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Caitlin Johnstone: Trump Party Vs Cheney Party

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  Caitlin Johnstone: Trump Party Vs Cheney Party Two warmongering oligarchic parties are shoving the Overton window of acceptable opinion as far in the direction of imperialism, militarism and tyranny as possible. Liz Cheney taking the congressional oath of office in January 2017 with her father Dick Cheney at right.  (Office of Representative Liz Cheney, Wikimedia Commons, Public domain) By  Caitlin Johnstone D ick “Darth Vader” Cheney, has officially  endorsed Kamala Harris for president . His daughter, Liz Cheney,  has also endorsed Harris . “In our nation’s 248-year history, there has never been an individual who is a greater threat to our republic than Donald Trump,” said the former vice president in  a statement , adding, “As citizens, we each have a duty to put country above partisanship to defend our Constitution. That is why I will be casting my vote for Vice President Kamala Harris.” Cheney was a  charter signatory  to the notorious neoc...

Let's eat. Each other.

  Let's eat. Each other. IRINA SLAV About a year ago, I came across a website that seemingly promoted the self-donation of dying people to be used for meat after death. It was a really well done website, simple yet elegant and very, very convincing, up to and including in the section about the organisation having obtained all legal documents necessary to conduct its activity. Taught by life to expect pretty much everything from my fellow human beings I took the website seriously, at first. So did a lot of other people who didn’t take the time to really dig into the website to find it was, in fact, “a conceptual art project”. I can understand why. The idea of eating other humans was too outstandingly horrific to provoke anything other than outrage and disgust. Of course, the website no longer exists. Or maybe it’s hidden well. In any case, I couldn’t find it but I did find a series of “fact-checks”  telling  anyone interested that the good people behind the website were on...