Labor’s Demise Is America’s Demise

"Today the US has the most unequally distributed income and wealth of all developed economies and one of the worst in the entire world"

Paul Craig Roberts

Thoughts for Labor Day

Anthony Freda Illustration

Labor Day is a holiday that has outlived its time. Like Christmas, Labor Day has become a time-out period. As Christmas has become a shopping spree, Labor Day has become the last summer holiday.

The holiday originated in 1887 to celebrate the contribution made by American workers to the strength and prosperity of the United States. The first Monday in September was chosen by President Grover Cleveland to avoid a May date that would keep alive the memory of the previous year’s Haymarket Massacre in which workers striking for an eight-hour day suffered casualties from the Chicago police.

Audience Brain Waves Are Being Used to Better Predict YOU

Heather Callaghan

Recently, I wrote about findings showing that the brainwaves of people viewing the same movie are 'synched.'Some people thought this was great news, suggesting that it meant more connection and intimacy. But people who feel more disengaged or isolated by spending time with people watching media would probably doubt that suggestion very much.

Building on that discovery, researchers are testing brainwaves to forecast public response to television programming. Of course, this has questionable implications.

And, now, it only takes a few people to accurately predict the mindset - via brainwaves - of the masses. Is that how far the "culturing" of culture has come along?

Ways To Celebrate Your Freedom Like A Rebel – Humor

Heather Callaghan

If we’re not laughing, we’re crying, right? It’s hard to find humor when depressing reports constantly assault our psyches by depicting the blatant trampling of our rights.

But being a “rebel” today means different types of battles and fronts than in the days of our founding fathers - although the inspiration is the same. The following are just a few ways you can really live it up this Independence Day.

We want you to add your own in the comments!

Drink raw milk. Better yet, meet your Amish “dealer” at a state line and drink your illegal public health safety risk with one foot in each state.

If you’re self employed and send quarterly taxes to the IRS, use an invisible envelope with invisible money – same difference.

Call a random cell phone number. *Brrriing-Brrriing Hello...NSA? Happy Independence Daaaayyy!

The Day the Earth Stood Nil: Wisdom Vs. Cleverness

Anthony Freda Illustration

Rand Clifford
Activist Post

Could human intelligence be a lethal mutation? Catastrophes spawned by Earth’s most intelligent species suggest not only self-extinction, but annihilation of countless other species. Is the apparent disconnect between cleverness and wisdom primarily a human characteristic, and if so, what are the chances of human wisdom catching up with human cleverness?

Noam Chomsky gave a speech about human intelligence and the environment at the University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill, on September 30, 2010. With typical Chomsky eloquence he explored this question of lethality of the mutation of intelligence...referring to a debate between astrophysicist Carl Sagan and biologist Ernst Mayr regarding the possibility of discovering intelligent life somewhere else in the universe.

Who could not love Carl Sagan, the man who gave the term “billions” a personality? Ernst Mayr was widely considered “the grand old man of American biology”. Debating with Mayr, Sagan talked about “billions and billions” of other planets sharing Earth’s general profile, and there being no reason for intelligent life not to develop elsewhere. Mayr noted that of the billions of species that have existed on Earth, the average life span is about 100,000 years—nearly how long modern humans have been around. And Mayr basically argued that intelligence is a lethal mutation. Reinforcement of Mayr’s argument lurks all around, even inside of us.

Private Prisons and the American Police State

This article was originally written for an interview with New Dissident Radio's Lakota Phillips on Breaking Taboo.

S. Paul Forrest

Activist Post

In the last few decades, the population of our national prisons has nearly tripled.  This phenomenon can be attributed to many factors ranging from the increasing economic insecurity to the War on Drugs.  Statistics tell us that 1 in 18 American men are now incarcerated or being monitored.

Although this number could be reasonably justified as a reflection of our social morality breakdown; America still leads the world in per capita imprisonment, and the privatization of the our corrections system calls into question the motives behind tougher sentencing and the ever-increasing American police state.

War Zones: As The Economy Dies, Murders, Shootings, Robberies And Looting Erupt All Over America

End of The American Dream

As the U.S. economy falls apart and millions of Americans descend into despair we are seeing some really shocking things start to happen all over America.  The mainstream media keeps telling us that crime is under control, but they are also the ones that keep telling us that we are in the midst of an "economic recovery".

