I occasionally receive hate email but more frequently receive ones like this: "I’ve just unsubscribed to your email list. Your website is filled with negative stories and articles, and I need to keep a positive attitude and do what I can to make my world better."
How does one describe the tone of such a statement? Angry? Not really. Disappointed? Perhaps. Scared? Probably. But I think that righteous is the word I would use to describe this reader’s perspective. By righteous, I mean a false sense of doing or feeling "the right thing", but the problem with a righteous attitude is that it often leads to detachment from reality-not unlike Barbara Bush’s comment that she doesn’t want to trouble her " beautiful mind " with statistics about troop or civilian casualties in Iraq. It’s all so American/Judeo-Christian-and, of course, Dale Carnegie: keeping a positive attitude so that we never feel badly about what’s actually happening.
How unfortunat...
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Searching for America’s Next EnemyFrom: populistamerica.com
Post Date: 2006-07-26 02:38:40
Peace is boring. How else to explain the search by some conservatives for a new enemy?
After the Cold War the foreign policy establishment could have gratefully accepted peace, stopped meddling around the globe, and demobilized America’s outsize military. Instead, it found other enemies.
Doing so wasn’t easy. Saddam Hussein’s Iraq proved to be easy prey. Now Iran is getting the most attention.
But the Pentagon has just issued its latest alarmist assessment of Chi...
more The Crime of Lebanon and PalestineFrom: populistamerica.com
Post Date: 2006-07-26 01:36:17
By any interpretation of international law, Israel today is committing massive and egregious war crimes and crimes against humanity against the defenseless people of Palestine and Lebanon. It’s doing it with the full support and encouragement of the US and willful compliance of the West, most of the Arab world, the UN and the dominant corporate media worldwide acting as cheerleaders for the mass killing, crippling destruction, and immiseration of innocent civilians in Lebanon and the Pales...
more The Inflation TaxFrom: populistamerica.com
Post Date: 2006-07-26 00:35:59
by Rep. Ron Paul (R-TX)
All government spending represents a tax. The inflation tax, while largely ignored, hurts middle-class and low-income Americans the most. Simply put, printing money to pay for federal spending dilutes the value of the dollar, which causes higher prices for goods and services. Inflation may be an indirect tax, but it is very real - the individuals who suffer most from cost of living increases certainly pay a "tax."
Unfortunately no one in Washington, espe...
more Steady game of brinkmanship in LebanonFrom: populistamerica.com
Post Date: 2006-07-25 02:06:33
The relentless blunderbuss against Lebanese towns and villages continue through this week. Days and nights get more crimson, adding enough color to punditries that obfuscate the five sacrosanct Ws of journalism.
For a while, when the markets were shaken and stirred by the widening "geopolitical" risks that an Israeli invasion might entail, Federal Reserve Chairman Ben Bernanke uttered a few magical words that hinted - and nothing more - at a halt in U.S. interest rates.
Oil prices su...
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