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1 year ago @ http://www.information... - Is America still Excep... · 0 replies · +6 points

Americans would do better if they dealt in realities and not their own mythical fantasies. The US has never been as great as it claims to be. It has been at war since it was invented, rampaging increasingly around the globe after creating misery and destruction in the Americas.

As a place to live it has never offered the best quality of life on average to its citizens and has always been a deeply divided society. Politically it has always been more corrupt than most other Western nations and while it has long talked the talk it has not walked the walk.

Actions speak louder than words and unless one is a Third World desperate most are just grateful to have not been born American.

2 years ago @ http://www.information... - Chris Hedges: Monarchs... · 1 reply · +1 points

Yes but that is not the fault of the monarchy. That is the fault of US hegemony and the fact weaker nations often have little choice.

2 years ago @ http://www.information... - Chris Hedges: Monarchs... · 0 replies · +2 points

All systems of power have done harm. Do you reject the American political system because the country has been at war virtually nonstop since it invented itself and because it has been responsible for millions of deaths and the destruction of numerous countries in its historically recent warmongering?

Probably not. So perhaps apply perspective to monarchical systems which were, after all, whether chief or King, simply governmental ordering systems from the past.

2 years ago @ http://www.information... - Chris Hedges: Monarchs... · 2 replies · +2 points

You clearly have zero knowledge of history or reality.

2 years ago @ http://www.information... - Chris Hedges: Monarchs... · 3 replies · +5 points

The problem is that a system of monarchy combined with democracy, in this case the Westminster system, works far better than anything else. The Americans present the world with a case for monarchy when the deep flaws in their system as a constitutional republic, where, in essence, they elect a King - no Queens yet - every four years, are apparent to everyone but Americans.

2 years ago @ http://www.information... - Why Israel hates the P... · 0 replies · +3 points

The figure of 6 million European Jews dying if the Zionists were not supported in their plan to colonise Palestine was first stated in the 1890's. Were the Zionists psychic?

2 years ago @ http://www.information... - The Real ... · 0 replies · +1 points

Why do you refer to Jews and Arabs? Jew is a religion, Arab is a culture.

Either talk about the European Jews and the Palestinian Christians and Muslims but do not compare Arab with Jew.

4 years ago @ http://www.information... - Comment - ... · 0 replies · +2 points

Let the point also be made that Palestinians do not suffer because they are Palestinian but because they are non-Jews. Israel gave immediate citizenship to Jewish Palestinians when it imposed its State on Palestine so discrimination has nothing to do with being Palestinian but is purely based on religion.

4 years ago @ http://www.information... - Comment - ... · 0 replies · +1 points

While this comment is made not to blame but to understand the context of movements against some followers of Judaism, when will the policy of separatism and elitism, practised by many Jews, be taken into context when seeking to understand reactions?

For example, the Nazi paranoia about Jews was not particular to Nazis, but common in Europe following the Bolshevik Revolution and its horrors, created and dominated by followers of Judaism.

Nothing happens in a vacuum. When this is not dealt with it is hardly surprising that fascist Jews in Israel and Occupied Palestine have done and do what they do.

4 years ago @ http://www.information... - Comment - ... · 0 replies · +1 points

Jews are not a people. They are a religion. If Jews have a right to their own state then so does every other religion in the world. That is and always was the key problem.

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