Western leaders stand by while the US has provided the bombs needed to destroy most of Gaza, concentrate two million of the population against an Egyptian wall, and kill over 30,000 people, the majority of which have been women and children. Last week’s US airdrops of 38,000 “meals” for 2 million starving. . .
The US State Department continues to awe with its embrace of honesty, and the high value it places on the rule of law and transparency. Why, just the other day, spokesman Matthew Miller stated:
The Kremlin has poisoned Navalny, imprisoned him unjustly, kept him in harsh conditions, and denied him medical care. It is the Russian Government that is responsible for Navalny’s death while in detention. And now, in any other society – in a free, democratic society – we would see openness and transparency as. . .
Alexei Navalny – seen as a pro-democracy, transparency, anti-corruption Russian nationalist gadfly – died while on a walk in his Siberian prison. He was serving a long sentence, one the Biden administration raged about: the Russian judiciary had convicted him of several crimes including fraud, embezzlement, “inciting extremist activities” and “rehabilitating Nazi ideology.”
I’m sure Donald Trump can sense the irony.
Navalny’s recent incarceration in Siberia comes of the heels of a less. . .
In 2005, Joan Didion published “The Year of Magical Thinking” about grieving the loss of her husband, the unavoidable instant reduction of a rich marriage to aimless solitude.
Beyond the obvious arena of modern imperial foreign policy, magical thinking is a well-known psychological concept. It is “the belief that wishes can impose their own order on the material world.” It is driven by human goals of fulfillment “without consideration of the constraints of the external world.”
We’ve been reminded of this concept in many different ways over the. . .
The current US government has become “a form of fraud that … pays profits to earlier investors with funds from more recent investors” – in other words, a Ponzi scheme. No doubt the social security, Medicare/Medicaid and government retirement systems meet this definition of fraud directly. But we may also apply it to other sectors of the federal government, including how the government funds defense, conducts a vast system of student loans, or pays the interest on the federal debt.
Consider the cost of the Pentagon, and the related cost of the CIA and the federal intelligence apparatus. These agencies spend. . .
The wisest among us see the definite signs, the historical traps being set, and other signs.
Lets walk it through, and see if the US and the EU has the heft and the hubris to get one started.
In terms of hubris, the US neocons and the current administration are well supplied. Several of Europe. . .
Gonzalo Lira, an American citizen and global reporter, died this week in a Kharkov prison eight months after he was arrested for the crime of speaking the truth about what was happening in Ukraine.
Under Secretary of State Vickie Nuland, despised Gonzalo, as did Zelensky. People from around the world, who had been informed by Gonzalo’s reports, interviews and. . .
Christmas brings wonderment, and a sense of a future yet unfolded. We practice gratitude, as therapy, sometimes fearfully, and occasionally, with quiet joy. There is uncertainty all around us, and we crave certainty – not the certainty of death and destruction – but rather the reliable and certain comfort of feeling blessed, in a blessed world.
What we are seeing today doesn’t look very blessed. The United States Congress that supposedly represents us under Constitutional guidelines, . . .
The US House of Representatives voted to strongly condemn national and global antisemitism, inflamed as it has been by the 24/7 genocide being conducted in Gaza by the IDF and the US Pentagon.
On December 5th, the 118th Congress passed House Resolution 894.
In their virtue-signaling hurry, the House left a few things out, starting with a definition of the term Semite. Webster has . . .
Our most precious Vice President, Ms. Harris, at COP 28 stated, to a somewhat numbed and possibly bored elite world, that “too many innocent Palestinians have been killed.”
Had she taken questions, one should have been “How many innocent Palestinians should be killed?” Because I have a feeling a lot of people in Israel have that answer, as do many Evangelical Christians in the United States. Americans like former State Department and National Security advisor