Should we smile in self-recognition, or frown in rejection? — Australian Caitlin Johnstone's pre-Christmas description of the United States

© 2021 Peter Free

 

24 December 2021

 

 

This is morosely accurate and funny, at the same time

 

Australia's "rogue journalist" Caitlin Johnstone published the following, yesterday:

 

 

The US is the absolute last government on earth we should want making decisions which threaten the very existence of our species.

 

Its interventions are consistently disastrous, consistently based on lies, consistently fail to accomplish what their proponents claim, and are never based on what’s in the highest interest for everyone.

 

You simply cannot understand international controversies without understanding the propaganda spin that goes into them and having an acute awareness that your own society participates in those propaganda operations.

 

If you don’t get this, you don’t get anything.

 

 

© 2021 Caitlin Johnstone, The Big Threats Are the Ones We Can’t Come Back From, caitlinjohnstone.com (23 December 2021)

 

 

The moral? — Happy Christmas . . .

 

And in its presumed glow, recognize that we Americans (approximately speaking) have not learned anything at all from 'that Kid' in the manger cradle.