Monthly Archives: November 2016

Waiting for the Barbarians

Posted on November 30, 2016 by Fec

From Chris Hedges: The desiccation of our liberal institutions ensured the demise of our capitalist democracy. History has amply demonstrated what was to come next. The rot and political paralysis vomited up a con artist as president along with an … Continue reading →

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Washington Post Disgracefully Promotes a McCarthyite Blacklist From a New, Hidden, and Very Shady Group

Posted on November 30, 2016 by Fec

From Glenn Greenwald and Ben Norton at The Intercept: [T]he individuals behind this newly created group are publicly branding journalists and news outlets as tools of Russian propaganda — evencalling on the FBI to investigate them for espionage — while cowardly hiding … Continue reading →

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We Are All Deplorables

Posted on November 23, 2016 by Fec

From Chris Hedges: I spent two years writing a book on the Christian right called “American Fascists: The Christian Right and the War on America.” I spent many months with dispossessed white workers in states such as Missouri, Kansas, Florida, … Continue reading →

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Trump is Torquemada

Posted on November 22, 2016 by Fec

I had to sit through yet another article by Chris Hedges, my fucking guru, today where he misrepresented Trump because he isn’t acting like Hitler.  Let’s get this straight, once and for all.  DJT precipitated from relatively new money, and … Continue reading →

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Edenton

Posted on November 20, 2016 by Fec

To be as gods, knowing good and evil. Raymond Stafford was born in 1935, too young for WWII and not called to fight in Korea by virtue of being the only son of an aged father who needed him to … Continue reading →

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First Union

Posted on November 20, 2016 by Fec

Captain Zebulon Vance, USMC, Ret., ancestor and namesake of the North Carolina Civil war governor, sat quietly as ladies of the congregation decided on the particulars of upcoming events at Weaverville Baptist Church, of which he was pastor.  Not yet thirty, … Continue reading →

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Intolerance on the Right

Posted on November 20, 2016 by Fec

“Unlimited tolerance must lead to the disappearance of tolerance. If we extend unlimited tolerance even to those who are intolerant, if we are not prepared to defend a tolerant society against the onslaught of the intolerant, then the tolerant will … Continue reading →

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The Audacity of Trump

Posted on November 19, 2016 by Fec

I’ve read predictions for Donald Trump from Chomsky, Nader, Hedges and West, who make up the four horsemen of the political wilderness, or what used to be the left.  To a man, they don’t give the new administration a chance … Continue reading →

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Steve Bannon’s New Political Movement

Posted on November 19, 2016 by Fec

From Michael Wolff at The Hollywood Reporter: “I’m not a white nationalist, I’m a nationalist. I’m an economic nationalist,” he tells me. “The globalists gutted the American working class and created a middle class in Asia. The issue now is … Continue reading →

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When the Shouting Stops

Posted on November 16, 2016 by Fec

John Michael Greer on Trump supporters: To judge by what I’ve heard them say, they want a less monomaniacally interventionist foreign policy and an end to the endless spiral of wars of choice in the Middle East; they want health insurance … Continue reading →

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