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Good article enron.

San Diego late author Chalmers Johnson wrote about America’s follies:

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The author of the bestselling Blowback Trilogy reflects on America’s waning power in a masterful collection of essays

In his prophetic book Blowback, published before 9/11, Chalmers Johnson warned that our secret operations in Iraq and elsewhere around the globe would exact a price at home. Now, in a brilliant series of essays written over the last three years, Johnson measures that price and the resulting dangers America faces. Our reliance on Pentagon economics, a global empire of bases, and war without end is, he declares, nothing short of “a suicide option.”

Dismantling the Empire explores the subjects for which Johnson is now famous, from the origins of blowback to Barack Obama’s Afghanistan conundrum, including our inept spies, our bad behavior in other countries, our ill-fought wars, and our capitulation to a military that has taken ever more control of the federal budget. There is, he proposes, only one way out: President Obama must begin to dismantle the empire before the Pentagon dismantles the American Dream. If we do not learn from the fates of past empires, he suggests, our decline and fall are foreordained. This is Johnson at his best: delivering both a warning and an urgent prescription for a remedy.

[CA renter]

[quote=Arraya][quote=stockstradr]Thank you to no_such_reality for posting this link, which I found to be one of the best articles I’ve read so far on this topic:

http://www.thestar.com/news/world/article/744199—israelification-high-security-little-bother%5B/quote%5D

Good grief, we are already there.

Our foreign policy is that of a paranoid schizophrenic hearing voices in our heads – telling us to go form country to country to bomb, kill and displace millions on the off chance that we can stop some mysterious group nobody can really prove exists, with no bases or head quarters that maybe has an enrollment of a few thousand at the most – because, and this is the best part, they hate us for our freedoms. Please make no connection between the mass death and destruction and discontent

Israel, otoh, started by ethnically cleansing close to a million people in over 500 villages, in what resembles and 19th century colonial project. And to this day is moving Jews from all over the world, into, internationally recognized “occupied” see: stolen land. Of course, their ministry of propaganda tells them that they just hate Jews and “want to wipe us off the map”, while, ironically, they are wiping them off the map. Please make no connection between the mass dispossession and discontent

Behind this exercise in mass insanity we have a military-intelligence- security apparatus that treats every security threat like a commercial for a new device to fleece the public with. While, ironically, each one of the “threats” was followed and allowed to move forward to a certain extent by the same apparatus that profits off of the “threat”. But remember don’t believe in conspiracies, unless, of course, they are about nefarious muslims conspiring to take our freedoms away, as ironically, our freedoms are taken away

Welcome to the twilight zone![/quote]

[applause…]

Thank you, Arraya.

[CA renter]

[quote=Arraya][quote=stockstradr]Thank you to no_such_reality for posting this link, which I found to be one of the best articles I’ve read so far on this topic:

http://www.thestar.com/news/world/article/744199—israelification-high-security-little-bother%5B/quote%5D

Good grief, we are already there.

Our foreign policy is that of a paranoid schizophrenic hearing voices in our heads – telling us to go form country to country to bomb, kill and displace millions on the off chance that we can stop some mysterious group nobody can really prove exists, with no bases or head quarters that maybe has an enrollment of a few thousand at the most – because, and this is the best part, they hate us for our freedoms. Please make no connection between the mass death and destruction and discontent

Israel, otoh, started by ethnically cleansing close to a million people in over 500 villages, in what resembles and 19th century colonial project. And to this day is moving Jews from all over the world, into, internationally recognized “occupied” see: stolen land. Of course, their ministry of propaganda tells them that they just hate Jews and “want to wipe us off the map”, while, ironically, they are wiping them off the map. Please make no connection between the mass dispossession and discontent

Behind this exercise in mass insanity we have a military-intelligence- security apparatus that treats every security threat like a commercial for a new device to fleece the public with. While, ironically, each one of the “threats” was followed and allowed to move forward to a certain extent by the same apparatus that profits off of the “threat”. But remember don’t believe in conspiracies, unless, of course, they are about nefarious muslims conspiring to take our freedoms away, as ironically, our freedoms are taken away

Welcome to the twilight zone![/quote]

[applause…]

Thank you, Arraya.

[CA renter]

[quote=Arraya][quote=stockstradr]Thank you to no_such_reality for posting this link, which I found to be one of the best articles I’ve read so far on this topic:

http://www.thestar.com/news/world/article/744199—israelification-high-security-little-bother%5B/quote%5D

Good grief, we are already there.

