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The Obama cabal has done it again! Almost two decades after their first stroke of marketing genius, in 2008, when they catapulted Barack Obama, a lowly first term senator into the first black president of the U.S, they (and he as leader) did it again. This time building a monument to himself following in the tradition of FDR who was the first U.S. president to indulge in self-glorification. FDR’s successors including Obama took their cue and built their own vanity projects which evolved into the presidential library system. A classic example of putting lipstick on a whole collection of pigs.

Exploiting his bona fides as the ex-leader of a powerful but declining hegemon, he commissioned the monstrosity known as the Barack Obama Presidential Center —the most expensive presidential library or museum ever constructed, surpassing all others by a wide margin.  The George W Bush library came in second at a paltry $500 million. Bill Clinton, on the other hand, was a real piker—his library tipped the scales at a mere $165 million. Maybe he’ll ask for a do-over.

About that $850 million which the Obama lackeys announced had been totally funded by private donations. What they “forgot” to mention was the $123 million Illinois taxpayer money that Chicago and Illinois government leaders ponied up and “donated” to the Obama Foundation to beautify the surrounding area. Millions in upgrades it must be added that were not available when “ordinary folks” lived, worked and played in the same space.

Before deciding whether this billion-dollar spectacle of pomp and circumstance bears the slightest resemblance to the achievements of the honoree, let’s go back to November 4, 2008 in Grant Park, Chicago when Obama, using his genius for inspirational rhetoric, made a lot of big promises to the people as he became the 44^th president of the U.S. “This is our time, to put our people back to work and open doors of opportunity for our kids; to … promote the cause of peace; to reclaim the American dream and reaffirm…that while we breathe, we hope.

 “Promote the cause of peace?”  Admittedly a biggie. How did he do? Aside from the two wars he inherited (Iraq and Afghanistan) and continued, his administration initiated five more military campaigns including Libya and Syria and significantly expanded the use of drone strikes as killing machines. Along the way he also managed to kill two American citizens, one a teenager. His excuse? Without even a hint of due process, he deemed them terrorists at his “Terror Tuesday” hoe downs.

He did much better with a second set of promises which his team made sure didn’t receive the publicity of the ones he had no intention of keeping. These he made to his billionaire buddies promising them, among other guarantees, the freedom to rip off ordinary Americans’ healthcare— “Healthcare is a desirable industry for PE investment, given its potential for high revenue which leads to significant returns on investment for the firms.” [University of Chicago Business Law Review].

The people who get their phone calls returned are the same ones who are the beneficiaries of a grateful administration. They more often than not are the owners of private equity criminal organizations (aka shadow banks). Under Obama the flood gates of money and power swelled their bank accounts and produced 935 American billionaires. Borrowing a page from the Mafia time-honored system of reciprocity where mob bosses return favors, protection, or loyalty to individuals who have aided their operations, these gangsters showed their appreciation by pouring almost a billion dollars into Obama’s Presidential Center aka the “beacon of hope.”

Here’s Michelle Obama explaining to those of us too dim to get how mightily Obama labored for one segment of Americans, the folks who would bankroll his retirement while they were bankrupting the rest of us: “The Obama Presidential Center was created as a beacon of hope…aa monument to our unshakeable values, the ones my husband has exemplified his entire life—equality, honesty, empathy, inclusion, fairness…

For fact checking purposes, let’s look at two of his greatest “achievements—” the ACA which helped pave the way for private equity’s increased role in healthcare and Americans’ steady decline in longevity. This disaster was reflected in his response to the foreclosure crisis once again rewarding his billionaire bros at the expense of everyone else by helping private equity buy the nation’s private homes for peanuts then turn around and rent them back to their former owners. Ironic isn’t it that the hope in that silly “beacon of hope” metaphor turns out to be the same hope (partnered with change) that Obama used to convince the American people that his agenda was different from his predecessors when it wasn’t No surprise that the three living former presidents — Bush, Clinton and Biden attended the goings on. It must have been a real meeting of the minds for these would-be members of the “shared values club.” The question we should all ponder is: shared with whom. Ask Jeff Bezos or Oprah Winfrey or a gaggle of CEOS who lead some of the world’s wealthiest corporations why they are willing to part with millions (for Bezos it was $100 million, admittedly chump change for him) to express their gratitude for the president whose policies made them billionaires.

