America

When They Killed JFK They Killed America

Paul Craig Roberts

In the JFK administration I was a White House Fellow. In those days it was a much larger program than the small insider program it later became. President Kennedy’s intention was to involve many young Americans in government in order to keep idealism alive as a counter to the material interests of lobby groups. I don’t know if the program still exists. If it does, the idealism that was its purpose is long gone.

Academic Freedom RIP

There is no longer academic freedom in America or anywhere in the West. You have to toe the propaganda line, tell the lies, or you are out.

Today the only reason to go to a university is to be brainwashed, or if you are able to get in
Harvard, Princeton, Yale or Stanford, to join an insider network that will advance your career as
long as you serve the elite.

http://www.globalresearch.ca/american-academic-freedom-in-jeopardy/5523940

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It makes no difference who you vote for, the secret government won’t change. As Michael Glennon Professor of International Law at  Tufts University says: ‘The people we elect aren’t the ones calling the shots” The Boston Globe explains: The voters who put Barack Obama in office expected some big changes. From the NSA’s warrantless wiretapping to Guantanamo Bay to the Patriot Act, candidate Obama was a defender of civil liberties and privacy, promising a dramatically different approach from his predecessor.

Authored by EconomicPrism's MN Gordon, annotated by Acting-Man's Pater Tenebrarum,

A Week to Remember

Today we look back to the recent past with singleness of purpose.  Context and edification for the present economy is what we’re after.  We have questions…

Submitted by Patrick Buchanan via Buchanan.org,

“The two living Republican past presidents, George H. W. Bush and George W. Bush, have no plans to endorse Trump, according to their spokesmen.” So said the lead story in The Washington Post.

Graceless, yes, but not unexpected. The Bushes have many fine qualities. Losing well, however, is not one of them.