<html><head><meta http-equiv="Content-Type" content="text/html charset=utf-8"></head><body style="word-wrap: break-word; -webkit-nbsp-mode: space; -webkit-line-break: after-white-space;" class=""><div class=""><div class="_5pbx userContent _3576" data-ft="{"tn":"K"}" id="js_1kf"><p class=""><a href="https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2017/nov/12/trump-putin-russia-intelligence-agencies" class="">https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2017/nov/12/trump-putin-russia-intelligence-agencies</a></p><p class="">The Empire Strikes Back - against its president's good sense.</p><p class="">Can the warmongering spooks be held off?</p><div class=""><br class=""></div></div></div><br class=""><div><blockquote type="cite" class=""><div class="">On Nov 11, 2017, at 12:09 PM, C G Estabrook <<a href="mailto:cgestabrook@gmail.com" class="">cgestabrook@gmail.com</a>> wrote:</div><br class="Apple-interchange-newline"><div class=""><div style="word-wrap: break-word; -webkit-nbsp-mode: space; -webkit-line-break: after-white-space;" class="">Trump in Asia talking peace and commerce with Xi and Putin is the War Party’s worst nightmare. <br class=""><br class="">The War Party - "the spooks [including the Pentagon], Wall Street Democrats and institutional servants of capital that gathered in Hillary Clinton’s overstuffed campaign tent, last year, to plot the next moves of a beleaguered U.S. empire,” as Glen Ford describes them - are dangerous and capable of enormities, if not in Asia, then with their button men in the Mideast, MBS & Bibi. <br class=""><br class="">The anti-war US public can be stampeded into more war in MENA, even without Obama’s duplicity. God between us and all harm, in the Irish phrase. —CGE<br class=""><br class=""><br class=""><i class="">"The CIA has demanded Trump is not elected. Pentagon generals have demanded he is not elected. The pro-war New York Times - taking a breather from its relentless low-rent Putin smears - demands that he is not elected. Something is up. These tribunes of 'perpetual war' are terrified that the multi-billion-dollar business of war by which the United States maintains its dominance will be undermined if Trump does a deal with Putin, then with China’s Xi Jinping. Their panic at the possibility of the world’s great power talking peace – however unlikely – would be the blackest farce were the issues not so dire.” —John Pilger, 2016</i><div class=""><br class=""><br class=""><blockquote type="cite" class="">On Nov 11, 2017, at 10:22 AM, Boyle, Francis A via Peace-discuss <<a href="mailto:peace-discuss@lists.chambana.net" class="">peace-discuss@lists.chambana.net</a>> wrote:<br class=""><br class="">Trump today just started his war maneuvers with 3 aircraft carrier strike forces and his Armada off Korea on Armistice Day for World War I. Do you think these Trumpster idiots figured that one out? Do you think the Idiots of the Illiniwaks Law School Faculty can think anything out?<br class=""><br class=""> <br class=""></blockquote><br class=""></div></div></div></blockquote></div><br class=""></body></html>