Unfortunately, the truth is that the economy is slowly dying.  Today, an all-time record 44 million Americans are on food stamps.  That number is 18 million higher than it was just four years ago.

When people can't get jobs and when people feel deprived they get desperate.  The incidents that you are about to see and read about below are very disturbing.  Many American communities are rapidly turning into war zones.  Sadly, it is mostly young people that are involved in the crimes and the violence that are now sweeping America.

Yesterday, I wrote an article entitled "18 Signs That Life In U.S. Public Schools Is Now Essentially Equivalent To Life In U.S. Prisons", and there were some readers that objected to the article because they said that the youth of today are so wild that if you don't use extreme measures they will just be completely out of control.

Sadly, it is true that many of our young people are extremely wild.  But a lot of that is our own fault.  We did not believe in teaching our kids about "morality", and so now they do not have any.  We did not believe in having the Ten Commandments around, and so now many of our young people feel free to steal and murder.  We allowed television and movies to raise our kids, and now they are acting out what they have been watching all of their lives.

If your community is not a war zone yet, you should consider yourself to be very fortunate.  There are many communities across the United States where people simply do not go out at night anymore.

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Happy Memorial Day! From Your Uncle . . . Sam

Marti Oakley, Contributing Writer
Activist Post

Enjoy your holiday everyone!  Take time to remember those who gave their lives and/or service in defense of your liberty.


Those who fill the rows in Arlington National Cemetery and those who have been buried near their homes gave all they had to make sure you remained free.  Many suffer from lifelong disabilities as a result of their service in honor of your freedom.  To honor them and their sacrifices we, in the federal government, lovingly referred to as “Uncle Sam” have done everything we could to sustain the Constitution and your civil liberties and freedom.

Just as a reminder of how valuable these lives were and how great their sacrifice was, we at “Uncle Sam” would like to point you to our vast and unending efforts to honor that sacrifice:

• Returning Iraq/Afghanistan soldiers are listed by Homeland Security and the Southern Poverty Law Center as “possible domestic terrorists”. 
• Those soldiers allowed to seek treatment for Post Traumatic Stress Syndrome are routinely given psychotropic drug cocktails to hasten their demise. (Oops!)
• We have left many of them damaged and homeless in the streets while we denied them benefits and services.
• In many instances we took life insurance policies (dead peasant policies) out on military personnel so that we could collect the insurance if they were killed in action, and there by deprived their families of those benefits.

The Reinvention of Historical Memory -- Memorial Day Reflections

Editor' Note: This is another excellent article by Justin Raimondo for Antiwar.com.  Antiwar has long been an intelligent voice of opposition to war mongering and the mainstream media propaganda that supports it.  It is a surprise, and a disappointment, to learn that Antiwar will close their doors tomorrow if they do not receive the funding they need to continue.  We encourage our readers to please lend their support today.   

Justin Raimondo
Antiwar

As Americans take to the roads for a long Memorial Day weekend, eager to get out of the cities and out of their routines — and more than ready for a little rest and relaxation — the origins and meaning of this holiday are lost – or, at least, hardly anyone thinks of them anymore. Formally, it is a day reserved for the remembrance of our war dead: historically, it was meant as a day of reconciliation in the wake of the Civil War. In reality, however, it is just another excuse for Americans to get out their barbecues, invite the neighbors over for a party, and forget about their troubles.

With three wars going simultaneously, and a few more in the hopper, Americans are sick and tired of war: they don’t want to remember it – and who can blame them? Indeed, Americans don’t care to remember much of anything, these days, least of all the disastrous wars that have plagued us in recent years. Inundated with problems that seem insoluble, convinced they can have no effect on the course of events in any case, most Americans have acquired a case of advanced historical Alzheimer’s out of sheer self-protection.

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Mad World: Anti-Depressants Won’t Save Us, But Social Transformation Can!

Ghada Chehade, Contributing Writer

Activist Post 

One need only watch the endless procession of pharmaceutical commercials on TV, or meander through the Internet, to get the sense that North Americans and Western cultures, generally, are heavily reliant on so-called “mood disorder” medications.  From depression to social anxiety disorder, Prozac to Paxil, it seems that the “modern world” is inhabited by humans gone marginally mad.

