lewrockwell--2020-07-29--Why Are There So Few Female CEOs?

Why Are There So Few Female CEOs?

Despite all the efforts of equalization , women in high-ranking corporate positions are still exceedingly rare .
But they are almost as rare in the dredges of society – and the reasons for both run deeper than sexism .
It is more than passing curious that at a time when women constitute roughly half the workforce , and are in the actual majority in terms of earning college degrees , there are still so few female CEOs .
The distaff side accounts for CEOs in only 167 out of 3,000 large companies , which translates into a rather modest 5.5 @ @ @ @ @ @ @ have been put forth to account for this fact .
Women do a disproportionate share of household tasks , such as cooking , cleaning , childcare , shopping .
This accounts for some of the gap , but not all of it .
Females are less ambitious ; they do not as readily seek promotions as do males .
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They are more attached to home and hearth , and realize that the higher up you go in the work hierarchy , @ @ @ @ @ @ @ is , which will detract from their family obligations .
This , too accounts for their greater reluctance to seek greener pastures in more lucrative employment elsewhere ; the wife is more likely to be the trailing spouse , who has to accept whatever is available in another city or state , than her husband .
Recently , a new elucidation has been added to these more traditional accounts .
It is that men are more likely to occupy positions that feed into CEO jobs than women .
For example , more males @ @ @ @ @ @ @ are directly responsible for profits and losses , such as heading up a division of a large firm .
In contrast , women specialize in areas that do not as readily account for the bottom line , such as heading up human resources , the legal team , or administration .
This phenomenon , too , could possibly explain part of the divergence in CEO representation , but is unlikely , even along with the other accounts , to do the entire job .
One difficulty with it is that one can easily @ @ @ @ @ @ @ divergence occurs in the first place ?
The Last Gold Rushu202 ... Haynes , Bill Buy New $ 28.00 The preceding is all politically correct ; or , at least , not too politically incorrect .
Blatant facts are blatant facts , and it is difficult to hurl the charge of sexism at social scientists supporting these explanations .
Dare we consider an explanation that does not pass muster in this regard ?
We must , if we really want to unearth the cause of this situation .
Here we go .
CEOs @ @ @ @ @ @ @ of countries , chess grandmasters , Nobel Prize winners in STEM pursuits such as physics , medicine , chemistry , economics , the Fields Medal in math , occupy the extreme right tail of the normal distribution of intelligence .
But , due to the fact that the standard deviation of men is much larger than that of women , there simply are very , very few of the latter to be found at three or four standard deviations above the mean .
Larry Summers lost his job as president of Harvard for @ @ @ @ @ @ @ we want to fully understand the CEO divergence ( along with all these other glass ceilings ) we can not ignore it .
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According to one study , the standard deviation of boys ’ IQ was around 15 and for girls , around 14 .
This translates to roughly double the amount of the former with scores about 130 , and a whopping six times greater than 160 , where CEOs , and other highly accomplished people tend to roam .
At @ @ @ @ @ @ @ , women are also almost as scarce as hen ’ s teeth .
There are virtually no females who are homeless , or are in jail , or are on death row , or are in mental institutions , or who die as a result of committing violent crimes .
Men dominate this tail of the distribution , as they do the other .
Females are God ’ s , or nature ’ s , insurance policy .
They are to a greater degree clumped into the middle .
Males are God ’ @ @ @ @ @ @ @ crap shoot .
When they are brilliant , they are very , very gifted .
When they are not , they veer to a relatively stupendous degree in the opposite direction .
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Despite all the efforts of equalization, women in high-ranking corporate positions are still exceedingly rare. But they are almost as rare in the dredges of society – and the reasons for both run deeper than sexism.
It is more than passing curious that at a time when women constitute roughly half the workforce, and are in the actual majority in terms of earning college degrees, there are still so few female CEOs. The distaff side accounts for CEOs in only 167 out of 3,000 large companies, which translates into a rather modest 5.5 percent of the total.
Various explanations have been put forth to account for this fact. Women do a disproportionate share of household tasks, such as cooking, cleaning, childcare, shopping. This accounts for some of the gap, but not all of it. Females are less ambitious; they do not as readily seek promotions as do males.
Miabella 18K Gold over... Buy New $39.90 (as of 05:06 UTC - Details) Why not? They are more attached to home and hearth, and realize that the higher up you go in the work hierarchy, the more on the job responsibility there is, which will detract from their family obligations. This, too accounts for their greater reluctance to seek greener pastures in more lucrative employment elsewhere; the wife is more likely to be the trailing spouse, who has to accept whatever is available in another city or state, than her husband.
Recently, a new elucidation has been added to these more traditional accounts. It is that men are more likely to occupy positions that feed into CEO jobs than women. For example, more males than females take on line roles which are directly responsible for profits and losses, such as heading up a division of a large firm. In contrast, women specialize in areas that do not as readily account for the bottom line, such as heading up human resources, the legal team, or administration.
This phenomenon, too, could possibly explain part of the divergence in CEO representation, but is unlikely, even along with the other accounts, to do the entire job. One difficulty with it is that one can easily push back, and ask why this divergence occurs in the first place? The Last Gold Rushu202... Haynes, Bill Buy New $28.00 (as of 04:04 UTC - Details)
The preceding is all politically correct; or, at least, not too politically incorrect. Blatant facts are blatant facts, and it is difficult to hurl the charge of sexism at social scientists supporting these explanations.
Dare we consider an explanation that does not pass muster in this regard? We must, if we really want to unearth the cause of this situation. Here we go.
CEOs, along with presidents and prime ministers of countries, chess grandmasters, Nobel Prize winners in STEM pursuits such as physics, medicine, chemistry, economics, the Fields Medal in math, occupy the extreme right tail of the normal distribution of intelligence. But, due to the fact that the standard deviation of men is much larger than that of women, there simply are very, very few of the latter to be found at three or four standard deviations above the mean. Larry Summers lost his job as president of Harvard for merely musing about this, but if we want to fully understand the CEO divergence (along with all these other glass ceilings) we cannot ignore it.
2020 1 oz Gold Buffalo... Check Amazon for Pricing. According to one study, the standard deviation of boys’ IQ was around 15 and for girls, around 14. This translates to roughly double the amount of the former with scores about 130, and a whopping six times greater than 160, where CEOs, and other highly accomplished people tend to roam.
At the other end of the normal curve, women are also almost as scarce as hen’s teeth. There are virtually no females who are homeless, or are in jail, or are on death row, or are in mental institutions, or who die as a result of committing violent crimes. Men dominate this tail of the distribution, as they do the other. Females are God’s, or nature’s, insurance policy. They are to a greater degree clumped into the middle. Males are God’s, or nature’s, crap shoot. When they are brilliant, they are very, very gifted. When they are not, they veer to a relatively stupendous degree in the opposite direction.
The statements, views and opinions expressed in this column are solely those of the author and do not necessarily represent those of RT.
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lewrockwell--2020-07-29--Oligarchs for Peace? Nope

Oligarchs for Peace? Nope

The Quincy Institute for Responsible Statecraft think tank launched last November .
It has recently issued a roughly 15,000 word manifesto entitled “ Ending America ’ s Misguided Policy of Middle East Domination.
” For those who would find ten thousand words plus intimidating , the paper includes a more digestible 1,221 word executive summary which fairly accurately summarizes the document ’ s conclusions .
I have written about Quincy before , here and here and here .
In short , while I would applaud a restrained foreign policy , particularly for the Middle East , I find Quincy unconvincing @ @ @ @ @ @ @ that move U.S. foreign policy away from endless war and toward vigorous diplomacy in the pursuit of international peace ” and further takes some pride in being non-partisan , though bipartisan might be a better description .
To be sure , Quincy ’ s two major donors have been reported to be the highly controversial George Soros on the globalist left and the equally notorious Koch Foundation on the libertarian-lite right .
Prepperu2019s Pantry : ... Daisy Luther Best Price : $ 5.48 Buy New $ 3.22 Soros in particular has been much @ @ @ @ @ @ @ alleged propensity to fund and otherwise support groups and organizations that many would regard as conspiratorial or even violently radical , to include black lives matter and Antifa .
Soros , a Hungarian Jew who is now a U.S. citizen , has been especially engaged in interventions to bring about “ regime change ” through “ democracy movements ” in Eastern Europe and he has exhibited a particularly animosity towards Russia , making one suspect that his cash will influence what Quincy is allowed to say about the Kremlin .
The new Quincy @ @ @ @ @ @ @ Andrew Bacevich , Trita Parsi and Annelle Sheline .
I am not familiar with Sheline ’ s work , but Pillar , Bacevich and Parsi are all highly respectable and very knowledgeable about both national security and developments in the Middle East .
To be sure , the paper includes a lot of useful information and insights into how various policies have evolved plus some very positive suggestions for extricating the U.S. from the Asian quagmire .
But one should also accept that what is included in its agenda and how it is @ @ @ @ @ @ @ , to include how Quincy is funded .
It is not so much a matter of what the contributors write , but rather how it is spun and what is either minimized or not even addressed at all .
The ability to write about the Middle East in an even-handed “ realistic ” fashion , which is what the new article seeks to do , is based on the premise that there is equivalency among all of the players involved .
That is , of course , nonsense .
Many observers would note @ @ @ @ @ @ @ the Middle East and playing the role that it does mostly due to the immense power of Israel and its domestic lobby operating largely out of Washington and New York City .
Israel ’ s ability to make American presidents and the U.S. Congress do what it wishes is clearly visible wherever one chooses to look .