Ten years ago in 2016 as Obama was wrapping up his second term, Suspicious Angels published a piece (“Legacy: Obama and Ours”) documenting Obama’s care and feeding of the people most important to him — the parasites who populate the American oligarchic class.

For those of you who might not have been able to vote in 2017 and especially for those of you who even today cannot believe how those “hopey, changey” promises melted before the ink was even dry on his presidential seal, click on the link below to read the whole shameful story of Obama’s time in office. Like the Wizard Oz who hid his fakery behind a curtain, Obama hid his duplicity behind slogans and catch phrases like “because of what we did… in this election…change has come to America”…, it’s that we cannot have a thriving Wall Street while Main Street suffers… the true strength of our nation comes not from the might of our arms or the scale of our wealth, but from the enduring power of our ideals: democracy, liberty, opportunity and unyielding hope. It still sounded good until we discovered that all the happy talk was just that. The real winners of the Obama presidency were the folks he cared most about —his campaign donors aka the lifeline of the Obama presidency

The metaphorical curtain has now been lifted to reveal the crony capitalism that like some killer parasite has invaded all of our “democratic” institutions —the American healthcare system which puts profit far ahead of patient care, an education system which doesn’t educate and a financial system that leaves forty percent of Americans unable to afford a car repair.

Where does that leave us?

Back at Michelle Obama’s “beacon of hope” trope and those “unshakeable values.” The ones she attributed to her husband—the ones my husband has exemplified his entire life—equality, honesty, empathy, inclusion, fairness” Unfortunately too late the American people learned it was all part of an elaborate scam: first to get the scammer-in-chief elected, second to keep him in the oval office long enough to change the face of America and finally to insure a wildly profitable retirement. Check, check, and check again. Obama’s holds first place in the pantheon of fakes, frauds. And phonies. His real unshakeable values — dishonesty, lack of empathy, unfairness of treatment in all parts of the fading American dream, soaring inequality, and zero inclusion in the era of “haves” and “have nots” aren’t really worth celebrating at all.

Will America ever be ready to elect a president who won’t be coopted by big money hooligans?

Click here to read the story of the Obama presidency 2009 —2017

Once upon a time a very large country found itself nestled between two great oceans which protected it from attack. As the self-described hegemon of the world, it was always on the lookout for real or imagined attacks (mostly imagined it must be confessed). Since its founding 250 years ago, it has been at peace less than 20 years, The present Secretary of Defense has rebranded himself the Secretary of War. To give you an idea of how war-obsessed its leaders are: for 2026, its defense budget is $1 trillion ($1.5 trillion in 2027). Curiously enough, it has not been able to win a war (with the exception of its “glorious” crusade against the 1,500 soldiers of the Granada military) since it helped defeat the Axis powers in 1945. Still, there’s no denying that it is a hydra-headed colossus with 800+ military bases around the world that threatens on a regular basis to rain death and destruction down on weaker countries either directly or through one of its proxies (Ukraine for example). Wait a minute with all this aggressive militarism, veterans must be revered and honored. Not exactly. Beyond a careless “thank you for your service” in the grocery store check-out line, most ignore the 33,000 veterans who are homeless every night in America.

It calls itself the United States of America but that’s a misnomer. With the highest rate of inequality among advanced nations, the majority of its people (the 99%) are united only by their misery— rising prices, an uncertain job market. rising inflation, health insurance premiums going through the roof particularly for 22 million Americans whose insurance premiums doubled or tripled as federal ACA subsidies expired (nationally 14% missed their January premium payment), and skyrocketing housing costs.

The subject of this post is perhaps the biggest scam of all the scams that bedevil most Americans. No, it’s not having a president whose actions and statements (making Canada the 51^st state, annexing Greenland and picking doofuses and baboons as his advisors and cabinet secretaries) suggest he is mentally unhinged. It’s not having participated in the use of sanctions [joining his three predecessor presidents] to kill 38 million people (60% of them children and women) worldwide since 2002. It’s not the U.S. having an educational system that produces American adults able to read only at a 7^th to 8^th grade level while the literacy rate among the people of Russia and China is close to 100%. It’s not even knowing that another in a long line of criminogenic congressman (former Speaker Nancy Pelosi heading the list) used classified information that he received as a member of the House Intelligence Committee to make a killing on the stock market (aided by his wife). It’s called insider trading and if the average American did it, a hefty fine and time in the slammer would be waiting. But for elected officials, it’s the road to riches.

