America

Submitted by Douglas Herman

    “The majority of men are not capable of thinking, but only of believing and are not accessible to reason but only to authority.”

    -­ Arthur Schopenhauer Voting is like bungee jumping: it’s for people who like big jerks. If the 2016 US Presidential election seems like a manufactured media circus, perhaps we can blame Hollywood. More precisely, we can blame fictional Senator Jay Billington Bulworth and his bluster for providing the blueprint.

A Huge Leak

The “Panama Papers” tax haven leak is big …

After all, the Prime Minister of Iceland resigned over the leak, and investigations are taking place worldwide over the leak.

But Why Is It Mainly Focusing On Enemies of the West?

But the Panama Papers reporting mainly focuses on friends of Russia’s Putin, Assad’s Syria and others disfavored by the West.

Former British Ambassador Craig Murray notes:

Elliot Milco writes, about the Catholic Church in the present day:

Some years ago I was conversing with a Christian academic who is very conservative theologically — and conservative in his social views as well. We were trading ideas about a possible conference in which Christian scholars from a variety of disciplines would talk about what distinctively Christian approaches to their work might look like.

Who Really Rules America, Part 2

http://www.counterpunch.org/2016/04/06/hedge-funds-are-part-of-a-tricky-money-maneuver-to-put-hillary-in-the-white-house/

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