America Is Not 'The Leader Of The Free World'
Finally can we bury that old chestnut?
Perhaps in the darkest days of World War II, when so much was lost, when hope stood all alone, when many Americans stood up ready to die, perhaps then, in that moment, it meant something real and tangible. Maybe in a few brief instances since was an ideal and a nation actually one and the same.
America first has always been the reality, every action calculated for our own benefit.
-Every War we declared
-Every regime change we sponsored
-Every dictator we empowered.
-Every weapons sale
-Every 'Free' Trade Deal
-Every climate change denial.
All of them.
It's America First, always has been, always will be.
America First = American Exceptionalism.
So please can everyone, the MSM included, stop with
The leader of the free world bullshit.
Just a thought
Comments
Hillary Clinton begs to differ
"the views and events expressed here.....
..... are totally fucked!"
Truer words were seldom spoken!
"US govt/military = bad. Russian govt/military = bad. Any politician wanting power = bad. Anyone wielding power = bad." --Shahryar
"All power corrupts absolutely!" -- thanatokephaloides
Hillary is mulling over
her role in the midterms. I vote for dog catcher in Libya.
Hillary Clinton looks for her role in midterms
"Religion is what keeps the poor from murdering the rich."--Napoleon
@dkmich
Isn't Hillary still rolling in the whirlpool of that 2nd flush? I'm thinking there's a plunger needed...
Psychopathy is not a political position, whether labeled 'conservatism', 'centrism' or 'left'.
A tin labeled 'coffee' may be a can of worms or pathology identified by a lack of empathy/willingness to harm others to achieve personal desires.
Yeah those sanctions are having a great effect
if they were speaking about the sanctions against Iraq. A half million dead Iraqi children sure was a great visual.
I will never understand the people who say that Hillary has spent her career being the champion of women and children.
The ones who she helped move further into poverty when she supported welfare reform. The children who saw their fathers get longer prison sentences when she supported the crime bill.
The women and children who were killed in the wars she supported, or the ones who became refugees are probably saying "thank gawd for Hillary. Where would we be without her?"
I have a graphic from when people were helping her up the stairs. At the top are gallows that are waiting for her.
Pure evil. Hey, if there isn't enough violence, she wants to create it. I hope her grandkids see her for what she is.
If ICE were hunting down Trump’s critics, that would be bad but would make sense.
But ICE is hunting down Israel’s critics.
@snoopydawg Hillary's grandchildren
Hillary's grandchildren will see her exactly as Chelsie sees her - a means to fulfill all that money can buy (including a way to pay Chelsie's husband out of a failed hedge fund Ponzi scheme)at any price - once a Clinton always a Clinton. They will adore her. They'll never hear ANY of this diatribe here about "grandma".
Peace
FN
"Democracy is technique and the ability of power not to be understood as oppressor. Capitalism is the boss and democracy is its spokesperson." Peace - FN
We've gone from that bright shining light on a hill
to the muscle behind the global corporate kleptocracy. Serfs up!
The real SparkyGump has passed. It was an honor being your human.
Better our Oligarchs than theirs.
Most of "their" oligarchs are, in truth, "our" oligarchs.
The majority of the global 1% now have more in common with each other than they have with their countries of origin.
It has been that way for a long, long time.
Back when England and France were constantly getting into wars ( especially that little goof called the Hundred Years' War ) it was problematic that various nobles had titles and lands in both countries -- particularly given that one of the obligations of the feudal lord was to extract from the population of his entitlements the resources (including the actual persons, both knights and infantry) required to fight the wars.
The earth is a multibillion-year-old sphere.
The Nazis killed millions of Jews.
On 9/11/01 a Boeing 757 (AA77) flew into the Pentagon.
AGCC is happening.
If you cannot accept these facts, I cannot fake an interest in any of your opinions.
Abby Martin on the rise of the American Empire
and its impact on people and the planet.
Indeed.
I love her
It's too bad she left RT.
"Obama promised transparency, but Assange is the one who brought it."
We're always lambasted by the mantra...
that 'there's no such thing as a free lunch.'