Our foreign policy is that of a paranoid schizophrenic hearing voices in our heads – telling us to go form country to country to bomb, kill and displace millions on the off chance that we can stop some mysterious group nobody can really prove exists, with no bases or head quarters that maybe has an enrollment of a few thousand at the most – because, and this is the best part, they hate us for our freedoms. Please make no connection between the mass death and destruction and discontent

Israel, otoh, started by ethnically cleansing close to a million people in over 500 villages, in what resembles and 19th century colonial project. And to this day is moving Jews from all over the world, into, internationally recognized “occupied” see: stolen land. Of course, their ministry of propaganda tells them that they just hate Jews and “want to wipe us off the map”, while, ironically, they are wiping them off the map. Please make no connection between the mass dispossession and discontent

Behind this exercise in mass insanity we have a military-intelligence- security apparatus that treats every security threat like a commercial for a new device to fleece the public with. While, ironically, each one of the “threats” was followed and allowed to move forward to a certain extent by the same apparatus that profits off of the “threat”. But remember don’t believe in conspiracies, unless, of course, they are about nefarious muslims conspiring to take our freedoms away, as ironically, our freedoms are taken away

Welcome to the twilight zone![/quote]

[applause…]

Thank you, Arraya.

[CA renter]

[quote=Arraya][quote=stockstradr]Thank you to no_such_reality for posting this link, which I found to be one of the best articles I’ve read so far on this topic:

http://www.thestar.com/news/world/article/744199—israelification-high-security-little-bother%5B/quote%5D

Good grief, we are already there.

Our foreign policy is that of a paranoid schizophrenic hearing voices in our heads – telling us to go form country to country to bomb, kill and displace millions on the off chance that we can stop some mysterious group nobody can really prove exists, with no bases or head quarters that maybe has an enrollment of a few thousand at the most – because, and this is the best part, they hate us for our freedoms. Please make no connection between the mass death and destruction and discontent

Israel, otoh, started by ethnically cleansing close to a million people in over 500 villages, in what resembles and 19th century colonial project. And to this day is moving Jews from all over the world, into, internationally recognized “occupied” see: stolen land. Of course, their ministry of propaganda tells them that they just hate Jews and “want to wipe us off the map”, while, ironically, they are wiping them off the map. Please make no connection between the mass dispossession and discontent

Behind this exercise in mass insanity we have a military-intelligence- security apparatus that treats every security threat like a commercial for a new device to fleece the public with. While, ironically, each one of the “threats” was followed and allowed to move forward to a certain extent by the same apparatus that profits off of the “threat”. But remember don’t believe in conspiracies, unless, of course, they are about nefarious muslims conspiring to take our freedoms away, as ironically, our freedoms are taken away

Welcome to the twilight zone![/quote]

[applause…]

Thank you, Arraya.

[CA renter]

[quote=Arraya][quote=stockstradr]Thank you to no_such_reality for posting this link, which I found to be one of the best articles I’ve read so far on this topic:

http://www.thestar.com/news/world/article/744199—israelification-high-security-little-bother%5B/quote%5D

Good grief, we are already there.

Our foreign policy is that of a paranoid schizophrenic hearing voices in our heads – telling us to go form country to country to bomb, kill and displace millions on the off chance that we can stop some mysterious group nobody can really prove exists, with no bases or head quarters that maybe has an enrollment of a few thousand at the most – because, and this is the best part, they hate us for our freedoms. Please make no connection between the mass death and destruction and discontent

Israel, otoh, started by ethnically cleansing close to a million people in over 500 villages, in what resembles and 19th century colonial project. And to this day is moving Jews from all over the world, into, internationally recognized “occupied” see: stolen land. Of course, their ministry of propaganda tells them that they just hate Jews and “want to wipe us off the map”, while, ironically, they are wiping them off the map. Please make no connection between the mass dispossession and discontent

Behind this exercise in mass insanity we have a military-intelligence- security apparatus that treats every security threat like a commercial for a new device to fleece the public with. While, ironically, each one of the “threats” was followed and allowed to move forward to a certain extent by the same apparatus that profits off of the “threat”. But remember don’t believe in conspiracies, unless, of course, they are about nefarious muslims conspiring to take our freedoms away, as ironically, our freedoms are taken away

Welcome to the twilight zone![/quote]

[applause…]

Thank you, Arraya.

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