Let us hope that the Middle East/African revolutionaries have the intelligence and rationality to not model their emerging governments on the US plutocratic/capitalist ‘democratic’ travesty. Some day, when the US citizenry awakens and revolts, we may use one of the new governments formed in the Middle East as a pattern. Or just rid the current US government of it’s perversions and atrocities and hypocrisies.

“Flummox” has corrected the irrelevant whinge of “Michael Gross”.  Yet I doubt the latter is quite as blind, naive or dense as he would have to be in order to Not Notice that truthdig’s featured articles, despite the rubric of “Reports”, are NOT labelled “NEWS Reports”, but are OBVIOUSLY editorial analyses by signed “Columnists” with well-known or easily determined views, and are clearly understood to be the considered opinions of the named contributing writers.  Indeed such opinion pieces are fully understood to be exactly that by all sentient readers not seeking to hide ulterior objections, the nature of which I dare not presume to speculate ‘non-purely-factually’ upon;  But complaining on patently spurious grounds is a ludicrous and puerile device for the pretence of not deigning further to stoop.  One need not be a philosopher of history nor practitioner of propaganda to realize the non-existence of impeccably value-free unbiased “reporting” utterly uncontaminated by passing through the prism of our deviously human brains,  except Of Course when such “Reporting” receives the requisite imprimatur from special-agenda hypocritical pleaders for pseudo-purely-objective “just the facts ma’am” deadpan net-and-knuckle-draggers…

WARNING:

The current revolutionary zeal spreading across the Muslim world was NOT ‘esparked’ by “terrorists,” a clever propagan-duh term employed by Amerika’s war-mongering ruling class to manipulate der corn-$yrup sheeple-people in faster poo-food Amerika (a.k.a.: the land of big Nazi-Pharma). The current civil unrest in Muslim countries began with the self-immolation of an indigent fruit $eller in Tunisia, a man unable to earn a living because the erstwhile ruling class in Tunisia deprived him of do so.

Yesss… it only take the death of a butterfly to change the world. One little match to start a huge fire, one tiny snowflake to birth an avalanche.

Like the ‘War on Poverty’... and the specious ‘War on Cancer’... the destructive ‘War on Drrrugs’... the glorious [sic] ‘War on Terror’ is a god-damn f*@kin’ lie!

But allass! Everything about the UNITED $TATES OF PERPETUAL WAR PROFITEERING is a lie. Everything!!!

Rememeber the Maine? The Lusitania? Pearl Harbor? The Federal Reserve Bank? All the “lone gunman” lies for Malcolm X, JFK, MLK, RFK, John Lennon, etc.? The Gulf of Tonkin that started the $ovietnam war? “Weapons of mass destruction” in Iraq-nam? $enator Paul Wellstone’s plane crash? Flight 800 crashing into Long Island Sound after taking off for Paris (with an EMPTY center fuel tank)? Flight 93 NOT being shot down? The drone that did NOT hit the Pentagon? Building Seven collapse? The Twin Towers collapse? Shorting all airline $tocks on 9-10-2001? Manual Noriega not pushing drrrugs to finance black opt projects for George H. W. Bush? Bill Casey, Reagan’s CIA Director, having a “stroke” in his office two hours BEFORE he was scheduled to give testimony about IranContra to a $enate investigative committee? PRESIDENT Dick Cheney trrrumping the soidisant presidency of the dry drunk $ociopath (Bush the Lessor)? Ruling class operatives quietly threatening to do harm to one of Mr. Obama’s daughters if he starts acting like Kennedy?

Yesss… Old Coyote Knose that the list of lies in capitalist/fascist Amerika is endless! The Knose knows… because it talks to the ‘Horse’s Mouth’ (a.k.a.: ‘Gold$tein’ & Company).

Ooops! I’d better not go any further here! This posting already says too much. Indeed! There are folks out there terrified that the alleged $tar-ving artist might ‘espeak’ known-unknowns or unknown-knowns.

Not that anybody would believe “that crazy artist.” Nonetheless… THEY are terrified. They’re terrified of papers in Box No. 8. They are terrified the artist might release his third unpublished novel, a $emi-fiction-all(?) tome that ‘espills’ too many beans. Yeah! You know who you are! And Old Coyote Knose who you are! What you are!

Well… HERE’S SOMETHING I DO KNOW FOR SURE! I know that Amerika is a lie! Its foreign policy is delusional, violent and criminally insane. I know that Amerika has devolved into a vicious evil beast that threatens the very survival of humanity (a.k.a.: ewe-man-unkind).

And I know that “WE THE PEOPLE” need to ‘espark’ open rebellion and a full blown revolution against the bankster gambler addicts in the Wall $treet casino and their criminal cousins, the Pentagon boners in the military industrial complex.