The American people have gained nothing from giving Israel hundreds of billions of dollars and an endless supply of weapons while also looking the other way as Israel stole nuclear secrets and spied on the U.S. @ @ @ @ @ @ @ country .
What did the U.S. gain in recently moving the American Embassy to Jerusalem , in allowing Benjamin Netanyahu to annex the Golan Heights , in approving the bombing of Syria and Iran , or in permitting the systematic Israeli dehumanizing of the Palestinians ?
The Prepper ’ s Pa ... Rowinski , Kate Best Price : $ 8.94 Buy New $ 9.99 A recent article by Professor Bacevich entitled “ President Trump , Please End the American Era in the Middle East ” appears to a precursor study to the current @ @ @ @ @ @ @ good example of how self-censorship over Israel by authors works .
The article particularly focused on the foreign policy pronouncements of Bret Stephens , the resident neocon who writes for The New York Times .
Stephens , per Bacevich , has been urging constant war in the Middle East and worrying lest “ we may be witnessing the beginning of the end of the American era in the Middle East.
” Bacevich correctly described how “ in the Middle East , the military power of the United States has played a large part @ @ @ @ @ @ @ their solution.
” The overall message is sound , but in this case , it is interesting to note what Bacevich left out rather than what he included .
He cited Iran seven times as well as Saudi Arabia , but , strangely enough , he never mentioned Israel at all , which a number of commenters on the piece noted .
It rather suggests that there is a line that Bacevich is reluctant to cross .
The omission is particularly odd as Israel is absolutely central to and might even be described @ @ @ @ @ @ @ East and Bret Stephens , whom Bacevich excoriates , is a notable Israel-firster who once worked as the editor of the Jerusalem Post .
Bacevich also has produced an op-ed entitled “ Foreign governments are messing with our elections the old-fashioned way ” in the Boston Globe .
It again fails to mention Israel at all in spite of that country ’ s enormous influence over the U.S. electoral process through the political donations provided by dual loyalty billionaires Sheldon Adelson and Haim Saban to Republicans and Democrats respectively .
In fact , @ @ @ @ @ @ @ be red lines , that the Quincy Institute won ’ t focus on “ highlighting pro-Israel organizations or donors.
” In other words , it will not criticize Israel ’ s Lobby as a key driving element in America ’ s interventionist foreign policy .
Bacevich is a smart man who knows perfectly well what Israel and its lobby represents but he also knows that anyone who wants to be a player in Washington DC has to avoid the Israel hot wire .
The Quincy report includes , for example , lengthy separate @ @ @ @ @ @ @ and Yemen but nothing similar on Israel .
I have , however , excerpted all the citations of Israel in the full text .
They are : “ U.S .
military assistance—most prominently to Israel , Egypt , and Jordan , but also to armed proxy groups in Syria , Iraq , Afghanistan , and Libya—exacerbates abuses that contribute to instability… Unconditional U.S. military support for Israel has facilitated its continued occupation of Palestinian territory ( potentially culminating in the annexation of the West Bank ) and reduced incentives to pursue a peaceful @ @ @ @ @ @ @ Without the Gro ... Karen Morris Best Price : $ 11.82 Buy New $ 11.39 The bombing of the U.S. “ embassy in Beirut , [ was ] a direct response to U.S. military intervention in Lebanon , which , in turn , was an attempt to deal with the consequences of the Israeli invasion of Lebanon a year earlier.
” “ The Israel–Palestine conflict has been an especially salient example of such an issue , as underscored by how Palestinians opposing the Israeli occupation were in the forefront of the wave of @ @ @ @ @ @ @ 1960s .
International terrorism sponsored by Palestinian organizations abated once the U.S. and Israel began engaging the Palestinians in the late 1980s.
” “ In other cases , U.S. support for a militarily superior partner has tended to reduce that country ’ s incentives to resolve conflicts and instead opt to safeguard a status quo favorable to its interests but not to regional stability and U.S. interests .
As the only state in the region with nuclear weapons and as a highly effective conventional military power in its own right—and with a qualitative @ @ @ @ @ @ @ U.S. and effective weapons development and manufacturing capacities—Israel no longer needs the U.S. to guarantee its security .
Yet the U.S. sends Israel $ 3.8 billion in military aid annually .
As of 2019 , Israel had received $ 142.3 billion from the U.S. since 1949 —significantly more than any other nation.40 American military aid is sent regardless of whether Israel tries to resolve the conflict with the Palestinians .
By persistently bolstering Israel ’ s qualitative military edge no matter what direction Israeli policy takes , U.S. assistance as currently structured does @ @ @ @ @ @ @ whether with the Palestinians or other neighbors.
” “ …persistent U.S. antipathy creates a security dilemma for Iran .
U.S. military support for Israel , Saudi Arabia , and the UAE causes Iran to perceive itself as under threat and to respond by trying to enhance its own security , partly by investing in paramilitary groups beyond its borders.
” “ In Israel , where the well-reinforced assumption that unquestioning U.S. support will continue no matter what Israel does , it has long been evident that this has encouraged destructive Israeli practices such @ @ @ @ @ @ @ in the Occupied Territories.
” A Year Without the Gro ... Karen Morris Best Price : $ 11.82 Buy New $ 11.39 “ Such a rights-respecting policy would include making military assistance to Israel—for decades ( and still ) the largest recipient of such assistance—conditional on Israel ending its routine violation of human rights in the Occupied Palestinian Territories .
These offenses include ongoing settlement expansion in the West Bank and East Jerusalem and attacks in Gaza that have failed to fulfill obligations to protect civilians .
Israel is a nuclear and military @ @ @ @ @ @ @ need American military aid to defend itself .
As such , it should arguably not be a candidate for military aid in the first place .
To the extent military aid should be provided to Middle Eastern states , priority should be given to those at risk of becoming failed states .
If Washington decides to continue aid to Israel , it should be conditioned on changes to Israeli policies that advance stability and U.S. interests.
” “ A consistent rights-respecting policy embedded in a broader approach to the region , one that @ @ @ @ @ @ @ , and engagement with all relevant regional actors , would have consequences for how the U.S. has traditionally managed the Israel–Palestine conflict .
The shortcomings of the U.S.–led peace process have become increasingly evident , all the more so as the Trump administration has abandoned any pretense of serving as an honest broker .
It is a process that ill-serves U.S. interests as well as Israel ’ s long-term well-being , let alone its failure to help the Palestinians.
” “ …there would be greater space for advancing negotiated and diplomatic solutions to @ @ @ @ @ @ @ in the Saudi–Iran and Israel–Palestine cases.
” “ For the United States , this means a significant reduction of arms sales , primarily to Saudi Arabia , Israel , and the UAE.
” Some of the citations regarding Israel are bundled with other countries , most particularly as related to arms sales and regional conflicts .
Other excerpts correctly note that the status quo with Israel serves no American interests and is not even good for Israel , but the problem is that the solution is lame , or to describe it more @ @ @ @ @ @ @ from the region ’ s quarrels depends solely on disengaging with Israel first as American hostility towards an unthreatening Iran , Lebanon and Syria is a result of successful advocacy by the Jewish state .
And serving as an “ honest broker ” vis-à-vis the Palestinians is sheer fantasy as it has never been the case for any U.S. administration due to effective Israeli pressure .
If the Quincies were being honest , they would concede up front that the so-called peace plan currently being floated is a complete sell out to Israel @ @ @ @ @ @ @ also assumes that Israelis want peace with the Palestinians , but opinion polls suggest otherwise , with many Israelis routinely referring to the Arabs as “ terrorists.
” The Prepper ’ s Su ... Collins , Buck Best Price : $ 26.58 Buy New $ 26.59 The only suggestion with any teeth to it is making military assistance to Israel conditional on its human rights record towards the Palestinians , but that in turn exposes the fundamental flaw in the arguments being made .
The problem for the U.S. is not Israel per @ @ @ @ @ @ @ Israel Lobby which will make sure that nothing will be done to alter the status quo .
The American government and media are completely dominated by Jewish billionaire-funded organizations that have repeatedly demonstrated that they have sufficient clout to stop any defections , witness the recent affirmation of the U.S./Israel relationship in the Democratic Party electoral platform and Joe Biden ’ s proud declaration that he is a “ Zionist.
” Quincy is delusional if it thinks that it can reorder the Middle East based on “ realism and restraint ” without the @ @ @ @ @ @ @ , which are bought and paid for and totally resistant to change .
So , Quincy has a lot of interesting ideas and the basic premise of non-interventionism is sound .
But regarding the real fly in the ointment , Israel , it is pointless to urge “ realism ” in a situation that has not been realistic since 1947 .
Unfortunately , in America everything has a price and Jewish groups have been canny enough to buy Congress , the White House and much of the media at bargain prices to make @ @ @ @ @ @ @ you are not addressing that issue out in the open you are wasting your time .
Not surprisingly , it would seem that any concerns over the reorganization of the Middle East as proposed by Quincy are most definitely not going to keep Benjamin Netanyahu awake at night .
Reprinted with permission from The Unz Review .
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The Quincy Institute for Responsible Statecraft think tank launched last November. It has recently issued a roughly 15,000 word manifesto entitled “Ending America’s Misguided Policy of Middle East Domination.” For those who would find ten thousand words plus intimidating, the paper includes a more digestible 1,221 word executive summary which fairly accurately summarizes the document’s conclusions.
