What is it with this country, why does the U.S. so actively engage in this kind of foreign adventurism?
There’s a long history of this throughout Central America – it’s as though the U.S. considers Central America to be a possession, or some kind of suburban “bedroom community”.
At one point or another the U.S. has backed every despot and every corrupt government throughout the entire region – but that’s par for the course and apparently part of “foreign policy”.
For all the talk of terrorists and nations that harbor them the reality is that among the global population the U.S. is seen as THE terrorist nation.
As the middle class declines, infrastructure erodes, wages remain stagnant, and public assistance programs reach record levels the U.S. talks about nation building as it pumps untold billions into other countries and into the pockets of those who can only be referred to as criminals.
Conservatives figuratively flagellate themselves attempting to convince everyone that the more money that wends it’s way into one percenter and corporate coffers the better off everyone will be, while liberals adore the impoverished and disenfranchised seeing them as a political base requiring little more than a few additional “programs” to set things right as they play the same game chasing the buck.
The singular greatest social commentary about the political climate, the political naivete, of this country is that two one percenter clowns lead in the polls…Donald Trump and Hillary Clinton.
http://www.democracynow.org/2015/8/27/uprising_in_guatemala_could_anti_corruption
If Climate-gate revealed the nose of a camel of deceit in 2009, then Research-gate has shown a broader-based and more troubling sequel for science and society after WWII:
http://tiny.cc/999j2x
Are US troops used to control the world for the UN?
In an earlier blog I expressed the opinion that there is no magic
bullet when it comes to climate change – that the tipping point has
been past and even if all pollution stopped as of this moment it would
take literally decades to reverse the damage done as a period of decline
continued for a time.
I’m increasingly inclined to believe the same can be said of the
political process.
This country is a corporatocracy pure and simple, politicians bought
and paid for, very few are principled – neither the reality of climate
change nor the political process bodes well and both have their share
of deniers.
The right to protest valid grievances, a Constitutional right, is allowed
as long as it takes place in the non physical realm of the internet, acceptable
background noise lending itself to an illusion – take it to the streets and it
becomes a different story.
What people need to understand is that talk is the cheapest of commodities, the
cheapest form of protest……I recently read a couple of articles by Ralph Nader
and Noah Chomsky, both extolling the virtues of demonstrations as having a place
and adding an element of expediency.
Rioting isn’t going to cut it, non violent peaceful protest will and has.
Peaceful protest including strikes and boycotts in a sustained manner. The
dollar is what counts, hitting them where it will hurt is the only thing that
is capable of impacting the greed mentality.
Routinely voting politicians out of office who fail to place the people and
the nation first is the only message they will understand. Of course that would
require rescinding the blood oath of my party over all other considerations and
that has been shown to be anything but the way of it.
Conspiracy theories abound, some bordering on the laughably absurd, others should
compel people to say hmmm and do a little research.
Mediocrity in government has become an acceptable reality, something to aspire to,
the results should be apparent to everyone.
Is there a globalist greed agenda? Is climate change a reality? Maybe not to an Ostrich
but certainly to anyone with an IQ above 50.
I’m inclined to think Merkel wants to establish a new Reich with the IMF, World Bank,
and the EU as vehicles to affect that.
Of course as an indigenous person I’m not supposed to think about or have an opinion
about events that will profoundly impact our well being so far down the socioeconomic
ladder as we are, but one only has to view the depressions of the 19th and 20th centuries
along with any and all times of economic “crisis” to understand the greatest impact is
always among those with the least.
And so I say sovereignty and independence for the nations and we will either sink or
swim on our own, but at least what ensues will be by our hand.
ok rez what if your demonstrating and get attacked?
I think depending on the level of commitment a man would
be willing to take a blow or two for a just cause if it
served a higher purpose.
Anything more than that and then it’s probably going to be on.
Not an easy thing to “turn the other cheek” but those who followed
Gandhi prevailed doing just that as it sparked a global outrage
and set an entire nation of millions free.
A model MLK adopted.
The entrenched always seek to portray those who hunger for
equity in a negative manner, they will often insert “moles”
into protest movements whose purpose is to turn a demonstration
into a confrontation – reason enough for protest movements
to police themselves and arrive at decisions by consensus or
a large majority.
Men like Gandhi and MLK come along infrequently, pretenders
on the other hand are the proverbial dime a dozen.