Another Day, Another Coup: Tawdry Addictions of the Oligarchy

 

"This muddled reality peddling is, of course, nothing new; the Iraqi weapons of mass destruction lie never found anyone to be responsible for the selling of those falsehoods. Colin Powell just became temporarily embarrassed. Hillary Clinton cackled about the death of Libya’s leader by a mob that sodomized him with a knife. A US emboldened knife, of course. Yeah, that guy was weird, as all these leaders are, but Libya was looking to create a pan-African currency and was plotting to remove itself from the petro-dollar stranglehold. That’s what got him killed, not having photos of Condoleezza Rice up on his walls and/or any generalized freakery. The subsequent descent of that nation from one that provided citizens with housing, free college (with stipends), into an open-air slave market was, I guess, funny to Clinton. Break things and plunder. America just looks forward and, like a dog kicking dirt on its last crap, runs to the next adventure, consequences be damned.

I won’t say that this time doesn’t feel a bit different and far more severe, however. Instead of the old method of toppling nations in a more sporadic fashion, this feels like a prelude to something much more massive. All of the American misbehavior we are used to is now on steroids, or if you will, on Pervitin. We have the current regime players putting pictures of Greenland on social media with US flags on top of it and the heading “Soon” by the nation. We have Rubio threatening Cuba that they are in hot water. We have Trump commenting that the leader of Mexico isn’t really in charge of her country, implying we should do something about it. My God, we can’t even keep our people on healthcare in this country, yet we can multi-task and threaten all of these nations and their leaders?"

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