beats the world. Politicians of both parties wag their fingers in multiple directions.
But as Michelle Alexander points out, if the US prison population were rolled back to say, only 1 million, the level it was about 1980, this would mean one million jobs, as contractors, sheriffs, cops, bailiffs, judges and functionaries of all kinds would have to go out and find real jobs.
The rabbit hole goes still deeper. We didn't have to stop at these fifteen points of Democrat-Republican agreement, but you get the idea. Just as in Frederick Douglass's day, the more Democrats and Republicans agree, the worse it is for the rest of us.
There was a time when black America had its own principles, and formed the immovable leftmost rock of the American polity. But in the 21st century, that rock has been dissolved by a tide of corporate money. With the rise of a cohort of black corporate Democrats and a right wing black Democrat in the White House there is no longer even any vaguely leftish influence on Democratic party politics. The House Progressive Caucus is the biggest in Congress, with over seventy members, but is powerless and irrelevant. Except for stylistic flourishes, the music they listen to and the color of some faces, the differences between Republicans and Democrats seem to exist mostly in political marketing campaigns and inside our own heads.
Bruce A. Dixon is managing editor at Black Agenda Report, and a member of the state committee of the Georgia Green Party. He can be reached via this site's contact page, or at bruce.dixon(at)blackagendareport.com.
The label of being Hip Hop’s first team, of course, has something to do with partial owner Shawn Carter aka Jay-Z’s involvement in the team’s marketing stragedy, which is displayed at center court of the Barclay Center in the form of a large “B” logo as well as in the classic black and white new Nets’ uniforms. 
Again, there are differences in style. On the 2008 campaign trail, Obama sometimes mumbled about renegotiating parts of NAFTA, and such. But even before the primaries were done, press reports had him assuring the Canadian government this was only campaign rhetoric, raw meat for the rubes. In four years he has pushed NAFTA-like “free trade” corporate rights agreements with South Korea, most of Central America and is now secretly hammering out something called the Trans-Pacific Partnership Agreement [7].
3. No Medicare For All.
