Barack Obama: The Empire’s New Clothes

Carefully engineered myth and reality clash hard in Obama. But both his policies and advisors will soon tell us how much hope for change is justified—if any. By Paul Street | [print_link] Barack Obama and his followers continue to revise the history of his ascendance, pretending his campaign was rooted among the “outsiders.”  The public line [...]

conspiracy vs. Conspiracy in American History

The American “disease” of cultural arrogance, exceptionalism, Manifest Destiny, capitalist individualism, and human supremacy over nature was already clear and dominant in John Winthrop and among the English Puritan colony he headed.  The colony’s land was taken from Native Americans with Winthrop’s excuse that the natives hadn’t “subdued” the land and thus had no “civil right” [...]

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