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Roger Waters's avatar

Thank you, Vanessa and Mr Zuesse, very interesting, I'm just finishing a video of my speech to a conference in Yalta last Thursday, have a look when I publish later today, we're sort of on the same page.

Love

R.

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vanessa beeley's avatar

Thank you Roger. I read your Yalta speech and it was extraordinary! Thank you for always being a voice for the unheard. In solidarity and with deepest respect, V x

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Ronny Graham's avatar

This may seem beside the point, but I would argue not. Many like to refer to Mercouris, who with his law background certainly knows how to talk. The Duran are not trustworthy. I have followed both Alex and Alexander since before the SMO as their coverage of Russia Ukraine was very good. Both are racist, though of course both will deny it. Both are uncritically supportive of AfD, Orban and le Pen. All three entities are openly and zealously zionist. I well remember in the first months after 07/10/23, Alexander referring to an anti-genocide march of 100,000 or more in his own north London in dismissive tones. He then spent 90 minutes trying to pronounce the names of small villages in east Ukraine. Thanks for posting this piece Vanessa, I liked it very much.

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vanessa beeley's avatar

My focus is on Zuesse 🙏

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Michael A. Starkey's avatar

Dear VB. You speak the language of a practiced well trained in depth investigative professional. Licensed in rhetoric. Most of your followers understand your language.

But There may be some of your followers, like me for instance. Who don't have your fluency in current events. That's okay. We will catch up. With the Left's Dictionary of Decline. Words, abbreviations, and names found in failing western civ.

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Marilyn Langlois's avatar

Thank you Vanessa! Zuesse is so right that billionaires thrive when the rest of us fight with each other over race, gender, party politics, etc.

But how about eliminating billionaires altogether? I mean a 100% tax on all personal assets over, say, $10 million.

Let’s also eliminate abject poverty and ensure a dignified life for everyone—we’re really smart enough to figure out how do that if there’s the will.

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vanessa beeley's avatar

I think, getting this conversation rolling, is so important. Thank you for your constructive contribution that I hugely agree with.

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Howard's avatar

Thanks for this Vanessa. Always liked Zuesse. I appreciate his nuanced analysis of FDR. I believe he's been overly blasted by many I respect (not referring to blind hard core "right wingers"). Blemishes for sure, but I do believe he was a "traitor to his class" and no longer believe he "naturally" died of polio.

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Billy Field's avatar

Great work go Vanessa & Mr Zuesse. Good ideas but I'm imagining it wouldn't take long for for "representatives" to bribed, threatened or murdered or somehow pressured by individuals or groups"of crooks/mafias, control freaks et al. Also I think the propaganda & fear porn in the MSM fools even those who one might imagine are the smartest folks around. The biggest problem I see with Mr Zuesses's proposition is the MSM would still control the minds of the people and it is full of deceptions & important omissions with no accountability. This ought bear huge fines & also prison terms as it can get countless folks wrongfully killed. Another major problem is selective investigations of crimes & selective prosecutions. The idea for a lottery (if it might ever be honest) for ratification of all laws & selection of important Gov positions (eg Dir of Public Prosecutions) et al sounds good......but the real kicker in my view is to have massive fines for "False & misleading " Journalism.

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GMP's avatar

Thank you, Vanessa, for another intriguing and thought-provoking article.

FDR a great progressive. Hmm. I wouldn't call the Japanese internment policy great or progressive. FDR's proposal of "an all-inclusive democratic international federal republic of nations (a democratic world government) replacing and outlawing all empires and possessing a global monopoly control over all all geostrategically significant weapons..." too close to the WEF/Schwab agenda for my comfort. In his dislike of reparations to American slave descendants - maybe he should have included the zionists? I'm with him that affirmative action is a silly idea, but not so much due to reverse discrimination -although that can be an adverse effect - but more because it belittles an entire race, instilling the false notion that they're not as smart or as industrious or as whatever to make it on their own merit. He's also criticizing solutions that he hasn't even heard and doesn't know what they are - a bit odd. That said, I agree with him about the current state of affairs. Here a group of us is going in the other direction, working locally to try to develop a decentralized local currency for our community. Baby steps. It's something to do to keep from feeling hopeless.

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David Cooper's avatar

Statistically it should work, but the "Soul" would be removed and replaced by an Intellectual Class of 'professional statespeople'.

Plato, Aristotle, Machiavelli, they were all Intellectual Statespeople'. "Trust me" is what Eve said to Adam.

Empires always collapse, because of money. So the "solution" is to come up with a means of money creation that's not based in Credit/Debt creation. Which is not at all difficult.

Remove The Banksters from the equation, along with their risk free money printing machine.

The life cycle of the $US Dollar is nearing its end. Thus "Billionaires will have 0 value. Lots of Stuff, sure, but not enough guns or personnel to protect it.

The Moors went all the way to Ireland, then The Crusaders, then the Portuguese, Spanish, English. . . . .

There's no way on Earth the citizenry would elect a San Francisco Marxist as President, so Zuesse is correct in the final analysis.

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Photine's avatar

The Citizens United decision in 2010 set US up for ruin...Corporations, having no national loyalty whatsoever, are not 'People'. As the Good Book says :"The love of money is the root of evil." & sadly, that 'love' knows no national or partisan boundaries. "Where your treasure is, there your heart will be also."(Matt.6 :21)

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