[dropcap]W[/dropcap]alking along the shoreline, with the sun shining, the blue sky smiling and the crashing waves creating a myriad of pollution destroying negative ions. You look out at the horizon and feel like this must be ‘The Edge of Heaven’. Aesthetically it is, but it is we the caring who very often stand by that same wonderful edge. Those, like my wife, who make sure to recycle everything possible to avoid the garbage can… and the poison soaked landfill, are on that edge. The millions of us who volunteer to help others in physical, emotional and economic need also stand by that edge of heaven. The many great writers who deny the empire’s mainstream media and keep on telling the truth… and of course the fine websites like Global Research, Information Clearing House, Greanville Post, Nation of Change, Consortium News, Black Agenda Report, Off Guardian, World News Trust… just to name a few. They all stand by the Edge of Heaven.
Anytime a person turns away from the crowd whenever that crowd is either misled or non caring, they really find the edge. It was heroes like Sophie Scholl who almost all of us could not even come close to emulating. She was inside the Nazi beast in Germany while her nation did such horrors. She risked her life, and literally ‘lost her head’ because of her need to speak ‘Truth to Power’. During the decade long debacle of USA imperialist meddling in the Vietnamese Civil War millions of my fellow citizens got off their duffs and marched for its end.
Time to Take a Stand… For OUR America!
Before the Bush/Cheney cabal orchestrated their illegal and immoral invasions and occupations of Afghanistan and Iraq, February 15, 2003 saw multi millions of people throughout the entire world stand and march in the streets of their respective cities against it. Once again, we all stood by that edge of heaven.
Imperialism sucks, regardless of what nation institutes it. World Wars 1 and 2 were simply wars between imperialist nations, all fighting to either preserve or obtain lands of other peoples.
As an American, this writer must focus, out of true and genuine patriotism, on what the country I love has been and is doing to so many others in so many countries for so long. As with most military expressions to further imperialist aims, those who make up what we now label ‘The Deep State’ are slowly bankrupting us. Of course, the mega millionaires will never worry about balancing their individual family budgets. It is only the 99+ % of us who will suffer. Between the major corporations in all the key industries squeezing every dime out of us, and the military spending now sucking over 50% of our federal tax revenues, we all will soon face not ‘The Edge of Heaven’ but the ‘Abyss of Hell on Earth’.
Copyright © Philip A Farruggio, Global Research, 2018
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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
