Just can't get it up

so much for a bait-and-switch headline...

basically, i just can't seem to get the energy to post on what seems to be the eternal bullshit that continues to go on literally everywhere... i am SO-O-O-OOO ready for good news and i'm not talkin' about fluffy bunny, cute puppy, little girl dancing good news, i'm talkin' 'bout the REAL GODDAM THING... you know, like bankers arrested and thrown in jail, war criminals indicted, a wholesale global turn to solar energy, ceasefires in all of our numerous goddam wars, you know, stuff like that...

what i've been posting on ever since i started this blog are bits and pieces of what i see as the larger pattern of what's been going on, not only in the u.s., but around the world, and i think i've done a pretty good job... i haven't done exhaustive research, to be sure, but, given my daily tour through myriad news sources coupled with my extensive travel and work in many other countries, i've managed to cobble together what i believe are many of the key pieces of the planetary puzzle - what's actually going on, who's involved and some pretty good guesses as to why... most of it, unfortunately, has been pretty grim...

quite frankly, i'm losing interest in digging up more things to be outraged about... yes, we're being taken to the cleaners by our global, super-rich elites, people solely interested in amassing staggering quantities of money and power without the least regard for how it's obtained or who has to suffer and die in the process... yes, the vast majority of people in the world are paying the price for their greed and, yes, our so-called leaders at the top of world governments are either themselves part of that super-rich elite class or, at minimum, their bought-and-paid for toadies... yep, i got the picture... all the rest is just details...

so, when can i look for the good stuff, the turn-around, the tipping point...? my friends, it's way, WAY overdue...

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Barack Obama is merely upholding tradition

john pilger speaking on the 4th of july in san francisco...

from axis of logic via antemedius...

Since 1945, by deed and by example, the US has overthrown 50 governments, including democracies, crushed some 30 liberation movements and supported tyrannies from Egypt to Guatemala (see William Blum's histories). Bombing is apple pie. Having stacked his government with warmongers, Wall Street cronies and polluters from the Bush and Clinton eras, the 45th president is merely upholding tradition. The hearts and minds farce I witnessed in Vietnam is today repeated in villages in Afghanistan and, by proxy, Pakistan, which are Obama's wars.

In his acceptance speech for the 2005 Nobel Prize for Literature, Harold Pinter noted that "everyone knew that terrible crimes had been committed by the Soviet Union in the postwar period, but "US crimes in the same period have been only superficially recorded, let alone documented, let alone acknowledged, let alone recognised as crimes at all". It is as if "It never happened. Nothing ever happened. Even while it was happening, it wasn't happening . . . You have to hand it to America . . . masquerading as a force for universal good. It's a brilliant, even witty, highly successful act of hypnosis."

so...? what's to be done...?

again, john pilger...

I once asked a friend, the great American war correspondent and humanitarian Martha Gellhorn, to explain the term to me. "I'll tell you what 'anti-American' is," she said. "It's what governments and their vested interests call those who honour America by objecting to war and the theft of resources and believing in all of humanity. There are millions of these anti-Americans in the United States. They are ordinary people who belong to no elite and who judge their government in moral terms, though they would call it common decency. They are not vain. They are the people with a wakeful conscience, the best of America's citizens. They can be counted on. They were in the South with the civil rights movement, ending slavery. They were in the streets, demanding an end to the wars in Asia. Sure, they disappear from view now and then, but they are like seeds beneath the snow. I would say they are truly exceptional."

here's a 32-minute video clip of pilger that tells most of the story...

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