If America can't do free lunches, it definitely can't do free worlds.
Gëzuar!!
from a reasonably stable genius.
If it were legal to deny the vote
to people of color, we would.
WE WOULD.
"We'll know our disinformation program is complete when everything the American public believes is false." ---- William Casey, CIA Director, 1981
@on the cusp
Repubs have been working on that for freaking ever - and Dems letting them getting away with it. But with all of the electoral cheating, it seems to be achieving equal opportunity for American voters - at least for those not voting the way TPTB want. Yay for progress?
Psychopathy is not a political position, whether labeled 'conservatism', 'centrism' or 'left'.
A tin labeled 'coffee' may be a can of worms or pathology identified by a lack of empathy/willingness to harm others to achieve personal desires.
The rest of the world doesn't see us as the leader of anything
When D'ump met with Angela Merkel, the headlines read, "Leader of the free world meets with Donald Trump."
As for "last remaining superpower," meet China.
Not even in the darkest days of WW2, La Fem
The US came late to that affair. Stalin was by no means part of the "free world", but he definitely decided the outcome of the war in Europe. Leningrad, Stalingrad, Kursk, Kharkov, etc... no battle in the west even approached the scale of those conflicts.
The US came along in time to take the credit, just like they did in WW1.
"Obama promised transparency, but Assange is the one who brought it."
Without the US Britain would have fallen*.
A Hitler v Stalin contest would have resulted in very little freedom, it was a toss up which one was worse.
*The supply lines kept open before war was entered into.
There is no reason
to romanticize WWII as some sort of zenith for freedom.
It was about wealth as much as any other war.
Greed knows no boundaries, respects no people, and respects no laws.
The word 'freedom' is simply bandied about to manipulate people.
(oops, my cynicism is really showing here - I need to watch an Obama speech to get cured!)
dfarrah
It was more escaping utter darkness.
Thanks, La Fem. Needs to be repeated until the bullshit meme
stops. We are a global predator.
That, in its essence, is fascism--ownership of government by an individual, by a group, or by any other controlling private power. -- Franklin D. Roosevelt --
"bright shining city on a hill"
Never was. Was always just as evil as the British or Nazis.
20 to 30 million civilians murdered by the US government since 1945. If it's shining it must be napalm.
The USPTB are proud to call
Mbasogo, the Hashemites, General Into, Emomalii Rahmom, Islom Karimov, Gurbanguly Berdimuhamedow, Paryut Chan-O-Chan, Hassanal Bolkiah, the Sauds, Barzani, Erdogan, Abdrabbuh Hadi, etc it's allies.
Solidarity forever
If there is a leader of the free world, it's probably Bolivia.
Runners-up: Venezuela, Iceland, Ecuador.
"More for Gore or the son of a drug lord--None of the above, fuck it, cut the cord."
--Zack de la Rocha
"I tell you I'll have nothing to do with the place...The roof of that hall is made of bones."
-- Fiver
Maybe it's Kim.com, or Julian n/t
"Obama promised transparency, but Assange is the one who brought it."
@dervish Well, I was assuming a
Well, I was assuming a nation-state, not a person.
"More for Gore or the son of a drug lord--None of the above, fuck it, cut the cord."
--Zack de la Rocha
"I tell you I'll have nothing to do with the place...The roof of that hall is made of bones."
-- Fiver
I think states are passe'
at least they seem to be.
"Obama promised transparency, but Assange is the one who brought it."
@dervish We used to think
We used to think that would be a good thing. Or, at least some people did. I tried to tell them that it depended on what was going to replace the nation-state, but they were too busy doing this:
Not that I'm against doing that, in general, but not in an unthinking way.
"More for Gore or the son of a drug lord--None of the above, fuck it, cut the cord."
--Zack de la Rocha
"I tell you I'll have nothing to do with the place...The roof of that hall is made of bones."
-- Fiver
I still have that T-shirt
but I didn't wear it long, Bakunin and Kropotkin intervened.
"Obama promised transparency, but Assange is the one who brought it."