Many mainstream articles and news sources uncritically report that stress, anxiety and depression are symptoms of modern society, while never raising the need to address the social ills that create human illness.  While I agree with the claim that mood disorders may be symptomatic of modern society, I wonder if we have not wrongly focused on "pathologizing" the individual rather than the society. If depression, anxiety and stress are indeed emblematic of the rat race known as the “modern world/modern society,” is it not more appropriate and productive to “pathologize” and “treat” the society rather than merely the individuals who are reacting to it?

This calls for a total social transformation that will move us away from meaningless hyper-materialism and corporate-mediated living, toward systemic harmony and clarity.

10 Indications The United States Is A Dictatorship

"Power corrupts, and absolute power corrupts absolutely" -- Lord Acton 

Dees Illustration

Activist Post

For a people to be free, they must first be honest with themselves, their government, and the world at large.  History is filled with stories of free nations that fell under the spell cast by their governments who exploited the threat of terror.

In fact, numerous presidents in American history already have used various specific threats to sidestep their Constitutional restraints.  Today we are entering a nebulous world where our "enemy" cannot be defined, has no particular allegiance to one country, and is able to adopt new leaders at will.  Rather than encourage a sense of resilience and independence in its citizens, America has chosen to amplify the terror threat in order to concentrate power in the hands of the State.  The very first signpost on this historically familiar road to tyranny is an atmosphere of hate, suspicion, and vindictiveness.  It first begins as an outwardly directed aggression and then rather abruptly turns inward upon itself. 

The good news is that freedom is won and lost in the hearts and minds of men.  It is for this reason that we must state the obvious:  we have clearly passed through the first "atmospheric" stage of approaching dictatorship, and have now entered the second -- the open behavior of a dictatorship in the United States.

Bin Laden's death: the morality of celebrating

"The basic idea is that when people experience something together like bin Laden’s death, it makes it more real," said Pyszczynski. "Human beings need to know that their experiences and feelings are shared by others."

Gathering to celebrate death - © AFP/File Chris Kleponis

AFP

WASHINGTON (AFP) - Amid the public revelry, flag waving and cries of joy, some Americans are standing back and questioning the propriety of the raucous celebrations which followed the killing of Osama bin Laden.

"It's awkward to celebrate anyone's death, but it is impossible to feel remorse for one who has caused so much pain and needless suffering in the world," explained the Republican representative from the state of Utah, Rob Bishop.

Late Sunday evening, after President Barack Obama announced the death of the Al Qaeda chief, there was an explosion of emotion across the country. Thousands of younger Americans, mostly students, gathered in front of the White House to shout and cheer.

"I never felt such emotions," said John Kelley, 19. "In my town, we lost a lot of loved ones. It's something they have been waiting for, for so long."

Americans are Preparing at Unprecedented Levels

Mac Slavo
SHTF Plan

Do you have enough larder to feed your family and some friends if grocery stores ran out of food? How about several assault rifles and a few thousand rounds of ammo? Solar panels, a water filter, medical kits, bug-out bags, fire starters, tents, sleeping bags, some junk silver and reserve gasoline?

Don’t worry, you’re not alone.

It’s becoming apparent to many Americans that depending on our local, state and federal governments in the event of an emergency, catastrophic societal collapse or widespread disaster will not be sufficient to meet the needs of your family. Residents in Colorado (and likely the other 49 states) are stockpiling in droves and preparing to live off the grid if it comes to that:

Obama vs. Dancing With The Stars

Dees Illustration

Brandon Turbeville

Activist Post

If anyone thought the President’s speech defending the attack on Libya was broadcast a bit earlier than other Presidential speeches in the past, it might surprise you to know that you were right. When scheduling a time for the speech to be televised, the White House consulted with television networks as it normally does.

However, this time around, a conscious decision was made to broadcast before 8pm. Why? Because 8 p.m. is primetime and broadcasting at 8 p.m. would have coincided with “Dancing With the Stars.” I’m not kidding. This was reported by USA Today, CNN, and ABC News Radio.

Just in case you don’t believe it, CNN reports: 

As for the timing of President Obama’s Libya speech Monday night, the New York Times’ Bill Carter reports that the White House scheduled it around network shows, including ABC’s ‘Dancing With the Stars.’ In the end, all involved agreed on 7:30 p.m. ET, which meant the speech would end before ABC’s hit show – among other programs on NBC, CBS, and FOX, to name a few.

