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Originally published on Strategic Culture

The American Conservative, February 18, 2020

Yalta and the Death of the ‘Good War’
by James Bovard

FDR’s complicity in Stalin’s post-WWII bloodletting started a trend of lies and hypocrisy in U.S. foreign policy.

Yalta summit in February 1945 with (from left to right) Winston Churchill, Franklin Roosevelt and Joseph Stalin. (public domain)

A David vs. Goliath battle between the independent Virginia-based online journal Consortium News and the gigantic Security Communications Establishment of Canada has begun this week. As Consortium News’ Editor-in-Chief, Joe Lauria wrote in his recent press release:

Anyone looking with sober eyes upon today’s world and the feeble economic and geopolitical underpinnings holding the system together must accept the fact that a new system WILL be created.

According to the corporate media, Bernie is moving up and is now ready to win. That is a warning in their establishment universe and, as Norman Solomon noted in his own warning, Here It Comes: Get Ready for a Stop-Bernie Onslaught Like You've Never Seen.

In the 1920s, conservatives were suspicious of-- and hysterical about-- rural electrification proposals... you know, "Socialism!!!" So President Franklin Roosevelt had to get the ball rolling with an executive order (May 11, 1935). At the time, just 3% of farms and ranches were electrified.

Authored by Matthew Ehret via The Strategic Culture Foundation:

Submitted by Eric Zuesse, originally posted at strategic-culture.org:

Striking mill workers facing off with National Guardsmen in Greenville, S.C., in 1934. (Bettmann Archive/Getty Images)by Thomas Neuburger     Power concedes nothing without a demand.      —Frederick DouglassOne of the things I worry about in the coming election is not just whether a progressive will be elected, but whether enough of a progressive will be elected.

Authored Matthew Ehret via The Strategic Culture Foundation: