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PATRICK LAWRENCE: Power

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When are Americans going to dismember the scam economic "model" that produces and reproduces billionaires and an ever more impoverished majority?

When are Americans going to tell the Pentagon, "That's our money."

When are Americans going to admit to ourselves that America's nuclear weapons, chemical weapons, biological weapons, drones, bombs, and landmines are the root reason all these weapons proliferate globally?

When are Americans going to demand radical action to counter the climate crisis and change their lives -- joyfully and with commitment?

When are Americans going to impose civilian control over the CIA and the other appendages of the "national security" octopus?

When are Americans going to say, No! " to subversive democracy promotion" interventions in other nations?

When are Americans going to reject the Russophobia and Sinophobia their "leaders" and their clerks in the press malignly stir up?

When are Americans going to object that the U.S. started and prolonged the Cold War because the Pentagon needed it and defense contractors profited from it?

When are Americans going to turn off their televisions?

When are Americans going to stop eating Fritos?

When are Americans going to stop bothering to write their congressmen?

When are Americans going to stop pretending their political process is intact and voting matters?

When are Americans going to stop pretending Joe Biden is mentally competent?

When are Americans going to stop pretending Joe Biden is the second coming of FDR?

When are Americans going to stop pretending Antony Blinken, Jake Sullivan, and Ned Price are anything more than programmed robots?

When are Americans going to recognize that The New York Times is now a propaganda organ and the future of journalism lies in independent media?

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Patrick Lawrence is a columnist, author, editor, and educator. He has published five books and currently writes foreign affairs commentary for Consortium News and other publications. He served as a correspondent abroad for many years and is (more...)
 

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