<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=""><a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1SkCuxCGaEA" class="">https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1SkCuxCGaEA</a><div class=""><br class=""></div><div class="">A ‘Eurasia or Their Asia?’ edition.<br class=""><div class=""><br class="">The upcoming summit meeting in Helsinki between President Trump and Russian president Putin will highlight the political engagement of a relatively declining American empire and the growing economic integration of Eurasia, which the US ruling class has seen as the greatest threat to its profits for more than a century. <br class=""><br class="">The real fight however is within the US political establishment, which has seen Trump as a threat to its generations-long attempts to keep Russia and China down with economic pressure and threats of war.<br class=""><br class="">The Australian journalist and filmmaker John Pilger wrote before the election, "The CIA has demanded Trump not be elected. Pentagon generals have demanded he not be elected. The pro-war New York Times - taking a breather from its relentless low-rent Putin smears - demands that he not be 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 Russian president Putin, then with China’s president 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…”<br class=""><br class="">Of course Trump in office has been largely tamed to the neoliberal and neoconservative policies of the last administration - policies that produced more war and more inequality - but to the US ruling class, Trump is a constant threat to those policies. The hysterical and dangerous Russiagate campaign against Trump - adopted even by the new Democrat star, Ocasio-Cortez - shows the political establishment’s need to get the presidency back into a 'safe pair of hands’ - safe for their profits.<br class=""> <br class="">The US populace on the contrary must demand that the thousand US military bases ringing Russia and China be closed (Russia has a dozen; China has one), U.S. troops (and weapons) be brought home, and social support - including free medical care, education, and a universal basic income - be provided for Americans immiserated by generations of U.S. government wars.<div class=""><br class=""></div><div class="">—CGE<br class=""><br class=""></div></div></div></body></html>