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KoKo

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6. It's been a string of disappointments as opposed to what Could Have Been...

Reply to bemildred (Reply #2)

Tue Sep 3, 2013, 09:16 PM

Sep 2013

if the "Powers that Be"...Think Tanks, Wall Street and Doctrinaire Folks who Pumped the Cold War for their Own Ends hadn't been allowed to take over.

I don't know you and perhaps you would disagree with what I say...but, from MY GENERATION it saddens me to see "What Could Have Been" and how it was all thrown away.

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"The Decade of the Stunned Superpower" -- Tom Englehardt (Long/Fascinating Read) [View all] KoKo Sep 2013 OP

The conclusion put it very well: truebluegreen Sep 2013 #1

But the ruling classes and MIC aren't losing. They are profiting. cui bono Sep 2013 #3

I agree. But "America" is losing. truebluegreen Sep 2013 #4

Yeah, I never understand greedy CEOs either, who pollute and seem to be bent on ruining the planet cui bono Sep 2013 #5

"What, after all, are we to make of a planet with a single superpower that lacks genuine enemies bemildred Sep 2013 #2

It's been a string of disappointments as opposed to what Could Have Been... KoKo Sep 2013 #6

It saddens me too. For a long time now. bemildred Sep 2013 #7

Okay... KoKo Sep 2013 #8

Oh they know we are here. We are the ignored is what we are. bemildred Sep 2013 #9