GARY LEUPP – Proposed Text for an Effective Anti-Hillary TV Ad

Just some ideas for a television ad, for anyone opposing Wall Street’s candidate to use as they like. * * * They talk about Hillary Clinton’s “experience”—like experience is always a good thing. [selected clips of politicians and others citing her “experience” as the crucial thing] But what is Hillary’s experience, really? As First Lady she promoted health care reform, …

Gary Leupp – NATO: Seeking Russia’s Destruction Since 1949

In 1990, after the fall of the Berlin Wall, U.S. president George H. W. Bush through his secretary of state James Baker promised Soviet premier Mikhail Gorbachev that in exchange for Soviet cooperation on German reunification, the Cold War era NATO alliance would not expand “one inch” eastwards towards Russia. Baker told Gorbachev: “Look, if you remove your [300,000] troops …

Gary Leupp – How George W. Bush Destroyed the Temple of Baal

First he bombed mercilessly, cruelly grinning throughout. Costumed in a flight suit, he proclaimed a “Mission Accomplished” after he had, with what they call “bipartisan support” (as though this lends some sort of legitimacy), destroyed the modern country of Iraq. George W. Bush destroyed Iraq’s infrastructure, its institutions, its ruling party and its army. Then he destroyed its social fabric, …