2016 Postmortem
In reply to the discussion: Stay ignorant my friends [View all]zentrum
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with Doug Hemwood, the author of "My Turn: Hillary Clinton Targets the Presidency" and my head is spinning.
She's got real blood on her hands, far beyond the Iraq war vote.
There's the way the Clintons profited form the (non)-rebuilding of Haiti. Worked to surpress the raising of the minimum wage for garment workers which was $5/ a day (not $5 an hourbut a day) because of corporations who were donating to the Clinton Foundation.
And the coup in Honduras.
As SOS she pressured Mexico to open its waters to oil companiesbreaking with its own Constitution which had forbidden that for one hundred years.
And then, back to Iraqshe refused to read the full briefing to Congress in which the final assessment was that Saddam did not have WMD. She instead made a speech linking him overtly with Al Qaida. Which was patently untrue. She. Would. Not. Read. The. Full. Briefing.
All this is well researched and sourced.
To hear the full interview go: to https://kpfa.org/player/?audio=225249
If that doesn't work, go to KPFA.org and look for UpFront. You can listen to the broadcast on-line. It's hair-raising.