Of all the immoral, often illegal plunder of the public purse, what stands out as the biggest con of all? It’s no secret. The United States has the most expensive healthcare system in the world raking in $5.6 trillion or $16,000+ per American (2025) consuming 20% of GDP. Yet in its primary obligation —the ability to keep its people healthy — the U.S. continues to fail. [Mirror, Mirror 2024 A Portrait of the Failing US health System by The Commonwealth Fund]

The secret sauce that makes possible such stupendous profitability (increasing year after year – up 7.1% in 2025, 8.2% in 2024 – more than three times GDP growth) is the time spent cozying up to elected officials. Not limited by party affiliation, it’s a bipartisan shakedown. At the end of 2022, Joe Biden (who was one of the biggest beneficiaries of Healthcare’s largesse) signed legislation kicking 25 million Americans off Medicaid as a thank you for the “generous” support from the healthcare industry which for his 2020 election campaign topped $13 million. Coincidence? You decide. What about a denizen from the other side of the aisle —President Trump? He has lots to be thankful for. For openers, a rollicking good inauguration (2025 Trump-Vance) made even better with the $11.5 million the healthcare industry kicked in. That’s just the tip of the golden goose. Separately, for the 2024 Trump-Vance campaign, these same gangsters contributed $16.5 million. [Open Secrets]. How altruistic of them. No wait like all the presidents before him, Trump knows that one good turn deserves (demands) another. His good turn happens to be bigger than most other good turns. His OBBA (One Big Beautiful Bill Act) subtracts $1 trillion from Medicaid devastating tens of millions of low-income families, at a cost of 50,000+ lives a year while at the same time gifting $1 trillion in tax cuts for the top 1 percent of Americans.

Healthcare lobbying expenditures rank #1 among all industries, a whopping $867,539,940 (Open Secrets) within striking distance of $1 billion. Equally unsurprising to learn that almost half (44%) of the lobbyists shilling for their healthcare masters are ex-government employees.

U.S. healthcare is a cave-dwelling mutant with three heads: Big Pharma, Big Med and Big Insurance and all three have their tentacles out. The Midas touch has new meaning when it comes to these chiselers. In this article we are marveling at how greedy and corrupt this spawn of empire is. A true triad of horrors.

Let’s look first at Big Pharma and its business model — “Drug companies maximize and exploit research financed by taxpayers to generate marketable new drugs. Then they price their wares to maximize returns for shareholders [Davos Man: How Billionaires Devoured the World”] In the process of their dash to trillions guess who are their biggest suckers (aka customers)? Every American taxpayer, at least those who have tangled with the healthcare empire, which is probably everyone. Decades of systemic propaganda have made them true believers. Often they arrive at the doctor’s door with a list of the drugs they saw advertised on TV. As one of only two countries who allow pharmaceutical DTC (direct to consumer) advertising (New Zealand is the other) the drug companies spent over $7 billion on TV advertising in 2025, a 16% increase over 2024. In 2025, globally Big Pharma raked in $1.7 trillion). Their biggest score was in the U.S. where Americans pay two to three times more for the same drugs as the rest of the world cashing out at more than $720 billion in 2025. [Prescription drugs in the U.S. cost 278% more than in other countries. Big Pharma charges us outrageous prices and then spends more on stock buy-backs and executive pay than R&D—Congresswoman Rashida Tlaib].

Every day is a payday for the executives, investors and owners of Big Pharma. What blessings do the rest of Americans get? For the most unlucky—death. As the third leading cause of death (after heart disease and cancer) 100,000-250,000 die every year taking prescription drugs as prescribed.

Even the feds give Big Pharma a pass. For violations like illegal marketing, kickbacks, and price fixing, Big Pharma has paid $127 billion in penalties since 2000—a mere rounding error.