I have written about Quincy before, here and here and here. In short, while I would applaud a restrained foreign policy, particularly for the Middle East, I find Quincy unconvincing. It claims to promote “ideas that move U.S. foreign policy away from endless war and toward vigorous diplomacy in the pursuit of international peace” and further takes some pride in being non-partisan, though bipartisan might be a better description. To be sure, Quincy’s two major donors have been reported to be the highly controversial George Soros on the globalist left and the equally notorious Koch Foundation on the libertarian-lite right.
Prepperu2019s Pantry: ... Daisy Luther Best Price: $5.48 Buy New $3.22 (as of 04:30 UTC - Details) Soros in particular has been much in the news of late given his alleged propensity to fund and otherwise support groups and organizations that many would regard as conspiratorial or even violently radical, to include black lives matter and Antifa. Soros, a Hungarian Jew who is now a U.S. citizen, has been especially engaged in interventions to bring about “regime change” through “democracy movements” in Eastern Europe and he has exhibited a particularly animosity towards Russia, making one suspect that his cash will influence what Quincy is allowed to say about the Kremlin.
The new Quincy report was co-authored by Paul Pillar, Andrew Bacevich, Trita Parsi and Annelle Sheline. I am not familiar with Sheline’s work, but Pillar, Bacevich and Parsi are all highly respectable and very knowledgeable about both national security and developments in the Middle East. To be sure, the paper includes a lot of useful information and insights into how various policies have evolved plus some very positive suggestions for extricating the U.S. from the Asian quagmire. But one should also accept that what is included in its agenda and how it is framed might be shaped by outside considerations, to include how Quincy is funded. It is not so much a matter of what the contributors write, but rather how it is spun and what is either minimized or not even addressed at all.
The ability to write about the Middle East in an even-handed “realistic” fashion, which is what the new article seeks to do, is based on the premise that there is equivalency among all of the players involved. That is, of course, nonsense. Many observers would note that the United States currently is in the Middle East and playing the role that it does mostly due to the immense power of Israel and its domestic lobby operating largely out of Washington and New York City.
Israel’s ability to make American presidents and the U.S. Congress do what it wishes is clearly visible wherever one chooses to look. The American people have gained nothing from giving Israel hundreds of billions of dollars and an endless supply of weapons while also looking the other way as Israel stole nuclear secrets and spied on the U.S. more than any other “friendly” country. What did the U.S. gain in recently moving the American Embassy to Jerusalem, in allowing Benjamin Netanyahu to annex the Golan Heights, in approving the bombing of Syria and Iran, or in permitting the systematic Israeli dehumanizing of the Palestinians? The Prepper’s Pa... Rowinski, Kate Best Price: $8.94 Buy New $9.99 (as of 05:10 UTC - Details)
A recent article by Professor Bacevich entitled “President Trump, Please End the American Era in the Middle East” appears to a precursor study to the current longer Quincy report. It is a good example of how self-censorship over Israel by authors works. The article particularly focused on the foreign policy pronouncements of Bret Stephens, the resident neocon who writes for The New York Times. Stephens, per Bacevich, has been urging constant war in the Middle East and worrying lest “we may be witnessing the beginning of the end of the American era in the Middle East.” Bacevich correctly described how “in the Middle East, the military power of the United States has played a large part in exacerbating problems rather than contributing to their solution.”
The overall message is sound, but in this case, it is interesting to note what Bacevich left out rather than what he included. He cited Iran seven times as well as Saudi Arabia, but, strangely enough, he never mentioned Israel at all, which a number of commenters on the piece noted. It rather suggests that there is a line that Bacevich is reluctant to cross. The omission is particularly odd as Israel is absolutely central to and might even be described as driving American policy in the Middle East and Bret Stephens, whom Bacevich excoriates, is a notable Israel-firster who once worked as the editor of the Jerusalem Post.
Bacevich also has produced an op-ed entitled “Foreign governments are messing with our elections the old-fashioned way” in the Boston Globe. It again fails to mention Israel at all in spite of that country’s enormous influence over the U.S. electoral process through the political donations provided by dual loyalty billionaires Sheldon Adelson and Haim Saban to Republicans and Democrats respectively. In fact, Bacevich has clearly indicated that there will be red lines, that the Quincy Institute won’t focus on “highlighting pro-Israel organizations or donors.” In other words, it will not criticize Israel’s Lobby as a key driving element in America’s interventionist foreign policy.
Bacevich is a smart man who knows perfectly well what Israel and its lobby represents but he also knows that anyone who wants to be a player in Washington DC has to avoid the Israel hot wire. The Quincy report includes, for example, lengthy separate sections on Iraq, Syria, Iran and Yemen but nothing similar on Israel. I have, however, excerpted all the citations of Israel in the full text. They are:
“U.S. military assistance—most prominently to Israel, Egypt, and Jordan, but also to armed proxy groups in Syria, Iraq, Afghanistan, and Libya—exacerbates abuses that contribute to instability… Unconditional U.S. military support for Israel has facilitated its continued occupation of Palestinian territory (potentially culminating in the annexation of the West Bank) and reduced incentives to pursue a peaceful resolution to the conflict.” A Year Without the Gro... Karen Morris Best Price: $11.82 Buy New $11.39 (as of 11:20 UTC - Details)
The bombing of the U.S. “embassy in Beirut, [was] a direct response to U.S. military intervention in Lebanon, which, in turn, was an attempt to deal with the consequences of the Israeli invasion of Lebanon a year earlier.”
“The Israel–Palestine conflict has been an especially salient example of such an issue, as underscored by how Palestinians opposing the Israeli occupation were in the forefront of the wave of international terrorism that began in the late 1960s. International terrorism sponsored by Palestinian organizations abated once the U.S. and Israel began engaging the Palestinians in the late 1980s.”
“In other cases, U.S. support for a militarily superior partner has tended to reduce that country’s incentives to resolve conflicts and instead opt to safeguard a status quo favorable to its interests but not to regional stability and U.S. interests. As the only state in the region with nuclear weapons and as a highly effective conventional military power in its own right—and with a qualitative edge conferred over many years by the U.S. and effective weapons development and manufacturing capacities—Israel no longer needs the U.S. to guarantee its security. Yet the U.S. sends Israel $3.8 billion in military aid annually. As of 2019, Israel had received $142.3 billion from the U.S. since 1949 —significantly more than any other nation.40 American military aid is sent regardless of whether Israel tries to resolve the conflict with the Palestinians. By persistently bolstering Israel’s qualitative military edge no matter what direction Israeli policy takes, U.S. assistance as currently structured does not incentivize Israel to pursue compromise, whether with the Palestinians or other neighbors.”
“…persistent U.S. antipathy creates a security dilemma for Iran. U.S. military support for Israel, Saudi Arabia, and the UAE causes Iran to perceive itself as under threat and to respond by trying to enhance its own security, partly by investing in paramilitary groups beyond its borders.”
“In Israel, where the well-reinforced assumption that unquestioning U.S. support will continue no matter what Israel does, it has long been evident that this has encouraged destructive Israeli practices such as the continued building of Israeli settlements in the Occupied Territories.”
A Year Without the Gro... Karen Morris Best Price: $11.82 Buy New $11.39 (as of 11:20 UTC - Details) “Such a rights-respecting policy would include making military assistance to Israel—for decades (and still) the largest recipient of such assistance—conditional on Israel ending its routine violation of human rights in the Occupied Palestinian Territories. These offenses include ongoing settlement expansion in the West Bank and East Jerusalem and attacks in Gaza that have failed to fulfill obligations to protect civilians. Israel is a nuclear and military superpower in the region that does not need American military aid to defend itself. As such, it should arguably not be a candidate for military aid in the first place. To the extent military aid should be provided to Middle Eastern states, priority should be given to those at risk of becoming failed states. If Washington decides to continue aid to Israel, it should be conditioned on changes to Israeli policies that advance stability and U.S. interests.”
“A consistent rights-respecting policy embedded in a broader approach to the region, one that emphasizes core U.S. interests, problem-solving diplomacy, and engagement with all relevant regional actors, would have consequences for how the U.S. has traditionally managed the Israel–Palestine conflict. The shortcomings of the U.S.–led peace process have become increasingly evident, all the more so as the Trump administration has abandoned any pretense of serving as an honest broker. It is a process that ill-serves U.S. interests as well as Israel’s long-term well-being, let alone its failure to help the Palestinians.”
“…there would be greater space for advancing negotiated and diplomatic solutions to various conflicts in the region, notably in the Saudi–Iran and Israel–Palestine cases.”
“For the United States, this means a significant reduction of arms sales, primarily to Saudi Arabia, Israel, and the UAE.”
Some of the citations regarding Israel are bundled with other countries, most particularly as related to arms sales and regional conflicts. Other excerpts correctly note that the status quo with Israel serves no American interests and is not even good for Israel, but the problem is that the solution is lame, or to describe it more properly, irrelevant. Distancing the U.S. from the region’s quarrels depends solely on disengaging with Israel first as American hostility towards an unthreatening Iran, Lebanon and Syria is a result of successful advocacy by the Jewish state. And serving as an “honest broker” vis-à-vis the Palestinians is sheer fantasy as it has never been the case for any U.S. administration due to effective Israeli pressure. If the Quincies were being honest, they would concede up front that the so-called peace plan currently being floated is a complete sell out to Israel. Any kind of shift in policy also assumes that Israelis want peace with the Palestinians, but opinion polls suggest otherwise, with many Israelis routinely referring to the Arabs as “terrorists.” The Prepper’s Su... Collins, Buck Best Price: $26.58 Buy New $26.59 (as of 05:10 UTC - Details)
The only suggestion with any teeth to it is making military assistance to Israel conditional on its human rights record towards the Palestinians, but that in turn exposes the fundamental flaw in the arguments being made. The problem for the U.S. is not Israel per se but rather the enormously powerful domestic Israel Lobby which will make sure that nothing will be done to alter the status quo. The American government and media are completely dominated by Jewish billionaire-funded organizations that have repeatedly demonstrated that they have sufficient clout to stop any defections, witness the recent affirmation of the U.S./Israel relationship in the Democratic Party electoral platform and Joe Biden’s proud declaration that he is a “Zionist.” Quincy is delusional if it thinks that it can reorder the Middle East based on “realism and restraint” without the cooperation of Congress and the White House, which are bought and paid for and totally resistant to change.
