That big snore you hear in exceptional-land signals the end of the road for Russia-gate. When asked, only 1% of the America public believe the Russian caper was a major problem. The enemies most Americans care about are skyrocketing health costs, stagnant wages, life-time student loans, rising interest rates, crumbling infrastructure and the climate change-caused rain and fire destroying huge swaths of the “homeland.” Russia-gate has fallen out of the top ten. Even predictions of a coming Armageddon aren’t cutting much ice. This sorry state of affairs prompted leaders of America’s intelligence agencies to hold a group sing-a-long touting “new evidence” that “Russia continues to engage in malign operations” (as per usual no evidence to support that claim). if you read last week’s article American Paranoia: They’re Out to Get us, you know that even scaredy-cat Americans aren’t buying the hype. To find out how D.C. elites and their media buddies hope to reverse the Russia-gate death spiral, don’t miss American Paranoia Part 2: American “Innocence” Vs. A World of Enemies.
Category: America The Beautiful
American Paranoia: You-Know-Who Is Out to Get Us
The drum beats getting louder. The wolves circling the tree for the final assault. The president under fire. The plot against America repeated on an endless loop out of every media, congressional, and pundit hidey-hole. Even the ‘party of the people’s liberal cadre have joined the hue and cry. It’s “likely” the Russians have something to do with Donald Trump. (Jeff Merkely) “Russia interfered in our elections & attacked our democracy” (Elizabeth Warren). This isn’t the first time the intelligence community has had “high confidence” that someone was out to get us. Who can forget the Iraq WMD caper when everyone (who was anybody) knew that we were in the crosshairs of a dangerous demagogue. That was then, this is now and the stakes are considerably higher, the threat of nuclear war considerably graver. Games of chicken have a nasty habit of turning on their creators. We try to distinguish the forest from the trees in this article.
Americans on the Dole: Working More and Getting Less
Remember the hullabaloo when the predators behind payday loans were finally outed? Not that we hadn’t always known that something was rotten in payday land. What we didn’t know was that our political leaders were co-conspirators. Overwhelming us with phony reassurances that “[this is] … our new American moment… There has never been a better time to start living the American Dream.” (President Trump’s first State of the Union speech)
Welcome Home Soldier – a short story
We believe that everyone should stand for the national anthem… We want to honor our flag and our country.” Roger Goodell, NFL Chief ~ It’s about time that Roger Goodell…is finally demanding that all Players STAND for our national anthem RESPECT FOR OUR COUNTRY” President Donald J. Trump INTRO ~ Welcome Home Soldier […]
Flag Wars: Will the Real Americans Please Stand Up
The Flag Wars have taken center stage again. In a bizarre twist, politics and sports have become embroiled in a confrontational and, at times, downright laughable war of words and actions. As always, flag waving and the traditional salute and national anthem-singing inspire mixed reactions. According to President Trump— It [standing in a reverential pose […]
R.I.P. Hugh Hefner — September 27, 2017
He was a living legend, a larger-than-life character who lived in the glare of the public spotlight, a media phenomenon surrounded by beautiful women, three of whom he married. And so the story goes… his mansion, a museum of relics of the chauvinist pig era of 1960-1980 America when strait–laced morality defined woman’s place in […]
Welcome to the U.S. Banana Republic
“In too many countries, people are deprived of their most basic needs and go to bed hungry every night because of corruption, while the powerful and corrupt enjoy lavish lifestyles with impunity.” – José Ugaz, Transparency International Corruption and inequality—two sides of the same coin. In the U.S. corruption is a force to be reckoned […]
Sterilization, Indefinite Detention, Concentration Camps—The Future of Dissent in America?
It’s morning in America again and many of us take for granted that in a country purportedly governed by the rule of law, our civil liberties are constitutionally guaranteed and not up for grabs as they are in totalitarian countries. A dangerous and false assumption. Buried deep in U.S. legal history are two Supreme Court […]
Take the Oil and Run: Clinton and Trump Agree
Suspicious Angels Readers: You heard it here first! The whole unvarnished truth, not the half-truths and omissions dictated by the ideological bias of the mainstream media. In October, 2016, we published “Take the Oil and Run” a rebuke to the “paper of record’s” (NY Times) assertion that Trump was the sole cheerleader behind the proposal […]
Where Have All The Protestors Gone?
(For A Shorter Read Scroll Down To The BLUE FONT) “Where have all the soldiers gone Gone to graveyards, everyone Oh, when will they ever learn?” Ferment in the streets. College campuses ablaze with marches, demonstrations and sit-ins. It’s a blast from the past. In 1964, the first major demonstration […]
