Here's Some Recommended Reading I Hope You Already Read

MY SELECTIONS OF the dozen most relevant essays on the Internet recently (with capitalization as in the originals):  

Beware Trump's Sneak Attack on Social Security

The US war drive against Iran and the conflict with Europe
andThe U.S. Has Been Eclipsed in Every Sphere But War
and
Freedom Rider: U.S. Wages War Against the World
(and anything else on Black Agenda Report).

The Great Scandal: Christianity's Role in the Rise of the Nazis
(A thank-you to tigerlille1 for sending me this link.)

State Department to LGBT Married Couples: Your ‘Out of Wedlock’ Kids Aren’t Citizens

America's Reproductive Slaves
and
What Does a Post-Roe America Look Like? Many Already Living in It
and
The GOP Is on the Road to Mass Lockups for Women Who Have Miscarriages

'We Don't Know a Planet Like This': CO2 Levels Hit 415 PPM for First Time in 3 Million+ YearsandExposing the Dirty Business Behind the Designer Label and
Plastics Threaten Global Climate at a Massive Scale During Each Point of Lifecycle, Report Finds

IF YOU READ only one of the above essays, please make it  America's Reproductive Slaves -- linked again  for emphasis -- which exposes a hitherto-unrecognized motive for the anti-abortion movement. 

Should you read but two, please make Beware Trump's Sneak Attack on Social Security your other choice. 

And please don't be misled by the badly written, subtly classist Common Dreams head; what "Sneak Attack" exposes is a new, potentially deadly threat not just to Social Security and Medicare recipients, but another offensive in the Neoliberal attack on every lower income person in the United States. That means any of us who are eligible for Medicare subsidies; Medicaid; food stamps; the Women, Infants and Children (WIC) program; veterans' programs;  housing subsidies or assistance; Supplemental Security Income; wintertime heating assistance; and every other federally funded social service for those of us -- now more than half the national population -- who are officially impoverished. 

 

Sound familiar? It should; in ugly truth this threat is the Trumpian reanimation of one of the many treacheries by which Obama -- after portraying himself as the candidate of "change we can believe in" -- revealed himself to be Barack the Betrayer instead. Just as the Democratic (sic) Party repeatedly reveals itself to be nothing more than a Republican Fifth Column. 

(For those of us too young to remember, a Fifth Column -- so named by a fascist war criminal -- is an ultimate weapon of subversion, betrayal and conquest.)

Because the abolition of social services is demanded  by Neoliberal dogma, the attack is unanimously  bipartisan, with the Democrats hiding behind a smokescreen of lies and disinformation as they perform their customary Fifth Column functions for the Republicans. 

The assault's renewal arises from the properly disturbing fact the Trump/Pence Regime  has (again) figured out -- in yet another demonstration of the diabolical cunning that empowers its burgeoning evil -- how to shred the Constitution. This time the intent is to impose the gradual but ultimately genocidal termination of all social services precisely as demanded by our Capitalist, Neoliberal and ever-more-defiantly ChristoNazi overlords.  Who amongst us -- child, woman, man -- is not therefore a target? 

 

LB/20 May 2019
 

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