Here I would like to discuss Counterpunch's unprovoked publication of a piece by "Glenn Alcalay" (credited in other articles as being a professor of anthropology in New Jersey -- such a qualification!) about Ukraine, titled "No Gray Area: How Putin Wins," filled with all sorts of irrelevant, yet neoconservative, talking points.
A Delayed Reckoning, Pt II
Well, not quite, yet listening to the prophecy will certainly resonate with modern readers. Nothing new under the sun? Yes, perhaps in some basic ways as regarding the human experience. Perhaps we should consider humanity as an experiment in which sentient beings are allowed what control they possess against the forces of nature, revealing how little control humanity has over itself.
The God Thoth
The legend: King Canute and the waves.
When our country was grappling with the scourge that was slavery, we held a party. For reasons unknown, this very uncivil event was misnamed the Civil War, at least by the Yankees. To the loser south, they called it The War Between the States.
One sorry result of our (very un)Civil War was the rapid, widespread growth of a group that named itself after the sound of a firearm being loaded, Ku Klux Klan. Its first appearance was in the late 1860s and slowly petered out to something much smaller by 1890. It was violent, it targeted black leaders, it targeted Republicans. At that time, the GOP was the party of Lincoln. It was liberal, empathic, caring, anti-slavery, pro-worker, and pro humanity, as we might describe it now.
Cross-posted from the Great Orange Satan, AKA, Society of Phony Democrats