What about the most corrupt unholy menace—Big Insurance? Maybe their business model will give you a hint: “The uniquely American health insurance system is a business designed to extract profit by maximizing cost and minimizing care to reward owners and shareholders with financial gain” [HC4US.org]. Like the other two big dogs of the healthcare mafia—it’s all about the money and they are rolling in it. In 2025, Big Insurance matched Big Pharma’s profits collecting 1.7 trillion ($54+ billion profit), most of it going into the pockets of owners, executives and investors. They beat their own record, bettering their 2024 performance by $175 billion. With ten million fewer suckers (aka customers), what’s the secret sauce that kept those billions rolling in? Hiking premiums (for both private paying customers and those enrolled in government programs like Medicare and Medicaid and employer sponsored insurance plans), erecting new and more onerous barriers to care and shepherding people into companies they own (especially doctors’ practices). This year premium increases for Obamacare plans rose between 22% and 28%. The effects of this wholly undeserved increase are catastrophic for the 99%—25 million cannot afford health insurance and “nearly 1 in 4 (23%) U.S. working-age adults—approximately 30-31 million people—are considered underinsured, meaning they have health insurance but high deductibles and out-of-pocket costs restrict their access to care.” [2024 “Mirror, Mirror: A Portrait of the US Failing Health System, Commonwealth Fund]. Even the mainstream media, their long-time vassals, are feeling the heat of their viewers’ ire. Every evening nightly news shows recount the stories of patients who have been refused coverage for life-saving treatment ordered by a doctor [NBC Nightly News: The Cost of Denial]. The largest health insurance company in the U.S, UnitedHealth (2025 revenue $448 billion) regularly denies coverage for one-third of the claims submitted to it, one of the highest denial rates in the industry. To make matters worse they lie about it and claim a 98% approval rate contradicted by reliable third-party reports of impartial agencies.

When it comes to Big Med —welcome to the privatized health care system in the U.S. where market metrics (the most important being profitability) dictate the standard of care. Want to know what the P.E. invasion has wrought? 68,000 poor souls die every year because they cannot afford the medicine or medical treatments they need. 25% of cancer patients (1 in 4) die or go bankrupt with the out- of-pocket expenses privatized hospitals and doctor’s practices charge. Medical debt is the leading cause of bankruptcy in the U.S. Raising prices is the sine qua non of private equity healthcare. Price go up 7% to 16% at hospitals acquired by private equity firms and 4% to 20% at the doctors’ practices they take over. Wait, it gets even more outrageous. Unnecessary, sometimes life-threatening procedures become the norm to jack up the bills. At privatized nursing homes the situation is even worse – mortality rates increase after takeover by 11%.

The private equity capture of America’s healthcare system shows no signs of slowing down, In the past decade alone these soulless corporatists have poured more than $1trillion into the healthcare industry. It’s the investment opportunity that is most attractive to greedy capitalists where the market is immense (every American needs medical attention at some time), the rewards in an unregulated market limitless, and the pushback to tame the ever-growing greediness of the purveyors of this wild west atmosphere nonexistent.

U.S. healthcare has become a corporate boondogggle, a multi-payer system that preaches the gospel of cascading profits achieved by a few billionaires at the expense of the rest of Americans. Meanwhile, the American health report card gets a failing grade year after year. Is there a solution?  What about elected officials? No dice. A succession of post-World War II presidents, both Republicans and Democrats (Harry Truman, Richard Nixon, LBJ, Clinton, and Obama) have tried to enact a less inequitable healthcare system and failed. What about Congress, particularly the “Progressive” Caucus? Forget about it. They may talk a good game but when it comes to action, they are MIA. Ever mindful of the massive bribes, the healthcare industry, the lobbyist-in-chief, is capable of throwing their way or of withholding should they deviate from the official healthcare line, they stand four square with the industry and salute.

Maybe the American people need to wake up, shut off their phones, open their eyes and their windows and shout in unison “I’m as mad as hell and I’m not going to take it anymore. [Network, 1976]

On March 28, 2026, POTUS announced to a war-weary American electorate and the rest of the world—”The U.S. military began major military operations in Iran. The U.S. military has undertaken a massive and ongoing operation to prevent this very wicked, radical dictatorship from threatening America and our core national security interests…

A brief look down the historical runway.

In 2016, as he was campaigning for the presidency (his first term) he made the America First pledge to his MAGA base—”We will stop racing to topple foreign – and you understand this – foreign regimes that we know nothing about, that we shouldn’t be involved with.”

In 2020 he doubled down on that promise—”We’ve spent $8 trillion in the Middle East, and we’re not fixing our roads in this country?… How stupid is it? And we’re not fixing our highways, our tunnels, our bridges, our hospitals, even.”

In 2024, at every campaign stop on the way to his second term, he described himself as the “president of peace” and diving deeper into delusion predicted that he would end the Ukrainian conflict within “24 hours.”  

