When I write, I look for citations to support my thoughts but even a hyperlink to the Times or Post can no longer be trusted to tell the real facts. All I can do as a citizen is put onto laptop reasoned deduction through dutiful research of multiple sources and try to distinguish the facts from the deception. All I can do is quote the live feeds from YouTube and even they have in the past, been altered to promote a skewed view. The real news now lies outside the U.S. Like our industry, products are now looked to outside our borders for the best value.
For those of you who have been convinced by our corporate media that America is righteous and the Middle East filled with the demons of Muhammad, I offer to you the following excerpt from an Al-Jazeerah website for consideration:
From the article "How Wrong Thinking Has Misled Humanity"
By Mahboob A. Khawaja
"Peace is sought against war: Knowledge
against ignorance, truth against falsehood, day against night, right from wrong
and so on. After the end of the
horrifying human sufferings during the two world wars, the humanity hoped for
sustainable peace and human enrichment of co-existence and friendly relations
across the globe. Not so, it was just a hollow dream, an illusion of the
left-over humanity tarnished by the draconian warlords of the Western world
with complacency of the authoritarian Muslim rulers- the bootlickers of the
Western game of political power. There are too many pretensions for peace and
services to the humanity. For more than sixty years, Arabs have done it,
Israelis have longed it, West European and the US have professed it and the
former Community bloc led by now the dead USSR tried to copycat the scenario of
peace and friendship often marked with timetable - Twenty Year Friendship
Treaty, as if the doomsday was suppose to follow after the time expiry of the
treaty. Could anyone be held accountable for cruelty and deception to the well
being goals for the humanity?"
"The Western policy makers claim power (knowledge and material possessions) and have used it to pave the ways for influence and hegemonic control over the rest of the world. The Two World Wars and now the US-British led "war on terrorism" are the outcome of that absurd thinking. The others less fortunate in knowledge and material possessions (power) -" the generally described Third World (not sure, who are the club members of the First World and where is the 2nd World), a connotation full of sarcastic formula and inhuman thought serves the interest of the policy planning agenda in the superpowers chess board game."
Yes, this author is truly evil to want peace and to see the reality of how easily the Western World can skew the perspective of its sheeple. (Note the sarcasm.)
The sad ending
There are many reasons that our people believe the lies and feed the War Machine with passivity but first and foremost, it is the simple fact that Americans are increasingly clinging to ignorance as a safety measure to escape acknowledgement of the changing governmental tides toward fascism. For too long most have gotten by on full speed stupid without a clue to the real experiences of the rest of the world and have based their limited views upon popular media explanations without question of whether they were being told the truth. As long as the bills were paid and the materialistic desires of their Neanderthal level pleasures were met, questioning the governmental initiatives was not necessary.
The reality of our present situation is so disheartening that I dare not spend too much time thinking about it else go mad. When America seriously considers a gun toting, fish clubbing, poor English speaking, half term Governor as an intelligent choice for President of the United States and leader of the "Free World" is the day I reconsider my allegiance to this once great Nation.
Where will it end? Are we next to consider Big Bird as Vice President or listen to the rantings of Rush Limbaugh as the Gospel of a people? There is a great problem in our modern American landscape and whether it is attributed to the ignorance of its people or the purposeful misdirection of its news sources, there needs to occur a mass rebellion to create the real change our Nation desperately needs. It has become painfully obvious that even our greatest hopefuls in the political realm cannot deliver.
I often ask myself where the heroes have gone but then I think of the words of Mike Bellah, "Our best heroes are still ordinary people, people who--because of their courage, integrity, faith and compassion--do extraordinary things every day." Whatever we have to do, we must do it soon and each of us must become heroes in order to combat the exponentially growing, Great American Deception else lose all that this Great Nation once was and can potentially be again. This coming New Year is sure to bring either great change or great oppression. Which would you prefer?
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