Senior Contributing Editor John Rachel has a B. A. in Philosophy, has traveled extensively, is a songwriter and music producer, a novelist, a left-of-left liberal, and has spent his life trying to resolve the intrinsic clash between the metaphysical purity of Buddhism and the overwhelming appeal of narcissism. John Rachel has a B.A. in Philosophy, and has written eight novels and three political non-fiction books. His political articles have appeared at OpEdNews, Russia Insider, The Greanville Post, and other alternative media outlets. Since leaving the U.S. in 2006, he has lived in and explored 33 countries. He is now somewhat rooted in a traditional, rural Japanese community about an hour from Osaka, where he lives with his wife of five years. Daily he rides his bicycle through the soybean fields and rice paddies which sprawl across the surrounding landscape. As of the date of the release of his most recent book, "The Peace Dividend: The Most Controversial Proposal in the History of the World", he has a small but promising organic vegetable garden which begs his attention. You can follow his writing and the evolution of his world view at: http://jdrachel.com "Scribo ergo sum."
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“The Chinese Navy is not doing “freedom of navigation” exercises in the Caribbean or off the coast of New England or California. Russia and/or China are not conducting huge war games in Canada or Mexico. There are NO Chinese or Russian bases anywhere in our hemisphere.”
All true, very true but still – heresy I say! Heresy!!! We are the “exceptional” nation. We are the “indispensable” nation. We are the “psychopathic” nation. We are the only nation on planet earth that is “above the law!” We are the “bat-shit” crazy nation.
God wills it!!!!! God wills it!!!!!
Sorry, sorry, I just watched the directors cut of the fine movie – “Kingdom of Heaven” about the crusades, and couldn’t help but thinking that today’s pentagon war-crazy felt very much like the Mother Church’s war-crazy from a thousand years ago.
Amazing that we in the West are still on this mad path of world domination rather than accepting life on a what could actually be a peaceful planet. It truly must be some sort of dark collective unconscious death wish of some sort, because there is nothing remotely rational about it.
The CIA has determined with high confidence that Chinese hackers are using fortune cookies to infiltrate the cyberspace of the U.S. and whenever you accept “cookies” from a website, you are playing right into their slimy pork-drippings-slick hands. Chop chop! Suey suey!
Thanks for confirming this. I long suspected as much!
The other day I ate in a Chinese restaurant, and when I went to pay they gave me a fortune cookie without a future inside. When I demanded another one, the future said “Bend over and kiss your ass goodbye, Yankee imperialist running dog.” Should I be worried?
That very rude and provocative fortune was part of a PsyOp by the CIA. Was the waiter wearing sunglasses and a fake Rolex?
Be VERY WORRIED, DAVID. VERY WORRIED!
Yeah you say!But look at all the Chinese restaurants around the world.Very subtle,devious people.I know.My wife is Chinese.lol.And I have never felt so blessed.
The “West” was greedy and imperialistic even before they began to master the navigational and war technology to spread and conquer like the Black Death in the 1500s. Spain alone had been at war with the moors for 800 years. The Rnglish had been fighting the Scots (and the Irish off and on) for almost as long. France’s Louis XIV, le roi soleil, was an imperialist through and through who waged wars almost nonstop with the aim of expanding his fiefdom. Western feudalism, while not unique in its bloodsoaked DNA (just watch some Kurosawa films about Japan’s unceasing feudal brawls) was certainly far more far reaching and sociopathic, and that is to say somehting considering the standards of the age. Of course, such barbarism had been inherited by the feudals from the decaying Roman empire and other Mediterranean empires, including the Babylonian, Sumerian, Macedonian and even Israelite—all bloodcurlingly murderous to a fault. That’s why when successful chieftains, after much protracted war, intrigues and betrayals, established a peace at swordpoint, everyone rejoiced and gave that dynasty immense rewards until new challengers, drven by thirst for power again rose to topple them. It’s a ghastly heritage. The UNO was and remains a fine and even noble idea, to have a universal forum for humanity to resolved quarrels in a civilised way, but the indispensable nation, true to its bloody traditions of plunder and hypocrisy has wrecked that project almost totally.
The United States of Aggression always accuses its opponents of what it is guilty of.
Recently on a trip to Oceania to advance American military expansionism in the region (against China), Mike Pence laughably pronounced that there is no place for empire and aggression in the world.
If this is truly the case, there is no place for America in the world–given that the American Empire has just under 1000 military outposts encircling the planet and has been waging its “defensive” wars of aggression against multiple nations like Serbia, Afghanistan, Iraq, Libya, Syria, or Yemen for decades.
The entire American worldview is an “alternative facts” unreality, to use a favored Trumpian NewSpeak phrase.
Beautifully expressed!
News Flash! War Of Terror cost $6 Trillion, Pentagon fails first audit ever, said it did not expect to pass, asks for another $250 Billion for next year.
@The Real News Network https://therealnews.com/stories/us-dept-of-defense-failed-audit-while-spending-5-9-trillion-since-9-11
All this would be correct and sad at the same time, but unfortunately one deals here with the worst of God’s creations, the human race. Reading a little history shows that if indeed there had been only animal empires, like Mr. Swift wrote about (horses) then a rationality and an animal decency would be possible. But history teaches us about human strife and greed starting with the duo Cain and Abel and ever since cruelty and territoriality have been the fate of the human species. If it succeeds in placing self discipline on the wayward public, then maybe we could live in peace and sing hallelujah, but don’t hold your breath.
The best one can hope for the earth it that humans destroy themselves and that the world will be a very peaceful one living in abundance and an intelligent balance.