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Hillary Clinton may be enjoying a comfortable lead in
national polls, but she is far from enjoying a comfortable night's sleep given the ever-widening maelstrom of scandals engulfing her presidential bid. And while Clinton delights in bloviating about a decades-long "vast, right wing conspiracy" against her, the fact is that it's the Clinton political machine's long and storied track record of criminality, duplicity, and corruption that haunts her like Lincoln's ghost silently skulking through White House bedrooms.
The latest in a string of embarrassing scandals is centered on the powerful Clinton Foundation, and the obvious impropriety of its acceptance of large donations from foreign governments (and wealthy individuals connected to them),
especially those governments universally recognized as oppressive dictatorships whose foreign policy orientation places them squarely in the US orbit.Of particular note are the Gulf monarchies such as Saudi Arabia and Qatar whose massive donations belie the fact that their oppression of women runs contradictory to Clinton's self-styled 'feminism' and
belief "that the rights of women and girls is the unfinished business of the 21
st Century." Is collaborating with feudal monarchies whose subjugation of women is the stuff of infamy really Clinton's idea of feminism? Or, is it rather that Clinton merely uses issues such as women's rights as a dog whistle for loyal liberals while groveling before the high councilors of the imperial priesthood?
What the Clinton Foundation hullabaloo really demonstrates is tha
t Clinton's will to power is single-minded, entirely simpatico with the corruption of the military-industrial-financial-surveillance complex; that she is a handmaiden for, and member of, the ruling establishment; that Clinton represents the marriage of all the worst aspects of the political class. In short, Clinton is more than just corrupt, she is
corruption personified.
Comment: No shocker here. Consider that the UK has no problem selling bombs to Saudi Arabia which the damn well know will be used to target women, children, hospitals, and infrastructure. The first thing critics of
defensewar contractors need to know is that these people simply don't care. Their tools are designed for murder and political repression. The more capacity for murder and repression a regime has, the more stuff they will buy, and the more profits the contractor will make. It's that simple.