So, Quincy has a lot of interesting ideas and the basic premise of non-interventionism is sound. But regarding the real fly in the ointment, Israel, it is pointless to urge “realism” in a situation that has not been realistic since 1947. Unfortunately, in America everything has a price and Jewish groups have been canny enough to buy Congress, the White House and much of the media at bargain prices to make sure that Israel stays protected. If you are not addressing that issue out in the open you are wasting your time. Not surprisingly, it would seem that any concerns over the reorganization of the Middle East as proposed by Quincy are most definitely not going to keep Benjamin Netanyahu awake at night.
Reprinted with permission from The Unz Review.
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lewrockwell--2020-07-29--Paul Gottfried on Southern Heritage

Paul Gottfried on Southern Heritage

Back a little over thirteen years ago ( 2007 ) as chairman of North Carolina ’ s annual Confederate Flag Day observances , I invited my friend Dr. Paul Gottfried to travel to the Tar Heel State to be the keynote speaker for our event at the historic 1840 State Capitol .
His remarkable address was later reprinted in several journals , including the old and much-lamented Southern Partisan magazine .
Recently , in surveying the hundreds of older files I ’ ve collected I noticed Paul ’ s address , and I re-read it .
And I noticed how @ @ @ @ @ @ @ 2007 he observed events occurring and trends that were quickly developing , and in dramatic fashion he both saluted the dwindling number of Southerners who were actually defending their culture while also warning them about what was happening and about to happen .
Since Dr. Gottfried ’ s Cassandra-like advertence to that audience of 150 brave souls in the State Capitol ’ s House of Representatives chamber that crisp March Saturday , things have gotten incredibly worse…to the point that there is now a real question as to whether anything , not just @ @ @ @ @ @ @ our Southern heritage will survive the present revolution and the utter and craven cowardice of the political ( and cultural ) elites who are supposedly on “ our side.
” Almost without exception those leaders have deserted the battlefield , even given way to the Enemies of our culture .
The Vanishing Traditio ... Buy New $ 22.95 These days lines from William Butler Yeats ’ eschatologically-tinged poem written after the devastation of the First World War , “ The Second Coming , ” return to me constantly , emblematic of our current @ @ @ @ @ @ @ centre can not hold ; Mere anarchy is loosed upon the world , The blood-dimmed tide is loosed , and everywhere The ceremony of innocence is drowned ; The best lack all conviction , while the worst Are full of passionate intensity .
Ironically , I know of no stronger defender of our Southern heritage and traditions and our rights historically , than my friend Paul Gottfried .
Of Jewish Hungarian descent , educated at Yale ( PhD ) , professor emeritus at Elizabethtown College in Pennsylvania , author of around twenty superb @ @ @ @ @ @ @ polyglot whose work is actually better known and appreciated in Europe—he has continued the , at times , lonely task of defending the older Conservatism ( which welcomed Southerners ) that once enjoyed respectability and currency , but now has been overwhelmed and practically exiled by the pseudo-conservative , warmed-over globalist Neoconservatives , descendants of Marxist Leon Trotsky , who despise our Southern traditions and heritage .
They much prefer embracing all the “ civil rights ” conquests of the far Left and zealously pushing American involvement in wars—almost anywhere—across the globe to @ @ @ @ @ @ @ ” Which of course , means the imposition of same sex marriage , transgenderism , destruction of older traditions and religious belief if these stand in the way of their plans : thus , for example , the late John McCain ’ s frenzied attack on Russia ’ s Vladimir Putin because Putin supports traditional marriage and because Russia has outlawed homosexual propaganda in Russian schools .
Such positions are a no-no , unacceptable to our Neoconservative elites in the Republican Party or on Fox News .
Older traditions which stand in the @ @ @ @ @ @ @ be attacked and displaced , and anyone defending them maligned and excluded from “ the Conservative Movement.
” Multiculturalism and t ... Paul Edward Gottfried Best Price : $ 14.51 Buy New $ 25.00 Just recently the American embassy in Moscow ostentatiously flew the gay liberation flag to celebrate gay rights ( Russia had just overwhelmingly passed constitutional amendments completely outlawing same sex marriage ) .
President Putin ’ s comment ( July 3 ) was to mock the silly American gesture : “ Let them celebrate , ” he responded to the @ @ @ @ @ @ @ a certain something about the people who work there , ” he added with a wry smile .
But the embassy ’ s action also illustrates something about current American culture and society , and the Neocon dominance even within the Trump administration , and it may help to explain why the Neoconservative virus which dominates the Conservative Movement and the GOP also despises the traditional South and its heritage .
I pass on Professor Gottfried ’ s remarkable clarion call , his 2007 speech , which is still current and spot on @ @ @ @ @ @ @ s revolutionary , anti-Southern and anti-Confederate atmosphere .
Prophetic and hard , but necessary truth , if we would only listen and act .
WHY DO THEY HATE THE SOUTH AND ITS SYMBOLS ?
Those Southern secessionists whose national flag we are now celebrating have become identified not only with a lost cause but with a now publicly condemned one .
Confederate flags have been removed from government and educational buildings throughout the South , while Confederate dignitaries whose names and statues once adorned monuments and boulevards are no longer deemed as fit @ @ @ @ @ @ @ for this obliteration or dishonoring of Southern history , save for those civil rights victories that came in the second half of the twentieth century , has been the announced rejection of a racist society , a development we are persistently urged to welcome .
During the past two generations or so , the South , we have been taught , was a viciously insensitive region , and the Southern cause in 1861 was nothing so much as the attempt to perpetuate the degradation of blacks through a system based on racial slavery @ @ @ @ @ @ @ therefore rejoice at the reconstructing of Southern society and culture in a way that excludes , and indeed extirpates from our minds , except as an incentive to further white atonement , the pre-civil rights past , also known as “ the burden of Southern history.
” This last , frequently encountered phrase is from the title of a famous study of the South by C. Vann Woodward , who in his time was a liberal-minded Southern historian .
Fascism : The Career of ... Paul E. Gottfried Best Price : $ 23.12 @ @ @ @ @ @ @ raised to refute or modify the received account of Southern history now taught in our public schools and spread by leftist and neoconservative journalists .
One can point to the fact that a crushing federal tariff falling disproportionately on Southern states contributed to the sectional hostilities that led to the Southern bid for independence .
One can also bring up the willingness of Southern leaders to free blacks and even to put them in grey uniforms , as the price of the freedom that Southerners were seeking from Northern control .
And even @ @ @ @ @ @ @ attitude , which was also shared by some Confederate leaders , does not justify the federal invasion of the South , with all of its attendant killing and depredation .
That invasion took place , moreover , in violation of a right to secede , with which several states , including Virginia , had entered the Union .
A comparison is drawn nowadays between two supposedly equivalent evils , the Old South and Nazi Germany .
This comparison has entered the oratory of the NAACP and the Black Caucus ; it has also @ @ @ @ @ @ @ histories that have come from the American historical profession since the Second World War .
A bizarre variation on this comparison , and one frequently heard from the American political Left , is between the Holocaust and Southern slavery .
First brought up by the historian Stanley Elkins ( when I was still an undergraduate ) , this seemingly unstoppable obscenity is resurrected whenever black politicians demand reparations .
Not surprisingly , those who claim that the Holocaust was unique and that comparing it to any other mass murders , particularly those committed @ @ @ @ @ @ @ outrage have never to my knowledge protested the likening of American slavery or segregation to the ghastliness of Auschwitz .
The benign acceptance of this comparison by would-be Holocaust-custodians has more to do with leftist political alliances than it does with any genuine reaction to Nazi atrocities .
At the very least , reason would require us to acknowledge that Southern slave-owners were vitally concerned about preserving their human chattel , even if they sometimes failed to show them due Christian charity and concern .
Unlike the Nazis , these slave-owners were not @ @ @ @ @ @ @ ; nor did Southern theologians and political leaders deny the humanity of those who served them , a point that historians Eugene Genovese and Elizabeth Fox-Genovese have demonstrated at some length .
The Great Purge : The D ... Best Price : $ 18.53 Buy New $ 23.34 But all of this has been by way of introduction to the gist of my remarks .
What interests me as a sympathetic outsider looking at your culturally rich region , goes back to an agonized utterance made by someone at the end of William @ @ @ @ @ @ @ The Sound and the Fury .
The character , Quentin , who has journeyed from Mississippi to Cambridge , Massachusetts , to study at Harvard , and who will eventually take his life , tries to convince himself that “ No , I don ’ t hate the South.
” This question is no longer a source of tortured embarrassment , but part of a multicultural catechism that requires an immediate affirmative answer .
