Comments by "justgivemethetruth" (@justgivemethetruth) on "The Real News Network" channel.

  1. I have problems with the idea of American exceptionalism, whatever the "F" it is supposed to mean, but it is not an idea that has gone away or turned into a joke.  There is something about America, if it is just its place geographically or historically.  We seem to be doing our best to make the concept repugnant, but the US and the idea of the USA has been a beacon to a lot of people in the last 100 years.  Today a lot of people I talk to that have emigrated here tell me they would rather go to other places but it is so easy to get into the USA.  No more melting pot, not more classless society, so it is valid for people to question this idea today, but relatively in the past the US has at least held up the ideals, even if we have not carried them out.  It is sad, I wish I could say the US was even more exceptional that we claimed, but in a predatory capitalist system the number one first lesson to learn is bait and switch, brand and exploit the brand.
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  2. This country is gone .... we need to build a new country from the fascist ashes of what we have now.
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  3. Frank has really nailed the political changes in the last 30-40 years
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  4. I hate that expression, "Let's agree to disagree". You're not agreeing to anything, you're just disagreeing, which means that communication broke down somewhere, or in most cases that someone has a greedy, selfish, toxic, Right-wing attitude that they don't see they have to renounce or give up. I can mean sometimes a silly, goofball Left-wing idea, but mostly problems in communication come from people on the Right who don't care about anything or anyone but winning.
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  5. The power "geometry" of the world is complicated and all wrapped up with psychopathy and military and violence, and some people who talk shit and cannot bring others together to challenge it without dividing them are not serious about anything but their own egos - just like those they spend the most time criticizing.
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  6. How would you know anything but what someone tells you?
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  7. The leaders of the Progressive movement seem to have as their goal creating a movement that is so offensive to the moderates and Conservatives that the Right is also mobilized to fight and offend the left ... thus keeping the people out of politics and bickering between themselves while the elites make off with all the loot and capture legislation and policy. If you divide politics into two reasonable factions, right and left, they both have their constituents ... basically the right is for institutions and corporations and the left is for people. The left should limit its scope to human rights, social and economic justice issues. Quit trying to tell the military what to do and how to act, geo-political realities are not the purview of the left, except in special cases, such as Viet Nam in the 70's, and Central America in the 80's, and the Middle East in the 90's and on ... the Left can speak up, but it will end up fragmenting the society and it does no good. We need both sides of the country to work together. They don't have to agree, but they need to balance their needs rationally against the other side. Right now the US is tilted way over the to side of the rich and corporations to the point that people are hurting, and the corporations are acting without constraint - and hurting the people and the environment.
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  8. It's not the Jews you idiot ... you are just a Nazi stooge.
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  9. I wonder if he could do a massive write-in campaign? I don't think he would do it, but what if the people did it, or at least enough to show Clinton they do not want her or respect her. I think Trump could be impeached or lead to the end of the country he is so unstable, no one wants him, at least Republicans say they don't. It all comes down to the Supreme Court. Hillary is just like Trump ... they both cynically say, whether you like it or not I am your only choice.
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  10. hahahaha ... no kidding
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  11. This is pretty good ... where are the other 5 episodes of this series?
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  12. I don't think that is true. As correct as Hedges might be and I agree with most, maybe everything he says, until there is a workable plan or strategy to take over, like the Republicans developed, nothing is going to happen. So asking Americans to listen to this and get depressed and miserable because there is nothing they can do is unrealistic. I don't mean to be negative, but if there is something concrete that can be understood and done I think most Americans would do it, but they are tired of wasting time, energy and money supporting people like this who don't get anyone closer to anything.
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  13.  @CaravanseraiSouthValley  In theory, I agree with much of what Hedges says. The problem is Hedges has no real experience of understanding of our government, how it works and why it is impossible to change. Sure, if there was an upswell of activism across the country a the local level things might change - but what things and how? Furthermore, the people are so fragmented that they don't even go out and vote. Another thing about Hedges that disgusts me, along with Chomsky and most of the far Left pundits who I used to follow assiduously, is they are constantly side with Palestinians 100% and 0% with Israel. I consider myself far Left, but Palestinians have no claim to a role in the Left ... and that is disgusting. Whenever you hear these pundits, and organizations like Democracy Now! never reporting both sides of this issue, you know they are fake. So in political theory the Left is great, and reporting news with respect to the Liberal, Progressive, Tolerent, democratic point of view, they are great, but they shift over to Middle Eastern horror terrorists 100% and never report on Israel, or what the Palestinians do to bring police actions against them. I have no interesting in Hedges, Chomsky or any of this clique. They are liars and cannot be objective. They only tell the truth to establish a base, and then they corrupt them with lies.
