Dear Friends, with all the maelstrom of interpretations in media, and our own personal angst, Michael Brenner’s metaphor about Moby Dick seems apt. Please read and ponder this possibility.

Sharon

Consortium News
January 15, 2017

America’s Self-Destructive Obsessions

The U.S. population is led from one hysteria to the next, now transitioning from the Global War on Terror to the New Cold War with Russia, a fearful madness that is infecting the collective psyche, says Michael Brenner.

By Michael Brenner

Captain Ahab’s obsessive hunt for Moby Dick was driven by the thirst for revenge. The great white whale had maimed Ahab – in soul as well as body. Ahab was consumed by the passion to restore his sense of self, and make himself whole again, by killing his nemesis – a compulsion that his wooden leg never lets weaken.

America’s “war-on-terror” has become our national mission for restoration. The psychic wound of 9/11 is what grieves us; it inflames our collective passion for vengeance. The physical wound is already healed. By now, it must be memorialized in order for the scar to be seen.  It never did impair our functioning. In that sense, little more than a broken toe.

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Hi Friends, a pleasant end of 2016 to you!

The New Yorker has published a “must read” piece on how close we may be to Nuclear War… as we enjoy Holiday celebrations and usher in 2017’s New Year.

Pointed out near the end of this article, the author confesses, “My greatest concern is the lack of public awareness about this existential threat (and) the absence of a vigorous public debate.”

This is the shared deep concern for most of us who follow these issues closely––yet the average American is totally unaware that this possibility exists––or what our scientists are saying.

We so need to be aware of what people like Shlosser are warning––then speak with others. You might try something light weight for openers; e.g., “What do you make of the scuttlebutt about being close to a nuclear war again?” Surely, they will have some response and may even think about it later.

Enjoy the Holiday week with family and friends!

Sharon

The New Yorker
December 23, 2016

World War Three, By Mistake

Harsh political rhetoric, combined with the vulnerability of the nuclear command-and-control system, has made the risk of global catastrophe greater than ever.

By Eric Schlosser

On June 3, 1980, at about two-thirty in the morning, computers at the National Military Command Center, beneath the Pentagon, at the headquarters of the North American Air Defense Command (norad), deep within Cheyenne Mountain, Colorado, and at Site R, the Pentagon’s alternate command post center hidden inside Raven Rock Mountain, Pennsylvania, issued an urgent warning: the Soviet Union had just launched a nuclear attack on the United States. The Soviets had recently invaded Afghanistan, and the animosity between the two superpowers was greater than at any other time since the Cuban Missile Crisis.

U.S. Air Force ballistic-missile crews removed their launch keys from the safes, bomber crews ran to their planes, fighter planes took off to search the skies, and the Federal Aviation Administration prepared to order every airborne commercial airliner to land.

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Dear Friends,

Whether wrong or right, great indignation is being made about “Russia trying to influence America’s 2016 election.”

To date, there is still no evidence that this is actual fact. Still the accusations are repeated daily in U.S. mainstream media.

From another time: TIME magazine of July 15, 1996, proudly carries the full story about Washington’s total influence to elect Boris Yeltsin, Russia’s first president. Please see the linked document with photos below.

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Russia Insider

UN Goes off Script in Rare Moment of Clarity: ‘The Agenda of Corporate Media Is Regime Change’ in Syria

December 10, 2016

Independent journalist Eva Bartlett sets a smug reporter straight during a UN Syria Mission press conference. Please take 3 minutes from your busy schedule and watch this amazing video.

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PLEASE WATCH IMMEDIATELY TODAY

BREAKTHROUGH on TV: CIA & Pundits Push Preemptive Putsch

Mark Maxwell of Independent TV Station WHDT* gave Ray McGovern, (the CIA White House daily briefer for three American presidents) enough time Thursday to expose the public push for something entirely new in U.S. history; a concerted Establishment campaign to effect a “pre-emptive coup” by flipping tomorrow’s vote of the electoral collect prevent.

NSA Holds Key To Russian Hacking Allegations

Interview with Ex-CIA Analyst Ray McGovern

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