That is to say , every sound-thinking ( bien-pensant ) respondent is supposed to hate the “ real ” @ @ @ @ @ @ @ that cater to retirees and in contrast to places commemorating Jimmy Carter and Martin Luther King .
The South , as the location of the Lost Cause and of Confederate war monuments , is one that we are taught to put out of our minds .
It is something that a sensitive society should endeavor to get beyond—and to suppress .
Looking at this anti-Southernness , in whose filter displaying a Confederate battle flag , particularly in the South , has been turned into a hate crime , one may wish to consider @ @ @ @ @ @ @ Why should those associated with a defeated cause , and one whose combatants were long admired as heroic even by the victorious side , become moral pariahs for their descendants ?
Is there anything startlingly new about our knowledge of Southern history since the early 1950s , when my public school teachers in Connecticut spoke with respect about Robert E. Lee and Stonewall Jackson , which would account for the present condemnation of the same figures ?
A few years ago , following my viewing of “ Gods and Generals , ” a @ @ @ @ @ @ @ military career of Thomas “ Stonewall ” Jackson , I was struck by the widespread attacks on the movie director , Ron Maxwell .
Apparently this celebrated director had failed to use his art to expose “ Southern racism.
” In fact there was nothing in the movie that suggests any sympathy for human bondage .
In one memorable scene , for example , Jackson ’ s black manservant raises a question in the presence of his master , about whether it is proper to hold a fellow-Christian as a slave .
The @ @ @ @ @ @ @ question , has no answer for his manservant , with whom he has just been praying .
How any of this constitutes a defense of slavery is for me incomprehensible , but it does confirm my impression that there is something peculiarly twisted about the current repugnance for the Old South– and indeed for any South except for the one reconstructed by federal bureaucrats in the last fifty years .
On visits to Montgomery , Alabama , I have noticed two local histories , which , like straight lines , never intercept , @ @ @ @ @ @ @ plaques .
One is associated with the birthplace of the Confederacy ; and the other with the political activities of Martin Luther King and the distinctly leftist Southern Poverty Law Center .
The headquarters of the SPLC , this watchdog of Political Correctness , stands obliquely down the street below the state capitol .
The Strange Death of M ... Paul Edward Gottfried Best Price : $ 20.62 Buy New $ 21.95 It may have been a pipe dream that the two historical narratives , divided by culture as well as race , @ @ @ @ @ @ @ function simultaneously .
What has happened is entirely different .
One of the two competing narratives , the one about the South as a bigoted backwater until the triumph of revolutionary forces aided by the federal government changed it , has not only triumphed but has been used to drive out its rival narrative .
It might have been a happier outcome if Southern whites and Southern blacks could have agreed on a single narrative that would not demean either race .
The second best outcome would have been if both had retained @ @ @ @ @ @ @ as separate non-intersecting ones that nonetheless remained equally appropriate for different groups .
The worst outcome , however , is the one that we now have .
It is one in which the descendants of the defeated are taught to vilify or treat dismissively their ancestors , so that they can demonstrate their broadmindedness and remorse about past racism .
As a result of this inflicted attitude one is no longer allowed to speak about the South as an historical region without focusing on its real or alleged sins .
But this has @ @ @ @ @ @ @ Certainly this was not the case , even in the North , from the years after Reconstruction up until the second half of the twentieth century , when even veterans of the Union army praised their former foes .
It was also not always the case even afterwards , as Shelby Foote ’ s treatment of the losing side in his work on the Civil War , a classic that has gone through multiple printings , would indicate .
The venting of hate and contempt on the South , as found in such @ @ @ @ @ @ @ James McPherson , is a relatively recent phenomenon .
It underscores the fact that the Old South has been defeated twice—and the second time at the level of historical memory even more disastrously than in a shooting war that it lost in the 1860s .
The American white South has fallen victim to the “ politics of guilt , ” a dreary subject , albeit one on which I have written widely .
The Yankee victors of the 1860s , who overwhelmed the Southerners by virtue of their numbers and superior industrial power @ @ @ @ @ @ @ also subsequently occupied the land of those whom they had vanquished militarily , but then did something that was equally important .
They went home , and permitted their devastated opponents to rebuild without an occupying army .
What I mean to say is that the first occupation was morally and psychologically less destructive than the ever deepening humiliation that is going on now .
The first victors were mostly Yankee Protestants , who in some ways were similar to those they had invaded and occupied .
Once the passions of fratricidal war @ @ @ @ @ @ @ to view their former enemies as kindred spirits .
Although they were establishing a bourgeois commercial regime , one that differed from the prevalent Southern way of life , the winning side had also recruited farmers and those whose culture did not diverge significantly from that of those who had fought on the Southern side .
In a certain sense Socrates ’ observation about Greeks once applied to Americans as well .
While they could fight brutally with each other , they were still brothers , and so some form of “ reconciliation @ @ @ @ @ @ @ enemies .
And both North and South came up with a narrative about their past differences which bestowed honor to the heroes on both sides .
This was possible with the Yankee Unionists , who wished to draw Southerners back into their community , even after a terrible war had been fought to keep the Southerners in a Union that they had tried to leave .
After Liberalism : Mass ... Gottfried , Paul Edward Best Price : $ 24.30 Buy New $ 27.80 But the second civil war seeks the utter humiliation @ @ @ @ @ @ @ of a society that is still being imposed .
The Southern traditionalists from this perspective are particularly obnoxious inasmuch as they are a full two-steps behind the project in question .
Those who insist on these changes are no longer Victorian capitalists or Methodist and Congregationalist villagers from the North .
They are post-bourgeois social engineers and despisers of Western civilization , a stage of development that these revolutionaries identify with discrimination and exclusion .
In Southern traditionalists they see those who are still celebrating a pre-bourgeois , agrarian , and communally structured @ @ @ @ @ @ @ , place , and family , and its members displayed no special interest in reaching out to alien cultures .
Such ideals and attitudes and the landed , manorial society out of which they came point back to a nineteenth-century conservative configuration .
For our post-bourgeois leftist intelligentsia , this point of reference and model of behavior can not be allowed to persist .
It clashes with feminism and the current civil rights movement , and hinders the acceptance of a multicultural ambience .
The fact that people like yourselves are still around @ @ @ @ @ @ @ nineteenth-century landed warriors from the American South might have the effect , or so it is thought , of making others equally insensitive .
Even worse , those who engage in these celebratory rites do not express the now fashionable “ guilt ” about members of their race and tribe .
Those being remembered had owned slaves , and they would have denied women , whom in any case they treated as inherently different from men , equal access to jobs .
Needless to say , non-Westerners are not required to dwell on @ @ @ @ @ @ @ , and so they may celebrate their collective pasts without disclaimers or reservations .
The hairshirt to be worn only fits Western bodies , and in particular impenitent Southern ones .
It is against this background that one might try to understand the loathing that the political , journalistic , and educational establishment reserves for the unreconstructed white inhabitants of the South .
You seem to bother that establishment to a degree that Louis Farrakhan and those unmistakable anti-white racists , who are often found in our elite universities , could never hope @ @ @ @ @ @ @ late Sam Francis called the “ chief victimizers ” in our victimologically revamped society , an experimental society that fits well with our increasingly rootless country .
But your enemies are also the enemies of historic Western civilization , or of the West that existed in centuries past .
You may take pride in those whom you honor as your linear ancestors but equally in the anger of those who would begrudge you the right to honor them .
What your critics find inexcusable is that you are celebrating your people ’ s @ @ @ @ @ @ @ one based on family and community , and those who created and defended it .
For your conspicuous indiscretions , I salute you ; and I trust that generations to come will take note of your willingness to defy the spirit of what is both a cowardly and tyrannical age .

Back a little over thirteen years ago (2007) as chairman of North Carolina’s annual Confederate Flag Day observances, I invited my friend Dr. Paul Gottfried to travel to the Tar Heel State to be the keynote speaker for our event at the historic 1840 State Capitol. His remarkable address was later reprinted in several journals, including the old and much-lamented Southern Partisan magazine.
Recently, in surveying the hundreds of older files I’ve collected I noticed Paul’s address, and I re-read it. And I noticed how prescient and still-current it remains. In 2007 he observed events occurring and trends that were quickly developing, and in dramatic fashion he both saluted the dwindling number of Southerners who were actually defending their culture while also warning them about what was happening and about to happen.
Since Dr. Gottfried’s Cassandra-like advertence to that audience of 150 brave souls in the State Capitol’s House of Representatives chamber that crisp March Saturday, things have gotten incredibly worse…to the point that there is now a real question as to whether anything, not just symbols and monuments, but anything in our Southern heritage will survive the present revolution and the utter and craven cowardice of the political (and cultural) elites who are supposedly on “our side.” Almost without exception those leaders have deserted the battlefield, even given way to the Enemies of our culture. The Vanishing Traditio... Buy New $22.95 (as of 10:15 UTC - Details)
These days lines from William Butler Yeats’ eschatologically-tinged poem written after the devastation of the First World War, “The Second Coming,” return to me constantly, emblematic of our current age:
Things fall apart; the centre cannot hold;
Mere anarchy is loosed upon the world,
The blood-dimmed tide is loosed, and everywhere
The ceremony of innocence is drowned;
The best lack all conviction, while the worst
Are full of passionate intensity.
