'Instead
of blaming the Russians, we need to acknowledge it was actually the
Russians who tried to engage us in a nuclear disarmament process,
again, several decades ago. We need to revive that proposal, take
them up on it and move to nuclear disarmament'
After our
call
to independent media for a 'counter-debate' with the US third
parties, the independent news network Democracy
Now! made a first revolutionary step to break the
US bipartisan debate monopoly.
Amy Goodman
of Democracy Now! explains the process: “Debate
moderator Lester Holt will ask Hillary Clinton and Donald Trump
questions. After their responses, we stop the tape to give Dr. Jill
Stein a chance to answer the same question from her own podium. We
invited Libertarian candidate Gary Johnson to join us, as well, but
he couldn’t make it.”
In this
second part of the debate, one more time, Jill Stein makes the
difference against the establishment's bipartisan puppets.
She went
even further than Trump and stated that instead of blaming Russia,
the US should move fast, towards a nuclear disarmament deal. After
her clear positions on taxing Wall Street and the super-rich, as well
as, erasing student debts, she took a clear position on another issue
that the establishment puppets avoid to touch: nuclear disarmament.
As she
stated:
So, let’s
also be mindful here of Secretary Clinton’s track record. Was the
invasion of Libya an example of how we lead with strength consistent
with our values? It would be hard to imagine a more catastrophic
war than what took place in Libya, that helped strengthen ISIS, that
helped release an incredible stock of—stockpile of weapons, further
inflaming the crisis and the violence in the Middle East.
Hillary
Clinton has said she would like to impose a no-fly zone over Syria,
which basically means we are going to war with Russia, because
that’s what you do when you impose a no-fly zone, is you shoot down
people that are in that airspace. And remember, we have 2,000
nuclear weapons now, between us and the Russians, on hair-trigger
alert. So, this is certainly a very dangerous territory, where
Hillary Clinton has continued to beat the drums of war with this idea
that we are showing strength and leadership, but leading us in
exactly the wrong direction and a very dangerous direction.
Instead of
spending a trillion dollars creating a new generation of nuclear
weapons and modes of delivery, it’s time to instead change
direction here and move as quickly as humanly possible towards
nuclear disarmament. And instead of blaming the Russians, we need
to acknowledge it was actually the Russians who tried to engage us in
a nuclear disarmament process, again, several decades ago. We need to
revive that proposal, take them up on it and move to nuclear
disarmament as quickly as we possibly can, because this is
sitting on an absolute catastrophe into which we could stumble at any
point, particularly given the crazy circular firing squad that’s
taking place now around Syria, where there are so many allies at
cross-purposes with each other that any of us could be dragged into a
larger, full-scale, and even nuclear, war at any moment.
And it’s
important to remember, not only is this a trillion dollars which has
been proposed—actually, is underway, a trillion dollars’ worth of
spending over the next decade and a half, approximately, on new
nuclear weapons, but let’s look at our whole war budget, which is
half of our discretionary budget. Nearly half of your income taxes
are going to pay for these absolutely catastrophic wars.
So we need
an approach, not—a whole new approach, not one which is basically
bought and paid for by the weapons industry, who is the only
beneficiary here, because these regime-change wars, this
militarization of our foreign policy, is not creating a more stable
world. It is not benefiting democracy in the Middle East. It’s not
helping women’s rights in the Middle East. It’s causing nothing
but the greater proliferation of violence. In fact, the drone wars
kill nine unintended victims for every intended target. And even that
intended target is essentially an assassination victim, which is a
violation of international law to start with. So, we need to
start over. We need a foreign policy based on international law and
human rights. That is the direction we need to go to create true
stability and peace in the world.
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