There is really no way to look at this decision in a positive light. The best possible scenario is that Americans are so addicted to brain cell murdering programs like “Dancing With the Stars” that they simply have no time or interest in watching a speech by a President who has no real connection to them and is only there to give them the party line on an agenda that they have no control over. That’s actually the best view I can think of, because at least it implies that the American people are aware that their government is unresponsive to anything they have to say.

American Nationalism: Is Our Freedom Under Attack?

S. Paul Forrest
Activist Post

In today’s America, we are being inundated with nationalistic propaganda from both the Left and the Right.  In the middle of these lines lay our military initiatives overseas and incessant anti-Islamic tones of popular media coverage to justify said initiatives.  With the information highway becoming more and more controlled by legal and political language, one has to consider whether our freedom has become compromised.  The answer must certainly lie within one’s personal definition of freedom and whether one believes today’s growing climate of nationalistic paranoia is quashing our freedom.

Some History
Many point to 9/11 as the quintessential milestone in American internal policy to justify the actions taken against Iraq in 2002 and now Afghanistan (Iran coming soon).  I say that it also currently stands as justification for the increasingly aggressive initiatives disguised by the National Security Act, Patriot Act, and their associated actions against We the People and has redefined our dwindling rights guaranteed under the U.S. Constitution as collateral damage.


Since 9/11, law makers in Washington have flooded the Senate with “Security” policies that are disguised as actions to protect Americans against future “terrorist” attacks.  These initiatives are promulgated by popular media and exacerbated by a growing sentiment of Christian isolationism and Islamophobia.   How much of it is actually for our protection, or is it all simply a ploy to control the growing public dissent toward aggressive U.S. policies at home and abroad? And how is it that so many people actually believe we were attacked without reason?   If Americans would take a moment to understand the context and step away from the brainwashing media coverage to understand the facts, maybe we could regain some of our freedoms.

To begin with, American aggressiveness has been a part of the global environment for quite some time.  In fact, in a 2007, 14-country poll, large majorities in 12 of them said that “the US is playing the role of world policeman more than it should be.”  Much of the aggression referred to U.S. aggression in asserting its policies after Desert Storm.  In reaction to these policies, terrorist activities increased, and the U.S. wasted not a moment to use them to its advantage.

In 2004, the IISS reported that al-Qaeda's recruitment and fund raising efforts had been given a major boost by the U.S. invasion of Iraq.  This was in addition to the numbers recruited and efforts taken that led to the 2001 attack on New York.  In fact, prior to this date, the U.S. led an invasion in reaction to Iraq’s attack on Kuwait even though U.S. Ambassador April Glaspie had all but given Iraq permission for the action. 

With the assurance by U.S. politicians that the United States had no interest in the dispute with Kuwait, Iraq invaded on August 2, 1990. Some believe that the false assurance was deliberately given at the instruction of President George H.W. Bush to provoke a confrontation with Iraq.  The details are revealed in Rodney Stich’s Defrauding America.

Admitting for the first time that he ordered the Sept. 11, 2001 attacks, Osama bin Laden said he did so because of injustices against the Lebanese and Palestinians by Israel and the United States.  Those in charge of our defense budgets will have us all blindly believe it was just “an act of evil”without provocation; and the reaction, or if you will "continued storyline," of what was to become known as the Bush Doctrine, with policies delineated in a document, the National Security Strategy of the United States, published on September 17, 2002. 

Reacting to the continued expansion of this Doctrine around the world, Iran's top presidential advisor, Mojtaba Samareh-Hashemi, said that "The occupation of Afghanistan and then Iraq, under the pretext of fighting terrorism, was among the events that left hundreds of thousands of people dead. The infrastructure of these countries was ruined and more narcotics then ever are being produced into Afghanistan.”  But here at home, we are being told a very different story, all in the name of “Patriotism” or more appropriately, Nationalism.

For the record, Nationalism and Patriotism are two, distinctly different philosophies. Sydney J. Harris has stated, “Patriotism is pride for a country’s virtues and is exemplified by a person eager to correct its deficiencies; it also acknowledges the legitimate patriotism of other countries, with their own specific virtues. The pride of nationalism however, trumpets its country’s virtues and denies its deficiencies, while it is contemptuous toward the virtues of other countries. It wants to be and proclaims itself to be, “the greatest,” but greatness is not required of a country; only goodness is.”  With this distinction in mind, the constant glorification of Nationalism and its redefining of it to exemplify pseudo-Patriotism is a sure sign of the readjustment of our priorities.

