There is no doubt that there was a time when the US was really at the forefront of global political thought; when they were successfully enjoining many people to do good and forbidding a lot of bad - I am referring to 1776, the birth year of modern anti-imperialism.
The calendar has just turned to 2021. You would have to be so jacked up on Western Mainstream Media sugar spin to believe that - whatever happens this week - the US is somehow doing well, or looking well, or acting well, or was anything else but a society in decline, dispute, degradation and maybe even dissolution.
I think the latter goes to far but I include it to point out: this is not a country like France or Iran or China in that it's still debatable whether the US has enough years under its belt to really consider that they have a unified sense of nationhood/culture given that this was never really a country but a unity of separate, self-involved, self-serving states inside America (which used to be the term used for the entire Western Hemisphere). This is the United States of America, after all, and Scotland is awfully close to breaking up the United Kingdom - so why couldn't their over-the-sea brethren go in the same direction.
A short but exciting list of things US media would like you to ignore this week
- Their United Kingdom brethren/clients finally admitted they cannot hand over Julian Assange, the greatest journalist of my generation, not because the US will execute him but because they essentially fear that American prisons are so atrocious that he won't be killed but that he will be tortured without end.
(Things like this are, of course, why the US and UK are the unquestionable arbiters of what "human rights" and "political prisoners" are.)
- Have money, join the duopoly, you will get elected: The Georgia elections were the most expensive congressional seats in history - they spent an estimated $900 million dollars, say the early returns. The only presidential candidate who ever exceeded that in their campaign was brand change golden boy Barack Obama, in a testament to what a huge role the rich, the 1% and corporations play in manipulating American elections.
(You have to have rocks in your head the size of Gibraltar if you are an average American and you give give a single greenback to either of the duopoly - just so people like Kamala Harris and the Clintons can fund their lavish lifestyles.)
(Note: You can view every article as one long page if you sign up as an Advocate Member, or higher).
1
1
1