And shame on our troops! The troops are dupes! Pumped full of poisonous vaccines. Sad to say… Amerika’s troops are nothing more than agents… doing the bidding of Amerika’s perpetual war profiteers!

Come on! Wake up trooper! Wake the f*@k up! You are NOT making Amerika safer! Quite the opposite! You are making the Amerikan people the most hated and reviled people on Earth. Yes! YOU… acting like EWE!

Be sure and spell my ‘First Amendment name’ correctly (in lieu of correct-lie)... you god-damn $onofabitches!

Yeah, I think Americans are fed up with foreign wars.  U.S.
involvement in unnecessary wars and rescinding taxes on the upper
1% of its population who have most of the wealth have nearly depleted
the treasury and that has direly impacted much needed socialized
entitlement programs regardless of how much Republicans kick and
scream, they always kick and scream if one of their dollars are used for
the American economic middle and poor strata of the people.  If the
Middle East wants to become Americanized the well able to do it for
themselves.  They do not need any help.

ANOTHER GOOD ARTICLE FROM WILLIAM…LIKE RUSSSIA THE U.S. ARROGANCE GOT THEM
STUCK IN FIGHTING UNWINABLE WARS THAT WILL LEAD ONLY TO A DEBACLE…BEING IN LOVE
WITH VIOLENCE DESTROYS REASON THAT’S WHY WE FAILED TO LEARN FROM VIET NAM…

Michael Gross, obviously leaving the “deductive reasoning” to the reader in your case did not do the trick. If you simply look at the author’s page and read the first sentence of his bio you would be able to see that Pfaff is not a reporter and deduce this article is “political commentary” and not “political news”.

You can disagree with Pfaff’s point of view all you like, but please don’t go sideways just because you expect something else when an article is labeled “report”.

We can “thank” Jimmy Carter and Brzezinski for our being in Afghanistan.  From the translation by William Blum:

http://www.counterpunch.org/brzezinski.html

Zbigniew Brzezinski:
How Jimmy Carter and I Started the Mujahideen

Interview of Zbigniew Brzezinski Le Nouvel Observateur (France), Jan 15-21, 1998, p. 76*

Q: The former director of the CIA, Robert Gates, stated in his memoirs [“From the Shadows”], that American intelligence services began to aid the Mujahadeen in Afghanistan 6 months before the Soviet intervention. In this period you were the national security adviser to President Carter. You therefore played a role in this affair. Is that correct?

Brzezinski: Yes. According to the official version of history, CIA aid to the Mujahadeen began during 1980, that is to say, after the Soviet army invaded Afghanistan, 24 Dec 1979. But the reality, secretly guarded until now, is completely otherwise: Indeed, it was July 3, 1979 that President Carter signed the first directive for secret aid to the opponents of the pro-Soviet regime in Kabul. And that very day, I wrote a note to the president in which I explained to him that in my opinion this aid was going to induce a Soviet military intervention.

Q: Despite this risk, you were an advocate of this covert action. But perhaps you yourself desired this Soviet entry into war and looked to provoke it?

Brzezinski: It isn’t quite that. We didn’t push the Russians to intervene, but we knowingly increased the probability that they would.

Q: When the Soviets justified their intervention by asserting that they intended to fight against a secret involvement of the United States in Afghanistan, people didn’t believe them. However, there was a basis of truth. You don’t regret anything today?

Brzezinski: Regret what? That secret operation was an excellent idea. It had the effect of drawing the Russians into the Afghan trap and you want me to regret it? The day that the Soviets officially crossed the border, I wrote to President Carter: We now have the opportunity of giving to the USSR its Vietnam war. Indeed, for almost 10 years, Moscow had to carry on a war unsupportable by the government, a conflict that brought about the demoralization and finally the breakup of the Soviet empire.

Q: And neither do you regret having supported the Islamic [integrisme], having given arms and advice to future terrorists?

Brzezinski: What is most important to the history of the world? The Taliban or the collapse of the Soviet empire? Some stirred-up Moslems or the liberation of Central Europe and the end of the cold war?

Q: Some stirred-up Moslems? But it has been said and repeated: Islamic fundamentalism represents a world menace today.

Brzezinski: Nonsense! It is said that the West had a global policy in regard to Islam. That is stupid. There isn’t a global Islam. Look at Islam in a rational manner and without demagoguery or emotion. It is the leading religion of the world with 1.5 billion followers. But what is there in common among Saudi Arabian fundamentalism, moderate Morocco, Pakistan militarism, Egyptian pro-Western or Central Asian secularism? Nothing more than what unites the Christian countries.

* There are at least two editions of this magazine; with the perhaps sole exception of the Library of Congress, the version sent to the United States is shorter than the French version, and the Brzezinski interview was not included in the shorter version.

The above has been translated from the French by Bill Blum author of the indispensable, “Killing Hope: US Military and CIA Interventions Since World War II” and “Rogue State: A Guide to the World’s Only Superpower”