Our Freedom, Redefined
Today, the Bush Doctrine, inspired and promoted in the wake of 9/11, has been enhanced with an ever evolving arm of “protection,” but like any solid defense shield, the object(s) being protected also become constricted. In the drive to secure our borders, our land, and our overseas interests, We the People have become both imprisoned and looked upon as suspects in this game of National Security to the point where our very freedom has come under scrutiny. 

Growing disagreement and probes into the reality of the 9/11 “attacks” have caused a surge in public media and opinion pages.   The Blogosphere has become like a roach colony to those who would deceive We the People.  Bloggers are aware and tuned in to whatever seems to be misinformation or disinformation and will not rest until the truth is known.  There are many who only exist to add to the Nationalist rampage of Popular or “Corporate Media,” but the the rest of us represent the People’s Media, and the powers-that-be do not like it.

The strength of this type of public outcry for justice has most recently been seen in Egypt where a revolution was planned, executed and its success broadcasted through the electronic tools of the Internet.  Egypt's then newly appointed vice president, Omar Suleiman, told Egyptian newspaper editors that "certain satellite channels" are provoking the protesters and insulting Egypt. 

Suleiman has said: "I blame some friendly countries who own unfriendly channels that have fueled the youth against the country by lying and showing the situation as worse than it is."  In fact, Facebook, Twitter, and other electronic media sources fed the uprising and significantly aided in its ultimate success which has not gone unnoticed by American watchmen.  It has been argued that this "success" itself was orchestrated by Globalist interests, which could very well be the case, but it is still undeniable that a broad spectrum of protest was initiated using the People's Media.

With the awareness of public criticism toward the destructive, self-serving interests of American policy makers, there has been a flurry of new Bills and initiatives introduced to control both the Internet and public protest.  The new American police state is a topic in and of itself and I will refrain from embellishing on its negative ramifications until a later time, but for now let me just bring to your attention the words of Claire Wolfe and Aaron Zelman:

A heavily watched and regulated people tends to become discontent and even more fractious. The ever greater number of watchers inevitably observes more “unacceptable” behavior – behavior that violates the ever-greater number of laws and regulations. Continued “misbehavior” necessitates more spies and regulators, which fosters more rebellion, or uncovers more infractions, which necessitates more efforts by the government to gain control, ad infinitum. Distrust increases, as does the brutality of the states attempts to exert total authority.

Some of our elected officials in Washington have been tirelessly promoting Internet restrictions through the Patriot Act (i.e. S.773 - Cybersecurity Act of 2009 ) with the guise of seeking out potential threats to democracy, but their true motives are protecting the deceit with which they propel their own xenophobic brand of leadership. The last thing these people want is an uprising against their regime to be orchestrated here in America. 

The Patriot Act has been the most damaging legislation toward the freedom of expression we have ever seen in the United States.  Most recently, The House of Representatives voted to removed three key sections of this Act that allowed restrictions on our Constitutional right to the freedom of speech.

The House measure, which was sponsored by Rep. Jim Sensenbrenner (R-Wis.) and required a two-thirds majority for passage, failed on a 277-to-148 vote. Twenty-six Republicans voted with 122 Democrats to oppose the measure, while 67 Democrats voted with 210 Republicans to back it. Ten members did not vote. 

The measure would have extended three key provisions of the Patriot Act that are set to expire on Monday, Feb. 28, unless Congress moves to reauthorize them. One of the provisions authorizes the FBI to continue using roving wiretaps on surveillance targets; the second allows the government to access "any tangible items," such as library records, in the course of surveillance; and the third is a "lone wolf" provision of the Intelligence Reform and Terrorist Prevention Act that allows for the surveillance of targets who are not connected to an identified terrorist group.

Once again, our guaranteed freedoms have been protected through a system of elective representation, and the Patriot Act is on its well on its way to being acknowledged as the fascist tool that it is.  This recent denial of the three most damaging components of this Act, though, does not protect us from the growing state of mass deception in popular, corporate media.  In this circus of ratings races and faux-reporting, our freedom has entered into a realm of definition where some say that limited freedom is still freedom.

Information Incarceration
Many mainstream media channels have but one purpose: To promote their own political agenda.  This alone is a direct affront to our freedom by its purposeful misleading of us American citizens through restrictive and manipulated information.  This technique has been used in the past for militaristic purposes, but never before has such a tactic been so widely practiced for the desired outcome of American separatist ideology.

