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From Caitlin Johnstone Website
Governments have obscenely well-funded intelligence agencies that are literally dedicated to orchestrating secret conspiracies around the world, but if you say they might be conspiring in some part of the world people call you a mentally ill conspiracy theorist.
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The fact that the Phoenix Program existed is by itself an unassailable argument for permanently dismantling the entire CIA.
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A political establishment which thinks it's crazy and extremist to reduce a $740 billion military budget by 10 percent is a political establishment that should not exist.
A political establishment which thinks it's crazy and extremist to reduce a $740 billion military budget by 10 percent can never and will never lead to a sane world.
A political establishment which thinks it's crazy and extremist to reduce a $740 billion military budget by 10 percent has no business calling its members "moderate" or "centrist."
A political establishment which thinks it's crazy and extremist to reduce a $740 billion military budget by 10 percent is a crazy and extremist political establishment.
A political establishment which thinks it's crazy and extremist to reduce a $740 billion military budget by 10 percent is too crazy and extremist to be permitted to exist.
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Democrats and Republicans are like male and female starfish; it's hard to tell them apart unless you're one of them.
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The modern US imperial war machine kills more like a python than a tiger, placing less emphasis on the full-scale ground invasions of the Bush era and more on slowly suffocating the life out of targeted nations using sanctions, blockades, coups, psyops and CIA-backed uprisings.
This is one reason to be dismissive of Trump supporters who say he "hasn't started any new wars". What they mean is he hasn't done any old school ground invasions. He's still attacking and killing with sanctions and blockades and imperiling the world with cold war escalations.
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