In case you didn’t get the message, Donald Trump is going to “make America great again.”
Typically, campaign slogans try to capture something or other about the candidate by alluding to experience or values or whatever it is politicians believe will set them apart from the field.
But not Trump.
On the Democratic side, an avowed democratic socialist is leading in the New Hampshire polls, suddenly posing a serious challenge to Hillary Clinton’s coronation. For the GOP, candidates range from pro-immigration free-traders to build-a-wall and close-the-borders advocates.
The United States Senate Select Committee to Study Governmental Operations with Respect to Intelligence Activities found in 1975 that the CIA submitted stories to the American press:
Wikipedia adds details:
There Is NO Justice In America
Sixteen years ago my colleague, Lawrence Stratton, and I published a book about how American citizens lost the protection of law. Yesterday Chris Hedges explained this loss very well. I recommend to you his article: http://www.truthdig.com/report/item/the_mirage_of_justice_20160117
The Mirage of Justice
By Chris Hedges
Submitted by John Whitehead via The Rutherford Institute,
What happens to a dream deferred?Does it dry uplike a raisin in the sun?Or fester like a sore—And then run?Does it stink like rotten meat?Or crust and sugar over—like a syrupy sweet?Maybe it just sagslike a heavy load.Or does it explode?—Langston Hughes, “Harlem”
Martin Luther King Jr. could tell you what happens to dreams deferred. They explode.