Ironically, I know of no stronger defender of our Southern heritage and traditions and our rights historically, than my friend Paul Gottfried. Of Jewish Hungarian descent, educated at Yale (PhD), professor emeritus at Elizabethtown College in Pennsylvania, author of around twenty superb books mostly on political theory, a polyglot whose work is actually better known and appreciated in Europe—he has continued the, at times, lonely task of defending the older Conservatism (which welcomed Southerners) that once enjoyed respectability and currency, but now has been overwhelmed and practically exiled by the pseudo-conservative, warmed-over globalist Neoconservatives, descendants of Marxist Leon Trotsky, who despise our Southern traditions and heritage.
They much prefer embracing all the “civil rights” conquests of the far Left and zealously pushing American involvement in wars—almost anywhere—across the globe to establish what they call “liberal democracy.” Which of course, means the imposition of same sex marriage, transgenderism, destruction of older traditions and religious belief if these stand in the way of their plans: thus, for example, the late John McCain’s frenzied attack on Russia’s Vladimir Putin because Putin supports traditional marriage and because Russia has outlawed homosexual propaganda in Russian schools. Such positions are a no-no, unacceptable to our Neoconservative elites in the Republican Party or on Fox News. Older traditions which stand in the way of Neoconservative internationalism and egalitarianism must be attacked and displaced, and anyone defending them maligned and excluded from “the Conservative Movement.” Multiculturalism and t... Paul Edward Gottfried Best Price: $14.51 Buy New $25.00 (as of 06:40 UTC - Details)
Just recently the American embassy in Moscow ostentatiously flew the gay liberation flag to celebrate gay rights (Russia had just overwhelmingly passed constitutional amendments completely outlawing same sex marriage). President Putin’s comment (July 3) was to mock the silly American gesture: “Let them celebrate,” he responded to the stunt. “They’ve shown a certain something about the people who work there,” he added with a wry smile. But the embassy’s action also illustrates something about current American culture and society, and the Neocon dominance even within the Trump administration, and it may help to explain why the Neoconservative virus which dominates the Conservative Movement and the GOP also despises the traditional South and its heritage.
I pass on Professor Gottfried’s remarkable clarion call, his 2007 speech, which is still current and spot on, even more so in today’s revolutionary, anti-Southern and anti-Confederate atmosphere. Prophetic and hard, but necessary truth, if we would only listen and act.
WHY DO THEY HATE THE SOUTH AND ITS SYMBOLS?
By Professor Paul Gottfried
Confederate Flag Day, State Capitol, Raleigh, N.C. – March 3, 2007
Those Southern secessionists whose national flag we are now celebrating have become identified not only with a lost cause but with a now publicly condemned one. Confederate flags have been removed from government and educational buildings throughout the South, while Confederate dignitaries whose names and statues once adorned monuments and boulevards are no longer deemed as fit for public mention.
The ostensible reason for this obliteration or dishonoring of Southern history, save for those civil rights victories that came in the second half of the twentieth century, has been the announced rejection of a racist society, a development we are persistently urged to welcome. During the past two generations or so, the South, we have been taught, was a viciously insensitive region, and the Southern cause in 1861 was nothing so much as the attempt to perpetuate the degradation of blacks through a system based on racial slavery. We told now that we should therefore rejoice at the reconstructing of Southern society and culture in a way that excludes, and indeed extirpates from our minds, except as an incentive to further white atonement, the pre-civil rights past, also known as “the burden of Southern history.” This last, frequently encountered phrase is from the title of a famous study of the South by C. Vann Woodward, who in his time was a liberal-minded Southern historian. Fascism: The Career of... Paul E. Gottfried Best Price: $23.12 Buy New $27.58 (as of 04:55 UTC - Details)
Arguments can be raised to refute or modify the received account of Southern history now taught in our public schools and spread by leftist and neoconservative journalists. One can point to the fact that a crushing federal tariff falling disproportionately on Southern states contributed to the sectional hostilities that led to the Southern bid for independence. One can also bring up the willingness of Southern leaders to free blacks and even to put them in grey uniforms, as the price of the freedom that Southerners were seeking from Northern control. And even if one deplores slavery, this commendable attitude, which was also shared by some Confederate leaders, does not justify the federal invasion of the South, with all of its attendant killing and depredation. That invasion took place, moreover, in violation of a right to secede, with which several states, including Virginia, had entered the Union.
A comparison is drawn nowadays between two supposedly equivalent evils, the Old South and Nazi Germany. This comparison has entered the oratory of the NAACP and the Black Caucus; it has also has appeared with increasing frequency in social histories that have come from the American historical profession since the Second World War. A bizarre variation on this comparison, and one frequently heard from the American political Left, is between the Holocaust and Southern slavery. First brought up by the historian Stanley Elkins (when I was still an undergraduate), this seemingly unstoppable obscenity is resurrected whenever black politicians demand reparations. Not surprisingly, those who claim that the Holocaust was unique and that comparing it to any other mass murders, particularly those committed by the Communists, is an impermissible outrage have never to my knowledge protested the likening of American slavery or segregation to the ghastliness of Auschwitz.
The benign acceptance of this comparison by would-be Holocaust-custodians has more to do with leftist political alliances than it does with any genuine reaction to Nazi atrocities. At the very least, reason would require us to acknowledge that Southern slave-owners were vitally concerned about preserving their human chattel, even if they sometimes failed to show them due Christian charity and concern. Unlike the Nazis, these slave-owners were not out to exterminate a race of people; nor did Southern theologians and political leaders deny the humanity of those who served them, a point that historians Eugene Genovese and Elizabeth Fox-Genovese have demonstrated at some length.
The Great Purge: The D... Best Price: $18.53 Buy New $23.34 (as of 06:23 UTC - Details) But all of this has been by way of introduction to the gist of my remarks. What interests me as a sympathetic outsider looking at your culturally rich region, goes back to an agonized utterance made by someone at the end of William Faulkner’s magnificent literary achievement, The Sound and the Fury. The character, Quentin, who has journeyed from Mississippi to Cambridge, Massachusetts, to study at Harvard, and who will eventually take his life, tries to convince himself that “No, I don’t hate the South.” This question is no longer a source of tortured embarrassment, but part of a multicultural catechism that requires an immediate affirmative answer. That is to say, every sound-thinking (bien-pensant) respondent is supposed to hate the “real” South, as opposed to warm-weather resorts that cater to retirees and in contrast to places commemorating Jimmy Carter and Martin Luther King. The South, as the location of the Lost Cause and of Confederate war monuments, is one that we are taught to put out of our minds. It is something that a sensitive society should endeavor to get beyond—and to suppress.
Looking at this anti-Southernness, in whose filter displaying a Confederate battle flag, particularly in the South, has been turned into a hate crime, one may wish to consider the oddness of such an attitude. Why should those associated with a defeated cause, and one whose combatants were long admired as heroic even by the victorious side, become moral pariahs for their descendants? Is there anything startlingly new about our knowledge of Southern history since the early 1950s, when my public school teachers in Connecticut spoke with respect about Robert E. Lee and Stonewall Jackson, which would account for the present condemnation of the same figures? A few years ago, following my viewing of “Gods and Generals,” a movie that deals with the personality and military career of Thomas “Stonewall” Jackson, I was struck by the widespread attacks on the movie director, Ron Maxwell. Apparently this celebrated director had failed to use his art to expose “Southern racism.”
In fact there was nothing in the movie that suggests any sympathy for human bondage. In one memorable scene, for example, Jackson’s black manservant raises a question in the presence of his master, about whether it is proper to hold a fellow-Christian as a slave. The devout Presbyterian Jackson, who ponders this question, has no answer for his manservant, with whom he has just been praying. How any of this constitutes a defense of slavery is for me incomprehensible, but it does confirm my impression that there is something peculiarly twisted about the current repugnance for the Old South– and indeed for any South except for the one reconstructed by federal bureaucrats in the last fifty years. On visits to Montgomery, Alabama, I have noticed two local histories, which, like straight lines, never intercept, but nonetheless confront each other on public plaques. One is associated with the birthplace of the Confederacy; and the other with the political activities of Martin Luther King and the distinctly leftist Southern Poverty Law Center. The headquarters of the SPLC, this watchdog of Political Correctness, stands obliquely down the street below the state capitol. The Strange Death of M... Paul Edward Gottfried Best Price: $20.62 Buy New $21.95 (as of 05:20 UTC - Details)
It may have been a pipe dream that the two historical narratives, divided by culture as well as race, could be either bridged or allowed to function simultaneously. What has happened is entirely different. One of the two competing narratives, the one about the South as a bigoted backwater until the triumph of revolutionary forces aided by the federal government changed it, has not only triumphed but has been used to drive out its rival narrative. It might have been a happier outcome if Southern whites and Southern blacks could have agreed on a single narrative that would not demean either race. The second best outcome would have been if both had retained their accounts of the Southern past, as separate non-intersecting ones that nonetheless remained equally appropriate for different groups. The worst outcome, however, is the one that we now have. It is one in which the descendants of the defeated are taught to vilify or treat dismissively their ancestors, so that they can demonstrate their broadmindedness and remorse about past racism. As a result of this inflicted attitude one is no longer allowed to speak about the South as an historical region without focusing on its real or alleged sins.
But this has not always been the official situation. Certainly this was not the case, even in the North, from the years after Reconstruction up until the second half of the twentieth century, when even veterans of the Union army praised their former foes. It was also not always the case even afterwards, as Shelby Foote’s treatment of the losing side in his work on the Civil War, a classic that has gone through multiple printings, would indicate. The venting of hate and contempt on the South, as found in such predictably unfriendly authors as Eric Foner and James McPherson, is a relatively recent phenomenon. It underscores the fact that the Old South has been defeated twice—and the second time at the level of historical memory even more disastrously than in a shooting war that it lost in the 1860s.
