Getting embarrassing - Syria, the long haul

[Shelley]

On October 28, 2015 8:06:12 PM Juan <juan.g71 at gmail.com> wrote:

> On Wed, 28 Oct 2015 18:51:13 -0700
> Shelley <shelley at misanthropia.org> wrote:
>
> > On October 28, 2015 6:15:39 PM Zenaan Harkness <zen at freedbms.net>
> > wrote:
> >
> > > This is getting embarrassing for "the West" - the so called moral
> > > high ground of the West, never existed. Even Hiroshima and Nagasaki
> > > were bombed -after- Japan had surrendered, just that America
> > > insisted on humiliation of unconditional surrender.
> >
> > You're absolutely right.  We USians (or Americunts, as Juan says,
> > which always makes me laugh in agreement),
>
>
> 	disclaimer of sorts : I don't mean to offend *all* americans.
> 	Only the nationalistic type =P  (and I fully realize Shelley
> 	doesn't belong in that category)
>

No offense taken! :)  Actually, I agree with you.  A lot of people deserve 
that label here.

I laughed because I'm always referring to Demoncraps and Rethuglicunts :D

> > only have propaganda
> > "textbooks" in school.  It's not unless/until we are fortunate enough
> > to stumble upon Howard Zinn's books or develop critical thinking
> > skills, despite their best efforts at indoctrination, that we truly
> > see.
>
>
> 	for what it's worth, when I first got interested in political
> 	philosophy, I foolishly assumed that the US were a 'free
> 	society'. It took me a while to gauge the distance between
> 	libertarian rhetoric and reality...
>

Yes, we thought so too.  That's what they still keep telling us!  It'd be 
funny if it weren't so sad.

Side note: someone questioned the use of the word fascism in regards to the 
USA?  Isn't corporate control of the government the very definition of it?  
Call it a corporatocracy, if you like that better.  I call it a demockracy.

-S

> >
> > > 
> http://russia-insider.com/en/documents-reveal-west-plotted-false-flag-justify-war-against-syria-1957/ri10799
> > > "
> > > In 1957, it was PG-13 “border clashes”. Now we have “government
> > > chemical weapons attacks against orphans”
> > > "
> > >
> > > I wonder where our CIA apologists are now ...
> > > Z
> > >
> >
> > I'm not sure how seriously to take Russia-insider as I haven't looked
> > into it enough, but this would hardly be surprising.  They were still
> > on a roll from taking out the democratically elected leader of Iran,
> > Mossadeq, in 1953.  How many years was it before this was common
> > knowledge?
> >
> > It's despicable.  Now, as then.
> >
> > (I don't often comment on politics.  Feeling sassy tonight, I guess.
> > Heh.)
> >
> > -S
> >
> >
>
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