Americans Everywhere Should Support the Gilets Jaunes
American media seems to have taken painstaking effort to give the massive protests in Paris as little coverage as possible, but by now most people are aware of the facts. A protest over a hike in fuel prices by the exceedingly smarmy president Emmanuel Macron, has exploded into full scale civil disobedience relating to a number of grievances including mass migration and membership in NATO. This protest of men and women in yellow high visibility vests (leading to the name Gilets Jaunes) has gripped the country and brought its capital to a standstill as the president has du...
The Catch-All Word in American Policy Discussions Is Now “Hate”
In recent years the American media’s “buzzword” in political discourse is “hatred.” This word, presented in its various forms, serves as an effective show-stopper in some people’s minds, easily drawn out and used, not to win a debate, but to prevent one. At first it seemed that this term was used almost exclusively by the Left against conservatives, most notably Christians who adhered to traditional values-based Christianity rather than the “new” expressions that espouse everything from legalized narcotics to homosexuality and everything in between. Such people were term...
Brave New World as we “Faceoff with Facebook” – But what’s the Alternative?
Facebook is not really anybody’s friend and that is becoming too obvious, not only in terms of internet censorship and their so-called community standards; they are most selective at whom they block. This begs the question as “who is really behind the curtain?” Coincidence or not, two of my publishing outlets: Veterans Today. VT, and USA Really are both blocked—their links cannot be shared by facebook. I guess that says something good about me, and the company that I keep, or that I keep VERY BAD Company and I am not a very politically expedient or correct person—even a...
The Christmas Season as Preparation
It’s here. It is upon us. Well, actually, it already began probably more than a month ago. Christmas season. I think everyone has noticed that it seems to get longer and longer every year. I’m 34, and I remember in my childhood that Christmas season didn’t begin until after Thanksgiving, and that was just perfect. The whole season was bookended by these two warm, family holidays. But then, I also remember when I was working at Walmart like ten years ago and they started playing Christmas music on Halloween day. And I stopped stocking bakery items and thought to myself, “W...
Ukraine: US-installed Fascist Tyranny in Europe’s Heartland
USA Really presents the essay applied for The Global Democracy Award (The John Reed nominee). Ukraine matters. It’s territory is Europe’s largest after Russia’s. It borders seven countries in Europe’s heartland – Belarus, Hungary, Moldova, Poland, Romania, Slovakia and Russia. It shares a strategically important 1,500-long land and sea border with the Russian Federation. The country is resource rich. Zbigniew Brzezinski once said “without Ukraine, Russia ceases to be an empire, but with Ukraine suborned and then subordinated, Russia automatically becomes an empire.”...
Betrayed Not Betrothed
The latest development in the RussiaGate saga, which has kept America spellbound for over a year, are recirculated rumors of an impending arrest of Republican-operative Paul Erickson for his role in the Russian meddling of the 2016 election. Erickson, the strange, if not estranged, lover of the alleged Russian spy Maria Butina, was notified, way back in September, by federal investigators that he maybe charged under Title 18 U.S.C. 951: Agents of foreign governments. Megan Keller’s 12/05/2018 article for The Hill, titled “GOP operative boyfriend of alleged Russian agent...
Slavery as a Spiritual Good
Yes, friends, we are throwing caution to the winds today and jumping directly into the briar patch of political correctness, for there is still a great deal of hyperventilating nowadays over the South’s ‘peculiar institution’, ranging from groups like Black Lives Matter and the Southern Poverty Law Center to conservative Republican politicians and Evangelical Christians. All of them condemn Southern slavery as inhuman, evil, backwards, etc. because it denied black folks certain rights, the ability to achieve the American Dream, and so on and so forth. If man was made sim...
A Breaking Point in Geopolitical Torsion
USA Really presents the essay applied for The Global Democracy Award (The John Reed nominee). Reciprocity in law is as old as, or older than, the Code of Hammurabi’s an ‘eye for an eye.’ This would later be demonstrated in the international law rule of ‘reciprocity’ where an action undertaken by one state cannot be disputed when identical principle is undertaken by an opposing state against the initiating state, an early principle of restraint in international relations. It followed, a greater stability had been sought after in the 20th Century’s attempts to organize the...
What Is Behind the Disintegration of Civility in America? – Part III
Parts I and II of this series examined the present state of American social and political culture, how it has become increasingly coarse and even violent. We also looked back in the nation's history, examining the radically different point of view taken by many Americans in the 19th century, in particular, the connection between one's own personal liberty and gratitude and obedience to God. We further looked at how although the religious identity of Americans remains statistically overwhelmingly Christian, the actual definition of what Christianity actually is has changed...