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  14. So true, this hyperbolic fear-mongering is for idiots who like scary movies. They way they always tie local domestic policy in some way to defend Iran and attack Israel is so transparent ... this agenda is underwritten by the CIA would be my guess.
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  15. The thing is we do not know what is being faked in the media and what is not. Both the establishment and the opposition is owned and run by the same people today. This show could be run by the CIA to keep the Left demonized by always showing negative images and scary images. But he is right ... there is no public anymore, or at least that is what these Right wingers want to convince us is happening, only rich people and their kids are human, the rest of us are farm animals.
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  16. So, your answer would be yes then, right. That's what I asked. So, Iran's Shia Muslims are voting FOR all that religious oppression then? You do understand that the religious authority has more power than the President as well too, right? The NYT article said Mr. Rouhani has promised economic growth and greater freedom of speech and of the press. So, if Iran has all this freedom and democracy that you say, why do they need to promise greater freedom or speech. Because you and I both know that in Iran if you say the wrong thing and get attention for it you can end up dead or in prison. But, you are fine with that and argue that one election means that Iran is as democratic as Israel, right? You and I might agree that Iran is changing, but that is coming from pressure from abroad as more Iranians become city dwellers and are exposed to outside ideas. I am sure Iran will get there eventually, but Israel is already there and has been since its inception, so I guess we can agree to disagree despite your daring opinion. You know the reality of Iran just like most other people who follow it, and you know that you get nowhere in life unless you are a devout Shia Muslim, and on women's rights Iran may be ahead of Saudi Arabia, but that is not saying much. But you can amuse and shock people by making such claims.
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  17. Bernie did not ask people to vote for Jill Stein either.
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  18. Liberals/Progressives forming another circular firing squad ... what a bunch of useless blather.
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  19. This is great ... we are all entitles to the legacy of human civilization - PERIOD. And every day we are kept apart from it is an expanding crime against humanity.
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  20. You mean the Liberal media that is pushing communism?  LOL ... the opposition is owned and controlled by the establishment ... straight out of Orwell.
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  21. The organizations that claim to be Liberal are just dummy decoys that create these identity issues that at the same time create groups that are anti-identity policies and get the fighting so no one is watching or participating in politics. The US is pretty much dead except for a military corporate state ... that sadly is corrupt.
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  22. You have a point, and I even agree with you. The flip side of that is that Palast, for some reason, perhaps his weird OCD or mental issues has been completely ineffective at everything he has done. He has only contacted a narrow group of people in the far left. Somehow with amazing lies the Republican party has everyone doubting Barack Obama is a Christian or was born in the USA ... while Palast with incontrovertible proof cannot get out to inform America of the facts?
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  23. Great job ... label this one different than you labelled all the other sections? Come on!!!!!
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  24. I think there is a certain stability, which has good and bad points, to having two parties. The problem is not the number of parties, it is that the parties are run by money and rich people, and they pretty much always were, but because of technology and inequality it is a disaster now. Changing random variables is not the answer ... getting money out of politics, and regulating the media are two things that might ... I don't see another party as helping, in fact it can cause instability and volatility that our country may not be able to take.
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  25. LK ... Where did you get your alternative fact that you can call Bernie Sanders pro-war? Jill Stein has never been a leader, she is an air-head. An air-head with values that I respect, but that does not mean that she would be an effective leader and that I would want her for President, or that there is any chance that she would win. So dishonest people like you resort to stupid accusations against Bernie, and we can all see that you are most likely a right-wing fraud working against Bernie because the right wing knows that he will probably win if he runs in the next election.
