[Peace] Chilling Trump speech, listen to Media Benjamin and Trita Parsi analysis on DN.Org

[Wayne Jenne]

On Mon, May 22, 2017 at 9:33 AM Karen Aram via Peace <
peace at lists.chambana.net> wrote:

> Democracy Now covers Trumps speech in Saudi, which is really chilling.
> Listen to what Medea Benjamin and Trita Parsi have to say.
>
> See: WWW.DemocracyNow.Org
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I thought about Media all through Trump's speech.  It was great to talk to
her when she came here just before the election. After the election I read
Lewis Lapham's "Age of Folly" which covers the end of the Cold War to Trump
the candidate. Here's a beautiful quote from the preface regarding the fall
of the Soviet Union:
"A precious asset, communist ogre in the totalitarian snow, and in 1990
sorely missed. Absent the Cold War with the Russians, how then to defend,
honor, and protect the cash flow of the nations military-industrial complex
pumping air and iron into the conspicuous consumptions of the American
Dream"

What comes home to me is not so much the issue of Enemies in Politics, but
the issue of why so many of us don't want to hear or talk about it. Content
to relegate the issues of war and climate change to the pro & con debates
on corporate media and hold on to whatever piece of that dream we still
have. We are addicted to fossil fuels and don't want to hear about the
death and destruction we cause.
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