Back in the ’70s and ’80s, when I was a “violent peace activist” and the cold war featured the mutually MAD United States and the Soviet Union, I noticed this odd fact: the initials of the one, U.S., happened to be the mirror image of the initials for the other, S.U.
What a convoluted history we have endured since then! The U.S. morphing into our fearful image of the old S.U. as U.S. whistleblower Snowden finds refuge in Russia, and the post-9/11 endless, corporatized, and very-very-profitable-for-the-1% “War on Terror” now turned on our own “homeland.”
Welcome to Post-Constitution America
What If Your Country Begins to Change and No One Notices?
August, 2013
by Peter Van Buren
Excerpt:
One by one, the tools and attitudes of the war on terror, of a world in which the “gloves” are eternally off, have come home. The comic strip character Pogo’s classic warning — “We have met the enemy and he is us” — seems ever less like a metaphor. According to the government, increasingly we are now indeed their enemy.