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  26. What does pro-drone mean. I am pro-drone if it means not having to send soldiers into deadly places to find ISIS. Anyone dumb enough to be recruited by ISIS is not going to give a damn what Bernie Sanders or anyone else thinks about drones. Are you daft? Sanders is not even mentioned in the article you cite. You shift you argument from idiot point 1 to idiot point 2 and back and forth to attack Bernie Sanders. Like I said, where does it say Bernie is pro-war. You know he's never uttered anything remotely like that, or that could even be interpreted to mean that. Stein is an airhead. She knew she was not going to win, and she could have saved the country and the world, or at least made an attempt to by asking voters to support Sanders or Clinton. If all you care about is the anti-war agenda fed to you by the alternative media, and you do not bother to look at reality then you will come up with ineffective behaviors like supporting Stein. I don't say I dislike what she says or stands for in large part, but the net effect of her candidacy and what the Greens are doing is sadly ineffective at best and destructive at worst. The Democratic party needs a huge overhaul, Bernie proved that and got way more votes than Stein, and he has leadership experience. Stick with Bernie and the Democrats to see what can be done and you have thousands of times more chance of changing things for the better.
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  27. Let's say it's true the Democrats have little to offer ... that means 1. You either vote Republican or you help Republicans win. 2. You vote Democrat to counter the Republican party, but you must also get involved and fix the Democratic party, which used to the party of the working class. Take it back. Be a cooperator and uniter within the framework of what already exists because at least in the last election would have let to less stupidity like Trump's health care and tax proposals. Why would you want to act in such a way as to give Republkicans more power so they can cement their party in the top position and make it that much harder to unseat them? I can only imagine you are either disingenuous and working for the Republicans, or you are stupid, or you could just be blinded by reckless idealism
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  28. Why are you a wife-beater?
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  29. Love these videos and these stories, but people have to realize that RNN, Real News Network, uses these progressives stories to brand itself Leftist solely so that it can propagandize for the Palestinians. Palestinians are not the 1%, Islamic countries are not Liberal. The problem in the US is all the media outlets that support the Left also have this poisoned terrorist pills of being designed to ultimately blow up the Left by association with terrorists. This has been done by the CIA in other countries, why not here. The status quo designs the political opposition from the Left with terrorist or some other bitter poisoned position at its heart that makes it unacceptable ultimately. That is why Bernie has been so great, he is outside our CIA/Right Wing totaliarian propaganda state.
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  30. It makes me sick that Palast did his original work all the way back in 2000 .... almost 20 years ago now, and nothing has happened and so few people know what this was about and that the voter fraud thing was being funded by Conservative criminals like the Kochs ... and with the Clinton and Democrats assistance.
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  31. Frank is right about ideas.  As a kid I lived inTexas and was never really exposed to any ideas but the BS from the status quo.  My life began when we moved to California and I began to learn about the real history of the world ... and that is exactly why the Republicans are trying to make education so elite and expensive - they want to monitor and control what ideas people are exposed to, and keep track of who knows what.  Republicans are the totalitarian fascists ... and somehow Franks is right again, the Republicans figured out a convoluted logic that makes Liberals the bad guys ... probably from taking over the Democratic party and having them do things they can be attacked for and provisioning the party with people who were bought and really do not care about Democratic values. Look at Clinton, a Republican in her youth, Obama with a mother in the CIA.  The Democratic party is full of people who have been co-opted for money to take down the party.  That is how the Republicans won.  They had enough money to begin with to bring this about and start it, but now they own everything.  Those who want to have a happy life working for the man just say you are Republican and accept their BS ideas, and you will be fine as long as you rip off everyone else in the country to keep the hierarchy of money and power intact.
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  32. He talks about the CIA "getting away with things". What sorts of "things" is he talking about the CIA getting away with? And to what ends ... for whom? Who is setting their agenda, their activities and boundaries or limits?
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  33. 9:15 - Who says India wants Palestinians to go there? No way, everyone does not want Palestinian or radicalized Muslims anywhere near their country.
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  34. This guy and his family, the Barghoutis, are rich as hell. They go around the world,get the best medical treatment, the best education, eat the best food and can do what they like while they beg for money for terrorism against Israel, all the while their fellow Palestinians live with violence the terrorist thugs supported by these people have to endured, poverty, lack of health care, lack of education, while these Barghoutis blame it all on Israel. Nice gig I guess if you are a Palestinian and you like being a fascist.
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  35. In that case ( Palestinians ) there is a reason.
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  36. WRF is wrong with TRN .... they have this labelled as 1 of 4, and no other videos by the same name or next up?  Part of the conspiracy maybe?
