Article from the far left POV. QUite a bit winded, and hits so many different areas to make the essay almost too disjointed to get through.
Some highlights - The R/D bipolar structure is "Inauthentic Opposition" - Two sides of the same coin.
Which leads to:
The problem here isn’t just liberal hypocrisy and double standards. The deeper issue is that, as the great American iconoclast Mark Twain knew, you cannot maintain democracy at home while conducting an authoritarian empire abroad.
and
“Just a decade after Twain wrote those prophetic words,” the historian Alfred W. McCoy has observed, “colonial police methods came home to serve as a template for the creation of an American internal security apparatus in wartime.”
(Speaking of the Sedition Acts passed by Wilson and carried out with glee by AG A. Mitchell Palmer.)
and
the same basic process – internal U.S. repression informed and shaped by authoritarian and imperial practices abroad and justified by alleged external threats to the “homeland” – has recurred ever since. Today, the rise of an unprecedented global surveillance state overseen by the National Security Agency has cost the US the trust of many of its top global allies...while undermining civil liberties and democracy within ... the U.S.
Summarized as
“The fetters imposed on liberty at home,” James Madison wrote in 1799, “have ever been forged out of the weapons provided for defense against real, pretended, or imaginary dangers abroad.” Those are wise words well worth revisiting amidst the current endless Russiagate madness, calculated among other things to tell us that the FBI, the CIA, and the rest of the nation’s vast and ever more ubiquitous intelligence and surveillance state are on our side.
The point of the article? One, there are not 2 choices, but two sides of the same coin (Inauthentic opposition). The expansion of powers given to Obama by Dems are now owned by Trump (the DEVIL!!!!), and the constant increase of police tactics around the world and at home are leading inexorably to the end of the American Republic and the start of the American Empire, at the behest of the globalists and the elites.
Article from the far left POV. QUite a bit winded, and hits so many different areas to make the essay almost too disjointed to get through.
Some highlights - The R/D bipolar structure is "Inauthentic Opposition" - Two sides of the same coin.
Which leads to:
> The problem here isn’t just liberal hypocrisy and double standards. The deeper issue is that, as the great American iconoclast Mark Twain knew, you cannot maintain democracy at home while conducting an authoritarian empire abroad.
and
> “Just a decade after Twain wrote those prophetic words,” the historian Alfred W. McCoy has observed, “colonial police methods came home to serve as a template for the creation of an American internal security apparatus in wartime.”
(Speaking of the Sedition Acts passed by Wilson and carried out with glee by AG A. Mitchell Palmer.)
and
> the same basic process – internal U.S. repression informed and shaped by authoritarian and imperial practices abroad and justified by alleged external threats to the “homeland” – has recurred ever since. Today, the rise of an unprecedented global surveillance state overseen by the National Security Agency has cost the US the trust of many of its top global allies...while undermining civil liberties and democracy within ... the U.S.
Summarized as
> “The fetters imposed on liberty at home,” James Madison wrote in 1799, “have ever been forged out of the weapons provided for defense against real, pretended, or imaginary dangers abroad.” Those are wise words well worth revisiting amidst the current endless Russiagate madness, calculated among other things to tell us that the FBI, the CIA, and the rest of the nation’s vast and ever more ubiquitous intelligence and surveillance state are on our side.
The point of the article? One, there are not 2 choices, but two sides of the same coin (Inauthentic opposition). The expansion of powers given to Obama by Dems are now owned by Trump (the DEVIL!!!!), and the constant increase of police tactics around the world and at home are leading inexorably to the end of the American Republic and the start of the American Empire, at the behest of the globalists and the elites.
Article from the far left POV. QUite a bit winded, and hits so many different areas to make the essay almost too disjointed to get through.
Some highlights - The R/D bipolar structure is "Inauthentic Opposition" - Two sides of the same coin.
Which leads to:
and
(Speaking of the Sedition Acts passed by Wilson and carried out with glee by AG A. Mitchell Palmer.)
and
Summarized as
The point of the article? One, there are not 2 choices, but two sides of the same coin (Inauthentic opposition). The expansion of powers given to Obama by Dems are now owned by Trump (the DEVIL!!!!), and the constant increase of police tactics around the world and at home are leading inexorably to the end of the American Republic and the start of the American Empire, at the behest of the globalists and the elites.