Historically, such controlled information tools were used by law enforcement agencies to help them to avoid exposing information that could harm sensitive investigations or enhance State security.  The action is known as Gag Orders, and these orders have often been essential in the legal system in order not to contaminate a jury pool, and to enable them to make a decision based on facts presented by both sides of a legal proceeding.  Strangely, today’s media seems to have imposed these orders upon themselves in an effort to allow the American public only a limited amount of information.  One has to wonder what it is these “news” agencies have to gain through employing such a tactic.   Which side is it that they represent, exactly; the Governmental agenda or the interests of We the People?

Today, the political agenda and corporatist interests have grown to the point where reality is not recognized by We the People.  Much of the agenda of our modern-day system favors profit over truth.  Journalism has become the voice of the corporations rather than the voice of the people.   As stated by Ellen Cantarow:

Journalism in the mainstream media has changed because a handful of corporations own the mainstream press. Because of the corporate takeover of mainstream media, journalism has become corrupted.

Today, instead of information, we receive the corporate and political dissertations on what we are expected to think, as opposed to allowing us to form as opinion from presented facts.

The End Result
The awakening of the people in Egypt that is now spreading across the region heralds a time where information, or access to information, drove a people to awaken to the realities of a system that truly only served itself.  Through the power of the Internet, an entire people were able to coordinate acoup d’etat that has shaken the foundation of Fascism around the world. 

Some of America’s leaders are standing in fear of this result, especially given the incessant deception that has become so prevalent in mass media.  The reach of this deception has become so extended that neighbor fights with neighbor using arguments saturated with regurgitated material from the previous night's news paranoia.  At the end of the day, it has become the fight between the brainwashed and the media-named radicals.  No longer does our national view know of actual reality.  Now, the people are marching to such a disparate beat we are no longer in step with each other. 

The Merriam-Webster Dictionary defines freedom as the quality or state of being free: the absence of necessity, coercion, or constraint in choice or action.   The absence of coercion certainly doesn’t exist in a system that channels falsity.  If choice is freedom, what is the action of being given a choice between a lie and another lie?  Is it freedom, or is it merely the illusion of such?  If it is an illusion, are we then truly free?

Often times, Americans purposely follow a course of ignorance in order to save themselves the trouble of deciphering a complex system where fact is fiction and truth a myth.  If given the choice between ignorance and knowledge I would choose the latter, but corporate/political powered information sources will have me choosing a lie to suit my sense of protection from the "evil of the world."  In spite of this reality, I continue each day to search for truth and to fight for reason within the unreasoned environment of American pseudo-journalism in desperate need to know that my freedom still holds meaning.

One of the greatest of the modern media misdirections is the ignorance-aligned initiative against the State of Islam.  The Christian Right is staging a war on Islam and stands in condemnation of anyone who is not either Christian (or their loose definition of it), or in full agreement with American aggression in the world.  Is this what American Christianity and the fight against terrorism is about: condemning other religions and its people? Is this the freedom of religion we have been taught that the Constitution guarantees?

With the recent incidences of political uprising in the Middle East, those who support the evolving, modern Dark Ages have condemned the strive for Democracy for the very simple reason that freedom in an Islamic state poses a real threat to their stereotyping of all Muslims wanting Sharia Law, and their depiction of Muslims desiring to spread their “hate” across the globe.  If Islam supports peace, the farce is exposed and America loses faith in the falsity of the storyline. 

By choosing the path of following this deceptive tactic, one does not only deprive one's self of truth, but deprives one’s nation of what it truly means to be American. The brainwashing of our people through current media misdirection is in and of itself, a form of terrorism. When an entire people follow the beats of deceptive drums, especially those of global condemnation and the ongoing war against our global brothers and sisters, it only heralds the fall of an empire rather than its resurrection.

The truth of the matter is quite simple: Ignorance is a poison ingested by the intellectually dead of this life.  If my country is not striving to support “Democracy” in the global realm and our freedom represented by “lamp beside the golden door” has become extinguished, what am I fighting for?

Other articles by S. Paul Forrest:  Beware The Rising Ire of a Forgotten Generation 

Death of The American Dream

America's Misconception of Freedom 

A Government By The Fascists For The Fascists

6 Defenses Against The Modern American Political Plague

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