14 January 2018

The Most Revolutionary News the US Press Ever Published?

Yes, I'm still profoundly disabled -- the pain of my torn hip and thigh ligaments and the associated buttocks-to-ankle hematoma far surpasses the anesthetic ability of my (begrudgingly*) prescribed painkillers  -- but the material accessed by this  Columbia Journalism Review link is by far the most newsworthy material I have yet handled, "yet handled" covering a journalism career that began in late 1956 and continues sporadically even now.  It is also the most potentially revolution-inspiring story I have ever covered, and I post this link with full knowledge of its implications.
Quoth CJR:

Meeting with lawmakers Thursday in the Oval Office, President Trump expressed his displeasure with the bipartisan immigration deal being discussed. “Why are we having all these people from shithole countries come here?” Trump asked, referencing immigrants from Haiti, El Salvador, and African nations. The Washington Post’s Josh Dawsey broke the story, reporting that Trump next suggested the US should instead prioritize people from countries such as Norway.

Trump’s words may have been shocking, but they can’t be seen as surprising. His history of racist comments stretches back decades, and it was only weeks ago that The New York Times reported that the president, again in an Oval Office meeting, said Haitian immigrants “all have AIDS” and Nigerians who visit the US would never “go back to their huts.” Yesterday’s comments were nothing new for a man who launched his political profile on the lie that Barack Obama wasn’t a true American.

There is little I can add to the legitimate outrage (finally) expressed by CJR's courageously truthful reporting on the JesuNazi who has ridden the USian Empire's potentially apocalyptic political sickness to the most dangerously powerful throne in our species' history. Hence I urge you all not only to read the full text (the material quoted above is merely its introduction), but to circulate it as widely -- and as repetitiously -- as you can. Please please please do so, for the fate of our nation and indeed of our entire species literally hangs in the balance, with the outcome to be determined -- as never before -- by our news media's ongoing courageousness or lack thereof. 
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*I would be derelict in my reportorial duty were I not to report that the excruciating inadequacy of my prescription pain medications is a product of two uniquely USian conditions. The first of these is the fanatical Christian belief that all suffering is approved by their notably sadistic god -- that adequate pain medication is therefore defiance of the Divine Sadist's will. The second of these is the nationwide, seemingly "health"-oriented but ultimately fanatical Christian panic over the abuse of opiates, which in hideous truth is spawned by the fanatical Christians' terror over the allegedly "heretical" insights all mood-altering drugs are alleged to provide. 

Hence the spectrum of associated taboos, including the Trump/Pence Regime's ever-more-obvious intent to impose zero-tolerance, mass-arrest enforcement of federal marijuana laws in states that have legalized its medical and recreational consumption. Thus my prediction...

(To read the rest, go here or here.)