Our leaders lied to us about Korea. They lied about Vietnam. They lied about Kosovo. Professor Jeffrey Sachs: “In 1999, we bombed Belgrade for 78 days. The point of that was to break Serbia in two, to create a new state, Kosovo, where we have the largest NATO military base…
There is only one sensible, rational, effective course of action. Current U.S. leadership, at all levels — we’re probably looking at 99% of those now in positions of power — MUST BE REPLACED. This is the only possible way to stop U.S. aggression and wanton promotion of chaos and violence in the world. This MUST BE THE ENTIRE FOCUS OF PEACE ACTIVISM going forward. We have no choice in the matter. The record is clear — an unblemished record of total failure to stop, or even slow down, the war machine.
Why did I write this book at this time? It’s simple. America is at the end of its ropes. It’s in a tailspin. It’s accelerating its own decline and demise. If we as a nation are not consumed by a nuclear war, then we will be cannibalized by horrible policies which will eventually lead to our destruction as a functioning nation.
Jeffrey D. Sachs is a University Professor and Director of the Center for Sustainable Development at Columbia University, where he directed The Earth Institute from 2002 until 2016. He is also President of the UN Sustainable Development Solutions Network and a commissioner of the UN Broadband Commission for Development. He…
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[ The decline and fall of the American Empire is accelerating. America has its own suicidal foot on the pedal and the tragic finality may come sooner than anyone could possibly have anticipated. The always brilliant Patrick Lawrence offers some of the signs of this historic development. This article originally…