The Post-Partisan Emporium

  The Truth Unvarnished Peeling away centuries of patina Radio Far Side The American Society of Theatrical Religious Spectacle (ASTRS Inc.) has for decades been well paid to promote an absurdity commonly called “Israel,” with the official name of Zion Inc. Banking on the profound ignorance of the general population and their lack of motivation to actually study history, Zion Inc. has convinced millions that it has exclusive rights to a strip of desert formally known since AD137 as Palestine. The greatest of the myriad absurdities is the idea that YHWH is the Christian god. A quick reading of John 8:44 should put that to rest, but ASTRS Inc. assiduously avoids focusing on inconvenient passages in their sacred texts, in order to sell a fairy tale of critical military and geopolitical importance. The second greatest absurdity peddled by Zion Inc. is the idea that “Israel” is the homeland of the “Jews”. Again, actually reading the four canonical Gospels should dispel that illusion, but...

  Patriotic Purge: The Real Cost of War Fighting for corruption and profits   Donald Jeffries The great Gen. Smedley Butler wrote his classic  War is a Racket  in response to the pointless carnage of WWI. Some 15-22 million largely adolescent boys died for absolutely nothing. That fact that they can’t provide a more accurate estimate than that tells you clearly about the incomprehensible numbers involved. In 1846, President Polk decided to wage war on Mexico. Was the land grab that followed, including what became California, worth the lives of the nearly 14,000 Americans who were killed? Or the 25,000 Mexicans, including an unknown number of civilians? Mexico in fact lost 55% of its territory to the U.S. from 1836-1848. No wonder the La Raza folks hate gringos. In April 1847, the Massachusetts legislature passed a resolution denouncing the war as “a gigantic crime” waged against a “weak neighbor” for the purposes of conquest, territorial aggrandizement, and the ...