The U.S reveals its ugliest face.
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From: "Miriam Vieni" <miriamvieni@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
To: <blind-democracy@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
Sent: Wednesday, August 09, 2017 9:21 PM
Subject: [blind-democracy] Knowing the truth doesn't necessarily make one
free!
Today, I've listened to the Intercepted podcast and to Democracy Now. Among
other things, I learned from Alan Niern that we are experiencing a rightist
revolution. He listed the many things that the current administration and
the radical Republicans have done since January, many of which cannot be
reversed. I heard, several times, Trumps threat to North Korea of a US
pre-emptive Nuclear war. I was reminded that the Blackwater employees who
murdered all those Iraqi citizens, had their sentences reversed, and how
Eric Prince is suggesting that his new mercenaries take over the running of
Afghanistan so that the US can take control of all those minerals that have
been discovered there. I learned about an effective organization, backed by
the Koch Brothers, and other powerful business interests in the US, that has
been organizing right wing think tanks and political organizations
throughout Latin America in order to organize the population to support
fright wing causes. They succeeded in unseating the leftist president of
Brazil and installing her corrupt, right wing successor. I listened while
powerful Democratic politicians assured their donors, donors like medical
insurance companies, that we will never have a single payer health system in
the US. That reminds me, last night I read that Joshua Holand, a supposedly
left wing writer, has an article in The Nation, saying the same thing, and
explaining why single payer is no good. Did you know that the State
Department is pretty much dismantled? Did you hear about the scientist at
the EPA who was switched from his position to one in which his
responsibility is to keep track of money received from gas and oil
companies?
I'm absolutely exhausted and disheartened, as I knew I would be when I
listened to Alan Niern predict what would happen on Democracy Now on the
night of the election.
Miriam
