The Despicable Triumph of the Real Fake News

When the “War on Terror” was launched in 2001, mainstream media – especially cable TV news – started a parade. It was a narrow parade of hawkish retired military and intelligence brass promoting war as the response to the crime of 9/11, predicting success and identifying foreign enemies to attack. 

We can look back at this parade and laugh at the total nonsense dispensed. But the more human response is to cry – over the toll, still mounting, of hundreds of thousands of civilian deaths from Afghanistan to Iraq and beyond, and violent instability across the region, including countries that were relatively stable and prosperous on Sept. 10, 2001. (Not to mention militarization and loss of civil liberties at home.)--JC

It behooves one to understand that the U.S. is a police state.  It's a unique variety, but nonetheless, an honest-to-god military dictatorship.

It's unique because the world has never had a rich "lone superpower" ritually terrorize the planet before the U.S. grew its ugly force of absolute imperial strength.

No empire before this one had the Bomb to back up its quest.

It is damn near impossible to imagine a way to dismantle such terrifying power without a sweeping change of consciousness, which isn't likely to happen. People are too attached to the spoils, and it is precisely because they don't want to confront their hypocrisy and their shame that they are not in the streets with actual revolutionary fervor. So...

Tick, tick, tick.


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