Even before his presidential ambitions surfaced, he was busy singing the same tune. In 2011, Obama was his target—”Our president (Obama) will start a war with Iran because he has absolutely no ability to negotiate. He’s weak and he’s ineffective.” Same war, different president.

He reiterated his “president of peace” mantra in his November 2024 victory speech—”I’m not going to start a war. I’m going to stop wars,” A year after entering the White House, he sent the military to Venezuela, Yemen, Nigeria, Syria, Somalia, currently Iran in addition to his strikes on boats in the Pacific and Caribbean that have resulted in the deaths of well over 100 innocent civilians. Putting icing on the cake in a Truth Social post on March 6, Trump boasted that “Cuba would be next.”

And let’s not forget his fantastical plan to seize (aka annex) Greenland “We need Greenland from the standpoint of national security…It’s so strategic…

With President Trump reaching new heights of lunacy, his every utterance betraying a man who has left the real world for a private paradise where does that leave most Americans? Can they mount the enthusiasm and energy to challenge their government’s misdeeds in the streets of major cities? Will it make any difference? Subjects we’ll tackle in this post. But first a brief look at the highways and byways of the empire’s history of mindless aggression against countries they foolishly and tragically thought would be “pushovers” for a US takeover either by regime change or total destruction. One has only to remember the long history of unsuccessful invasions of Vietnam, Afghanistan (20 years of failed war making), Libya (destroying a thriving economy) and Iraq (murdering the sovereign leader and never finding the illusory WMD’s) and it becomes apparent that the current emperor’s conduct of foreign policy is part of a “grand” old American tradition.

How have people responded to these blunders? In past failed wars of aggression Americans had a rich history of displaying their disagreements with the empire’s power elites.

Americans are not a particularly warlike people, although they do have their moments of blood thirsty enthusiasm for one or another of the empire’s wars of choice. At least initially, at the first hint of war, cries of “USA, USA” dominate the news media and are celebrated by the Washington elites as a stirring affirmation of American democracy at work. That moment passes as the body bags start arriving at Dover Air Force base in Delaware. Chants of “USA, USA” transmogrify into “Hell, No We Won’t Go”   But even with the threat of mandatory service gone the way of 23 skidoo (aka get lost), Americans quickly saw how wars were the BFFs of the 1% who amplified their fortunes while the 99% did the fighting and dying and saw their lives upended by the economic consequences of another “glorious war”.

Americans have a rich history of going public with their protests against the wars of choice the US has started. Lest you think the coming of age of twenty-first century young people was the great awakening, over ninety years ago US student activism was alive and well as hundreds of thousands of students participated in anti-war demonstrationss, protesting the gathering war clouds of World War II, a repeat of World War I.

Even World War II saw its share of protest activity particularly before the Pearl Harbor attack in December, 1941. “The Yanks Are Not Coming” argued thousands of demonstrators gathered in cities like Los Angeles and New York for peace rallies opposing American involvement in European conflicts. The Korean war which President Truman dragged the US into in 1950 saw relatively tame protests unlike the vigorous protests which accompanied succeeding wars. Polling indicated that although 36,574 (US Department of Defense) young Americans died while fighting in a civil war that was none of America’s business, public opinion remained closely divided with slightly more than half (56%) thinking the war was not worth fighting. What happened in that war to the self-described most powerful armed forces in history was repeated in all subsequent wars the US started. Despite destroying most of North Korea, the U.S. was unable to achieve victory. President Eisenhower was forced into an armistice to stop the slaughter of American troops.

The Vietnam War was a high-water mark in Americans taking to the streets to vent their outrage. The demonstrations started mainly on college campuses to protest the draft (1.8 to 2.2 million American men were drafted from 1964 to 1973) “No, No, We Won’t Go” became a popular refrain. As the revulsion against the senseless brutality that highlighted US conduct of the war (for example the 1968 US massacre of 300 unarmed old men, women and children in the Vietnam village of My Lai), protests against the war multiplied. On November 15, 1969 a massive demonstration, Moratorium to End the war in Vietnam, was attended by over 500,000 anti-war activists in cities throughout the country and the world. Other demonstrations and rallies occurred including 50,000 people who stormed the Pentagon on October 21, 1967.

Before the United States invaded Iraq in 2003, many Americans knew Iraq had no weapons of mass destruction as the politicians including the president were claiming. They also knew that the US government, along with its vassals (the UK being the most outspoken cheerleader) were lying us into this war.  On February 15, 2003, millions of people in 600 cities worldwide took to the streets to protest. In NYC 200,000 demonstrated outside the U.N., three million in Rome, 750,000 in London. Protests be damned the U.S went on to fight and lose) this misbegotten war.