The American white South has fallen victim to the “politics of guilt,” a dreary subject, albeit one on which I have written widely. The Yankee victors of the 1860s, who overwhelmed the Southerners by virtue of their numbers and superior industrial power, did considerable wartime damage. They also subsequently occupied the land of those whom they had vanquished militarily, but then did something that was equally important. They went home, and permitted their devastated opponents to rebuild without an occupying army. What I mean to say is that the first occupation was morally and psychologically less destructive than the ever deepening humiliation that is going on now.
The first victors were mostly Yankee Protestants, who in some ways were similar to those they had invaded and occupied. Once the passions of fratricidal war had cooled, these Yankees were able to view their former enemies as kindred spirits. Although they were establishing a bourgeois commercial regime, one that differed from the prevalent Southern way of life, the winning side had also recruited farmers and those whose culture did not diverge significantly from that of those who had fought on the Southern side. In a certain sense Socrates’ observation about Greeks once applied to Americans as well. While they could fight brutally with each other, they were still brothers, and so some form of “reconciliation” was eventually possible for the former enemies. And both North and South came up with a narrative about their past differences which bestowed honor to the heroes on both sides. This was possible with the Yankee Unionists, who wished to draw Southerners back into their community, even after a terrible war had been fought to keep the Southerners in a Union that they had tried to leave. After Liberalism: Mass... Gottfried, Paul Edward Best Price: $24.30 Buy New $27.80 (as of 03:40 UTC - Details)
But the second civil war seeks the utter humiliation of those who are seen as opponents of a society that is still being imposed. The Southern traditionalists from this perspective are particularly obnoxious inasmuch as they are a full two-steps behind the project in question. Those who insist on these changes are no longer Victorian capitalists or Methodist and Congregationalist villagers from the North. They are post-bourgeois social engineers and despisers of Western civilization, a stage of development that these revolutionaries identify with discrimination and exclusion.
In Southern traditionalists they see those who are still celebrating a pre-bourgeois, agrarian, and communally structured world. That world appealed to hierarchy, place, and family, and its members displayed no special interest in reaching out to alien cultures. Such ideals and attitudes and the landed, manorial society out of which they came point back to a nineteenth-century conservative configuration. For our post-bourgeois leftist intelligentsia, this point of reference and model of behavior cannot be allowed to persist. It clashes with feminism and the current civil rights movement, and hinders the acceptance of a multicultural ambience.
The fact that people like yourselves are still around and still honoring the national flag of nineteenth-century landed warriors from the American South might have the effect, or so it is thought, of making others equally insensitive. Even worse, those who engage in these celebratory rites do not express the now fashionable “guilt” about members of their race and tribe. Those being remembered had owned slaves, and they would have denied women, whom in any case they treated as inherently different from men, equal access to jobs. Needless to say, non-Westerners are not required to dwell on similar improprieties among their ancestors or contemporaries, and so they may celebrate their collective pasts without disclaimers or reservations. The hairshirt to be worn only fits Western bodies, and in particular impenitent Southern ones.
It is against this background that one might try to understand the loathing that the political, journalistic, and educational establishment reserves for the unreconstructed white inhabitants of the South. You seem to bother that establishment to a degree that Louis Farrakhan and those unmistakable anti-white racists, who are often found in our elite universities, could never hope to equal. You exemplify what the late Sam Francis called the “chief victimizers” in our victimologically revamped society, an experimental society that fits well with our increasingly rootless country. But your enemies are also the enemies of historic Western civilization, or of the West that existed in centuries past. You may take pride in those whom you honor as your linear ancestors but equally in the anger of those who would begrudge you the right to honor them. What your critics find inexcusable is that you are celebrating your people’s past, which was a profoundly conservative one based on family and community, and those who created and defended it. For your conspicuous indiscretions, I salute you; and I trust that generations to come will take note of your willingness to defy the spirit of what is both a cowardly and tyrannical age.
Reprinted with the author’s permission.


lewrockwell--2020-07-29--Trump Gives 1.16 Billion To Bill Gates’s Alliance & Signs Deal With Pfizer for COVID Vaccine

What Happened : Last month , US President Donald Trump “ donated more to Gavi , the Vaccine Alliance , to prevent the spread of infectious diseases worldwide.
” He did so in a statement of support for Gavi at the public Gavi pledge conference , which was hosted by the United Kingdom , on June 4th .
So far , the United States has donated more than $ 12 billion for the development of COVID-19 vaccines and therapies , and “ the U.S. commitment to immunization complements the work of innovators in the United States and other countries who @ @ @ @ @ @ @ treatments for COVID19.
” ( source ) Bill and Melinda Gates co-founded the Gavi alliance in the year 2000 , it ’ s a public-private partnership that claims to support “ global health-system strengthening and vaccine deployment for infectious diseases worldwide.
” ( source ) Here ’ s a video clip of Trump talking about his decision .
Donald Trump Coin 2020 ... Buy New $ 5.35 Shortly after this , Trump announced that they will give nearly $ 2 billion to Pfizer , a big pharmaceutical company , for 100 million doses @ @ @ @ @ @ @ its way into the public domain sometime next year .
According to Health and Human Services Secretary Alex Azar , the U.S. could buy another 500 million doses under the agreement if the vaccine is safe and effective in the U.S .
Multiple countries are now purchasing vaccines for the new coronavirus .
Why This Is Important : It ’ s important because the coronavirus vaccine is extremely relevant right now and on the minds of many as the only possible solution to this pandemic , at least that ’ s how it @ @ @ @ @ @ @ fact that multiple peer-reviewed studies and examples have emerged from all over the world regarding the success of other interventions .
For example , a study published last month in Frontiers in Immunology titled “ Quercetin and Vitamin C : An Experimental , Synergistic Therapy for the Prevention and Treatment of SARS-CoV-2 Related Disease ( COVID-19 ) ” concluded the following : As far as vitamin C goes , this is not the only study or article to recommend its use when it comes to treating COVID-19 .
For examplem Medicine in Drug @ @ @ @ @ @ @ publishing house , recently published an article on early and high-dose IVC in the treatment and prevention of Covid-19 .
High-dose intravenous VC was successfully used in the treatment of 50 moderate to severe COVID-19 patients in China .
The doses used varied between 2 g and 10 g per day , given over a period of 8–10 h. Additional VC bolus may be required among patients in critical conditions.
” New York hospitals were also seeing success with Quercetin and Vitamin C. You can read more about that here .
Vitamin C @ @ @ @ @ @ @ ’ therapy , Hydroxychloroquine also caused quite a bit of controversy .
The main point I am trying to make here is that mainstream media has not only ignored these facts , but there seemed to be a coordinated attack on the idea that these therapies can work .
Once the mainstream media and organizations who are threatened come up with a way , whether it be by paying scientists or manipulating data , to ridicule an idea , that idea instantaneously loses credibility in the minds of the masses .
That ’ @ @ @ @ @ @ @ media has , and has had on our collective perception .
NINOSTAR Donald Trump ... Best Price : $ 14.66 Buy New $ 21.95 Secondly , it ’ s important because according to organizations like the American Medical Association as well as the World Health Organization , vaccine hesitancy among people , parents , and , as mentioned by scientists at the World Health Organization ’ s recent Global Vaccine Safety Summit , health professionals and scientists continues to increase .
This is no secret , as vaccines have become a very popular @ @ @ @ @ @ @ .
In fact , the World Health Organization has listed vaccine hesitancy as one of the biggest threats to global health security .
The issue of vaccine hesitancy is no secret , for example , one study ( of many ) published in the journal EbioMedicineoutlines this point .
This fact was also emphasized by Professor Heidi Larson , a Professor of Anthropology and the Risk and Decision Scientist Director at the Vaccine Confidence Project .
She is referenced by the authors in the study above .
At the WHO conference , she @ @ @ @ @ @ @ health professionals seem to be the biggest issue regarding vaccine hesitancy .
There are a number of physicians and scientists raising awareness about this .
The Physicians For Informed Consent are one of many such groups .
This brings me to my next point , informed consent .
Vaccine mandates have already caused quite a controversy when it comes to children .
The right to receive a medical or religious exemption is being taken away in various states , and a child can not attend a public school unless they are up to @ @ @ @ @ @ @ vaccination schedule .
This is done on the basis that unvaccinated children are a danger to vaccinated children , which is a highly flawed argument given the fact that vaccines aren ’ t safe and effective for everyone , which is why the National Childhood Vaccine Injury act has paid nearly $ 4 billion to families of vaccine-injured children , and that ’ s only counting approximately 1 percent of vaccine-injured children because most of them go unreported .
You can read more about that here .
It ’ s also important because @ @ @ @ @ @ @ the vaccine compared to the actual disease .
The Physicians For Informed Consent ( PIC ) recently published a report titled “ Physicians for Informed Consent ( PIC ) Compares COVID-19 to Previous Seasonal and Pandemic Flu Periods.
” According to them , the infection/fatality rate of COVID-19 is 0.26 % .
Shop4Ever Donald Trump ... Buy New $ 7.95 You can read more about that story here .
So far , multiple clinical trials for COVID-19 vaccines have shown severe reactions within 10 days after taking the vaccine .
You can read @ @ @ @ @ @ @ Alan Dershowitz and Robert F. Kennedy recently had a vaccine debate regarding the safety of vaccines .
It includes a discussion about the upcoming COVID-19 vaccine .
You can watch that and read more about it here .
