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Originally posted by expat2368
Lyndon Johnson and George H. W. Bush killed America when they plotted the assassination of JFK. NOTHING has been the same since. Before that, America finished wars that other people started, since then we have started a continuing series of military conflicts to feed the Military Industrial complex that Eisenhower warned us about.
I see nothing that is going to resurrect it.
Originally posted by BlackSatinDancer
Originally posted by expat2368
Lyndon Johnson and George H. W. Bush killed America when they plotted the assassination of JFK. NOTHING has been the same since. Before that, America finished wars that other people started, since then we have started a continuing series of military conflicts to feed the Military Industrial complex that Eisenhower warned us about.
I see nothing that is going to resurrect it.
Interesting.
Can I ask how you arrived at this conclusion?
When UNICEF reported, as is did in 2002, that ten million children under the age of 5 died each year from preventable causes, such as malnutrition, unsafe water, and the lack of the most basic health care, we should, in the words of ethics philosopher Peter Singer "know that others are in much greater need...and learn to think critically about the forces that lead to high levels of consumption and to be aware of the environmental costs of this way of living."
Yet, to attain that level of consciousness would require confronting the legacy of being part of an empire and benefitting from its ostensibly unequal privileges. Trying to come to terms with all of the human and planetary consequences of empire as a way of life may be especially difficult now that the empire is dying. Let's just hope that we can help to diminish the further destruction produced by an empire in its death throes.
Francis Shor is author of the recently published, Dying Empire: US Imperialism and Global Resistance. Excerpts from the book can be found at dyingempire.org
Tanya Cariina Hsu is a political researcher and analyst focusing on Saudi Arabian and US relations. One of the contributors to recent written testimony on the Kingdom of Saudi Arabia for the US Congressional Senate Judiciary Committee on behalf of FOCA (Friends of Charities Association) in its Hearing on Capitol Hill in Washington D.C., her analysis has been published and critically acclaimed throughout the US, Europe and the Middle East.
Born in London, she re-located to Riyadh, Saudi Arabia in 2005 and is currently completing a book on US policy towards Saudi Arabia.
(More : 2.Marketing, 3.Over-taking the government [legally via business], 4.Endgame)
So let's get down to brass tacks. I propose that the revolutionaries sell out and use the proceeds to buy in. Get money, incorporate, and compete with the corporate and government establishment for the public's trust and their business. Stop insisting on getting what you want through an explosion of truth and activism and virtue... just get it by manipulating the ebb and flow of greed and laziness in the general population, like very other cause in the world does.
Step 1. Incorporate. This is going to take some dilligent work and quite possibly an initial investment, so it's liable never to happen just like all other revolutionary plans, but this step is absolutely necessary, because it makes everything else safe and easy. Incorporating will give you a legitimate and stable image that will make it much easier to recruit and take action. It will create a safe buffer between your personal and public life, giving you and those you recruit some increased financial, social, and legal security. It will also create a solid organization for your movement and an objective way to measure progress.
Originally posted by DrNotforhire
anyone who took a loan without being able to afford it; helped kill America...
WHERE IS THE PERSONAL RESPONSIBILITY?@!