‘To their credit, Israel, AIPAC, the Bush Regime, powerful
families (with names like Koch), the numerous multi-millionaires in Congress,
powerful lobbyists, think tanks, major corporations, and the 1% of Americans
who harbor 38% of the nation's wealth have done a phenomenal job of convincing
a majority of the poor and working class that they are fortunate to have the
privilege of fighting over the remaining crumbs of the economic pie after the
ruling elite gorge themselves.
Despite the 13% of Americans living in poverty, 46 million
without health insurance, and approximately 3 million homeless wandering our
streets, the gallimaufry ruling the United States according to the Golden Rule
(he that hath the gold maketh the rules) has artfully convinced "Main
Street" that it "doesn't get any better than this".
The Empire's Neo-Tories boast
that capitalism and the free market are "kicking ass" while Communism
and Socialism have been relegated to the dustbin of history. (Obviously they
have not been paying much attention to South America lately). With "free
market" think tanks like Cato Institute (funded by
“humanitarian-environmentalists” like Charles Koch) to provide the propaganda
(sorry, I meant to say research), there is virtually no end to the "evidence"
supporting the "benefits" of government deregulation of businesses
and corporations.’
Check Your
Conscience At The Door: We're Building An Empire
that old, blind, one-eyed cyclops is still at it .....
‘In a press release issued last week, the Permanent
Mission of Cuba to the United Nations said, "If any government does not
deserve to be part of the Council, it is the one who represents a State that
benefited from the slavery and the transatlantic slave trade, that kept a
'constructive commitment' to extend the existence of the apartheid regime, that
protects and bestows impunity to the human rights violations perpetrated by the
Israeli occupation of Palestine and other Arab territories, that supported the
bloody military dictatorships of Latin America, that today tortures and murders
in the name of liberty which the majority of its own citizens do not benefit
from, that fails to meet its commitments and obligations of official
development assistance to the Third World, and that threatens and attacks the
Southern countries."’
Human Rights Hypocrisy