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  37. If you have not, to get the real view, from altitude, about what is going on in the US that is screwing things up, read Thomas Frank's "The Wrecking Crew".  After reading "Listen Liberal" last year and hearing videos of him speaking and answering questions I wanted to read more and did not know what to get. "The Wrecking Crew" lays the whole mess that is the USA today out bare, the who and the why.  It is a non-fiction masterpiece, a fantastic piece of writing, but ideas explained so well.  After that book I am not surprised he has not been asked back on mainstream media TV shows ... that book explains the nightmare and the doublespeak. The Wrecking Crew should really be read by everyone, twice or more and made into a multi-part documentary it is so important.
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  38. Show me where a mosque has been torn down in Israel. Also, show me where any synagogue has been built in Palestine? Jews cannot live in Palestine unless they have heavy military protection. Building housing doesn't even compare to murderous terrorism ... that is why Palestinians are so terrified ... now all of a sudden time is not on their side and they will lose out completely if they do not change. Basically nothing you said was true or complete. Though you did manage to evade and ignore every point I made ... which probably means you are a Palestinian.
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  39. Thanks, this is an excellent series.
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  40. Yeah, those poor Palestinians have one of the highest birthrates of any group in the world, and when they are born they are brainwashed into terrorism. These Palestinians, this family the Barghoutis are not the Palestinians that need the support or the world, they are the supporters of the terrorists.
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  41. Who cares about what John Meecham says? Not to mention his hypothetical attack on the Baltics? Stephen F. Cohen is the voice of reason.
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  42. 15:56 - where do these old videos live, and how can I find them and watch them? There is damn little stuff about FDR these days, even on YouTube, and I know there were all kinds of radio shows and NewsClips of FDR ... where is it all?
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  43. These interviews on America's Untold Story are the best I've seen on RNN. I always disgree with anything about the Middle East because there RNN seems arbitrary and biases against Israel, but this is very good. Of course I wonder if the alliance of the Palestinians with Hitler during WWII will be covered and Haj Amin Al Hussayni, Palestine's Grand Mufti.
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  44. Not only do socialists not have any voice in American politics, but they are oppressed and it is made very hard for them to be heard and when they are the thug minions come in to swamp every discussion, name call and ridicule then, even though the basis for these attacks is wrong at best and often ridiculous.
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  45. Looking at what is going on this is, for the average American, complicated math .... they are too stupid to understand what this means, not to mention the media makes no effort to explain or illustrate this.  That is why they are so easily hoodwinked and cheated.  Woe is this country.
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  46. Obama was a much better liar than Trump oddly enough.  Maybe he was not as stupid or ignorant, but that is what got him elected, but he puled the wool over everyone's eyes.  He let everyone read into him, with his radical pastor, he faked us all right out.
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  47. Thomas Frank is really great. I think in more recent interviews he is showing some real frustration with politics and especially the Democratic party. Plus, there is now some clown with the same name as Thomas Frank that makes it harder to find videos related to Thomas Frank like this one.
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  48. Poor guy, he looks terrible. I never thought I'd say this, but I think Chomsky is wrong about fascism - we have had covert hidden fascism as we have pretended our elections were free and we were the greatest country in the world. One little virus has shown that to be untrue. It doesn't matter what we call it ... totalitarianism, fascism, oligarchy, tyranny ... or whatever ... we have an elite few that uses the rest of us like farm animals and beasts of burden. The only upward mobility there is if it something up there takes a liking to you and decides to treat you fairly ... and only if they see in your someone who will not go against this vicious order and blow the game ... a whistle-blower.
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  49. So many things to distrust and criticize this country for, but one big one was the planned assassination of Fred Hampton ... why would they do that?  The guy was very bright, and he talked a lot of sense.  Who knows who the FBI has either killed or determined was a threat and ruined their life in hundreds of ways.  Get people kicked or flunked out of college so they cannot get a job, get them fired from their jobs, frame them for crimes, give them sicknesses ... who knows, but almost nothing is out of bounds looking at what we have seen.   This country was willing to go to Vietnam and kill millions of people and defoliate the entire country to test weapons and look macho ,and to keep lower class working people down politically.
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  50. I like that - "Reducing a liars speech is not the same as censorship". I think it was totally correct for Twitter not to enable Donald Trump to lie to the country. It was totally the correct thing to do.
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