By Patrice Greanville
Pastor Jimmy Bakker will help us stay alive in the coming apocalypse—money back guaranteed!
The land where devious huckterism and dumb religiosity have long wedded—to great monetary reward— produces inanities galore.
If you don't get a laugh out of this, check your pulse. How can anyone avoid loving America?
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Things to ponder
While our media prostitutes, many Hollywood celebs, and politicians and opinion shapers make so much noise about the still to be demonstrated damage done by the Russkies to our nonexistent democracy, this is what the sanctimonious US government has done overseas just since the close of World War 2. And this is what we know about. Many other misdeeds are yet to be revealed or documented.
Parting shot—a word from the editors
The Best Definition of Donald Trump We Have Found
In his zeal to prove to his antagonists in the War Party that he is as bloodthirsty as their champion, Hillary Clinton, and more manly than Barack Obama, Trump seems to have gone “play-crazy” — acting like an unpredictable maniac in order to terrorize the Russians into forcing some kind of dramatic concessions from their Syrian allies, or risk Armageddon.However, the “play-crazy” gambit can only work when the leader is, in real life, a disciplined and intelligent actor, who knows precisely what actual boundaries must not be crossed. That ain’t Donald Trump — a pitifully shallow and ill-disciplined man, emotionally handicapped by obscene privilege and cognitively crippled by white American chauvinism. By pushing Trump into a corner and demanding that he display his most bellicose self, or be ceaselessly mocked as a “puppet” and minion of Russia, a lesser power, the War Party and its media and clandestine services have created a perfect storm of mayhem that may consume us all.— Glen Ford, Editor in Chief, Black Agenda Report
Well, religious histrionics aside, people like Dmitri Orlov or James Kunstler warn of the same thing. After the deliberate collapse of the USSR, which few foresaw, life expectancy dropped by 10 years. The fact that critical infrastructure is being neglected, such as nuclear power plants still in operation long after they were supposed to close. Or that the electrical grid is also outmoded,that food production is not local, not to mention that the socalled leaders of the country are clearly irrational, does not augur well. And Trump, whom the Christian Right apparently loves, by making endless demands that he thinks… Read more »