Source – fff.org – “…The “freedom” that Americans today celebrate is one in which there is Social Security, Medicare, education grants…a massive military establishment consisting of the Pentagon, the CIA, and the NSA, and forever wars, secret surveillance, torture, assassination, and indefinite detention. Thing about that: Two opposite systems and yet people under both systems celebrating…

Source – aier.org – “…Political leaders should respect both productive prowess and producers’ rights. Just as lunch eaters should be left free to pay for lunch, so the lunch makers should be free to produce and exchange as they wish, and even gift a lunch, out of charity or philanthropy. Instead, many political leaders today…

Source – thesaker.is – ‘…The first scientific study of whether the U.S. is a dictatorship or a democracy was published in 2014 and it found that America is a dictatorship and that its richest are in control over it. Only wealth and political involvement determined whether a person’s desired governmental policies get passed into law…

Source – theatlantic.com – ‘…Baby Boomers are living longer even as the workers who pay for their pensions are dying from an epidemic of drug overdose, suicide, car accidents, and violence. But, of course, while this sudden increase in working-age death rates is a new concern, the long-run fiscal crunch has been obvious for decades.…

Source – rutherford.org – “…She was asked what she had learned from the Holocaust, and she said that 10 percent of any population is cruel, no matter what, and that 10 percent is merciful, no matter what, and that the remaining 80 percent could be moved in either direction.” – Kurt Vonnegut” How Evil Wins:…

Source – kunstler.com – “…The Times is celebrating the New York State legislature’s passage of harsh new laws against sexual harassment: Sex Harassment Laws Toughened in New York: ‘Finally, This Is Happening.’ Can you guess what the unintended consequences of this “happening” will be? I’ll tell you: men who run companies (there are some) will…

Source – oftwominds.com – ‘…The system is broken, and the managerial elite will keep it broken because it serves their interests to keep it broken. Unfortunately we’ll all suffer when the managerial elite is no longer able to stave off the dire fiscal consequences of their self-serving leadership” America’s Managerial Elite Has Failed, But We…

Source – oftwominds.com – “…I have long held that America’s Deep State–the permanent, un-elected government and its many proxies and public-private partnerships–is riven by warring elites. There is no purpose in making the conflict public, so the battles are waged in private, behind closed doors” The Self-Destructive Trajectory of Overly Successful Empires – By Charles…

Source – stuartbramhall.wordpress.com – “…Nearly two-thirds of private prison contracts mandate that state and local governments maintain a certain occupancy rate – usually 90 percent – or require taxpayers to pay for empty beds…Sen. Marco Rubio is one of the biggest beneficiaries” How for-profit prisons have become the biggest lobby no one is talking about…

Source – paulcraigroberts.org – “…We have zero diplomacy, only threats. Indeed threats are America’s hallmark. Threats of war. Threats of sanctions. The President of the United States gives away other countries’ territories and decides who is to be the president of Venezuela. Today’s America is scared to death of peaceful competition and imposes tariffs on…

Source – commondreams.org – ‘…The unknown and unrecognized people who harvest our food are on the lowest rung of the income ladder despite the critical role they play in our lives. Near the top of the income ladder are people who gamble on the prices of food via the commodities market and those who drain…

Source – caitlinjohnstone.com – ‘…End the wars. Stop exploiting patriots who sign up to defend the homeland and constitution as some mercenary force for private corporations” SM: …Join the Army. Travel to exotic places, meet interesting people….& kill them The US Army Asked Twitter How Service Has Impacted People. The Answers Were Gut-Wrenching – By…

Source – truthdig.com – “…The posturing by carefully packaged political personalities. This burlesque is anti-politics masquerading as politics. Its disingenuousness, obvious to most of the country, is what made Trump’s crude taunts and ridiculing of the system so attractive to betrayed voters. Trump may be inept, vile and a con artist, but in this system…

Source – bracingviews.com – “…Public schools represent one of the bedrock institutions of American democracy. Yet as a society we’ve stood aside as the very institutions that actually made America great were gutted and undermined by short-term thinking, corporate greed, and unconscionable disrespect for our collective future” The Death of Education in America – By…

Source – original.antiwar.com – “…Former president says peaceful China ‘ahead of us in almost every way…The only US president to complete his term without war, military attack or occupation has called the United States “the most warlike nation in the history of the world” Jimmy Carter: US ‘Most Warlike Nation in History of the World’ …

Source – theautomaticearth.com – ‘… I’ve just been, like hopefully many people are, so sad and angry and despondent today, all day. The entire world watched the music die today, and never realized it, and a man much smarter and braver and real than any of us is out there paying for our sins, and…

Source – wakingtimes.com – “…The Twilight Zone was…a show that captured imaginations; challenged moral hypocrisy and societal prejudices; and railed against inhumanity, racism, prejudice, the mechanization of human beings by way of their technology, tyrants of all shapes and colors, a passive populace, war, injustice, the surveillance state, corporate greed. Fifty years later, with so…