Comments by "John Roberts" (@view1st) on "Democracy Now!" channel.

  1. More sensible leaders will prevail. Eventually.
    5
  2. So right you are. Like with Hitler you have to draw the line somewhere.
    3
  3. The link between politicians and private donors both in the United States and elsewhere needs to be broken. A good way to start would be to impose a cap on private donations and then have the state make up the shortfall for funding party election campaigns in proportion to their share of the popular vote with only parties that get, say, 5% or less being allowed to be fully funded from private donations (the list of donors, of course, being available to the public). The introduction of some form of proportional representation to make it virtually impossible for a single party to dominate should also be considered.
    2
  4.  @robertrichard6107  Churchill even wanted to continue the war by invading Russia but the USA wouldn't agree. Here's a country that almost single‐handedly caused world war 2 by giving a completely useless guarantee to Poland thus emboldening them not to negotiate with the Germans leading to war; whose country was forced to ignominously run with its tail between its legs after just six weeks after embroilling the French in their misadventure; destroyed much of his country's manufacturing and that of Europe and sent it bankrupt; whose country was only saved because of the Russians and the Americans... wanting to continue a war that had killed 20 million people in the Soviet Union alone and millions on the rest of the continent. What's more he wanted to use nukes. What an ungrateful SOB.
    2
  5. Does Japan have a left? Does America?
    2
  6. After world wars Ⅰ & Ⅱ that's exactly what Germany did. Likewise France after its defeat by Germany in 1940.
    1
  7. CPC – Communist Party of China. Calling it the CCP is incorrect.
    1
  8.  @georgealmaraz658  And a billionaire who's wealth mostly comes from the embezzlement of his own people.
    1
  9. He's an economist. That's what they do. Talk.
    1
  10.  @justgivemethetruth  Yes, Karl Marx was too honest in his critique of capitalism and Jeffrey Sachs may be in the same mould as he was. Neoliberal economists meanwhile are just ideologues spouting the rentier banksters party line.
    1
  11.  @yurona5155  Could this thing the "Russian people have been subjected to for at least a decade now" be by any chance the same thing that, when it's the West doing it (as in fighting fascist Germany or communist Korea), is called patriotism and is celebrated constantly in war movies and remembrance parades? If the Russian Federation wasn't faced with so much unrelenting hostility coming from the West (NATO militarism, EU sanctions, US economic and financial warfare) then it might not be in need of this 'nationalism' so much. But just like the Soviet Union, Russia simply cannot afford to not to have such a strong nationalist element to its culture given the threats constantly posed by western cultural subversion and predatory capitalist expansionism.
    1
  12.  @vallee7966  Ukraine was part of Russia back then so that's like saying he was a Russian being starved by Russians. And there was a famine going on at the time and everyone in the effected regions were starving, not just your grandfather.
    1
  13. annoloki Agreed. The more I look at Israel the more I see it as an enclave of the USA, in effect, a state of the USA co-equal with Washington DC, maybe even one and the same.
    1