Last but not least , it goes to show just how susceptible politicians and presidents are to what many before them have referred to as the invisible government .
Donald Trump was clearly not a fan of vaccines , and that was made clear during his 2016 election campaign .
When it comes to politics @ @ @ @ @ @ @ .
Even those from within our federal health regulatory agencies are speaking up .
In fact , only a few years ago , more than a dozen scientists from within the CDC put out an anonymous public statement detailing the influence corporations and rougue interests have on government policy .
They were referred to as the Spider Papers .
Another great one from Theodore Roosevelt Donald Trump 2020 Coll ... Buy New $ 37.94 At the end of the day , the new coronavirus and the measures taken to combat it have caused @ @ @ @ @ @ @ like NSA whistleblower Edward Snowden said governments are using the coronavirus to push more authoritarian measures upon the population , it ’ s important that we listen .
Instead , we prosecute them , exile them , and put people like Julian Assange who expose war crimes in jail while we agree with and identify with those who are committing the crime .
What is encouraging , however , is that just like 9/11 did , COVID-19 is shifting human consciousness in a major way .

What Happened: Last month, US President Donald Trump “donated more to Gavi, the Vaccine Alliance, to prevent the spread of infectious diseases worldwide.” He did so in a statement of support for Gavi at the public Gavi pledge conference, which was hosted by the United Kingdom, on June 4th. So far, the United States has donated more than $12 billion for the development of COVID-19 vaccines and therapies, and “the U.S. commitment to immunization complements the work of innovators in the United States and other countries who are racing to find a vaccine and treatments for COVID19.” (source)
Bill and Melinda Gates co-founded the Gavi alliance in the year 2000, it’s a public-private partnership that claims to support “global health-system strengthening and vaccine deployment for infectious diseases worldwide.” (source)
Here’s a video clip of Trump talking about his decision.
Donald Trump Coin 2020... Buy New $5.35 (as of 05:19 UTC - Details) Shortly after this, Trump announced that they will give nearly $2 billion to Pfizer, a big pharmaceutical company, for 100 million doses of a COVID-19 vaccine that could make its way into the public domain sometime next year. According to Health and Human Services Secretary Alex Azar, the U.S. could buy another 500 million doses under the agreement if the vaccine is safe and effective in the U.S.
Multiple countries are now purchasing vaccines for the new coronavirus.
Why This Is Important: It’s important because the coronavirus vaccine is extremely relevant right now and on the minds of many as the only possible solution to this pandemic, at least that’s how it’s being marketed, despite the fact that multiple peer-reviewed studies and examples have emerged from all over the world regarding the success of other interventions.
For example, a study published last month in Frontiers in Immunology titled “Quercetin and Vitamin C: An Experimental, Synergistic Therapy for the Prevention and Treatment of SARS-CoV-2 Related Disease (COVID-19)” concluded the following:
Quercetin displays a broad range of antiviral properties which can interfere at multiple steps of pathogen virulence – virus entry, virus replication, protein assembly – and that these therapeutic effects can be augmented by the co-administration of vitamin C. Furthermore, due to their lack of severe side effects and low-costs, we strongly suggest the combined administration of these two compounds for both the prophylaxis and the early treatment of respiratory tract infections, especially including COVID-19 patients.”
As far as vitamin C goes, this is not the only study or article to recommend its use when it comes to treating COVID-19. For examplem Medicine in Drug Discovery of Elsevier, a major scientific publishing house, recently published an article on early and high-dose IVC in the treatment and prevention of Covid-19. High-dose intravenous VC was successfully used in the treatment of 50 moderate to severe COVID-19 patients in China. The doses used varied between 2 g and 10 g per day, given over a period of 8–10 h. Additional VC bolus may be required among patients in critical conditions.”
New York hospitals were also seeing success with Quercetin and Vitamin C. You can read more about that here. Vitamin C isn’t the only ‘alternative’ therapy, Hydroxychloroquine also caused quite a bit of controversy. The main point I am trying to make here is that mainstream media has not only ignored these facts, but there seemed to be a coordinated attack on the idea that these therapies can work. Once the mainstream media and organizations who are threatened come up with a way, whether it be by paying scientists or manipulating data, to ridicule an idea, that idea instantaneously loses credibility in the minds of the masses. That’s how much of a stranglehold mainstream media has, and has had on our collective perception. NINOSTAR Donald Trump ... Best Price: $14.66 Buy New $21.95 (as of 05:15 UTC - Details)
Secondly, it’s important because according to organizations like the American Medical Association as well as the World Health Organization, vaccine hesitancy among people, parents, and, as mentioned by scientists at the World Health Organization’s recent Global Vaccine Safety Summit, health professionals and scientists continues to increase. This is no secret, as vaccines have become a very popular topic over the past few years alone. In fact, the World Health Organization has listed vaccine hesitancy as one of the biggest threats to global health security. The issue of vaccine hesitancy is no secret, for example, one study (of many) published in the journal EbioMedicineoutlines this point.
This fact was also emphasized by Professor Heidi Larson, a Professor of Anthropology and the Risk and Decision Scientist Director at the Vaccine Confidence Project. She is referenced by the authors in the study above. At the WHO conference, she emphasized that safety concerns among people and health professionals seem to be the biggest issue regarding vaccine hesitancy.
The other thing that’s a trend, and an issue, is not just confidence in providers but confidence of health care providers, we have a very wobbly health professional frontline that is starting to question vaccines and the safety of vaccines. That’s a huge problem, because to this day any study I’ve seen–and we’re constantly looking on any studies in this space–still, the most trusted person on any study I’ve seen globally is the health care provider.
There are a number of physicians and scientists raising awareness about this. The Physicians For Informed Consent are one of many such groups. This brings me to my next point, informed consent.
Vaccine mandates have already caused quite a controversy when it comes to children. The right to receive a medical or religious exemption is being taken away in various states, and a child cannot attend a public school unless they are up to date with the CDC’s recommended vaccination schedule. This is done on the basis that unvaccinated children are a danger to vaccinated children, which is a highly flawed argument given the fact that vaccines aren’t safe and effective for everyone, which is why the National Childhood Vaccine Injury act has paid nearly $4 billion to families of vaccine-injured children, and that’s only counting approximately 1 percent of vaccine-injured children because most of them go unreported. You can read more about that here.
It’s also important because we need to weigh the dangers of the vaccine compared to the actual disease. The Physicians For Informed Consent (PIC) recently published a report titled “Physicians for Informed Consent (PIC) Compares COVID-19 to Previous Seasonal and Pandemic Flu Periods.” According to them, the infection/fatality rate of COVID-19 is 0.26%. Shop4Ever Donald Trump... Buy New $7.95 (as of 04:23 UTC - Details)
Similar to CDC estimations, PIC’s analysis results in a COVID-19 CFR of 0.26%, which is comparable to the CFRs of previous seasonal and pandemic flu periods. “Knowing the CFR of COVID-19 allows for an objective standard by which to compare both non-pharmaceutical interventions and medical countermeasures,” said Dr. Shira Miller, PIC’s founder and president. “For example, safety studies of any potential COVID-19 vaccine should be able to prove whether or not the risks of the vaccine are less than the risks of the infection. (source)
You can read more about that story here. So far, multiple clinical trials for COVID-19 vaccines have shown severe reactions within 10 days after taking the vaccine. You can read more about that story, here.
Alan Dershowitz and Robert F. Kennedy recently had a vaccine debate regarding the safety of vaccines. It includes a discussion about the upcoming COVID-19 vaccine. You can watch that and read more about it here.
Last but not least, it goes to show just how susceptible politicians and presidents are to what many before them have referred to as the invisible government. Donald Trump was clearly not a fan of vaccines, and that was made clear during his 2016 election campaign. When it comes to politics, big business always seems to win. Even those from within our federal health regulatory agencies are speaking up. In fact, only a few years ago, more than a dozen scientists from within the CDC put out an anonymous public statement detailing the influence corporations and rougue interests have on government policy. They were referred to as the Spider Papers.
The invisible government, which like a giant octopus sprawls its slimy legs over our cities, states and nation…The little coterie of powerful international bankers virtually run the United States government for their own selfish purposes. They practically control both parties…(and) control the majority of the newspapers and magazines in this country. They use the columns of these papers to club into submission or drive out of office public officials who refuse to do the bidding of the powerful corrupt cliques which compose the invisible government. It operates under the cover of a self-created screen and seizers our executive officers, legislative bodies, schools, courts, newspapers and every agency created for the public protection.” (source)(source) – John F. Hylan, Mayor of New York City from 1918-1925
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“Political parties exist to secure responsible government and to execute the will of the people. From these great tasks both of the old parties have turned aside. Instead of instruments to promote the general welfare, they have become the tools of corrupt interests which use them impartially to serve their selfish purposes. Behind the ostensible government sits enthroned an invisible government, owing no allegiance and acknowledging no responsibility to the people. To destroy this invisible government, to dissolve the unholy alliance between corrupt business and corrupt politics is the first task of the statesmanship of the day.”(source)
The Takeaway
At the end of the day, the new coronavirus and the measures taken to combat it have caused a lot of controversy. When someone like NSA whistleblower Edward Snowden said governments are using the coronavirus to push more authoritarian measures upon the population, it’s important that we listen. Instead, we prosecute them, exile them, and put people like Julian Assange who expose war crimes in jail while we agree with and identify with those who are committing the crime. What is encouraging, however, is that just like 9/11 did, COVID-19 is shifting human consciousness in a major way.
Reprinted with permission from Collective Evolution.