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.
The 21st Century: An Era Of Fraud
Paul Craig Roberts
I rarely listen to the State of the Union address. I rather incline to Thomas Jefferson’s sentiment that it flatters the institution of the Presidency, and to his decision to deliver his in writing. So, as with most of his previous addresses, I read President Obama’s last oration on the state of our union rather than listening to it in real time.
So I don’t know if it came off this way when he delivered it, but reading it I was struck by an overarching theme, that of winners and losers.
I wonder where that theme might have come from.
Eric Zuesse, originally posted at strategic-culture.org
How Corrupt The U.S. Is: An Extraordinary Example
On Tuesday, North Korea announced it had “successfully” tested a hydrogen bomb.