Posted by sigismund on May 10, 2019, at 15:25:30
In reply to Re: Stephen Cohen » sigismund, posted by beckett2 on May 8, 2019, at 17:11:45
I thought Chris Hedges' style would stand out.
From today's Counterpunch......
What constitutes the bulwark of our own liberty and independence? It is not our frowning battlements, our bristling sea coasts, the guns of our war steamers, or the strength of our gallant and disciplined army . . . Our defense is in the preservation of the spirit which prizes liberty as the heritage of all men, in all lands, every where. Destroy this spirit, and you have planted the seeds of despotism around your own doors.
President Abraham Lincoln, September 11, 1858
Civilisational failure writ large.
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