civil war

As societies grow decadent, the language grows decadent, too. Words are used to disguise, not to illuminate, action: you liberate a city by destroying it. Words are to confuse, so that at election time people will solemnly vote against their own interests. (Gore Vidal)

Meanwhile the planet crumbles.  And what are we not discussing? What are the mainstream sock puppet media ignoring altogether? How are deceived? Let me count the ways.

“Can’t a girl have a sick day or two? Don’t get me started, because when it comes to overqualified women having to try a hundred times harder than under qualified men to get a break, or even a level playing field, well, we know that story.” CNN’s Christiane Amanpour
This is mendacity on human growth hormone. A profound contempt for clarity, transparency and leveling with the American citizen and potential voter. It’s simply mind-boggling. The enemy of limpid and bare truth. Beyond corrupt. Putrescence personified. America will learn a lesson this time.

Last night we looked at the "rabid" support Señor Trumpanzee is getting in some of the desperate parts of Kentucky, including in Perry County, which has the lowest life expectancy of any county in the U.S. "When you ain't got nothin'," in the words of Kris Kristofferson "you ain't got nothin' to lose." How could these people be so stupid, is not the appropriate response, at least not for many of them.

Look carefully. Three beams. Three beacons. Three? Yes, three. Why?

Let me see if I can clarify my political ideology. (See above.) I think this approximates my feelings anent and regarding the situation at hand. I’m not inclined to vote for Hillary. Or anyone. Save me. #LOUS4POTUS. The threat to our republic that Hillary Clinton poses exceeds and transcends anything that the mere and feeble human mind can possibly and adequately comprehend. She’s a Wall Street shill, a globalist puppet and a warmonger of the first stripe. Is Trump worse? Better, who cares? The lesser of two evils is still evil. And less. (As someone said, methinks.)

(ANTIMEDIA Op-Ed) United States — Lurched back and forth in the ever-quickening spiral of an American empire circling the drain, we — as a people — have chosen battle lines on nearly every issue from politics to foreign policy, domestic surveillance to policing.

As always, Pat Shannan pulls no punches on issues of American history. The title of this post comes from a comment about Gen. Sherman of the American Civil War. Many other topics, especially in southern history, are discussed on this show, all of which are worth a listen. Sherman was demonic indeed: his march through the American South was a slaughter of innocents and the destruction, in all senses of that term, of southern life.
http://barnesreview.org/wp-content/uploads/2016/06/PatS_Hitch.mp3

21st Century Wire says…
The ‘day after’ is hardly ever considered in Western foreign policy decisions.
In the following episode of CrossTalk, experts discuss the growing emergence of discussions about the ‘day after’ the war in Syria finally comes to an end.

The Netherlands the first country in the European Union to follow though on the arms embargo against Saudi Arabia.
The post The Netherlands Just Banned Weapon Sales to Saudi Arabia over Human Rights Abuses appeared first on The Anti-Media.

From the Archive: U.S. history is distorted by the prism of race, even the Civil War, which was fought over slavery but then enshrined white heroes when Jim Crow racism quickly asserted itself, a reality relevant to Black History Month and to Chelsea Gilmour’s investigation into the…Read more →