This fourth of July article is a call to those people of the USA who can still think critically to stop merely talking about changing the US and hence, the world, and start doing it by creating resistance movements against the beliefs and practices that foster going into countries and homes to kill the people and take their resources. Be it under the ruse of something called democracy, humanitarian intervention, the war on terror or the war on drugs, these programs and their labels delude and deceive in order to manufacture consent for war, torture and theft that profits the small group of men and women who really rule the world.This writer clearly understands that the battle being waged against us, and many others in the world, is an ideological one. She counters many of the "Fourth of July Lies" with the truth to help us to think clearly about the issues of our time.
The only weakness I see with her article is that she fails to connect the lies to the system of capitalism, the goose which lays the golden eggs for 1% of citizens to the detriment of everyone else. To her the source of the lies and oppression is...
The national religion, an ugly mix of Calvinism and evangelical Christianity, is the ultimate expression of greed and manifestation of death wishes which destroys any human love for the poor and down-trodden. The dominant culture promotes the continuation of the ability to make money for consumption; an addiction to mind numbing media; and the desensitization of the population to violence to benefit the greed based fundamentalism of ruling power elites.To be sure religion has been used, and still is to a lesser extent, by the ruling class of capitalists to support their system. And, their system is the real faith-based religion of capitalism that allows a small minority to control the economy to serve their interests, not ours.