Which brings us to the present catastrophe —a war of aggression against Iran (according to international law a war of aggression is “the supreme international crime”— American Justice Robert Jackson, chief prosecutor at Nuremberg). Using the now familiar American playbook —a surprise attack war launched in the midst of peace negotiations on a country (Iran) that was negotiating in good faith, the US attacked Iran on February 28.

The war has been going on for over a month and the streets of most American cities are eerily quiet. It appears that many Americans are okay with this latest example of misdirected U.S. aggression. The polls bear this out. According to a March 9 Quinnipiac University National Poll only 53% of voters oppose the war against Iran, while 40 percent support it.  New polls (3/26) show that opposition to the war has remained steady despite the economic pain Americans are feeling.

After the Vietnam war and the end of the draft, the participation of young people, the main drivers of the peace movement, dwindled. An organized youth movement against the war on terror (2001) never really materialized. Why, you may ask? Reasons abound. Since 1973 when Nixon abolished the draft, those of draft age no longer fearing Uncle Sam’s clarion call, have turned to other what they consider more personal and immediate problems. Student loan debt being numero uno for over one-half of students today. These unfortunates owe an average of $32,000-$40,000. In the Vietnam era, the average student debt was $1,100 ($7,500 in today’s dollars). Burdened with a mandatory loan payment that averages $400+ monthly, the fate of a war fought thousands of miles away is hardly a major worry. Besides these young people have heard war drums beating since they were born. The empire had already started (and lost) two major wars (Afghanistan and Iraq) and at least four “little” wars (Syria, Libya, Somalia, Yemen) Another war in a country most of them couldn’t find on a map? Not interested. Finally like the majority of American adults they have other worries closer to home —the stratospheric costs of healthcare, the rising cost of food, the unaffordability of housing, the difficulty of living in a country controlled by 950+ billionaires with the highest level of income inequality among G7 nations as well as among the most unequal developed countries in the world.

What’s the problem, you may ask, of living in a country addicted to war with a president who has jumped the shark and descended into “malignant narcissism” (phrase coined by Eric Fromm to describe Hitler).In America’s unending pursuit of guns over butter with a trillion-dollar war chest (soon to be $1.5 trillion) militarized foreign policy has permeated our domestic policy. Storm troopers are loose on American streets, masked and armed to the teeth whose brutality has already caused the deaths of two Americans peacefully protesting the invasion of brutalized “policing” in their city. How about Trump’s Secretary of Defense who calls himself the Secretary of War describing the U.S. negotiating strategy under Trump— “when he [Trump] sends his war fighters out…he unties their hands [getting rid of such pesky regulations as the Geneva Convention and International Law]… to destroy the enemy as viciously as possible… We negotiate with bombs…” On the domestic side, although only about 7% of the general U.S. population are veterans, 20% are in domestic police forces across the U.S. many of them drawing on their foreign military service to handle community law enforcement.

Even before this calamitous show of unprecedented aggression, since 9/11 every U.S. president has been a war monger choosing to finance aggressive foreign policy goals over social welfare policies like universal healthcare, fixing America’s shabby infrastructure, providing free education for every American student, tamping down out of control costs in housing and every other aspect of Americans’ daily life.

We are all affected by U.S. leaders’ normalization of invasions into other countries (Venezuela and Iran current examples) in the form of preemptive war.

Ron Paul saw the danger of a continuous drift of U.S leaders into the madness of war over a decade ago in 2012 in his Farewell Address to Congress:

Undeclared wars are commonplace. Tragically our government engages in preemptive wars with no complaints from the American people. Sadly, we have become accustomed to living with the illegitimate use of force by government. To develop a truly free society the issue of initiating force must be understood and rejected. We ignore him at our peril.

P.S. On March 29 and March 30, the American people saw the cliff their leaders were driving them over and hit the streets protesting violence and war both oversea and domestically. Millions assembled in towns and cities across the U.S. in peaceful protests. What they want is what most Americans want — leaders committed to peace and justice across the globe. It would be quite a change after decades of wrongheaded decisions made by leaders whose only mission is to create an American empire and enrich their cronies. The Doomsday Clock is set at 85 seconds to midnight. We haven’t much time to save the planet.