Poverty in America

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A Red Herring

In order to continue their genocide, the Israelis need the U.S. to provide a distraction. How about an attack upon Iran? Crime once exposed has no refuge save in audacity.

America’s Christian Zionists: Israel’s strategic weapon?

A Day in the Life of the Subjects of U.S. Empire

 

Remember When...

You heard that Iraq represented an existential threat to the United States, and YOU BELIEVED IT?

You heard that Brexit was the end of the world as we know it, and YOU BELIEVED IT?

You heard that Russia's invasion of Ukraine was the first step in Vladimir Putin's quest for world domination, and YOU BELIEVED IT?

You heard that Israel had "no choice" but to commit genocide in Gaza because Hamas represents an existential threat to Israel's survival, and YOU BELIEVED IT?

What will you believe next? That an invasion from Mars is under way? 

I believe, with Lionel Trilling, that there is a moral obligation to be intelligent. The hard work of thinking involves questioning claims: it is a form of intellectual self-defense that saves me the eventual embarrassment of discovering that I spent my life booking passage on a Ship of Fools.

Miguel de Unamuno

"The enslavers know full well that while the slave is singing to liberty he is consoled in his slavery and does not think of breaking his chains." ~ Miguel de Unamuno.

Christian Zionism vs. Religious Fundamentalism

 

In my view, religious fundamentalists are more to be pitied than feared. Not only are their historiographical imaginations stunted, but their literary imaginations are as well. 

 

Emerson liked to distinguish between the Party of Memory and the Party of Hope. Fundamentalists belong to the former, and it is an impoverished memory at that. I do not envy them their narrow and fearful worldview. 

 

The case with Christian Zionists is different. Sure, they are religious fundamentalists, but they are also apocalypticists. Their "historiographical imaginations" (if you can call it that) are vivid, detailed, and in teleological overdrive. 

 

I would still tend to feel sorry for them as I would anyone suffering from psychosis, but they have maneuvered themselves into positions of power in the last great Superpower on earth.

 

Having shed the quietism that once characterized their approach to politics, and having grown impatient with what they believe is the promised fulfillment of God's plan for the world, they have convinced themselves that God wants them to act to bring about Armageddon and, with it, the Second Coming of Christ. The modern ethno-religious State of Israel is, in their view, fulfillment of Biblical prophecy. 

 

Given the blank check that the Biden Administration has written for the Israeli war machine, such a worldview, held by people who appear to be quite comfortable with genocide, is not merely a matter of "personal belief" in need of "sprucing up." These people, and all who are complicit with them, represent a clear and present danger to the safety and security of the entire world.

Happy 95th Dr. King!

 

Our Hope is Falastin!

 

With every passing day, the stubborn resistance of a tiny stateless people exposes not only the moral bankruptcy of the American empire and its Zionist ally, but their constitution as criminal enterprises. LONG LIVE PALESTINE! 🇵🇸
 

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